The Republican journal., 1914-07-02

people are educated the greater the di
versity in their natures. 1t is said thai
there are twice as many divorces grant
ed IN America as in all other civilized ma
lions. And the number is rapidly in.
creasing. There are seven times As
many today as there were third of a
century ago. To attempt to check the
evil by law would be to heal sore while
it is still putrid within.
| The domestic condition of the Ameri-
can people is much the same as the poiti-
cal condition of the Mexicans. The
Mexicans need to be educated in the
science of civil government. The Ameri-
can people need to be educated in the
science of home-making. At present
| the home is a citadel from which the
public is excluded. Men do not hesitate
to dissect the human body and learn to
remedy defects, but the home is not
studied or discussed 80 much as it was
centuries ago. The education of women
is working change in domestic relations
the outcome of which no man can per-
dict. So long as woman is single it is
fine for her to be able to earn as much as
man, but she does not willingly engage
in home making unless she finds hus-
band above her in earning capacity or
with an inherited fortune. There are
many positions in society which promise
better returns than is obtained by the
, honest tiller of the soil, but the outcome
is often nearly as disastrous as the fate
of those who enter the house of i'll fame.
Intelligent labor is what counts. If
there is not harmony of action among
partners nothing is accomplished, and
the sooner the partnership is dissolved
the better. But harmony could often
be brought about by an intelligent solu-
tion of the problem by competent author
ity. But so far as domestic relations
are concerned everyone says: "This is
my problem" and resents the proffered
services of an expert in the science.
Doubtless the expert would be hard to
find as the subject has not been studied.
But the time will come when lectures on
the science of domestic and social life
will be just as popular as they now are
on purity or temperance. Jefferson said:
Harmony in the marriage state is the
very first object to be aimed at" If he
were still living he might devise public
home for troublesome third parties who
so often prove source of discord.
Franklin was accustomed to say of the
picture of Christ upon the Cross; "That
is the picture of one who came into the
world to teach men to love one another. -
The individual fortune or the Individual
influence is of little effect, but in union
or united effort is efficiency. The hum
cry may be fed by united effort. Evils
like intemperance may be suppressed
by united effort. A system of home
making and home government could be
developed by united effort. At present
they are both left to chance and are in a
more complete state of revolution than
the Mexican civil government.
The movements on the Mexican field
of battle take the first place in our daily
papers while our home revolutions are
consigned to some obscure corner of the
editorial page. When Garfield was a boy
he said: First of all, must make my
self man; if do not succeed IN that, l
can succeed in nothing" Marden says:
''Man is the only great thing in the uni
verse, Only one complete man has yet
been evolved William Jones would
have
"Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing. dare
maintain
Prevent the long aimed blow.
And crush the tyrant while they rend the
chain"
There are some differences of opinion
as to the most powerful influences in the
production of higher grade of citizen
ship. A speaker of national reputation
has said that, "Neither the politician,
business man nor newspaper develop a
high order of citizenship. They all travel
with the current; the church and school
! alone seek to make men better"
The facts are that nothing moves with
the current more than the church and the
school and nothing does more for the ell
ovation of society than good law makers
and good newspapers, and We have both
in abundance, though it is to be lament
ed there are the bad mixed with the
good, as in everything else. Here are
samples from the Oregon Journal:
( FROM PAUL TO JESUS.
Discussing the social awakening of the
Christian church and its drift from
theology to sociology, Mr.. Anderson
draws striking contrast between the
! two dominant figures in Christianity,
Jesus sprang from the common people,
! himself working man. Paul was from
| the aristocracy, Pharisee and Roman
citizen. The one was af1ame with ire
mendous ideal, Gods will on earth. and
in his first public utterance proclaimed
himself the bearer of good news to the
poor, the captive and the spiritually
blino. The other was wrapped in a
mystic her-worldliness and after his
sudden conversion expounded his philos-
ophy of the forgiveness Of sins. The one
! devoted three years among the multi
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