The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-09-28
BILL ARP ON DIVORCES.
He Says tho Increase from Yoar to
Year is Alarming in Georgia and
Elsewhere,

He Says tho Increase from Yoar to
Year is Alarming in Georgia and
Elsewhere,
Who arc tho marriageable girls 60
| ing TO marry? This generation can
not Judge tho future by the past, for
| The past does not interest them. The
present is their chief concern. Only
the old people who married half a con-
, tury ago can appreciate the contrast
| between now and then and tho change
! for tho worse Is alarming. Tho mar
| ri&pC rclat0n has lost much of its &C.
riCUsncse, its solomuity, it's dignity,
and consequently separations and di-
YOrcOs have Increased far more rapidly
than population. Daring tho past
twenty years population has increased
90 per cont. while divorces have in
creased lo7 per cent. What q record
OF broken VOWS ard corjugal misery.
DR., i-andrum, the eminent Baptist
preacher Of Atlanta, said in a recent
sermon. "Our homes are in peril. The
foundations Of society arc thrcatci cd.
Marriage IS too often ~ mOckory. Di-
vorccs arc rapidly multiplying in our
courts and domestic dcpraviLy grows
apRCC.'
But legal divorces arc but q srpall
proportion Of the number Of sepura.
llthS, anu S SNill Sula'tCI pCo)OFlIOn Ol
unhappy married people who suffer
ana snduro ,hoir copjugal misery
rather than mOrtify their children or
excite "a public scandal. a notable
lady OF our town declared recently that
she kun" OF but two happily married
couples in our whole community. Only
two who arc rs loving and devoted as
when they stood 1T the marriage altar
We all know many who il not as happy
as when first married, are as loving
| and kind 80 each other, and their hap
! piuc0s Is only married by tho anXictics
| incident t0 married life.
s.. Pant said, Tho love of money is
tI,c root Of all evil" and Bon Frank
| liu said, "The lack Of 1t is the cause
Of all luisCry." Neither OF these asser-
lions arc altogether true, but they
approximate the truth. | was rumin-
nting about the grcrd and sclshncss
Of mankiud, for | havo been reading
about those trusts so much OF late that
like the city OF Shushun, have become
pCrplcxud and don't know what Is
going 10 BIZ tho end Of IL. In Tho Sat
urduy Review Of September I'd and
! 9tn, which is !ad :ca j0urnul Of great
excellence, pnbtjshcd in Atlanta, there
| are LwO Grticr"s On trusts, written by
| DE-. Alfred l.. Sc0dOn, Gn Eugli8hman,
| | believe, but now 81 citizen OF Atlantp.,
which for Cugcnt aud classic thought
cXnitCs both admiration and alarm.
After setting forth the many evils that
viii follow these great combinations Of
capital, he asks, "What ia pushing on
this mighty movcmCnt--ihis great ice
| berg that is going counter to powerful
currents and pillows ? Popular dcnun.
ciatiOn, The press, tho cnactmonts OF
Congress ana legislatures arc like SO
many waves spending their impotcnt
wrath in vain upon the monster. Trusts
| viii continue to move on. They will
grow in power and in timo corral all the
| wealth, Tho tlAnspor tntiOn, tho pro.
ducO OF our mines and fields. They
! "N! enlist IN thoir service q vast army
OF tOiinlH, whose dependence on them
will be soul-crushtng and absolute, and
they will bar out another army Of
would be toilors, who will have no
| visible means OF 6uppOrt-anu tHcn
what 70 what goal arc we hasten
ing? Congress might as we'll try to
prcvc0t the sun from setting on the
west, Or TO stop Tho duwn-rushing OF
| Niagara, H. to atJcmpt by law TO arre st
this universal trend OF modern com
merCc towards trusts"
Then DR.. SC0don writes Of the new
factor In American socicty~-the factor
OF poverty and says that it's presence
and its power IN not yet realized. Hc
quotes from the address Of welcome
by the Chicago Federation Of Labor tc
tno trades assembly: 1--WE bid you
welcome In tho names OF 8 hundred
mCrUpOiisty and fifty thousand tramps
Hero mammon holds her carnival ir
palaces. while mothers are heart
broken and children arc starving ant
men look In vain for work. Wo wei
como You in tue namo Of q hundred
Thousand idle men and tonight We
will show you hundreds OF strong mer
lying 90 tho rough stones in the cor
rtdOrs OF this very building--no home
no food-mun able and willing to work,
bat for whom there Is no work"
In New York city there wcro over
10000 families turned out last year for
unpaid rent. There wero 250 suicides
and ono person In every ten who dies
Is buried in the pottcr's field. Oh, the
pity OF it--thc pity OF it When will
tho millennium come DR.. Scddon be-
icvcS it because he Knows that God IL
good and VIII not suffer such misery to
be- prOl0ngcd, and because He has
promised that all tho families Of tho
earth ahAll be blessed.
| am almost afraid to read such
things nov. Such pictures OF human
misery bring sadness and a feeling O.
despair. Long, long ago wcpt over
the Lay OF tho LabOrcr," by TOu
Hood, when 1T first appeared in Lon
don. That same had song has gottcr
over here on this Bido OF tho water anl
our own strong mca are sInging:
| "WhCrcYcr nature needs,
| Wherever nature calls,
No JOB l'll shirk Of the hardest work
| 10 GIun the wOrkhOusc walls;
| No aims | ask, give me my task
!, Here arc the arm, the leg,
| The strength, the gincws OF man,
| 10 work and not to beg"
BILL ARP.