Show ii m I F TWO FORMS OF POLYGAMY 1 In I i A year or two ago THE HERALD f Jtqi 4 a republished an article by Rev Dr Is i i i Bacon of Connecticut on the prevalence j rlj i pre-valence and sinfulness of divorce ffJ5H i a t It was a vigorous arraignment off of-f f 1 legislatures courts and lawyers for I SJ1 I 1 making and administering laws in I Sfl1j the interest of immorality and r W 1 presented statistics showing a sad fir i condition of things in New England A a in the matter of divorce The doctor rn I doc-tor is still waging war against lax s r divorce and loose morals He recently ik 1J II 1 t i re-cently said there were two forms oft of-t polygamy practiced in this country ij I the simultaneous and the consecutive y i P consecu-tive or as he terms them the Mormon jlfl 1JI i Mor-mon and the Eastern and the former µ yt for-mer is the more moral and altogether Ih = i1 s alto-gether preferable to the other The I Mormon polygamy is outspoken and IL I sanctioned by religious belief while f the Eastern variet not less real in I jf 1 M the mind of Dr Bacon is rendered i I possible by the vicious divorce i i I di-vorce laws The doctor says + I I here is this difference howL 11 I if how-L ever between the two while to tl i the Mormon polygamist supports r Jill his children and all his wives the 1i Eastern polygamist gets rid of one n wife by divorce proceedings before 1 rj I t he takes another the Mormon is not y l r relieved of his obligation to support 11 a i a all his wives andchildren but with I = the consecutive polygamist the case is r 1 ry is differentthe second third or + fourth marriage adds nothing whatever what-ever to his duties or expenses i The New York Sun in commenting r i i I comment-ing on Dr Bacons stricture and the attacks upon the Mormons t 1 i i thinks the real problem for Congress f to solve is a vicious view of mars I liage which in one case is sanctioned i I sanc-tioned by a religious fanaticism but 11 11 1 condemned by law and in the other condemned by religion and permitted i I permit-ted by law t L |