Show MARRY AND BE HAPPY there are a few young men of our acquaintance who seem to be incorrigible bachelors they have been reasoned with joked with and almost threatened with fine to urge them to marry but so far in vain reason eloquence wit and threats are all alike unavailing they do not marry should they still continue to persist in their celibacy we would be inclined to favor the revival of the spartan custom of treating bachelors it is said that at a certain festival at sparta the women we were enjoined 0 ined to flog old bache bachelors jors around an ept ent a auar anar a r that they might be constrained to take wives the publicity of such a proceeding might possibly have the effect to shame bhame our bachelors into compliance with the first law given to man if the fear of the first flogging would not do it probably the dread of a repetition might cure their obstinacy there is too great a feeling of ence manifested by mandof many of our young men in relation to this duty in many instances they are doubtless deterred from marriage bythe apprehension that they cannot provide the young ladies with such comfortable homes and surroundings roun dings as they have been accustomed to enjoy under the paternal wing but there is not a young man of good habits in the community no matter how poor he may be who is not as well provided with worldly gear as ninety nine out of every hundred of the parents here have been at some period or other in their lives every man who has clung to mormonism through the changing scenes through which it has passed knows very well what it is to be poor and our girls if they do not know what it is to be poor by actual experience themselves ought to have a very good understanding of ibby it by what they have gleaned from the recitals of their parents we have too high an opinion of our young ladies and the training their mothers have given them to think that any of them would reject the addresses of an honorable industrious young man because he happened to be poor the girls are here they should not be permitted permitted ermit ted to become old maids they Z do not want to marry outside of their faith and what are they to do unless our young men give them the opportunity of entering into wedlock we have a great country a country of magnificent distances the desolate places of which are crying for population to gladden and beautify them by the fertilizing hand of industry thereasa The there thero relsa roisa is a certain class of persons east however who say population shall not be increased in utah by plural marriages they would rather put us all in the penitentiary or have all our ladies die old maids than have population increased by that method As we must have population I 1 it is of course the more necessary then that our young unmarried men should take partners old writers say that there was an ancient constitution among the romans by which all persons of mature age were obliged to marry it is certain that in later days a law was enacted among that people by which various prerogatives were given to persons who had many children such a law would meet with considerable favor in this coun country tryl I 1 we recommend it to the consideration of our legislators if they were to pass such a law they might surely count on a election reelection re the same roman koman law imposed penalties upon those who lived a single life those old romans ha had d some som e very sensible ideas they learned to place a higher 1 value upon a citizen who was a married man especially if he had a numerous progeny than upon one who was single such men have a heavier interest at stake they share more deeply in the prosperity of the community in which they live than a single man and they have more inducements to be loyal to it seriously we advise our young men to marry marriage is the mother of the world and preserves kingdoms and fills cities and churches and heaven itself main Mair marriage lage like the useful bee builds a house and gathers sweetness from every flo ilo flower and labors jabors and unites into societies and republics and sends out colonies and feeds the world with delicacies and obeys their king and keeps order and exercises many virtues and promotes the interest of mankind and is that state of good to which goi goj god has designed the present constitution of the world |