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Published by Angela T. Heywood.

WORD OFFICE. PRINCETON, MASS.

SEED FOECES, PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE.

The fecundating fluid of male animals, sperm,
semen is called seed; as denoting an original
source of power for good or ill, a principle of
production a token of behavior, the word Seed is
pregnant with teaching Life:—

Praise ol great acts he scatters as a seed
Which may the like in coining siges breed.— Waller.

When God gave Canaan to Abraham he thought
fit to put his seed into the gn nt loo,—Locke.

The seed < f whatsoever perfec; virtue groweth
from us is a right opinion touching things divine.—
Hooker.

Of the many moral and physiological issues
thrown to the surface of, and floating on evolu-
tionary waves of Free Love heredity is one; Lor-
ing Moody, who sired it, submitted his state-
ment of that faith to me for criticism and sug-
gestion before its first publication; himself deeply
moved by the Free Speech issue, in affirmation
of which Mr Heywood was then in Dedham
Jail, Mr. Moody became the philosopical evan-
—-. jpaiiet of	growth still fruitful in experi-

mental expression^ "letYi^fe^y"iiT^ifrii"ptn^(^~
that fertile province of active knowledge known
as Stirpiculture, which again is included in the
larger purpose of Social Freedom whose field is
the world, and whose destiny is an enlightened
Race. Whether or not persons are studiously or
heedlessly more anxious to be "respectable" than
to be true, the liberating actualities of Love,
which is the seed force of Being, carry within
themselves elemental Order making it impossible
to seem to be what is not. Sincerity is the pro-
tecting pod for seed, the warm, nourishing womb
for embryo childhood, the deep-bosomed ocean
ai power which includes invaluable gems of crea-
tive force. Whatever may be the words or apoear-
"ances, the facts must be with us, must •:< „
Knowing must be our head, Being ouj near:
Doing our hands, Having our children, a-1 *erT"-
ing feet carry us to& frc in destined Assoc:a nor.
How closely the Sexes meet in their central
work! How immovably they reside apart to do
and enjoy their individual own!

Since Love carries in it the unity of tivo or
more persons, Equity is inseparable from intelli-
gent action; in realms of essential, ab olute eter-
nal Verity all souls are native exponents of infi-
nite power, though occasionally bespoken in
finite falsity; if one does wrong to-day he or she
may be wiser & braver to-morrow; the weakness
is in supposing wrong defensible, or that it ever
can be approved; pour forth oceans of profess-
ion; bequeath fortunes to aid physical well-being;
give your body to be burned, even, yet if y u are
not, to-day, one with facts of common-sense
Honesty you walk detested by. all beholders,
while electric sincerity reveals true persons in
omnipresent, irresistible Unity:—

"There need no vows to bind
• Whom not each other seek, but find.

They give and take no pledge or oath—

Nature is the bond of bo h. . .

The.ir cords of ?»»%*<•?	«rer

They intertwine the furthest star."

Pretended un-relation of person-, prevailing
treachery are now called to extra J udgment Day:
while the people are so timid in their inability
to speak with grace & acceptance concerning
their body-selves. Fate, in its discreet Provi-
dence providing life & heat in all, sets the Sex-
Question aflame in politics, everywhere kindling
anxious inquiry; taught from infancy to main-
tain smothering secrecy & consequent loss of a
sense of Sacredness, some people are <o diseased,
drunken in their tastes they pretend that, intelli-
gent expression, relative to rex-race subjects, is
"obscene.'- "vulgar," "dirty;" Nature, with
curative purpose, cites two men now in the na-
tion's gaze, impelling all voters to decide as to
- their moral fitness for high public i rust.
Whether Blaine seduced a girl k afterwards mar-
ried her only by persuasion of powder k ball;
whether now he has a sexual a< well as a literary
mistress; whether he was or is guilty of irrespon-
sible Penis- Action are questions which I waive
in view of the more relevant & seemingly well-
sustained charges that he trafficed in public
trusts k lies to conceal the crime. Whatever
may hav been the sex-error of Cleveland all admit
that he cared for mother * child, >even though not
certain the child was his own; when confronted
by malicious partisans, with the past k con-
donned error he manfully replied "Tell the
, Truth." Of these two men a veteran seer says:

A rogue in private will be the same man and still
a rogue in public station; the slave of cupidity, the
trickster, the liar, the cunningly masked self-seeker
will, on being transferred from private to public
life, find only more of invitation and opportunity
for his vices. . . Habitual profligacy is a worm at the
centre, and it promises a core-rotted man; but a
particular dereliction may be overgrown and leave
the man sound, though scarred. . . Charles I. of
England was a chaste husband, and none the less an
unconscionable king; Henry IV. of France was a
very unchaste husband, and perhaps the be^t king,
or nt least among the very best, that France ever
had. The same rule that would exclude Cleveland
from public service would, and with much greatf r
force, hav excluded Benjamin Franklin, Alexander
Hamilton, and—if the uncontradicted statements of
the scalawag Callender, who certainly did not speak
in ignorance, may be believed—Thomas Jefferson,
not to speak of examples more recent. Imperfec-
tion clings to mortals; Jhav been young and now
am old, but I hav never found a man without his
infirmity; if an angel came from heaven, said Em-
♦ rson, lie would steal ginger bread or do some
naughty thing or other. . . Now when jobberies mul-
tiply, when notorious plunderers of the national
treasury cannot, be brought to justice and when
thousands, professing a belief that all our public men
are tarred with the same stick, scarcely think the
worse of them for beinp so. it would be fatal to
clothe with the highest powers of the nation a man
who 1ias slvown himself infirm at the very (toint
_ mfafcrOj ii tinywhore, a chief magistrate should be
unconquerably ifrongV-^^.^ ik.	The Jn-

dtx, Oct 2. '

In personal or collective lifetheseed-!orce,t0orMy

of Use, must be, at heart, sound; intentional
Honesty, individual Integrity is the one quality
indispensable in public or private station.

But the generative principles of action born of
Love live in ftquity, to the realization of which
all creative purpose looks. As an original per-
ception, active in growing numbers of quickened
persons, probably the most positive k direct for-
mative-force, in living letters, is the following
which, years, has headed The Word's editorial
columns: —

Pay No Interest, llent, Profit, Taxes or othcir un-
just demand; Produce, Exchange without restric-
tion and without, robbery. Marry not at all; but
Serve, recreate, finding in Reason lleligion, in
Lovk LAW,—

Or as the Lead of American prose literature

wrote:—

The lvmedv for nil blunders, the cure of blindness,
ihe cure »t ciiine is love; '"as much love so much
mind." Tin* superiority which has no superior;
the redeem!*-!- and instructor of souls, in their pri-
mal essence, is love. If your eye is on the eternal,
your inie'lect will "row, and your opinions and ac-
tions will hav a beamy which no learning or com-
bined advantages of other men can rival. . . Inflexi-
ble laws of matter pervade the subtle kingdom of
will and of thought; as ill sidenal ages gravity and
projecti» >u keep their craft, and the ball never loses
its way in its will path through space, so subtle
gravitation and projection rule not less firmly in
human history, ami keep the balance of power, from
age io age, unbroken. . . Religion or worship is the
attitude of those who see this unity, intimacy and
hi eerily; who see that, against all appearances, the
nature of things works for truth and right forever.—
Emerson, Conduct of Life, pp. 190-1.

The scholar sees ends from outsets, opens ethi-
cal roads to k travels toward* adjustment by Evo-
lution; hut dreams, inspirations become concrete
reality by the active presence
building on Ideas, are themselves frame work,
blood & bone of Society. Woman, receiving
into her person the Seed of Life, is a Garden of
Eden, & divinity overshadowing it; an artist in
the studio of receptive power she is an actor in
real drama, developing the integral science,—
btin icuiture whf.se laws, methods & possibilities
formulate Freedom in the estate bondage of
Love. Wasson, in his Index letter, speaks of
Maria H ilpin, Cleveland's former associate, as a
%,l lose widow;" wiiy condemn the woman if the
man is acquitted k honored? Why strike before
ha hears her?* Much more manly indeed would
Cleveland be if he credited himself with his own
see l in open, public recognition! New York has
a Governor thought worthy to preside over these
States; >. e also has a master-building Scientist
whose prolific brain evolves this:—

Platform Motto: In things proven, Unity; in
whatsoever can he doubted, Free Diversity; in
things not. trenching on others Rights, Liberty; in
all tilings Charity —S P. Andrews, the Pantarch,
What Andrews is in philosophy Gen. Butler is
in politics,—an orator-actor now impregnating
millions with new endeavor. Workingmen in
soiled tattered garments—the battle-scarred em-
blems of useful Service, shout for Blaine; they
would bury him under mountains of curses if
their minds were intelligently aware of the gi-
( To be continued )|Vafltt Jjittrntun.

Mrs. Francis A. Stuart, East Princeton, Mass.,
(To A. T. H.) Will people alw y* he ignora-
muses, consummate fools? No honest man wul ever
eonvict Mr. il; I cannot s*ee any sin he has com-
mitted k if he had who could cast the first stone ?
When will bigotry cease its cruelties?

Gko. M. Davenport, 324 E. 16th St N. Y.:—
Bless the light you see so far away ftom the rest
of us; I hav been fighting this battle you are
engaged in all ray life; now ray knees tremble,
my eyes grow dim and my grinders cease
because they are few. Say to Mrs. Heywood I
thank her for the splendid charge she made on
th* enemie's works in Feb. Word She may die
—I feel sure s:ie will never surrender

Mrs. A. P. Joycr, Westvale, Mas*., (To A.
T. 11.) .—Mar. Word ree'd ; after reading your
view it, k Mr. Hey wood's my ire knows no
?H>un«".M at your shameful treatment by a '* broth-
er '* k by a devil, Comstock ; another so vile a
^.ch cannot be found : wiiy if God came on
C linstock wouM arrest him for nnkinsj
n with a Penis, k w i invn witli a Womb; for
iking organs so " obscene " that people can-
not even learn tneir u«"*s exv<pt on peril of im-
prisonment. I hope Mr. il. wiii escape the dev-
il's clutch this tiin - k liv to see the infernal
41 law " abolished. Wish I could be at tin- Con-
vention but my heart is with you in ail your re
forms ; be sure you hav my sympathy ; will try to
lie atthe trial; am ever your* for Truth & Liberty,
W. G. Maryland, Sherwood, Franklin Co.,
IVnn. :—What folly for such a pigmy us the U.
S. Gov't to measure swords wuh Truth ! The
lengthening shadows of prison walls hides the
stake k gibbet in their glo-m; the bearers of
despatches from Air to Earth may die, but the
mehsage receives imperative impetus Thanks
to Congress, Colgate, Com stock k Co. Penis A
Womb hav become the focal point of men's k
women's thoughts, which must result in their
restoration to the ped»stal of honor among bodi-
ly members. I envy your abilities, natural k ac-
quired, your intuitions, inspirations, resultant
courage, k consequent fate, here k beyond;
whether yoa survive or perish. 1 shall u^e my
limited powers to advance the Cause, & t« ach my
three year old Vina, & yearling Leo, to emulate
you. The pitiful " good tasters " cannot feel the
exultant throb of a soul fortified by devotion.
•' Best policy " being their watch w »rd, deceit,
stultification, k ntunted growth must be the re-
sult. It is their misfortune not to hav reached
the inspirational point, which makes your cru-
cifixion necessary. There i« a grand truth lying
hidden beneath the debris of the atonement dog-
ma ; Christ-ianity is a living principle, k you are
its most prominent exponent, therefore things
are thus.

THI WOMAN'S VIEW OF XT-NO.*.

L »ve is the one Law which pervades Being ;
illustrated by Thought, allied to Reason, Love
inspires Logic, brain power with renovating
health ; the very essence of Conscience, its seat
Nature, its voiee_J;he harmony
of Life, Love is the soul of Rectrtu5e,'~flitr server
of Enterprise, Growth, Peace. Nor is the latent
Sense of Equity less diffused :—

The lowest herd is capable of thatsineerestpleas-
ure, the consciousness ol acting right ; for rectitude
does not consist in extensivone*si ot knowledge but
in doing the best thing, on time, according to the
lights afforded.— Tucker.

How false-twisted threads of men's lives must
be who pretend that Love works ill, promotes im-
purity or begets dishonesty ! The Dean of Bos-
ton University said to hi- class of boys at the end
of the term 44 When you go home, vacation, study
relationship; the relation of worms to dust, of
bugs to leaves kc ; " Dr. Wayland, the Webste-
rian President of Brown University, used to say
to Mr. H. k others listening, 44 Young men re-
member that Relations interinit Being; if ig-
norant of relations you can never be wise." I
accept the advice & trace relations, not in bugs«fc
worms merely, but in Boys k Girls, Men k Wom-
en. The It of analysis, the centre of mundane
relationship is Sexuality. Why cringe k recoil
into shrewish Indifference; why suffer in fact <!;
knowledge of vibrative power because lack of Ar-
ticulation depraves beneficent force? Vital feel-
ing, pulsation, expecting tendencies clasp per-
sons ; superstitious unreason,44 pure " ignoranee,
idiotic 4' virtue," unable Girls to speak of the
beauty, fullness, exhilerating & creative value of
the Penis; but they are tongue-tied only at the
expense (self-consuming wealth) of an over-
charged, vibrating Womb unduly craving the
natural offices of our Savior, the Penis. Yet in

a deep, continent sense, women save men from
delirious excesses k deadly results by affording
healthful, redeeming association. In nothing is
the devilish stupidity of men more apparent than
in decreeing sexual knowledge 44 obscene ; " no
mm ever more fatally word-shot himself than
did Dis't Att'y Sanger when he said4i Mr. Hey-
wood is a bad. man" because he insists that
Thought, Truth must mediate between the sexes,
A beautiful girl, caught up in tidal waves of
poverty, ignorance k destitution, accepts the warm
embraces of a genial-faced, Boston44 gentleman; "
believing him good k true as father, brother, or
Lover she admits him to utter intimacy ; next
day with richly-dressed wife k daughter k gold-
head cane he passes her on the street without
recognition ! Amazed, indignant, yet strong in
real power, she says 44 Well, you hav him to-day,
but I hav him to-night " Why should she not
clutch, appropriate him, in turn, since he, tak-
ing all that m ikes lifj dear, abandons her to be
coinrn m prey Jb rot unburied as a *4 prostitute? "
Such as she (natural ly orood & pure as his daugh-
ters) Anthony Comstock hires to show their nude
persons to 44 Christian men," forsooth, k then
drags the girls he has seduced to jail for 44 inde-
cent exposure ! " Mr. H. never heard of rubber V
peuises until S. R. II. told him about them; ill- ^
famed houses in Washington would fail for lack
of patrons were they not sustained by annual
sessions of Congress; yet these are the men who
imprison Free Lovers for divine-revelations of,
Knowledge!

in mental architectural analysis the pivotal
question of to-day is what proportion of motion
(or Liberty, the ethical name of motion), of vi-
bration hav the Penis k Womb a right to with-
out creating babied faces; what degree of asso-
eiatio i is justifiable this side of impregnation,—
a?*c open questions, k we hav ourselves on hand
w iile trying to answer them. All members both
internal k external of these our body-forms sustain
Healt?i by action, some type or phase of Motion;
how much is due to these polar-charged organs
of generation, Race Creation? So fouled are
people with the idea that even Knowledge of the
sexual organs is unclean they can scarcely recog-
nize the mutual, demand-and-supply facts of
Sexuality, witnout feeling che.nselves damned, or
damning sinners. Still, as seed carrier of the
Rice, man feels influentially p >tent with inter-
nally accumulated nower k is confronted with
five questions, viz ; With whom. When, Where,
How, Why shall he bestow himself, the essence-
What-of-Life — his innate quality, his semen, or
seed? Generative power, seed, Nature provides
iu prolific abundance; yet so unlearned are we
that new-born, innocent babes are called 44 ille-
gitimate; " as if the babes had illegitimated them-
selves ; as if tiiey were not fathered k mothered
quite naturallv ; as if a penis did not giv k the
womb receive k take care of what was given, re-
fusing to hold it foreign or unfit. The seed
planting is " illegitimate" k the planter crim-
inal if ie skulks, fails to face k provide for the
fruit of his action ; the mother cannot skulk ; in-
truded, quickened with new Life, her size, form,
habits, needs k maternal instincts speaking truth
of the 3)tumtion1 she must carry, deJj rer Jt sour-
Jfcg%use he, first of all, takes the
bondage, (he thinks it is liberty/, to plant hie
seed in the womb field he must husband field &
fruit or stand a convicted, sentenced invader, rav-
isher, robber. The head he animal of the race
puts limits on the head she animal; if unable to
hold or trade her as property, denying the birth-
fact that he himself graduated from her womb,
disowning the fruit of his own penis-planting,
the face of his own face, cursing Earth with is-
olation, squalor, havoc, carnage,—this is the
wretch who seeks to increase k perpetuate his leg-
islative power to hold us subjects of perverse will!
But women, in Nature, are persons, people, cit-
izens ; by keeping the mysteries of Sex, the se-
crets of coition, the momentous potencies of Love
k Parentage deep hidden in dark places of their
church k state, the ^reat k little men, born of
our bodies, still hold us underlings. But inde-
pendence is declared ; revolt spreads ; equality,
fraternity, sisternity await us. While Ignorance
blusters, rude, lewd savage men, beaten in argu-
ment, try to stifle us by violence, Thought quick-
ens, k Impulse, Enterprise, Discretion, build In-
tegrity,—the New Order, Architects of our own
k the Race's destiny ; owning k honoring carnal
as well as spiritual instruments of social-build-
men t, in the day when Natural Law k Order pre-
vail, the Womb k the Penis will receive religious
deference on the Communion Table of creative
achievement.—Angela T. Heywood.

WORD OFFICE. PRINCETON, MASS.jpterntnn.

Published by Angela T. Hey wood.

WORD OFFICE. PRINCETON, MASS.

THE MAERIAGE MOLOCH—FREE LOVE.

Moloch, in Scripture, the deity of the Ammonites, to whom
humat sacrifices wereoflfered in the valley of Tophet — JVoah
Webster.

Tophkt, Hell; so called from a place east of Jerusalem
where children were burnt to Moloch, & where drums were
us»ed to drown their cries —Ibid.

Burnt Offerings.—The tabled Minotaur of Crete,
to whom an annual tribute of maidens whs paid by
Athens, until he was slain by King Minos, reliving
here, demands & receives a far greater trihute of
London maidens than was ever given to the monster
C'f Greek mythology. Our law was specially framed
to enable dissolute men to outrage "legal women"—
i. e., girls of 13—with impunity. The moment a fe-
male child reaches the age of 13 she becomes in the
eyes of the law a woman, absolutely free to dispose
of her person to any one who may succeed in cajol-
ing or forcing her into sacrificing her virtue. Ste-
phens's Digest clearly says that the violation of a
woman who has reached the age of 13 is not in the
eyes of the law rape, if her consent has been ob-
tained, even by fraudulent means, though the girl
»3iiy i>e totally ignorant of the nature of the act.
Brothels are recruited far me re diligently, with more
care in reference to physique & attractiveness than
is the Queen's army, whose members are among
their chiel patrons. Mrs. Jeffries, shortly before her
conviction, said, mournfully, that business had been
very bad since the Guards went to Egypt. A girl
iirtmed Annie, 16 years of age, tells the following
story of the manner in which she was entrapped:

44A young girl friend, whom I had known for a
long time, asked me to take a walk with her, which
I did. She induced me to enter a restaurant, where
we met an old gentleman who, my friend said, was
her uncle. We drank several times of wine of differ-
ent kinds. I merely tasted mine at first, but was
'persuaded to finish my glass. My head got very
queer, 1 hardly knew what I did. My friend said,
•Annie, come up stairs.' I said, 'What for?' 'Never
mind,'she replied, 'you'll get lots < f money.' My
head was queer & I was dazed, but I still had misgiv-
ings that it was not right for me to go. My friend
insisting, I finally went; the man she called her un-
cle followed us; we went into a room, where iny
friend began t*" undress me. "What are you doing?
You must not,' I said. I struggled hard, but became
dizzy. & at last lost my senses altogether. 1 remem-
ber nothing until I awoke, & found myself undressed
in bed & the man with me. I screamed & begged him
to go aWav. He did not heed my entreaties in the
least, hut held me down. A woman who was stand-
ing 1 »y the bed said: "Keep quiet, you silly girl,
you'll get lots of money.' Frightened & hurt, I was
powerless; when all was over, the man gave the
woman four pounds. She gave me hall' & kept half
as her pay. I don't know the man, & hav never seen
him since."

Another girl named Lizzie, 13 years of age, was
decoyed by her dearest friend, who held her in bed
whih she was forced to accede to the demands of a
man; she describes the occurrence thus: "The gen-
tleman hurt me, # I y&lled in agony. The inadame
who kept the house came in, but did not offer to in-
terfere. When the man had finished with me he
gave me three pounds." This sum of money was
quickly seized by the friend who had persuaded her
in-1v^U*rr-4v«rm»t7.-- .. . ^itbftrview Urnscertuining if
Mich markets existed, I visited a house to which I
was directed. & asked to be supplied with a couple
<>1 girls within three days whose innocence had been
attested by a physician, at £10 each. Before the
three days had expired the girls were produced, duly
certified. . . . Mesdames X. & Z., known in certain
circles as the leading procuresses in Europe, started
in business in 1881; i ordered from X. & Z. a girl, to
be produced at my rooms with a doctor's certificate
showing her to be innocent. On the next day the
girl was brought, according to agreement, & with
her came a physician's certificate .\tating that her
age was 14. that, she had been duly examined & found
to he pure. Mme. X. said, "We seldom hav to re-
sort to deceptive practices; this house indulges in no
counterfeiting; the goods are genuine in every case.
We,'find it so easy to obtain innocent giris that, there
is no necessity of resorting to the practices alleged.
We never hav any trouble iu obtaining virtuous
girls; they are to be had for the taking; it is not
worth while manufacturing bogus ones. The price
has perhaps fallen, but the loss resulting from tnis is
more than made up by an increased demand. For

instance, Dr.-, who used to take a girl weekly at

ten pounds, now takes three in a fortnight at prices
ranging from five to seven pounds each." "What,''
exclaimed the reporter, "take seventy innocent girls
yearly?" "Certainly," replied Mme. X,, "he would
take 100 it procurable; but,she continued, "he is
so very particular we cannot supply him. He will
not touch shop girls; then, too, all must be over 16,
because of the law in regard to abducti >u. Next

Surday I hav to take a coupe to Mr.-, residing

on Bedlord square. I take the girl in a cab, drive
through various streets, & reach the house in a
roundabout way. When we arrive at the residence we
both go in. The girl sees the gentleman in private,
remaining a few minutes—perhaps as long as ft half
hour. She naturally suffers. I then take her away
in the cab." If the victim at the last moment
proves unwilling or seeks to escape, Mesdames X. &
Z. do not hesitate to use force, holding the girl's arms
& head, & stifling her cries with bed-clothes. I gave
an order to Mme. X. lor five innocent girls to be ob-
tained for my use. The girls were promptly found;
1 went with the girls Jfr the procuress to a doctor for
an examination. Three were certified; two were
rejected because they were not attractive; I paid
Mme. X. the price agreed upon, & departed, armed
with the following vouchers:

London, June 27,1885

This is to certify that I have examined —— —, aged 16,
ft have found her pure.

(Signed,)	--, M. D.

London, June 27,1885.

