The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-04-12

YOU Vnni 90 know how rapidly tho empire
went down, ask Gibbon.
What we want In this country and IN al
lands % that divorce DO made moro and
more and moro dimoult Thon people be-
fore they enter that relation win be per-
sauded that there viii probably BE- no escape
from it except through the door Of the sep
uicher Then they viii pause on the verge
OF that relation until they are fully satisfied
that Il a best, and that Il is right, and that
lt ia happlest. Then we shall have no more
marriage in fun. Then men and women viii
not onier the relation with the idea It u only
a tdal1rip, and II they do not like 10 they
can get out at the lrst landing. Then this
whole question viii be- taken out OF the trlv-
olous into the tremendous. and there viii be-
no more joking about the blossoms In a
BRIDES hair than about the cypress on @
coffin
What we want O. that the Congress Of the
United States change the National COnstltu-
tlon 80 that a law can be- passed which shall
be uniform all over the country, and what
shall be right In ono State shall be right IN
all the States and what Is wrong In one State
viii be wrong I'm an the States.
How Is It now2 n party IN the marriage
relation gets dissatisfied, u Is only necessary
20 move 20 another State 30 achloye liberia
ton from the domestic tie, and divorce Is
effected SO easy that the first one party knows
OF Il Is by seeing In the newspaper that Rev.
DR.. Somebody on March ~, 1895. introduced
In a new marriage relation a member OF the
household who went on on pleasure oxeur-
sion 70 Newport or a business excursion 20
Chicago. Married 90 the brides house. No
cards. There are States of the Union which
practically put premium upon the disin-
/ tegraton Of the marriage relation, while
there are other States, like our own New York
State, that had for "a long time the present.
nent idioey Of making marriage lawful at
twelve and fourteen years Of age.
The Congress OF the United States needs 70
move for a change OF the National Constitu-
ton and 70 appoint q committeeman made
up Of single gentlemen, but OF men OF fami-
lies, and their families IN Washington-Who
shall prepare a good, honest righteous. COM
| prehenslve. uniform law that will control
everything from Sandy Hook to the Golden
Horn. That viii put an end 10 broken ties
In marriages. That will send divorce law
/ yers into a decent business. That will set
| people agitated for many years on the ques-
/ ton Of how shall they get away from each
other to planning how they can adjust them
selves to the more or less unfayorable circum-
stances.
More difficult divorce will put an estoppel
TO great extent upon marriage as a hnan-
/ ci2l speculation. There are men who 20 in
10 the relation Just as they 90 into Wall street
| TO purchase shares Tho female to be invited
into the partnership OF wedlock Is utterly
unattractiye and in disposition a suppressed
| Vesuvius. Everybody knows It but this mas
culine candidate for matrimonial orders,
through the commercial agency or through
the county records, finds out how much
estate IL to be inherited, and he calculates it.
He thinks out how long it will be before the
old man will die, and whether he can stand
] Ahn az, 4
! then he enters the relation, for he SAYS eff
cannot stand it, then through the divorce
/ law I'll back out" That process is going on
/ all the time, and men enter the relation With
| out any moral principle, without any affec-
| tion, and II is as much a matter Of stock spec
| ulatlon as anything that transpired yesterday
/ in Union Pacific, Illinois Central or Della
! ware and Lackawanna.
Now, suppose a man understood, as he
| ought to understand, that If he goes into that
/ relation there is no possibility Of his getting
| out, or no probability, he would be more slow
| to put his neck in the yoke He would say
| to himself, 'Rather than Caribbean whirl-
! wind with a whole feet of shipping in its
arms give me q zephyr of fields Of sunshine
and gardens Of peace
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder wo-
men from the fatal mistake Of marrying men
| to reform them. If young man by twenty
five years of age or thirty years of age have
the habit of strong drink fixed on him, he is
as certainly bound for a drunkard's grave a.
that train starting out from Grand Contra
Depot at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning /!
bound for Albany. The train may not reacf
Albany, for it may be thrown off the track
The young man may not reach drunkards
grave, for something may throw him off the
iron track of evil habit, but the probability 4
that the train that starts tomorrow morning
at s o'clock for Albany will get there, an(
the probability is that the young man who
has the habit of strong drink fixed on hin
before twenty-five or thirty years OF age vii
arrive at a drunkard's grave. She knows h
drinks, although he tries to hide it by chew
ing cloves. Everybody knows he drinks
Parents warn; neighbors and friends warn
She will marry him; she will reform him.
Ifsheis unsuccessfulin the experiment, why
then the divorce law will emancipate her be
cause habitual drunkenness is a cause for di
vorce in Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Con
necticut and nearly all the States. So tn
poor thing goes to the altar of sacrifice.
you will show me the poverty struck street
in any city, l will show you the homes Of tn
women who married men to reform them.
one case out of 10, 900 it may be a successful
experiment. never saw the successful OF
pertinent. But have rigorous divorce Law
and that woman will say, 'If / am alliance
to that man, it is for life"
A rigorous divorce law will also do mucl
to hinder hasty and inconsiderate mar
riages. Under the impression that one CA
be easily released people enter the relatio
without inquiry and without reflection
Romance and impulse rule the day. Pei
hsps the only ground for the marriage CON
pact Is that she likes his looks, and he &C
miTes the graceful way she passes aroun
the ice cream at the picnicl 1t is all the
, know about each other. 1t is all the prepar'
ton for life. A woman that could not MAX
a loaf of bread to save her life will swear I
cherish and obey. A Christian will MARI
, an atheist, and that always makes col
joined Indebtedness, for If man does n,
, believe there is God he is neither to
!, trusted with dollar nor with your lifelon
! happiness. Having read much about loV
in cottage, people brought up in ease wi
md pAo In n