{"1": {"fulltext": "Author _\\nTitle-\\nImprint", "height": "4072", "width": "2552", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Our Moral, Social and\\nPolitical Evilg\\nTheir Cause and the\\nRemedy.\\nB. KOENIG,\\nAuthor of\\nTen Years a Detective, Etc.\\nEntered according to Act of Congress in the year 1900, by\\nBernhard Koenig\\nin the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "61395\\nCCT.15 1900\\nCe W *H|Ht \u00c2\u00abrtry\\n1 3 1\\nSECOND COPY.\\nOROfcX DIVISION,\\npf.T 24 190Q", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\n1. Preface. Poem. Prose.\\n2. Society.\\n3. Some Conditions of Our Present Life.\\n4. Which are Our Moral and Social Evils\\n5. Our Women.\\n6. Diseased Brains Mean Diseased Minds.\\n7. Are Our Great Money Kings Suffering from Diseased\\nBrains\\n8. Our Political Degenerates.\\n9. The Trusts, Corporations and Companies.\\n10. Our Courts of Justice.\\n11. The Public Press.\\n12. Who Can Teach?\\n13. Marriage.\\n14. When Should Men and WomenWed?\\n15. When Should They Not Wed?\\n16. Society Suffering.\\n17. A Word of Advice to Parents and Teachers.\\n18. Advice to Youth.\\n19. Summing Up.\\n20. The Remedy.\\n21. The End.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nWhat is true to-day may be logically contradicted to-morrow.\\nThe everlasting turn of the mighty wheel of life mixes matters\\neternally and brings before the eye of the observer a kaleido-\\nscopic view that dazzles the eye, spirit and soul. It produces an\\neternal change of mind of each living individual, and as each-\\nchange again produces a different impression on every person, it\\nforms new thoughts and ideas, with a result of a chaos-like con-\\nglomerata, that is bewildering and that makes us stand aghast\\nof the end.\\nOf this fact I was impressed soon after I had somewhat seen\\nthe lights and shades of social life and when I began to study the\\nobservations of others in regard to this theme I found that they\\neither repeated the thoughts of other thinkers or wrote deliberate-\\nfalsehoods, which would further their own ends. Then I stopped\\nto see through the eyes of others and concluded to make the\\nstudy of our moral, social and political life my task, and\\nthenceforth I endeavored to sift facts from arguments, wishes\\nor illusions, and all dissecting necessary I did with the help of\\nplain common sense. Acts and deeds, which were in opposition.\\nto moral and social laws, advices and teachings that seemed di-\\nrectly aimed against common sense or the laws of nature I noted\\ndown carefully for years, and during certain periods I compared,\\nthem again and again, until I believed myself capable of separat-\\ning the cause from the deed, and then by either subtraction or\\nmultiplication I gained the end-result.\\nNow, after more than thirty years of such study I shall give\\nthe so-gained facts to the public, but thereby arises the doubt\\nwhether my capacity to master the English language will be\\nfound sufficient to express myself correctly and plainly, because,\\nas a foreign-born individual I will likely form sentences that show\\nmy ab-origin, but I claim that few Americans or Englishmen,.\\nin comparison, could do better, if they should have to use my\\nnative tongue, so I will simply ask consideration and say that\\nI endeavored to express myself plainly and to be understood by-\\nall classes of society.\\nWhenever I speak of the masses I mean the majority of the\\npeople, and whenever a reader feels specially adverse to an ex-\\npressed opinion that seems to touch his sore spot/ let him re-\\nflect, investigate and correct, then the goal is reached of\\nYour sincere\\nAuthor.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6\\nCome back to your senses, you men of this land,\\nIt s time, believe me, or yom freedom will stand\\nNo longer as bright as your forefathers thought,\\nWhen they, with their blood, from England it bought.\\nLook now at your best, at your bluest of blood.\\nThey surely think, they are nearer to God\\nThan you that by thrift and the sweat of his brow,\\nWill work and earn bread with shovel or plow.\\nNo longer you command their love and esteem,\\nThey look upon you in the eye that gleam,\\nThat drives the blood in uproarious waves\\nTo the cheeks of all men, that are no knaves.\\nNo longer you are the same kind of man\\nThan those that have gold and claim noble clan\\nWay back to old ages, when their forefather was\\nA peddler, or merchant, but never an ass.\\nLook at these men quite English you know,\\nWho study a life of how to bow low;\\nAnd monkey patricians, that never should live,\\nBecause they can take, but seldom will give.\\nB. KOENIG", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "7\\n3\\\\ T earer and nearer by the trend of the times\\nHear we the sound of freedom s sweet chimes\\nThe air waves carry forth the great Marsellaise.\\nThat sounds through the world in liberty s praise.\\nThe masses throw down the yoke of the Trust,\\nLight breaks the darkness; gold looks like rust;\\n-Spirits of might rise way above all,\\n-And the Sons of the Free rise quick to their call.\\nBeware, you tyrants, upstarts, and thieves,\\nThe sweep of revolution that nothing you leaves,\\nAnd fearful the reckoning with wrongdoers will be,\\nThe judgment simple The rope and a tree.\\nThat is as true as a God is above,\\nRighteous and just and great in his love\\nFor all that believe, that the earth is his gift,\\nAnd that no one his work on another must shift.\\nWhen equal the work, the duty and task;\\nServility crushed and Faith without masque,\\nThen, and only then, holds liberty sway,\\nAnd the sun of equality spreads golden its ray.\\nB.Koenig.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8\\nSOME CONDITIONS OF OUR PRESENT LIFE.\\nAll those that must earn their daily bread at the present day\\nhave to lie and crouch, deceive and flatter, or starve. Tell the\\ntruth fearlessly, give everything the right name, think yourself\\nequal to the best, and you will remain poor and be called a crank\\nwho acts against his own interests.\\nHelp the oppressed or stand for equal rights and you will be\\nbranded as a criminal or as a man who wishes to live off the poor.\\nBut lie, deceive, beat, cheat, harmonize with the bad, conspire\\nwith them, and you will earn this world s riches en masse.\\nReal goodness is seldom to be found these days reai manhood\\nand independence seem actually dead.\\nBad has advanced rapidly during the years of the past century,\\nand now at the beginning of the new one we stand before a\\nsocial crisis, the like never confronted any age, and it will burst\\ninto a revolution, unless the social problems can be solved soon.\\nWhat are the social problems that confront us and how can\\nthey be solved? I will undertake to answer these questions, but\\nI am fully aware that the truth which I will be obliged to write\\nwill not make many friends for me; but why should the indi-\\nvidual shrink back from a deed that may benefit the people? The\\nwelfare of the individual does not come into question when the\\ngreat mass of the people may be awakened to a sense of duty\\nand reality, that serves the one purpose to awake the nations\\nfrom a slumber that is full of terrible nightmares, produced by a\\ndisease which now spreads with terrific rapidity and has already\\na hold on all elements of society.\\nSOCIETY.\\nWhat is society?\\nAll elements of the people good, passable, and bad rich, well\\nsituated or poor; strong and weak physically or spiritually; all\\nhuman creatures that live form society, and according to our\\ngreat constitution, all are entitled to a fair living and to equal\\nrights before the great tribunals of the Courts of Justice.\\nYes, society is governed by laws, and those who sin against\\nthe laws should be punished without fear or favor by the\\njudges elected by the people or their representatives for that\\npurpose.\\nAnd every human being forms a link in the great chain of\\nsociety in which it has duties to perform and rights to claim. It\\nis governed in every instance by the sovereign will of the ma-", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "jority, either directly or indirectly. Directly, when the vote of\\nthe people made a law for all indirectly when the representa-\\ntives of the people, selected by the vote of the latter, made the\\nlaws. And society owes obedience to these laws and *o the per-\\nsons that are appointed or elected to uphold them.\\nBut the servants of the people owe more to society than any-\\nother one link of it, for they have dual obligations, because they\\nhave dual rights, of which one invests them with a certain power\\nto enforce the laws and to mete out justice to the wronged.\\nWe can therefore part society into two classes those that gov-\\nern and those that are governed, and yet the beneficient trick\\nof our laws is that the governors are again governed by the\\npeople.\\nOur laws are in toto sublime, but society at large is rotten, and\\nonly the most heroic measures can clear the stagnancy of its\\nbrain fluid, which has produced degeneracy, wherever we look\\nto. The disease is like a moral consumption, producing moral\\ndeath. The germ is by no means hidden to the searching eye,\\nbut those that are inflicted seem unaware of their fate, just like\\nthe real consumptive. The latter believes to the end that his\\nmalady is but a slight cold the degenerate believes that his\\nnefarious actions are but natural and the real thing to do, and\\nhe laughs at the honest being that rather suffers than does wrong.\\nThis unhealthy state of affairs cannot last, because it produces\\ncontrasts which are inadjustable except by use of physical force\\nwith all its uncertainties and horrors.\\nWHICH ARE OUR MORAL AND SOCIAL EVILS?\\nThe jugular vein running through the great body of the com-\\nmunity shall now be severed the life fluid shall be analyzed and\\nthe microscopic findings of the strong lens of the honestly search-\\ning eye be given in all its nasty details.\\nCan I do it? Yes Dare I do it? I would, if not one consid-\\neration stopped my pen to a degree. The thought that inno-\\ncence, sweet innocence, may get hold of this book and receive a\\npen picture of life that would darken the glorious rays of happy\\nillusions\\nNay, at the proper time and chapter I will speak to Youth,\\nwarning and advising those who have put their foot on to the\\ndownward leading course but to a certain extent I feel duty\\nbound to enumerate here the evils, so that I can speak properly\\nof their existence.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10\\nAll human beings feel at one time or another the necessity\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of clinging, of praying to a higher, mightier power than we\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2feel within us fit to control, and we are then religious.\\nReligion, in my estimation, was created by the feeling of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0fallability, superinduced by uncontrollable misfortunes and the\\nutter lack of ability to extract body and soul from cares and\\ntroubles that threatened to destroy moral or physical life.\\nThe beautiful picture of the c Holy Trinity is certainly worth\\nbeholding, the teachings of the Bible are sublime for moral pur-\\nposes, for our life, but the teachers of religion have quarreled\\nover the earthly spoils of office and have, for reasons of their\\nown, succeeded in enshrouding the beautiful with a cloak that is\\ndistasteful and belief-destroying, and unless we are able to purify\\nand simplify Religion, we will soon be without any.\\nTherefore I believe that the greatest moral evil in existence\\nis The many creeds, the sectionalism of religion, and the im-\\npurity and realism of our religious teachers.\\nAt the proper place the readers will find my own religion\\ndefined and the cure for the religious evils suggested.\\nThe second greatest moral evil is the unscientific breeding of\\nour race. While the life of our soul is thrown into doubt by the\\nclergy, the strength of the body, of the nervous and muscular\\nsystem, is first weakened and then destroyed by unscientific\\nbreeding, because intermarriage of the human race is permitted\\nto take place without scientific discretion or distinct purpose as\\nto the ennobling and purifying of body and spirit, thus producing\\nfoul, instead of a pure and healthy fluid that nourishes the body\\nand enlivens soul and mind.\\nAll other Moral Evils are simply the consequence of the\\nabove, which thesis I will prove in the following different\\nchapters.\\nOur Social Evils can be characterized and contracted into\\none sentence Present society at large is made up of overbearing\\nfools or idiots, ready to believe in their own greatness, suggested\\nby their confreres and a servile press for gain-sake, or charity.\\nSociety is now in a fierce struggle the very foundation of\\nits structure is shaken and the battle surges back and forth in a\\nwild turmoil.\\nWhat elements of society battle with each other and how will\\nthe battle end?\\nMorality struggles with immorality, honesty with dishon-\\nesty, perfidy with uprightness, truthfulness with low intrigue,", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "11\\ncapital with labor. The rich try to crush the poor and dependent\\ninto absolute submission, and the political elements of the coun-\\ntry are the very incarnation of all that can be construed into the\\nmeaning of badness.\\nNow the wiseacres will say It has been so, it is so now, and\\nit will be so as long as the world lasts, but they are mistaken.\\nThe conditions of society have undergone rapid changes, and\\nwhile, until now, all badness which was done for gain-sake and\\nwas crowned with pecuniary success, has been looked upon as\\nbusiness-like, smart, and as a matter of fact outcome, an\\nelement still exists which will develop the morals and teachings\\nthat will lead humanity to a higher plane of life.\\nThis element now grows slowly because the battle it has to\\nfight is so disgusting and fierce, the weapons of the degenerate\\nenemy are so miserable, so indecent, that it takes great moral\\ncourage to keep up the struggle after every defeat.\\nThe last great political battle claimed one of the best generals\\nthat the good cause had. Henry George is no more, but his\\nteachings, his great works, live and will live on and on until that\\nplane of life is reached which sound women and men try to secure\\nfor the welfare of the masses.\\nHenry George s theories and teachings on political economy\\nI indorse heartily they promise splendid results and furnish a\\nguide to sure success if followed, therefore I will touch but\\nlightly upon that subject whenever the current of my thoughts\\ndemand it, but I will try to solve the problems which cause the\\nrupture between the masses and the classes, between rich and\\npoor going to the very root of the evil and lay naked and bare\\nwhat intelligent beings know to exist, but which they fight shy\\nto touch, because of moral cowardice in sacrificing personal in-\\nterests or of false ideas of morality, etc.\\nIf a woman doctor is called to the bedside of a sick man, his\\ndisease necessarily revealing the extremities of his body, would\\n^she, as a woman, hesitate to do her duty as a doctor? No\\nWhy, then, should not a man undertake to speak naked truth\\nof society s misdeeds, abuses, sins, if his object is the cure of\\nthe evil?\\nThe themes cover so much ground, so many conditions of life,\\nthat a logical order is nigh on the impossible, and I will have to\\njot down observations, thoughts, ideas and conclusions in separ-\\nate chapters, which yet will form a unit when put together.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nThe two greatest social problems to solve are The Equality\\nand Contentment of the masses. Liberty, unity and equality\\nwere guaranteed to the citizens of the United States by the con-\\nstitution, but we have had nothing of the kind. Let us look at\\nthe liberty which we have enjoyed so far.\\nLiberty means freedom from all restraint, but no such lib-\\nerty can be enjoyed in any well organized community. It is\\ncivil liberty which the constitution guarantees, the meaning of\\nwhich is, according to Webster, the liberty of men in a state of\\nsociety, so far only abridged and restrained as is necessary and\\nexpedient for the safety and interest of society, state or nation.\\nCivil liberty is an exemption from the arbitrary will of others,\\nw T hich exemption is secured by established laws which restrain\\nevery man from injuring and controlling another.\\nIsn t Webster great? The definition is so clear, so distinct,\\nthat errors seem impossible, if our lawmakers would only take\\nthe great dictionary to hand and to heart.\\nBut w T e also find in Webster religious liberty defined, and\\nnatural liberty, etc., etc., but our lawmakers have made their\\nown definition of these words, influenced by the sweet will of\\nthe ruling and interested classes, so that at last the oppressed\\npeople were forced to combine for mutual protection. It is but\\nnatural that the latter should see enemies in the former and\\ncome to hate them, even if we have many rich people who are\\ndesirous of doing good.