I hereby agree to let you hav me for a present of three
pounds. I will come to any address if you give me three
day8' notice. 1 am 16 years old.

This contract is signed with the full name and ad*
dress of the girl. An old man maktos daily excur-
sions to tne east end of the city, where he watches
the young factory girls as they emerge from the mills
at lunch time When lie sees a girl who suits his
peculiar fancy it	iui.l>U ts? Luar

and accomplish her ruin If she pi'O^es particularly
pleasing to him, he sends her to the patching up es-
tablishment The commissioner givs an interview
had with an experienced detective, as follows: "Is it
a fact that if I go to proper houses, the keeper, in
return for money down, will supply an innocent
girl ?" Detective (without a moment's hesitation)—
Certainly. Commissioner—What is the price ? De-
tective—That is a difficult question to answer; but
I know of one case where a certified victim was pro-
cured for the sum of £20. It is frequently done all
over London. The girls generally know what is re-
quired oi them. Commissioner—Why, I should
think the very thought of such a thing would be
enough to raise the devil. Detective—True, but
it doesn't even raise the neighbors. C< mmis-
ssoner—Do the girls scream? Detective—Yes, bpt
what does that avail them when they are locked in
a remote bedroom? Then, too, it is impossible for a
woman to howl more than two minutes or scream
more than five. Some of the houses to which young
girls are lured for their ruin hav underground rooms,
some are country villas, which hav thick walls and
are furnished with double carpets. The heavily-cur-
tained windows are securely closed by thick shatters;
in one of the places a girl might scream blue murder
and her cries be unheard. To some men the shriek
of torture is the essence of delight. Girls are always
to be found who are willing to enter upon a life of
shame, but they sometimes repent and fight desper-
ately in s If-defence In one case the appearance ot
the room after the struggle was over showed that
tlie girl had only beep overcome after a long and
desperate tight; she finally succumbed when too
much exh- listed to continue the struggle: this was
the case of a full grown woman." It is customary
to strap young girls, hand and foot, to the four posts
of a bedstead, thus preventing all possibility of es-
cape. A case is specified in which a child, strapped
down in this manner, was so small that even the old
procuress interfered. The wretch whose money had
purchased him the privilege of committing a crime
worse than murder was obdurate, however, and an
opiate was administered. The little one was put to
fTed in anorher loom, ail being quiet. The ptti'eliHser
glided into the room and locked the door. There
was a brif silence, then a wild, piteous cry. It was
not a loud shriek, but a helpless, startled scream like
the bleat of a frightened lamb. A voice was heard
crying in accents of terror: "There is a man in the
room! T; ke me home! Take me home!" Then all
was still again. An ex-brothel keeper says :

4 Child maids, as they are known in the trade,
fresh girls, are constantly in request. A keeper
knowing ins business has his eyes open in every
ciir ction. His sU>ck of girls is constantly getting
used up and needs-replenishing. Getting fresh girls
takes time, but the process is simple and easy when
one becomes used to it. Another simple way of sup-
plying them for purposes of corruption is by breed-
ing. Many professional women hav female children
which are worth keeping as merchantable property.
When she was 12 or 13 years of age I sent my own
daughter into the street. I hav known a couple oi
little girls to be sold outright and shortly afterward
bred and trained to become lewd. Fresh girls are
always procurable; they are bred like tnosquitos; I
know ol one street in Dalston where I could buy a
dozen; the supply often exceeds the demand. I
once sold a girl aged 12 years for £20 Her pur-
chases- was u ••ie:gyman who came to uiy house pro-
fessedly to sell tracts. I hav myself gone into the
country and courted girls in all kinds of disguises.
Sometimes I represent myself as a travelling parson.
After securing the confidence of a girl I would pro-
pose a visit to London lor the day to see the sights,
{To be Continued.)H"enfjlet Jihmtnre.

Published by Angela T. Hey wood.

WORD OFFICE. PRINCETON, MASS.

THE MARRIAGE MOLOCH-FREE LOVE.

(Concluded.)

a proposal rarely, if ever, refused. Arriving in the
city, 1 would take the girl to a restaurant, give her
plenty to eat and drink, especially the latter, and
take her to the theatre. Alter leaving the theatre,
a visit to the restaurant for supper would be pro-
longed so that the last train would be lost. There
being no other alternative, the girl would naturally
accept the olf"r ot lodgings for Ihe night. After she
had gone to bed the rest of the business would be
managed by my client, who, upon taking possession,
would pay me ten or twenty pounds commission.
In the morning the girl, knowing herself to be ruined,
and being afraid to return home, would readily con-
sent to enter a disreputable house. Within the past
seven years I hav sold two girls for £20 each, one
being 16 and the other 15 years old, and hundreds
of others for varying sums. One of the greatest risks
of the trade is the escape ol girls after being sold. It
j the invariable rule that the seller delivens
at the railway station, where she is promptly placed
in the buyer's carriage, but the seller always takes
the risk of delivery. A house exists in which the
business is carried on of palming off girls who hav
been ruined and bringing them again into the mar-
ket; there is also connected with the establishment
a department for ridding such girls of the conse-
quences by malpractice."

The system of procuration thrives in tho West
End of London, the most fashionable quarter of the
metropolis. There the victims bring a much larger
sum than those procured in the East. The purveying
is carried on systematically; girls of the East End
who, up to the time of their procuration, had been
pure, fetched only five pounds each, while their sis-
ters of the West End brought prices ranging from
ten to twenty pounds. These figures were verified
in every instance, and included the stipulation fee
paid to the doctors for certifying, that the intended
victims are pure. A well-known member of Parlia-
ment, being interviewed, laughed heartily when
asked what he knew, or surmised, concerning the
traffic in young girls. He said: "It is true that
maids are obtainable at so much a head, I myself
hav pr- cured a hundred at £25 each. The girls know
what they are doing; it is nonsense to call it rape,
they know their purity is a realizable asset, and
they are not slow to set a price upon it." It is the
boast of an engaging creature that he has ruined two
Thousand women. He says, with some show of
virtue, that he has never betrayed a child, but has
contented himself with actresses, shopgirls, and the
like, for whom he has always paid liberallv. Exer-
cise, recreation—all worthy acts of life are sub-
ordinated to the supreme end of his existence.
More than 10 000 little girls in England are com-
pletely given over to a shameless life, and the prac-
tice ol crimes which are of too horrible a complex-
ion to give them names In houses kept by French,
Spanish, and English women in fashionable London,
it is possible to meet Cabinet Ministers and other
men of dignity and reputation. There is now walk-
ing the streets a monster aged fifty years who has
for y<*ars amused himself by decoying and ruining
children. He wtus.mc>vitl(v\s!vniriop^,Ji«4hiiea,jii%^is-
trate charge.with having debauched sixteen little
girls, but investigation showed that 14 of them were
upward of 13 years old. and he escaped the punisu-
menfc he merited.—Pall Mall Gazette, July 6-9.

Such is life (death) in London & else-
where ; though implicated persons tried
to suppres- The Gazette, & Comstockism
prevents a full reprint of its facts here,
Gladstone, Victoria, Manning, Morley,
Mrs. Booth, Spurgeon, & other leading
exponents of English opinion, indorse the
exposure k seem to favor remedies sug-
gested by Editor Stead, who says:—

"I will go to prison many times, if supceutied, be-
fore publishing the names of the people who gav us
the details. I am an invesiigator, not an informer ;
1 move, First—An addition to the Criminal act rais-
ing the age at which female children may legally
consent to sinful conduct from thirteen years, the
present period, to sixteen years. Second—Exten-
sion of the law prohibiting soliciting to both sexes.
Third—Denial of any additional power over women
to the police that will be aimed at the suppression of
crime, not, at the suppression of vice—that is, com-
plete legal liberty for voluntary immorality between
adults contracting on equal terms, but rigorous re-
pression of sexual criminality in all cases in which
the parties are under age or the elements of full, free,
and intelligent consent are absent. Fourth—Greatly
increased stringency in the laws against procuration.
— Pall Mall Gazette} July 13.

This is the "cure" Englishists offer for
world-wide, "legal" disease! They would
enlarge & intensify the cause of the mal-
ady,—marriage which makes liberty, rea-
son in sex relations, criminal; makes las-
civious monoply, invasive repression, not
Intelligence, law in social life. While usur-
pations of capital relative to land, money
& exchange giv men unnatural & almost ir-
resistible power over girls & women, the
root of sex abuse is in denial of Natural
Right to associate, in attempted super-
vision, by government or God, of private
& sacred impulses which, like Conscience
in rel gion, proclaim iaw higher than hu-
man enactments. Priests & policemen
must watch us! Who shall watch them?
The supervisors are men, often more ig-
norant & vicious than the people they as-
sume to "govern"! As protestantism is
right of private judgment in religion, as
democracy makes Personal Integrity ulti-

al Sense into morals, appeals sex-issues
from priests & politicians to enlightened
Conscience, to essential laws of Being,—
persons in Love as in Religion, judging
for themselves what is right. Finesse,
force, fraud are used to control girls;
"society" so depraves some that vice
seems voluntary; but natural Sense of
Right & of personal sanctity implanted in
girls & boys by a wise generation, devel-
oped by judicious training, will assure
purity & order. Stead, Morley & Co. pro-
pose more espionage, more torture; Earth
reeks with blood shed lo impose "religion"
or government on resistants; but those
sacrifices are trivial compared with heca-
tombs on altars of coercive rule, marriage.
Stead permits "voluntary immorality";
Free Love transcends vice & disaster by
enlightened disci etion; Nature makes
effect follow cause in sex-abnse; if per-
sons sin, consequent suffering is the sig-
nal of distress raised to warn self & others
of hidden breakers. The fate of girls
bribed, drugged or bound for men's tem-
porary use is bad enough; what of those
who, life-long, are "legally" consumed in
one man's ferocious heat? The alleged
"right" winch marriage givsaman to use
one woman as he pleases, begets in him
desire to use other women irresponsibly ;
robbed of opportunity to earn their living,
perverted by superstitious belief that sex-
-ctttstvciat'ioii, witftoirV marriage, lk uVsihni-
arable, enervated by non-expression of
themselves, girls become easy prey of de-
vouring maleism. But sex-power rightly
used is always beneficently serviceable;
what one lacks another supplies; minus
here is plus there. Made aware than he
has no right to spend, or claim to own
other people's property; that he is ac-
countable to self & others for his every
act; that legal or illegal immorality is
murderous; lifted out of base sensualism
into sense of mutual obligation; human-
ized from head to foot, the savage "noble"
who now buys girls to deflour them may
become Providence incarnate. Love as an
Idea, a Principle; heat, ecstacy, inspira-
tion, passion knowing rights & duties;
the noble impulse which carries to & finds
Life in others; demand & supply fruitful
in pleasure, use, beauty, Service; attrac-
tion announcing Law; Mutualism giving
to carnal power divine destiny,—when
Soul & Over-Soul are welcome to free ex-
pression in human desire the millennium
will be here.Jiwflht M,ueiuttire.

Published by Angela T. Hetwood.

WORD OFFICE, PRINCETON, AMSS.

Now that Louise Michel is dying, it is said that
Ferry proposes to pardon her. lint who wi I pardon
Ferry ?—Lowell Bell.

If office is desirable, all citizens should hav a fair
chance to get it; if office is a bad tiling, it should not
be put on any po» r fellow all Ids liie.— Ge/i, Builer.

Magna Charta is preserved in the British Muse-
um; it is a In avy parchment, and measures oO by
42 inches; the t« xt i^ oid Latin, sunoundrd by the
seals of the eighteen barons who ton-ed the king to
execute it; at the lower right-hand corner appears
the king's bold signature.— (Jofliinonwcttlth.

M. Hakman, Valley Falls, K's:-Please accept
my hearty wishes & "good-speed" inyonrself-
pacrificing labors, & be kind enough to nay to
Mrs. H. that I hav no words to express my ad-
miration of her truly heron- & keenly intellectu-
al assaults upon the ra-th-of ignorance & pruo-
ery. Like you two we leei tne vexations, annoy
ence, terrible disadvantage ol having btit littie >f
this world's goods w herewith to carry on the
fight against capital, prejudice & privilege.
But we 'hav no disposition to giv up the contest,
unequal as it is . . You must not think tnat I
am the less interested in the welfare of yourself
& family than any other of your radical friends,
because I write so little to you. 1 think you k
Mrs. 11. are doing a work that none others, per-
haps. now living could do so well; this worn is
perhaps more neeei-sury to the true development
& progress of humanity than any other work now
prosecuted in our land.

ESSENTIAL BEING-ETHICAL EXPRESSION.

If ethics is "a handmaid to divinity & relig-
ion" much accepted as moral is dead-level inertia,
or dung ol past endeavor which may grow loud
for living Actors; yet the ethical elements which
animate Persons work on. from age to age.
gathering into careful historic keeping what is
worthy in finite effort. The

4'Vast chain of being which from Cod began,
Natiue's etherial, human ang< 1. man."

''Though full of pain, this !nt<lhc; md pulse,

These Thoughts that wander through eternity,"
the mind forces whos- salutation in \ou & me is
the It of Us-these assure Enterprise, Order &
Rest. When impulse begets words as vehicle-
of Thought, their relation to each other, the sire,
mother, child,—the Use of the fact i< system in

expression:—	. .

Grammar is a compilation ol those general princi-
ples or rules agreeably to which language is spoken.

—Crombie.	. .

Grammar is the logic of speech even as logic is
the grammar of reason.— Trench,

Ever since my twelfth year the T of me has want-
ed to write a Human Grammar; leuing; Col
Greene so, once, he replied "I've been about that,
all my days;" Proudhon, Ruskin, Andrews,—
many others engaged in ethical studies, have
projected grammar. ^ "When 'the whole earth
was of one language," (Gen. 11, 1.,) God, fear-
in"- such unity meant mischief, o-»nie down k
Bsfbeled, jargoned it into many tongues, so schol-
ars make'Latin, French, German grammars; but I
want a human grammar to formulate Moods, In-
tentions, Purposes,—Onaracter of living, real
person^; telegraphic dispatches irom ti e human
understanding so well-known & operated that Es-
sential Law may work, without disast r, m
chosen Association. I want such natural mode
k decree of utterance that people will no longer
be bound in slavish phraseologies, or poisoned
by authoritative dishonest\. Principle & parti-
cle, mind & matter, god & nature, good a natuial,
gravity & levity, quantity & quality, Use a Beau-
ty, Love k Wisdom, Liberty & Order,—how the
elements come dancing in to join "all hands
round" in rhythmic Reality! Communion,
conversation, talk; gossip, slander, insinuation:
music, mourning: Action, Ke-t, every attitude
of throbbing life expresses infinite Intention !

What Wasson stated a< "the turn where the
ou"*ht force appears;" what Proudhon termed
"economical contradiction;" what Andrews says
is "between^/1 I see revealed as socket-pivot
action in the mineral kingdom; as pistil & stamen
in the vegetable kingdom; as penis-womb Ser-
vice in the animal kingdom,-the generative
uniting, swinging, hinge, guarantee of fruitful
motion. But while the race is enslaved to plus
animal heat, minus swift Intelligence, human,
Mutual sex-acquaintance or respect is impos-

sible:—

Uvefry man carries on his back the burden of the
fatality which inheres in his own nature; when he
brings that burden to the front, by obtaining a dis-
t inct understanding of it and by deliberatly accept-
ing himself for better or for worse, the fatality of
his nature becomes a basis ol actuality on which he
may build up the structure ot his own destiny.
Evil is incompleteness especially incompleteness of
action: r one but men of Integrity are happy; wilful
lack of Integrity is sin. It is the doctrine of the
Kabbaia that woman, as originally conjoined
with man, back to back, in one complex person is
n<Te*>ariiy evil; because misplaced, if for no other
reason. Winn man and woman are separated from

oh >ih«'i woman ceases to be evil; she becomes
I os i ve y good as soon as she is brought into com*
:< tii.i:-:tion, face to face, with man.— Greene's
Blazing Star, page 93

Jordan & Marsh, the great Boston merchants,
displayed in their front windows during the hol-
idays, a large picture-book, open here k there,
so as to attiaet ohsei \ers; on one page a woman,
nude from crown to heel, is made to present her
naked, hack-s If to the public. Why doth not
ihe pu1 lie claim - er front wise? Why doth wo-
ii,an U s to be s ck d b\ faee-to-hice meeting
man? W en will she wake to know that clan-
(i:-s ine dealing with her \< the fatfl pit of social
evil? Why have we not moie gentle-men, in re-
ponsible king, rather th-m so much invasive
hei>in? Woman's person, to man, is external
beauty; man's per-on. to woman, is internal ec-
-tacy; attract! n, sobrietv, continence, service,
use, in all tin ir divine potencies, follow face-to-
iace acquaintance ol the sexes, t ost principle,
law of absorption, right of appropriation, fact ot
reproduction, power of education, charm of util-
ization, quality of civilization, unique exhilera-
tion, rest in ass ciafion,—- who will analyse A
classify the Universe of power mealed in sex
'Equality k Opportunity!

Scholars (a- such by trade) are so untrue, so
bewilderedly recreant in the portraying, report-
ing use ot their pern , in practical analysis of per-
sons & things, that Society is vitally prevented;
hence people & industries codes k institutions
are sadly enthralled, yea, savagely enslaved;
intelligence, virtue, character are forbidden.
Truth the ethical name of pers< nal Fact; Libert}'
the ethical name ot personal Action will yet give
us Home, School, Church & a Race worthy of the
noble term— Civilization. When fit words
please the ear a- physical-human beauty pleases
the eye; when sentences are quick with warm,
throbbing life; when Language, in original
power k charming surprise, is the perennial mir-
acle, Spontaneity allows it to be; when souls
know bodies, & mind informs matter well-enougn
to help us meet & work in the rea<m of ethical
possibility, Society will be here If we are hu-
man we cannot be indifi'erei t to others'^ welfare;
recognizing the centrifugal law playing from
ourselves unto others on "Greenland's icy moun-
tains. India's coral strand," to "christianize"
nations, ni-t<>ry Russia, feed Ireland, is simp'jr
tne econom'cai c >ntradiction (however faulty ti e
mode) of our ability to expand a< well as expend,
—counterpart to our drawing power to gather
in, as Nature wields Inr centripetal law with
equal use k grace. 'Men k boys love women & girls
as we love t iem ileat is beneficent in its ability &
time; Kquity, Love,—the strengthening fact of
having served, ennobled rather than hurt or hin-
dered anot !u:r; t'ie p •cket-action of a man toward
a girl not in quest of lis pe ds-action; the exam-
ple oj Individual Rectitude that lifts & guides
nations to liberating power is the Morality, the
Religion welcome in all ports. As I meet jocund
growth in the lace of my baby junior, Angelo
Tilton, & note electric life in the demeanor of my
baby senior, Psyche Ceres; as I watch the play
of mental force over mercenary greed in life
about me; as, now & then, nations of faces glow
in recognition of unusual furtherance of Equity
by official action, as the discovery of a Watt, a
F.-anklin, a Morse or an Edison hitches some new
natural force to the ever-advancing Star of Pro-
gre<~. I marvel, more & more, at the mysterious
nerve-looms, the wonder-working mechanism
cased in Human Being! Sensing how little has
-een written worthy of the mental-physical Prov-
idences we might be to each other, books in li-
braries will yet glide down from their alcove-
shelves & haste to mills to be converted into
white-paper innocence, for shame of their abor-
tive "learning!" Yet Truth impels utterance;
whoso is loyal to Nature well-serves the Race in
his or her own time and way. Divers tasks now
call, and this pen must stop, but I will not be
concluded.—Angela T. Hey wood.(enf]ht J;iumtnrt.

THE ETHICS OP SEXUALITY.

The mind and matter of us; our distinct person-
alities, yet confluent desires and needs; the affec-
tions, actions, destinies, apparent in differing bodily
structures, disclose the rights, duties arid laws of
Sexed Keing, If Persons are not invisibly related
to each other, seldom can there be an external, visi-
ble union of durable strength; spiritual precedes
material association; Mind proposes to Matter. Hut
Mind must appear in worthy salutation o" remain
outside waiting to be housed; for Matter yields only
when its equality of merit and dignity of position
are recognized. Man and woman, you and I meet,
embrace, melt away in each other, only to reappear
as Persons with new vigor, again and again in ever-
lasting frolic, il the meeting is well-done in clear
knowledge of the way to, from and witli each other.
When Love inspires Association, the meeting is so
complete, ecstatic, that comparison is sacrilege;
"Competition in Love'' is. as impossible as the rude
idea is unnatural; real Association floes not flourish
on such wiley, irresponsible grounds. Love, biding
its time, by its own inherent life, transcend* rivalry
in companionship; the very self-essence of power,
it does not come or go, been lse some one wishes to
appropriate it, but it is there 1 elf-existent, indestruc-
t:We, irresistible. One is no a Frej^-Lovcr because
she cohabits with one or more men, or with none
at all, but rather by the import and tone of Associ-
ation; mutual impulse and mating tendencies crave
expression, relish grace in its bestowel, Rest in its
acceptance. Sexuality is a divine ordinance, ele-
gantly natural from an eye-glance to the vital action
of penis and womb, in personal exhileration, or for
reproductive uses. Free Love calls for sincere
thought and true action; it is the advent of Tlertlth
and Order amid disease and chaos; centrally en-
trenched in and fully imbued with royal attention,
jealous care and discreet regard tor others welfare
in their separate, united, activeand passive accounts,
Ave are joyfully held to mutual choice and duty in
the ceaseless round of Change. May I have a child
and by whom? Voiced in Nature, rising trom the
depths of the heart of Being, this question admits of
no equivocal answer; desire for offspring, Integrity
of parents and Rights of the Child forbid insincerity
Arrived in this earth-realm of animated action, our
child has to recognize its own existence without
blush or shame; Existence recognizes the child call-
ing for a lather, a mother—who are there without
calling, unless inhuman habits forbid. Love out-
wits intrusion; Lady Nature can put Madame
Intellect behind the door, further than you can
think, while she revels with a man to her heart's
content; but Temperance is the imperative Law;
Mr. A is drunk with soberness; Mr. C is sober in
drunkenness; neitherknows the equitable, balance I
use of persons. The Cost Principle is vividly ap-
parent in coition; when a man uses only what he
can pay for, there will be no prostitutes Until
woman has equal pay for equal work with man she
cannot prove her natural independence; without
Liberty and Sex-Equity Love is impossible. Wheth-
er it is God smoking a cigar in heaven, Grantism
her e or stealthy usurpations in commercial and do-
mestic life, invasive Heism stifles us; but Ethics
assure equality, free and intelligent Mutualism.

The "marriage institution," the fruit of irrational
intrusion and heistic folly, is but a fly-speck on the
great fact of Social Destiny. It is the auction-block
of primitive sale and slavery of woman to man, as
w/n-eliable and z'/Zbindmg as such forsaken-fidelity
to personal Integrity could permit; i:s legitimat e
fruits are prostitution, abortions, infanticide, and
thous nds of skulking fathers. The Ethics of Sex
do not admit of any regime of action, whereby Hu-
man Beings can possibly be abused into "prosti-
tutes," be they male or It-male. "Houses of Ill-lame"
which "statistics" declare "are mainly supported by
married men" and young wy/marriecl men, too, are
simply relics of heistic usurpation and sheistic-slave
disease. We, man and woman, boy and girl, are
here with desires, needs, uses, hopes,—with all our
capacities for Wohk to transcend tragic evil in ec-
static good.

