Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-11-29
MARRIAGE AND SUCCESS,
A Correspond-nt, Views on the Biesse-i-
ness of MstT imnny.

Nearly all the successful men arc
MARI ed. All our great authors.
writers. speakers. generals. statesmen
took to themselves Z early life a wife.
with whom they have served their coun-
try, establishing homes and rearing
families, SO that the except on is nota-
Bile and the rule almost inyariahle. |
query whether it is more difficult for
than for bachelors. for experience
shows that the average person goes
through lfe making Just little less
than his necessities demand Ii all de-
pends upon the way one starts. how he
progresses and how he lives. A man
who makes five thousand dollars year
and spends SIX thousand dollars is OBJ
vIOuSly born to trouble, and so along
the upper gamut of 'pecunary income.
until We touch the highest figures.
where men coin. by the bright utili2a-
ton of their int"llects. all the way from
fifty thousand dollars to one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars year. and
can not Content themselves with ex-
pend lures smaller than seventy five
thousand dollars to two hundred thou
sand dollars year. The certainty that
rent day is coming and also the bills of
the butcher, the baker. the grocer, the
tailor. the school teacher, the livery
stable. the servants and thousand
and one sources which VIII Instantly
occur to man of family. stimulates
the laz est to efforts and haloes the
iabors of the Industrious. We who are
in life know this. We who are in the tolls
OF life bearing the burdens of the day,
See that continuous striving is no harder
to Us than to those who. standing by
our side. have no burdens to
bear save those of their own
sclf-indulgence. l never hear
man say he would get married if
he could afford it without distrusting
him. Such men would be misers if
they had anything to save. Such men
would hoard and gloat and take pleas
ure in the physical presence of gold
and silver and the rustling of bank
notes.
What is money for but to spend9
Why do we spend It but TO secure enjoy
ments born of comforts and luxury for
those We love as well as for ourselves?
You will notice | am not discussing
this question of matrimOny from the
plane of morality. from the plane of
companionSh p. from the plane of help
fulr e>s. but solely and singly from the
plane of independence whereOn we
stand. finding il a. easy to support two
as one. and half dozen rs two.
Meager riISt he he in mental and phys
ical equipment who hesitates to plunge
in the cauldron OF mltrimony because
he can not afford it. Utterly made
quate must be his conception of the
aids and abetments which necessity
prov dcS if he hesitateS to marry
woman he loves for fear he can not
prov de cage pretty enough for his
b rd.
How many times would even the
dullest minded man present himself to
his wife and children drunk? How
often VIII the most callou>rd ear hear
W thout response his chlldrcn'S cry for
bread? How ones conscience must be
scared and beaten into deafness ere he
can see Shjvering. because unprotected
by needed clothing. the limbs of wife
and childrcn' The mans own self
respect precludcS the poSs bilitv of such
outrageous traverscS of decencv as
these. That there are drunkards who
are married and have children is an
unfortunate fact. But | firmly believe
their number would be vastly aug
meutcd if matrmony was the exception
and SINGLE hleS-rineSs the rule of the