\\nThe oppressed or working classes are at present misled, mis-\\nguided by those that use their influence to serve their own ends,\\nbut I am also convinced that some of the labor leaders are sacri-\\nficing their best abilities in behalf of their fellow men and to\\nsolve the social problems. They countenance a great deal of\\nignorance and have to act accordingly, or they would lose the\\nsympathy of their followers. Yet I am sure that they gradually\\neducate the masses, as is proven by the minority of wild an-\\narchists tolerated amidst the working classes.\\nBut let me be systematic and ask What produces this dis-\\nsatisfaction of the working people?\\nTwo things. The criminal combination of our political rulers\\nand of the money kings. The latter could not exist if the former\\ndid their duty\\nWhat does the criminal combination of our political rulers\\nmean? That the political parties within themselves combine to\\nfurther the ends of each of their members, regardless of the wel-\\nfare of the great masses. That they sell the liberty of the work-\\ning people for personal gain.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "V6\\nWhen Mayor Strong was elected the reform movement swept\\nthe country, yet here in New York City lawmakers were sent to\\nAlbany who were there before, and at times have boasted that\\nthey received money for their votes in certain deals.\\nYes, the law makers sell the rights of the people to whomso-\\never is willing to pay the price.\\nBut by no means must we understand that the Trusts are\\nonly controlling sugar, cigarettes or railroads, coal, etc., etc.,\\nthe far. more dangerous Trusts, that first undermine and then\\nkill the different dealers, the trader, the mechanic, etc., etc., are\\nthe department stores. Each of these firms form a trust in\\nthemselves, and each of them kill hundreds and thousands of\\nsmall firms, who formerly did a good business, flourished and\\nwere a blessing to behold and now? Is there a shoemaker, a\\ngrocer, a druggist, a tailor or any other tradesman or mechanic\\nwho can, by thrift and intelligence, gain a good livelihood and\\nsave enough to be comfortable in his old age?\\nFew, very few, can answer this in the affirmative.\\nBut those few firms accumulate millions, become slave drivers,\\nand degrade every human being in their employ to be mere\\nmachines.\\nThese firms are not Trusts in the sense of the word, in which\\nit generally is used nay, they are the direct cause of commercial\\nfailure, and if restricting laws are not soon enacted which abolish\\nthese dangerous business schemers I predict a day when the\\npeople will arise en masse and force the cessation of these stores,\\nexcept they force themselves out before by low competition.\\nSome will here use the argument that the people derive a\\nbenefit from such competition, but that is not so. The manufac-\\nturers of the different goods are constantly forced to sell lower\\nand lower, and as they do not wish to loose, they either give an\\ninferior article or cut wages until the limit is reached. Who\\nloses by this operation? The workingmen, and indirect the\\nsmall tradesman. Next, one of the large firms undersells the\\nother until one of them fails, then the other buys and sells the\\nbankrupt stock. Who loses now? The manufacturer, his sup-\\nplier, and again the workingmen.\\nCompetition is the life of trade, that is the old saving, but\\nit is also the death of it, if natural limits are not drawn.\\nHow can this be done? By enacting laws governing the pro-\\nduction and sale of all goods, etc., etc.\\nOf course I cannot here embody my ideas as to these laws to\\nbe enacted to remedy each and every evil, which I charge to be", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nthe cause of the social problems, but if this work meets with the-\\nfavor of the public I shall feel called upon to be more explicit in\\nthe future.\\nIn Germany the middle classes were looked upon as the pil-\\nlars of commercial prosperity, and great care was taken to pro-\\ntect them, but when these middle classes are destroyed, rich and\\npoor will only exist, liberty, unity and equality become a farce\\nthe guarantees of the constitution are broken\\nOf course, the millionaire or those in league with him, will not\\nacknowledge these facts, and flippant arguments are used to de-\\nstroy the impressions, but the facts nevertheless remain, until\\nthe awakening of the masses will bear out a judgment that may\\nnot be respected by\u00c2\u00abanybody. Let us pray that this awakening\\nwill not come before all the laboring classes have reached that\\nintelligence which abhors brutal force.\\nI do not preach revolution nay, I hope sincerely that the evo-\\nlution of mankind will take place before the degeneration is so\\ngreat that physical force will seem the only remedy of the social\\nproblems.\\nBut we must soon commence with the regeneration, because\\nthe morally and physically perfect become scarcer and scarcer\\nin comparison to the inhabitation of the world and the sacrifices,\\nwhich necessarily will have to be made, may reach such propor-\\ntions that even the most courageous and Spartan-like soul may\\nrecoil with terror from the aim that is to be reached.\\nI have refrained as much as possible from becoming personal\\nand to cite examples from the present status of our moral, social\\nand political evils, but I ask my readers to study carefully what\\nI will have to say on the different subjects when they will be\\ntreated each and singular specifically. In the treatises that are\\nto follow I will state facts, substantiated, as I said before, by affi-\\ndavits, court records, and the use of the camera, which cannot\\ntell falsehoods.\\nOUR WOMEN.\\nThe tendency of the women of the day to be independent and\\nto be the equal of men is but the consequence of one of the\\nunsound conditions of moral and natural home life.\\nHistory offers proof that strong minded, great, intellectual,.\\nsterling charactered women were always in existence as long as\\nthis world exists at least, there were always some representa-\\ntives of the female sex that compared favorably with the best", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "15\\nproducts of manhood, while the history of all ages also shows-\\nweak minded males that were guided and controlled by strong:\\nspirits of the opposite sex.\\nBut history also shows that true wives and good mothers found\\nhappiness and content at the domestic hearth, while the men\\ngoverned the state of affairs to the satisfaction of the community.\\nYet in every century we find a great revolution which brings\\nabout radical changes and a general elevation of society; but\\nclose study also proves that revolutions are always the conse-\\nquence of lax morals and general dishonesty.\\nA people reaches a certain plane of perfection, then its moral\\ntendency begins to degrade, and when the downward course is\\nreached the most perfect, the most refined, become the most de-\\ngraded. Society seems to turn oblivious to common decency\\nand purity, to simplest prudence. Criminal acts against the com-\\nmon people are committed to satisfy unnatural inclinations when\\nthe people become aware that their supposed superiors are noth-\\ning but low weaklings with basely low habits.\\nIn this race on to the upward, and later on to the downward\\ncourse, we find women the instigators, first to the good, then to-\\nthe evil doings.\\nWith pride every American looks back to the mothers of this\\ncountry, but with disdain every true man will now look upon\\nsome leaders of present society who seek in gayety, in indolence,,\\nin certain mockery of habits of titled nobility of the old coun-\\ntries a striving to a status in life which shall make them forget\\nthat their forefathers were honest merchantmen, mechanics, or\\neven laborers.\\nHow miserable look some of our so-called 400, who by all\\nmeans seek to forget their honest ancestry who do not blush to-\\nseek connection with foreign nobility for the first mentioned\\npurpose, and then turn their back upon that great free republic\\nwhich gave to their forefathers, or even to their husbands, the\\nwealth and command which they now sell to the highest bidder.\\nAnd who seeks the connections? The men or the women?\\nAnswer truthfully The women The very women that by\\ntheir education, wealth and position could prove the most noble\\nnobility of character and become by virtue of their deeds the en-\\nchanted models of future generations who could influence the\\ndeeds of their husbands, fathers and brothers to be most praise-\\nworthy and worthy to be recorded in the history of the world.\\nAh, would to God that we had yet many Peter Coopers or\\nPeabodys How different this world would be And what sim-\\nple immemorial monuments these men have erected for them-", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16\\nselves I should think that their generation must feel prouder,\\nbetter, than the descendants of barons, counts, dukes, nay, even\\nkings.\\nAh, such men had true, noble helpmates they had noble\\nmothers, noble wives, noble children\\nPhilanthropists are born They are God-sent But, between\\nthe real philanthropist of the past decades and the rich donor\\nof the present day there seems to be an unabridged abyss. While\\nthe deed of the philanthropist was accepted in the same spirit as\\nit was done, the gifts (and mostly they are conditional ones) of\\nthe present money-kings seem to create a feeling of disgust in\\nthe hearts of high minded women and men. We seem to feel\\nthat the good deed is not a deed of the heart, one that springs\\nfrom a philanthropic sense of duty towards those that receive\\nthe benefit of the gift, but a craven act to clear the mind of a\\nburden that conscience has olaced there.\\nWhy?\\nBecause the riches were not gained by honest labor, by hon-\\norable, clean means, but by the crushing, robbing, of the next and\\nthe poor.\\nAnd the results of these gifts are mostly great heaps of stone,\\nmonumental, and calculated to make the name of the donor im-\\nmemorial, and the stones will stand for many centuries, while\\nthe name of the donor will remain engraved on the memorial\\nslates of its halls, yet it will be forgotten by the people because\\nthe gift lacked the philanthropic spirit.\\nWhen you see the results of noble deeds, when you see the\\nrich harvest that their good seeding produced; when you hear\\nthe blessings of thousands of fathers, mothers and children that\\nare uttered at the memory of great, good men of the past, you\\nwould naturally think that their good, laudable deeds would have\\nbeen inoculated in the present generation.\\nOh, no None of that any more The fondled, misguided\\ndaughter of the upper upstart of the day wants tc forget her\\nancestry; she looks for a nobleman as a husband, whose title\\nwill cover the past, honest or dishonest, and who will waste the\\nAmerican millions at the races or gaming tables.\\nDo these women feel happy in the strange world which they\\nenter? Some do, some do not.\\nThose that have no heart, that are of the butterfly nature,\\nlead the life of the one day fly. They dominate-, and think\\nthemselves happy. Their life is not worth living. A few regret\\ntheir follv when it is too late, and a broken heart is the end.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "17\\nWhen will this folly end? The American people begin to look\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0with disdain upon these marriages.\\nAnd are these women married? Are they leading the happy\\nlife of a respected wife? Or do their dollars act like the quick-\\nsilver in a barometer, making the love of their husbands rise\\nto the surface when their gold flows freely, or noble pas-\\nsions rage like a storm when that flow stops.\\nAnd how low must the sense of honor lie in a woman when\\nshe knows herself to be endured only, to live at the side of a\\nman, who cannot but hate her, if he is yet capable of even that\\nfeeling, but we stop to wonder when free love and ^sporting\\nnatures are developed in that class of society.\\nRoll on, roll on, you stone of moral debasement, until you\\ncrush all degenerates.\\nBut the degenerates do not know that their actions are wrong\\nand harmful to the moral sense of humanity; to them their\\ndoings are but natural, the consequence of breeding and teaching.\\nThere is but one remedy. Let the women of pure blood, pure\\nideas and thoughts combine and influence the legislators to\\npass laws which will compel again scientific breeding of the\\nhuman race. Let all foul born fruit be destroyed, the sick for-\\nbidden to marry, the age of generation be limited, and weak\\nIruit also be destroyed.\\nI know fully well that these w T ords will create a storm of in-\\ndignation and abuse, but I will stand for them here, now and\\neverywhere, and prove that it is absolutely the only remedy to\\npurify the cloak of our present social and political life.\\nThe sensation which these words may create at first will soon\\nflatten, and naked truth must bear the fruit of reflection reflec-\\ntion means probing for truth, and then the theory will be found\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2correct.\\nBut why should this proposition stir up human passion to\\nthe quick?\\nThe only reason is because I dare shake on teachings and\\nfeelings which all received and nurtured from childhood up and\\nby which they benefitted, like the good egotists that we all are,\\nmore or less.\\nAnd is egotism a gift of nature? By no means!\\nThe love of the mother imparts this nasty feeling to the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2system, until we find it to be but natural and the real good\\n.thing.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18\\nThe child when born absorbs the whole attention and love of\\nthe mother. Its nasty disposition is cajoled and excused, until\\nman or womanhood makes a full fledged egotistic human being\\nof it which, by force of habit, will do like its own mother did,\\nadding certain wisdom of its own to the bringing up of their\\noffsprings, thereby creating, as a general rule, far greater ego-\\ntists who, at last, turn degenerates, their mind being well pre-\\npared to like and walk the road that leads to the downward\\ncourse of breeding and living.\\nA real mother s love will by no means ever probate the faults\\nand errors of a child, but she will warn, admonish, or punish,\\nwhen occasion necessitates.\\nAh, ye women of the age, what holy duty is before you, and\\nhow do you discharge it?\\nAnd those few that are really deserving of the title mother\\nand who do their duty in full, are not found laying plans how\\nto marry off their daughters to a pauper and degenerate nobility\\nofa foreign country, but they feel happy and content in the oc-\\ncupation of teaching and guiding their children on to the road\\nwhere real happiness lies and a blissful, contented home, which\\nin the end is envied them by the degenerate of the day.\\nThese are the women who are sacred, who are crowned by\\nman s love and esteem who wear a diadem so rich and beauti-\\nful that it outshines and outlasts the most costly crowns of a\\ndecayed nobility.\\nYe noble mothers, wives and daughters, accept here my high-\\nest esteem May you be blessed and the end of the next cen-\\ntury see your descendants in the majority.\\nThank God there are comparatively few American men who\\nturn their backs to their great native country and seek name and\\nfame by bowing in servility to the nobility of old countries but\\nthose that do can be treated best by ignoring their existence.\\nThey are not worthy that an honest American should remember\\ntheir names.\\nOf all the millions of adopted citizens of this country, I think\\nwe would find only a few that have not preserved in their heart\\na warm place for their native land, yet they love this country\\nbecause of its broad principles, of its freedom, of its generosity,\\nand few we see return to the land of their birth, even if they were\\nborn with a golden spoon in their mouths.\\nBut from the American 400 we take a step or two down, and\\nmeet the woman of real shoddvism Ah, I shudder", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "19\\nYes, they are the most despicable and dangerous of all, be-\\ncause they are the direct cause of dissatisfaction of the great\\nmasses.\\nWhy? I can best illustrate by citing an instance which I wit-\\nIt was a very warm October day when I strolled through Madi-\\nnessed not long ago.\\nson Avenue and then turned into one of the side streets that are\\nlined with the dead facades of brown-stone houses.\\nRight in front of me walked a woman dressed poorly but\\nscrupulously clean. She stopped before a house whose broad\\nfront and rich ornamenting showed that wealthy people lived\\nthere.\\nThe poor woman pulled forth an address, and then tried to find\\nthe number of a house, but they being on the inside door/ she\\nwas not able to see it.\\nJust while I was passing her a gruff female voice from the\\nparlor floor cried out: Mary, go to the door; there is another\\nwoman who comes from the advertisement. Then a shutter\\nopened and the coarse countenance of a woman appeared.\\nAre you a washerwoman? she inquired of the poor woman.\\nI am, the latter answered timidly.