do
not regard government as a Juggernaut, the wheels of which must,
of necessity, roll over and crush the virtuous, the self-denying
and the good. My doctrine is the exact opposite of what is known
as free love. I believe in the marriage of true minds and of true
hearts. But I believe that thousands of people are married who do
not love each other. That is the misfortune of our century. Other
things are taken into consideration--position, wealth, title and
the thousand things that have nothing to do with real affection.
Where men and women truly love each other, that love, in my judgment,
lasts as long as life. The greatest line that I know of in the
poetry of the world is in the 116th sonnet of Shakespeare: "Love
is not love which alters when it alteration finds."

_Question_. Why do you make such a distinction between the rights
of man and the rights of women?

_Answer_. The woman has, as her capital, her youth, her beauty.
We will say that she is married at twenty or twenty-five. In a
few years she has lost her beauty. During these years the man, so
far as capacity to make money is concerned--to do something--has
grown better and better. That is to say, his chances have improved;
hers have diminished. She has dowered him with the Spring of her
life, and as her life advances her chances decrease. Consequently,
I would give her the advantage, and I would not compel her to remain
with him against her will. It seems to me far worse to be a wife
upon compulsion than to be a husband upon compulsion. Besides
this, I have a feeling of infinite tenderness toward mothers. The
woman that bears children certainly should not be compelled to live
with a man whom she despises. The suffering is enough when the
father of the child is to her the one man of all the world. Many
people who have a mechanical apparatus in their breasts that assists
in the circulation of what they call blood, regard these views as
sentimental. But when you take sentiment out of the world nothing
is left worth living for, and when you get sentiment out of the
heart it is nothing more or less than a pump, an old piece of rubber
that has acquired the habit of contracting and dilating. But I
have this consolation: The people that do not agree with me are
those that do not understand me.

--_New York World_, 1888.

SECULARISM.

_Question_. Colonel, what is your opinion of Secularism? Do you
regard it as a religion?

_Answer_.