The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-09-23

with its millions OF sheets every week
choked with stories of domestic wrongs
and infidelties and massacres and Out
RACES, until II Is wonder TO me that
there are any decencies or any common
sense left on the subject OF marriage.
One-half of the news stands of our great
cities reck with the filth.
The congress of the United States
needs TO move for a change of the ma
tional constitution and then TO appoint
n committeeman made up of single gen.
tlcmen, but of men OF families. and their
| families in Washington--who shall pre-
| pare good, honest, righteous, compre-
hensive. uniform law that will control
everything from Sandy Hook to the
| Golden Gate. That will put an end TO
brokerages in marriage. 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
more or less unfavorable circumstances.
More difficult divorce will put an es-
| toppel toa great extent upon marriage 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 part
nership of wedlock is utterly unattrac-
tive and in disposition suppressed
Vcsuvius. Everybody knows it, but this
masculine candidate for matrimonial
orders, through the commercial agency
90. 4 b,npob tho ,,nnntv ranor,1S finds ont
how much estate is to be inherited,
and he calculates il. He thinks out how
long il VIII be before the old man will
die, and whether he can stand the re-
fractory temper until he does die, and
then he enters the relation, for he says:
"If caunot stand il, then through the
divorce law will back out. That proc
ess Is going on all the time, and men en-
ter the relation without any moral
principle, without any affection, and it
is rs much n matter of stock specula-
ton as anything that was transacted
yesterday in Union Pacific, Wabash and
Delaware and Lackawanna, Now, sup
pose a 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. lie should say to himself:
"Rather than a Caribbean whirlwnd
with whole fleet of shipping in its
arms, give me zephyr off fields of sun
shine and gardens of peace"
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder
women from the fatal mistake of mar
rying men to reform them. If a young
man, by % years of age or 30 years of
age, have the habit of strong drink fixed
on him, he is as certainly bound for a
drunkard's grave as that train start
ing out from the Grand Central depot
at eight 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 drunkard's grave, for some
thing may throw him off the iron track
of evil habit. But the probability is
that the train that starts tomorrow
get there, and the probability is that
the young man who has the habit of
strong drink fixed on him before 25 or
30 years of age will arrive at drunk
ards grave. She knows he drinks, al
though he tries to hide it by chewing
cloves. Everybody knows he drinks.
Parents warn; neighbors and friends
warn. She will marry him; she will re-
form him. If she is unsuccessful in the
experiment, why, then, the divorce law
will emancipate her, because habitual
drunkenness is n cause for divorce in
Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Connecti-
cut and nearly all the states. So the
poor thing goes to the altar of sacri-
flee. II YOU will show me the poverty
struck streets in any city, / will show
yol the homes of the women who mar
riod men to reform them. In one case
out of ten thousand it may be success
full experiment. / never saw the sue
ccssful experiment. But have rigor-
Gus divorce law, and that woman will
say: "If / am aflianced to that man, ii
is for life, and if now, in the ardor OF
his young love and / 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" mo, sir; you are al
ready married to the club, and you are
married to that evil habit, and so you
are married twice, and you are biga'
mist. Col"
A rigorous divorce law will also dc
much to hinder hasty and inconsiderate
marriages. Under the impression that
one can be easily released, people enter
| the relation without inquiry and with
out reflection. Romance and impulse
rule the day. Perhaps the only ground
for the marriage compact is that she
| likes his looks, and he admires the
graceful way she passes around the ICE
cream at the picnic! tbs all they know
about each other. 1t is all the prepare
ton for life. a man not able to pay hi:
own board bill, with not dollar in hi:
possession, will stand at the altar ant
take the loving hand and say: witt
all my worldly goods l thee endow." a
woman that could not make loaf o
bread to save her life will swear to low
and keep him in sickness and in health
| a Christian will marry an atheist, an'
that always makes conjoined wretched
ness; for IL man does not believe Their
is God he is neither to be trusted will
dollar nor with your lifelong happi
ness. Having read much about love II