\\nWell, if you want to wash for a dollar a day, you go down-\\nstairs, into the kitchen, and I will come and see you, otherwise\\nyou need not bother, and clang, the window was shut.\\nI do not know what prompted me, but I had stopped when\\nthe gruff voice spoke, then turning, I saw big tears trickling\\ndown the cheeks of the poor woman, while the blood flushed\\nher face with a deep crimson.\\nI cannot, she murmured, conscious of the fact that I could\\noverhear her. She would have no mercy with my weakness;\\nshe looks so hard and rough.\\nThen the woman passed by me, throwing an inquiring glance\\nat me.\\nAre you looking for work? I asked kindlv.\\nOh, yes, I am, she stammered, but I am afraid I cannot do\\nhard labor, and that woman in there does not look as if she\\nwould have patience or forbearance with one that is very, very\\nsick.\\nI then learned the history of the woman, but why should I\\nrepeat it here? Suffice it to say that she was of gentle birth, a\\nwidow now, who tried to support three children as sick as she\\nwas.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\nAnd she cried and with bitter words asked Wiry does that\\nstrong woman live a life of idleness? Why has she the power to\\ncommand and to exact work that she would be more fit to do\\nherself?\\nI could but say: My dear woman, that is an unhealthy state\\nof our present laws that rules society, but let us hope that the\\nday will come when every being has its usefulness and will do\\nthe work that spiritual or physical ability laid out for it.\\nAh, the women of shoddyism How much harm do they do\\nThe shop girls know their former low station in life and seek\\nby all means to reach the plane of the richly but loudly clad\\nsister.\\nThe woman of acquaintance jealously takes notice of the dia-\\nmonds of Mrs. Shoddy and teases her husband to do his utmost\\nto place her on an equal level. And when poor hubby finds\\nthat he is unable to gratify the wishes of his wife, who urges him\\nto use foul means to reach the goal? The wife\\nMothers, wives, daughters, am I right? Are not most of you\\nchasing the phantom: To lead the millionaire s life\\nNo, not all We have noble women of sound mind, of good,\\ntrue heart, but they are in the minority instead of in the majority,\\nespecially in the great cities of this continent and the marital\\nrelations\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the spring of all good and of all evil in life have be-\\ncome so loose that thinkers and philosophers are earnestly con-\\nsidering whether the marital laws of society should not undergo\\n,a decided change.\\nBut who can speak and teach on this subject? I will consider\\nthis question at the proper time and place with all the earnestness\\nthat it deserves, and then gradually I will show the root of all\\nevils and propose the one and only remedy for it. To breed the\\nhuman race scientifically, instead of fouling the blood by breed-\\ning good to bad, and bad to worse, thereby creating a race which\\nlooks upon crime as a smart working instead of a diseased\\nworking of the brain and generating the multi-millionaire with\\nhis cold, impassionate nature, that stops at nothing to gain a\\nselfish end.\\nIn consequence of the status quo we have come very near to\\nlook with contempt upon a character of true, sterling value which\\nis scorned and ostracized. Men and women with high moral\\nsense are laughed at and ridiculed, and when they try to assert\\nthat they are right, people of lax ideas and immoral character\\ntry to besmirch and f drag them down to their own low level.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "21\\nYes, society at large is far more degraded, far more in the\\nmeshes of sin, far more evil minded, than it is itself aware of.\\nWhen we become used to look at wrong as being right, at sin as\\nbeing virtuous, and that crime is honorable, or at least not dis-\\ngracing, then it is high time that the social problems are solved\\nat any cost solved by the righteous indignation of all truly hon-\\norable people, who must mass together and mete out punish-\\nment to thieves and rascals, who openly defy law and* order of\\nthe universe, and bargain for the guaranteed rights of the people.\\nI predict the time when we will look upon certain laws of\\nbygone ages as having been very wise ones, and as history re-\\npeats itself in all matters, we will have to adopt those very\\nmeasures of social resurrection again.\\nThat our liberty as guaranteed by the constitution of the\\nUnited States is sold, cut and shrivelled into nothing, is now an\\nacknowledged fact; unity is hardly to be expected under these\\ncircumstances, and can only be reached when liberty is restored,\\nbut equality will only be brought about by very stringent laws,\\nwhich would seriously affect the usages of centuries.\\nI have always held that the sense of equality must be inocu-\\nlated in the coming generation, as he who was brought up with\\nthe idea that riches, training and learning gave him naturally a\\nhigher position in life than his poorer fellow-man enjoys cannot,\\nand will not, discard these thoughts, unless fortune turns her\\nback upon him and shows that golden hearts and honest\\nminds exist in all classes of life.\\nDISEASED BRAINS MEANS DISEASED MINDS.\\nA diseased brain certainly produces a diseased mind, and a\\ndesire to do what is forbidden or so hideous that it is distasteful\\nor incomprehensible to the sound mind. A diseased mind will\\ndevelop an inclination to outdo the desirable and the good\\nit creates an unhealthy superlative, and this desire stamps the\\ndisease. But to the diseased mind the unnatural, unhealthy\\nsuperlative looks desirable, the attainment of the best, regard-\\nless that it is produced at the expense and ruination of fellow\\nbeings, and that is the proof of the disease.\\nAn argument with a diseased mind is absolutely fruitless as a\\nmatter per se, and would be an unthankful task if this work\\nwould only reach the incurables, but I live in hopes that it will\\nalso reach the thousands who are still open to an argument and\\nreadv to be convinced by facts.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22\\nLet us see where we find such diseased minds in our social,\\npolitical and business world.\\nIn our social life we find the disease in the desire to live far\\nabove the means of the individual and to rank at least outwardly\\nby dress and jewel with those that also live above their means,\\nand so on, until we reach the diseased argument, which is Make\\nthe means anyhow this, then, seems to become the right thing\\nto do, instead of what it is the unnatural, unhealthy superlative\\nof the simple good. And in the mad rush to grab and gobble\\nup the dishonestly made dollars, honor, self-respect, family ties,\\nobligations, morality, common decency, everything, is forgotten,\\neverything is trodden into the mire and gutter for what? for\\nthe almighty dollar that shall satisfy the desires of the diseased\\nbrains, the wish for the unnatural, unhealthy, superlative of so-\\ncalled good.\\nAnd the attentive observer stands first amused, then dazed,\\nin the whirlpool of this life he compares the past with the pres-\\nent, and concludes that if the past was by no means faultless, the\\npresent is simply distasteful, the opposite to uprightness, honor\\nand humanity.\\nWhy?\\nAh, here, and now, I see a member of the rich meeting a\\nfriend. Both politely lift their hats and bow low. The tips of\\nthe fingers touch each other as if both were afraid that the other s\\nhand is dirty. Well, is it clean? Is the glove that covers the\\nflesh paid for with honestly earned money, or hangs upon it the\\nlife blood of a ruined existence?\\nWho can tell?\\nXow they part, and the countenances of both are overspread\\nby a grin that speaks volumes to the mind reader and physiol-\\nogist\\nThe tendencies of diseased brains of our present times will be\\ntreated in a separate chapter, but the business methods of our\\nmoney kings and mercantile lights who, no doubt, suffer from\\nthe worst form of a diseased brain, shall be more fully treated\\nin the next chapter.\\nARE OUR GREAT MONEY KINGS SUFFERING FROM\\nDISEASED BRAINS?\\nThe mere possesssion of riches tends to create and to form pas-\\nsions and desires, which to the less fortunate seem incredible,\\nunnatural, immoral and undesirable, because the function of the\\nwill power in suppressing these passions is especially strained\\nand called upon to perform its best endeavors.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "23\\nNow, then. Our medical scientists teach us that the brain has\\na stated amount of cells and each of them is the site of a capacity.\\nIt is evident that use means consume, but a forced usage of\\nany part of the body soon becomes visible by the deadening and\\nultimate consuming of the parts, glands and arteries which pre-\\nserve and nourish. For instance, the laborer, who uses his\\nhands all day handling rough articles, will soon show the cal-\\nlous effect of the skin that came in constant contact with rough\\nmaterial the arteries of the skin, asked by nature to supply more\\nthan the usual food, had to do harder work, and when called\\nupon to do more than they should do, they tired, and at last re-\\nfused the work altogether, becoming dead and hard, and there-\\nwith giving to the parts where they lie, a callous and dead\\nappearance. The hands do the work still, but not in the same\\nnimble way as when every little artery was in a perfect, healthy\\ncondition. Mind that, please.\\nAnd the little brain cells, each destined to do certain func-\\ntions, will also tire if one or more is called upon to do a greater\\ntask than what nature permitted them to do without tiring, and so\\nwill the cell containing our will power tire, harden and collapse\\nif w r e ask an unnatural performance of it. Once dead, it cannot\\nappeal for aid to such cells as hold generosity, morality, sense\\nof honor, etc., and, at last, we meet the thorough money king\\nwith many of his brain cells dead, consequently with a diseased\\nbrain, who will amass his fortune, irrespective of the lives that\\nhe ruins, and who walks over graves to his very doubtful happy\\nhome.\\nAnd the disease of his brain is inherited by his children, who\\ncome into the world looking upon the status as a birthright and\\nupon their less rich, fellow beings as beneath their own standing.\\nO, ye miserable creatures Would to God the great chance\\nwere given you to look into the soul of a pure minded human\\nbeing, that feels happiest in the pure joy of a simple life and\\nwho has the facility to enshroud the dirtiest with the love of\\nunselfishness who does good, not for reward or praise, but\\n-solely from a natural instinct and irrespective of the receiver s\\ncounter action.\\nDoes the pomp which surrounds you, the servility which you\\nbuy, the friendship that is false, the love that is betrayed, repay\\nyou for the beautiful content that you lost, just as Adam and Eve\\nlost the Paradise?", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\nThe diseased brain will answer yes. I say no, a thousand\\ntimes no, but if we allow the diseased mind to breed on, then\\ncomes revolution, as sure as history repeats itself in every\\ncentury.\\nOUR POLITICAL DEGENERATES.\\nWhile ascribing in the foregoing chapters that the degener-\\nates of this age were in the majority, I gladly said that people\\nof good, honest and sound mind were still in existence, but I\\nhave yet to find the politician of the day whose hand the honest\\nman could conscientiously shake, knowing that man s sense was\\nabsolutely clear on the point of honor and honesty. Nay, I\\nmust say worse\\nIt is nigh on to impossible that a perfectly honorable man can\\nbecome an American politician if he was such a being when\\nentering the career he certainly could not be so long and remain\\nin the ranks. He will form connections, make promises, enter\\ninto obligations, etc., which sooner or later must interfere with\\nhis plain and sworn to duties, and when the first step of dis-\\nhonesty was taken, and the foul mouthed flatterer has excused\\nor even applauded the wrong, then the next step down is made\\nquicker, conscience is quieter, and ambition enters the track,\\nputting its spurs deep into the brain cell, where conscience is\\nalready asleep and bleed the latter soon to death.\\nBut our politicians know well that the degenerates in the\\nmasses are by far in the majority, and that therefore their acts\\nand deeds will pass unpunished, except when they harm one of\\nthe few sterling characters who then brings them, often per-\\nchance, before one of the sterling judges, when punishment is\\nmeted out, but often, very often, the mightier power then par-\\ndons the sinner.\\nWe have, in fact, passed that stage of political life where a\\nReform through the ballot box seemed possible. I did hope, a\\nfew years ago, when Dr. Parkhurst and other sterling men went\\nforward to crush dishonesty and degeneracy, that the political\\nevils could be checked and remedied by the vote of the peo-\\nple, but since that time I am convinced that only the purifica-\\ntion of blood will produce a change and bring forth patriotic\\nmen, who, from a point of high sense of honor, will guide and\\nmaintain the welfare of the people.\\nDr. Parkhurst, for instance, is such a man in the most noble\\nsense of the word, and only such can fully appreciate what he", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "25\\nhas done in the past, who tried to do as he did. He undertook:\\nthe work of a giant, and I sincerely hope that he will yet end it\\nsatisfactorily.\\nNobody can judge how distasteful such labors must have been,\\nto him nobody can imagine the obstacles which were placed in\\nhis way, but let us still hope that the foul atmosphere of our\\npolitical world can be aired, and that wrong can yet be righted\\nwithout revolution or other drastic measures. But let not alone\\nthe moral filth be cleared away, no go higher, Dr. Parkhurst,\\nand go low T er also. The stagnation of the brain fluid is disas-\\ntrous to the best minds, and the judgment of good men and\\nwomen have become clouded, while the poor working people are\\nembittered and ready to mistrust even the purest minds.\\nWell, is it to be wondered? Not at all When the child re-\\nceives the lesson that dishonesty is smartness, and that to be\\nsharp means to make the dollar anyhow, and teachings of the\\nsame kind, then we must not wonder to see the child grow up\\nto be all that it is expected to be, and that its ideas of right and\\nwrong are entirely mixed up and contrary to law and honor.\\nIs it necessary for me to offer proof for these assertions?\\nNo, because everybody, absolutely everybody, knows they are\\nfacts knows that honesty in our political circles is laughed\\nat ,although we find here and there some servants of the people\\nwho say We never took a dishonest dollar, and mav be they\\ndidn t.\\nBut what ways and means did they have to use to get there?\\nDid they have to pay their way, or did they have to make prom-\\nises, or did they natter a man who stands below them in every\\nrespect?\\nYou did I say you did, no matter who you are, and no argu-\\nment could convince me of the contrary, because I know better.\\nThere are two men alive in whom I have yet confidence, al-\\nthough they allied themselves with people of ill repute, but I\\nbelieve that they will try to clean the political Augean stable if\\nthey reach the goal that they aim for, even if they now use the\\nmotto of the Jesuits The purpose sanctifies the means. I may\\nbe mistaken; both may prove common stock, but I doubt it.\\nI have closely observed their actions, as far as that was possible\\nfor the outsider to do, and I came to the conclusion that the\\nallies were forced on them by necessity, and that their char-\\nacter is of such a sterling nature that it will assert itself in its\\nfull capacity and nobility when the goal is reached and when,\\nthey can make their personality felt to the fullest extent.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\nThese two men are William Jennings Bryan and Governor\\nTheodore Roosevelt. One is a Democrat, the other Republi-\\ncan, but both, I hope, want to do the same thing, clean the politi-\\ncal Augean stable, give an honest government to the people of\\nthe United States, and before all and everything see to it that\\nthe judiciary is not alone honest, but learned. If we ever could\\nget honest and learned judges, a big step towards the right\\nreform would be made, but as it is at present, the masses have\\nlost all confidence in the judiciary, in consequence of which hon-\\norable judges have to suffer under the reputation and actions of\\ntheir colleagues.\\nOUR COURTS OF JUSTICE.\\nThe name and reputation of a judge should be absolutely\\nfree from stain, his learning and experience should be far above\\nthe average lawyer, because his position is exalted, he has the\\nwelfare and happiness of thousands in his hands. His judgment\\nshould be accepted and respected like the expressions of the wise\\nmen of old ages, and not as is only too often done now jeered\\nat and charges of corruption, dishonesty, or incompetency made\\nand publicly proclaimed.