Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-03-21


states. In the city of San Francisco
years in New England 10000. Is thai
not easy enough?
What we want in this country and il
all lands is that divorce be made more
and more and more difficult. Then
people before they enter that relation
! will be persuaded that there will prob
ably be no escape from it except through
the door Of the sepulchre. Then they
will pause on the verge of that relation
until they are fully satisfied that it 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 relation with the idea
that it is only trial trip, and if they do
not like it they can get out at the first
landing. Then this whole question will
be taken out of the frivolous into the
tremendous, and there will be no more
joking about the blossoms in a brides
hair than about the cypress on coffin.
What we want is that the congress of
the United States change the national
constitution so that law can be passed
which shall be uniform all over the
country, 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? If party in the mar
riage relation gets dissatisfied. it is only
necessary to move to another state to
achieve liberation from the domestic
tie, and divorce is effected so easy that
the first one party knows of it is by
seeing in the newspaper that Rev. DR..
Somebody on March II, 1895, introduced
in new marriage relation a member of
the household who went off on a pleas
ure excursion to Newport or business
excursion to Chicago. Married at the
brides house. No cards. There are
states of the Union which practically
put premium upon the disintegration
or the marriage relation, while there
are other states, like our own New York
state, that had for a long time the pre-
eminent idiOCy of making marriage law
full at twelve and fourteen years of age.
The congress of the United States
needs to move TO- change of the ma
tional constitution, and then to appoint
committeeman made up of single
gentlemen but of men of families, and
their families in Washington-who shall
prepare a good, honest, righteous. COM
prehenSive, uniform law that will con-
troll everything from Sandy Hook TO the
Golden Horn. That will put an end to
brokerages in marriages. That will
send divorce lawyers into a decent bust
ness. 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 them
tn In
circumstances.
More difficult divorce will put an es-
topped to a great extent upon marriage
as financial speculation. There are
men who go into the relation just as
they go into Wall street to purchase
shares. The female to be invited into
the partnership of wedlock is utterly
and in disposition sup
pressed VesuVius. Everybody knows 1t,
but this masculine candidate for matri-
mOnial orders, through the commercial
agency or through the county records,
finds out how much estate is to be in
herited, and he calculates it. He thinks
out how long it will be before the old
man will die, and whether he can stand
the refractory temper until he does die
and then he enters the relation; for he
says: IF l can not stand 1t, then
through the divorce law I'll back out"
That process is going on all the time,
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 transpired
yesterday in Union Pacific, Illinois Cen
trail or Delaware & 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 a Caribbean whirlwind
with a whole fleet of shipping in it's
arms, give me a zephyr off fields of SUM-
shine and gardens of peace"
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder
women from the fatal mistake of marry
ing men to reform them. If a young
man of % years of age or 80 years of
age has the habit of strong drink fixed
On him. he is as certainly bound for
lrunkard's grave as that train start
ng out from Grand Central depot at s
clock tomorrow morning is bound for
Albany. The train may not reach AL
bany, for it may be thrown from the
track. The young man may not reach
4 drunkard's grave, for something may
throw him off the iron track of evil habit;
but the probability is that the train
that starts tomorrow morning at s
D 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 25 or 80 years of age will
arrive at a drunkard's grave. She
knows he drinks, although he tries to
hide it 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 expert |
ment, why then the divorce law will
her, because habitual drunk |
enness is a cause for divorce in Indiana,
Kentucky, 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 |
n any city, I will show you the homes
If the women who married men to re-
form them. In one case out of ten |
thousand it may be a successful expert
nent But have a rigorous divorce |
aw. and that woman will say: IF |
an affianced to that man, it is for life"
A rigorous divorce law will also do
much to hinder hasty and inconsiderate
marriages Under the impression that |
)ne can be easily released, people enter |