The Sixth Con¤:nandment• V
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” Herndon J. Evans
"Because of sex, we have love, infidelity, faithful-
ness, varietism, sensuality, and- the saint who abhoss
it all. with the exception of Alexander Hamilton and
myself, there are no individuals who, once charged with
adultery, have not been, in so far as public usefulness
is concerned, relegated to the limbo of the 1nutile.I (f
am not here to apologize, but to set forth the asininity
of this social dishonesty, which I might call social lun-
. acy."- Theodore Dreiser, THE SEEENTH COHEANDHEHT, Liberty,
April 2, April 9.
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Murder, ranging from that of the K;ng*s English to that of the
° ‘ English kings, never has been presented as one of the arts. Despite the
efforts of many outstanding personages of all times to popularize murder
it has never been acc~rded its proper place in history. Today, in spite
of the fact that we find it on every hand, it it looked upon askance by
many persons who see in it only the sordid.
Great careers have ended in ignominyg innocent persons have fac» (~
ed disgrace, all because of some crudely planned murder. Hany great men,
who, had they been permitted to carry out their murders sithout interrup·
tion and had they been permitted to conceal their crimes, might today be
rendering great public service. Few men, with the possible exception of
. Alexander the Great and Wilhelm of Germany, who operated strictly ia the
wholesale field, have been able to rise above the disgrace- attached by
many prudish and narrow-minded individuals to murder• and have gone to
their graves broken and dishonored just because some rustic detective
® happened to see them in some careless moment toss a bloody stiletto into
\ , a rose garden, pitch a smoking revolver into a stream or rake a covering *“
\\ of autumn leaves over a torso.