The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-03-29

III v,
for matrimonial orders through
the commercial agency or through
, the county records. finds out how
much estate is to be inherited, and
he calculates it. He thinks out how
J long it will be before the old man will
die, and whether he can stand the re-
; fractory temper until he does die, and
then he enters the relation; for he says:
"If I can not not 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
speculation as anything that transpired
yesterday in Union Pacific, Illinois Gem
trail or Delaware & Lackawanna.
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder
women from the fatal mistake of mar
rying men to reform them. If young
man by twenty-five years OF age, or
thirty years of age, has the habit OF
strong drink fixed on .sim, he is as
certainly bound for drnAkard's grave
as that train starting out from
Grand Central depot at eight o'clock
tomorrow morning is bound for AL.
bany. The train may not reach Albany,
for it may be thrown from the track.
The young man may not reach a
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 eight 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 twenty-five
or thirty years of age will arrive at
drunkard's grave. She knows he
drinks, although he tries to hide 1T by
chewing cloves. Everybody knows
he drinks. Parents warn, neighbors
and friends warn. She will marry
him; she will reform him.
If she is unsuccessful in the expert
ment, why then the divorce law will
emancipate her. because habitual
drunkenness is a cause for divorce in
Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Connecti-
cut, and nearly all the states. So the
poor thing goes to the altar of sacrifice.
If you will show me the poverty-struck
streets in any city, will show you the
homes of the women who married men
to reform them In one case out of
ten thousand it may be successful ex-
pertinent. never saw the successful
experiment. But have rigorous di-
vorce law, and that woman will say:
eff am afianced to that man, it is
for life"
BY the wreck of ten thousand homes,
by the holocaust of ten thousand sacri- |
feed men and women. by the hearth
stone of the family which is the corner
stone of the state, and in the name of |
that God who hath set up the family |
institution and who hath made the |
marital oath the most appalling of all
perjuries, implore the congress of |
the United States to make some
righteous, uniform law for all the
states and from ocean to ocean, on this
subject Of marriage and divorce.
In the Farm Ballads" our Ameri-
can poet puts into the lips of repent
these suggestive words:
And when she dies wish that she would be
laid by me,
And lying together in silence, perhaps we will
agree
And II ever We meet in Heven, would not
think it queer
II we loved each other better because we quar-
relied here.
And let me say to those of you who
are in happy married union, avoid first
quarrels; have no unexpected CORE
spondence with former admirers; Gull
tivate no suspicious; in moment of
bad temper do not rush out and tell
the neighbours; do not let any of those
gadabouts of society unload in your
house their baggage of CAB and title
tattle; do not stand on your rights;
learn how to apologize; do not be so
proud, or so stubborn, or so devilish
that you will not make up. Remem-
Der that the worst domestic misfor.
tunes and most scandalous divorce
cases started with little intellect
ties. The whole piled-up train
of ten rail-cars telescoped and
at the foot of an embankment
one hundred feet down came to that
by getting two or three
inches of the track. Some of the
greatest domestic misfortunes and
divorce cases have
started from little misunderstanding
that were allowed to go on and go on
until home, and responsibility, and re-
ligion, and immortal soul went down
In the crash, crash!
And, fellow-citizens, as well as iel-
low Christians, let us have q divine
rage against anything that wars on the
state. Blessed institutioni
Instead of two arms TO 6ght tie battle
Of life, four. Instead of two eyes to
the path of life, four. Instead