JANUARY 15, 1903.'
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
THE DIVORCE PROBLEM
fi. Gaylord Wilshlre Dlaeusaea the 'Inav
itlbilitjrw of Dlvorce-An Economic
Bather Tban Religions Question :
The problem of divorce is a peren
nial one, although a3 divorces grow
more frequent the interest in divorce
as an institution and in divorced peo
nio neculiar neoole becomes decid
edly less. However, Mr. Hearst seems
t-v think otherwise, and has been run
ning a symposium in his papers for a
cumber of months; and, unless it be
the business manager, only the Lord
knows how much longer the publ it
will be thus symposed upon.
It's all well enough for people to
bave "views" upon divorce, and it is,
my own observation that most peopl
do have "views;" . but the whole
amount of the matter is that when
the particular individual has a par
ticular reason for. deciding his own
particular case, then his "views" are
blown to the winds, and he decides
his case upon its own merits". I have
known persons with the most hide
bound and conservative ideas as to the
sanctity of the marriage tie, and with
a profound aversion for divorced peo
ple and divorced women in particular;
yet, when the proper emergency arose
that is, proper' in their own eyes
the divorce court was as readily re
sorted to for "relief" as would have
been the postofflce if the article de
sired had been a postal card instead
of' "relief."
On the other hand, I have known
'persons who have much less regard for
the' marriage tie than they would have
for a contract to board a horse at a
livery stable; yet, when circumstances
arose that would have driven the
first-named persons to the divorce
court, to Bedlam or to the grave, they
have allowed their lives to continue a
hell on earth for the very fear of
breaking with those conventionale 3 5
which they theoretically despise.
Some people have a theory that so
cialists are upholders of divorce; thai
socialists and socialism are account
able for all the divorces of the day.
This is about on a par with saying
that socialism is accountable for the
trusts. We socialists regard both di
vorce and the trusts as the result of
the industrial evolution, and feel the
same toward those who would legis
late against divorce as against those
who would legislate against the trusts.
Of course, many evils follow from
'the lightness with which the marriage
tie is put on and off; and likewise, of
course, many evil consequences follow,
from the concentration of industry in-:
to the hands of the trusts. But if
there is an irresistible cause of both
divorce and the trusts, it would mani
festly be futile to attempt the cure ot
the evil without removing this cause.
I believe in the Golden Rule and in
the doctrine of the brotherhood of
man, but if I attempted to conduct my
business affairs entirely upon such
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hcumatism
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theories there would never be another
Issue of Wilsalre's Magazine. I knov
that until we have the co-operative
commonwealth, and that as long as we
are living 'under the present system of
competition, we must remember where
we are and adapt ourselves to our en
vironments. When I am swimming
under water I don't try to breathe air,
although I. am an air-breathing ani
mal. I wait until I get into the air
before I attempt to inflate my lungs.
It is the same today in social and
economic life.- I would like to con
duct my life upon ideal lines, but I
recognize the un ideal conditions and
hence am simply reasonably ideal..
ve in America have in the last few
generations become so accustomed to
look upon marriage as simply the con
ventional consent of society that a
man and woman who are companion
able may live together, that we ae
apt to forget that such an idea of mar
riage is a peculiarly modern one, and
that it does not obtain to any great
extent in Europe and hardly at all in
countries other than this.
In Europe the conventional view
today is not vastly different from the
conventional view of the middle ages
A man marries a woman much as he
buys a horse or a cow. She becomes
his chattel, together with all her b
longirgs," and she has about as littl3
to say tor herself as has his cow. The
chief difference is that he can get rid
of his cow with much less difficulty
than of his wife, or his woman, as she
would usually be termed.
In America the woman has a place
superior to that of women in other
parts of the world, not primarily be
cause the Industrial conditions have
made it such. At the beginning, in
colonial - days, and later in the win
ning cl! the west, woman was the com
panion rather than the slave of her
husband. Then, when city industries
began to crowd upon the farm life
Which had hitherto-had a monopoly,
woman again had opportunities to gain
an existence, independent 'of any indi
vidual association with a particular
man. There was a time when in or
der to get a living at all a woman sim
ply had lo fnd a husband; and when
she did find -him she very often had
to make a jiving for him as well as
for herselt. In fact, such things are
not. entirely relegated to the past as
yet.
Today a wonicx can do about as sne
pleafes. as far as marrying is con
cerned. She is no longer confined to
being a wife for a career. She may;
enter into competition with man at al
most any point in the industrial world.
It is really a question whether an un
married woman is not more economi
cally independent than a man. Not
only has woman become independent
of man owing to her ability to make
her way unaided by a husband, but
she also acquired the right of holdin
property in her own name, which is
another road to her econqmic indepen
dence. The result of all this is that
whereas at one. time when a woman
married a man it was absolutely for
life, simply because sh3 would starve
to death if she left him, today she
may leave him and find it easier to
get a living than if she remained with
him.
