Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 174, 17 April 1891 — The Reason Why. [ARTICLE]

The Reason Why.

"This know also, that in the last j days perilous times alial.l- e^mo., For ahall be lovors theif j own i selvos, covetonti 3 l>onsters,; proud, blasoheiiiers, difsobedieot to parents, iinthankfuJ, unholy. vrithout natural affections, truee breakerSi false accusers, incontinentv fierce i despicers of tho?e that are goc«l, traitors, heady, higii-minded, lovers of pleasivres i«ore ihan lovers of Ood- and baving a f«rm of g©dliriess, but denying the power. thēreof." I

I The incontinent, the unnatural i affections; the boastful, proud, blas!"phemous, covetous, and generally loose imorality of our .commurdty, tolerated and even encoun*ged by the parents, and worse than all by a sycoDhantic Press, lias leiul us to take to task the iminoraiity and the low instincts of the young people. whose lust tnakes their conduct towards one another, and ■ in their niarital relations, bclow, īn far too manv cases, the instincts of the lower order of animals. This eondition of our societv, is unwittingly or otherwise encouraged by the ]>arade of nnptial cereinomes whuih the newspaper give, and more especially the 41 leading" newspapers of our city. Such fulsome and utmeccessary panoramic display of what should be private, is often hemlāeā

even to a minute aescrifttion of ehe lady's trousseau and gentlemf.n's underwear. Such liberties must be very unpleasant to gontle people and a rude shock to a joung lady pf modesty, whoee changed lif3 causes her retirement for a period from society. v '

As niueh as we have been inured to the grossness, and incontinence. the vice and wickedness holy writ holds up to mankind as a light and a warning to eheekman'B inordinate passions. whieh we see manifest!y on the increase here, as well as throughout the world, we cannot help feeling it a duty to lend our feeble aid to purify the moral atmosphere whieh permeates our community; whieh tiireatens even the very Banctity of our .hoines. We may be excused in bringing forwf>rd our protest by publishing a satire taken from an Enghsh sporting paper, intended 110 doubt for the same purpase, i. e., to mirror out the debasement of the marriage relation to that of brutish instincts instead of being an ordinance from God for a pure and divine rfurpose. Is tMre any need for calling a halt, and using such a remedy ? To a willful and perverse generation apply lash says Bolomon, arid this advice is not for any pleasure that it gives to the parent but to save child. Auiputation if:often necessary to prevent mertification of the body, and thus extreme and seeming harsh meane are necessary. The same reasons apply to o»r eondition. j Anv remedy is almost exI cusable applied at the preseut time to save the communitv from the pollutioii and cērrwption that stalks unrebuked in our midst, yea, quiet!y allowed | to pass by unnoticed bv our puhlie mentors —the Press and Pulpit. Whv | is it that our lynx-eyed nesspaj|er editors nre so \villing fc<> cater to the jaundiced tnstes of our community, hy an enu:neration of tho u:idcr ai)pArei a youtig lady S'ippo|sed tv> wear as a full blown ;j n:»d fbrgetsto mention the m]m*l to the many brijrht jolored w<Mldingb -whieh ' tln»y- took g»ieh <!';<» exp:itinte on so n inutely āt tiie start ? To our knowledge,

an-'l t > the khowl«.?dge of a krge porfeion of onr cs>nimunity. iur lei=s than five uiesaliances have occurred where hnsbands have left the»r tvivf,s and Wives their h«sbands. and their poor unfortunate children, two ©f whieh cases arein the courts pf the Klngdom, yet scarcely noticed bv any of those public mentors, not even t& dra;w a moral -from the ui4finished taleiof whieh tHey were ihe first to wish the unforinnates God-spefel. N6t a word abo»it the sufferings of a forlorn wiA? m\d f<mr children. whcse husbatid wiiL th:is I ; pectiliar" laek of priricif)le3 nnd afFeCtion, marrik?s a ladv.

raortgage-all her property. <iut from the savings bank, al! th;»t the young wi&'s motherly fwljngs h:!tl gathered toget!ier for her ehiidrer,, and then leave the country; ]eavi;ig his wife and children to tlie frior,Jshipof a c€)minunity, whose ea--ri«y, depends*upon the sect to whieh wne belongs. : been said about sach brutish conduct), beside whifch the action-.of-mostt.of the lower order of animals stands in nob'e contrast. The " leading daily, the first to laud the pair without a word of admonition, now with a full knowledge of the results of this matrimonial allianee, has not & word of even to offer the unfortunate wife and helpless childreii. And it is by such k leading" writers of daily newspapers we. are held up in hcly horror, because we choose to reprint a wholesomebitof sarcasm whieh points a uooraljind adorn a tale ; whieh every kmcf father and mother, husband and bro>her should accept and profit thereby. *"

r Since the pdblication of our re- i printed artiele, llaken from an /wierican sporting paper, satarizing the nuhlie parade, so mueh seen in the oolumna of ourl u leading" dailies. of matrimonial allianee in high life, we have been interviewed by two worthy citizens, iwho were lab. )nng under a misapprehension that the satire had a peHonal application to them or their fanjiilies. We disclaim having had any intention of wdunding the susceptiibiiities of any ont'. We do believe that the reportorial gush in whieh fashionable marr|ages are so geqerally paraded, is ofteh demoralising by to tlie vanitv and animnl instincts of our nature, rath ?r than to modesty and its kindred virtues ; henee \ve merely transferrsd intg the LEothe whieh had ddne duty ia the columns of a fojreign paper. We feel snre that t]he two gentleißen, called «poq| us, will see the inapplicability to either of them or their families of the quoted article. On the contraiy, we believe that the marriages of the two young gentlo me», were marriages of unadulterai«l affection, aiid not for the sake of lust or j>elf. jrh«re is a tit»ge of romance fn either case that we rather admire, more especially as our marriages here have so little of the unalloyed ao«ction necessary to bind the twain asone mid the tria!s and temptations of this unsatisfactorv life. |