Arizona republican., 1913-02-15
Marriage
(Dr. Frank Crane)


 You mistaken, Isabel-marriage is not a tyranny It is not stupid custom. It is not q relic of superstition. Neither is its popularity due to being imposed upon an unwilling people by laws.
 Marriage continues institution simply because people like it. They prefer it any other arrangement of the that has yet been pro- posed.
 Marriage is evolution. After experimenting for several thousand years with high plosive of love, mankind has found that the best device getting the most desirable human values of it is marriage
 Don't imagine that the free love idea is some thing new and bold and wonderful The race has tried that
 Anything human will always be attended with a certain per cent of breakdown Many marriages are failures. Many couples should be divorced for their souls good Nothing is absolutely perfect earth, not even the automobile.
 Hence what you say of the tragedies of mar ried life is true. Often love cools indifference; develop into tyrants and into scolds Only too often does the rainbow fade very soon after the honeymoon leaving only the repelent com monplace. We grant all that. We have allow about 20 per cent eff on all human products and plans.
 If however you examine the lives of Thais and Las, and all the fair sisters of freedom if you get the promiscuous life among European gentlemen if you penetrate into the inside of the Turks harem and learn the truth about kings patriarchs with their numerous assistant wives; in short, if you ponder the whole history of non- monogamic relations, you will with me that, the whole, hearbreak. degradation and misery are four times great on that side of the fence as the other
 You see the sex problem is tied up with deal of other things, mortal power of cleverness can unite it. It is tied up with poetry and TO- nance And there romance worthy or he any other kind of love than true love. may write dirty novels about the mayer ick type of affection but you can't sing it.
 home is the place where the rare and price less flowers of passion bloom You possibly get the vegetables and of love some other way, but you get the undying glory and shine of love anywhere else than in q compact where one man and one woman strike hands and say Till death do part
 Besides there are children. Up to date have contrived of caring decently for children except the monogamic home. And l am inclined to believe the love of children is greater racial force than the love of mates.
 No, marriage is scheme. It does not depend upon the authority of law religion. It is here because the average and woman prefer to love after this fashion. It has it's drawbacks, I'll admit. but it will be many a day before the love and hVe-y -your-own-li life proposition can interest a substitute
 It might be worthy of consideration II all the world were between ages of 20 and 40 but a large part the population is under 20 and a considerable portion 40, and we're rather fond of them, young and old
 And take it all around still think that is better the section of the to behave itself and self than to send all the children to foundngs' homes and all the old people the poOrhouse.
 So get your head that marriage Is contrivance, artificial imposition of priests, ana all that It's a growth It is much a product of universal instinct and experiment oak tree is a product of natural selection
 Monogamy has a mile deep and thousands of years old in physioogic and psychologist fact