The spirit of Culture dees not exist

Where thought of Service does nor persist.

Standing with her hands upon his arm, with
steady look into his eyes, he meets her gaze intoned
with a thought of profound nearness to him; in
tremulous vibrations thrilling her being he knows
how densely she understands his electric svvav, in-
voicing her every sense to participate in a united,
welcome use and enjoyment of their birthright
Powers for ingenuious blendment and judicious Cre-
ation. When a man gives his Passion to a woman
she feels he must love her, else he could not yield
it to her; for his passion, to her, is the divine in hu-
man semblance; as she adores it, she deems that he
epually holds it in honor unto himself. Hence she
feels sale, for he has given her rest and trust through
his bestowal ot Love. He blesses her through his
retained Passion. Has she not already counted the
cost, and does he not compute its exactness unto
her as well as unto himself, and bless her with Love
from his center-self, while yet he retains a fruitful
expression of his Passion? Can he be otherwise
than dear to her ? Does she not know her own and
feel secure that as Nature yields its own through

Gravity giving, it also yields its own through Levi-
ty's acceptance thereof? If she. as woman, duly
gives to man who cometli in unto her, as freely, as
equally, as well as he gives her, how shall she be
abashed or ashamed of the innermost ? This meet-
ing is not abortive but fruitful, the Over-Soul, Rea-
son transcending Force in realized Society ! Both
are glad; satisfaction accomplished, yet is ever deep-
ly in store lor them; as free and equal Persons they
experience good; still, as Artists they may create
better, best, in forms, activities and destinies of new
Human Beings Art illustrated in flesh and blood;
Mind (mathematics) and Matter (mechanics) con-
spiring to pr >duce quick souls in sound bodies,—this
is Life ! To jrow a handsome, capable child under
our heart, an 1 born that child from between our
limbs is finer work than aesthetic words from the
mouth, or hand-wit with brush or chisel. Sedate in
airy, yearning, jaunty, throbbing Faith woman
waits; in royal form with firm step man comes;
the Outer and Inner of the two are one to welcome
chosen Trinity.

The tendencies ot Sexual Freedom to personal
health anil social strength no intelligent, honest ob-
server of the Free Love movement questions. False
modesty born ot timid ignorance has had its day;
let Truth now speak; we like men because they are
men; you like us l>ecause we are not men. I>ein*-r
women we born babes, not fr«»m our .eyes or lips!
but from our womb>. Man as a physical ruler of
the household like tin- imperialism of bulls m the
barnyui .1, is not a. Lover t'nif a oea.-f,—Seeing lh Wu-
man a breeder, or food for insatiable appetites; any
alliance with him that limits Choice I detest. ' But
the word wife never, in the three or four hundred
years I have lived, seemed irrational to me; it ex-
pressed a relationship of the most candid order
twi.vt a. woman and a man; as husband words the
masculine side, wife words the fcnienine side of the
plural unity. I had no idea thai the word wife, in
its true meaning, implied servitude I accepted it
and the relationship as announcing equality vvilh
man in the realm of Service. Never did I feel de-
meaned by so accepting the term wife, or the fact
wifehood. Still, I hear the word means something
awful—a seifdom, at first forced on woman, but by
long endurance, and custom, agreed to, overlooked
forgotten, yet still expressed in the woman slave
held by man as king of brutes, her 4 generous" lord
and "protector" of course ! To some,' wifehood may
seem slavish, not self-adjusted service, but such
bondage is foreign to my girl a.»-ul woman ideas,
while Serving I always felt to be royally worthy.
I used to think t'assion was something bai, and was
taught, by those who did not know, that Lust was
is the opposite of Love. J was mistaken, for the
antithesis of Love is hate, while Lust means full,
glowing, healthy, animal heat. Passion is a fruit -
full source of beneficent power. A man may love
me yet have no passion for me, so one may have a
passion for me but not love. Man does not "tall in
love" with woman, for love is Essential; he may
have a rise of heat, a magnetic, fervent attraction
for her. Yet, whatever their views and feelings,
the sexes can never escape Moral Responsibiltv for
their actions to and with each other,—the whole
person, from crown to loot, must obey Reason.
Women have no respect for men who excuse "in
discretions" on the ground of mental or physical
weakness—who say a man is "innocent" because
he is "insane," "over-persuaded," or, worst of all,
"virtuous ' because Ik- is impotent, attempting to
hide behind the inability of his penis to have an
erection ! Woman may pretend "shedoes*not want
anything of a man," but her lady-nature knows it,
is the very great everything she wants to do with
mrrn. Yi is useless to deny ~iS at lire's lunctionarv
powers, because, as yet, we know not how to appro-
ate them in Use, that Beauty may follow and Misery
be dissolved. Intrusive power can never answer
to the validity of Integrity, vested in and called for
from the personal-resident 1 am of each other.
Personal Responsibility has been i/Zregarded, set
back, put to blush, by third-party, arrogant inter-
mcddlement, of the physical force code of domestic,
commercial, educational, church-and stale heistns.
Evasion, intrigue thwart spiritual concord; repres-
sion is as great a physical and mental crime as ag-
gression. Mothers who attempt to act for their
daughters, over-officious 'friends," finesse, however
bland in purpose or robed in the imitat ion of culture,
all vicarious intrusion between Souls, violate Na-
ture. We are related sexually, let us face the glad
fact with all its ineffable joys, its fruitful Power, its
invigorating Science and consequent responsibilities.
Thought-exchange, mental Articulation, has its
twin-mate in magnetic mutuality, physical Vibra-
tion. The Penis and Womb, the Outer and Inner,
are sublimely worthy peers in body faculty; their
attentions, purposes, capacities, demands, supplies,
moved by Brain and Heart,, are the pith and glory
ot Being. As "the corruption of the best is the
worst" so abuse or neglect of sexuality makes Socie-
ty impossible; but kn owledgeof ourselves and mutu-
al discission in unity light the vestal fire of soul
Worship on every hearth-stone. As Sex is the
profoundest relation of Life, generation is its cease-
less business—Generation so well done as to re-
quire no regeneration Thought moved by impulse
discovers and incarnates Spiritual Forces, weds Use
to Beauty, creates attractive Persons who find in
Reason Religion, and in Love Law.—Angela T.
Heywood, Word Extra. Princeton. .Mass%tnfUt %iiemtnn.

Published by Angela T. Heywood.
WORD OFFICE. PRINCETON,

LEGAL "PURITY" vs. MORAL INTEGRITY.

That the Sexes expect each other, & in-
telligent mating assures Society; that
Love worketh no ill bat is the source &
guarantee of right action in all moved by
it; that whatever is comely attracts & its
oppos-itti repeis; that citizens are servicea-
ble in proportion as their act on toward,
not a family merely, but other persons, is
affectionately encouraging; that Intelli-
gence begets virtue, & vice thrives by
suppression of Rational Sense,—are ap-
v parent facts. Y,et in face of these facts
marriage tries to limit affection to special
persons, makes revision of sex-mistakes
criminal, & holds us liable to $5,000 fine
& ten years imprisonment under "obscen-
ity laws," for seeking the cause of so-
cial evil & suggesting remedies therefor!
Libertinism, prostitution, disease, vice,
crime are Nature's protest against legal-
ized imposition ; monogamy, polygamy,
polyandry, omtiigamy,— whatever code
seeks uniformity by invasive force, rather
than in personal discretion, is chronic
hindrance to civilization. As religious
enlightenment, through protestantism,
begets Catholic individuality; as politi-
cal growth transcends government by
natural democratic Law & Order, so Moral
Integrity is assured in liberated affection,
free responsibility.

Revolting against pure idiocy & savage
lust that pretend to respect marriage,
Freedom lives in genial hypocrites & ro-
bust knaves hastening better conditions;
that Truth is known & feared by fierce
authority appears in rude statutes to
suppress it In the Pantarchy, the Free
Love League, Cupid's Yokes, & other ex-
ponents of Moral Order, the right of
Sexes to associate, regardless of church-
state prohibition, is steadfastly asserted.
Liberty in carnate, Faith realized in pies-
ent fact has staying, growing power in
the Fre<? Love Bureau whose membership,
resident in many States & the Catiadas,
are the advanced guard of Evolution;
like the signers to the Declaration of
Anti Slavery Sentiments in Philadelphia,
1833, & those who there stood up for In-

hold the fort of historic interest in domes-
tic enterprise. Superior to clandestine,
skulking indulgence; no longer creeping
along highways & byways of nations;
founder of a new era in chronology; the
banner assertion of freedom of Con-
science, Speech, Press & Mails; the soul
of Labor Reform, Liberalism, Temper-
ance, Peace,—-Love now tabooed & out-
lawed by "cultured" devilism is the com-
ing ruler in human affairs. Polygamy in
Utah; social evil in Boston & New York;
50 million Americans dogged by Com-
stock's lascivious espionage; boys & girls
meeting, unseen by mamma-papa eyes;
herds of married, de married & unmarried-
ists out 011 affinity hunt; priests arrested
by "scandals" yet alarmed at divorce;
reformers, philosophers, moralists drift-
ing without rudder or compass of princi-
ple,—on all sides old systems break be-
fore the rising, positive royal force, Free
Love.

Humanhood, fraternal race-interests,
the tie that binds Soul to Over-soul, finite

to Infinite Reality; divine attraction, im-
mortal friendship,—all essential, honest,
onward Life is meanly, murderously as-
sailed by marriage:

"Fleecy locks and dark complexion
Cannot forfeit Nature's claim;

Skins may differ but affection

Dwells in white and black the same."

Yet, armed with whips, branding-irons,
bloodhounds, rifles, bowie-knives; backed
by chu« ch-state support, slavelords said
their system was the corner-stone of
Order ! So now forbidding Morality,
hostile to Progress, the assassination of
Liberty Reason Love, the brazen usurpa-
tion which exists only by suppressing
dissent enterprise affection,—marriage
claims to be the source of purity & vir-
tue! By it wives are sworn to slay girls
& women outside the ferocious conspiracy;
in it men are treacherous husbands in
proportion as they dare to be honest, hu-
mane citizens; making discussion of sex-
questions criminal it appoints the ignor-
ant, vulgar, lewd, savage monster, Corn-
stock, supervisor of opinions & morals!
Yet jocund, vigorous, defiant Love lives
to rid earth of this pernicious relic ol
superstition; the day dawns when Chris-
tians & even Infidels may be as consider-
ate of human-race-culture as they are now
of begetment of pigs & cats. As anti-
slaveryism "floated further 011 the hisses
of mobs than on the accents of the most
eloquont oratory," so each "suppression"N
givs Free Love new vigor. Civilization
below the stomach as well as above it;
impulse to acquire & impart knowledge
of ourselves; revival of ability to reason
together; self-help lending a hand to
other-hood, the more we giv the more we
liuv; minds informed to tell bodies what
& what not to do; the ecstatic mutualism
of sex-ui:ion; devotion to home, family,
mindful uf others' needs of them; Per-
sonal Liberty to recognize, enjoy & utilize
what is best in us, according to others
equal right,—this is the Moral Integrity,
the honest heaven Free Lovers work to
build 011 earth.

The little breeze at Concord, Mass., over alleged
immorality in Mark Twain's latest book has swollen
into a blast in Boston and swept from the Public
Library the works of Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and
lialzac. This is too sweeping altogether; Fielding
was the admitted master and model of Thackeray,
though lie builded largely upon Balzac, the works
of Smollett and Sterne are English classics without
which lio library, public or private, is complete.

up and wiio are old enough to^aului«nDest literature
111 their own language will be benefited rather than
harmed by the books which the fastidious Library
Trustees hav tabooed. The Committee must know-
considerably less of human nature than they do of
the tabooed books if thty do not know that their
prohibitory action will wonderfully stimulate the
reading of the same; the Boston booksellers no
doubt wilt duly appreciate the same prohibition.—
JV. Y. World.___

Sheol is a Hebrew word, meaning the home of
departed spirits; the substitution of it in the new
version for hell, a place of punishment, shows a great
change within the last quarter of a century. Hell
was demanded then by the entire Christian church ;
whoever presumed to modify its cruel character was
a heretic fit for the stake. Now the correct transla-
tion is not only acquiesced in without a murmur, but
is actually welcomed as an aid to the Christian re-
ligion, being more acceptable to the people. Is it
not evident that this change of opinion is the result
of new light furnished by Spiritualism? The unvary-
ing testimony of spirit communication is that the
other lile is a place of disembodied spirits; that
there, as here, there are all degrees of happiness &
misery. This fact has been so often set forth in spirit
communications that it is now generally accepted, &
although the church rejects Spiritualism, yet the
leaven of Spiritualism has permeated the church &
is fast reforming it, having made possible even the
reformation of the Bible, on which Christianity is
founded.—Carrier Dove.fiterntnre.

Published by Angela T. Heywood.
WORlT OFFICE. PRINCETON, MASS.

~THB FREE LOVE BUREAU_AQBT"

Els where Mr. Overtoil's letter shows
the tinge of despair which, in weak mo-
ments, sometimes clouds Hope & bewild-
ers Purpose in the brightest & best of
earth; a born genius, rich in experience,
conscientious even to intellectual suicide,
wayfared by poverty, Mr O.'s stalwart
self-sentence recalls Loyola, St. Francis,
Xavier *»nd other mendicant saints -

"Whose russet rajjs hung fluttering in the wind,"—

standing just now in sympathetic misery
with one of the greatest Americans, J<>-
siah Warren, who once, in a spasm of
illogic, wrote.—

Among the 25 who tried the experiment of "Free
Love" in New York and elsewhere two men shot
themselves, one hung himself, one died in an insane
asylum, another di< d of venerial disease, & another
told me that he would sooner put an end to his life
th-in to live in that way; he and seven-1 others went
back und^rjhe common marriage system.

A sad passage,—sad as record of forhtrn
hours in the life of one of the largest,
clearest Minds that ever walked, a Divi-
inly, among lesser men; sad as showing
inability to apply his own principles to
some domestic problems; sad as reveal-
ing the murderous, ghastly sway of "law
& order" crushing out redeeming inspira-
tions & making even Christ s curse the
grandest impulses of our divine destiny.
When himself, Warren wrote—

Individuality as the principle of order an 1 repose
is directly opposed to promiscuity. . Who does :ioi
wish to preserve his liberty to }let according to the
peculiarities or Individualities ol future cases, sir.
in judgment on the merits of each, and to change <>r
vary, lrom time to time, with new developments
and increasing knowle. ge? F>,ch individual being
thus at liberty at all times would b** Soveuigx of
Himself. JYo Greater amount of Liberty can be.
conceived—any fess would not be Liberty. Libektv

defined and limited by others is slavkuy.

True then, now & foie\er; the deepest,
highest, only irr* sistib/e law of Life, Lovk
makes each person "Judgment Day" to
self & others, ever evolving the indes-
tructible fact that Liberty is the right and
necessity of all,—not Ike privileged freak
of one or more Personal intelligence &
sanity, Love incarnates Discretion, mak-
ing all animated by it Special Providen-
ces to assure fruitful Growth, Harmony
Peace, wherever social freedom is realized.

Sex-Love implies two or more, necessi-
i tating observance of Liberty a* a princi-
ple; when the chronic nuisance, marriage
goes, Love will be seen to be what it
ever is—essential obligation, forever
revolutionary yet always conservative.
A strait infidel, coffined in science Over-
ton, discussing Love, is as "free" from'
liberty & logic as Barry is when on his
temperance-drunk, called prohibition.
The bedevilment comes in because alleged
persons try to live in conventionalism,
rather than in Truth, in the shell rather
than the egg of things. Jealously & sel-
fishness at one's own risk & cost, are be-
neficent forces; those fools enough to sup-
pose they can afford to sacrifice or sub-
ject Yours to Mine; those ignorant that
ideal unity, bonds of Air are stronger
than nuptial knots tied by God, minister,
or magistrate—of such is the kingdom of
hell, fuel for fleshly heat, marriage,

The green-eyed monster which doth mock

The meat it feeds on.

Whatever rule of life you may be up or
down to; whether you come head, or
penis-womb first into the realm of ideas,
the generous impulse, of which giving

doth not impoverish nor withholding en-
rich, Love alone developes persons and
assures moral order. Because it rests on
inspiration rather than on bayonets poly-
gamy defies & conquers government; here
& there a priestess of polyandry illus-
trates womb-supremacy, as polygamy is
penis-absolutism. If we live less in flesh
more in Reason, in intelligent mutualism,
freedom of one assured in the welfare of
all transcends collective despair called
marriage; tragic feud & fatal waste which
smite those who seek or accept physical
indulgence, heedless of moral obligation,
will live only as frightful relics of bar-
barous times Its doctrines typed in
Cupids Yokes which municipal, state &
national governments combined are
poweriess to suppress; not here to argue
or declaim but as a fixed, growingfact; an
exponent of Sex Mutualism widely based
on solid ground of body uses, yet grasp-
ing heaven in ideal facts, the Free Love
Bureau represents the highest philosophy,
the purest religion, the wisest economy
domestic Endeavor has yet experienced.

caching perso^^-theiti Natural Rights &
inculcating consequent, associative Duty;
already taking or keeping divorce cases
out of the tragic horrors of courts we
bring order out of world-wide chaos
which marriage engenders; rejecting the
superstitious severities of Shakerism; ig-
noring stately heism which devours
women, feeds on breaking hearts in rrio-
nogornic & polygamic hells; irrespective
of supervising priests & magistrates who
hav i o virtue to spare, the Sexes, exper-
iencing religions Liberty in Iheir own
Right, are coming to know each other
mentally, morally & physically in Person-
al Acquaintance from head to foot.
Wedded by attraction as Reason informs
& Conscience approves,—the confluent
energy of sexed-beings rejoicing in vig-
orous,ecstatic Use; obedient to the Beau-
tiful Necessity, to Law firm & elemental
as what holds Ocean in its bed & planets
in their courses, persons begin to live as
they step within the transcendent possi-
bilities which Free Love unfolds.

The Free Love Bureau rejoices in stead-
ily incoming, new members; in God's old
F. L B

Jacob served seven years tor tiachel; and they
seemed an to him but a few days, for the love he had
to her —Gen 29, 20.

Jacob got her—after God & the old man
Laban decoyed Leah to "know" him &
so-snared Jacob into many more years of
hired-mans hip through the "charm" of
woman; the Princeton F. L. B. stoops to
none of the questionable devices which
God winked at in high old-Bible times.

J. !l. Heywood, 50 Harvard St., Boston:—
Hope you are ail well; this world can only be
made perfect by each & every individual one
always dun;.' what is right and no wrong what-
ever. A- we came in, one by one, each with a
character ol ins or her own, so we go out, fitted
to enj >v value received & eon fen ed. . .Years
ago 1 discovered that I am not wise enough to
iry to p. sc ui> the Almighty by way of orayer.
Youl-s for all Truth.

Fkee Love Hukeau to facilitate Acquaintance
Enterprise and Association of the Sexes on the basis
of Equity, Reason, Liberty and Moral obligation as
revealed in Personal Choice, rather than imposed
by collective nescience. Registration fee $1. All
communications confidential. Address Lock Box
C Princeton, Mass,

Knowledge is the conscious conformity of
one's cognitions with the verity of what is cog-
nized.—A. E. Giles.

Love, that is but an episode in the life of man
is the entire story of the life of vfnmxn.—DeStael.

When two beings are united by love all social
conventionalities are suspended.—Balzac.fiwflet gttemtnre.

Published by Angj^a T. Heywood.

WORD OFFICE. PRINCETON. M.4SS

HOME-BUILDING—THE FREE-LOVE BUREAUr

All things are possible, after a good
night's sleep; room to venture, food & rai-
ment, where to rest,—these are everybod-
y-life needs. To beget domestic enter-
prise, found families, assure homos is the
initiative aim of Wordncratio endeavor;
how to build on imperishable foundations
of soul-entity, of real Being; how to sense
& serve central principles of Liberty & Or-
der, embody right assisting, slum wrong
resisting Ideal Purpose which N«<ices de-
sires of all in the destiny of one—this is
the tune set us to play. As music is nev
er sick, tired or discouraged, so unseen
yet infinite, eternal forces supporting,
guiding persons say "As thy day so shall
thy strength be". Electric unity arrived
i»_ Love; personal impulse judging- lor it-
self what is right, proving nil things to
reproduce better than what is good: indi-
vidual faith, the way truth & life of col-
lective fact; girl & boy, man & woman,
you & me, two in one-sexed-life, acquaint-
ed & confluent from head to foot.,—here
is spiritual ecstasy, fleshed divinity evi-
dencing essential, absolute verity in
the Nature of Things!

Religious Liberty, unperverted Con-
science, Soul Sovereignly, wi iing from
church-state interference, by ages <>f trag-
ic struggle, now works to assure Free
dom of Speech-Press Mails,—nyht of
Private Judgment & Aa^uciatv n in Mor-
als. Abolishing government, assuring
Society, Life of life, God of (*< d, Love,
the all in all of human destiny, at hist
transcends conventional impertinence in
constructive achievment The dream «.f
poets, The Word of prophets, th - faith of
martyrs culminate in face-t«>-fa'-<. dis-
course of two persons ol opp->siie sex. on
the origin & processes of Life & tin ir
creative power to enlarge & gloiily it.
Long enuf hav priestst & magistrates hin-
dered progress, depraved pa^inii &
marred sex-action by vicious authority.
The arrival of the Free-L"ve Bureau is
the departure & death of marriage. C«»n-
ception-preventitives, abortion, infanti-
cide, Onanism, rape-in-wcdh ek-oeds,
sickening-sacrilige-in divorcecours, burn-
ed o ii t—v 1 go r 5 at«hes- 1—be.oitv blasted
hopes,—all theghaMly fruits of marriage
go, when the sexes meet on the plane < f
Liberty, Reason & Moral Obligation

Incarnating generous iceling. dear-
eyed impulse one repels assault on aii' tlier
regardless of cost to himself; if that other
be a girl or woman all that's noble i L m
sides with her us. intrusion; every act of
true lovers is a bond for their mutual
good-behavior & the basis of social evolu-
tion. To initiate & promote acquaintance,
the names & residences of all existing
members of the F. L B. are given to each
newcomer; while all conference i.< private
(ic confidential; if church, state or any other
enemy of the Natural Right .»f Association
asserted, invades members in the exercise
thereof, it is a part of our public duty to
defend them. Persons capable of making
a sex-contract are, when wiser by experi-
ence, moK lly able to dissolve that con-
tract. But, aware that continuity is de-
sirable & separation or change costly; that
children, naturally, are the fruit of love &
the pride < f parents; that expenditure oi

sex-power in abortive indulgence is hurt-
ful,—experience promotes sobriety, finds
moral ties in magnetic exchange, puts
bodies in charge of minds housed therein,
assuring personal right & collective-well-
being in the Rational Society whose corn-
er stone is Liberty & whose crowning
glory is Love. If married or free persons
Conflict we advise them to settle their
quarrels outside of courts, & will do what
we can to help them. Many lovers mar-
ry, not because they desire to, but because
they feel unable to suffer persecution in-
cident to tree, sex-life. While persons
must take whatever path seems to them-
selves best, the staying g owing power of
the F L. B (whose steadily increasing
membership reside in many States & Can-
da) abides in Personal Choice, the vindi-
cation ot which a.s aright, is our pleasing
duty, & the incarnation of which, in fact,
is the guarantee of human redemption
from depraving evil. While gov't, VVest,
develops p. ~.Tiiij TflYpoITuc \ iun:nce,
vindictive persecution, East, rises many-
mansioned Growth, the garnered fruit of
p ist service helping present skill & peren-
ni 11 inspiration prepare domestic welcome
s t\ ing to I ntelligence & Character Who-
soever will let her to him come".

