Arizona republican., 1899-05-14

| chair. take another puff at the fra
 grant cigar, and think some more
 Just follow out in theory for all men
 the practice Of your own life, and
 see what it would lead to in fifty years You knew this earth swallows
 her population more than twice in a
 entury, and if all these married fel- lows on whom you bestoW ys,lr selfish
 sympathy had done the same that you
 are doing there would be but few pep
 pie left at the end of fifty years. Streets
 would become almost depopu-ated. the ways of commerce would be grass
 grown, and even the hotels and fash ionable boarding houses would no longer have the ranks of bachelorhutod
 from whfch to recruit guests. You are
 helping to check the flow of humanity
 and if all othee men initiated your course this old mother earth would be
 ueon the market fer rent in 1929, if
 not before.
 SINGLE MEN LACK COURAGE.
 Take another puff at the cigar and
 use your gray matter little more
 Be honest now. Is it just the thing 10 allow these women, who, with a wealth
 of love, wait to bless a mans heart and home, to go on toiling separately and waiting in vain? Has it occurred
 to you that there is another kind of courage beside that shown at Manila :? Has it occurred to you that it is a manly thing for one to take a wife to love and to protect? Has it occurred
 to you that society cannot afford to lose it's home life, and that old bach elors are not the kind of material out of which homes are made? After all inc with tho fin nail is Tor more of man than you are. He shares the strength of his arm and the love of his heart with wife and children. He is colaborer in the cause Of hu- manity and you are not
 If I marry l shall have to give up living in my present style and shall lose lots of good times" That is 1t. Doesn't the selfishnes5 show clearly enough in these words? True, you would give up some things, but you would gain more. Farmers have practice of giving up large quantities Of seed, but they find it a paying in Vestment-
 Now you are free to go where yea please. You have your surplus money tc spend on cigars, the drama, and upon anything which takes your fancy. You can pass the time very pleasantly with the young ladies who enjoy your company, but who probably enter tain the idea that in your attentions to them you mean more than to while away your time in gossip. Yes, in this bachelor life of yours you rid your self of great many cares, tco.
 But are you living? Is it living to spend your life at a hotel or to gayly pass your evenings at the club? Is it living to go on through life and net to know the joy of home of your own? Is u living to have no wife and chiI- dren in whom to find daily happiness?
 WHERE HAPPINESS IS FOUND.
 What's that? Marriage is a fail- ure. Lots of divorees." you say9 Pardon me, marriage is not failure challenge any man to show that t is Statistics contradict it Happy homes give it the lie. Maria ge is one Of the greatest of successes. It can be said without fear of successful ccntradic- tlon that the majority of married peo- Die get more joy out of their married life than they do from anything else on earth Marriage a failure? By no means. Far. very far, from it. You EacheIcrs notice particUlarly the di- yorce eases of which you read, you se- Iect the articles written against mar r18ge, and as a support to your argu- ment against the married life you point out these homes in which there is But you are in the wrong. You can as truly say that web of cloth is a failure because of one broken thread somewhere in it's long stretch of yards as to say that these exceptional cases of unhappiness and divorce prove that married life, taken as a whole, is a failure
 Fix your minds eye upon the di- vorces which have been allowed in this country during the past twenty-five years, and at once you look upon mar ried life as 6 sad failure. But bring the number of divorced persons into comparison with the number of undi- vorced couples in the same period of time and yCu will see that the per cent of divorces in married life is small is a success, a very great success. In fact, marriage is the least of failure of most anything with which mankind has to do. Wiser by far to call business a failure, for the per cent of failures to make a success in business life is many times greater than the per cent of failures to make a success in married life; but you in vest your capital in business enter prises. As well to call science a fail | ure, for, brought into comparison with | it is a failure, for the per cent of scientific hypotheses which fail | to be supported by further research is | greater than the per cent Of failures to find happiness in marriage; but | you believe that scientific research | brings untold blessings to humanity | and you respect the scientists. Better | call theology a failure, for the failure | of its statements to stand the test of | time is greater than the failure to find | joy in married life; but you believe | in theology. So, too, the science of | medicine is much more of a failure | than marriage is, fer in the expert nents of medical men there are fifty failures in the endeavOr to cure pa tents to one failure in the endeaVor 70 find happiness in married life; but | f taken sick you are glad to have the IsI