Connecticut western news., 1895-03-21

 from the timo when our courts will have to set apart whole days for appli- cation, and all you will have to prove against man will be that he left his in tho middle of the floor, and all you will have to prove against a woman will be that her husbands overcoat is buttonless. Causes of di- vorce double in few years-doubled in France. doubled in England and doubled in the United States. To show how very easy it is I have to tell you that in western reserve, Ohio, the pro- portion of divorces to marriages cele- brated is to II, in Rhode Island is l to IS, in Vermont to l4. Is not that easy enough?
 want you to notice that frequency of divorce always goes along with the dis soluteness 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. If you want to know how rapidly the empire went down, ask Gib- bon.
 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 relation will be persuaded that there will probably be no escape from it except through the door of the sepuloher. Then they will pause on the verge of that relation un- til they are fully satisfied that it is best, and that it is right, and that 1t IS hap piest. Then we shall have no more mar riage in fun. Then men and women will not enter the relation with the idea 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.
 Uniform Laws In All States
 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 fe right ill all the states, and what is wrong in one state will be wrong in all the states.
 How is it now? If a 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 see- ing in the newspaper that Rev. Dr. Somebody on March IF, 1895, introduo- ed in a now marriage relation mem Der of tho household who went off on a pleasure excursion to Newport or busi- ness excursion to Chicago. Married at the brides house. No cards. There are states of the Union which practically put premium upon the disintegration of the marriage relation, while there are other states, like our own New York state, that had for long time the pre-eminent idiocy of making marriage lawful at 12 and IA years of age.
 The congress of the United States needs to move for change of the na- tional constitution and to appoint Q committee-not made up of single gen. tlemen, but of men of families, and their families in Washington = who shall prepare Q good, honest, righteous, comprehensive, uniform law that will control everything from Sandy Hook to the Golden Horn. That will put an end to broken ties in marriages. That will send divorce lawyers into decent busi- ness. That will>set people agitated for many years on the question of how shall they get away from each other to plan ming how they can adjust themselves to the moro or less unfavorable circum- stances.
 Marriage as . Speculation.
 More difficult divorce will put an es- toppel to a great extent upon marriage as a financial speculation. There are men who go into tine relation just as they go into Wall street to purchase shares. The female to be invited into the partnership of wedlock is utterly rnattraotive and in disposition a sup pressed vesuvius- Everybody knows it, 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 put 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 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 without any moral principle, without any affection. and it is as much matter of stock spec- ulation as anything that transpired yes- terday in Union Pacific, Illinois Central pr Delaware and Lackawanna
 Now, suppose a man understood, as he ought to understand, that if he goes in. to that relation there is no possib bility 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 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 young man by 25 years of age or 30 years of age have the habit of strong drink fixed on him. he is as certainly bound for a drunkard's grave as that train starting out from Grand Central depot at g o'clock tomorrow morning is bound for Albany. The train may not reach Albany, for it may be thrown off the track. The young man may not reach drunkard $ grave. for something may throw him off the iron-t of evil habit, but the probability is that the train that starts tomorrow morning at o'clock for Al bany will get there, and the probability is that the young man who has the habit of strong drink fixed on him be- fore 25 or 30.years of age will arrive al a drunkard's grave. She knows he drinks, although he tries to hide it by chewing cloves. Everybody knows he drinks. Parents warn; neighbors and friends warn. She will marry him; she will reform him.
 The Altar of Sacrifice.
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