The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-03-22

only 10 look over tne TecOruS OF tne
states. In the city of San Francisco
333 divorces I'm one year; and in twenty
years In New England 10000. Is that
not easy enough?
What we want in this country and in
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 IL except through
the door of the sepulchre. Then they
will pause on the verge of that relation
until they are fully satisfied that 1t Is
best, and that 1t is right. and that 1t is
/ happiest. Then we shall have no more
marriage in fun. Then men and women
will not enter the relation with the idea
that IL is only trial trip. and IL they do
not like II they can get out at the first
landing. Then this whole question VIII
be taken out Of the frivolous into the
! tremendous, and there will be no more
joking about the blossoms in 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, ana 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 ell the states.
/ How IS It now? If party in the mar
riage relation gets dissatisfied. IL 10 only
/ necessary to move TO another state 10
/ achieve liberation from the domestic
! tie, and divorce Is effected so easy that
/ the first one party knows OF 1t Is by
/ seeing in the newspaper that Rev. DR..
/ Somebody on March II, 1895, introduced
/ IN q new marriage relation a member OF
1 the household who went OF on n 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 a 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 law
full at twelve and fourteen years OF age.
The congress Of the United States
needs to move To-, n 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 10 the
Golden Horn. That wiz put an end TO
| brokerages in marriages. That VIII
send divorce lawyers into a decent bust
ness. That will set people agitated TOT
many years on the question OF how
shall they get away from each other TO
planning how they can adjust them
! selves to the more or less unfaVoraoie
circumstances.
More difficult divorce will put an es-
TOPPED to a great extent upon marriage
| as a financial speculation. There are
men VINO 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
unattractiye. and in disposition sup
pressed Vesuvius. Everybody knows II,
but this masculine candidate for matri-
mOcial 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 IL 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; Tor ne
says: IF / can not stand II. 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 1t Is rs much n 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 IL he goes
into that relation there is no possibility
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would be more slow 10 put his neck in
the yoke. He would say to himself:
Rather than n Caribbean whirlwind
with whole fleet of shipping in its
arms, give me q zephyr off fields OF sun
shine and gardens OF peace"
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder
women from the fatal mistake OF marry
ing men to reform them. II n young
man OF 25 years Of age or 30 years of
age has the habit of strong drink fixed
on him, he is as certainly bound for a
drunkard's grave as that train start
ing out from Grand Central depot at
o'clock tomorrow morning Is bound for
Albany. The train may not reach Al
bany, for IL may be thrown from the
track. The young man may not reach
n 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 8
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 % or 30 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.
II she IS unsuccessful in the expert
ment. why then the divorce law will
ernancipate her because habitual drunk
cnness is n cause for divorce IN Indiana,
Kentucky Florida, Connecticut and
nearly all the states. SO the poor thing
goes to the altar of sacrifice. IL you
will show mo the poverty-struck streets
in any city, 1 will show you the homes
of the women who married men to re-
form them. In one case out OF ten
thousand II may be n successful expert
ment. But have a rigorous divorce
law, and that woman will say: IF 1
am affianced TO that man. IL IS for life"
A rigorous divorce law Will also do