Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17

support herself and therefore has to be sup
ported. The normal girl and the normal man
who are both capable of earning their own living
do not think of these things
What we want to do with the marriage and
divorce question Is to keep people in a normal
condition, and those who are not in this condition
must be brought back.
Just as soon as you get people away from the
normal state you make one set Of people slaves
OF another set This means the decreasing OF
our intellectual emotional natures and the
breaking down of social standards.
We have spoken OF the girl who is lacking in
ability, or in opportunity to earn enough to sup
port herself Now we speak Of the girl who is
kept at home with certain duties to perform but
no incomemaking power. This sort of woman
is absolutely dependent on a man who has the
incomeearning power TO satisfy her wants.
We educate woman to spend 81 500 a year,
whereas she has an incomeearning power Of
only $500. When she faces life she therefore
has 20 choose between the man whom she may
love but who cannot earn the 81, 900, and the man
she cares little about but who can provide the
necessary means for such Injuries, Just as long
as we have women who are not taught to have
an earning capacityBwe are going to have many.
many cases of this kind.
The mans side of this problem is quite differ.
ent. The young man of to-day has the notion
that he should support wife, and consequently
he emphasizes this fact in himself, often to the
extent OF deceiving himself. He does not look
to any incomeearntng power in his wife; he looks
to her face, her figure, her style, and gets the
idea, which has great deal OF good in IL and
girl he marries unless she has the earning
power does not know the value of his income or
how TO use 1t, and in most cases she becomes
dissatisfied with the resulting chaos.
Married life should be a brighter life a life In
which devotion can be expressed and fulfilled ;
but on the other hand nobody should be forced
into II because they lack income. To get an
equilibrium We must cut down the education OF
women TO spend rather than earn, or we must
raise their earning power to a higher point AS
long as men 10 not want women TO earn living
there will be trouble. The only thing a woman
has to sell is herself and II she cannot earn
enough to support herself then in most cases
she sells herself
IL is a false doctrine to tell person to get
married and learn to love afterward Love can
not express itself without income. Jus. as soon
as you get person any other basis their
natural and normal feelings are suppressed, they
become subordinate and this subordination
shapes their whole lives
Love is the socializing Of income. Sexual i'm
pulse is an inherited sentiment and should not be
called by the title OF love- nor should IL s made
the basis of marriage. AS soon as you combine
sexual impulse with income earning capacity
then you have trouble
The way to prevent divorce Is to set up a new
ideal OF marriage. Sexual impulse will never
make for happy marriage. The combining OF
the tncomeearnng capacity will, however, make
the group permanent instead of the individual
and will put the family a sound basis