Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-18

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WI nave - prove against n man ,vr,i 4.
Iist nc LETT his newspaper In m. r,i,sIs
Oh INC iloor, and all you will nav, a., .'.
against woman will be that be. ' ~
panu'S oyercoat is buttonless csnsa. y,
liNorce double in few years-ao,hiss ~
france. doubled In England and donn,ad
IN the United States. To show how ,,a.,,
ensy 1t Is hayc to tell You that in vvos,
ern reserve, Ohio, the pronnrtion ." az
voreos to marriages celebrated IL - - ", W.
''y isiaiu Is to IL, In Vermont
70 ~ is not that easy enough,
Marriage In Fun.
want you to notice that frequency of
divorce always goes along with tho disso.
iuteness OF society. Rome for boo years
mad not ono case Of divorce. Those vvoro
her days Of glory and virtue. Tben the
rolgn oil Vioo began, and divorce became
epineinic. III you want to know how ran.
iuiy the empire went down, ask Glbbon.
Mhht we want In this country md In
all lands Is that divorce DO made mora md
more ana more difficult Then peoplo DO.
ioro they enter that relation will be per
suhued That there will probably be no es.
cape from 1t, except through the door OF
inc sepuloher. Thon they will pause on
tho verge OF that relation until they arc
fully satisfied that It is best, and that Il il
right, and that 1t Is hnpplest. Then we
shall have no more marriage in fun. Then
men and women will not enter tho rela.
ton with the Idea 1t is only trial trim.
and II they do not Ike 1t they can get out
at the first landing. Then this whole
question VIII be taken out of the frivolous
into tho tremendous, and there will be
no more Joking about the blossoms in a
brides hair than about tho cypress on
coffin.
What we want Is that tho congress OF
tho United States change tho national
constitution so that 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 tho statos, and whit
Is wrong in one state will be wrong In nil
tho states.
How is it nowi II party in tho mar.
rlage relation gets dissatisfied 1t is only
necessary to move to another state to
achieve liberation from tho domestic tie,
and divorce is effected 30 easy that tho
first one party knows OF 1t is by seeing In
tho newspaper that Rev. DR.. Somebody
on March II, 1896 introduced in new
marriage relation member of tho house
hold who went OIL on pleasure excursion
to Newport orr business excursion to Chi
oago. Married at tho brido's house No
cards, There are states Of the Union
which practically put o premium upon tho
dislntegratlon Of the marriage relation,
while there are other states, like our own
New York state, that had for a long tlmu
the pre-ominent idiuoy Of making mar
ringe lawful at ~ and IA years of age.
Uniform Divorce Laws.
The congress OF tho United States needs
to move for change OF the national con.
stitution and then to appoint committee
not mado up OF single gentlemen, but
Of men Of families, and their families IN
Washington-who shall prepare good,
honest, righteous, comprehensive, uniform
law that will control everything from
Sandy Hook to tho Golden Horn. That
will put an end to brokoraRes in mar
riages Tint will send divorce lawyers into
decent business That will set people
agitGted for many years on the question
Of how shall they get away from each 9TH
or to planning how they can adjust thom-
selves to tho more or less unfayorable
circumstances.
More difficult divorce will put nm estop-
pei to n great extent upon marriage us n
financial speculation. There nro 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 we'd
lock Is utterly unattrnotiyo and In DISPOSE
ton suppressed Vesuvius. Everybody
knows 1t, but this masculine candidate for
matrimonial orders, through tho CONNER
cial agency or through the county records,
finds out how much estate Is to no inherit
ed, and he calculates it, He thinks out
how long 1t will be before tho old man will
die and whether he can stand the refrao'
tory temper until he does die, and then ho
enters the relation, for bo says, "If can
not stand 1t, then through the divorce law
I'll back out" That process is going on
all the time, and mon enter the relation
without any moral principle, without any
affection, md 1t Is MS much mnttor OF
stock speculation as anything that tran
spired yesterday In Union Pacific, Illinois
Central or Delaware and Lackawanna,
Now, suppose man understood, as no
ought to understand, that II he goes into
that relation there is 10 possibility OF his
getting out or no probability, no would
be- more slow to put his neck IN the yoke
He would say to himself Rather than a
Caribbean whlrlwind, with whole fleet OF
shipping in its arms, giyo mo n zephyr on
fields OF sunshine and gardens OF peace"
Tho Altar Of Sacrifice.
R,gorons divorce law will also hinder
women from tho fatal mistake OF marry
ing men TO reform them. II young man
by g5 years of nge or 30 years OF age mas
tho habit Of strong drink fixed on him. no
IA as certainly bound for n drunkard
grave as that train starting out from
Grand Central depot at o'clock toinot-
row morning Is bound for Albany The
train may not reach Albany, for 1t may
ho thrown from tho track. The young
man may moi reach drunknrd's grave
for something may throw him of tho iron
trao,; OF evil habit, but the probability IS
that the train that starts tomorrow morn
inc at 8 o clock for Albany will get there
ma the probability Is that tho young man
Who ms the bnbit OF strong drink liked on
him before 20 or 80 years OF age VIII nF
rive at tlrunkard's grave. She Knows no
drinks. although he tries to hide 1t ny
chewing cloves, Everybody knows nc
drInks Parents warn, neighbors ana
sr,ends warn She will marry him. Sho
will reform him. -,
~ sha "a unsuccessful in tho expert
mont WHY. then tho divorce law VIII
sr,anclnate her, because hnbitual drunk
s,,,,ass is n cause for divorce In lnuianh'
T"ntnolv. Floridn, Connecticut and near
=, an no states. SO the poor thing goes
10 tho altar Of sacrifice IL you WIZ snow NV
me the poverty struck STRESS es >, ,ha worcn