The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-18

whole days for Application and all YOU
viii have 10 prove against a man will
Z be that he LEFT his Newspaper in the middle
I OF the floor and all you win have to prove
[ against woman viii be that her hus-
I hands overcoat IS buttonless. Causes o.
] divorce double in a few Eears-doublei
/ In France. doubled IN England. and
doubled in the United States. To snow
how very easy II is. 1 have 10 tell YOU
that In Western Reserve. Ohio. the proper
f ton OF divorces to marriages celebrated
I IS one 70 eleven; in Rhode Island is one
70 thirteen; in Vermont one 10 fourteen.
! Is not that easy enough2
want you 20 notice that frequency Of
divorce always goes along with the dis
soluteness Of society. Rome for FIVE hun
dred 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 rapidly 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 peo-
pie before they enter that relacion will
be persuaded that there will probably be
% escape from L except through the
door or the sepulchre- Then they will
pause on the verge Of that relation until
they are fully satisfied that Ii IS best and
that II is right, and that IL is happiest
Then we shall have no more marriage in
FUN Then men and women VIII not
enter the relation with the idea IL Is only
a trial trip and IL they do not like it
they can get out at the first landing
Then This whole question viii be taken
osst Of the frivolous into the tremendous.
ana there will be no more joking about
the blossoms in a brides hair than about
the cypress on a coffin.
What we want IS that the congress Of
hn FsaHH
constitution so that a law can be passed
which shall be uniform all over the coun-
try. and what shall be right in one state
shall be right in all the states. and what
is wrong in one state will be wrong in
all the states.
How is it now? II party in the mar
riage relation gets dissatisfied il is only
necessary to move to another state to
achieve liberation from the domestic tie,
and divorce is affected so easy that the
first one party knows OF IL is by seeing
in the newspapers that Rev. DR.. Some
body on March II, 1895 introduced in a
new marriage relation member of the
household who went off on a pleasure
excursion TO Newport or a business ex-
curston to Chicago. Married at the brides
house. No cards. There are states of the
union which practically put a premium
upon the disintegrat.on Of the marriage
relation, while there are other states. ike
our own New York state, that had for
long time the pre-eminent idiocy of
making marriage lawful at u and IA years
OF age.
The congress Of the United States needs
TO move for a change of the national con
sttution, and then TO appoint a committee
not made up Of single gentlemen, but of
men of families. and their families in
Washington-who shall prepare a good,
honest. righteous, comprehensive. uni
form Wi 81
from Sandy Hook to the Golden Horn
That Will put an end to brokerages in
marriages. That will send divorce law
yers into a decent business. That will
set people agitated for many years on
the question OF how shall they get away
from each other to planning how they can
adjust Themselves TO the more or less un-
favorable circumstances.
More difficult divorce will put an estopnel
to great extent upon marriage as a finan-
cial speculation. TheEe are men who 20
into the relation just as they go into Wall
street to purchase shares. The female to
he invited into the partnership of wedlock
Is utterly unattractive, and in disposition
a suppressed Vesuvius. Everybody knows
1t. but this masculine candidate for matri-
monial orders, through the commercial
agency or through the county records,
hnds out how much estate is to be inner:
tied and he calculates II. He thinks out
how long 1t will be before the old man will
die. and whether he can stand the refrac-
tory temper until he does die. and then ne
enters the relation; for he says: IF can
not stand 1t, then through the divorce law
III back out" That process is going on
all the tine, and men enter the relation
without any moral principle. without any
affection. and it Is as much a matter of
stock speculation as anything that trans
pired yesterday in Union Pacific, Illinois
Central or Delaware and Lackawanna.
Now, suppose 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 Glow to put his neck in
the yoke. He would say to himself:
with whole fleet of shipping in its
arms, give me zephyr off fields Of sun
shine and gardens of peace"
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder
women from the fatal mistake of mar
rying men to reform them. If a young
man by twenty-five years of age or thirty
years of age has the habit of strong
drink hxed on him. he is as certainly
bound for drunkard's grave as that
a train starting out from Grand Central
depot at s o'clock tomorrow morn
Tag is bound for Albany. The train NAV
not reach Albany. for it may be thrown
from the track The young man may not
Iedch urunkard'S grave for some thing
may throw him off the iron track of evil
habit but the probability is that the
train that starts tomorrow morning at
eight o'clock for Albany will get there.
and the probability is that the young man
who has the habit of strong drink fixed
on him before twenty-five or thirty years
Of age wMl arrive al a drunkard's grave
She knows he drinks. although he tries
TO hide 1t by chewing cloves. Everybody
knows he drinks. Parents warn, neigh
bors and friends warn. She will marry
him. she will reform him.
If she Is unsuccessful in the experiment
why then the divorce law will ernanci-
pate her. because habitual drunkenness
is a cause for divorce in Indiana, Ken
lucky Florida, Connecticut. and nearly
all the states. So the poor thing goes to
the altar of sacrifice. If you will show
me the poverty-struck streets in any city.
] viii show YOU the homes of the women
who married men to reform them. In one
case out Of ten thousand it may be a
successful experiment. / never saw the
successful experiment. But have a rig
orous divorce law. and that woman will
say: IF l am afianced to that man, it
is for life.
a rigorous divorce law will also do