Ballou—Noykb—When the Puritan scheme of
til ocracy was n enaced by the growth of dissent,
the struggle httvv« en town & parish arose in Milford
as all over Massachusetts, though the parish tri-
umphed, as was not always the case. These inci-
dent, & the ripple of disturbance caused in White-
field'.- day by the inroads of unlearned, & lay mor-
al t» achers upon the preserves of the regularly esiab-
lished clergy, are pretty much all the Instorain can
dwell upon caressingly. Those who hav studied t e
liie.ru'ure ol our American attempts at socialism
know Adin Ballou, as the founder in 1841-42 of one
Oi the most remaikabie, the Hopedale Co nmunity.
P ndiiig the pubiieati n of a full account ot this ex-
periment, liegivs h suflicient sketch of it .< records
w.th ait bitterness its failure, which can never cease
t» be u grit t to him. His own explanation is that
he his thirty associates expected too much too
s >on ; that they were probably not fitted lor the en-
terprise ; they founded a model town or precinct
(llopedale is a part ol Milford), but the community
us such broke down. He givs its constitution, which
exiiiited ol all adheients a beliel in the religion of
J es11Chi i-st as set torth in the .Bible—not merely in
immoralities, but in its divinely appointed and in-
spired oiigin. This was equally the requirement of
Noyes in his Oneida Communiy, who nevertheless
drew uomth" I'.ibie un economical po'it ind, & sex-
uii' policy differing entirely irom that hvd down by
Ballon us the result ol ins study of the same author-
ity. The latter thinks i he com-nunity should have
been p eeedeo by & grow o it of a ciimch; this was
Noyes's idea of the way m winch his sort of < om-
munity was to multiply.— I he Nation.

JUiFOUL tlrs 111;i-.'e: , <riviiiipher, compieiol*, dicta-
tor, Emperor, a 1-powerlul, there arises a solitary
man, a wanderer, desponed, ruined, prostrate, pro-
scribed, and a tacks linn Louis Napoleon has ten
thousand c nin ns and five hundred thousand sol-
diers; the writ' r has his pen and 1ns inkstand; the
writer is nothing; he is a gram of dnst, he is a nhad-
ow, he is an exile without a reluge, he is a vagrant
wilh-ait a passport ; but he lias by his side and light-
ing with iinu two powers - Right, which is invinci-
ble, and jLYuth, which is immortal.— Victor Hugo,
in 18-32

Wm. T. Co-tig v.\, 78 0-born Sc., Montreal, Can-
ada:— Events are crowding labor-slaves to action;
vvoi kaig ( eople arc waking up to sense need ol
coiiefcite*! agitation to assure recognition ol their
right*. . . Compulsory vaccination indict torture
& tyranny, is an intolerable iulngjaicnt oil p■•r.sou-
al light & private judgment.

llhrmks 8. Heywood, Princeton:—Mr. Blaine
may hav -quare sense about annual elections but
he i • two laced on Temperance; when he run for
President, Puck pictured one hide of hiin saying
to Maine "Down with the liquor-traffic;" the
other side ol him held up a glass of beer saying
"To my New Jersey friends."

Fkkk Lovi; BUKEAU to i icilitate Acquaintai.ce,
Ent ei prists and Association of ! he « on ine basis
oi Equ.iy, lieu-oil, Lib rty and :>i i;ti olihga'ion as
revealed i>i Pers ual <Ju -ice, ra> il r in ,up <m-<1
by collective nescience. j-i.-g,.-strut io t !•••• >j?l \ll
< o um.iu:c itions confidential. Address Lock Box
l'i luce on, -Mass.Published by Angela T. Heywood.
14 lie either fears bis fate too much,

Or his deserts are small,

Who fears to put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all."

Landlordism must be wiped from the
face of the earth or the people cannot
have their rights. If the people have not
the land they can have nothing.—Sacra-

memo Bee.

In this country labor is king, but the
king must think. The salvation of our
republic and the welfare of future gener-
ations do not depend so much upon the
wisdom of our statesmen as on the com-
mon sense of men and women who think
while they work.—Marion ( Va.) Jvurnal.

Personal Sovereignty, a right inherent
in every human being ; to be exercised at
all times, in all places and under all cir-
cumstances In woman and in man the
basis of all law, of all order, and of all
liberty; which cannot be attacked with-
out injustice, nor surrendered without
dishonor.—Robert W. Hume.

Voltaire said, "the more marriages
there are in a community, the better for
its morals and happiness." Probably he
meant to confine this remark to sensible
people who correctly understand them-
selves and the marriage institution; for
really, if we may be allowed to judge by
the great number of the "unequally
yoked," their constant quarrels, and nu-
merous divorces, we might almost be
justified in concluding with the social
reformer, Mr. E. II. Heywood, (sentenced
to Dedham Jail two years for teaching
physiology in a manner above the com-
prehension of Judge Clarke and an Ortho-
dox jury,) that marriage persef or of itself
considered, is a bad, wrong, dangerous,
and an unhappy domestic institution.
How true is the old proverb—"Marry in
haste and repent at leisure!" It is the
haste with which marriage is oftentimes
formed that makes the trouble that soon
follows, simply because the parties were
ignorant of each other's real characters.
The familiar anecdote of the two Hibern-
ians who met on Lhe highway and thought
they knew each other when they didn't,
is in point here. One said, "I thought
it was you," and the other said, "I
thought it was you, aud faith it's neither
of us!" So marriage oftentimes proves,
when the honeymoon is over, and imagi-
nation gives place to realities, that there
was a mistake somewhere, and that par-
ties who on their wedding day supposed
they knew each other, become convinced
after awhile, to their life-long sorrow,
that " it is neither of us "—Investigator—
WORD OFFICE, PRINCETON, MASS.|][itemtnre.

Published by Angela T. Hey wood.

WORD OFFICE, PRINCETON, MASS.

44So you are the new girl," said a boarder to
the new waiter ; 44by what name are we to call
you?" "Pearl," paid the maid, with a saucy
toss of her head. 44Oh!" asked the smart board-
er, 44ara you the pe^rl of great price?" "No;"
I'm the pearl that was cast before swine."
There was a long silence, broken only by the
buzz of flies in the milk pitcher.— Ex.

Wendell Phillips and the Rights of Debt-
ors.—In its issue of March 7 the Boston Herald
reports Mrs. Livermore as saying, in her lecture
on Wendell Phillips:—

Of all his once large fortune Mr. Phillips left but
$25,000. The day before he died he burned all the
notes he held against others—a small fortune in it-
self—remarking: "My executors might make troub-
le for these people. I will make it sure that they
shall not do so."

It is a settled principle of labor reform, widely
accepted by growing numbers of intelligently-
conscientious people, tha^ggrgajfeuTIefcCpaid
once injfeinterest. is thereby justly can-
"celled; & that there is no 44equity," no property
claim, defensible in law or morals, afterwards.
From 1865, when cnattel-slavery ended with the
war, Mr. Phillips was an earnest student of the
labor question. I infer that the significant &
logically prophetic act which the Herald reports
was a deliberate recognition of one of the funda-
mental equities of industrial progress. If Mr.
Phillips burned those notes, in order to emanci-
pate debtors from unjust claims upon them, the
act will be a star in the crown of his glory which
will outshine many other luminous events in his
wonderful career as an oratorical reformer. Its
royal integrity & beneficent service to human
kind cannot be overestimated. E. H. Heywood.
Princeton, Mar. 9, Y. L. 13.—Boston Common-
wealth Mar. 14, 1885.

"Free Speech," Mr. Hey wood's defense in the
United States Court, is soon to appear in a new &
improved edition with a report of his defense in the
State Court, when H. L. Nelson, Esq.. who volun-
teered to argue a motion to quash the indictment,
"showed that it did not fully & plainly set forth to
whom the articles complained of were delivered,
the manner of distribution, or that the articles were
obscene, or that the defendant knew that they were,
or that he intended to corrupt youth." To sustain
the demand that all these matters should be present-
ed in the indictment, various authorities were quot-
ed; &, as Mr. Heywood remarks, Judge Pitman's
rulings were "liberal & sensible, indicating that if
the case had been pushed to trial before him, his rul-
ings would hav ranked him with Lowell, Nelson &
Treat, rather than with Clark, Aldrich & Benedict."
Mr. Heywood was particularly fortunate in having
so liberal a Judge as Mr. Pitman, who said "that
the rights ol the majority ot well-to-do popular peo-
ple were rarely imperiled; that Courts exist to pro-
tect the rights of minorities, of unpopular citizens;"
in having the backing of his townspeople, who not
only petitioned the Court t<v dismiss the case, but
also or^ani^ed a USiense Committee for the purpose
of bringing every possible influence to bear to pro-
tect Mr. Heywood & his family; & last but not least,
the r ' ot little young Heywood, Angelo Tilton by
name, vho proved of great value to the case prior to
& soon after his birth. Mr. Heywood was being
sorely pressed by the District Attorney, who seemed
to be bound to hav him convicted by a hasty trial,
while the merciful judge was disposed to adjourn
from time to time in consideration of Mrs. Hey wood's
condition. Then the good Lord removed the District
Attorney Blackmer, the one who succeeded him
seemed, at least, a little less determined to bear off
a scalp as evidence of his ability as a prosecuting of-
ficer. Thus, at every stage of the proceeding, Mr.
Heywood had what the world calls good luck, but at
the outset it certainly looked as if he was going
again behind prison bars for simply doing what Vie
conscientiously believed to be his duty. All that
was asked by the first prosecuting attorney in the
case was that Mr. Heywood would agree "to stop &
stop at once, distributing such tracts & papers;" but
Mr. Heywood replied, "that is what Popes said to
Luther, what the Stuarts said to Milton & Sidney,
what George III. said to our ancestral rebels, what
slave-holders said to Garrison & John Brown." Mr.
Heywood,'s pamphlet, "Free Seeech" with the addi-
tional matter, is a valuable document for all who
are disposed to look into the operations of what has
justly been called the American Inquisition ,& of
especial value to those who may be set upon by the
hounds of the Vice Society for the queer crime of
giving utterance to honest opinion.—Foote's Health
Monthly.BBASOITS WHY.

During the Autumn of 187B, while Mr. Hey-
wood was forcibly held captive by a kidnapping
regime of Christian despotism, prefaced by the
Brooklyn Vice Society in the Comstock move, 1
was constrained by the frequent inquiry of others
to ask different persons if they would give me writ-
ten reasons, as they stood in their minds, " Why"
Ezra H. Heywood was in Dedham Jail. Since the
replies are ualuable contributions to the literature
of the conflict, and will help to keep highly in sight,
before the mind's eye of the people, the grave issues
involved in the rash deeds done, the solving of
which will produce moral and social unity in the
political realm, I shall print these replies with kin-
dred facts, from time to time, as follows:

Angela T. Heywood.

Dear Mr. Heywood : Why are you in Ded-
haiu Jail? Not heetuise yoa have Vviitien an ob-
scene book, or sent an obscene book through the
mail. T1 e j rttext that you have is but a false
ai d wicked pretext for persecuting you. An
apostle of equity and the friend of the people,
and therefore, a dread and an incarnate menace
to the rule of monopoly and class extortion, you
became obnoxious. Your Word had gone out
into all the world, and the people were giving
ear unto it. They saw by your side Moses and
Solon, who denounced usury and wiped out all
mortgages and set the people free from the ex-
tortion of bond-holders and bankers—Lyeurgus
and Aristotle who said that usury was robbery ;
and Jesus, who scourged the money changers
from the temple as thieves ind robbers. You
said with Jesus that all days were made for man,
and you redeemed Sunday, that thereby you
might redeem the people frcin the religion of
mammon, on whose altars are weekly offered as
sacrifices, the rights, interests and welfare, the
bodies and souls of the people.

Ten years of such evangelizing in New Eng-
land were bringing forth abundant fruits. The
enormities of our organized social extortions
were exposed. The eyes of the multitude had
been touched by the divine finger of truth and
| were opened to see the astounding monopolies

which enmeshed the people. Wherever they
looked they beheld a wall of separation rise be-
tween capital and labor. Land monopoly, mo-
nopoly of machinery, of money, locomotion and
exchange ; and lastly the monopoly of labor and
sex rights stirred the whole people with new
social ideas. It was clear, a moral and social
revolution was to come. Ezra Hoar Heywood, a
radical non-resistant peace man, championed the
rights of the people, with that divine audacity
with which truth always inspires heroic souls,
and with a persistency which knows no falter-
ing. Gradually those of the labor-reformers,
who at first dissented from his notions about in-
terest, profit, and the law of prices, and who
had compromised with the money monger on the
greenback and the 3.55 inter-convertible bond,
began to ask themselves why the people sfroTill
pay 3.65 per cent, interest on the greenback,
when it cost less than one per cent, to issue it.
Swift as thought, they btigan to say that inter-
est on money is labor's " primal, eldest curse
and this very year which sees you in jail, tech-
nically for sending obscene books through the
mail but really because of your opinions and in-
fluence as a social reformer, se^s the greenback
host clamoring for free money and numbering
its millions ; and for the first time in the world
is heard the cry of the people for " fiat " money
—money at c >st—the abolition of usury. See-
ing the coming revolutioif, plundering capital,
aristocracy, cultured and respectable imbecility,
took panic ; social heresy must be put down—an
example must he made to awe the indignant peo-
ple into submission. If there were no law by
which to convict you for uttering your views on
monetary and other economic heresies, you must
be convicted of a crime you did not commit, in
order, as the shameless press puts it, to silence
the pestilent " enemy of property, the church, the
State, and social order." Had you never written
any other book than " Cupid's Yokes," nor
spoken against the consecrated right of capital
to plunder labor, you would not now he mewed
in Dedham Jail. Faithfully,—John Orvis, Bos-
ton, Mass.

OWFJCE. Princeton, Mass., Aug. 27th, 1879.THE AMERICAN LABOR REFORM LEAGUE.

The Sixteenth Annual Convention of the
American Labor Reform League meets at 141
Eighth §treet, New York, Sunday May 2nd, fore-
noon and afternoon. E. H. Heywood, Secretary,
presents the following Resolutions:—

1.	Resolved:—That since association is blind &
purposless until individual enterprise, personal initi-
ative shows what to do & how to do it, mere organ-
ization is little or no help to free Labor, from its hy-
dra-headed master, capital, unless it sees & accepts
the fact that inter est is theft, rent robbery, <fcthat pro-
fit, in all 01 her forms ot speculative gain, is legal or il-
licit plunder.

2.	Resolved:—That, while we rejoice in growing
Sense of Equity & fraternal purpose apparent in
Knights of Labor, their million membership will con-
tinue to be tools ot, if not fellow-conspirators with
capital, until they resolutely proclaim the truths of
Natural Justice, that debts paid once in usury are le-
gally concelled; that houses paid for once in rent be-
long to tenants; & that all titles to property, beyond
the cost of improvements, are morally void.

3.	Resolved:—That voicing no class interest, si-
ding with neither laborers or capitalists, but incar-
nating right of Service to opportunity & reciprocity,
wenncHhe root ofwivaf-€«rses ss-w&fe-miilistmxires
& tramps, the mainspring of Labor's subjection to
vested interests coiled alike in serving John Smith's
wish & in ruling Jay Gould's greed to hav income
without work,—making every person, animated
thereby, an intentional if not an actual robber,

4.	Resolved:—That Free money, free land, free
trade,—rights to produce & exchange values, with-
out restriction or robbery, are superior to all laws,
constitutions, creeds, codes or institutions abridging
them; that while titles to property in land, mines, for-
ests, water-courses, are as destitute of a moral basis as
were claims to negro-slaves, the right of Labor to its
own, its right to ail improvements is unquestionable,
—capital as snch having no rights that anybody is
bound to respect.

5.	Resolved :—That the power of capital, by tax-
ation, to take money & men, irresponsibly, is the
crowning phase of financial & political usurpation
against which all honest people should be insurgent;
tnat in cooperative industry, domestic enterprise in
home-building love & parentage, striking revolt or
constructive affirmation, we favor voluntaryism vs.
government, all citizen effort thru abolition of church
& state "law-and-order," to work out their own sal-
vation m useful activities.

6.	Resolved :—That service for service which con-
stitutes trade, the just exchange of equ valents which
leaves all property in the hands of Labor its creator,
is a step towards stronger personality wherein wo-
man, every wise the natural equal of man, will quick-
en him to nobler destinv in power to irresistibly a<t
on o: hers generously ; that, conquering all things,
Labor may win all people to incarnate societal felic-
ity wherein supply ir stmctively relieves want, giving
doth not impoverish, nor withholding enrich.

7- Resolved:—That while Labor has just cause
of revolution, its power to get & hold its own appears
noi so much in destructive violence as in creative
ability to tran rend legalized robbery; that thru Mu-
tual Banks enabling citizens to issue their own mon-
ey & thereby abolish interest; ending rent by taking
# holding land as their rightful means ol subsistence;
by judicious use of the boycott vs wrong, m resolute
incarnation of Right, helping ail & hindering none,
will we achieve emancipation.

8. Resolved:—That by welcome to the Chinese,
repeal of tariff and "obscenity" statutes, of prohibi-
tory-liquor-license laws; as personal examples of
Liberty proving its intelligence and honesty in asser-
ting the equal right of all others to be free; by no
narrow-minded, restrictive, clanish policy, but in
large-hearted purpose which sides with he weak and
defenseless, ^hall we hav health, temperance, peace,
competence,—Civilization unmarred bv vice, pov»
erty, idleness or crime.N. S. LABOR EEFOEM LEA GUIS.

The Fifteenth Annual Convention of the New
England Labor Reform League meets in Science
Hall, 712 Washington St. Boston, Sunday and
M.indiy Jan. 28, 29, three sessions daily; E. H.
Hey wood, Secretary presents the following
Resolutions:—

1. Rt'sol ved :—That since human life is generated, born
& reared by Service ; since th j fruit of effort, property is na-
turally & inevitably perishable, requiring constant nourish-
ment from it* parent, Labor, to preserve it,—increase, or liv-
ing jmtly without work, is absurdly impossible; hence all
who do not subsist on t!ieir own earnings, or live upon chari-
tv must either beg, starve or steal.

2 Resol ved That the claim of propertied people t®
live on an "income," without consuming the principal, to eat
the cake & still hav it, is the old robber claim of slaveholders
that men may justly take, by force, the property of others,
returning no equivalent therefor ; hence we work for the ab-
olition of interest, rent & every other legalized device wher-
by Capital plunders Labor.

3.	Resolved: -ThatNo Rent which will be invincible when
flrinly proclaimed in Ireland, allied to No-Interest. No-Taxes,
is the sign by which Labor h to conquer, the world over; that
since all persons hav as clear Nature I Xight to land, for a means
of subsistence, as to air 8c sunlight, rent, like interest, has
no justification except in the power of the strong to defraud
the weak; ft when tenant masses in cities claim their own it)
homesteads, which thev hir paid for in rent, they will giv to
other victims of profit robbery a liberating lesson in Natural
Equity.

4.	Resolved:—That since the Ragbaby. (Paper vs inflated
specie, Credit vs. robbery,) is a child of this League we re-
sent effort to make it synonymous with exclu-
sive government currency which is suicidal
monoply; that we urge business men, women & other
working people, n g tdless of hostile statutes, to start Mutu-
al Banks, incarnate natural laws of supply & demand where-
by they can aboiish interest, providing their own money at
their own risk & cost

5.	Resolved:—Ti l it effort to prevent or regulate the sale
of books, spirits, syringe*, lottery-tickets, fire-arms, on the
impertinent prete ise that some people may make bad use of
them, is mischievous & u iwarrmtable interference with
Natural Rights in Tr ide; th it believing in unrestricted ex-
change of commodities, leaving all tr> jud^e for themselves
what is right & b«st, we demtnd the immediate, uncondi-
tional repeal of tariff, license, prohibitory & obscenity " laws "
as opposed to Liberty, hostile to Morality u invasive of com-
mon rights of producers & consumer*.

6.	Resolved:—Th t by incarniting Personal Liberty to
its utmost verge of application one thereby morally binds
himself never to invade the equal liberty of others; *hat, if
free to do wrong at his own risk & cost, he therein is blessed
with full power to suffer the results of wrong doing, & profit
by his own blunders; Individual Sovereignty & Coat the
Limit of Price.—the two phases of our Faitli make its purpose
at once essentially radical yet severely conservative; for, in
relenting legalized evil we pnt moral law against
mistaken statutes, knowing that " right will come up-
permost & justice be doue.''

7.	Resolved:—That since begetting & bearing children
are services to Society which, beyond all others, affect its na-
ture & destiny, discretion in maternity, the right & duty of
Woman to prevent conception, if she thinks best to do so,
& the vending of means to accomplish it are preeminently
labor questions; hence we resent all restriction* on Free In-
quiry into the Sex Question, rejoicing In Woman's revolt
agaiust Congressional effort to supervise her maternal func-
tion, * make her person a sluiceway for irresponsible in-
dulgenee.

8* Resolved:—That bv adding one word to Comstock
statutes Capitalists will have United-Scates-government pow-
er to suppress labor reform k greenback publications as in-
cendiary literature, aud fulfill the sanguine prophecy of
Charles Sumner that our streets will flow with blood before
the equities we urge ar^ recognized; that, however citizens
differ in opinion they should all exercise their
right to hav opinions* rise unitedly against contin-
aed persecution of Free Lovers and stand together for Free
Speech, Free Prees, aud Free Maiis.THE N. E. ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE.

The Eighth Annual Convention of the New
England Anti-Death League meets in Chapel
Hall, 820 Washington St., Boston, Sunday Mar.
7th, forenoon, afternoon, evening. E. H. Hey-
wood, Secretary, presents the following Resolu-
tions:—

1.	Resolved:—That the power of spirit entities,
souls in women & men to survive body-death is
proved by steadily accumulating, irrefutable evi-
dence; that intuitive being, Mind, looking before &
after, is the real person, the special Providence ani-
mating each individual destiny,—the Whence, What
and Whither of life being forever profoundly inter-
esting questions to all really intelligent people.

2.	Resolved:—That impulse, duty & necessity to
Judge for ourselves what is right, to prove all things
§ reproduce better than what is good are inseparable
from enlightened being: hence Freedom of Con-
science in Morals is the culmination of Religious
Liberty guaranteed in growing civilization, and real-
ized in the higher Law of Personal Choice,
assuring fruitful enterprise in citizen activity unmo-
lested by governmental supervision.

3.	Efsolved:—That Love, Labor and Association,
the three necessaries of Lite, the trinity of prosper-
ous endeavor imperatively urge us to improvise our
motion of growth and means of defence; that viola-
tions of statutes against "adultery", 1 'fornication",
"obscenity", lotteries, rumse)ling, polygamy and
other constructive crimes, where there is no inva-
sion of person or property, are assertions of Natural
Right, effort to punish which is malicious cruelty;
hence citizens should be Law unto them-
selves,—respecting the equal rights of others to
sell-rule and thereby maintaining collective order.

4.	Resolved:—Th^t, building on indestructible
foundations of Soul Liberty, we carry the purpose
of Roger Williams, the immortal Messiah of modern
religious freedom, into domestic, societal action;
and, assuring Justice to Labor, Woman's Rights,
Temperance, Peace,—every beneficent aspiration in
one word Love, we discard superstitious, intolerant
usurpation chronic in Christian chronology, dating
from that analytic, comprehensive, and pregnantly
creative epoch in human Progress, the origin of the
New England Free Love League.

