Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
page 100 of 366 (27%)
page 100 of 366 (27%)
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But that is not her fault.
A man who marries a woman undertakes to make her happy and keep her busy. If he keeps his contract, she will keep hers. If he fails, he has no right to experiment on another unfortunate. The divorce class is a self-indulgent, malformed class, not worth notice. ---- Professor Cope, an earnest man and serious thinker, believed that marriages should be contracted on probation--say for five years, with the right on both sides to refuse a renewal. Theoretically, this would be beautiful. It would make courtship permanent, abolish curl-papered wives in the morning, and tipsy, bragging husbands at night. But it wouldn't work. It would be all right for women. They are only too willing to be faithful and permanent. But men cannot be trusted. The animal in them, so essential long ago, when the race was struggling for a foothold, has not been obliterated. They have got to be MADE responsible and HELD responsible. ---- As a matter of fact, there really is no marriage or divorce problem which sensible beings need consider. At present men are not good enough to be trusted with liberal marriage or divorce laws. When they are good enough the laws |
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