The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-09-29

them ont or to correct them is by easy
divorce" We'll, before we yield 10 that
cry. let us find out how easy it Is 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 IL is easy. The state of
Illinois. through it's legislature, recites
Il long list OF proper causes for divorce.
and hen closes up by giving to the
courts the right to make a decree of
divorce in any case where they deem it
%expeu.ent. After that o are not sur
prised at the announcement that in one
county of the state of Illinois, in one
year, there were $50 divorces. If you
want to know how easy it is. you have
only to look over the records Of the
states. In Massachusetts, 600 divorces
in one year; in Maine, 47S in one year:
in Connecticut, 401 divorces in one
year; in the city of San Francisco. 1913
divorces in one year; in New England.
in one year, 2.113 divorces, and in
twenty years in New England, 0,O0O.
Is that nOt easy enough? If the same
ratio continue, the ratio of multiplied
divorce and multiplied causeS Of di-
vOrce, we are not far from the time
when our courts will have to set apart
whole days for application, and all you
will nave to prove against a MAI will
be that he left his slippers in the mid
die Of the floor, and all you will have
to prove against a woman Will be that
her husbands oyercoat was buttOnless.
Causes of divorce doubled in a few
years, doubled in France, doubled in
England, and doubled in the United
States. To show how very easy it is. l
have to tell you that in Western Re
serve, Ohio, me proportion Of divorces
to marriages celebrated was in one
year IL to eleven; in Rhode Island,
n to thirteen; in Vermont. one to
fourteen. Is not that easy enough?
l want you to notice that frequency
of divorce always goes along with the
dissolutenes3 Of society. Rome for 500
years had not IL case Of divorce.
Those were her days of glory and
virtue. Then the reign of vice began.
and divorce became epidemic. If o
want to know how rapidly the empire
went down, ask GibbOn. Do you know
how the Reisa of Terror was intro
duced in France? By 90, 0G0 cases of
divorce in one year in Paris. What we
want in this country, and in all lands,
is that divorce be made more and more
difficult. Then people before they enter
that relation will be persuaded that
fhoro will nrnlo hlu no NO pCc1np from
it, except through the door Of the sep
ulchre. Then they will pause on the
verge of that relation, until they are
fully satisfied that it is best, and that
it is right, and that it is happiest.
Then we shall have no more marriages
in fun. Then men and will not
enter the relation with the idea it is
only a trial trip. and if they do not like
it. they can get out at the first land
ing. Then this whole question will be
taken out of the frivolous into the ire
mendous, and there will be no more
joking about the blossoms in a brides
hair thar about the cypress oil a coffin.
What We want, is that the congress
CT the United States move for the
changing the national constitution so
that a law can be passed which shall be
uniform ell over the country, and what
shall be right in one state shall be
right in all the states, and what is
wrong in n state will be wrong in all
the states. How is it now? If a party
in the marriage relation gets dissatis- !
fed, it is only necessary TO move to
another state to achieve liberation
from the domestic tie, and diYOrce. is
effected so easily that the first one
party knows of it is by seeing it in
the newspaper that Rev. DR.. Somebody
a few days or weeks afterward intro
duced into a new marriage relation q
member of the household who went off
on a pleasure excursion to Newport or
a business excursion to Chicago. Mar |
ried at the brides house. No cards.
There are states OF the union which
practically put 4 premium upon the
disintegratiOn Of the marriage relation, !
state of New York, which has the pre-
eminent idiocy of making marriage
lawful at - and i years of g
The cong, ss of the United States
needs to move fer a change of the ma
tional constitution, and then TO APP
point a committeeman made up of
single gentlemen, but of men Of fami-
lies, and their families in Washington
who shall prepare a good, honest,
righteous. comprehensive uniform law
that Will control everything from
Sandy Hook to Golden Gate. That will
put an end to brOkeTages in marriage.
That will send divorce lawyers into q
decent business. That Will set DeO-
pie agitated for many years on the
question of how they shall get away
from each other TO planning how they
can adjust themselves to the more or
less unfayorable circumstances.
More difficult divorce Will put an
~estCppal to a great extent upon mar
riage as a financial speculation. There
are 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 wedI0ck is utterly
unattractive, and ii disposition a sup
pressed Vesuvius. Everybody knows
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