The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-21
COMPULSORY MARRIAGE.


Whittier are we drifting? Here comes a
European dispatch which will startle the
civilized world of Old Bachelors:
MUNICH, Oct ia royal decree published
to-day gives effect to the imperial law intro
ducing compulsory civil marriages
This imperial law and this royal decree are
evidently leveled against unmarried men,
King Louis is apparently determined to put
an end to the class of Old Bachelors. Wha.-
ever else Bavarians may do or leave undone
they must marry, and marry in civil way,
because civil marriages are made compul-
sorry. The Munchenians are the frs.
to feel the force of this edict, but it
will soon be felt throughout the
entire realm on both sides of the
Danau. Thence the doctrine will spread all
over Europe and from Europe to America.
The decree has gone forth that there shall be
no more single men or single women, since
marriages have been made compulsory"
We assume that the royal decree Of Louis
applies to all Bavarians of marriageable age
of both sexes, so that from this time onward
all his subjects capable Of marrying who will
not marry, sha be forced into the hymenial
condition nolentes volentes. They may have
lodged the arrows of busy Cupid ten,
twenty, or thirty years, but they must now
obey the imperial law and submit
to the royal decree. They may have all their
arrangements made to finish the journey of
life solitary and alone. They may have formed
such habits as to the play, the club, their
restaurants, their wines and their other little
pleasures as befit their tastes, as correspond
with their income and as are consistent
with their plan and purpose to 60 through
life without any Of the sweet endearments o.
union. They may have made their
calculations in such way as to enable them
to quit the cares and crosses of business and |
retire to rural ease and comfort. They may
objects without any Interior desires.
They may have made advances in their
earlier years towards the stored delights of
the conjugal honey jug, and been repealed by
the cruel sting of jill. But, gentlemen,
you cannot plead any of these circumssa
in bar of the imperial law and royal de-
cree. Even second Lola Montez, with the
BAR and confidence of the Second Louis,
,ould not change this fiat of double mon
archical authority. Marry you can, and
marry you must.
From Bavaria there is every reason to be-
ieve that the anti-ceibacy movement Twill
extend all over Europe. Causes which
operate in Central Germany may be assumed
IS equally operative in all portions of the
Empire and in other countries. Aud as there
ire no fewer bachelors in proportion in this
country than in the Old World, it stands to
'eason that like causes must produce Ike
effects, in spite of an intervening ocean. The
marriage movement may become
IN epidemic enthusiasm and sweep over Europe
md thence across the Atlantic like q vast
'ornado. The prospect is such that all mar
.iageable men who have heretofore declined
putting on the fowery yoke of conjagal bliss
will be wise in preparing to face the music Of
he wedding-day festival. Let them square
themselves for the issue and prepare to meet
I as becomes men and citizens. 1t can not be
ong before the Bavarian tidal wave of anti
'eGbacy will reach these shores and
weep across the Continent, leaving
lot one lonely bachelor to tell the
ale LIE. them prepare, therefore, for the ]
Inevitable, and begin to look around |
mopg their female acquaintance for !
be least Objectionable. Let them ,
ultivate a compulsory taste for female So {
iety and familiarize their minds with scenes {