\\nThe mind of a judge should be clear, cool, deliberate; his ex-\\nperience in law and life should be extraordinary, and his sense\\nof honor and justice must border on the zenith of human perfec-\\ntion. But if an every day lawyer, an every day human being,\\nwith either stained or no reputation is put on the bench of justice,\\nwe must not expect correct and honest judgments. If men who\\nhave pledged themselv,es to degenerate political party leaders,\\nand are even not every day lawyers, become judges of the\\npeople, then we have reached a plane in politics which sooner\\nor later must lead to revolution, because these very judges mis-\\njudge even the degenerate mass and dare do acts of justice\\nwhich must call forth anarchy.\\nIne Reiorm Movement, which a few years ago swept over\\nNew York City, produced two good results: I. It showed that\\nthe people could be aroused to see the difference between good\\nand bad, and 2, That it gave us at least one sterling judge, and\\nthis is, I do not hesitate to say it, Judge Goff. He is the ideal\\nman for the position, and he has my greatest respect, although I\\nnever had the honor to exchange one word with him. In due\\ntime, when I publish my treatise on Our Courts of Justice, I\\nshall undertake to prove what I said here.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "27\\nIt is hardly worth while to extend this theme now and here,\\nand I only touched lightly upon it to show that our whole social\\nand political life is rotten to the core, and that the minds of the\\nmasses are in an absolutely unhealthy state, while the ideas of\\nright and wrong are twisted into a chaos-like state.\\nI have so far shown the abyss on whose limit our social and\\npolitical life has arrived, but it certainly could not have taken\\nsuch a low turn if our morals had not been shaken to the very\\nfoundation of their lawful and natural structure, and therefore I\\nwill cover that part of my theme more explicitly, throwing\\nflashes of light on those parts which are shadiest and are seldom\\ntouched upon by the writer who caters to the conceit of the\\nclasses as well as of the masses.\\nTHE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1900.\\nThe, few words which I uttered in regard to Messrs. Roose-\\nvelt and Bryan were written a few months ago, and I am glad to\\nfind the opportunity to take now a one-side view of the situa-\\ntion, before this book goes into print, and to declare in the most\\nemphatic terms my choice for Colonel William Jennings Bryan.\\nRoosevelt has proved himself to be common political stock,\\nbecause he subordinated his views to the inferior, nay, damnable\\nwire-pulling habits of a rotten political machine. He bowed to\\nHanna, McKinley, Piatt Co. He declares his imperialistic\\nideas he bound himself hand and foot to the trust policy, and\\nbefore all he showed political trickery in dealing with the cases\\nagainst Van Wyck, Gardiner and Coler.\\nk When I come back from the West, I will pay attention to\\nthe charges against these men These words brand Mr. R.\\nforever as a machine politician, because meanwhile the poor peo-\\nple paid 60 cents for ice while His Excellency enjoyed a re-\\nunion with the rough riders and, by the way, boomed his boom.\\nWell, that is tending to the sacred duties of the highest office\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of the State, you know, and doubtless worthy of a great sol-\\ndier-politician who uses the khaki uniform to play yellow\\npolitics.\\nHis Excellency (a true Republican title, no doubt) gives\\nCol. Gardiner another chance to bring the Ice Trust barons\\nbefore another ^Tammany Grand Jury, while he allows the only\\nhonest man, Mr. Coler, to remain under a cloud of suspicion, be-\\ncause the latter was slated to receive the nomination for gor-\\ncrnor.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\nYes, I do not hesitate to say Mr. Roosevelt has succeeded in;\\ndestroying the esteem in which honest men held him until he\\nwas nominated as a candidate for the Vice-Presidency of the-\\nUnited States, but we must be thankful that he de-masked him-\\nself in time to make the choice simple. William Jennings-\\nBryan will, with God s help, be the next president of our free\\nrepublic, and his master mind will master the most difficult situ-\\nation that ever confronted a president since Abraham Lincoln s\\ntime.\\nLook at this spiritual giant Look, ye noble hearted men and\\nwomen at this character, that stands out in snowy white, like a\\nsilhouette on the black background of a political horizon which\\nthreatens destruction to our cherished personal liberty, to all\\nthat we hold dear in life\\nIs there really an honest man that can waver, that can be in\\ndoubt? Not unless he is a simpleton and believes on a one-sided\\nargument, or if he stands in fear that his ill-gotten gains may be\\nswallowed up by the tidal wave of reform\\nBut I predict that this tidal wave will lift William Jennings\\nBryan on its white caps and carry him to Washington with a\\nsweep and rush that will stagger the political rogues and thieves\\nand teach them an everlasting lessson.\\nHistory shows that great men are born for the hour, and\\nWilliam Jennings Bryan has proved by every one of his words\\nand actions that he is\\nTHE MAN OF THE HOUR/\\nand therefore J say he will prove to be The saving and blessing-\\nof this nation\\nTo him, who understands the silver question thoroughly, it is\\nincomprehensible how the working and small tradesman can\\nfor one moment consider to vote for McKinley, for him who\\nstands as the personification of Trusts, but, on interviewing hun-\\ndreds of people, whose second word was: I do not want the-\\ndollar which I earn so hard to be worth only about 53 cents, I\\nfound that they neither had any correct idea of the silver ques-\\ntion, but seemed unaware of how the Trusts influenced their\\nwhole welfare, and I think that I may do some good vet by giv-\\ning a clear idea of the two questions which, if not now alievated:\\nby the election of Mr. Bryan, must shake the foundations of this-\\nrepublic within a decade.\\nIf our citizens would not be composed of a conglomeration of\\nnations, revolution would long have cleared the political horizon,.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "29\\nbut the Trusts and millionaires know that Europe and Asia un-\\nloads its poorest classes here, and that they feel comparatively\\nhappy here, because their existence is more bearable in the\\nUnited States, even at the disadvantage they labor under. But\\nthe time will come when the emigration is checked, the doors are\\nclosed, and by that time the foreign element will be all accli-\\nmated and educated to the standard. That every human being\\nis entitled to a fair living does not alone mean bread and meat,\\nbut everything that will make life worth living.\\nNow, let us look the silver question fairly in the face What\\nmeans 16 to i? It means that 16 ounces of silver shall be equal\\nin value to an ounce of gold, which is the present standard under\\nthe present administration, and has been the standard for a num-\\nber of years back, and this valuation of the silver dollar, whose\\npresent real value is but 53 cents in gold, has never been ques-\\ntioned by any citizen of the United States or of any other\\ncountry.\\nBut now comes the gold bug and says Yes, our silver\\ndollar is taken like a gold dollar, because the holder of it can get\\nat any time a gold dollar from the treasury of the country but I\\nsay that is not so, for the United States treasury never, at any\\ntime, has enough gold dollars in reserve to meet any and all\\ndemands. If, for instance, every dollar in United States\\nsilver should be presented at a given day at the United States\\ntreasury for exchange of gold dollars the demand would never be\\nmet in full, although enough United States gold dollars may\\nbe in circulation all over the world to meet that demand. It\\ndoes not do me, you, or anybody any good to know that enough\\ngold dollars are in existence to exchange them for silver dollars,\\nbut we want the demand to be met at any time if that is the law.\\nNow, then, is it not far better to have two metals of standard\\nvalue thaji one, in case of necessity? That is, if there is short-\\nness on one, there may be plenty of the other in the treasury to\\nmeet all demands of payments?\\nOf course it is, but not for the speculators, for the money\\nkings, etc., for they like shorts and longs, because that gives\\nthem chances to speculate and to rob those that are in need of\\nthe demanded medium of exchange.\\nAll moneys are nothing but mediums of exchanges, whether\\nv it is gold, silver, copper, nickel, or any other thing, as long as a\\ngovernment acknowledges it as its mediums of exchange, and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2as long as the resources of the country guarantee the payments\\noi the debts.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30\\nThe note or check of a merchant is his medium of exchange\\nfor either of them there must be the face value in the bank or in\\nthe hands of the maker on the day of its maturity, and if it is not\\npaid, the debtor s property is attached and sold, but until it is\\nmatured and unpaid, the debtor s credit cannot be assailed.\\nNow, the merchant s goods and wares, his estate in this in-\\nstance, is his established value of belongings, just* the same as\\nthe gold, silver, copper, nickel or paper money of this country\\nestablishes the value of its possessions and incomes, and these\\npossessions and incomes again furnish the guarantee for the\\nvalue of the medium of exchange.\\nNow, then, if this is true, will any one deny us the right to\\nestablish the value and to select the medium of our exchanges?\\nCan any one do so without heaping insult on our integrity to pay\\nour debts?\\nNo, that will not and cannot be done, for we would retaliate\\nand crush the insulter.\\nThe resources of this country are simply unlimited our com-\\nmerce is so extensive that we easily could force the acceptance\\nof our mediums ot exchanges or retaliate!\\nThe ratio of 16 to i is therefore not the question of war be-\\ntween the Republican and Democratic parties, or rather between\\nthe money kings and all other people.\\nWhat is it, then?\\nThe money kings say The free and unlimited coinage of\\nsilver.\\nWell, that is, in the first place, not a matter for the president\\nto decide, but for Congress and Senate, like every vital and\\nimportant law making of and for the United States.\\nIf a majority of our law makers ever should see fit to order an\\nunlimited coinage of silver, they will certainly do so, after thor-\\nough deliberation, and then we will have to see whether the\\nresult is good or bad, and, in the latter event, the law would\\nagain be changed. But, as I said in my former argument, as\\nlong as our incomes and resources cover and guarantee the\\namount of exchange mediums in circulation for the benefit of the\\npeoples, then their established value cannot come in question\\nexcept speculators and money kings bring about a monetary\\ndoubt for the purpose of speculation, and then there may be\\nhavoc in their own ranks. But such a status quo would not\\naffect the poor classes at all, and the middle classes only tem-\\nporarily, if risks had been taken by them.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "31\\nAt last let us look at the principle point made by the Repub-\\nlicans That our credit with the world would suffer if we could,\\nnot make all our payments in gold.\\nDo we do that now? Not a bit of it, but we simply ship so and\\nso many millions of gold dollars hither and thither, whereby the\\nshippers make a premium every time that it changes possession\\nwhen it is wanted to keep the so-called gold reserve funds in\\nbanks and government vaults.\\nGold is at present the only fundamental value and metal by\\nwhich all other commodities and metals are valued.\\nBut whv should the world not have two, three, or more metals\\nwith established values? Would it not be far better to have\\nplenty mediums of exchange as to have so little, that the money\\nkings are able to make so-called corners for it?\\nI think any sensible person, except the speculator, will answer\\nthis question in the affirmative.\\nTherefore I say, let us vote for Mr. Bryan, who has pledged\\nhimself to give us a clean, learned and experienced United\\nStates Supreme Court bench, who has pledged himself to destroy\\nthe destroying Trusts, who promised to end the war in the\\nPhilippines, and to give to their people a government of their\\nown choice. This will end the infamous war tax and give real\\nprosperity and real full dinner pails not alone to the working-\\nmen, but to the small tradesmen and mechanics as well.\\nYes, I appeal to all really honest men to vote for Wm. J.\\nBryan, and not alone for the reason of monetary advantage, but\\nto help uphold the honor and self respect of manhood, the honor\\nof our free land, of the great republic, which the forefathers es-\\ntablished with their life blood.\\nRichard Croker certainly spoke one true word, not long ago,\\nwhen he said: Bryan will be George Washington the second;\\nbut I say: He will prove the saviour of the nation!\\nTHE TRUSTS, CORPORATIONS AND COMPANIES.\\nThe diseased brain has produced the great evil of the day:\\nThe Trust.\\nWhat a mockery this name is to the real purpose for which it\\nis said to be formed.\\nO trust you fools, that Trusts will do\\nWhat you would do to others too.\\nTo trust the Trusts means quick destruction,\\nMeans Trust s death in Trusts s suction.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\nYes, the diseased brain is necessary for the formation of the\\nTrtist because the former of these combinations must be\\ndevoid of all feelings, ready to destroy the business, the life-work\\nof their next fellow beings if he or they dare to uphold the most\\nsacred right of this great republic, freedom of thought, action\\nand speech.\\nThey must stand ready to crush all competition by fair or foul\\nmeans, or they would never succeed.\\nThey must stand ready to annihilate the fair existence of mil-\\nlions of people and to make them poor and dependent, or they\\nwould never succeed.\\nTHey must stand ready to advance the arguments of their dis-\\neased brains backed up by their ill gotten gains, or they would\\nnever succeed.\\nThey must be ready to laugh at the cursing of the ruined, or\\n-they would never succeed.\\nThey must stand ready to crush the sufferers into idiocy and\\nslavery, or they would be annihilated themselves.\\nBut what is a Trust\\nA combination of capitalists with the avowed purpose to con-\\ntrol the market of one article and to one purpose, to the detri-\\nment of others that are engaged in the same business.\\nThe argument that a Trust is formed to run a certain busi-\\nness more economically whereby the masses of the people will\\nprofit, is simply ridiculous, which I will show by statistical\\nproof when my book on that subject is published. Suffice it here\\nto say that the profit goes into the pocket of a few, but that the\\nloss to thousands and millions is simply incalculable.\\nBut it is not alone the Trust that rakes up discontent and\\nbrings about destruction, but all conglomeration of capital works\\ndestruction. This crystallizing of money power bears the\\nmiserable fruit of wrongdoing, suppression, slavery and of usur-\\npation of power. It allows laws to be enacted which are abso-\\nlutely damnable, as under a cloak of justice the most contempt-\\nible lawful frauds are now committed.\\nThe big corporations, companies, etc., etc., furnish abundant\\nproof for my assertions, and in my treatise. Trusts, Corporations\\nand Companies, I shall furnish details that will astonish the\\nworld.\\nThere is not a day, nay, not an hour of any business day\\npassing, that is not full of horror to some individual which stands\\naghast and helpless, yes, absolutely helpless versus the great\\nTrusts, Corporations and Companies.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "33\\nTake, for instance, our Fire and Life Insurance Companies.\\nGo to the palaces which these great companies have built for\\ntheir business homes watch the herd of employees that is busy\\ntaking the moneys of the insured fools, and then see the few\\nthat are necessary to pay the losses. The Insurance Company\\nnever believes that an insured has a loss/ but always believes\\nitself the looser and the real unfortunate a criminal. This alone\\nfurnishes a notable item for the calculator, but the unlucky per-\\nson that enters the marble halls of these companies for the\\npurpose of recovering damages will tell you in a little while\\nthat he or she came in contact with a lot of the most cold blooded\\nbusiness men of the present age that fair mind could possibly\\nconceive.\\nIf fate, cruel fate, has visited you in the form of the most ter-\\nrible element, Fire, and destroyed your home or merchandise\\nor ware of any kind, you find some relief in the fact that you did\\nyour duty as a head of a family or business man by insuring your\\nall in a good company, and after the first agony over your loss\\nhas vanished you look with a hopeful eye into the future.