Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1884 — Marriage as a Financial Speculation. [ARTICLE]

Marriage as a Financial Speculation.

More difficult divorce will be an estoppel, to a great extent, upon marriage as a financial speculation. There are men who go into the relation mst as they go into Wall street to buy shares. The female to be invited into the partnership of wedlock is utterly unatt active, and in disposition a suppressed Vesuvius. Everybody knows it, but this masculine candidate for matrimonial orders, through the commercial agency, or through the county records, finds out how much estate is to be inherited, and he calculates it. He thinks out how long it will be before the old man will die, and whether he c.in stand the refractory temper until he does die, and then he enters the relation, for ho says: “If I cannot stand it, then through the divorce law I’ll back out.” That process is going on all the time, and men enter the relation without any moral principle, without any affection, and it is as fifitreh a matter of stock speculation as anything that transpires in Union Pacific, Wabash, or Delaware and Lackawana. Now, suppose a man understood, as he ought, to understand, that if he goes into the relation there is no possibility of his getting out, or no probability, he would be more slow to put his neck in the yoke.—Dr. Talmage, in Frank Leslies Sunday Magazine.