Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-09-23


that cry let us find out how easy it Is
now. have looked over the laws Of
I'LL the states. ami find that, while
In some states it is easier than in 9th
ers, in every state it is easy. The state
of Illinois, through its legislature, re-
cites Il long list of proper causes for
divorce and then closes up by giving
to the courts the right to make de-
cree Of divorce in any case where they
deem it cypcdient. After that you are
not surprised ut the announcement
that in one year there were S;3':' Iii
vorccs. If YOU want to know how easy
it is, you have only to look over the
records of the stateS-in Massachu-
sets, 600 divorces in one year; III
Maine. HIS in one year; in Connecticut,
.i0l divorces; in one year; III the city or
San Francisco 81: 81, divorces in one year;
in New England in one year, lib dl-
vorccs and i'll 20 years in New Eng
gland. 10000. Is lnat not easy enough?
If the saline ratio continues the ratio or
multiplied divorce and multiplied
callscs OF divorce, we are not far from
the time wien olir courts will have to
set apart Whole days for application,
and all goa will have To prove against
Il man will he that he left his slippers
in the middle of the floor. and all you
will lave To prove against il wonan
will be that her husbands oyerc0at
WAS butt0nlr:;S. Causes of divorce
doubled in few ycars-doublcd i'll
France, doubled in England and dou-
blrd i'll the United States. TO show
how very easy it is, have to tell you
that in Wrarcrn Reserve. Ohio. the pro-
portion of divorces 10 marriages cele-
DRAFTED WAS in one year to II; in
Rhode Island. 10 3; in Vermont, l to
II. Is not tllat easy enough?
Society DissoIute.
| want You to notice tllat frequency
of divorce always gors along with the
disSoluteneSs of society. Rome for JOO
wears had not one case Of divorce.
Those were her days of glory and
virtue Then the reign of vice began,
and divorce became epidemic. If you
want to know how rapidly the empire
went down. ask Gihbol. DO you know
how the reign of terror WIS introduced
in France? by 10000 cases OF divorce
i'm one year in Paris. What we want in
this country and in all lands is that
divorce be made more and more diil-
cult. Then people before they enter
that relation will be persuaded that
tlIcre will probably be no escape from
it except through the door of the Sepul-
cher. then they will pause on the verge
of that relation until they are fully sat
isficd that ii Is best and that it is right
and that il is happicSt. then we shall
have no more marriages i'll fun. then
men and women will not enter the rela-
ton with the idea it is only Il trial trip
and if they do not like it they can get
out nj the first landing. then this whole
question will be taken out of the frivo-
lous into the tremendous. and there
will be no more joking about the bios
SONS in brides hair than about tile
cypress on Il coffin.
What we want is that the congress
of the United States move for the
changing Of the national constitution
so that Il law can be PASSED Which shall
be uniform all over the country anu
what shall he right in one state shall he
right in all the states and What Is
wrong in one state will be wrong Ill all
the states. How is it now! If Il party
in the marriage relation gets dissatiS-
fled, it is only necessary To move to an
OTHER state To achieve liberation from
the domestic tie, and divorce is effected
so easily that the first one party knows
! of ii is by seeing it in the newspaper
flat Rev. Or. Somebody Il few days OF
weeks aftcrward introduced into a
new marriage relation Il member of the
household who went off on II pleasure
excursion to Newport ora business eX
cursion to Chicago. Married ut the
brides house: no cards. There are
states of tie Union which practicahy
nut n premium upon tine lisintcgratior
l
of the marriage relation. while there
are other states like the state of New
York. which has the prc-cmincnt idiocy
of making marriage lawful ut II ant
II years of age.
Change the Constitution.
The congress of the United States
needs to move for Il change OF the ma
tional constitution AMI then TO appoint
q committce-no made up of single
ccntlcmcn. but of men Of families
and their families in Washington-wh'
shall prepare Il good. honest, righteous
comprehensive uniform law that vii
control everything from Sandy Hooi
10 the Golden Gate That will put Ill
end to brokrrageS III marriage. Ina
will send divorce lawyers into decen
business. That will set people agitat
ed for many years or the question o
how they shall get AWAY from cacl
other to planning how they can adjus
themselves to the more or less unfavor
able circumstances.
More difficult divorce will put an es
toppal to great extent upon mal'liag
as Il financial speculation. There ar
men who 90 into the relation just a
they 60 into Wall street to purchas
shares. The female to he invited mt
the partnership of wedlock is utterl,
unattractiye and in disposition sup
pressed VesuviuS. Everybody know
it. but this masculine candidate TO
matrimonial orders. through the com
mercial agency or through the count.
records. finds out how much estate |
10 be inherited, and lie calculates II
lie thinks out how long it will be be
rore the old man will die and whethe
he can stand the refractory temper III
I'll he does die, and then he enters I'll
relation. for he says, If cann(
1, stand it, then through the divorce Ia
7 will back out" That process is goir
on all the time, and men enter into u
relation without any moral prlnclpl
without any affection, and II Is
much matter of stock speculation
ANYTHING that was transacted yeste
day in Union Pacific, Wabash Ill
Delaware and Laclawanna. Now su
nosc q man understood. as he ought