It is this facility of becoming inde
pendent that causes the facility of di
vorce; and if the good bishops and
ethers who are vexing their souls out
at so much per thousand words to
help boom Mr. Hearst's papers, would
only consider the divorce question
from the economic standpoint rather
than from a religious one, they might
have a great light break in upon them.
The following extract from an ed.
torial in the New York World is sig
nificant of the position I am taking as
to . economic Independence being the
basis of a great deal of the divorce of
the present day:
FROM POSTAL REFORM, DIVORCE.
The postmaster general's order for
bidding man and wife to hold clerk
ships in his department has produced
its first fruits. A woman clerk draw
ing $1,400 a year announces that she
and her husband, who draws $1,800.
have decided to part. "He has always
spent his "salary," she says, "and I
have spent mine." Neither cares to
fpend less. So. Mr. Payne's 'reform
brings forth divorce.
Of course, it is easy for strict con
structionists to argue that a pair
easily parted are better parted, though
it must even be admitted that a cut
ting of the family receipts almost in
half is no small consideration. But
the fact remains, as the World has
previously intimated, that the anti
marriage order is of more than doubt
ful wisJcm.
Marriage doss not rob a woman of
the right still to be a wage-earner un
der approved conditions. Many wives
are justly proud of the ability to main
tain their own resources and even
contribute to the household fund. Gov
ernment is in petty business when it
interferes with any of these. It is in
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ever made 'west of the Missouri Kiver. Ilia stallions of big size, quality, finish and extremely
low prices are proportion that will make you his buyer. If you can pay cash or give bankable
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63 STALLION S-63
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finish than ever before;" "But lams is progressive:" "He buys them larger and better each
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west. lama speaks French and Grman; pays no interpreter, tin buyer, no salesman ; no two to
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buys direct from breeders. This with his twenty years' experience secures the best. All the
above facts gave his buyers $500 to $i,C00 on a first-class stallion and you get a first-class horse, as
only seeond rate stallions are peddled by sleek salesmen to be sold. Good ones sell tiiemselves.
It costs $600 to 800 to have a salesman form a company and sell a second rate stallion. Form
your own companies. Go direct to lams barns. He will sell you a better stallion for $1,000 and
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perilous business when by any of its
acts it inclines to the discouragemert
oJ wedlock and the encouragement of
vicious substitutes for home life.
There is only one form of 'ogle
which upholds the postmaster cental.
That is the logic of the spoilsman.
The more wives out of office t nooe
chance to reach such civil Service
eligibles as have votes.
It does seem too absurd that tho
United States postmaster general
should, by an order, augment the num
ber of divorcer.
Something very like the above also
happens as a result of the United
States pension office withdrawing pen
sions from soldiers' widows as a pen
alty for remarrying. The rule simply
leads to illegal relationships. It
neither, saves money nor morals.--Wilshire's
Magazine.
Post Check Currency
The persistence with which great
numbers of people send small sums
of money by mail, notwithstanding the
obvious risks of loss, is a sufficient
indication of the need of some form
of easy and safe remittance of small
amounts. It is greatly to the discred
it of the government that after so
many years of experience with post
office money orders, the system in use
is still unsatisfactory.
There is something like genius in
the novel but exceedingly simple pro
position to issue small bills with a
blank in which the name and address
of a payee could be written and thus
instantly transform an ordinary bill
for $1 or $2 into a check or a draft
on the government for that amount,
payable only to the payee named, but
on which he could get his money at
any postoffice where he could be iden
tified, as readily as if it were a New
ork draft for the same amount. Not
withstanding the simplicity of the
plan, congress has fe'led to adopt it.
Any enterprising business house to
v hich an improved method of so great
vilue should be suggested would un
hesitatingly and enthusiastically adot
it.
The only valid objections to the
plan are that it might make some ad
ditional work in the treasury depart-.,
ment. If that is a sufficient reason j
why millions of people should be de
nied the advantages and conveniences
which this simple method offers, the
proposition should be abandoned. If
not, congress should make short work1
of the matter. If congressmen take
an intelligent interest in the question
long enough to understand what the
measure is, we shall soon have the
most important and widely appreciated
improvement to our postal system that
has been made in many decades.
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ter, N.Y.
Oxnard' has given up his fight on
the Cuban reciprocity treaty, but still
he is not happy. In fact, he is more
miserable than he ever was in all his
life before. He now says that the
reduction of 75 per cent of the Phil
ippine duties will "ruin the industry'
for all time to come. Mr. Oxnard was
en imperialist and delighted in the
supreme court decision that made tho
islands an "appurtenance" of the.
United States. He believed in "des
tiny," "world power" and that Provi
dence wa$ directing the whole matter.
Now he is down on Providence and
don't believe ,in "appurtenances" at
all, for all these things have a ten
dency to "ruin the industry." So Mr.
Oxnard is very sad and has no peaco
of mind nighjtrday
It Is a foolish man" that throws
himself in the way of temptation for
the purpose of ascertaining if he Is
able to resist' It.
