Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-03-21

- ensy. Inc state OF lllnOls, tnrouBn lt1
legislature, recites long list Of proper
sausss for divorce and then closes up by
giving 10 the courts the right to make a
decroe Of divorce in any case whero they
deem 1t expedient After that you are not
surprised at the announcement that IN
one county Of the state Of Illinois in one
year there were s83 divorces II you want
to know how easy 1t is, you have only to
look over the records OF the states. In the
city Of Gan Francisco 3s3 divorces In one
year, and IN 90 years in New England ao,-
600. Is that not easy enoughi
II the same ratio continue-the ratio of
multiplied divorce and multiplied causes
Of divorce-we are not far from the time
when our courts will have to set apart
whole days for application, and all you
will have to prove against q man will be
that he left his newspaper In the middle
of the floor, and all you will have to prove
against q woman will be that her hus-
bands overooat Is buttonless. Causes OF
divorces double in few years-doubled In
France, doubled In England and doubled
in the United States To show how very
easy 1t Is have to tell you that in west
ern reserve, Ohio, the proportion OF d.
vorces to marriages celebrated is to IL,
In Rhode Island is to IS, in Vermont
to IA. Is not that easy enoughs
Marriage In Fun.
Iwant you to notice that frequency Of
divorce always goes along with the disso-
luteness Of society. Rome for 500 years
had not one case of divorce Those were
her days of glory and virtue. Then the
reign of vice began, and divorce became
epidemic. II you want to know how rap
idly the empire went down, ask Gibbon.
What we want in this country and in
all lands is that divorce be made more and
more and more difficult Then people be-
fore they enter that relation will be per-
suaded that there will probably be no es-
cape from 1t, except through the door Of
the sepulober. Then they will pause on
the verge Of that relation until they are
fully satisfied that 1t is best, and that it is
right, and that it is happiest Then we
shall have no more marriage in fun. Then
men and women will not enter the rela-
tion with the idea it is only trial trip,
and II they do not like 1t they can get out
at the first landing. Then this whole
| question will bo taken out of The frivolous
into the tremendous, and there will be
no more joking about the blossoms in a
brido's hair than about the cypress on O
coffin.
What we want is that the congress Of
| the United States change the national
constitution so that law can be passed
which shall bo uniform all over the coun.
try, and what shall be right in one state
shall be right in all the states, and what
10 wrong in one state will be wrong in al
| the states.
| How is it now? If party in the mar
riage relation gets dissatisfied, 1t is only
necessary to move to another state tC
achieve liberation from the domestic tie
and divorce is effected SO easy that tht
first one party knows of it is by seeing il
the newspaper that Rev. DR.. Somebody
on March IL, 1895, introduced in new
marriage relation member Of the house
hold who went off on pleasure excursion
| to Newport or business excursion to Chi
oago. Married at the BRIDES house. M
cards. There are states of the Unio1
1 which practically put premium upon th
disintegration of the marriage relation
while there are other states, like our owl
New York state, that had for long tim
the pre-eminent idiocy of making mar
riage lawful at 10 and IA years of age.
Uniform Divorce Laws.
The congress of the United States need
to move for change of the national con
stitution and then to appoint a committe
not made up of single gentlemen, bu
of men of families, and their families il
Washington-who shall prepare a good
honest, righteous, comprehensive, uniform
law that will control everything from
Sandy Hook to the Golden Horn. Tha
will put an end to brokerages in mar
riages That will send divorce lawyers int
decent business. That will set peopl
agitated for many years on the question
of how shall they get away from each 9th
er to planning how they can adjust them
selves to the more or less unfavorabl
circumstances
More difficnlt divorce will put an estoI
pei to great extent upon marriage as
financial speculation. There are men VIII
40 into the relation just as they go int
Wall street to purchase shares. The femal
to be invited into the partnership of wed
lock Is utterly unattractive and in disposi
tion suppressed Vesuvius Everybod
knows it, but this masculine candidate fo
ciaI aaanoy ~ throngh tbe county records
ends e,,t how ,,,,ch estate ia IN be inherit
al and no coicnlatas If He thinks on
HOW lone n yyil, be before the old man wi
dia and ,vborbor be can stand the refra,
t,r, ~ ta,,,,,ar ,,,til be doos die and then h
~, ,s tors s ,ha ,o,at;or nor ba saws .sTf car
nat sta,d nd 4 than tbronoh tbe divorce Ia,
TIL TIL hacs o,,tsn That rrocess is going O
an the time and men enter the relotio
III sr;+hn,,t an1 moral nripcinla withont an
afsaat;a,, a,,I n 10 os ,,,,,cb n matter :
stooL srsc,lot,on as anvthing that trar
snirad gesterdav in TTnion Pacific. Illinoj
IN, troiI -, nelnyara ana T,ackawanna,
Mo,., snrnoso a man understood as i,
o,ntt :, ,,pdsrstand that If he goes int
tbet reIatinn tbara ia M nossihilitv of n
aattina I'M, ~ no nrobahil;tv he wonl
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