Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-03-26

A great humanitarian movemen
has Just been started by the Corr
Exchange National bank OF Chicago
which has posted up the following
notice:
Employees OF this bank receiving q
salary OF less than $1,000 a year must
not marry without first consulting
the officials OF the bankf and obtain
ing their approval"
This effort 10 put loves young
dream on a sound financial basis can
but meet with the hearty approval
OF all sensible people. for there is
no other one thing In the world that
has inspired as much crime and led
30 IA much misery as the fatuous
theory that you a draw dividends
IN happiness on a matrimonial ven
ture that ls noated on a hot air CAPT.
tallzation. Mlsled by the gllttering
and alluring p%rospectuses in novels,
where clothes never wear out, where
M never hungers. and the bill col.
lector 10 at rest, millions OF ~conhding
young people rush into wedlock with
ont a penny in their pockets In the
fond belief that love Is enough only
10 find out in the end that they have
been bankruptod In affection as well
as money.
Romance is Indeed a Luxury.
Probably the most bllghting dlsap.
polntment that ever comes to any
lover is to discover that the way a hu.
man being Is constructed he Is more
stomach than heart. aud that II he
wants 10 nourish the one he must sus-
tain the other Nevertheless II Is
true However Il may have been In
the past when the demands OF life
were less exigent, certain Il Is that
in these prosalc times. Cupid runs
things ON strictly commercial lines.
and only those may indulge long In TO
nance who are able TO pay for the
luxury.
or course, this bald statement OF fact
viii not please the se-ntimentalists.
who hold that every one In love. or
every one who lmagines himself IN
love, should rush on and get married
even II he borrows the money to buy
the license aud fee the pnrson. and
takes his bride home TO his poor, hard
worked old father 10 support. This
10 the general American view OF the
subject. and there could be no more
cynical commentary ON the length OF
umo love lasts under adverse clrcum
stances than that the United States.
which leads the world In love matches
also leads 4. In the number OF It's al.
vnrcos.
Foolish Need Such Safeguards.
Il is precisely this state OF analrs
that the Wise aud phl~lanthroplc oH
cials OF the Chicago hank propose TO
combat They are not trying TO dis.
courage love They are simply trying
20 protect q with such safeguards
that Il viii not be starved or frozen.
or oy rworked 10 death. and In this
they deserve 90 have their hands up.
held by the entire community. In
reality, there ara few greater public
crimes than the taclt eucouagement
that We give callow young people to
contract foolish and ~llhjudged mar
rlages. When a silly boy who has
never eym supported himself and
who hasn't a cent 90 bless himself
with, marrles a slckly girl, who Is
equally helpless and poverty stricken.
We justify the lnlQuity by saying that
they were In love aud h was SO NJ.
mantle yet Ia does not take a prophet
no The son Of a prophet, 60 see the
anish o. che majority OF such mar
rlages n the poorhonse or the Grim.
inal docket /.
There are no statistics available on
tho subject hut there can be no doubt
that a larse percentage OF the trusted
elerks who rob their employers. and
tho bookkeopcrs that 20 wrong
were almost driven 60 steal 70 supply
tho needs % sick wives or babies
Who were crying 20 them FOR luxurlcs
were unable % buy OF were nrst /
20 play the races 20 try 10
set money easily because they were /
bounded and harassed by household
debts they lacked the money 70 pay