Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — Two Standards of Morality. [ARTICLE]

Two Standards of Morality.

According to the judgment of the eiviliaed world, there are two atanof morality— out for tha mao ••d another for the woman.

Let os examine the dire *flb9ti H resulting from canoes so diametrically opposed te each other. . Society give# tbs bend of good fellowship to the ttia Kakhp with j the tainted atmosphere of thefcroNbel, i end in trod uoss hill into th# shod# IffMtyl * With liquor burning bresth, be soon instils bis poisonous principles into the ears of youth fnl hnmanity, who are ever prone at an early aga to be easily influenced by whatever is presented to their impressionable minds. By devilish srtifioss he snoceeds in raining sn innocent girl, whose only fault till then—if fault it ean be called—has been that she poe sessed s too oonflding end loving heart. _ , What justice is meted oat to the poor and gnileiess victim? She is spurned from the doors of that very society who were instrumental in effecting her raiu, end to eap the climax of their oontuinely injustice, echo the jeers oast at the wreck of womanly purity by her iguoble seducer.

- The man is still a welcome guest at their homes, for he is only sowing his wild oats, but there is no help or pity for the woman, who sows but one wild oat, for she is driven from the social field omidai curses from those who have nous but honeyed words for her destroyer. Scorned by those nearest and dearest to her, and with no sympathizing hearts to help her iu her distress, stricken by the depths of her despair, she falls lower and lower and at last avenges the cruelty of the heartless multitude by impreg. □sting with deadly poison the bodies and sonls of those who refused succor iu the hour of hor greatest need. Notwithstanding the progress we have made beyond the ignorance and brutality of our progeoitore, the world has still to correct many mu just and oruel abuses thet, to the shams of American enlightenment end freedom, ere allowed to sully the Simula of our civilization. All injustice eventually leads to dis cord and unlimited evils, Prosit tution and thq terrible consequences leading therefrom are outgrowths of unjust moral lews. Compel a mao to maintain a spotless morel oharactsr by visiting him with l* s same punishments and degradation that are accorded to woman tor the least infraction of the moral law, and then, and not till then, will the world be purified from evila engendered by immoral vampires of both sexes, and nothing but simple justice will be done to the purer half of humanity by man, whose only right in this case is might.— Ex.

Th* Interest in the Soldiers’ Re union to be held nt Remington is not confined to the four oounties named on the bills, as appears from the following in the Lafayette Courier ot 14th last.; Soldier*’ v The soldiers of Benton, Newton. Jasper and White eountlee have oom pleted arrangement* for * grand dis triet rs union at Bemlcgton, Indiana* Ootober 6 and. 7, and invite the soldiers of Tippecanoe and other adjoining counties to join with them. The names of Judge E. P. Hammond a* president, Dr. J. A, Hoth, of Kentland, as secretary, Dr. William Spencer, of Monticello, as treasurer, Dr. D. H. Patton, us Remington, as chairman of the executive committee. Cupt Frank W. Babcock, and many other prominent men on the subcommittees, are a sufficient guarantee that the reunion will be a complete success. The executive com mittee, in fact, declare It their purpose to spare neither labor nor ex pense to make it tho crowning event of the season. A grand prize drill, cornet band tournament, and a gigantic sham battle are among the interesting features on th# programme. In the sham battle four battalions of iu lan try, a battalion or uniformed cat airy and a battery of artillery will participate. All the Hanoook and Garfield Guards in the four counties will be there in uniform, with torches for a grand night parade.