The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-21

the laws Of society have ever guarded
that institution with peculiar jealousy.
Laws in restraint of mar iage have there
fore been held to be aga ns5 pubic policy.
Not only is the home the most con-
venient medium through wnich the race
can lie perpetuated and the rising genera
lions cared for, but it makes for thrift,
contentment, and virtue by stimulating
individual effort and imposing RESPONSE
bilities. This proposition may be denied
by the extreme socialists, but the ex-
perience of the race, so far in its evolu-
tion has demonstrated that the establish
ment Of the home through homogeneous
marriage is conducive to both intel
lectual and national development.
Assuming, then, that the encourage
ment of marriage and the formation of
homes is essential to good govern
ment we must conclude that the admin
istrat;on Is making a serious mistake In
throwing any restraint about the forma-
ton of marital relations between the
teachers to be sent to the Philippines. A
contract not to marry for three years,
if not absolutely void alb initio, ought to
be- The common law tenet which hold
that a contract not to engage in GER
tain business anywhere AT any time is
void, but becomes binding when either
time or locality is limited, ought not to
apply to the contract of marriage. For a
contract not to marry within three, five,
ten or fifty years may become a perma-
nent bar to the establishment of an indi-
vidual home. In the case of marriage,
time is often an essential element of the
contract Time and brides wait for no
man.
The marriage Of a large number of
young people who were recently employ
ed to go to the Philippines to teach, ought
to encourage the government to offer spe-
cial inducements for others to do like
wise
The experience of every intelligent
school superintendent is that married
women, as general rule, are the best
teachers. 1t is true that owing to politics
and the desire of local school boards to
furnish employment to young girls just
out of high schools, crusades have been
instituted against married women in the
public schools, but in every case where
the matter has been investigated upon
merit alone the decision has been in ia
vor of the married woman. The same is
true of married men. Inconsistent as it
may seem, school boards have passed
resolutions to employ none but married
men and none but unmarried women
How such a conclusion can be reached
is known only to the omnipotent being
and that body of strange contradictions,
the school board.
For a young woman or young man to
go to the Philippines to teach the natives
is lonesome business It is a three
year Punishment from the comforts of
civilization and the endearing companion
ship of friends and relatives. There will
be many a heartache and tears of home
sickness will blot many closely written
page.
After the novelty is worn off, the wom-
en- will lose heart, NOPE and beg to re-
turn. The men VIII seek the recreation
in which the soldiery indulge with the
same blighting result. What is the rem
edy? Marriage. The sixty young peo-
pie who went ashore at Honolulu and
fixed things up. showed a keen apprecia-
tion of what they were going to and
did the best thing to do under the cir
cumstances. They perhaps builded bet
ter than they knew. The government
ought to encourage just such acts by
Offering pension of at least $1,000 each
to all young people who will marry on
the trip or within six months after ar
irving in Manila
Beside getting better services out Of
them as teachers, the presence in the
Philippines of LOCO young men and wom-
en- with the bridges burned behind them
will have marked effect upon Philippine
society
~AAAiSAiSdi men ana women will StaV
only where they are happy and they will
be happy only where their hearts are.
Encouraging marriage among those sent
out VII be the only way the government
can secure permanent corps of teachers
in that far away realm
Joseph Chamberlain a few months ago,
realiz ng that it will be impossible to con.
quer the Beers in South Africa proposed
TO send there a large number of English
girls Of marriage able age to become wives
for the uitl2nders and the soldiers who
might wish to remain at the close of the
war He realized that If South Africa
was ever TO become English it must be
colCn.zcd by English blood.
If We are ever to control the Philippines
other than by military power we must
act up,n this suggestion and no better
start can be made in this line than by
Offering large inducements for teachers