Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-09-18

he can stand the refractory temper un-
til he does die, and then he enters the
relation, for he says, eff 1 cannot
stand it, then through the divorce law
I will back out" That process is going
on all the time, and men enter into the
relation without any moral principle,
without any affection, and it is as
much a matter of stock speculation as
anything that was transacted yester-
day in Union Pacific, Wabash and
| Delaware and Lackawanna. Now, sup
pose q man understood, as he ought to
understand, that if he goes into that
relation there is no possibility Of his
getting out or no probability. He would
| be more slow to put his neck in the
yoke. He should say to himself, 'Rath-
er than a Caribbean whirlwind with a
whole fleet Of shipping in its arms,
| give me zephyr off fields of sunshine
and gardens of peace"
Rigorous Laws.
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder
women from the fatal mistake Of mar
| rying men to reform them. If young
man, by % years of age or 80 years OF
| age, have the habit of strong drink
| fixed on him, he is as certainly bound
! for a drunkard's grave as that q train
starting out from the Grand Central
| depot at o'clock tomorrow morning
is bound for Albany. The train may
! not reach Albany, for it may be thrown
from the track. The young man may
not reach n drunkards grave, for
something may throw him off the iron
track of evil habit. But the proba-
bility is that the train that starts to-
morrow morning at 8 o'clock for AL
bany will get there, and the proba-
bility is that the young man who has
the habit of strong drink fixed on him
before 25 or 80 years Of age will ar
rive at drunkard's grave. She knows
he drinks, although he tries to hide It
by chewing cloves. Everybody knows
he drinks. Parents warn; neighbors
and friends warn. She will marry him;
she will reform him. If she is unSuc-
cessful in the experiment, why, then,
the divorce law will emancipate her,
because habitual drunkenness is a
cause for divorce in Indiana, Ken
lucky, Florida, Connecticut 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, I will show you the homes
of the women who married men to re-
form them. In one case out of ten
thousand it may be a successful expert
ment. I never saw the successful eX-
pertinent But have a rigorous divorce
law, and that woman will say, eff
am affianced to that man, it is for life,
and if now, in the ardor of his young
love and 1 the prize to be won, he will
not give up his cups, when he has won
the prize surely he will not give up his
cups" And so that woman will say to
the man: "No, sir; you are already
married to the club, and you are mar
ried to that evil habit, and so you are
married twice, and you are a bigamist.
Cor
Hasty Marriages.
A rigorous divorce law will also do
much to hinder hasty and inconsid-
crate marriages. Under the impress
sion that one can be easily released
people enter the relation without in
Quiry and without reflection. Romance
and impulse rule the day. Perhaps the
only ground for the marriage compact
is that she likes his looks, and he adj
mires the graceful way she passes
around the ice cream at the picnic! 1t
is all they know about each other. 1t
is all the preparation for life. A man
not able to pay his own board bill,
with not a dollar in his possession,
will stand at the altar and take the
loving hand and say, 'With all my
worldly goods | thee endOw." A WO-
man that could not make a loaf of
bread to save her life will swear to
love and keep him in sickness and il
health. A Christian will marry IN
atheist, and that always makes con-
joined Indebtedness, for if man does
: not believe there is God he is neither
to be trusted with a dollar nor with
your lifelong happiness. Having read
much about love in a cottage, people
brought up in ease will go and Starve
in a howell. Runaway matches and
Opponents, nine hundred and ninety
nine out of a thousand of which mean
death and hell, multiplying on all
hands. You see them in every days
newspapers.
Our ministers in some regions have
no defense such as they have in other
regions where the banns must be pre-
viously published and an officer OF the
law must give a certificate that all is
right so clergymen are left defense
less and unite those who ought never
to be united. Perhaps they are too
young, or perhaps they are standing
already in some domestic compact. 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 cor
nerstone of the state, and in the name
of that God who hath set up the fam
lily institution and who hath made the