5.	Resolved:—That, while discoursing on high
themes of philosophic purpose, formulating the ethi-
cal destiny of human beings here, & beyond second
firth called death, ideal faith lives in concrete fact,
so far as, transcending intere.it, rent, marriage, tax-
es, government, we personally realize Natural Right
to land m usufruct, free exchange in products of
Service, iruittul domestic Love and irrepressible
Truth in advancing tendencies.

6.	Resolved:—That the spectacle of local gov't,
backed by British empire whose morning drum-beat
circles the globe, unable to control or check state-
socialist anarchy in London, Feb. 8th, reveals start-
ling nearness of times when Mayors, Governors.
Presidents, Queens will be fugitives on the highways,
fleeing not from wrath to come t ut, from revolution
here; that adjustment of labor problems nnd kindred
issues now up for settlement, imperatively requires
the exclusion of interest, rent, taxes and every oth-
er legalized fraud, from collective effort to protect
life and property against invasion, before fundamen-
tal conditions of order and harmony can even begin

to prevail; •• -............ *	• ' *

7.	Resolved:—That as arbitrary, irresponsible
habit, legalized in marriage, hinders domestic thrift
and felicity, so governmental riot will make desola-
ting havoc, world-wide, unless Natural Rights of
persons and justly earned rights to property are
promptly recognized; that both private and public
wellare demand abolition ot all statute power of
persons to inflict injury on those differing from them
in opinion or action, and resolute assertion of citi-
zen's right to venture value in productive service at
their own risk and cost.

8.	Resolved:—That liberty to prophecy, unre-
stricted expression of opinions implies absolute Free-
dom of Contract in religion, love, trade, every do-
main of human activity; that trades-union and cor-
porate monopolies, church, state, science, "culture",
—all limitations to growth are frauds on Enterprise,
which ever-living impulse resents and perennial in-
spiration transcends.THE N. E. ANTI-TAX LEAGUE.

The Eighth Annual Convention of the New
England Anti-Tax League meets in Chapel Hall,
820 Washington St., Boston, Sunday, April 11th,
forenoon, afternoon & evening. E. H. Heywood,
Secretary, offers the following Resolutions:—

1.	Resolved:—That, as before God disturbed chaos
or statute laws violated anarchy, Natural Order ruled,
so the inherent right of persons to administer their
own destiny will survive government with its insa-
tiable brood of savage vampires; that, like its felon-
ious predecessors, monarchy Sr empiredom, majori-
tyism must go, giving place to voluntary association,
individual Enterprise, argus-eyed to see that person-
al & collective right suffer no detriment.

2.	Resolved:—That, as abolition of chattel slav-
ery, corn laws & other styles of serfdom liberated
beneficent activities, so death of invasive robbery
inseparable from taxation, will enlarge the free play
of natural forces whose unrestricted service assures
all desirable in human society; that parental & pro-
tective theories are messes of infected pottage lor
which tyrants ever try to induce people to sell their
one birth-right of all,—Liberty.

3.	Resolved:—That as no one ever signed the
federal or state constitution in a responsible wa"y, &
as at bottom of the stupendous thing called govern-
ment there is not even the relic of a contract, power
to tax, power to ar&itraffiy" take money or men,
without which government could not exist, is villian-
ous usurpation which no single man would dare try
on his neighbor; hence we assert natural right to
self-rule bidding authoritative imposters be no more
officers of ours.

4.	Resolved:—That while Liberty begets associa-
tion to protect life & property, it resents statute de-
vices, government to help vicious persons invade
& rob others, "according to law''; that, included in
the property right to do what we will with our own,
is personal right of the sexes to cohabit, found homes,
develope families, realizing, in the death of marriage,
the bene^cently boundless possibilities of Free Love.

5.	Resolved:—That, as it is the Natural Right of
every citizen to run his or her own stomach, license
or prohibitory laws to restrict or regulate that right
are delirous acts of impudent frenzy howling in
church & state, the twin exponents of arbitrary riot,
of legalized chronic debauchery; that proclaiming
in Free Rum, the true temperance Gospel we favor
intelligent conception, birth & training of childr< n,
& curative treat ment of drinkcursed adults as effect-
ive & indespensably necessary conditions of sobriety.

6.	Resolved:—That whatever may be our objec-
tions to polygamy the faith & practice of Mormonism
are unquestionably included in guarantees of religi-
ous & secular freedom, constitutioned in all civilized
nations as fundamental law; that assaulting Con-
science invading homes, disfranchising women, out-
raging personal liberty, violating property rights,
profaning all the sanctities of public private life the
Edmunds bills libel law, corrupt morals but confront
tyrants with insurgent sense of right & decency
which renders all such measures of vindictive perse-
cution ultimately abortive.

7.	Resolved :—That immature sense which moves
woman to sell herself for a fraction of a man in a
polygamous home, or enslave herself to one, sup-
posed-to-be-monogamons-man, or trade her body toa
plurality of men in the Boston, New York or Wash-
ington stylo of authoritative "purity", reveals lack
of moral Intuition & physiological Intelligence which
Free Love assures; that vice & crime in Utah, as
elsewhere, increased by coercion called government,
will be transcended by clairvoyant impulse and
quickening, conscientious action promoted by restor-
ing to all their natural liberty to judge for themselves
whht is right.

8.	Resolved:—That Wordocrasy, Pantarchy, An-
archy,—whatever banner hnds Association vs. gov-
ernment, mere talk which begets no initiative action
is cowardly evasion of onward impulse to "drift &
let the current find the way"; that so far only as we
hav Ideas and "stand up to be counted for" Reality,
work for and are wrought into law which is intelli-
gent and Intelligence, will Democracy prevail, Truth
come uppermost and Justice be done to all human-
kind.THE AMERICAN LABOR REFORM LEAGUE.

The Fifteenth Annual Contention of the
American Labor Reform League meets in Labor
Lyceum Hall, 295 Bowery, New York, Sunday a
Monday May 10th & llta, three sessions daily;
E. H. Heywood, Secretary, presents the follow-
ing Resolutions:—

1.	Resolved:—That, whatever may be the special
objects of different industrial organizations, the main
purpose, the logical destiny of Labor Reform is to
abolish interest, rent & every other style of legalized
theft; for, since Service is the Soul of Thrift & Civil-
ity, power to do something useful & trade with
others without robbing them is the way of Salvation
to civilized sojourn here & spiritual persistence
hereafter.

2.	Resolved:—That Sense of Equity which, in
all ages & nations, has opposed usury with other
forms of speculative increase, now decrees Repudi-
ation of so-called Debts the principal whereof
has been paid in the form ot interest; &, since land,
mines, forests, water-courses are gifts of Nature to
all, Pay no Rent is the demand & command of Jus-
tice, when the cost of improvements has been re-
turned to proprietors, by tenants,—Earth & the full-
ness thereof belonging to Creative

3.	Resolved:—That, since property is a perish-
able commodity, dependent on Labor for its original
& continued existence, the claim of capital to in-
crease has no basis in Liberty or Right; that income
without work, like its preceding villiany chattel-
slave-holding, is possible only by special legislative
devices of usurped power to plunder Service,—State
supported by compulsive taxation & Church suppres-
sing Reason being prolific parents of prevailing dis-
honesty.

4.	Resolved :—That, as in its support of negro
slavery the Church was a ''brotherhood of thieves"
giving alleged moral authority to a gang of rogues
called government, so now accepted "religion"
"law" and "order" are criminally responsible for
the poverty of working people; that Christians, In-
fidels, Spiritualists, Republicans, Democrats who
sanction speculative increase, defraud Labor of its
own, violate Natural Law, invade rights of property
and Personal Rectitude indispensable to associative
Progress.

5.	Resolved:—That whether known as Anarchy,
Panarchy, Wordocrasy, or other mutualism, the
concurring Thought and active Conscience of Indi-
viduals inspire and direct collective destiny; and,
however widely they may differ in methods to estab-
lish it, all true exponents of Freedom formulate
Order, assure Society,—transcending poverty, tax-
es, swords, prisons, custom, science, by "the parlia-
ment of man, the federation of the world" decreed
in Nature.

6.	Resolved:—That irrespective of views held
by goldists, silverists or paperists; seeing stealthy,
venomous monopolies coiled in party platforms,
Labor demands Free Banking, wherein any vendible
commodity may be pledged to secure notes issued,
and whereby that great thief of the ages, interest,
may die with its twin devil rent, in free-play of De-
mand and Supply, enacted by persons and associa-
tions providing their own money at thoir own risk
and cost.

7 Resolved :--That whatever may be alleged.claimg
of thg,jLlis3£U»«r«;" thv cattlb-uicn or tne Indians to
Oklahoma/no persons, companies or classes hav
legal or moral right to soil there, excluding others
needing it; that it is the duty of persons, as indi-
viduals or collectively, to see that land, wherever
not held in personal-usnfruct, is open to actual set-
tlers,—regardless of pretended ownership by others
who seek gain, exact rent-tribute in violation of the
common right of all children of men and women

to sustenance from Mother Earth.

8.	Resolved:—That "obscenity," prohibitory-liq-
uor-license "laws" and other invasive pleasures
wherein morals are depraved and youth poisoned by
the pentilential breath of repression, together with
Anthony Comstock, immortal in his infamous een*
sorship of opinions and conduct infinitely wiser and
purer than his own,—every hindrance to enligntened
Growth must go; that philanthropic platitudes and
"cultured" evasion do not conceal, in any one,
criminal neglect to help assure to ail citizens free-
dom of speech, press and mails.

9.	Resolved :—That virulent persecution of per-
sons for honest, timely, beneficent attention to Sex
Questions, comes of lewd, mercenary usurpation,
whereby woman is held for man's use and pleasure,
regardless of what her own mind and conscience
teach; that the purpose and process of conception,
the names of the sex organs and their associative
us©,—the whole domestic economy of human being
is within the domain of Creative Labor, and all citi-
zens should assert Right and incarnate Duty to each
other socially, transcending vice-society supervision,
legislative encroachment, sanctified immorality and
irrational custom.^eafjlet J;iierntun.

Published by Angela T. Hey wood.

WORD OFFICE, PRINCETON, JW4SS.

ATTRACTION, KINDRED-TIES AND TRIES.

The power, principle and tendency of material
bodies to meet, have central sway, wtien Personal
units blend in mutual destiny; the force of at-
traction called Affinity, relation by blood termed
Consanguinity, ecstatic arrival of two in one,
confluence of yours and mine,—all sentient forces
find service and rest in Sex-U nion. What is true
and pleasing, the essentially leal, the latent liv-
ing >urprise-party in Love ever takes the right
of'way and reaches the goal of Domestic Felici-
ty., distancing ail mere mercenary, sensuaiistic
competitors. Heart-throbs outw.i toe pomp and
• .remony of custom, the imperious decrees of
uthority; "the first are last and the la-i first.''
When Mother Consanguinity hits Iter stern, irn-
• >	ereiy, Lady Affinity bow_s...her

,^unty sea, stmigntvvay goes
tens tne Lover of all her	treatment and be-

comes absolute queen in Mrs. Herself; fruitful in
creative, artistic ability , flesh of her flesh greets,
rejoices, defies her in turn as Life evolves.
What Nature has in-store t'or us, in us, the illim-
itable, sun-lit destiny of each one's self in silent
or spoken Spirit Power, the first-class Gods and
Godesses persons may be, is worth much 4'brown
study" to know. The warm, glowing, persistent
power of woman, her immovable, irresistible
ability to avert ravishing untruth lives in the
perennial Integrity she may incarnate. How to
feed out of Nature's bestowal of variety so that
each pleasure, bearing pain to none, shall be an
Inspiration of real matter-of-fact order; how to
give and receive the best of each to other; how
the dance of Use and Beauty may go on without
jar or hurt to heart-strings of Integral Destiny;
how heavenly fruition may bloom unscathed on
fiery edges of hell,—these are studies in our
homestead and at-large experience. Reason is
the mundane door-keeper to divine action; or-
gasms of thought are as exquisite as orgasms of
feeling; only as soul salutes soul will bodies be
mutually ennobling. The fact that we are sexed
makes he-absolutism high-treason to Love; Relig-
ion rudely erred in not giving God a wife; our
desirable, durable Use, intrinsic, generative pow-
er abides only in dual Being. What people are
living, dying to do; truly associative expression,
not found in obdurate sobriety or reckless glee,
enacts itself and is justified in results, when per-
sonal right is seen to include Mutual Choice and
Duty.

No act is abortive; cause begets effect; sex-
union impregnates, physical liberty confronting
us with moral obligation:—

Children are travellers newly arrived in a strange
country; we should therefore n,ake conscience not
to mislead them —Locke.

But children are to be men and women; if it
cripples or restricts filial Energy, so thas Youth

their

part in associative enterprise, parentalis^
unintelligent and disastrous. Within consan-

fuinic circles we are all Relatives; grandfather,
ither, uncle, son, nephew, cousin, brother,—
sevenfold he-seed meeting she-seed in similar
degrees of kindred; but the seed germinates in
union of Strangers outside of family ties, found-
ing new domestic centres. Fenced in by lines of
kindred, by threads of unperceived conditions,
filled with glow and power of ready nature, the
adult girl exclaims "Where is my Lover, my
Saviour? Him also will I save, for he will surely
die if I go not to him!" In the world of stran-
gers, in the great rotunda of societal existence, a
yearning Soul echoes her want; from consariguin-
ic Ties, over the bridge of Liberty, she goes into
the new realm of affinital Tries, where two may
become one by studious search for each other.
Hard, easy. Work! Rejoicing in their chil-
dren's success, happy in their own endeavor,
parents may be special Providences to those who
become parents in their turn. In the ties and
tries of domestic life, the Spirit of God, as Moth-
er Wit, finds plenty of puzzles to adjust. I could
hug Proudhon for his phrase, "economical con-
tradictions" of persons and things, but I abhor
his crude view of woman. Some men could die
for woman; does any one suppose Mr. Hey wood
would die for me? How much more for The
Word, a Cause! Angelo had his Affinity; but
more than Lady-Love, Mother or God, was Art to

him. Romeo follows his love to the tomb, while
Buddha, wedded to The Air, left his young wife
and the child of his own seed-planting with half-
a-kiss! Jesus left not to his needy mother an
armful of wood, and berated Martha, the chemist
of the kitchen, because, in her "much serving,"
her effort to feed and shelter him worthily, she
could not or would not listen to his talk. To
Mary, his Affinity, he was gentler. Heedless
acts leave heaps of frictional waste for renewing
fires of blue-lit hell; put into life by irrational
heat, vexed by perverse conditions, yet if Ycuth
abide in their immortal Self, Spirit; if they go
forth in pathways lighted from their foreheads,
by the guiding star, Knowledge, they will reach
the summit of achievment. • The world is full of
Romeos and Juliets, of Evangelines, Dantes and
Beatrices, of Romneys and Angelos; each and all
personify the regala day of human existence, by
their labor, ecstacy, tragedy and rest.—But
stress of other duties and want of space stop me
here. Angela T. Hey wood.

In last Word were pieces of a piece from me,
„ uoever chat uiayi be. The affinital and consan-
guinic ties knitting us into families, naii'ons,
races, are threads of destiny assuring weal or woe
as we sense or mistake ourselves and others:
"Why don't Papa write me a letter" cries my
Psyche Ceres when her father does not do it soon
and often, while away from home; equally do
adult girls yearn for missives from their lovers;
so we go sobbing or jubilant through a universe
of grave and gay Reality,—cry aloud until God
shall turn his great, steady head round, behold
what is the matter, seek the difference between
Godship and Conditions heo'erlooks in Beinp; as
good ir not better than his own self. A God
who sleeps late in heaven; who never ,vith early-
risen feet brushes dew on earth-fields, can hardly
know how much Love means to us here, though
old h -saints hastily said he is Love ^ My neigh-
bor self, my altruistic life; identity, egoity,
"that by which I am the same I was" ana yet
selfhood which throbs in otherhood, how much
there is of it in domestic and societal destiny!
Begot by man's penis, materializing nine months
in woman's womb, born therefrom a livingunit,
the baba grows in light of parental love to incar-
nate liberty, authority, ecstacy, Life immortal
and irresistible proportionally as, in blood, mind
and spirit, the Essential infuses it, is It. If they
go out of home-doors heedlessly, if the Boy or
G rl that walketh into the wide-world hath not
Thought to direct attracted steps; if bounding
heat, thrilling emotion does not c( unt the Cost
of pleasure, i/Z-used means bring our loved ones
to tragic ends. Anti-Tax, Anti-Death, Labor-
Reform, Free-Love,—the four Schools of Philos-
ophy which work in Panarchy, Anarchy, Union-
Reform, Wordocrasy, build the many-mansioned
future awaiting Fleshed-Inspiration, Divine Life
here Ganuine, simon-pure "Humanity" as in-
vasively dominant religion hinders Lluwomanity,
the equal half of Being; God's affinity known as
Mother Mary ism is a hemisphere of wholeness
yet to be heard from; held for man's use as he
^ch-^es woman appears to him mundane "stuff"
pleasing toAessole^coiiceived purpose; TDut mat^
ter won't budge, the cow will not lift her leg to
kick until stuffy, spirited personality is recog-
nized. The spokesmanship of ethical analysis,
today, smacks highly of heism. The Art, in
man arid boy, of leaving a girl or woman un-
touched is next to power to touch her worthily.
Touch is external; but, toned as unto the demand
of an se »lian harp, finger-tips salute central Life,
peer of impregnating approach. That "high
iind strange things" happen when mutually at-
tractive persons meet: that in domestic monotony
ever resides divine possibilities; that' unrestrict-
ed, personal Choice enacts collective Law and as-
sures Society; that Liberty in Love is loyalty to
irresi-tible Right, and casual eye-glances become
frame-work of new, free-willed yet fated mor-
al order,—are apparent in attractive kindred,
the ties and tries of Souls in Bodies visible.—
Angela T. Hey wood.

A society was recently or<raniz- d in Paris for
tie purpose of obliterating the word "God" from
all the languages of the world. The word may
as well go, since no two persons agree as to what
it means.—Truth Seeker.

The first king of France was Phararnond, an
imaginary being, who never existed ; he was suc-
ceeded by his son.—Durny.leaflet Xiimitnrc.

Published by Angela T. Heywood.

WORD OFFICE. PRINCETON, MASS.

Joseph Anthony, Coleta, Whiteside Co., III.:
—I think it highly important that freedom to
speak & print t he words Penis & Vagina be main-
tained. Human beings to be hapy must be wel
organized, & if the parts by which that organ-
ization is elected & which also are of such 1 inre
interest and anxiety in life, are not alowed to be
treated openly of, wThat hope have we of perfect-
ing our kind? In knowledge alone can there be
right use, purity & salty for all concerned. The
subject is clean and we inu>t not alow it to b ■
befouled by those who mistakenly persecute. If
thy speech to the jury is to be printed I much
wish a copy. I inclose ten dollars that the truth
through thee& A. T U., as its instruments may
become more widely known.

J. S. Weeks, Onekama, Mich.; To A. T. II.:
—If T need any excuse for writing you please lay
it to S. P. Andrews; L read his communication
]t, Ov,v. Word & am a good deal surprised to
hear him say that you are a mistery; he is judg-
ing you from his own standpoint & it show* to
me that his position is a good deal lower than
yours. What surprises me i- that a man of his
education & experience should put forth such a
production. You are not a mistery,but this is
your true character; you hate a lie but feel sor-
row for,the liar. There is no hate or revenge
for persons in your character, you hate hyporocy,
stealing & all the bad acts that cause misery,
but at the same time you feel sorrow for the
actor; you love the person but hate the had act
of that peison. A had th night causes you
misery, a good thought giv s you pleasure, &
you love pleasure better than misery; hence to.s
is the main-spring of all your acts. Persons be-
low you call you a mistery; I know your feelings
but hav not got the gri' to carry it out as you
hav. S. P. Andrews also shows himself below
your mother's standpoint; he says "with admi-
rable inconsistency, she reads everything &
keeps up with the times;" she is dimply a hater
of shams & she shows it whenever she finds it.
If she sees a person with an Al. D. or any other
tail to his name that looks down on people who
hav no tail to their names she despi-u-s the cause
that leads that person to act so; In r kind feel-
ings lor the poor, cause her to hate shams & she
don't care woo knows it. Sham-hating I call
virtue; your mother transmitted virtue to you;
all mothers having virtue transmit it to their
offspring. If the mother has none she canrwt
transmit it; she cannot giv what she hasnot got.
Not the fattier but the mother controls off pring
in embryo; this makes her responsible lor the
acts of her children. The world says that if a
woman commits adultry she has no virtue; I s;*y
that if her children are loving, kind, honest,
she had virtue & transmitted it. L inclose a dol-
Jar for your grit.

Elizabeth M. F Denton, VVeUesiey ;

You both hav my deep -st sympathy & unfeigned
admiration for your devotion to what this nation
has declared to be the one self evident fact upon
which it based its own right to exist. Chat you
are martyrs to that loudly proclaimed principle
viz. the right of the individual to his or her own
lile & liberty is as clear as the noon-day sun.
That the lovers of the right to think our own
thought, to live our own iives, to do all that we
are able to do,—all that the ciicumstanues will
permit us to do for the elevation and good of the
race, should defend you again>t these attacks
neems to me too self-evident a fact to require
even a presentation for any one of them; I most
sincerely hope that your friends,—the friends of
a world's redemption by enlightenment,—will
come gladly to your rescue if possible,—to your
support, at all events. Toe question, if 1 hav
anything like a correct idea of it, is not whether
your theories are my theories,but whether you be-
lieve them to be coirect; if so, the genius of the
age & the hope of the world demand of you their
expression; while the theories themselves must
stand or fall by their own merits. I do not be-
lieve all the thinking women are asleep,—though
I can very well understand why it must seem
like that to you. But, you know, the very
brightness of a light may sometimes so blind us
that we cannot see which way to move, simply
because our eyes are not sufficiently accustomed
to it. There is something like this in the case

of some of our most able thinkers, men & women.
You must learn to have some patience with such
men & women in their weakness, I know you
have a right to be heard; that science is on your
side; that one & all of the organs of reproduction
are as sacred as are any of the other organs of
the body; that there is no reason in Nature un~
abused why these should not be named with the
same unconsciousness as that with which we
name the eyes, the hands, or the heart. It is
tee abuse of these organs heaped upon some by
the superstitious teaching of ignorance, that
holds the present in chains, even where the ig-
norance is past. Wishing you switt deliverance
from injustice, to whi h you seem almost doom-
ed, ever your friend.