\\nA few days after the fire a so-called Adjuster of the com-\\npany calls on you and asks questions as to the origin of the fire,\\nas to the value of your goods, etc., that drives the blood of\\nshame or disgrace into your face, and if you are a person of\\nhonor you will resent the remarks of the foul mouthed gentle-\\nman in the most severe manner; but that aggravates his\\nantagonistic ideas, and unless you kick him into the street he\\nwill only the more insult you.\\nWhen you at last furnish a proof of your loss, you will find\\nso many objections made, and so many clauses and laws\\npointed to that the goal of the adjuster is soon reached, and\\nthat you take whatever the company sees fit to give you.\\nBut, as I said before, I shall go into the fullest details and\\nquote facts in the book that is especially devoted to this subject.\\nI shall not alone point out the evils, but also the redress by the\\nlaws that must be enacted if cheating of the insurance companies\\nand corporations shall be made impossible in the future. These\\nlaws must be so distinct, so plain, that their disobeyance would\\nbe followed by heavy civil and criminal punishment.\\nIn my judgment Insurance Companies and Corporations which\\ndeal and speculate with commodities and conveniences affecting\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2the welfare of the people should be run by the people by the\\ngovernment of the United States alone.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34\\nIt could be easily proven whether the Insurance Companies\\nare doing an honest business, or whether they intentionally, with\\nthe view of cheating their clients, charge them with criminal acts,\\nthereby withholding what is justly due them, or with the same\\nintent force them to costly suits which are absolutely ruinous to\\ntheir clients interests.\\nThe legislature of this State could easily appoint an investi-\\ngating committee, with power to summon the officers of the\\nInsurance Companies before it, producing their loss accounts\\nand from these take the names and addresses of the victims\\nwinch soon would tell a story that would and must bring about\\nthe change which I before mentioned.\\nI shall in my treatise on this subject ask the legislature to\\nappoint such a committee, and I will use my best endeavors to\\nhelp the members to sift the matter to the very bottom.\\nTHE PUBLIC PRESS.\\nHas the public press a moral obligation\\nIt has, and it is embodied in a most noble purpose To edu-\\ncate and ennoble the masses.\\nDoes our public press fulfill this purpose?\\nNOj or at least only so far as its own pocket benefits by it.\\nWhy not?\\nBecause it is infected with the disease of the century, and\\nvery few journals are in existence which, from a proper moral\\nstandpoint, would combat an evil, if money was in it for the\\npaper.\\nIt is, for instance, accepted by everybody that The Great\\nStore is the death of the small merchant, nay, of the big one as\\nwell in the end. yet no journal of the day that receives the adver-\\ntising patronage of the Great Stores will touch that theme in\\nany way, shape or form.\\nThe press looks on and gloats over the spoils it receives, while\\nhundred thousands are trodden down* their existence stamped\\nout, our sons and daughters becoming the slaves of the few, loos-\\ning ambition and self respect and gaining what for it? A com-\\npensation too big to die. too small to live decently, except a bodv\\nis satisfied to live on adulterated food, eat in dingy quarters, or to\\nsubsist on the mockery of food that is served in the five and ten\\ncent restaurants.\\nThe few that receive good pay are held up as examples worthv\\nto be imitated, but how can the thousands slip into places that\\nare. so few and scarce?", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "35\\nThe Great Store, or rather The Octopus, as I choose to\\ncall it, must go, must be wiped out, or moral degradation of the\\nmasses, worse than at present, must result.\\nNow, if this is a fact, why do not the daily journals use their\\npower to annihilate them, to make them impossible? The reason\\nI have stated before, and it is needless to say that other evils are\\nin existence under the very eyes of the forces, which are likewise\\nseverely let alone.\\nAnd even if the press combats an evil, does it keep up the agi-\\ntation until it is remedied, torn out by the roots?\\nNonsense i As soon as somebody makes the grease flow,\\nthe noise is stopped and oblivion is secured.\\nBut what is the real duty of the daily press?\\nTo report all happenings of the day. truthful and minutely;\\nfearlessly and without favor. When that is done, the real teach-\\ners of life, experienced, high minded persons should criticise,\\nsoliloquize, argue, on topics that would be of interest to the\\nmasses. Teach, warn, but also show by pen pictures the beauti-\\nful light of a pure, upright and moral life.\\nflattering the conceit of the masses, giving credit to people\\nwho deserve punishment the press commits a crime because it\\nmisleads on the one hand, and sets a poor example on the other.\\nI will touch here one great evil of the day. It is found in every\\nbusiness, in every walk of life.\\nYoung men and girls are put in places to which neither\\nknowledge nor experience entitles them. They call it the in-\\nfusion of young blood into the business.\\nIt is nothing of the kind. These young people are engaged\\nbecause they will work for a pittance, and rely on a partial support\\nfrom the parents, or on stealing and robbing their employers,\\nor the girls on the side income of a loose life.\\nGo to the big stores and look at the wan faces, bedecked with\\nthe artificial colors of rouge and white study their behavior,\\nlisten to their whispered or often even loud conversation, watch\\nthem on their way home, evenings or Sundays, and you will\\nshudder at the thought that your own sweet daughter may be\\ndriven to such an existence.\\nXo doubt we have good girls among them, but they are in the\\nminority, no matter how great the outcry against this assertion\\nmay be the interested parties know that I am right.\\nAnd is it to be wondered? Before their very eyes, all day\\nlong, the ladies upon whom they must wait; the fineries which\\ntbev sell, and then the tired out body and soul in the evening!\\nCan thev resist temptation?", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\nPublic Press, why do you not answer the question truthfully?\\nWhy do you stop all agitation after a litttle while, even if you do\\nslightly touch the theme once in a great while?\\nThe Octopus jingles its money bag and advertises daily a\\npage instead of a column or two, and then the dogs are\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2called off.\\nWell, all this seems but natural at the present dav and at the\\npresent conception of the word honor and moral duty, but it\\n-cannot last.\\nThe press is degenerated as everything else is, and the remedy\\nis the same as proposed before.\\nNow I cannot be accused of having flattered my former con-\\nfreres too much, but what I said was naked truth, and, of course,\\nit should be unnecessary to say that I spoke of the general rule,\\nnot of the few exceptions that may exist, but are unknown to\\nme, although I tried to find them. Well, maybe they hid, shying\\nthe glare of the lantern with which I looked for them at broad\\ndaylight, like Diogenes in olden times, but the public perhaps\\nmay discover them now, when the criticisms of this book are\\ncarefully studied.\\nWhat a revelation these criticisms will be\\nBut, my dear reader, before we now enter the gates of life s\\nmisery-dale, and look at the panorama of our moral degrada-\\ntions, let us ask the question\\nWHO CAN JUDGE AND WHO CAN TEACH?\\nExperience is one great teacher.\\nIf this is true, then the party who gathered the greatest experi-\\nence should be the best explainer and teacher of the inexperi-\\nenced.\\nIs this conclusion true, true every time?\\nNo. We see the incorrectness of the argument at the very\\nhearts of life with our parents and with our school teachers.\\nFather and mother are looked upon as infallible, our school\\nteachers likewise, and yet how many children have a right to\\ncurse the teachings which they receive under the parental roof,\\nand how many great talents are misled, destroyed by narrow\\nminded, careless teaches. Th heart of the attentive observer of\\nhim who makes a study of life bleeds when he sees the bud of a\\ntalented young life nipped off in its earliest stages by parental\\nstupidity, or destroyed by the incapacitated mind of coleric\\nteachers. This can be seen every day of one s life, and it proves\\nthat experience does not always furnish the capacity to teach.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "37\\nThe every day men or women will not understand the very\\nmeaning of this argument, for to them it seems only natural that\\nCharley should be miserable because he did not ?tick to his\\ntrade/ or Emmy must live poor because she could have done\\nbetter. They do not know that nature in its mysterious kindness\\nsends us numerous great spirits, born of the human flesh, and\\ndestined to do great things if we would have it so. But then\\ncomes blindness, stupidity, ignorance, bad will, etc., etc., and,\\nmisunderstanding the young, quick pulsating nature ot the noble\\nexotic life-plant, everything is done to suppress its growth, to\\nhinder the freely up-germinating spirit, in consequence of which\\nwe soon^see a little crippled life-plant with here and there a side-\\nshoot producing little wonderful buds, which die before they\\nopen and only allow us to perceive the great and beneficial beauty\\nwhich they might have developed had we not crippled the plant\\nin its early stages of growth.\\nSo die yearly, nay daily, many thousand great men and women\\non account of bad teachings, on account of that no safe advisor\\nwas near them, on account of soulless, ignorant corruptors. They\\ndo not die the common death of common mortals, nay, they die\\ninch by inch, their hearts being wrought and torn, their spirits\\npoisoned and condemned, until merciful nature closes the valves\\nof the tortured hearts and speaketh rest\\nBut, laugh as you may, I assert that from among these mis-\\nunderstoods fate s unfavored, those arise which are gifted with\\niron nerves and will power, who out of wreck and ruin arise and\\nshake the dirt like the dog the water, when it leaves the cleaning\\nelement. They look back to the ruinous life with disdain, and\\nthen stop to think. Next, they wade back because they see here\\nand there a likewise punished human being which is in danger\\nto be drowned and extending the tried and experienced hand of\\nthe saver, they guide and lead the sufferer out of harm s way,\\nand these are the real teachers of life, believe me\\nBut, now we come to another important question Who is it\\nthat has this experience? Where is it gained? When have we\\na right to say: We can teach? Ah, as easy as it seems to\\nanswer these questions, as hard it is to convince with all that\\nyou may say about it.\\nYou, young and old philosophers, men and women of the\\nworld, everyday observer, father, mother, teacher, preacher, doc-\\ntor, judge, lawyer, criminalist, you all, when are you fit to\\nteach. Is it when you became convinced that all illusions are\\nillusions? Is it when you think you have gained the capacity to\\njudge right and wrong, or what is beneficial and damaging? Is", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38\\nit when you have filled your brains to overflowing with the\\nteachings of others? Is it when you believe yourself above re-\\nproach? Is it when you have seen all the vices and virtues of\\nthis life? Is it when you have expounded our moral and social\\nlaws? Is it when you have inhaled God s teachings and are des-\\nignated to teach them? Or is it when your own misguided, mis-\\nunderstood, but noble-born spirit has waded through the marshes\\nof life, was crushed by misfortunes, wounded to death by all that\\nseemed beautiful and noble, was disrespected by the most ignoble\\ncreatures after everything you worshiped had lost its glory, all\\nillusions were destroyed, and then, when everything seeemed\\nbare of beauty and color, you found at the bottom of your heart\\none feeling to forgive all. pity, mercy. And with such mercy\\n.in your heart beautiful nature opens her endearing, lovely cre-\\nation and you hear the little birds offering their thanksgiving\\nand the sv ra s children, balsamic-like, appease and\\nheal the wounds of heart and soul while the busy bee teaches you\\nthat unceasing work at last secures a blessed home.\\nThere, you great philosophers, there is the ever teaching .pic-\\nture upon which you can rely, which you may consult at any time,\\nwhen one of your pupils wants a question answered, that is to\\nyourself a conundrum. Go out under nature s great dome, with\\nopen eyes there question, listen and learn, and if you are able to\\nunderstand 1 and interpret all teachings bearing upon vour ques-\\ntion, then you may become a real teacher to the wounded\\nheart.\\nYears of great mental suffering, years of endless battle with\\nlife and misfortune, and before all years of moral disgust gave\\nme study and learning and at last the forgh ing mercy towards\\nthose who had wronged me and the wish for forgiveness from\\nthem, whom my revolting nature may have insulted.\\nThe ever turning wheel of fortune threw out for me more trials\\nand eye openers than for millions of my fellow crentures. and\\nat last pressed me into the private detective service in which I\\nwent through a school the like is not offered to a d nat-\\nurally inclined philosopher on the face of this earth, and as I\\nbecame the superintendent of this bureau the horizon of my\\nexperience was widened to almost unlimited spheres.\\nNow that detective life lies behind me and the journalistic\\ncareer has opened its beneficial door, I feel duty bound to teach\\nand to give advice to those who are willing to profit and learn,\\nand whenever you will find my doctrines illustrated by exam-\\nples, rest assured that the latter were taken from real life and\\nare bare of all imaginatii", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a39\\nThe origin of a human life is the consequence of sexual inter-\\ncourse, and as the latter is only sanctioned by our moral and\\nsocial laws within the bonds of matrimony, I will treat the sub-\\nject first, from its moral and social standpoint, because it is the\\nfountain of human life, and from it up germinates all social\\nproblems.\\nMARRIAGE.\\nIs marriage, in the sense that the civilized world looks upon it,\\nnecessary?\\nI had this question asked me thousands of times by unfortu-\\nnates who found no happiness in the matrimonial tie.\\nSpeaking- from a strictly philosophical standpoint, I most de-\\ncidedly answer no, but, considering the present brutality of\\nthe masses, the lack of conscientiousness, the advancing carnal\\ninclinations of our better classes, I most decidedly say yes.\\nNow here we have a social problem and find ourselves in a sore\\nconflict by having a no and a yes to the very question that\\nis agitating our minds, and yet my answer will be fully under-\\nstood and acquiesced in by every high-minded person.\\nMarriage in itself is nothing but the command of men, a law\\nbut the idea of the word is so high, so including all that we imag-\\nine of this world s happiness, that it can only be compared to\\nour first love. If marriage shall be happy, it must be the\\nbeautiful glorious idyl of which the lad and maid dreams before\\nand after the first kiss has sent showers of sweet happiness\\nthrough their quick pulsating veins. True marriage is one con-\\ntinuous flow of happiness, one everlasting embrace of the soul,\\nan amalgamation of thoughts and bodies, and its overflow is the\\nsexual intercourse. At least, so it should be, but in reality, with\\nthe great masses, it is vice versa. The carnal habits of humanity\\nare more and more inclining towards animalic habits, and if I\\nhere would undertake to prove my assertions, I should have to\\nuse language unfit to be read by all. May it suffice to say that\\nour law-makers will soon be forced to recognize this fact and to\\nremedy the social evil, or they themsalves may be selected to\\nsuffer the consequences.\\nMarrriage, as looked upon by the great masses, seems to be\\neither an asylum for the feminine sex (sometimes for the male\\nsex, too) or a contract between the parties, wherein each has\\nduties to perform and rights to claim. If there is a certain feel-\\ning between the contracting parties, it also finds vent in sexual", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\nintercourse, but here this intercourse solely takes place to satisfy\\nthe carnal instincts, and therefore is often the very reason why\\na disagreement takes place, which most every time leads to art-\\nunhappy life, and if a married life is unhappy, then it is hell\\non earth.\\nI may now as well as later place myself on record as a firm\\nbeliever in the doctrine that seven-eighths of all marital troubles\\ncommence in the bridal chamber. For this I could offer over-\\nwhelming proof.