The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-16
Cannonisrn
And Matrirnony.

And Matrimony.
A special from Washington to the
New York Sun follows, and is full OF
human interest:
People all over the country write to
Speaker Cannon about everything.
But the prize package In the way of a
request dropped in on Uncle Joe today
in the form of q perfectly respectable
letter, which says: Our beaux can
not marry we girls because all foods
and clothing is too high. What good
is US girls if we do not have husbands?
Why don't you make congress provide
husbands for us? You will do the
country more good By seeing that all
the young people are married. If all
the young people were married we
would not need any congress or presi-
dent. This world would then be a
paradise. We must have husbands.
Get some for u.s." B.
For reasons of the most profound
delicacy the girls name is omitted, but
the letter Is postmarked Cleveland, D.
That little girl ought to be writing
philosophy for sale to the big maya
zines instead Of penning note to
Uncle Joe Cannon, who doubtless will
also stand pat on this as he does on
other proposed innovations.
There is an undercurrent of excel
lent, and perhaps unconscious irony in
the note to the speaker. Not that
there is lack of boys in a receptive
mood, but rather lack of boys who
have the courage to tackle the matr1-
monial problem on SIS or $40 per
week, is her missive ironical. There
are worlds of deserving young men
who revolt at the future which
bachelorhood holds out, yet who are
too proud to take a smiling young
dame from her home of luxury into a
boarding house or a ten-by-fourteen
fiat heated by an oil stove.
The average young man who can
read and who is able to put the brakes
on when he feels that enlargement OF
the heart-like the sap rising in a
white oak tree-coming on; who
knows what ails him when he falls in
love, and is able to overcome the sun
rays of her merry eyes for once, is aot
going to rush heedlessly into a whirl-
pool of struggle and stint in face OF
present conditions.
The young man of today is forced to
blot from his soul those sentimental
and finer qualities which inspired our
fathers. II he isn't an heir, and has
no such prospects in view; if he is just
one of us ordinary fellows who must
work every day except Sunday to
make ends meet, the young man of to-
day knows that marriage is too serious
a proposition to enter without "due
consideration" He knows that, with
meat making a record breaking rise
each day, along with house rent and
other things he must have, two can
not live as cheap as one" as was
taught him. He cannot give to the
young wife as many pretty dresses as
not give her a new piano in new and
nicely furnished home with lovely pic
lures on the wall and flowers in the
yard. He sees that he cannot marry
and live If he would don a new tailored
suit occasionally and smoke good
cigar after supper. He Is simply face
to face with the undeniable proposition
that his salary is not commensurate
with the amount he must needs ex-
pend If he would live, in the event of
matrimony.
Many of our unmarried young men
cannot be led very far under that old
spell of love in cottage" Marriage
today is largely business proposition
and he who does not regard it as such
will have cause 30 learn his lesson
well after he enters the market TO buy
the weekly supply of produce for he
and wiley.
We doff our hat to the little woman
who wrote to Uncle Joe for aid. He
is one OF the very few who are indi-
rectly responsible for the present revo-
lutionary trend against matrimony.
They engineered the very laws which
Gpahle n handful of individuals to Law