If man says "womb" without rising heat or
dishonest purpose why should not woman say
"penis'' without blushing squirm or sheepish
looks. Even in priest-dunced and king-damned
Spain women know enough to feel complimented
by men's recognizing body Passion,—the highest
honor man can pay woman being his indicated
wish to plant seed in her maternal garden.
What object, in beauty or use, is there on earth
dearer to man than woman's person, or to wom-
an than man's person? Accursed is the man
with idiotic impotency who is ashamed of his
passion for woman. What emasculated fool is
this, who, as the flame of manly heat goes up
through his body house, comes down in charred
ruins on penitent knees to apologize for his pas-
sional rectitude! A bank director standing
high and well in church, politics, and business,
said reading the " Word-lixtra" poems gave him
generative erection! Supposing it did, are
they bad because of their moving power? Did
not Walt Whitman, wrhen he wrote these two
poems, see good, fruitful force in this man and
paint him worthily? If reading about the crea-
tive power of money and trade gave his bank
stock "erection," made it rise in value, would
this man blush for it, as "obscene." I am
amazed at the shame-facedness with which the
sexes meet their own nature; at their witless
weakness, their perverse puerility in the pres-
ence of the divine potencies of these our body
forms! I marvel at the idiotic pretense of "ob-
scenity" which attempts to forbid, by male
usurpation, he-decree called "statute," citi-
zens becoming wrisely informed and well-
trained in the creative human energies which
people earth, and quicken civilizing, redeeming
tendencies. Shall men continue to call and his-
tory women and girls whose natures, akin writh
their own, are thwarted, "prostitutes?" Mind
moves to consider in speech, print, court and
parlor penises which beget "fatherless" babes,
and for whose irresponsible action wTanton fer-
vor fasten* damning wrords on passive acceptance.
Owners of property must take care of their pro-
perty; since the penis is specifically man's pro-
perty events notify him that predatory penis-
commerce must cease, man rise into intelligent,
responsible recognition of himself, and Nature
be honored by mutual use of beneficent Sex-
Power,—Stirpiculture. Women know the
value of man's penis, its power for good, the
its 2*//-use engenders, its indispensable
necessity and glorious mission to create, assure"
and serve Society. Hardly have I yet begun to
write about it; but in developing the great theme
I shall endeavor to keep in the realm of Ideas,
Principles, rather than,as in the Durant or other
ominous public cases, expect girls and women,
with whom j^ou gentlemen may have associated
outside of the "marriage institution," to call
you to order in court or platform meeting.
Twixt the knife of castration and impotency the
woman who works to preserve man s penis in its
best e-'tate is man's friend if he has one on earth.
As I look upon my baby-boy and forecast his
future lam moved, more deeply and firmly than
ever, to see to it that this Sex Question, in all its
impressive bearings, is set in the light of search-
ing Intelligence. It shall not be my fault if men
henceforth are not fully revealed unto themselves;
made to know, respect, cherish and reverence
the noble virility, for vindicating which they
now arraign us as "obscene " The w^hole man,
every organ and part of him is naturally worthy;
hitherto *7/-use of his penis has desolated earth;
but Thought shall enable him to transcend in-
herited immobility and realize the divinity of his
body; honor and adorn Life by penis-Action and
Rest worthy of the mother who bore him, of the
sister he loves, of the woman or women with
whom he may cohabit, of the Children he be-
gets and of a world rejoicing in every impulse
towards perfected Being.—Angela T. Heywood.jptemtore.

Published by Angela T. Heywood.

WORD OFFICE, PRINCETON, MASS.

E. C. Walker, Kiowa, Baiber Co., Kansas:—
The Liberal League outlook is dark & threaten-
ing; the tendency to entire surrender of the re
peal issue may go so far along the wav of con-
cussion as to lead to reaction; this is now my
only hope.

J. W. Pratt. W. Hanover:—T can't see why
anyone should carry an impure penis ab out With
him so long as he can find a knife sharp enough
to amputate it. Dr. F„>ot<s says the sexual or-
gans are as clean as we choose to kec-p them. It
is presumed that Mr. J >rn s' external organ imper-
fectly clean; if so,& it is^till impure, the ki.il ?
is the only remedy available. His attempt, to
substitute a purer word for 4,p'?nis" in July
Word is amusing, if it is not convincing. If the
word "penis" is impure,what must be said of the
thing itself? The substitution of loins, entirely
wanting as it is in dejiniteness looks like prudish-
ness clean-gone crazy. If a rose by any other
name would smell as sweet, a penis by any other
name is no less impure. I do not think many
men will acknowledge its impurity; if they do
tbey are advised to amputate it, & thereby get
rid of the foul thing; if thy penis offends thee,
cut it off& cast it from thee, (holy bible revised
& corrected). . . We wished much to be with
you in your convention, but could not.

SEPARATION TO INNOCENT CONVICTS.—It milSt be
plain to everyone, clear as the sunlight, that the
same rule should prevail with respect to the burden
of justice which the slate imposes upon individuals
as with respect to the burden of taxat ion or of mili-
tary service. As (he state exacts a universal mili-
taiy obligation which no individual has a right to
evade, so, inversely, the individual who enj >ys the
knowledge of his own innocence has a right to re-
quire that the law, to which every one without ex-
ception has to submit unconditionally without resist-
ance, without objection, shall commit no offense
toward him. If, however, by a casual concatenation
of circumstances, or through erroneous suspicions,
or by means of false evidence, more suffering or a
greater sacrifice is imposed upon one individ; al than
all the others hav to bear, it becomes the unavoid-
able obligat ion of the state to make amends to him
for the excessive burden he has to carry. The duty
is an obligation in the strongest sense of the word,
not in the remotest degree a mere mattvr oi equity
or of humanity or of favor. For why does this in-
dividual hav, at the price of his freedom, his honor,
his social position, his power to make money, his
health and ability to work, of pain and care, and pel -
haps of misery to his family, to appear and make a
sacrifice oi himself that the judicial dej artment of
the state may exercise its 1'unction? Why must he
suffer for the mistakes, even if they are unavoidable
mistakes, of the state organs?—Dr. H. Jerques, in
Popular Science Monthly.

Mrs. E M. F. Denton, Wellesly, Mass.: — My
Dear Mrs. Hey wood: Yours received & read; I
cannot tell you how eagerly 1 should join your
group as you propose, could 1 do so. But I hav
been obliged to drop everything for the sake of
returning to life in this sphere, for I found my-
self rapidly drifting to another. For several
months I hav written nothing except that which
was essential to the business matters left on our «
hands, except the letter of thanks in The Banner
& the reply in The Keligio Philosophical Jour-
nal, which two you hav probably. stcn. How
much those two letter* cost me it would, t><>
doubt, be difficult for ^ou to conca ve. They do
ru t indicate any ifiort of brain or body, but my
nerves bad icached such a condition tlu.t they
were really <o.-tly productions I am vastly bet-
ter than 1 was. lor the past two months i nave
been feeling that 1 shall yet gam the mastery
over the desire for death, & live to d <» some work
which 1 hav looked upon as especially mine.

I thank you most sineereU lor your urgent ap
peal. Tell Mr. lleywood that il anything could
move Boston Harbor! or Mrs. Denton either, it
would surely be such an appeal as that from Mrs.
lleywood 1 suppose he has lost all hope of me,
poor man; & [confess [ hav felt very little lor
myself since one year ago yesterday. But hope
is beginning to revive once more. I hav realized
this within the past month, & I shall do the best
I can to prevent its dying out again, for no one
can work effectually when her hope is so dead as
mine has been within the past year. It has
seemed impossible for me to revive it. Pardon
me for thus writing only of myself, but I felt
that 1 owe it to you that you hav some of the
reasons for my inactivity, my want of life. I hav
not been unthoughtful, but I hav been unable to
think on paper, to think thoughts worthy of a

pen. I hope I may be able to join your circle by
another year. 1 !j;.d intended to do so this year,
but hav been as 1 hav been. I know 1 can tiust
you & the thinkers with you, to do a gnat deal
i f work that will be of use to all who are en ugh
alive to appropriate the results of your efforts;
but do trust me once more & believe that [ shall
sometime be in a condition to more effectually
work with you if 1 live. [ felt what no words of
mine can express when 1 found that you & Mr.
lleywood were to be allowed to shake yourselves
free trotn those minions of an inquitons legisla-
tion. But I must say farewell for the present.
Ever with kindest wishes for all ot you, I re-
main >uur friend.

3irs. IIey wood's Welcome to Union Reform-
ers:—It is not so much reform as forming,
growth, initiative impulse towards fruitful En-
deavor that we encourage; the-e meetings deeply
touch private, personal Life, inviting survey of
inmost sources of Being; yet what we say and
are here has world-wide, momentous import and
should be recorded in verbatim scriptures to in-
spire the many scattered abroad whose need and
purpose beat responsive to our own. During 12
years past a regularly issued newspaper, The
Word, more than 200,000 books and many other
printed proclamations of Truth hay gone out
from here; national, state and municipal Iner-
tia, raging against irresistible Progress, has re-
plied in fierce raids on us; repeated prosecutions
have given, to many, views of us widely different
from what we are Workers in all realms of
Service—kitchen, study, led-room, parlor, type-
office, stable, laundry, woodhouse, cellar, attic—
we meet Life arriving here, in every phase of
Reality, but hav no place for sham in any garb.
Scrub, Seer, digger, writer, talker, printer, Me-
chanic, Scholar, sewer, singer—whatever she or
he activity comes may find arenas in Skilled
Labor and exhilerating mental Achievement
wide open to all. A Long Branch of Sentiment,
a Newport of Thought, this rendezvoux of Ideas
iuforms Reason, guides Conscience, assuring
fruitful Health and Strength in bodies per-force
of Mind animating them. This is nota clandestine
house, either mentally or physically; all per-
sons who clearly sense the It of the situation,
well know that things must flourish or fade on
their own merits, sooner or later, and that any
attempt at external results is abortive if not root-
ed in essential fact. The purpose which brings
me from cook—tove and wash-tub to propel this
vieiny between Mechanic and Scholar, both wel-
come athletes here; your coming to these verdant
Heights where we hear the rustle of growth
rather than scent the odors of decay; Ideas des-
tined to make old Wachusett the Sinai, the Par-
nassus of occidental destiny; intuitive Thought,
immortal Inspiration, all-adorning-&-preserving
Manual Labor,—these record our names, na-
tures, objects, characters in the Book of Life,
written on these table-lands from year to year,
whose pages will engage more and more eyes,
and wrhose purposes will command larger, better
attention as Time advances. Serious good-bye
to old, careless, repressive times, forward-march
in the new, freedom-loving Epoch—Nature lap-
ping over one upon the next; co-related in the
realm of achieved Harmony; work and worth,
Scrub and Seer, Mechanic and Scholar, purple,
luscious grapes clustering above, and rich, brown
manure underlying fields of grain—bread for
multitude-; the creative Use, ecstatic Beauty,
divine order of Sex Mutualism blooming in chil-
dren's faces, the pleasing, onward bound of
youthful power; ourselves born of Spirit-flesh,
Air-earth, we meet here as exponents of Infinite
Energy manifested in all finite effort. Bodies we
we wear are good as souls housed in them; no
organs or parts unworthy unless indirection
make* them so; a water-closet to every phase of
existence needful-as Food to sustain Life; Mind
jocund in matter, Feeling obedient to Intellect;
animal heat etherized into greater velocity of
Thought whirl over loom-work of brain,—con-
sideration, elucidation, classification will bring
mental, moral, physical Order out of the inter-
necine conflict now called Society. Of the suffer-
ing, dumb millions, victims of usury and rent
"waning under mountains of speculative theft;
of enslaved woman rising from confiscated per-
sonality into recovered, active self possession; of
inebriates to be reclaimed from delirous excess
into Temperance—the balanced use of all things;
of cities now cess-pools of misery for lack of
moral Enterprise; of nations torn by savage poli-
cies to be constrained into servants of Peace; of
error however chronic, of Truth irresistible in
Liberty and Love; of Life over all and in all we
welcome you to speak, and help us work out the
New Older the affluent Integrity possible on
earth.—Remarks to Union Reform Conference
July 5.|leaflet §iter<itnre.

Published by Angela T. Heywood.

SUBSTANCE AND SHADOW.

The Avenues and the Slums. Out of the
Slums Come the Ideas that Will Destroy the
Distinction, M. Kenan, in one of his recent
lectures, describes the abode of the early Chris-
tians in ancient Rome as " across the Tiber in the
poorest and dirtiest slums of the city. . . No
Koman who respected himself ever set foot in
that quarter, which was the sink of the most
despised classes and the most disgusting indus-
tries. Even the police never penetrated into th§
district save when its squabbles grew too bloody
or too frequent." Yet, " few quarters of Rome
were so free. There were no politics there, and
in ordinary times no hindrances to religious rites
or proselytism. A world of ideas was hatching
in this 'longshore population, but was lost in the
roar ot the great city : and the proud patricians
who promenaded th 3 avenue did not dream when
they deigned to look across the Tiber what a
future was preparing in those hovels at the foot
of the Janiculum." Now I have observed that
people reading this description of some of the
" first believers," see beneath all outward appear-
ances of that time, and if they were now called
upon in their imaginations to plant themselves
by the side of one or the other of those ancient
parties, they would not think of walking the
avenue arm inarm with Rome's proudest citizens,
but would cast their lot unreservedly with that
small group across the Tiber, which "flocked
together, everybody smelling of garlic, poo: and
dirty proletarians; unknown, unmannered men,
clad in malodorous stable slops, with tainted
breath, like that of ill-fed people."

In their imagination, I say. For, I doubt not,
were it possible to transport them hack through
the eighteen centuries and give them an actual
existence then and there amid the scenes of old
Roman life, you would discover a difference.
They would, of course, have no knowledge of all
that the centuries have brought to light. They
would stand as the citizens of those days st.-od,
peering out into the shows of things, and unless
they could enter into the inner world of ideas,
they would be as blind as to what was preparing
for the future as was the proudest pagan the
eternal city could then boast. There would 10II
the Tiber between the avenue and the slums.
God forbid that they should ever cross its wateis.
No! up and down the avenue; there is where all
Romans who respect themselves are to lie seen.
Blessed Tiber! that it cuts them off from t.:e
garlic-tainted breath of the slums. 1 say this of
them because while they so piously celebrate the
slums of other times, they see no more of the new
vitalizing life of to-day than did their patrician
brethren of old when they cast proud glances
over the Tiber and knew not that " the founder
of a new empire, a second Romulus, was then
lodging at the port on the strand.'' These people
can see other times in the light of history. They
are utterly incapable of seeing their own time in
the light of ideas. They can follow an idea very
well until they begin to see that to catch up with
it they must cross some modern Tiber. They
then cry a halt. Out of the slums of ancient
Rome they see a pure white lily rise. Out of the
slums of America to-day—what can rise but mud,
foul breath and phantoms hideous ! It makes all
difference who nolds the idea—to them. It is
so much more impressive if it be borne aloft by
some respected citizen ! But, if the smell of
garlic " be upon it, it is repulsive in the extreme
—the virtue all gone out of it. It is well there-
fore, occasionally to remind such people of the
inconsistency,grievous and fatal, perchance, that
lies in their conduct. If the world could be re-
born two thousand years ago, the glad news
finding its first welcome in the midsfe of the poor,
despised, and unlettered,—an event no less mar-
velous may occur to-day. It may, and probably
must so occur, if it occur at all. It is this very
class, by reason of their condition, which fiisfc
seizes whatever for them glad news that Sits.
They have no reputations at stake. They have
everything to gain, little to lose. But, as a mat-
ter of fact, they have no greater interest in the
new life to be inaugerated than any other
If we are, any portion, suffering a great injustice,
there is no substantial blessing any wh ere. Sooner
or later, if the wrong be not righted, it will drag
all else down with it. The !t Avenue" cannot
last, and also the " slums "—no matter how many
Tibers roll between.— Phillip, in The Irish
"World.■enfjlet literature.

Published by Angela T. Hey wood.

VOICE OF AN IRISH HEABT.

What! give our land to you, England!

What! give our land to you!

Our ravaged land, whose every rood

Our patriots' bones bestrew;
Our blood-steeped land, our plundered land,

With seed of martyrs sown,

Our tortured land, our writhing land,

Which yet we call our own;

Our tearless land, our noble land,

That knows not how to yield,

Our land that Freedom set apart,

Her chosen battlefield.

What! give her up to you, England,

Slave-driver to the world!

Whose flag for murder and for greed

Is evermore unfurled;

Our glorious land, our sacred land,

The land of many prayers,

The land of saints, that still by right

Its title proudly wears!

Aye, tear the old green banner down,

And toss it to the flames!

Wipe out the living, blood-writ page

That bears our heroes' names;
Let Emmet's lonely tombstone wait

Its epitaph in vain,

And great O'Connell's broken heart

Now break for us again!

Then you shall have our land, England,

And you shall have our necks,

And with our unfraternal hate
No more your love we'll vex;

But you shall have our crops and goldt

Our flesh and blood and souls,

W hile every joy-bell on our shores

The nation's death knell tolls.

Now, well for us we know at last

The secret of our pain;

We thought 'twas you, kind England, held

The scourge, the sword, the chain;
Now well indeed the clearer light

Has dawned for us at last;

'Tis not the light we've waited long,

The sunburst of the past,

New suns we dreamed not of dispel

The errors of our sires,

And clasping brothers' hands shall quench

Decrepit Freedom's fires.

So you shall have our land, England,

And 'mid forgotten graves
We'll squat and think how sweet a thing
Is brotherhood for slaves !

Fanny Parnell.

Bishop Gilmore denounced Irish wo-
men as viragos, threatening excommuni-
cation ; his bull was read in all Catholic
churches. Mary T. Rowland, president
Ladies Land League, stoutly replies:—

Richard Gilmore, bishop oi Cleveland—Sir: In
answer to your official of last week, and in the lace
of your terrible threats, 1 stand forth in the name
of the women of the Parnell branch of the Land
League, and say we will not deviate or falter in the
righteous cause we have undertaken. This is 110
trifling affair, no light task We have chosen it as
a work, as a duty. There can be no grander or ho-
lier one than the redemption of our native land.
No petty malice shali turn us back. Our faith,
though beset with obstacles, lies ahead. Our stand-
ard bears the motto of truth and right. We stand
beneath its folds, and tell our enemies there is no
surrender. The work of years, the opposition so
seriously, so persistently carried on against the Irish
societies of this city has at last culminated in your
ungallant, unmanly and bitter attack hurled upon
the heads ot the women of the Land League, We
resent such interference. We understand the mo-
tive which actuated you in this last move. Finding
our ranks unbroken, that we remained firm after
your first censure, you bring the whole of the church
to bear, and with fierce and funous denunciations,
seek to crush us. 1 have yet to learn how a bishop,
without authority from the fountain head of the
church, can excommunicate any individual or soci-
ety engaged iu the freedom of their native land.
There is no law, no rule laid down within the church,
there is nothing that cair be brought to bear upon
us, in asserting our rights, in standing in our coun-
try's defence. Has not God said : "The earth hath
He given to the children of men." The stigma of
immodesty, indelicacy and political brawling, you
try to cast upon us, I fling back. Our conduct, our
pure, high motives would be worthy of imitation by
any lady outside the Parnell Ladies Land League.

WORD OFFICE^ PIUwFrOlS, MASS.%enfht %iumtwe.

Published by Angela T. Heywood.

WORD OFFICE, PRINCETON, MASS

Joseph Anthony, Coleta, Whiteside Co,, IIlT:
I seek to be wise, and need much to counsel with
those of like mind. Having occasion to go east
with my aged mother as far as Albany, N. Y.f
I am moved to ask, provided my way is open to
continue on to Princeton, if there would he op
portunity & freedom to converse with thyself or
wife or both as to absolute right action. There
. are plenty of people who are infidel to one or two
j errors, perhaps, but they seem quite inconsistent
/ in that while they hav dethroned a personal god
they largely revere and obey the laws that hav
eminated from i im while he yet held sway.
Thee and Thine are nearer disenthralled than
any I know or hav learned of, and it is such ad-
vanced students of progress thkt I seek to meet
and counsel with as	0 methods

life.

The Boston Postmaster who took the liberty
to exclude Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
from the mails a« an obscene publication hud his
official ears cuffed by the Postmaster-General, &
the order of exclusion was reversed. This is
right, but we cannot help thinking that had the
book been the property < fa more humble author
the Postmaster-General would hav paid no at-
tention to the matter. There can be no denying
that ''Leaves of Grass" contains passages whic.i
are obscene, according to the customary accept-
ation of the term ; if any book should beexclud
ed from the mails on this account, this hook
should be. We hold that no book should be ex-
cluded; but we do not understand that the Post-
master-General based his decision in this case
on any such ground, though on what other
ground he stands we cannot imagine, unless it
be on the ground that Whitman a great poet
and should therefore hav liberties under the law
which other men do not h'av. If this is his posi-
tion, he has made things worse rather than
better, for in the great matter of civil rights
Whitman is no more a man than the meanest
author of yellow covered trash. But at any rate
henceforth "uupid's Yokes'1 and similar publi-
cations cannot, with any sorf of consistency be
excluded from tlvj mails. Where ''Leaves of
Grass" can go anythingcan go.— Wiristed Press.

Readers of The Word are 'V peculiar
people, zealous of good works," in manv
w: ys ;1 called out of darkness into marvel-
ous light" of sensed Truth, jTnu are expo
nents of what Matter calls "progressive
i* sanity, ' but what Mind knows to be
Spiritual Forces which pervade and rule
Being Deeply grateful to patrons for
steadfast co-opera ion in the past event-
ful years, we. v elcome all to untried fu
tlirGT^EopTng^ytJU will grant us material
aid to push The Word's work more vig-
orously than ever; incessant manual and
mental tasks giv A. T. II & ouivelf little
rest an*1 no leisure; we cannot always
stand the tense strain on our limited en-
ergies & shall be glad indeed when larger
and more active awakening brings relief,
enabling us to make Tn th more attract-
ive & convincing, both in print A speech.
By extending the subscription list, buy-
ing and circulating Word publications,
t; king stock in the Mountain Home Cor-
poration, & donations towards expenses
of Conventions & other field work, friends
^an greatly aid us. Gladly do we stake
all in persistent endeavor, & invite you
to share with us the cost and the fruition
of ptuneer Service.—E. H. Heywood, in
October Word, Y. L 10.

Jno M. Porter, Clinton, 111. [To A. T. II ]:
Some time ago 1 was the lecipi- nt of a copy of
a monthly periodical entitled The Word; after
perusing its literary contents 1 glanced over the
advertisements, & from causes inexplicable to me,

was impelled to send for some of the publica-
tions mentioned therein,—among which was
your "Leaflet Literature." 1 received & re-read
it all carefully, and the more I read, the more
bewildered I became. I hav often heard of Free
Love, but never dreamed that there was anything
in it, before, except lust in the broadest sense*
But the little slip—"The Obscenity Raid, Rec-
titude^ in Nature," &c , of which you are the
accredited author, effectually disabused my mind
on that point. I confess 1 was overwhelmed by
the new truth that flowed into my mind & per-
meated my whole being with an" indescribable
longing for light, more light, although I can, as
yet, hut feebly comprehend the scope of and
grand results attainable through this heaven de
creed faith. I hope I may be able,"in a small
degree, 10 appreciate the glories of such an es-
tate, though I may never be permitted to enjoy
heir realization. I can now see, ''though it be
through a glass darkly,' the alpha and omega
of freedom to love according to the dictates of
ourjnner-selv.*,	Ting the full frujtio" *-here-

t»f in ireedum in obeuis-:— y> • » «■ n. ^ .r mas-
terly & crushing argument in defence of woman's
right to the intelligent use and control of her
sexual organism for any'"purpTise slie may deem
worthy, subject to no other restraint than her
own conscience, is. to say the least of it, sublime.
That man & woman were civ a ted for each other,
that their organisms, one projective, the other
receptive, were uiven th 'in for a purpose, even
Ccmstock, Bundy & Co., would not attempt to
deny. It is to be hoped that they will yet learn
the proper use of those gifts of nature, and stop
their villain- us persecutions. A yearning for
more light and knowledge of your wonderful
faith begot the desire to ^rrite you this letter, &,
in concluding. I would ask your advi<e in re-
gal d to the books necessary to procure for that
purpose. As I hav more time for thinking (for
I can do that while at woik) than reading. I
want books with the most knowledge in the
smallest compass. Believing that from your gar-
nered store of wisdom you can accord the light
I seek, 1 am yours for the equal rights of all.

