Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-10-19

easily that the first one party knows OF II
| Is by seeing 1t In the newspaper that Rev.
DR.. omebody few days or weeks af.er.
ward introduced into new marriage rela.
tion a member of the household who went
off on pleasure excursion to Newport OF
| q busin ess excursion to Chicago. Married
at the brides house; no cards. There are
States Of the Union which practically put
premiu m upon the disintegration OF the
marriage relation, while there are other
has the pre-eminent idlocy OF making mar
riage lawful at twelve and fourteen years
Of age.
The Congress OF the United States needs
to move fer change OF the national con-
stitution and then to appoint a committee
not made up Of single gentlemen, but OF
men OF families, andtheir families in WASH
ington-who shall prepare good, honest,
righteous, comprehensive uniform law that
will control everything from Sandy Hook
to the Golden Gate. That will put an end
to brokerages In marriages. That will send
divorce lawyers into decent business.
That will set people 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 moro or less
unfavorable circumstances.
More difficult divorce will put an estcp-
pal to a great extent upon marriage as n
financial speculation. There are men who
go into the relation just as they go into
Wall street to purchase shares. The fe-
male to be invited into the partnership of
wedlock is utterly unattractive and In dis
position suppressed Vesuvius. Everybody
knows 1t, but this masculine candidate for
matrimonial orders, through the CONNER
cial agency or through the county records,
finds out how much estate Is to be In
herited, and be calculates 1t. He thinks
out how long 1t will be before the old man
will die and whether he can stand the re-
fpan or fa nf{ q hao
he enters the relation, for he says, "If
cam OF stand 1t, then through the divorce
law will back out" That process Is 60
ing on all the time, and men enter into the
relation without any moral principle, with
out any affection. and 1t Is as much mat
ter OF st ock speculation as anything that
was ira nsacted yesterday In Union Pacific,
Wabash and Delaware and Lackawanna.
Now, suppose man understood, as he
ought to understand, that II he goes into
that relation there is no possibility of his
getting c ut or no probability. He would
be more 81 ow to put his neck in the yoke.
He should say to himself, Rather than q
Caribbean whirlwind with q whole feet of
shipping In its arms, give me n zephyr off
fields OF sun shine and gardens Of peace"
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder
women from the fatal mistake OF marrying
men to reform them. II young man. by
twenty-five years Of age or thirty years of
age, have the habit OF strong drink fixed
ON him, he is rs certainly bound for a
drunkard's grave as that train starting
out from the Grand Central depot at
O'Clock tomorrow morning is bound for
Albany. The train may not reach Albany,
for 1t may be thrown from the track. The
young man may not reach drunkard's
grave, for something may throw him Off
the iron track of evil habit. But the proba-
bility is that the train that starts to-mor-
row morning at 8 o'clock for Albany will
get there. and the probability is that the
young man who has the habit OF strong
drink fixed on him before twenty-five
or thirty years OF age will arrive
at drunkard's grave. She knows
by chewing cloves. Everybody knows
he drinks. Parents warn; neighbors
and friends warn. She will marry him,
she will reform him. If she Is unsuccess-
ful In the experiment, why, then, the d.
vorce law will emancipate her, because
habitual drunkenness Is n cause for d.
voree In Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Con-
| necticut and neurly 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
reform them. In one case out OF ten thou
sand it may be n successful experiment. I
never saw the successful experiment. But
have rigorous divorce law, and that
womaL will say. "If am aff1anced to that
man, 1t Is for life, and II now, In the ardor
of his young love and l 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 mar
ried to the club, and you are married to
that evil habit, and so you are married
twice, and you are bigamist. Cor
Let me say to all young people, before
you give your heart and hand in holy al
lance, use all caution. Inquire outside us
to habits, explore the disposition, scrutin-
lze the taste, question the ancestry and
find out the ambitions. Do not take the
heroes and heroines OF cheap novels for a
model. Do not put your lifetime happi.
ness in the keeping OF a man who has
reputation OF being little loose In morals
or In the keeping OF q woman who dresses
immodestly. Remember that, while good
looks are a kindly gift of God, wrinkles or
accident may desIoil them. Remember
that Byron was no more celebrated for his
beauty than for his depravity. Remember
that Absalom's hair was not more splendid
than bis habils were despicable. Hear 1t!
Hear I'll The only foundation for happy
marriage that ever has been or ever will
be Is good character. Ask the counsel OF
step OF your life. They are good advisers.
They are the best friends you ever had.
They made more sacrifices for you than
any one else ever did.
And let me say TO thoSe or you VINO are
In happy married union. avoid first quar-
rels; have no unexplained correspondence
with former admirers; cultivate no sus-
picions; in IL moment OF bad temper do not
rush out and tell the neighbors; do not let
any OF those gadabouts OF society unload
in your house their baggage OF CAB and
little tattle; do not make 1t an invariable
rule to stand on your rights; learn how to
aIologize; do not be so proud or so stub
born or so devilish that you will not make
up. Remember that the worst domestic
misfortunes and most scandalous divorce
cases started from little infelicites. The
whole piled up train Of ten rail cars tele-
sceped and smashed at the foot OF an en-
bankment 100 feet down came to that ca
tastrophe by getting two or three inches
off the track. Some OF the greatest domes-
tic misfortunes aud the widest resounding
divorce cases have started from little mis-
understandings that were allowed to go on
and 90 on until homo and respectability
and religion and immortal soul went down
In the crash.
Fellow citizens as well as fellow Chris.
tians, let us have divine rage against
anything that wars on the marriage state.
Blessed Institution! Instead OF two arms
to n ont tha hattie Of life fONr. tnstead Of