\\nBut before we look at the unpleasant side of the question, let\\nme satisfy you that I am not a pessimist that I believe in good,\\ntrue, excellent women and men. Of course, for these it is hard\\nto believe the impurities of human kind, as a kind fate excludes\\nthe dark pictures of life from their view, and therewith saves\\nthem an experience that generally leaves a blighted life behind.\\nI live in hopes that this work but few happy people will read,\\nbecause it shall be a teacher and guide for unfortunates who are\\nin danger of losing themselves while in the most terrible strug-\\ngle of life.\\nA happy married life is based, above all, on esteem, which, of\\ncourse, must be mutual next, the carnal instincts must be of\\nthe same nature. If a couple is well matched on these points and\\nthey are also blessed with a feeling of real love for each other,\\nthen, and only then, a marriage is ideal The blessing of such\\na union can only be felt, no pen can describe it. Spirit and body,\\nsoul and mind, are in constant intercourse an electrical, yet un-\\nexplained, fluid seems to act as a transmitter of thoughts, ideas,\\nwishes, etc., and a wonderful understanding is apparent.\\nThis beautiful picture changes at once when we see one of\\nthese three points missing. The life then becomes a broken\\nchain, of which the husband drags the one end to one side and\\nthe wife the other in the opposite direction.\\nIf esteem, the most essential .point of marriage, is missing, the\\ntrust between husband and wife is no more, and jealousy follows\\nthe latter will destroy love surer than death. Here we are now\\nright in the whirlpool of an unhappy marriage, and although I\\nhave listened to thousands of different marital troubles, all, all\\ncould be brought back to the bridal chamber But while I lis-\\ntened to all these stories of vice and woe, I have often said to\\nmyself: If A would have married B, both would have been\\ncontent, because their marital inclinations were alike, but as it\\nwas, two miserable lives were the consequence.\\nNow let me explain by citing examples from my experience.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "41\\nMrs. B. wasthe only daughter of a rich provision merchant,\\nwell educated and brought up with the idea that a luxurious life\\nwas awaiting her. She became acquainted with a young man\\nholding a good position, and soon love ripened between them.\\nAfter considerable hesitancy on the part of the bride s father the\\ngirl became Mrs. B., and two children were born to them. The\\nsecond birth left the young mother an invalid, and suspicious\\nthat her husband was no longer true to his marital vows. Ac-\\ncording to her own statement she had no proof of his unfaith-\\nfulness, but a clairvoyant had told her that the husband had\\nanother girl. She now commenced to find fault with the time\\nof his coming home, and then became inquisitive as to where he\\nhad spent the evenings, etc. From hasty words it soon came to\\ndisagreeable scenes, and at last to violence, when she left him\\nand went back to her parents.\\nWhen the case came into my hands I satisfied myself, through\\nher physician, that Mrs. B. suffered from an incurable disease,\\nand I made up my mind, after probing the character and the\\ninclinations of the husband, that divorce was the best for the two.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2If, on the other hand, I would have found that the carnal inclina-\\ntions of the husband had been less strong, I should have talked\\nsense to both and used my best endeavors to reunite them. That\\nmy action in this case was right I am satisfied of, after years have\\nelapsed.\\nBut what can we learn from this case?\\nThat, although the carnal inclinations were well matched at\\nfirst, and love and esteem were present from the beginning, the\\nlatter two vanished when the former could not be satisfied. Here\\nthe moral spirit of the woman was not above the average she\\ncould not renounce, and her education was not advanced enough\\nto shy the clairvoyant. May be, if she would have reserved her\\nfeelings, and would have been satisfied with the love of the two\\nangels which kind fate had presented to her, she may have be-\\ncome, in later years, the true and worshiped companion of her\\nlawful husband.\\nI cited this case because it illustrates many thousands of a like\\nnature. It is a well known fact that our women are not very\\nstrong, and that certain diseases exclude many of ever becoming\\na mother, while still others lose all inclinations for sexual inter-\\ncourse in fact, are unfit for it on account of weakness. Now,\\nimagine that a man with very strong carnal feelings marries a.\\nwoman just the opposite of his nature What must be the con-", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nI have met but a very few women whose character was so\\nangelic-like that as soon as they had discovered their unfitness\\nfor further sexual intercourse they resigned themselves at once\\nto their fate and lived happpily at least as far as this was possible\\ntinder the circumstances.\\nIt is a disagreeable task to look at the other side of this picture\\nI mean when we see the carnal inclinations far stronger in the\\nwoman than in the man to whom matrimony binds her, and yet\\nthis picture deserves far more attention than many would like to\\nsee it receive.\\nOur society asks virtue of both sexes until moral and social\\nlaws tie the marital knot.\\nWhat nonsense, especially where it deliberately closes both\\neyes when the stronger sex indulges in the most disgraceful\\nvices, regardless of age and of the development of the body.\\nThe natural consequence of the obligatory self-chastisement\\nof women is personal abuse. Nature begins to speak as soon\\nas the human body begins to ripen, and magnetic-like it draws\\nthe hand to quiet the spring of feelings. Here and then is the\\ntime when parents should urge and teach the young folks to look\\nonward, while the family physician should prescribe what is\\nnecessary to cut down the superfluous strength of the perhaps\\ntoo quick growing young life plant. A great deal of bodily exer-\\ncise, a vegetarian diet, daily cold baths, etc., with quiet but earn-\\nest instructions from the parental mouths will act wonderfully\\nand allow a natural ripening of body and soul. If, on the con-\\ntrary, the young fruit is eat up by unnatural, blood poisoning\\nfever, then we must expect a crippled, wormy fruit, which\\nwill not be tasteful when given to its natural purpose.\\nBut now let us look to still another picture which shows the\\nstupidity and injustice of our present social and judicial laws on\\nthe question.\\nHere before us is a young, strong, healthy woman, say of\\ntwenty and three, in all the loveliness of a pure, virtuous girl.\\nShe has fought the battle against the temptations of nature\\nbravely, assisted by a prudent and kindly parent, yet the moment\\nat last arrives when the fruit is over ripe and must be picked\\nor it falls down and rots. Do you all understand me? Or is\\nthere some that has not yet observed the day when the bloom of\\nlife vanished from a lovely girl, rosy cheeks turned ashen gray;\\nrounded, well developed forms became square and lifeless, spark-\\nling, happy eyes looked dim and dull, the whole an old maid!\\nThere, you moralists, is a victim of your laws What should the\\npoor creature do? You propped her full of illusions, told her of", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "43\\nbeautiful love, and that she must not have sexual intercourse or\\nmarry, except she felt the soul filling happiness/ and now?\\nWhat is she now? A disagreeable old maid, whose life remains\\ncompanionless and a steady dream for that great law of nature:\\nthe fountain of life.\\nAnd here I say, do not condemn the poor girls, whose natural\\ninstincts are far greater than all moral teachings and the com-\\nmandments of your laws. I say you may suppress some na-\\ntures, you may tame them and bring them to self abuse, but\\nthere are many that can by no influence, teaching or training be\\nkept from satisfying their carnal instincts, which are predominant\\nin their nature on account of their breeding.\\nI do not wish to be understood for one single moment that I\\nintend to preach free love or an immediate overthrow of our\\nmoral and social laws, but I would like to see public sentiment\\nchanged for the poor girls that sin against themselves, if sin it\\ncan be called, because they cannot be blamed for the blood in-\\nfused into them by their parents.\\nIt is a well known fact that in Paris (and Paris is France, they\\nmore illegitimate children are born than in all other capitals\\nof Europe together. The orphan and foundling asylums are\\nall conducted by the government, and the children brought up in\\nthose institutions prove to be good and faithful citizens. While I\\nadmit that the carnal habits of France, viewed from our present\\nstandpoint, are more animalic like than in any other country. I\\nassert at the same time that more criminal operations are per-\\nformed in America, and that morality is here, as there, below\\nzero, according to our present social laws.\\nThe moral doctrine of all this is Talk with your children\\nabout the laws of nature, when the ripening of the body begins;\\nteach them how to keep the temperature of their feelings down\\nto a normal point marry them, when nature requires it, to strong\\nand sound mates, but do not curse and abandon them when na-\\nture before this* forces obedience to the laws dictated by blood.\\nThere are, no doubt, many high minded people who fully agree\\nwith me on this subject, and their far-seeing eyes and benevolent\\nhearts have erected institutions where the unfortunates may\\nfind a home when in trouble, but society generally closes the\\ndoors on them after the trouble is over, and a soul is then\\nkilled. Let me illustrate by an example.\\nA very beautiful girl of eighteen years of age, who lost her\\nparents at an early stage of life, was brought up by an elder\\nsister, who thought much of her own family, but believed her\\nsister capable of taking care of herself. Lilly made the ac-", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\nquaintance of a rich man, who gave a good account of himself,\\nand then he was allowed to take the girl to theaters, balls, drives,\\netc., until at last she fell a prey to his seductive entreaties.\\nWhen I was called into the case I soon ascertained that the\\nman had a wife and three children living in New Jersey, and\\nwhile Lilly s sister and her husband were ready to kill him, the\\ngirl pleaded for and acted in accord with her seducer. She then\\nwas banished from the home of her sister, and a year later I\\nfound her as the wife of a thief, and herself a shoplifter.\\nI will not deny that the girl s plucky stand which she took for\\nher seducer had awakened in me a desire to dissect her character,\\nwhich at first seemed somewhat problematical, and when I met\\nher again I found occasion to renew her acquaintance and to\\nenlarge my knowledge of human nature.\\nLilly became a mother after her seducer had succeeded in\\nshaking her off. The child was born at an institution, from\\nwhere she emerged, a changed creature. As a domestic help she\\nearned enough to pay the board for her boy, and he was the only\\ncomfort which life held out for her. Later she made the ac-\\nquaintance of a young man who promised and did marry her,\\nLilly seeing in this union the only way by which she could bring\\nthe child to her bosom.\\nHad she remained a good girl in all those years? She openly\\nsaid no, but she was smart enough not to get into trouble\\nagain.\\nSoon after her marriage she discovered that her husband was\\na thief and he found in her a helpmate.\\nBut she stole for her child, she said, and no argument could\\npersuade her that it was wrong, and when she went to prison the\\nboy was sent to an institution, where he is likely at present while.\\nI write this.\\nAnd what can we learn from this case?\\nThat the parents or guardians of a young life should watch over\\nit day and night and when the time of ripening arrives we should\\nbe guardian in fact, not only in name. It is false to let the young\\nblooming plant stretch its rich but flexible foliage towards the\\ndark lights of life we must train it with soft and, if oossible. un-\\nfelt pressure towards the social laws, upon which the branches-\\ncan unfold the rich foliage for the benefit of the one favored.\\nThe dark lights of life seem to have a certain sucking action,,\\nlike the quicksand, drawing the subject once in its circle deeper\\nand deeper into the ugly glare, dazzling all true sight, blinding it", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "45\\nwith vice and blood stirring pictures, until the beautiful and pure\\nseems to be a mockery, but the blasphemous part, giddiness\\nproducing, where the word forget seems to be the only com-\\nfort left.\\nBut the time comes when these dark lights lose their mag-\\nnetic influence; when the blinking eyes see everything dark;\\nwhen the soul quivers and yearns for one, only one moment of\\nsweet, innocent happiness, for the rich feeling of pride born by\\na pure; noble past.\\nGone Gone from them forever Out of thousands, one may\\nbe gathered in by dame Fortune and led towards a life gardener\\nwho will take the despised, discarded plant from the heap of life s\\nrefuse and, after cleaning and nursing it, more carefully than\\nwhat it would have to be when at the beginning or starting point\\nof ripening to maturity, he shields gently each little sprout that\\ndares to stretch towards the glorious and golden rays of a pure\\nlife s sun, allowing it to inhale the ozone gradually, as otherwise\\nthe very pureness of the atmosphere would work depressingly\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2on the bowing, penitent spirit, and produce despair again.\\nSuch a gardener of life can teach, but there are not many in\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2existence believe me.\\nAh, ye poor crippled plants, ye despairing women and men, I\\nhave often wished to be allowed to talk to you from the bottom\\nof my heart. Do not despair, do not believe that you are lost,\\nthat beautiful creation has closed its golden gates for you not to\\nenter and enjoy paradise. It is not so. Go gather every good\\npoint that is left in you and with the smallest treasure start again,\\nand when Fortune does not seem to reward your good inten-\\ntions, stay steadfast, say to yourself, I deserved punishment, I\\nwill bow down and take it, but my reward will come at last;\\nmeanwhile I will refresh the sinking courage by looking at noble,\\npure-bred, clean exemplars of life, thus strengthening my desire\\nto gain some happpy hours before cold death reaches me. Then\\nsometimes unawares you will meet a life gardener when\\nyou least expect it and he will help you until beautiful, pure cre-\\nation again opens its wonderful balsamic-like and consoling\\nteachings.\\nNay, nobody is lost who yet feels a desire to be good and pure\\n-and the past can be outlived, if you earnestly desire to do so.\\nBut do I write all this for and to the poor alone?\\nThis question all at once comes to me. I often soliloquize that\\nway when the spin of my thoughts does not run quite in accord\\nwith the theme.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46\\nThe contents of this book are designed to clear the minds of\\nall who partly were brought up and held in ignorance by either\\na foolishly conducted education or by a neglected training or by\\nmisfortunes. Many rich, many poor women and men may profit\\nby my teachings, for I intend to tell them how to get and how to\\nuse common sense, while I will not despoil the illulsions that are\\nupholding hopes for a better future.\\nDisappointments, the destroying of our fairest hopes for happi-\\nness, etc., are very differently felt by individuals. With some it\\nworks at once wreck and ruin, while others suffer quietly untold\\nagonies before they give up the last hope, and then plunge into\\nthe abyss of life head foremost, to end miserably.\\nNow, let us come to the point and divide this moral and social\\ntheme into the following questions\\ni. When should men and women wed?\\n2. When should they not wed?\\n3. When should they separate?\\n1. WHEX SHOULD MEN AXD WOMEN WED?\\nAt our earliest youth, say when we enter our eighteenth year\\n(with some sooner) the bud of life breaks forth and the fruit\\nripens. At this very time we feel a stronger inclination towards\\nthe other sex and we become fond of its company. There seems\\nto be an electric fluid which draws them together and, to be\\nbrief, the wish for sexual intercourse ripens.\\nOur social laws kindly cover the acts of men when they now\\nfollow nature s quest, but the female is forbidden to yield and\\nshe must wait until marriage allows her to satisfy natural in-\\nstincts.\\nI have shown before that in consequence of this unnatural sup-\\npression of nature criminal habits are resorted to which produce\\nthe most unnatural flow, weakening body and mind, and destroy-\\ning the strength of the unborn generation.\\nMy advice is Let the young people marry as soon as possible,\\nbut do not intermarry unsound or weak people\\nLet all fathers and mothers who at all care for the happiness\\nof their children see to it that they do not come in contact with\\nbad stock, as blood will tell every time, and produce idiotic,\\nsyphilitic, deaf and dumb children, the miseries, often the origi-\\nnalities, of the parents hatred for each other.