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

an awful sewer Of iniquity sending Vi
Its miasIna. which was waited by III
winds north, south, east and west
without the whole land being affecte
| by it, IN
Another influence that has wares
against the marriage relation in thi
| country has been pnstulus literature
with its millions of sheets every weel
| cholSed with stories of domcsti
wrongs, and infidelities, and massa
cres, and outrages, until it is wonde
to me that there are any decencies. O
any common sense left on the subjec
of marriage. One half of the new'
stands of all our cities reeking will
filth.
Now" say some, 1--WE admit al
these evils, and the only way to clear
them out or correct them is by easy
divorce" Well, before you yield tx
that cry, let us find out how easy it il
now.
have looked over the laws of all
the states, and / find that while in
some states it is easier than in others
in every state it is easy. The state OF
Illinois, through its legislature, recites
long list of proper causes for divorce,
and then closes up by giving to the
courts the right to make a decree OF
divorce in any case where they deem
it expedient. After that you are not
surprised at the announcement that in
one county of the state of Illinois, in
one year, there were eight hundred and
thirty three divorces, If you want to
know how easy it is, you have only to
look over the records of the three hum
bred and thirty-three divorces in one
year; and in twenty years in New En-
gland twenty thousand. Is that not
easy enough?
If the same ratio continue-the ratio
of multiplied divorce and multiplied
causes of divorce-we are not far from
the time when our courts will have to
set apart whole days for application,
and all you will have to prove against
a man will be that he left his news
paper in the middle of the floor, and
all you will have to prove against
woman will be that her husbands over
coat is buttonless. Causes of divorce
double in few years-doubled in
France, doubled in England, and doub-
led in the United States. To show
how very easy it is, have to tell you
that in the Western Reserve, O., the
of divorces to marriages
celebrated is one to eleven; in Rhode
Island is one to thirteen; in Vermont
one to fourteen. Is not that easy
I want you to notice that frequency
If divorce always goes along with the
of society. Rome for
i've hundred years had not one case of
livorce. Those were her days of glory
md virtues Then the reign of vice
began, and divorce became epidemic
f you want to know how rapidly the
umpire went down ask Gibbon.
What we want in this country and in
III lands is that divorce be made more
nd more and more difficult. Then
'eople before they enter the marriage |
elation will be persuaded that there
will probably be no escape from it ex-
ept through the door of the sepulcher.
hen they will pause on the verge of |
hat relation until they are fully salts
ed that it is best, and that it is right. |
nd that it is happiest. Then we shall |
ave no more marriage in fun. Then |
len and women will not enter the re-
alton with the idea it is only trial |
rip, and if they do not like it they |
an get out at the first landing. Then |
his whole question will be taken out |
f the frivolous into the tremendous,
nd there will be no more joking about |
he blossoms in a BRIDES hair than |
bout the cypress on coffin.
What we want is that the congress |
f the United States change the ma
ional constitution so that law can
e passed which shall be uniform all |
yer the country, and what shall be |
light in one state shall be right in all |
he states, and what is wrong in one
tate will be wrong in all the states.
How is it now? If party in the mar
iage relation gets dissatisfied. it is
My necessary to move to another |
tate to achieve liberation from the
omestic tie, and divorce is effected |
0 easy that the first one party knows
f it is by seeing it in the newspaper
hat Rev. DIR. Somebody, on March II, |
s95, introduced in a new marriage re-
ition a member of the household, who
rent off on pleasure excursion to
Newport or business excursion to Chi
ago. Married at the brides house.
10 cards. There are states of the
-nion which practically put pre-
lium upon the disintegration of the
marriage relation, while there are
Their states, like our own New York,
nat had for long time the pre-emi-
emit idiocy of making marriage lawful