The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-19

the debts and the children, and go oui
OF business exactly the Same as any
partnership that goes bankrupt OF
fails to agree?
Ofc1urse the marriage contract would
ave 20 De drawn with circumspection
and care, but that would be easy. In
ste Id Of "pilling and cooling" or in
daiging in even more expensive nom
sense, the young man and maiden
could put IN their ante-nuptial hours
preparing their contract? Instead of
both trying to occupy one chair at the
sumo time, they could sit at opposite
sides of the table and pass the even
ings drawing up their articles OF agree
ment. After they had concluded the
agreement as to which sh. uld appear
in the instrument as the party Of the
| first and which the party Of the second
part, and had decided which should
hold tue bill of sale OF the COW, and
which exercise exclusive ownership of
the hens, they could provide specific
ally the things to be done and per-
formed by each in consideration of the
covenants and agreements of the
other.
II these details were attended to with
iraft OF the Instrument carefully made
by competent attorney. the legal
status of each would be easily ascer-
tainable. TIE husband and wife beiI
in law separate and distinct persons,
if either should violate the express
provisions of the Contract the other
would have recourse to the usual
remedy. Either rescind the contract
and bring suit for damages, or stand
upon the contract and sue for specific
performance. If 1t agaS so w0rded In
the contract, a mandatory injunction
under seal of Court of competent
jurisdiction requiring the husband to
sleep behind, or 10 peel the potatoes, or
spend his evenings at nome, would no
doubt be perfectly legal and binding.
The wife might, In the same manner,
be enjoined from eating onions, pout-
ing, or singing Sweet Marie, unless
the contract, b. eTpreSS Stipul0- |
ton so provided. la case of DISC
Dedienca the offending party could be
duly arraigned and fined for contempt |
of court; and, in addition to MAKING |
the partnership relation definite and |
ceItain, such system OF conJugal IN
tracing would furnish legal and al
together excellent ground upon which
the emancipated and neHly-enfgan-
chised partner could stand while she
''asserts her rights A specific per-
torrance" would not cost more than
the present divorce; and TO annul the
contract or supercede it by a new one,
would be SO Inexpensive tAat We might
fairly say it would cost nothing, at all.
Shall we noJ declare in our constitu
ton that women and men are equal'
and then let them fight 1t out on that
line if it takes all summer" and the
fore part of the winter?
True, in days gone by, we have been
''old-foeyish." We have contemplated
with c0mpiacency. and even satisfac
ton, the womauly characteristics of
women. We have foolishly thought
that chief among the many excellencles
that adorned her nature, were virtue,
and that sweet and subtle
and lndeinable constituencies that
shTinks from the contemplation of
swell and staggering notorieiy. We
thought woman, as she was, much
better, much safer, and much happier
than contact with political campa gns
could ever make her. We have been
so old-fashioned as to think and be
lieve that we would feel more genuine
pride in one daughter, the contented
wife of proud and happy husband,
than in ninety and-nine nho would
court notoriety as politicians, platform
favorites, or stump speakers; but that
is neither here nor there" 1t is in
sisted that to vote is thu enc thing
needful TO make her 'the equal of
man." and she will be the equal or
nothing. So mote it be. Make her
voter. Sac may, in that line, do fully
as we'll as man has done. It is reas-
surfing to know that she cannot, by
any species of stupidity. do worse.
And whether the foregoing sugges-
lions, as TO putting her lat arms
length" With man, are good or bad, 1t
IS certain Ehei- adoption would not
the interests of the sWeeter
sex. No man need ever tell me that
The male voter, who is responsible for
5he existing political mess, can ever get
The better of woman in settling the
of a marriage contract.