The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-26
IMPRUDENT MARRIAGES
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seek work. He is in greater dread O
losing his work. He is less able to saw,
against bad times, and he often bear,
things and puts up with things which
the single man would not endure.
SO the single man is really better of
than the married man, just as the
steady and thrifty man is better of
than the thriftless and unsteady man
And, again, if you think 1t out. YOU
Will see that II all our men and women
workers kept single the result would be
that wages would fall, just as they
would If all our workers were thrifty
and sober. and for the same reason:
because the workers could live on less.
And now l have answered that oues-
ton, and as it concerns your wages.
let me say few words about It as it
concerns your happiness and your man.
hood
II seems that very large number of
our working men and women in this
rich, enlightened and prosperous coun-
try cannot afford to have wife or
chlld. And it seems that many of them
accept this state of things as natural
anG as Interchangeable, and tamelv give
Up all hope of love in order to make a
living.
NOW, l ask you who are keeping
single In order to make living to think
seriously what that means. Do Won
call 1t manly? I don't. Do YOU call
that living which is 50 spare that il
denies you the love of a woman. and
the Joy of children? l don't.
| speak in all calmness and in all
etiousness when say that if I loved
and that if l had to own that
could not marry her because I could
not keep her, I would kill myself as
-oward and failure.
But, mind you, it would be very hard
% convince me that l could not keen
Ter. l should try very hard first and
should most likely begin by marrying
Ter, and then proceed to try the issue
afterwards. That, as a matter of fact
S what did.
But l cannot understand the men who
amely give up their rights to wom-
ms love and to the blessing of children
n order to make living
IL IS not a living. 1t is worse than
ne state OF savage, or an animal. or a
lave. l am man of peace and love
nletness and retirement, but il loved
woman and she loved me. T would 90
ut cheerfully and fight the whole Brit
sh army for her. 1t would amuse mo
DO it. l should die happy.
l am afraid some of you prudent bach
Tors don't love very warmly, or that
GU are wonderfully afeared of death.
l cannot really understand a man SELL
1g his love, and his manhood. and
alking like coward or a slave about
lmprudent Marriages. and all for per
lission to drudge at an unwe1come
ask and to eat and sleep a few lonely
nd dlshonorable years in loveless and
hildless world
Ia work my fingers off, craze nv
rains, break my heart, tramp the whole
ice of the globe, and die like a man
efore l would repeat that coward's los
IN that could not afford to marry the
oman l loved.
You don't think that is going to save
ou men, do you? You don't think YOU
re going to make the best of life bv
cling for the sake of drudgery and
read and butter your proud mans
ght to work for, to fight for, and die
r the woman you love?
Old Socrates was right when he said
lat virtue consisted in a contempt for
cath.
When you working men have grown
Use enough to fear neither death nor
G devil, you will be we'll able to marry
e woman you love and keep and de-
nd them. While you fear death or
ar failure, or fear employers, or fear I
you will not deserve to be
ssperOus and free.
For, having sold your love for per-
ission to work, how long will you be
fore you sell your honor? Nav. is it
It true that many of you have sold it J
ready?
For man who works at jerry work,
takes part in any kind of adultera-
IN, scampery, or trade rascality. is
ling his honor for wages, and is Just
big scamp and a good deal more OF