Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-12-14
MEXICO. MISSOURI, THURSDAY
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Better So Than Csatiaaed Perdition
f for All Pastisy Law None
T Tee Lenisnt.
/ Divorce suits are becoming alarm
Iingly common, especially in this
county. Femg peMl1 who eontem-
Iplate marriage, shbu&a study well
each others cllaractsf, and, unless
they are certain they truly and de-
votedly love each Other, and will live
for better Or wore they should
abandon any idea q natrimony, else
they wreck two live and disgrace
their offspring. We do not exactly
agree with great writer who says:
"They laws as they exist have, 1 be-
lieve, adenoralizi effect upon soci-.
ETY.. Why, every woman Who throws
a dish-pan or broom at her husband
makes it possible for him to come
before a court and successfully de-
mand a divorce. Every man who
slaps his wife little too hard to de-
note affection opens the way for her
to secure divorce. / consider ex-
treme and repeated cruelty or deser-
ton insufficient grounds for granting
divorces. Of course can very read
lily see how it might be very desirable
for woman to be released from a.
cruel husband, but think it would
be much better for society in general
for her to remain his wife," We think
not. The writer of the above is either
a cynic, a fool, or has no soul. There
is every reason for q divorce, and no
reason for larger hell on earth.
Such utterances are
Unchristian,
Uncivilized. -~@
Free as the system Of divorce may
be, it isn't free enough for this day of
Light and
Liberty. ~.-
! Why?
Because the married life that has
no love in it-that is one persistent
and perpetual
Wrangle and
Jangle
Is no better than prostitution.
The above writer-the two-legged
relic of remote and barbaric period
of human history-would force a re-
fined, delicate, helpless woman TO live
with rough, depraved stalwart man,
who
Beat,
Kicked and
Cursed @
Her-who made her home hell.
Think of it, will you?
| He may rob her of her wages, de-
Iprive her Of her property, force her
to work in the field like an or, refuse
to supply her with money, forbid her
to enter her own home, rawhide her
till the red blood trickles into her
shoes, and yet, she must live with him,
serve him. She must bear her bur-
der to the coffin, and bear it without
complaint.
Away with such principle ts)
| Gush,
Stormy - ~s@
He'll, ~ s-s
Or whatever you may wish to term
what would make life worse than
death to a woman. She must con-
tinue to live with this |
: Monster, "
Brute,
Fiend, EEl 5## Es "a
Whose only desire is to make her
miserable and friendless. She must
not protect her child-her own flesh
and blood-from the i'll treatment,
curses, blows Of ITS inhuman, beastly
father. - =@
She must not try to snap the man
acles that bind her to this living
+ Death and
Damnation!
She must not fee for protection to
| Father,
| Mother,
| Friend! -.-...- .-sz~
Theswnter referred toevidenty has
no sympathy for the white slave who
Wears the chain and
Feehs the lash
Ofa
Despotic and
Deyilish
/ Husband!
| The LEDGER wishes to heaven high
that the writer in question was mar
ried to
Red-headed,
DOuble-fisted
Termagant, who would hurl the
family teapot at his head whenever
he dared to contradict her; who
would grab his trousers by the seat
of government, and sweep the home
fireside with his judicial finger when
ever he refused her little pin-money
|who would leave him to rock the how
ow-owling cradle while she went to
lsee a woman just round the corner
who Tould