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THE DIVORCE EVIL
The American home la the haw*
upon which our American civiliza
tion and government is constructed
lies troy our domesticity and out
governmental structure will soon
crumble. It follows then that what
ever destroys the American nome is
a blow al American government and
there is no one feature of American
society which ia destroying our Am
erican homes so rapidly as the div
orce department« of our courts
Take any of our metropolitan new»
papers and you wdl I m * astounded, if
not alarmed at the long lists in th«
divorce column.
The divorce, especially
when
there are children, ia especially sad
It proclaims that those children
probably have not had the home
training they are justly entitled to
The h<»m«i where the father spends
the major part ef his idle time at
resorts of various kinds, is a drunk
ard, or is untrue to his marltai
companion, or where the wife and
mother ia what is commonly under
stood as a gadabout, or likes to as
sociate wiUi other meg too well, are
the iieople whose names ap|>ear in
divorce ’record«.
Then think of
their children who are on the street
when they should I m * at home. N<*
wonder they form habits which
place them in ref 01 ma lories and la
ter on. perhaps, in penitentiaries.
Then after the divorce. If th«*
caildren are awarded to the mother
who usually can give them but a
meager support their lot is not a
happy one bv any manner of means.
They may not have been taugot ha
bits of industry and form other ha
bits on the streets most generally
vicious which often lead to crimin
ality,
If the children are awarded to the
father their Condition ia often worse
Happily, however, there are excep
tions to this rule. The responsible
parent does his or h *r duty nobly
and the children grow up to be good
citizens
But if the home environment is
what the American home should lie.
aven it it is humble, there ia an at
mosphere which the growing child
ren breathe which is almost a guar
anty of good citizenship
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putush an-i Mr Wilson will b* as
glad to punish the diahon«wt grafter
divorc* Is no longer a stigma They as h« is to reward merit.
marry our aons and daughters with
It would have bc«*n the same had
out a blush and occasionally a happy the preeidimt b*en a republican.
in »< »me way too manv of us are
home results.
Yet there are married people who dishonest or are grafters when we
should be divorced.
Bather they work for the public. Even the la
should never have married.
But borer employed on nublie works
having been legally seuaraud they does as little work as he can and yet
should not rush into another mar hold his job.
We had a sample of this sort of
riage
They should know their pro
posed husband or wife before taking grafting up on the power line last
a step which may lead them again summer as »■«•II as wastefulness and
carelessness on the part of the man
to the divorce court.
The lime to prevent th# divorce agement. Men simply will not do
ia before marriage. People should as honest work or manage as care-
kn«w each <>th«*r intimately for st fullv when working for the public
least six months I m * fore they assume as they will when employed in pri
ths marital relation.
It is safe to vate endeavor.
And this trait seems to prevail in
say that not more than <>ne out of a
dozen divorced couples spent MX the characters of the vast majority
months in courtship. Then why not of th«* iieople whether laborer or
enact a law requiring ciuples who contractor.
Th«* contracts during the late war
contemplate marriage to have spent
six months in the pleasure of court were an large that the grafter, or
ship
It is wisdom to not marry in more properly named thief, had in
numerable opportunities to get in
haste to repent at leisure.
Of course to attempt to enact any his work. And criminal wasteful-
law to regulate marring«* would be n«as could lie observed wherever
to create a hardship on occasional public work was going on. The air
But
couples. But where one hardship; craft scandal was deplorable
should exist fifty couples would be what could be done alriut it? Men
It was new
lM*nertt«*<l and be raved ’.he disgrace were in#xp«-ri«*m*d.
busmen».
Yet
we
know
this inex-
of th# divorce court, for it is even
perience
e
st
the
American
taxpay
yet a disgrace but ¡»rapidly growing
ers a half billion dollars.
respectable.
No, the pre*ent administration is
Then divorces ar# granted upon
too frivolous causes. A couple se«*k- no more to blarr c than were Presi
ing divorce if given a severe lecture dent McKinley or President Lincoln.
bv the judge might often patch up It is »imply the downright dishon
their differences and live peaceable esty and grafting of the American
peotde some of them. As said be
if not hanpy.
Then If re marriage should be pro fore. we can punish but what bene
hibited for five years instead of one fit will it be to u«; we who pay the
year, as the law is now, people would bill to send a few of these dishonest
think seriously before rushing into devils to the penitentiary where we
will have them to support? It is a
^he divorce court.
game
where the taxpayer loses no
A divorce law enacted by congress
instead of by the stales if strict matter what th# result.
enough would result in good.
But th« right lime to prevent the
divorc« is before marriage. A ripe
acquaintance and a determination to l
become true helpmeets as our fath
ers ami mothers did will not onlv
result in happy marriages but a
careless divorce court.
HUNTING FOR DISHONESTY
But parents who provide this kind
of a home do not as a rule ap|M*ar
in the divorce courts. Go back to
pre-marriage days and you will find
this was not a hasty marriage The
young man and young woman prob
ably spent months in their courting.
They knew each other and when
they married it was for life. They not be hel«i responsible for the dis
purposed tn build a true American, honesty and wastefulness of the
home
American p«>ople. Guilty contract-
Fifty or sixty years ago the div ora could not be called dishonest un-
orced man or woman was in the ' til dishonesty han been proven.
eyes of the world a disgraced per (When found out it was too late.
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A th I »«ni. J. K. Har-i«*»,
Mr» Jennie W«roe«.
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ruin“ spirit among the nations of
the world to form a real workable
league or aHrociation of nations.
There is not enough of the willing
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the supply war activities of th** Wil the league or association, has power
son administration. Of course they | to enforce its mandate«, it ia simply
found it for there are dishonest a structure whose foundation ia
democrats (awmming that ail of the builded on sand.
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contractors during the war were
ail
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bring
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publicans. Strang«* to say. if a man
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complexion does not add to or de ing. Of course each signatory has
tract from his character. It will the right of withdrawal, but for Ar
crop out if the opportunity ia pre gentine to refuse to play ball just
tiecause she could not have adopted
sented.
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l«eef fur our soldiers in Culm was future of the league.
Of course the failure of the Uni
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secretary of war a as almost con
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for guidance. The nations of the
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they had not learned the tricks of the I'n-t- I Stat * faded to com« to
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