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and allow it in others, and being of the law-making power, they attach 

 no penalty, and allow of no sensation in society at such developments. 

 But let a man do the same act to a neighbor's wife or daughter in good 

 standing, for standing is everything, then society feels a shock, crime at 

 taches. Therefore you see it is not crime that shock society, it is the 

 offended dignity of the one assaulted, and a brutal man's wife is not sup- 

 posed to have any dignity. 



For anything that degrades or imputes the husband, degrades and 

 robs the family of respect and sympathy. 



And therefore to reform we must begin at the foundation of society 

 and build upwards ; and tlie foundations of society are individual family 

 homes, and therefore, to reform, homes must be improved, attractions 

 and luxuries more and better, and on, on, there can be no lag in a life 

 partner, more and better as fast as circumstances will permit of— a lag in 

 a life partner, as in a nation, to do its duty, is ever felt by all within its 

 domain. ^ 



When a nation lags in its duty it is evident corruptions are traveling 

 upward and that families and communities need remodeling. ^NTegligence 

 in life partners to provide all available comforts, is recklessness going to 

 ruin, it is sweet homes changed to hells, wherein young devils are reared 

 — national corruptions engendering. Negligence, or a lack of energy to 

 provide for the tastes of a sweetheart, are unknown in any but a drone, 

 and the moment they show in a home union, they are felt, love begins to 

 wane, sweet homes savor of bitter, the neglected is less affable, one rebuff 

 begets another, and so on, until sweet home is a wrangling hell, the pro- 

 geny embittering society and the nation. 



Though the luxuries of life or the efforts to obtain them, are essential 

 to a sweet home, yet I admit their presence will not create a sweet home 

 wherein two incongenialities are cooped, for in such a case it is a hell to 

 begin with in its very nature, and the laws of nature are not susceptible 

 of change. Such unions come of a corrupt souree ; a true union is being 

 drawn together by atfinity of alfection, and lives by reciprocal favors. But 

 many marry merely for a home, some for a housekeeper, some to please 

 parents or esteemed friends, and many others with no other incentive 

 than to hitch to one of the opposite sex, which in either case is nothing 

 more nor less than prostitution in its most ruinous features. Without 

 affinity all unions are prostitutions ; legality can't change the nature of 

 things, can't make natural prostitution a virtuous connection. 



And such evil unions can only be remedied in the training, as peace and 

 plenty endears the youth to the parent home. 



For the past 1 ,500 years a true system of reform in human society has 

 not been preached ; the so-called reformers have overlooked the moral in 

 their zeal to slide the life-lived sinner around the slippery shores of a de- 

 serving hell into an undeserved heaven. And as the slippery shores were 

 passed morals took grade. Expediency dictated the customs of society, 

 and made laws to fit. Hence such abortive morals in society that a man 