Joskph P. Siieafe, Melrose, Mass. :—In years
past. I hav spent many weeks at sea-shore and
other Summer resorts in New England; this
year I had the pleasure of spending a few days
at your Mountain Home in Princeton, and no
stupid pen of mine can do half justice to your
pleasant horn** ; eveiything about the house and
rooms so nice, so sweet, so restful to .the wearv
mortal, and to the tired immortal, as well ; it
just showed me tho busy hand and act ivo brain
of Mrs. Heywood, in all tilings. With such
perfect harmony, good nature, good ehee**, glori-
ous fellow-hip, every want met, every wish grat-
ified, we were compelled to be happy at one half
the cost of other places; the table bountifully
supplied with all the luxuries of the season, so
neatly prepared that you would almost want to
eat the cook. People talk of feasting on heaven-
ly manna ; well, they may hav all the n anna
they v want, but I prefer to stop at Mountain
Home a while longer. Thou grand, old Prince-
ton, we were charmed with thy lovliness, en-
raptured with thy beauty ; as we stood on thy
high hill-top in the late evenir g-time and looked
out on thy green hills and flowery meadows, with
the starry heavens above, shutting down on every
side, like spangled curtains, to protect us, while
fair Luna went sail ng thiough the fleecy clouds
of night, mirroring her lovely face in every
sparkling pond and lake and lighting up all na-
ture with indescribable beauty; we could then
say, "This is a place fit for the Gods to dwell
in." After travelling in more than half the
States of this Union, and seeing many wonder-
ful things, in art and nature, we return and say,
"Al1 hail, fair Princeton, all hail, sweet Moun-
tain Home !

Farewell thou land so loveiy,

So full of quiet rest;

Farewell thy vale and hill-top.

Farewell thy mountain-crest.

Farewell to all thy people,

To friends so kind and true;

We hope ere long to meet again

Our friendship to renew.

How fondly do we linger

Iieneatli thy shady trees
And drink the healthful nectar

From thy life-giving breeze.

Our cup of bliss is brimming full

And fairly running o'er
With right good cheer; O, do not fear,
There's brighter days in store ! "jptemtnre.

Published by Angela. T. Heywood.

Mrs. H. S. Lake, 219 Grand Avenue, Milwau-
kee, Wis.:—You hav done a brave & noble deed
in advertising the syringe; you say truly that
the great battle yet to be fought is upon the ques-
tion of freedom in morals,—particularly the right
of woman to her person. I wish I could send
you something more useful, on the material
plane, than words of appreciation. Ever yours

for the right.	tip

Mrs.Sarah Elizabeth Holmes, London, hng.;

iTo A. T. 11 ) You are in great trouble airain ;
am, we are always loving you & want v< ly much
to help you. Tell us if tin-re is any wty in which
we can do anything. Some day there will come
special comfort & peace into your heart that
could not hav heen but for to-day'* p »e» ; there
will come to the world great gain, through all
this loss & suffering, on your part; I know your
perfect faith in Right & your knowledge • f how
wrong opposes & crushes it. But some share
in the final replacing of ev l with good I want
to reach, as gr» at healing & pea deep into your
own true woman heart When I heard this news

- I fe1^—c------- & «''«•«.id that my silence mig>«t

nav let you rv* that I was dr<»p),(.,g «i«uy Ir >m
you ; but you arc always clo<e & dear in my heart.
Let us hear from you ; we want to know & help ;
believe that always. Y\ <» -hall be in England
this winter. With more love than ever before
to you all, your friend

Geo. W, CARPhNTER, Montague, Texas :—I
send you $1; wish 1 c uld spare more, for if you
hav to ight the oppressive post office law- all your
life you will need all you can get. 0 how long
smili we hav to suffer fr<»m the ignorance & su-
perstition of the past; it is th- worst enemy the
world has hud to contend with ; religion has
dwarfed all that hav come under its influ n e.
Our liberties are in danger & it is time we were
doing something to enlighten the people so that
they will stand up for their rights; it is a slow
process for t he masses to learn ; that is what ma kes
it so tedious for us in front of the battle. I am
6*2 years old but hope to sec some progress in the
conditions of society while 1 stay in trie h«.dy ;
1 think there is in the American people tin) much
determination of character to be enslaved now;
they will surely come up to a higher standard.
1 was sorry to learn that you was again under per-
secution for that is all it i-; t/iere are worse
things in the Bible than in Walt Whitman's po-
em. i hope the friends will help to contest tiiis
thing so that it will not com:- heavy on you. Wd
must show fight & give the bigots enough of it.

J. Hacker, Berlin. N. J. I received the leaf-
lets & extracts from Leaves of Grass which yon
kindly sent, & thank you for them, i hav n.'uc
interest in your case & great sympathy with you
(earing that ignorant, bigoted & lustful men
will giv you a year or two in a prison hell ; yet,
if they do, it will do more to banish error & ad-
vance truth than you could d outside of pri* n.
Even if they kill you the triumph of truth will
he the greater, in proportion to your sufferings.
One paper says the law is such that you willbe
saie to " catch it; " I hope not. If any twelve
men can be put on a jury in this nation that would
convict you for selling a syringe every cuss of
them ought to be castrated before they left the
court house. Hundreds of times, & more than
fifty years ago, hav 1 wished thist every married
woman had constantly at her command the means
of controlling the number of her offspring. Men
usually hav every thing their own way ; they
make the laws, they bind weak yielding women
to strong lustf ul men, wh« regard them as slaves ;
the clergy come in with the wolds of the hateful
old Paul, who never was worthy of wife, sister,
or mother, & cry " Wives, submit yourselves ;o
your husbands " & hi they submit to trust like
religious martyrs & die untimely deaths by in-
dustrial & sexual abuse.

TRIAL OF THE CASE, U. S. G. vs. E. H. E.

Is set for Jan. 1st,—"the happy now
year" my country give me! As readers
know, ere this, Comstock "found" a bill
& wrote the indictment—four counts, the
overnmeut gun heavily loaded, you see.
upids Yokes, Leaves of Grass, & syringe
in two volumes—this is what we face in
the "criminal's dock " In the reason
Att'y Gen'l Devens gav why Pres't Hayes
released me, & in ordering Comstock to

make no more arrests on Cupids Yokes,
they ruled that the book is not" obscene "
& therefore legally mailable; in reversing
Postmaster Tobey's exclusion of Leaves
of Grass, P. M. General Howe ruled that
also mailable. If the whole is mailable,
then any part is; that the sole motive in
reprinting the two poems on " The Word
Extra " for Sept was to assert freedom
of the Press & resent infamous censorship
i>1 opinions &• morals, no one who person-
ally knows the Publishers of The Word or
has any clew sense < f what is right, prop-
er duty & necessity for intelligent citizens
t«» do in the issue presented bv the N E.
Vice Society, can one moment question.
The time to assert liberty is whe it is de-
nied Then; never was a fouler blow
struck at Personal Rights than in the ef-
fort of a few Boston obscenists to suppress %
Leaves of G»ass Those who tamely ac-
quiesce in that deadly-meant stab are the

*'	'' il \,lrior.''fb-Mit	! ueordft

of sense & self respect leel unwell under
the heel of Comstovkism. Our country is
where liberty is not, until tyranny givs
way to Common Right. If the jury dots
vote these two books "obscene/ will
that make them so? As well vote that
things fall skyward, or that water runs up
bill Questions of morals, no more t'lan
questions of religion can be settle*! by
juries or majorities. What do jurymen
know about books? We don't get black-
smiths to mend watches, or gravel tossers
to fill teeth. Jurymen may decide what
books are fit for themselves their minor
children ; but in voting what others shall
or shall not read, they meddle with what
is none of their business

i>ut they way, "In the syringe trap Corn-
stuck has a dead open & shut, on you."
Why so? We may hav violated his con-
struction of the statute, we should feel
badly if we hadn't; but if a judge or ju-
ryman has a mind of hisowu, is riot ob-
sessed by the E\ il Spirit, he can open
doors, through that law, towards Liberty.
Personally we are interested in the syr-
inge only as it asserts a right a princi-
ple. Beyond what they invest in child
production, Fret; Lovers turn semen in-
to mental power. Since Cornstoekism
makes male will, passion Si power abso-
lute to impose conception we are withy
women to resent it. We do not, preavribtt
syringes; that is their affair, not ours;
but their right to limit the number of
child re11 they will bear is as unquestion-
able as their right to eat. breathe, walk
or be still This is the social side of Wom-
an suffrage ; in indorsing woman's rights
Mass'tt* Democrats indorse the syringe:
Comstock's attack makes an ordinary
household utensil an emblem of liberation ;
women should buy syringes now if never
before. As Constantb e put the C r< )ss,
that is a penis on his banner, saving, *' By
this sign, Conquer," so by the syringe
women may achieve Liberty. Comstock
now stabs at the heart of Life ; assaulted
in the way of duty, the struggle thrust on
us involves immediate, momentous re-
sults Beginning to feel easier fi aitcial-
Iv this assault puts us o i the edge of des-
titution again, at best, will keep us os-
cillating between prison and poorhoose
sometime longer. We need, friends, all
the aid you can possibly render.

WORD OFFICE, PR1NCETOA, MASS,£eaflet jttmifnre.

Published by Angela T. Hey wood.
WORD	MASS.

AND ORDER.''

A graduate of Brown University, Sept
1856, I thereby became A. M., Master of
Arts; June 18?8 I received the degree of
U. S C., United States Convict; during
seven years struggle for Right to mind
my own busines^ I hav been indicted
three times,—in Dec. 't7 for alleged-
mailing Cupids Yokes & Trail's Sexual
Physiology; in Dec. '82 for alleged mail-
ing Cupids Yokes, some Leaves of Grass
& a springe advertisement; & in May 83,
as follows:—

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
, Worcester, ss. At the Superior Court, begun and
holden at Worcester, within ar.d lor the County of
Worcester, on ihe second Monday oi Mny, in the
ve»r of our Lord one thousand eight humlred and

hty-three The Jurors for the Commonwealth, on
their Udtfi present,

That Ezra H. Hey wood of Princeton in sai<jl
County, oil the'first dajr oi February m tin- year
eighteen hundred and eighty-three, at Worcest er in
said County, did. distribute a certain printed paper
containing obscene language manifest ly tending to
the corruption of the morals of youth, which printed
paper containing obscene language tending '<> the
corruption of the morals of youth and distributed as
aforesaid is of the tenor following that is to bay,
(here the Leaflet was fixed in) contrary to the
form of the statute in such case made and p ovided.
A true bill, Ashley M. Iiice, Foreman; Frstncis A.
Gaskill, District Attorney Pro tempore. A copy
(except of the printed paper) attest, Win. T. Har-
low assistant clerk.

Here are the grand jurors who "found"
this ''true bill:"—

Ashley M. Rice, Grafton, Foreman; Hiram P.
Bemis, Paxton; Augustus W. Burr, We&tborough;
Nathan S. Caswell, Douglas; Eben N. Coffin, Hub
bardston; Albert H, Edgarton, Sturbridge; Charles
H. Glazier, Fitehburg; chauncey C. Hemenway,
Barre; Lewis F. Johnson, South!*irou^h; Chester
B. Kendall, Gardner; Emory W. King, Charlton;
Jacobs, Miller, Winchendon; Albeit H. New hail,
Sterling; Charles A. Rice, Northborongh; George X.
Richardson, Holden; Wilson Smith, Phiibpston;
Frank H. South worth, Hardwiek; Marcus D. Cron-
an, Daniel H. Eames, John W. Toole, Franklin B.
White, Wm O. Wilder, Geo, Woodbury, Worcester.

Our own townsmen^ women said of it:—

To the District Attorney of the County of
Worcester, Mass., Sir:—We, the undersigned
Citizens ot Princeton, in said county, in view ul the
fact that Ezra H Hey wood has been again arrested
and is liable to be sent to States Prison forfivo years
or some less term,, for expressing honest opinions*
convictions, in the usual way, jespectfuby repre-
sent that: Ezra H. Hey wood is a respected towns-
man and neighbor of ours; that we know him well,
& know him as a good citizen, attending industri-
ously to his own business. ail'1 "ever inva the
equal light ol'other citizens lo do the same; that he
has been arrested and tried twice already (before
..this* *e»s©), on substantially the same charges; and
that he wras in the first case unconditionally re-
leased, and in the second case acquitted.

He was released by President Hayes on the opin-
ion of Attorney General Devens & ol many others,
that the jury had erred; and that there is absolutely
nothing in Mr. Hey wood's publications which par-
takes in the slightest degree oi the nature of ob-
scenity, the intention being taken into the account;
but that they are earnest expressions of his opin-
ions, as plain speaking was characteristic of the
radical Abolitionists he formerly Ferv-d with. He
was acquitted in the second case on the same ground.
Under these circumstances we submit that the pres-
ent prosecution is uncalled for. it is the provision
ot our law that no citizen shall be twice imperilled
for the same offence. We believe that the spirit ot
that wise principle of the law is being violated in
this case upon Mr. Hey wood; and that this con-
tinued and determined assault on him; the endea-
vor to get him behind bars, to break up his family &
business; & to drive Mrs. Hey wood & their children
into the street, on account of his and their opinions
has gone to a length which partakes of persecution;
which fact is likely to do more harm to the public
morals than anything which Mr. Hey wood has done
or can do, by his publications.

And we, therefore, pray: That the indictment in
question may rest in such a way that the said Hey-
wood may have full and free exercise of the - time-
honored and dearly fought for liberty of Free Speech
apd a Free Press.

Basis of the Princeton Defence Committee in
the matter of Ezra II. Heywood.

We, the undersigned Citizens of the town of
Princeton, in the county of Worcester, in the State
of Mass., irrespective of religious or political differ-
ences, constitute ourselves into a Defence Commit-
tee, to endeavor to prevent an undue and excessive
pressure upon our townsman & fellow citizen, Ezra
II. Heywood, & his family, under the form of legal
pr< seditions, tor their views and Modes of Express-
ion ; which pressure may have degenerated into
Persecution tor Opinion, contrary to the great Ame-
rican doctrine of Free Speech.

We believe in fair play, as well for those from
whom we differ most widely, as for ourselves; &
many, probably most of us do differ, more or less
widely from Mr. and Mrs Heywood, in respect to
certain doctrines which they hold and promulgate,
& in respect to the good or bad taste of the methods
they adopt oi presenting them; but w • hold tenaci-
ously to the right ot Free Thought, Free Speech and
a Free Press, as the bulwarks of our own Liberty;
as something the possession of which has cost count-
less sacrifices to achieve it; & which is too precious
to h risked or thrown away, through any unwise
zeal in the prosecution of others. We cannot but
remember that we or our children may sometime
have; uii]i.>iml;ir opinions to dei'und; and we. do not
desii-e that we or they should be sent to the States
Prison for five years, or lor any term, for express-

We are the fellow townsmen of Mr. Mrtrlley-
wood; we know them well; and we knew them in
all other respects, than this of their method of ex-
pressing their opinions, as yood and estimable citi-
zen*. Their children areas well reared an I >.-i
moral as those of other citizens, & in some respects
they excel; and we know ot no complaint male of
eh hes- parents or children, except in what relates to
tie ir views, <1 to what they regard as the necessaiy
tonus of speech to get their ideas expressed. Thev
may be terrilvy mistaken in all this, but it does not
iollow t hat lines, imprisonment, or other forms of
persecution are the right remedy. We do not de-
sire to see Massachusetts again disgraced by a new
career of persecution, as when witches were burned,
or when Quakers, P.aptistsor Abolitionists werepun-
.Uhed or mobbed, in the past, through ignorance or
prejudice; & merely because they held strange and
what, s em-id lo their neighbors, of those days, im-
moral views Massachusetts is now again making
her history for tiie lutuie; aud we are anxious that
her good name shall not be tarnished again by any
mistake or over zealous invasion of the rights of the
cii izen.

While, therefore, but few of us participate in the
views, or approve of the literary modes of express-
ion <»f Mr. and Mrs. Heywood upon certain social
questions of g.'eat delicacy; while most of us, on
the contrary expressly dissent from, and repudiate
their views ot Stirpiculture, the Sex Question; we
d > not believe ihat anything they have said or pub-
lished is said-^o#published with an obscene or lasci-
vious purpose; but rat hot* as their earnest, audit
may be very indiscrete, mode ot uttering their con-
victions—though this plain spoken and uncompro-
mising advocacy of reform was learned in the good
old sell >oi of radical abolitionism in which both
Mr. and Mrs Heywood zealously wrought; and we
unite on this Defence Committee to prevent, if
possible, a great wrong from being done; to hinder
the infliction of* an injustice; and to vindicate the

man rights. "Au«i \ve mutually pledge" "...
- -tixr" • '|i.fl-ui?i»ce.- ana• '-exertions m tms oeti»«,
in favor of Ft ee Thought, Freed.>m of Speech & the
Freedom of the Press—binding ourselves in no man-
ner whatsoever in favor of or against ideas which
different citizens may choose to promulgate. In
other words we, hold to Freedom as a Principle and
will stand by it; dissenting from whatever We deem
wrong, we yet do not, unless there is actual in-
vasion of life or property, feal required ourselves, or
to allow citizens, without protest, to persecute others'
for differing from us in opinion.

Those papers (drawn by Mr. Andrews,
see July Word) are the "true bill" found
by neighbors of the accused; as to whether
my doctrines *4tend to corrupt the morals
of youth" I was prepared to present my
own children as evidence in defence,
with svvoro statements from their, Teach-
er, the School Committee & Town Clerk
that the children are models of intelli-
gence, sobriety & culture.........

What reparation the authorities of Wor-
cester Co . the Legislature of Mass'tts &
the U. B. Government will make for per-
sonal injury & costly disaster they have
allowed vice society villians to inflict on
us is now the question!

A bass drum, is simply sheepskin over noth-
ing: there is plenty of bass drums in the pulpit.
—Beecher.leaf let J;iierxtttre.

Published by Angela T. Heywood.
WORD OFFICE. PRINCETON, MASS.

("Moralist" concluded )

gantic political swindles of which laborers are
the enslaved, ravished, plundered victims. Cleve-
land's election may be a step towards Liberty;
but the power of usury, rent, organized robbery,
under which millions perish, must be broken by
volcanic, earthquake uprising of the democrtic
masses whose living waves now surge around the
Lowell statesman. Belva Lockwood, an able ac-
complished law} er, leads the woman-suffragists;
she will be wiser when she studies the cosmopo-
litan issues * hich Love & Labor Reformers urge,
but which she-dudes & he-dunces think they can
afford to neglect. Blaine stands for the plumed
presumption of usurping aristocrats fattened on
the blood & toil of despoiled Service. Butler may
be wrong in his theories, but the Sense of Equity
k the Spirit of Liberty will gain by his candi-
dacy; those freed by him from caste bondage may
build the party of the future on Free Tendencies.
Not giving up to any party what belongs to hu-
mankind, planting seeds of spontaneous order in
th€-M'liial Sense of intuitive Enterprise, let us
always be at home in that Law whose seafcisin
the heart of Love & whose decrees speak in uni-
versal activity.—Moralist.

THE CONDITION OF LIBERAL UNION-

Persons imply differing opinions, sub-
ject to approval, rejection or ignorment
by otlnr citizens who also live in pro-
portion as they are law unto themselves,
every wise not trenching on the equal
right of all to freedom; the one act which
assaults Integrity of Being, is effort to
supervise Soul or physical life in others.
History brings us no more revolting in-
stance of this than the Comstoek "law"
to the repeal or nullification of which
thirteen of the best years of mv life hav
been largely devoted. That the Liberal
League, after having had historic dis-
tinction under the banner of Repeal now
ignobly surrenders to Orthodoxy; that
here & there persons, once supposed to
hav souls of their own in clean bodies
visible, bow their heads in silence under
the reign of terror which hellish eccles
iasticism imposes on these States, reveals
in startling proportions, tl e mental slave
system we confront, & calls to imperative
activity everyone not dunced or damned
in evasive "culture." Fortunately the
dead will soon be liberal dust oi;ly,while
Wright, Andrews, Seaver, Wakeman,the
Foot.es, Leland, Denton, Severance, Train,
Fisher, Putnam, Slenker, the Stones,
Giles, Ohaiiiey, Tucker. Vincent, the
Til tons, the Ilarmans, Walker, Wais-
brooker, the Macdonalds, Appleton,Morse
& many other resolute defenders of Lib-
erty assailed, (to whom I am personally
indebted for stalwart service in days
which tried all souls), I am sure can still
be counted, at least, as r> bellious slaves
of seemingly irresistible depotism How-
ever many may perfer physical comfort
to Mental Integrity the movement of
spiriti al forces is forward, all along-the
line, & lucky are they who personate
Right ever coming uppermost, while
stolid acquiescence serves as wholesome
manure to invigorate advancing tenden-
cies.

What industrial, social, religious and
political Ideas we live to promote these
columns bespeak; but the one condition
indespensable to having honest opinions
on any subject, incarnate in any phase of
intelligent life, is Mental Liberty now
denied by "statute." Garrison dodging
the Fugitive-Slave issue ceases to be

Garrison; citizens, silent under politico-
religious ostracism, are the prone highway
over which tyranny rides triumphant; in
prevailing repression those outside of
Jails may be purchasing freedom by neg-
lect of duty. While the League stood
for repeal it represented Intelligence;
what now asks leave to be of Anthony
Comstoek libels Civilization; its "de-
mauds" (too many of which urge merely
equalization of slaveries) are beneath
contempt, while it lets right to acquire &
impart knowledge be trodden under
church-state heel. The pathway of Miti-
slavery was strown with wrecks of cow-
ardly schemes for "respectable" union
rather than honest Individuality; because
the League ignores Liberty its "har-
mony"' will be that of dead-herring strung
m "cultured" sticks, or dumb tomb-
stones in graveyards. Shame on alleged
men & women who, afraid of the epithets
"obscene," lewd," hide in whited sepul-
chres of popular hypocrisy! In order
that we may now hav, not merely anti-
slavery but

iii Reason, & conscientious purpose; to
revive Health & assure rational Purity,
petitions must again move Citizens to
action Not merely the 10,000 voices
for ..epeal presented by Ge . Butler to
Congress n 1878, but a million may en-
list in the good-fight-of faith, and their
names become a roll of honor of which
history will be proud. Blanks sent from
this office to any address. "Free
Speech," Wakeman's masterly exposure
of the unconstitutionality of Comstock's
"laws," Bennett's "Where Obscenity
Is," "The Evolutionists" & other cam-
paign documents, advertised on 4th page
sent at lowest cost rates for distribution.
In 1878 A. B. Giles, Dr. E. B. Foote Jr.,
& J. B Wolfe appeared before Congress
for Repeal; but brazen-faced vulgarity in
Comstoek prevailed against enlightened
discretion. Let us see now who will ap-
pear theie for, & who against Liberty,
Start discussion in newspapers, pulpits,
lyceums, liquor saloons, prayer meetings,
love letters,—wherever tongue or pen
can stir mind, The Air favors effort to
wipe from national-and-state law-books
the foulest blot since chattel bondage
made the Union "a herd of states hunt-
ing slaves " We got on a century with-
out censorship of the press which now
gags Progress; revivijig Mentality re-
sents the deadly outrage, obedient Good
lvsis s tyranny, while Liberty & Union
a<*e, now & forever, one & inseparable.