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "47\\nIf two lives shall be tied together in wedlock let the parties\\nconcerned be satisfied of the perfect healthy condition of groom\\nand bride, of their equal inclinations for cohabitation, and of\\ntheir mental accord on the questions of married life.\\nThe happiness of married life seems to centralize in the raising-\\nof a family, in consequence of which we should try to breed scien-\\ntifically the best and not as has been done in the last century\\ncarelessly the worst.\\nWe human subjects have placed ourselves in this respect far\\nbelow the beast. No breeder of horses or any other animals\\nwould think to mix good stock with bad blood, nor to connect\\nthe strong with the weak or sickly, yet society does not hesitate\\nfor one moment to mix the purest blood with the foulest if the al-\\nmighty dollar is in question. Or do they hesitate?\\nXo, no, a thousand times no\\nThere is more misery, more idiocy, more incapability, more\\nscrofula, more instinct for unnatural, criminal inclinations and\\ncarnal feelings, etc., in the best of our society than among the\\npoor, although we find in the latter s ranks miserable beings on\\naccount of underfed existences and on account of dirty, close\\nquarters in which they are condemned to live.\\nThese criminally carnal instincts seem to breed on and on\\ntowards the downward course, and our schools (above all the\\nboarding schools) become and are the very pest-holes at which\\nmany hopeful young life-plants are blasted! If I only could\\nspeak here the whole and full truth of the knowledge which I\\nhave gathered when at my former vocation, many parents would\\nshudder and know why their darlings walk around as mere shad-\\nows of their former selves but to the young folks I will talk later\\nand lift my warning voice, hoping from the bottom of my heart\\nthat every word will weigh with them unmeasured volumes.\\nWe may conclude this chapter in condensing all that was said\\ninto the following\\nMarry when you are healthy, and see that your betrothed is in\\nnormal condition, body and soul.\\nDo not marry when your own blood or that of your betrothed\\nis in bad condition and if respect does not exist between you.\\nLove will vanish, love will change into hatred when you de-\\nceive your betrothed on the above points, while a conventional\\nmarriage or a marriage for money will serve to degenerate hu-\\nman kind further and further, until we have an idiotic, damnable\\nrace, that has no more pure blood to regenerate from.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48\\nEvery evil, moral, social and political, is a result of the blood\\npoisoning sexual intercourse of our generation but pure blood\\nwould mean pure mind, pure heart, pure ideas, pure actions, pure\\nlife\\nWHAT IS PURE?\\nAll that is done without the least hesitation, all that the heart\\ndictates without the use of reasoning power. Pure is everything\\nthat produces great, unspeakable joy and brings in feeling and\\nexpression nearer to the Almighty. Purity is simplicity.\\nBAD, POISONED BLOOD.\\nCannot generate pure minds, it is impossible. Therefore, and\\nfor the sake of the improvement of our social life, we should ex-\\ntinguish the worst; breed good to better, and the better to the\\nbest otherwise our next question arises\\n2. WHEN SHOULD A MARRIED COUPLE SEPARATE?\\nW r hile I have told you in the former chapter when marriage is\\ndesirable and how it should be entered into, it would seem un-\\nnecessary to tell when to separate however, I have only told\\nyou what to avoid, while now I come to a far more delicate\\ntask, namely to tell how and when the marital knot should be\\nuntied to bring back happiness, if possible, or at least peace and\\nquietude to a blasted life.\\nLet me again repeat the doctrine All unhappiness begins in\\nthe bridal chamber, and offer proof for this theory.\\nClose observations and studies have shown that the sexual in-\\nclinations of husband and wife must be equal, as otherwise either\\na certain disrespectful or repulsive feeling will take possession of\\nthe party who is approached in vain by the mate. Still oftener I\\nliave found repugnancy where certain bodily ailments, mishaps\\nor unnatural carnal inclinations were the just cause. Imagine a\\nmarried couple who enters the bridal chamber full of virtue and\\nlove. At last they are to enjoy the heavenly outpour of love, and\\nin the embrace of the bodies nature s sweetest gift to human\\nflesh shall find vent. And while all conventional veils drop and\\n-animalic magnetism teaches the most inexperienced how to find\\nnature s sweetest gift, enveloped with illusionary beauty, we find\\nfrom the adored body a perfume arising which is repulsive, which\\nat once changes love into hatred. Or, what is worse, an incapa-\\nbility is encountered which destroys all marital happiness at\\nonce, while bodily misshapes or ailments are the cause of imme-\\ndiately awakened jealousy.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "49\\nNow, you opponents of divorce, do you mean to say that God\\n-ever meant to unite two people for the purpose of leading an\\nunhappy life in marital union? Or do you mean to say that a\\nman or woman of strong carnal inclinations will suffer and sacri-\\nfice because of nonsensical moral and social laws? Do you mean\\nto say that a suppression of a surplus in nature is health giving or\\nsustaining?\\nNothing of the kind, and, thanks to our enlightened age, the\\ndoctrines of pious tempi passati become more and more teach-\\nings of the past.\\nMarriage, if not made indissolvable by that love of which at first\\nwe spoke becomes nothing but a contract between a man and a\\nwoman, which should be dissolved as soon as it is proved that\\none of the parties to the contract cannot fulfil the obligations\\ndictated by nature, or if one becomes repulsive to the other.\\nThe morality of the great masses would be improved hundred-\\nfold if divorces would be granted where repugnance exists, where\\nbodily ailments exclude sexual intercourse, where the carnal\\ninclinations on the one side prove to be positively distasteful to\\nthe other side, or where incapability is proven.\\nOther grounds for divorce should be Cruelty, non-support, a\\ndishonored name, habitual drunkenness, the habitual use of\\nopiates, the generation of idiots, cripples, or unhealthy children,\\noffensive breath and sweat, sickly incurable discharges of the\\nwomb, venereal diseases, lunacy, idiocy, or mutual disinclination.\\nOn these grounds an absolute divorce should be granted, but\\nis not granted in the great State of New York, while certain\\nother parts of the United States these grounds are statutory\\ngrounds upon which an absolute divorce is pronounced by the\\ncourts.\\nAn unhappy married life is hell on earth, and is led by many\\nfor the good of the children.\\nOh, you blind fools Do you really believe that your sacrifice\\nis bearing good fruit? Nay, you know better! I will admit that\\nhere and there a father and mother can be found who bury their\\ngrievances out of sight in the presence of their children. I will\\nadmit that a few may be found who carry their lot like Jesus\\ndid his cross, but for what, for whom? Would a decent separa-\\ntion, a quiet settlement of all difficulties, not have produced better\\nresults? Certainly. Both parties may have found congenial\\nmates, or if one was afflicted he or she could have lived alone,\\nwhile the other was free to enter again into happy marital\\nrelations.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50\\nIf the opponents of divorce would only divest themselves of al!\\nprejudice, as much and as well as the writer is willing to ac-\\nknowledge moral and religious influence to the degree of com-\\nmon sense and heart s content, then one could look for sensible\\nlaws to pass, but as long as intolerance and the teachings of the\\nchurch will influence even the intelligent class of society, divorce\\nwill only be brought about by scandal, by the ruin of name and\\nfame, by criminal acts, etc., while nameless crimes are growing\\nin percentage and immensity, morality is undermined, family life\\nand honor is destroyed, animalic and beastly habits are practised,\\nwhile a certain libertine clergy reaps the fruits of its teachings.\\nI here restrain the flood of my thoughts. I restrain my pen to\\nwrite facts I will positively avoid every word which could be\\nconstrued by evil-minded persons as inflaming, but if public trials\\nand accusations have not yet proved our religious advisors fal-\\nlable, then I could give facts and acts which would prove them\\nnothing but human beings.\\nAs Luther preached Do according to my teachings, not to my\\ndeeds, so should every clergyman speak, except the chosen few,\\nwho, by nature s endowment and God s grace, live an exemplary\\nlife. But these few should not forget that they are the chosen\\nones, and that the great masses must be differently judged be-\\nriuse education, surroundings, natural instincts, etc., etc., are\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ver the same in any two human beings.\\nHere again I tell what should be done, but is not done. Under\\nme present divorce laws of the State of New York the clergy\\ncould do a great deal of good by using its influence with obstinate\\nparties who, from sheer malice, will oppose proceedings even\\nwhen justly entered, and drive their spouse s insane. If these\\npeople would receive good, sound advice from the clergy, many\\nmurders would not be committed, and many a decent man and\\nwoman would be saved unhappiness and humiliation.\\nIn the most positive language I say Let a marriage be dis-\\nsolved as soon as one of the parties has a repugnant feeling\\ntowards the other, may the cause come from whatsoever source,\\notherwise the end will be misery and disgrace to all concerned,\\nif not worse.\\nSOCIETY SUFFERING.\\nThe many thousand existing unhappy marriages are a disgrace\\nto society, whose laws are faulty and disobeyed, trampled upon\\nand jested at. High class society has its modern marriage, in\\nwhich both parties go their own way ad libitum and enjoy", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "51\\nthe liberties of fast men and women with the cloak of mar-\\nriage certificate thrown around them to avoid giving cause of\\nbeing slighted.\\nLooking at such a marriage from a philosophical standpoint,\\nnothing could be said about it, as both parties are satisfied to\\ncover their moral filth, but the morals of society suffer thereby\\nimmensely, because such relations set a damnable example that\\nis, if cohabitation is only to be sanctioned within the bonds of\\nmatrimony.\\nThe woman who will consent to a modern marriage must\\nnaturally be of loose character, depraved mind, or have animal-\\nistic and beastly inclinations. No pure woman, under the pres-\\nent laws, would enter into such a private contract. The man to\\nit must stand below the beast, as he delivers the mother of his\\nchildren, or even only his wife to another man, and therewith\\nbecomes the most degraded subject of mankind. I can have\\npity, yes, even a certain regard for a common prostitute, but for\\na man of the just mentioned class I have a thorough\\nhorror, and whenever I meet him, even his touch seems to be\\ninsulting. He and the man who allows a woman to support him\\nfrom the money earned by prostituting her womanhood are\\nequally detestable, and every decent human being should avoid\\nand despise these brutes. If you are married to such a person,\\nbreak the tie as soon as you discover his or her dishonesty or\\ndepravity, and thereby save yourself and your honor.\\nThese so-called modern marriages furnish a seemingly in-\\ncreditable gusto for carnal and beastly practises that give over-\\nwhelming proof of the depravity of our best society. How can I\\ndare to speak of these? The enormity of the crime is indescrib-\\nable, and I shall not venture to do it, but I warn the inexperienced\\nreader for any of his or her own sex who speaks of these foul\\ndoings at all. Remain innnocent of such disgusting and- ruinous\\npleasures, or you will be a prey to them and soon rank among\\nthe degraded, depraved fools and die a most horrible death.\\nWomen, listen to my warning voice flee him or her who\\nwants to initiate you into the pleasure circle of beastly habits\\nshun them like a pestilence, abhor to listen to one of their words,\\nor you are lost, like many thousands before you which I saw van-\\nishing in the quicksand of criminal life.\\nThese beastly habits produce the degenerating spirit of our\\npresent decade, and on and on they take a downward course and\\ndrag into their meshes the best, the purest, the wisest, if they\\ncome in direct contact with the evil doers.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52\\nWe may well pray Do not lead us info temptation, but what\\nwhen the incarnate fiend comes in spite of our entreaties and\\nperchance lets us see the inflaming pictures, which the liber-\\ntine generally carries with him? What an easy work Satanas has\\nvvvith the innocents whose very bodily strength is his best ally.\\nAnd these beastly inclinations are now a matter of course\\nbetween many husbands and wives, and while the preys of the\\npoorer class show the consequence of the evil practices by the\\nashen gray hue of their complexion, higher society covers this\\nsign by a bit of rouge.\\nWell, paint yourself, hide the consequences of your immoral\\nlife from your neighbor, the degeneration of your inner organs,\\nespecially stomach and kidneys, will soon remind you that there\\nare consequences which set the death knell of your life aringing.\\nW^hen Dr. Parkhurst, in the crusade against the police, wit-\\nnessed frog leaping and other beastly things, I thought to\\nmyself Good Doctor, you see public performances of human\\nkind that has sunk below the beast, but can you look behind the\\ncurtain of the sacred bridal chamber? Can you look behind the\\ncurtains of seminaries, pensions, boarding schools, etc., etc.?\\nCan you purify the mind of our young folks who bear the sin of\\ntheir originators in their blood?\\nMarry sensibly, breed scientifically, and the morals of society\\nwill be purified as a natural consequence and society will instead\\nof suffering again advance and stand morally and bodily above\\nreproach.\\nA WORD OF ADVICE TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS.\\nThe impressions which an up-germinating soul receives are\\nlasting or at least guiding for the life-time, and therefore parents\\nand teachers should have full control over their own tempers and\\nnever, at any time, should their ward see an action or hear a\\nword which would or could leave a lasting bad impression upon\\nthe modelling mind and soul. This should be made a funda-\\nmental law of education, and if it is strictly adhered to, the benefit\\nderived would be the greatest blessing ever extended to children.\\nMy studies in and of life have established this theory as sound\\nand above argument.\\nTo be clear, to enable the readers to understand clearly, I\\nmust state my religious views, as they are fundamental in build-\\ning up theories of the kind I have just advanced.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "53\\nAs in everything else I have always strove to understand my-\\nself first and clearly as to reasons and proof for conclusions at\\nwhich I arrived, and so I established also, after long and deter-\\nmined studies, a religious belief, which, founded on ideas that\\nseemed to be natural, held proof in all situations of life. Here\\nit is\\nProfessor Vogt s teachings have to be accepted by all educated\\nminds as above argument, and he brings us back and shows that\\nall and everything is the amalgamation of things, until he ar-\\nrives at the two original substances Light and Air, and then\\nhe stops. He does not dare to say who called these two original\\nthings into existence.\\nI had to form my own opinion about it, and after due consid-\\neration I concluded that two things only could have one origi-\\nnator, and that this was God, or The Almighty, or whatever\\nname we wish to give to this great Being that originated the two\\noriginal substances, without which nothing, absolutely nothing,\\never could nor can exist up to this day.\\nMy next conclusion, that the creator of anything has also the\\npower to destroy what he made, will certainly be accepted as\\nsensible and sound, and, if accepted, we cannot deny that God has\\nthe right and power to destroy what he originated the two orig-\\ninal substances, Air and Light, and if he should do that, them\\nwe would have oblivion the world would be at an end.\\nMy next theory is That the creator of anything great always\\nshould receive admiration and due esteem; why then should we\\nnot admire and esteem the greatest creator, Him who has the\\nundisputed right to destroy, that without which nothing can exist?\\nWhy should common sense not invest him with powers equally\\ngreat as the original elements are which He must have created?