Excerpt from What the Mexican Conference Really Means: Its Represents Desires of the People, Deprived of Human Rights, to Re-Establish Themselves in the Scheme of Social Evolution To take bu} one itern, so often quoted to the discredit of the peon, the reaction of this dislocation on the problem of 111arriage.under_a_ztec rule marriage was strictly regulated and the standard of sex morality was higher thah that of the Conquistadores. Common report is probably right ln putting the present standard Very low among the work ing classes, but when the young peonwishes to _marry now he is confronted with two alternatives. He can have a civil marriage, which his church has taught him to regard as no marrlage at all, or a church wedding for which the fee is practically prohibitive. If scruple is stronger in him than impulse, he borrows money from his employer, pays the priest, and enters upon a condition of debt which amounts to slavery. How many of our own young work ing people, obliged to legitimatize their marriages at such a price, would decide to dispense with any ceremony what ever? Yet by just such frustrations of his natural 1111 pulse toward thrift and decency has the Character: of the.

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