Albert 11. Weld, Wilmington, Del.:—Am
glad of" the favo-able decision in behalf of the
cause you are contending so bravely for; I wanted
nun'1! to expr *s at the time my interest in the
r^ult, hut could not. I realize, more & more,
t >e necessity for the parti -alar work in which
yourself & Mrs. Ileywood ar<j engaged; more
earn • t thought is being given to these subjects
as the years pass; the convictions of many are
far in advance of t leir courage to declare their
tvai sentiments, in consequence of a long school-
ing under intense conservative influences. You
hav every reason to be hopeful at the outlook in
all directi ns; in a political sense I am surprised
at the disgust freely expressed (on the part of
tho-e whom we should not term "thinkers"),
with the complete farce which they hav been
playing with the ballot. . . Thanks for copies of
''Free Speech" sent to Mr. Remington & myself;
1 congratulate you on the grand & most effective
eftort made in your own defense; am better
pleased than I anticipated & that is the very
best encomium I can offer in its favor; I trust it
will hav a circulation commensurate with both
its importance & many merits.][ifanrtnriK

Published by Angela T. Hey wood.

John M. Spear, 2210 Mt. Vernon St., Phila.,
Pa.I expect soon to cast off this frail« uter
form 4 have the advantages of full use of my
spiritual, inner body. Then I can go with pase,
without cost to Princeton, Boston, New Fork,
London, Paris, & speak to the masses through*
such instruments as may desire to co-operate wuli
me. To me this thought—hope is of more solid
worth than all the wealth of the Astors, Gould-*,
Vanderbilts or Rothschilds,. So you see i am not
poor ; I hav received through 'modern revela-
tions indestructible wealthT The sign-; of the
times are encouraging. The masses are learning
to see things as they are. Russia is agitated, in-
land aroused, England trembles. T/Ve Commons
drag Bardlaugh from his seat. Legalism compels
mediums to flee from Great Britain to America
Mrs. Fletcher speaks from behind iron bars ; after
a few months, like yourself & otheis clothed
with new power, she will look down from Lf:e ros-
trum upon her cruel persecutors & tell them of
their crimes. The Word brings mem mt il.y the
mo^t radical thought f the ho jr. Ten pd-son*
should subscribe $10o0 each to give yon ne d*-d
financial aid. The Boston Post calls U end* 11
Phillips 4* the white-haired instigator of assa.«s.
^nation whonreachesanarchy at literary feasts; "
the Phila., Ledger says tie is '* a* proper subject
for social quarantine as an infected Miip; 1 yet
Jefferson, Washington, Sam Adam*, Rush,
Franklin, may be forgotten, the Declaration of
76 may perish, but Phillips' Harvard address will
live to act on & encourage coming generations.

PERSONAL EIGHT VS. "LEGAL" POWES.

To Friends of Frkei>om and Fair Play :—
After the severe struggle for Liberty & Life which
culminated in my sentence to two years impris-
onment, June 25, 1«78, my brother S. R nsy-
wood, who had kept aloof from me during the
foregone months of trial & suffering, but who
(having previously assured me that in case of my
incarceration my tamily should be unmolested)
" visited ine in prison," not to otter aid, but to
induce me to sign papers to enable him to evict
them even sooner than the law would allow him
to do so ! I replied, 44 The House is in order for
Summer Service ; go in yourself or send your
representative; make all you can by boarding,
rooming or otherwise & credit us for wear &
tear whatever you think best; 1 only ask that my
children & their mother be allowed a small i acx
room to stay in until shelter can be provided. '
He refused, foreclosed & sold under the hammer,
bidding in the estate himself for $4,30o, our
friends offering $4,250, its market value in that
.sale; he raised the price to $6,000. held it mainly
unoccupied till April 28, 1^/9 when he took &5000
from our friends who advanced it to secure t* e
home for us. During the six months I lived in a
brick vault, tomb 52 of Oedham Jail, not the
'is.aui sjme savagery of Anthony Comstock >r
harsh treatment from pulpit & press, or vindictive
persecution by a government I had given my ear-
ner years & energies to relieve from the curse of
chattel slaveholding,—nothing caused me so much
suffering as did this action of one woo, after hav-
ing been a financial backer 25 years in the Lour
of my life when I had a natural ri-ht to expect
him to be friendly, instead of being active to as-
sist them, was an object of distrus., terror to t ie
loved ones 1 was forbidden to aid. We nave
b» rne his treatment in silence ; gladly would I
be spared the necessity ol publishing the lac.8,
but am now to reed to speak.

We built in i87i-2 wnen prices we eup ; S. R.
indorsed my notes taking a mortgage to secure
them ; prices sharpiy declined & we suffered a
heavy shrinkage,—1-2 or more from first cost,
but not so mucn as values generally shrank in cit-
ies : he tojk risks in the venture with open eyes
as did I, but neither toresaw the future b<Kii
were called to face inevitable loss like men & broth-
ers ; but he who voted for specie-basis-monoroly,
forstay-1 iws to save Savings Bank borrowers turn-
ed uduenly on me & put my family into the stmt
when i was lmpnso.jeu for my laitn by his re-
ligio-politieal associates! A neighbor to w^in
I owed $300 came in ; Mrs. n. said to him,4* Mr.
G.,M.r. 11. is in jail & here we are; you can
attach ; " he spoke in tea.s sa\ lug ■ 1 will lose
every cent ratner than press you now."' After
my release he, with all other creditors, except JS.
R., said 44 We know you must have liberty to try ;
gj ahead do your best, pay when you can; we
saall never trouble you ; " to this hour my cred-
itors, who got nothing, all treat me in a liberal,
generous manner ; tne one who got all we had
.stiil pursues us! Alter the repurchase, Apr.

1879, friends saidS. R. gets all, the other*

nothing; urely tie will be fair enough now to
rest (H drop his claims." What he held against
us above the $5000, friends raised to save our
home, not to pay debt to him, he himself regarded
as virtually; cancelled by tne transaction,—tor he
treated them as worthless, rendered no account
of them to the assessors as property to be
taxed & ottered to *,ive me the one note which
bears my name aio .e. When I was in jail he of-
fered to join fVe ot^er creditors, take liis share
oi assets however small & reiease us. Too poor
t > iaii I replied : * xVly family are in want, I have
nothing for baiitiau >tev litigation, do not wish to
s.;ale my obiigati is but proie*, in future as in
past, to pay 100 e* its on a doiiur & must try."
Learning rece.iu > of a s nail amount of money
willed to Mis. il » heip us lift the present debt
irom our home ne soiaag on us & sued for the re-
newal of an oid note about to outlaw saying
44 ,s.ie s got property ; if you two do not renew
the note f shall. If we renew his notes we sign
away the possibility of ever being able to own a
home, pay oid ciaans to nini or outers; hencewe
decline to nelp him hold us in Slavery & torture
during the remainder of our natural lives. Friends
wiio would loan money to help us go ahead can-
not wnile this man watches his chance tosiezeit.

t.nlike my sisters Mary 11. & Ueiia M. liey-
wood wiio with slender means were yet sisters in-
deed in time of need ; u:.like my ti us elder broth-
er J. iJ. I ley wood, a manual laborer & compara-
tively poor, woo to save our hoaie put his bank
bjok in my hands saying " Draw every dollar if
you need it,"—this rich" brother," giving thou-
sands to his church, now seeks power to evict us
agaiu & again as he chooses, raying I am 44 in-
sane," have 44 thrown my life away ; " that two
years imprisonment was a light sentence for dif-
fering from him in opinion regarding Physiolog
icai Morals, 4> pocket your crotchets," 44 quit re-
form '' 44 turn to business ; " knowing that he
can get nothing but power to cripple me finan-
cially he seems to seek to hold me his vassal in
older to convert me from what he deems my er-
rors ! As a neigii bor says 4 4 I orture did not work
well on theearly Christians," will it now? Friend-
ly, lair, in ail respects, to me and also to my fam-
ily until Comstock s assault on me, >iov., 2,
1877 ; since moved by seeming thirst for politico-
reli-iuus preferment k financial display ; misled
by associates like ^.ongressman Rice who berated
linn as a tool for giving my friends 60 days grace
to redeem toe estate after the eviction of '78, say-
ing he *4 vitiated his claim thereby ; " by Sena-
tor Geo. F. Hoar, who as a citizen, knew of &
contributed to my reform movements, but who
when " up " in politics demanded conditions for
my release from jail,—burned Cupids Yokes &
other books he lacks wit to understand,—S. R.
is swayed into courses from which his earlier
manhood would have revolted. The case now is
not44 U. S. vs. K. 11. 11." but44 Samuel R. Hey-
wood vs., Angela T. Hey wood et al,—the politico-
religious Doiiar vs. Woman, Morals; we are again
in court as defendants & ask friends, to help
us repel this last assault on our Natural Right of
freedom to try to render to all with whom we
deal their just dues. We have filed answer, ask-
ing a Jury Trial, & do not- thiuk 12 men can be
luund to heip extend cruel power for persecution ;
as Harrison used to say, in dark days of his work,
i4 Having obtained help of the Lord, (that is of
Spiritual Truth in jNature,) we continue unto
tnis day ; " tnougii municipal, state, national
governments conspired to crush us we still live.
After Comstock"s assault one of the first in front
for defense was our then living creditor, now
sainted friend, Albert P. Ware, an honored mer-
chant of Worcester, whose timely aid, later,
aved to us this roof; common sinse of Right in
business, the liberal purpose of bankruptcy laws,
tue necessity of mutual Equity between persons,
our birthright of Opportunity bid us contest this
case. Our able and devoted counsellors, J. F.
Pickering, Esq. of Boston, & Col. J. A. Titus, of
Worcester, will make a strong defense; dona-
tions to a Home Defense Fund will be thankfully
received & duly credited ; remit to this office or
to J. 11. lleywood, 50 llarvard St., Boston. In
behalf of Lome imperilled & loved ones it shel-
ters ; of many years Labor to create & preserve
it; of all just claims upon us; of reform work
indispensable to the world's growth yet severely
arduous & pecuniarily unremunerative; of Karth's
destitute, suffering, dumb millions to whose de-
liverance our lives are consecrated we ask yon,
Friends, to stand with us for Natural Equity,
Personal Right now assailed. E. H. Heywood.

Princeton, Mass , Jan., 21st, Y. L. 10,

WORD OFFICII, PRINCETON, MASS.leaflet ^iiemture.

Published by Angela T. Heywood.
WORD OFFICE. PRINCETON, MASS.

'Man has had such irresponsible use of woman's
body that he is drunk on passionate intent to pro-
long her subjection to him ; the indicted leaflet
says No; it is a logical, direct, imperatively prop-
er & necessary reply to Coinstock, Hoar, Rice &
Go's effort to regulate conception by act of Con-

fress. Man's penis-power must obey his brain ;
ecause his untrained sexuality makes " prosti-
tutes," riots in disastrous indulgence plain words
hav come on the stage of literary expression ; pe-
nis is getting civilized in public mention with
womb ; penis, forced to the front by invasive pol-
itics. must be the main point in morals until hes
grow to he gentlemen, shes knowing their rights
dar^ maintain them, & thereby make intelligent,
fruitful sex-association Law in Life- How shall
iD/en be civilized? Mrs. Stow editor of Herald of
T'adustry, Mrs. Window editor of Alpha and
^urs. Sienker the prolific liberal writer, say
" Castrate them. " But that deforms rather than
reforms; better educate and utilize generative
power; talk, write and print men into athletic
sobriety. The knife of castration, or plain
speech, is the alternative. Which will you hav
Mr. Blackmer? Thought will be voiced, typed,
"distributed ; " discu-sion will not " stop :' un-
til civilization arrives in bed-chamber and nurs-
ery.—Moralist.

CITIZEN INTEGBITY vs. COLLECTIVE CEIME.

Mind & its manifestations, spirit & over
soul, Eight incarnated now & here, the
Hope in which Faith works & towards
which Creation moves,—these are law
& order which direct the most serviceable
activities. What shall it profit a man to
be knave or fool, as a citizen, in order to
be Dist. Attorney, Judge or President?
The self-conceited inertia, the pur-blind,
plunder-gorged authority called govern-
ment, chiefly known in history by savage
repression, makes prison, scaffold, stake,
gory-battle-fields and starvation-garrets
mile-stones of progress because the felo-
nious instinct of usurped power is for-
ever hostile to intuitive Fact, indestruc-
tible in believing, steadfast, ruling Per-
sons. Sinister, serpentine, detestable De-
ceit, which six years has dogged out-
steps, pretends the offence is "obscenity,"
impurity in style rather than evolution-
ary opinions; but Blackmer & Aldrieh,
Nov. 1st. let all their stealthy cats out
of authority-bags by ordering us to
"stop" printing, right or wrong, saying
"No man can set up his judgment against
the laws of ti e state." The views of
these men are of account only because,
inflated with the usual "insolence of
elected persons, ' they ache to crush dis-
senters. But the opinions, "judgments"
of citizens unhurt by power are law,
higher than governments; they are tribu-
nals of ultimate appeal to which the
brazen-faced cheat called "law" finally
bows. Of Blackmer, personally, I know
little beyond his office of assistant Coin-
stock. But Aldrieh has citizen record
notably contradicting his late judicial
rulings. In B. L. 29, 40 years ago, he
taught school in Tappahannock, Va., but
"set up his (anti-slavery) judgment
against the state," was shooed out there-
for, settled later as a "conscience-whig"
lawyer in Barre, Mass., spoke politics in
Hubbardston, B. L. 21, when I, a conser-
vative, Webster, boy-whig listened to
him; while 1 had no defense for the Fu-
gitive Bill, I yet thought his "treason"
unjust to Webster, the orator whose
speeches at Plymouth & Bunker Hill I
loved to declaim; after him came Parker

Pillsbury; Aldrich's "treason" denuncia-
tion of proslaveiy "state" was an even-
ing zephyr, compared with the tornado
of wrath which poured over Pillsbury's
lips; they moved me to seriously ask my-
self "Are laws in conflict with Natural
Eight binding on any citizen's con-
science?" That thought, stimulated by
"conscience whig" Aldrieh, grew, shut
me in Dedham jail for alleged mailing
Cupids Yokes, & puts me on trial for op-
posing "state"-rape before Judge Aid-
rich! The tail of "Adams fall" pulls in
my aforesaid "treason" teacher! This
is the man who orders me to stifle Con-
science & surrender Freedom of Speech &
Press to the alleged men, the skulking
clique of clandestine numskulls generalled
by Anthony-Comstock Blackmer!

In so far as obscenity statutes ever
had any defensible purpose they struck
at "Fai ny Hill" & kindred prints; Gar-
lield, Butler, Hoar, Long said these acts
never were intended to enable malicious
bigots to balk reform, or blast opinions;
yet Blackmer-Aldrich interpretation of
law forbids reform, & abolishes funda-
mental guarantees of room constitution-
ed in these states. Because Devens,
Hayes & Nelson allowed us to open doors
through "law" towards Liberty I am not
in prison vault & felon s uniform to-day.
If allowed decently-fair trial the jury
will again understand me, & the "state"
again obey citizen purpose,. But, what-
ever impends, beyond courts is Faneuil
Hall; after verdicts is public opinion,
The Air, the liberating tendencies of
Destiny. The amazing fact is that fires
of mediaeval persecution are rekindled
& fed now! As before the war the Union
was "a herd of states hunting slaves,"
so voters in present parties hav little
Sense of Eight; nevertheless our Word to
the chiidren of Light is "Go forward;"
better the Massachusetts star fall from
the banner of Union than that we sur-
render the ark of self-sovereignty to in-
vasive Phil lis tines. Holding the fort of
Free Speech, the Thermopylae of Pro-
gress; Love, Labor, Temperance, Peace,
—every impulse of Growth nerves us to
new endeavor whereby Earth may rejoice
in our life on it. As*the potent Word of
Alexander II, which liberated Russian
serfs, was echoed in the stroke of Lin-
coln's pen that freed millions of slaves
here, so every noble deed in our drama
of Social Emancipation sends rippling en-
couragement over all seas of human ven-
ture. The judicial robes of Clark & Clif-
ford, who tried & sentenced me, were
stiff with the blood of state tyrants slain
by Cromwell, Hampden, Sidney, & our
own beloved rebels,—Warren, Washing-
ton, & John Brown. Blackmer & Aldrieh
are cross-beams of a party hewn by "trea-
son" & built on the ruins of justly broken
United States law! By grace of persist-
ing growth, proud-flesh of rotting power
becomes rich dung about roots of spou-
taneous order. Bloated insolence, now.
fed on legalized spoliation of Labor, will
be fat fuel in fires of industrial revolt.
Personal enterprise outlives collective
assault; "legal" pirates, infesting oceans
of irrational unrest, conspire to snuff out
light-houses of Truth; but our lamps are
fed by oil of Virgin Life, that ever wel-
comes the impregnating Word whose
virile seed springs into irresistable inte-
gers of rectitude, assuring Society by
transcension of church-state havoc.§V;//7f/ Jiterative.

Published by Anc-kla T. Heywood.

LQilTAilQHS OF LIBERALS.

In the Nuiioa.il Reformer, of Nov. 7,
Charles Bradlaugh savs:—

It is a great pity that people in America who
are unacquainted with English politic- do not
inquire h-fore they condemn. Ezra Heywood
writes in the Princeton Word:—* Even Brad-
laugh libels Infidelity by siding with G >vernment
against its wretched victims!" Perhaps Mr.
Heywood will be just enough to say when it was
that Bradlaugh did this.

In the N. R. , Aug. 28, (we hav not other
copies at hand) in his 44 Parliamentary
Jottings," Mr. Bradlaugh says:—

44 We discussed wh-ther buckshot or bullets
made the best cartridges for Irish Constabulary
to use in firing on the people." Mr. Forster, (in
sending troops to shoot down insurgeut peasants)
4 means most well to the Irish people," his
vpeeeh 44 to make the relations between landlord
».*d tenant in Ireland more humane and useful
was 44 most touching/'^—decidedly touching in
the shape of buckshot through the hearts of men
intelligent and brave enough to assert their nat-
ural right to land and the fruit of their labor
thereon. Mr B. wonders *4 that towards the
close of the 19th century Irishmen in the House
of Commons speak with as much hatred against
Englishmen and English rule as, a few years a«ro,
Italians spoke against Austria and Austrian rule;
yet I heard John Dillon honesfly so speak."
We understand Mr. B. votes with Fors-
ter, Gladstone & Co to enforce the la vs
(that is the robberies) in Ireland; he may
do it sadly but, in doing it, he practically
sides with Geo. Ill against Adams and
Washington, with Calhoun and Davis
against Garrison and Lincoln. When
ftlaveholders are " humane and useful "
then landlords may be, but not till then.
Mr. B s words quoted above and his re-
ported votes place him 14 with Govern-
ment against its wretched victimswe
regret to say so arid hope to be corrected
if wrong; such is our faith in the intel-
ligence and humanity of Dissent that we
hate to see Infidels favor invasive vio-
lence ; Christians do that. Mr. B's life-
long and fruitful advocacy of Mental Lib-
erty honors human nature; but his vision
is limited and obscure respecting labor,
love and liberty in the realm of abstract
principles.

Crippled by dismal faith in death and
taxes Liberalism has no initiative of its
own; the Repeal Issue moved by Free
Lovers, makes it a power here; but,
whether Wright, Bennett. Wakeman,
Lucy Col maw & Leland hav character
enough to sustain that issue & dislodge
usurpers from the citadel of Constitutional
Liberty which Comstock, Ingersoll, Gar-
field & Co. now hold against Progress is
not yet apparent. To use Cook's meta-
phor, when Train trims his thumbnails he
cuts off an Ingersoll and a Beecher. The
Irish World, a Catholic newspaper, is far
ahead of the Truth Seeker and Investiga-
tor in Labor Ethics; Irish priests can
teach Bradlaugh the A. B. C. of Indus-
trial Equity. All honor to him and Be-
sant for their stout vindication of the
right to publish preventives of conception.
Is it lack of science or courage or both
which disenables them to see that Liberty
is the natural, invincible guarantee of
Equity and Love? If they see Truth why
don't they proclaim and incarnate it,
knowing that " worlds will not fall apart"

though blood-stained empires perish ?
Weaver mouths 44 principles;" Paruell
44 wants landlords to get out o%f Ireland;"
then he must go, for he ie a landlord rob-
bing labor of its own in taking one penny
for the use or sale of land. Until Land
Leaguers, Liberals, Green backers know
enough to respect Liberty, to keep their
hands of of other people's property, they
must continue to ;o to school in the Na-
ture of Things. Why should Bradlaugh
presume to teach or legislate.* before he
has learned that rent, interest, marriage,
taxation, prisons, are indefensible ? The
dreary platitudes of Mill and Ricardo are
resented byr acres of imposed destitution
and squalor in London; volcanic fires of
retributive wrath undergulf scholarly
Nescience, poiscning pure air with its
oratory and spoiling tons of good white
paper to print learned barbarism But
when Bradlaugh favors Enterprise in con-
ception; when Paruell voices Liberty in
politics, the world listens. Why should
not Irishmen 44 hate " England ? If ever
mm and women had the right of and cause
fur REVOLUTION, Parnell & Co. hav it
now. The tools belong to those who can
use them, said Napoleon ; land and the
power to exchange freely the products of
their labor are the tools which perishing
millions now giope for; drifting towards
the abolition of property in raw materials
and the removal of restrictions on ex-
change, Ireland, writhing under centu-
lies of invasive savagery, pleads for
power to liv, for right to labor and the
fruits thereof; she has the ear and the
sympath}7 of the whole world excepting
a few classic robbers calling themselves
England; while Forster, Bradlaugh & Co.
keep intrusive feet on the neck of their
hitherto lucrativ victim, a world-wide,
quickening Sense of Equity yearns to
furni h explosives to blow the British
Empire into merited oblivion.

Parnell & Co. are called for trial Dec.
28 ; Burke said to Lord North, 44 You can
not. frame an indictment against a whole
people;" Gladstone invades popular right,
putting himself and his lieutenant robbers
on trial in the world's parliament; some
Elizabeth Hey rick, (the teacher of Wil-
berforco and Buxton) should now show
Euglishme/t how not to steal; "Boycot-
ting" is an associative effort to say "No;"
44 Burking " is another Irish word derived
from one hung in B. L. 44; he killed per-
sons in order to sell their bodies; Trench
says 44 the murdering of poor, helpless
lodgers to sell their bodies to surgeons
for dissection cannot be regarded as a
crime shared by the nation;" capitalists
for pecuniary gain kill millions of work-
ing people by slow starvation; the mar-
tial exponent of such murderers the great-
est living butcher of men, Grant, is
thought worthy of a crown. . . Garfield's
vote is 4,439,415 ; Hancock's 4,436,014;
Weaver's 305,729; Dow's 9,644 ; others
1,793; Garfield's majority over Hancock
3,401; his minority under all, 313,765 !
Tilden's majority over Hayes in Y. L. 4
was 250,807 ; over all 156,909; Cooper
had 81,740.—The Word, Jan. Y. L. 9.
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Contents: Citizen right vs.Law and order. -
Evolution of morals in youth. - Sex education
of children. - An open letter to Walt.Whitman.•
On the suppression of Leaves of Grass.

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