The Republican journal., 1919-03-06
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The Land of Husbands.

Europe's immigrant men once came to
the United States as to the Gland of dol
lars. +" and now there is the strong prob
ability that European women may come
hlther as the land of husbands Charles
Lamb complained whimsically of mar
rage as an invidious monopoly, and the
women of Europe have some excuse for
complaining that this country has quasi
monopoly of manageable men. The
plain TACT is that we have cornered the
marriage market of the entire civilized
world. This is the only large nation of
the earth with considerable excess of
what the United States census elegantly
calls males" Those curious inquirers,
the federal census takers of 1910, dis
covered that in that part of the popula-
ton above 81 years of age there were g.
443, 1877 more men than women, and the
changes of social condition." again to
use the language of the census, since
the world war began, have not sufficed to
reduce the excess much below 2, 600, O0O
Furthermore, it was found that males
of all ages exceeded females" by nearly
2, 700, 900, and finally, to come down to
those who may be supposed of marriage
able age, between the years of fifteen
and forty-tive, the excess of men was
nearly 3, 400, 900. If any one objects that
few American men marry at fifteen, the
answer is that the census shows an eX-
cess OF bachelors between the ages of
iorty tive and siXty-fiv amounting to
nearly quarter OF million. 1t may be
worth mentioning that the excess of
males lies solely in the white race
Our paternal government has long had
the habit of setting forth our advantages
and attractions to the world at large, of
advertising our products of field, mine
ard loom. Now is the chance to call at
tention to our noblest crop, marriagea BILE
men, product in which Europe's short
age was never more marked. We shall
not, OF course, undertake to promote an
export trade in this valuable commodity,
but would there be aught of indelicacy in
calling feminine Europe's attention to
this embarrassing excess of bachelors
Tor which we ourselves have no immedi-
ate need IN a mascullnely overstocked
matrimonial market? The importation
of wives was promoted in early Virginia,
which commerce gifted romancist who
has since turned to other fields, made the
motif of highly popular novel, We
need not now resort to the crude meth
DDS of that earlier time. A word to the
wise is sufficient. What was the advice
Of Tennyson's farmer: Don't you mar
ry for money, but go where the money
is, Similarly, the immigrant women
OF Europe need not be invited in brutally
plain language to come over and seize
our unattached males by force of arms.
There are other attractions that can be
put forward by clever advertiser, such
as work to be done, a vast and strange
continent TO be explored, an interesting
society to be studied. We have all seen
those seductive Autographs inviting
young men to Join the United States
navy in order to see the world. Europe
could be plastered with cunningly word
ed and illustrated posters citing the edu-
cational and industrial opportunities in
America for European women, and not
too crudely and conspicuously our signiti-
cant vital statistics could be quoted, while
in the foreground of each poster might be
depicted a group of eligible American
youth. Perhaps already the authorities
at Washington are considering this i'm
portant matter. Does not the proposed
four years restriction of immigration ap-
ply to males only7-Boston Herald.