\\nBut, here I will stop, as common sense and sound theories end\\nand imagination naturally commences. Let us simply look up to\\nGod as the great creator of the two original substances, without\\nwhich nothing can exist. Let us acknowledge that he has the\\nsole control of them, and naturally of us and all things.\\nIf we so become impressed with the existence of a Supreme\\nBeing that commands our highest esteem and admiration, ex-\\nplanation is furnished for the natural inclination and instinct of i\\nall human beings to look for help to some supreme power. We\\nfind this instinct in all races and people and even the soul of the.\\ninfidel yearns for sympathy in the hour of distress and need.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54\\nThe impression which the germinating soul receives is ever-\\nlasting through life, show to it the great creator in any sensible\\nform, and the picture that impresses the young soul will forever\\nkeep color as long as life lasts.\\nHere and now, parents and teachers, you have the reason why\\nI gave you my religious belief and views, and do as I did. First\\nformulate your own religious views formulate within yourself\\nwhat you want to teach and impress it upon your children or\\nwards, and then do not show or tell them anything different after\\nthat.\\nBut when you succeed in planting a blooming life picture into\\nthe trusting soul of your child or ward it will always rind in after\\nyears and in the hour of grief and despair a sweet scented bud,\\nwhose fragrance and beauty will soothe and heal the most dan-\\ngerous wound that the reality of life made.\\nAnd has your child grown up to the age of maturity and the\\nintellect is developed to the degree where the cords of the heart\\nvibrate and answer the least touch, protect it as much as yo u can\\nfrom rough handling and by no means you, yourself, speak or act\\nunkindly. This is the time when the spirit begins to draw con-\\nclusions from the impressions which the soul receives, and where\\nthe battle between the result of your teachings and the illusion-\\nary dreams and wishes is fought. Have the former rooted solidly,\\nthen the battle is short and the wounds received heal easily and\\nquickly but have your own acts been different from your teach-\\nings, has the young soul from comparison been thrown into\\ndoubt, then the battle is long and harmful, and often ends disas-\\ntrously to the young life plant.\\nLet me tell you of one example which came to my knowledge\\nrby way of a confession.\\nMr. B. was a large estate holder in Germany; he died when\\nin the best part of his life and left a wife and six children. The\\nyoungest, then ten years of age, was a wide awake boy, a joy to\\nbehold, strong, healthy, but with a high-strung temperament.\\nHe had been the pet of his father, whose love was envied him by\\nhis brothers, who believed the boy to be wild and inclining to the\\nbad, in consequence of which he was put into a boarding-school\\nwith severe disciplinary rules. These made the boy obstinate,\\nand to a certain degree bitter, as he believed himself to be\\nwronged and by no means loved. The only time that his jovial\\nface lit up and showed the old roguishness was during vacations,\\nwhich he enjoyed under the parental roof.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "55\\nFour years had elapsed, the boy had become prematurely aged,\\n.-and acted and looked like seventeen, yet his heart yearned for the\\npleasures of boyhood and, before all, for the lost love of his dead\\nfather, whom he had fairly worshiped.\\nIt was during one of these vacations that the county fair took\\nplace and, like the rest of his comrades, he expected to receive a\\nfew dollars spending money with which he could enjoy the sight-\\nseeing. With beaming smiles on his lips he asked his mother\\nfor the usual pecuniary allowance, but the lady was not in good\\nhumor, and finding but very little change in her pocket, she laid\\nit in his hands, saying that that would have to do.\\nShe always had been a pretty severe mother, who would not\\nallow any back talk, so the much disappointed boy turned ab-\\nruptly on his heels, and without kissing his mother good-bye as\\nusual, walked to the door. The astonished lady looked after\\nhim, and when he had opened the door to leave she cried:\\nShame on you You cannot be my child, you must be a\\nfoundling!\\nHardly had the words left her mouth when the boy s eyes di-\\nlated, and the next moment he dropped heavily to the floor,\\nblood spurting from his mouth and nose.\\nThe terrible work was done What did it help, that the mother\\nnow cried and with loving words tried to pacify the wild grief of\\nher child. The bitter thorn that stabbed his heart, that wounded\\nhis soul, was there and stayed there forever. Nothing could\\npersuade the boy that a mother could say such words to a child\\nwhich she loved, and up to her dying bed the bitter feeling lasted,\\nand at last drove him away from his fatherland and to the shores\\nof this country.\\nTake a lesson from this story, ye fathers and mothers It is\\nsimple, but true.\\nADVICE TO YOUTH.\\nAs soon as the intellect of a child begins to develop the spirit\\nworks in the little brain, and while the body grows, the thoughts\\nripen and conjectures are made on the pleasures which future life\\nmay have in store for it. In this stage of youth s life, nature\\nformulates certain feelings which are not understood, but they\\nare the surplus of a rich blood which must be reduced by healthy\\nexercise, such as gymnastics, swimming, bicycling, riding horse-\\nback, rowing, and the like this causes the muscles to develop, the\\nspirit to be refreshed and occupied, and the whole system is\\nbrought to the height of perfection.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56\\nIt is in this stage of life that every youth, whether male or fe-\\nmale, should intrust its feelings and thoughts to the parents or\\nguardians and follow their advice, but stay away from bad com-\\npanions, w r hose talk and teachings drive the blush of shame to\\nyour face following of which would be your ruin without doubt.\\nIf, however, by misfortune some moral disease has infected the\\nbody, do not hesitate to immmediately consult a first-class phy-\\nsician, or your life will be blasted. Remember that impure\\nblood cannot generate anything but impure thoughts, and they\\nagain bear criminal fruit and actions.\\nWhen pure love at last takes possession of your soul and mind\\ndo not give yourself up to thoughtless and short happiness\\nnay, sound, examine, try the object of your love thoroughly; see\\nthat he or she is well mated to you, that your ideas of life are con-\\ngenial, health, mind and honor is unimpaired, and then, after a\\ncertain time has elapsed, ask your heart whether your choice is\\nabove comparison, and whether regard and esteem for him or\\nher holds next place to love. If you can answer these questions\\ntruthfully and satisfactorily to yourself, then wed the object of\\nyour love, and I venture to predict for you a happy life, but if\\non one of these questions you feel uncertain, do not yet tie the\\nknot, which is so easily made, and yet so hard to undo. Wait and\\nwait longer, until you make sure on these essential points. And\\nif you detect a serious difference in opinion, or a defect in the\\nhealthful condition of your betrothed, do not hesitate to sever\\nthe connections before it is too late and before unspeakable\\nmisery ruins two and perhaps more lives.\\nIn selecting your husband or wife do not alone consult your\\nheart, but ask advice from your brain, and while I advise you to\\ntrust to the judgment of good parents or true guardians, yet I\\nwarn you to become a prey to monetary dealings, or to ambitious\\ndesires. Marriage will make you the happiest or the most mis-\\nerable being it will either give you that ambition which is nec-\\nessary to create and uphold the happiness of a family, or it will\\ndarken your path and extinguish every spark of the divine feel-\\ning, without which human kind becomes a beastly existence.\\nTake the world as it is and not as it ought to be. This saying\\nhas been repeated to me thousands of times, but always by\\nbeings whom I found devoid of all self respect. Their honor gave\\naway to cowardly servility, shown for gainsake, and to such peo-\\nple I cannot and will not talk. They do not understand high-\\nmindedness they will see in everything a deed done for a pur-\\npose. In my long years of experience I have found mothers\\nthat have wilfully ill-advised their children fathers who misled", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "57\\ntheir own flesh and blood. These creatures cannot be tolerated!\\nby any self-respecting man or woman. How, therefore, can the\\nadvise of take the world as it is and not as it ought to be have\\nany virtue and sense whatever?\\nNo, you young men and women, do not listen to any such sinis-\\nter advises; they bear the stamp of lax morality on their very\\nforehead.\\nIt is with a sorry heart that I admit the dire immorality of the\\ngreatest part of our young folks, at least in the great cities of this\\ncountry, and heroic measures will have to be taken if a change\\nshall be enacted, and curious enough it seems that the parents of\\nthese young men and women are the last to notice that their\\nloved ones are sliding down life s hill to the cloakes of sin and\\ncrime.\\nOf course, to youth the pleasures of life have the charm of\\nnewness, but when crime and sin against nature, such as polu-\\ntion, unnatural habits and the like, take possession of the brain\\nand become unconquerable vices, then a lost human being may\\nbe recorded.\\nOh, how many beautiful, talented young life plants have I seen\\nwithering; yes, rot; how many tottering, narrowless, weak,\\nyoung men have I seen married to^ fresh rosebuds of girlhood\\nand then? misery, unhappiness, disease, crime!\\nWake up, ye mothers and fathers, ye preachers and doctors!\\nAre you blind? Instead of rocking your parental belief into the\\nlazy slumber of stupid paternal ignorance, watch your children,,\\nsound their knowledge, and then guide them wisely, introducing\\nnature s sweetest gifts to them in delicate ways, until they find a\\nmate in love for life.\\nNothing is more harmful than when a young man or woman\\ngropes in darkness, while nature has ripened in her or him and\\nsends showers of not understood feelings into the anticipating\\nsoul. This is the most dangerous time for a young life, and while\\nit lasts youth should not be left to take care of itself the experi-\\nenced eye of the natural guardian should watch over it day and\\nnight.\\nYes, you young men and women, let me conclude this chapter\\nwith the most earnest words that are to my disposition: Do\\nnever forget and always remember in the hour of greatest temp-\\ntation that purity is sublime, that chastity commands respect, and\\nthat love is never lasting where it seeks the ruin of womanhood.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58\\nMark well, you young men and women, here speaketh not a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2doctor of medicine, but one of the teachers who stands above the\\nmasses by virtue of a character which he saved in spite of ter-\\nrible temptations and experiences. Yes, I once felt and con-\\nquered I was wounded nigh on to death and forgave I saw sin\\nand disgrace, and rescued I was despised for it, and now I want\\nyou all to profit by my experience in taking each one of you what\\nis best for him from the contents of this book.\\nSUMMING UP.\\nIn summing up we may safely say that our social and political\\nevils are simply the consequence of the moral degradation of the\\npresent race and this low standpoint of morality was brought on\\nby careless breeding. From this germinates\\nA. Our social evils they are\\n1. The sectionalism of religious creed.\\n2. The absence of all conception, integrity and honor, if the\\nalmighty dollar is at stake.\\n3. The absolute conceit of those who by foul means gained\\nriches towards the poor and honest.\\n4. The use of every foul means of these upstarts to receive\\nhonors which are due to the honest alone.\\n5. The tendency of the rich to crush the poor and dependent\\ninto submission and servility.\\n6. The utter unworthiness of the Upper Upstarts to be mem-\\nbers and inhabitants of this great republic, founded by the great-\\nest men of centuries, on account of their unworthy bowing to\\nthe so-called nobility of the old countries and their utter dis-\\nregard for the principles of this country.\\n7. The present laws on marital relationship and the consequent\\ndisregard of family honor, ties and bonds.\\nB. OUR POLITICAL EVILS; THEY ARE BUT ONE.\\nLack of honor from the ward heeler up to as high as you\\nplease.\\nThat is short, but to the very point", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "59\\nC. OUR MORAL EVILS.\\nThey are\\n1. The daily growing inclination towards beastly habits.\\n2. The low sense of our youth for honor and morality.\\n3. The lack of chastity in the full sense of the word, in all stages\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of society. There is sore lack of chastity in our youth, in our\\nmarried women and men; yes, even in age.\\n4. The intermingling of the women of the town with those\\nthat still are good, and this is one of our greatest moral evils.\\n5. The lack of sense for moral obligations and parental duties.\\n6. The consequent lack of sense of the children for their duties\\ntowards the parents.\\n7. The utter lax morals within marital bonds, especially in\\nupper society and in spite of all ministerial thunder showers\\nand pulpit storms.\\nTHE REMEDY.\\nA careful reading of this summing up will convince any cool\\nbrain that neither religious teachings, nor education of the\\nmasses, nor the usual law making would remedy these evils; for\\nwhat has education, religious teachings and laws done for us\\nso far?\\nWe are sliding down, down, down. We are going the pace\\nso fast that the masses do not notice the rapidity of moral decline\\nand we accept as natural what is most unnatural, and must end in\\nthe annihilation of a future race.\\nNow, is there a remedy? Can we stop this gigantic slide\\ntowards the great finale?\\nThere is, but it is so drastic and forciful that I have but little\\nhope for its immediate adaptation, and I admit that initiating\\nsteps may have to be taken preparing the masses for the severe\\nfinal remedy.\\nGreat revolutions never were fought by the down trodden age,\\nbut by the next generation.\\nThe woman who feels that the purification of blood will be\\nthe only remedy will impregnate her ideas to the fruit she bears\\n:and the child will fight and die for that principle.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60\\nNow, let every good woman and mother of this present age\\nconceive the idea that only pure blood will bring perfect hap-\\npiness to her future generation let this thought be predominant\\nduring her pregnancy, and within three decades the law will be\\npassed that only perfectly healthy people shall breed, and within\\nfifty years the American race would be the noblest, strongest,\\ngreatest on the face of the earth.\\nThe sectionalism of religious creed could be cured by a simple\\nlaw. Let every human being living in the world be forced to\\nbelong to a creed, and let every one thousand souls of a creed be\\ngiven a teacher, preacher, rabbi, or whatever you may call them,\\nand they to be paid a fair salary by the government of the land;\\nbut all extra fees for teaching, preaching, funeral exercises,\\nchristening, confessions, masses, etc., etc., etc., be abolished and a\\nlaw enacted that will punish a clerical offender with stste prison\\nif he takes a fee for any religious or other ceremony prescribed\\nby his sect or religion.\\nHow quick would our religious advisors say that these cere-\\nmonies are unnecessary; nay, foolish, and I predict that within\\ntwenty years after such laws have been passed, all sectionalism\\nand religious creeds would have vanished.\\nTHE END.\\nAt the conclusion of this book let me once more assure you\\nthat it was not the idle moralist who thus wrote, condemning you\\nthat knows I spoke the truth; but it is a man who waded through\\nthe marshes of life like many of you, but he stalked along with\\niron steps, gifted with iron will power, and with a soft heart, the\\nlatter at last dictating every word of this book, hoping that it may\\nprove beneficial to many who by ignorance, false teachings, or in-\\nexperience would tumble into the whirlpool of a degrading soul\\nand body destroying life.\\nIn a series of publications I will treat hereafter each and every\\nevil specially and separately, proving their existence and showing\\nthe utter degradation of society, the heartless combat of wealth\\nwith poverty and honesty, and the terrible corruption of our po-\\nlitical world. I shall quote from statistical proofs, personal in-\\nvestigations, court records, and flash lights of the camera.\\nTruth, Naked Truth, will remain my motto until the remedy,\\nis accepted.", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3573", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3852", "width": "2405", "jp2-path": "ourmoralsocialpo00koen_0072.jp2"}}