The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-03-22
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER.

tuBeS, unul III is WOnuer 10 mo tnht
there are any deoencies or any common
sense left on the subject Of marriage,
One.hnlf Of the newsstands Of all our
cities reeking with tho filth.
Now" say some. I'VE admit all
these evils, and the only way to clear
them out or correct them is by easy di.
toros." Well, before we yield to that
DRY let us ind out how ensy 1t Is now.
Wholesale Divorce.
have looked over the laws Of all the
states, and / find that, while in some
states 1t 10 easier than in others, in ev-
cry state'it ia easy, The state Of ILL
nois, through its legislature, reoites
long list Of proper causes for divorce
and then closes mp by giving to the
courta the right to make decree of di.
! vorce In any case whore they deem 1t
expedient. After that you arc not sur
prised at tho announcement that In one
county Of the state of Illinois, in one
year, there were S33 divorces. II you
want to know how easy it is, you have
only to look over the records Of tho
States In the city of San Francisco 1888
divorces In one year, and in 20 years in
Now England 10000. Is that not easy
enough!
II the same ratio continue-the ratio
of multiplied divorce and multiplied
causes Of divorcS-awe are not far
from the time 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
newspaper in the middle of the floor,
and all you will have to prove against
a woman will be that her husbands
overcoat is buttonless. Causes of d.
vorco double in few years-doubled
in France, doubled in England and
doubled in tho United States. To show
how very easy 1t IL have to tell you
that in western reserve, Ohio. the pro-
portion of divorces to marriages cele-
brated is I to IL, in Rhode Island is to
IS, in Vermont toll Is net that easy
enough? .. :,
Iwant you to notice that frequency Of
divorce always goes along with the dis
soluteness of society. Rome for 500 years
had hot 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 Glib
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 sepulcher. Then they will
pause OH the verge Of that relation un-
til they are fully satisfied that it is best,
and that IT Is right, and that it is hap
piest. Then we shall have no moro mar
fiage In fun. Then men and women
will not enter the relation with the idea
1t 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 t1iors
joking about the blossoms in BRIDES
hair than about the cypress on coffin.
&C., Uniform Laws In All States.
What We want is that the congress Of
the United States chahge 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 Re 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 1t is by see
ing in the newspaper that Rev. DR..
Somebody on March II, 1896, introduce
cd in new marriage relation mem
her Of the household who went of on
pleasure excursion to Newport or bust
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 oth0r states, like our own New
yerk state, that had for long time the
pre-ominent idiocy of making marriage
lawful at 1e and IA years Of age:
The congress of the United States
needs to move for a change of the ma
tional constitution and to appoint a
committeeman made up Of single gen.
tlamen, 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
the Golden Horn. That will put an end
10 broken ties in marriages. That will
send divorce lawyers into decent bust
hess That will set people agitated fot
many years on the question Of how shall
they get away from each other to plan
hing how they can adjust themselves to
the more or less unfavorable circum-
stances
| Marriage q Speculation.
More difficult divorce will put an es-
topped to great extent upon marriage
as financial speculation. There arc
men who 60 into the relation just as
they 60 into Wall street to purchase
shares The female to be invited into
the partnership of wedlock is utterly
unattractivo andsin disposition sup
pressed vesuvius. Everybody knows it,
but this masculine candidate for matri-
monial orders. through the commercial
agency or through the county records
lnds out how much estate ID to be In
herited. and he calculates It, He thinks
out how long 1t will be before the old
man will die. and whether he can stand
the refractory temper until he does die,
and thon no enters tho relation, for no
says, III cannot stand 1t, then through
tho divorce law III back out" That
process Is going on all the time, and
men enter the relation without any
moral principle, without any affection.
and it IL as much matter of stock spec
ulation as anything that transpired yes
terday in Union Pacific, Illinois Central
or Delaware and Lackawanna
Now, suppose man understood, as he
ought to understand, that if he goes in.