The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-09-27
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iudgc the future by the past, for the
past does not interest them. The
present is their chief concern. Only
the old people who married half cen
tury ago can appreciate the contrast
between now and then and the change
for the worse IS alarming. The mar
riagc relation mas lost much Of it's &C.
riousncss, it's solcmnity, its dignity,
and consequently separations and di-
yorccs have increased far more rapidly
than population. During the past
twenty years population has increased
80 per cent, while divorces have in
creased 157 per cent. What a record
Of broken vows and conjugal misery.
Or. Landrum, the eminent Baptist
preacher of Atlanta, said in recent
sermon, "Our homes are in peril. The
foundations Of society are threatened
Marriage is too often a mockcry. Di-
vorces arc rapidly multiplying in our
courts and domestic dcrravty grows
apacc.
But legal divorces arc but small
proportion Of the number Of scpara-
tions, and still smaller proportion
Of unhappy married people who suffer
and endure their conjugal misery
rather than mortify their children or
excite public scandal. A notable
lady Of our town declared recently
that she knew Of but two happily
married couples in our whole commu-
nifty. Only two who are as loving
and devoted as when they stood at the
marriage altar. We all know many
Who If not as happy as when first mar.
ried, arc as loving and kind to each
other, and their happiness is only
marred by the anxicties incident TO
married life.
St. Paul said, "The love Of money
is the root Of all cvil,' and Ben.
Franklin said, THE lack Of it is the
cause OF all misery Neither of these
assertions are altogether true, but
they approximate the truth. | was
Illuminating about the greed and self
ishncss Of mankind, for have been
reading about these trusts so much of
late that like the City of Shushan,
have become perplcxed and dom know
what is going to.bc the end Of it. In
the Saturday Review Of September I'd
and 9th, which is ladies' journal Of
great excellence. published in Atlanta,
there arc two articles on trusts, writ
ten by DR.. Alfred f.. Seldom, a Eng
lishman, believe, but now citizen
Of Atlanta, which for cogent and
classic thought excites both admira-
'tion and alarm. After setting forth
the many evils that will follow these
great combinations Of capital, lie asks,
"What is pushing on this mighty
movement-this great iceberg that is
going counter to powerful currents and
billows? Popular denunoiation, tho
press, the enacsmcn.s Of Congress and
legislatures are like so many waves
spending their impotcnt wrath in vain
upon the monster. Trusts will con-
tinue to move on. They will grow in
power and will in time corral all the
wealth, tho transportion: the produce
Of our mines and fields. They will
enlist in their service vast army of
toilers, whose dependence ON them
will be soul crushing and absolute,
and they will bar out another army of
would-bc toilcrs, who will have no
visible means Of support-and then
what? Towhat goal are We hastening?
Congress might as we'll try to prevent
the sun from setting on the vest, og
to stop the down rushing Of Niagara,
as to attempt by law to arrest this
universal trend Of modern commerce
towards trust"
Thon DR.. Seddon writes of the new
factor in American society-the factor
Of poverty, and says that its presence
and it's power is not yet realized. lie
quotes eEo!. she address OF welcome by
the Chicago Federation Of Labor to
the trades assembly: eve bid you
welcome in the names Of hundred
monopolists and fifty thousand tramps.
Here mammon holds her carnival in
palaces, while mothers arc heart
broken and children arc starving and
men look in vain for work. We well
come you in the name of hundred
thousand idle men and to night VIC
will show you hundreds of strong men
lying on the rough stones in the cor
ridors of this very builling--no home,
no food-men able aid willing to