| Show CANT GET A DIVORCE THERE THEBE Very Little Conjugal Unhappiness Reported in Newfoundland New York Sun Suo St Johns N F Newfoundland is the only British possession Ion where a divorce is unprocurable The colony has ba no divorce diverse laws 1 and aad recognizes no interference with the marriage rela rein relation tion In IR the Australian lORIes colonies e divorce Is recognized recognised us as a necessity ty to the con constitutional constitutional machinery and while the laws are rigid still evidence of infidel infidelity infidelity ity will accomplish Its attainment In South America also the courts are clothed with power to dissolve olve dl the mar marriage marriage vows for adequate reasons and the aid of this convenience frequent Is frequently ly called upon In Canada the procuring of a divorce is a very difficult and Dd expensive opera operation tion and necessitates the presenting pre of evidence of oC the most moat conclusive char character actor acter The Influence of the Catholic church opposed to divorce the world over made itself felt through the del delegates delegates e from Quebec when the Canadian constitution was being framed They stubbornly resented the proposal to vest est vest the power of divorce in the courts Only divorces have bave been granted in iA the thirtyfour years that Canada has been a federation I Newfoundland te stricter still III and refuses re fuses Cues t t m t The TiO at attitude attitude attitude is 10 d due e to the tile pr of the Irish Iri Catholic element fn In the population population lation la Truth to tell there is very little need for a divorce law Did it exist there would doubtless b be many persons avail avaU availing availing ing th of it but t as u It does not they do without and are none the worse oft off The whole population con consists of but persons 8 and while it would bf be absurd to contend that there is i no conjugal felicity it is quite correct to maintain that the percentage of ot marital dereliction is smaller than c z in probably any other country In the world barring barrIn Ireland Cut off from the American continent the old time virtues flourish m re vig rig vigorously vigorously rigorously than in the communities brought Into closer touch with the ad advanced advanced advanced modern thought which finds expression in making marriage a 8 civil contract to be broken at the will of ot I either or for very trifling causes With the exception of ot St SL Johns which has people there is net another town on the island with more than 2000 or and the great majority of ef the places are merely fishing villages In Inhabited Inhabited Inhabited habited by the hardy coast folk tolk who for generations have followed the one pursuit Not among people like that who are face to face with death as an almost dally daily incident In their existence would a divorce mill find material nor would a demand come from them theta for such an accessory to the existing legal Institutions institutions The Th nearest approach to divorce which is recognized recognised d here is a judicial j separation of man mart and wife for drunk drunkenness drunkenness drunkenness enness desertion ill m treatment or the like The husband is almost invariably at dt fault and is condemned to pay thi wife a weekly weakly share of ot his earnings or oft oll penalty of ot Imprisonment the judge fix fixing fixing ing tog the alimony Of Ot course this arrangement Implies no permission for either to marry again Strange to say y though Chough Infidel Infidelity infidelIty Infidelity ity is a ground und for fer suc MI 1 i S It H HIs ItIs itIs Is rarely Treaded there being O 8 r two wo Instances In ten years and then by wronged husbands against erring wives Proof of It releases th the husband from any obligation to support his wife and gives him custody of Ms his hi children It n Wo Women Women Women men here never advance t this thia th plea pre preferring ferring f to endure private grief to cre ore creating creating a public scandal |
