Show THE DIVORCE QUESTION The divorce dvo question is coming in for tor bra fora a good deal of oC attention these days dayL Cardinal Gibbons opened up the ques question question tion Hon according to the rules and practice of t the Catholic church churek Supreme Court Justice Henry B Brown in an address before the Maryland Marland Bar association took a directly opposite view from that advanced by the cardinal and atho advocated advocated liberality H in the matter of at grant granting grantIng ing log divorces The cardinal has ha replied to the Justice with great vigor Igor The multiplication tt n of divorces divorcee the 1118 cardinal said is la largely ascribed by some writers not nut to our divorce laws but to the eager e gar and reckless manner in wilch ministers of God officiate at marriage services I 1 have no word of apology or for the scandalous conduct of some IOme clergymen in this re ra respect respect But are not those persons con eon confounding confounding founding cause for effect Divorces are multiplied not because ministers will wUl willingly willIngly assist at marriages but because 41 loose legislation on matri matrimony matrimony mony renders It easy e sy for married par parties partIes ties tSe to annul the marriage bond bon If lf the civil laws of kit all our states were M as II strict as they are in South Carolina and in Canada the persons contemplating marriage would serious seriously ly Rail and prayerfully reflect they would study each others othern disposition and tem tern temperament temperament before entering into a con contract contract tract which would bind them for life Ufa And certainly the peace and good or 01 order order der In the family life in South Caro Carolina Carolina Carolina lina and Canada can be favorably corn com compared pared with the domestic conditions ex existing tsUng in those states where divorces divorcee can be easily obtained The debate will 11 continue and so 50 will the Ute divorces unless 6 all aU signs fail fall One of the signs gns of the times may be ob observed observed served in a resolution Introduced in the British hot hou fe ef tf tortis by Lord who as 8 Justine Justlee Barnes was president of ot the divorce court for years The avowed object of the resolution is to tomake tomake tomake make divorce easier for poor people The resolution proposes propose to give a limited Jurisdiction jurl to the county courts in dl di divorce I vorce and matrimonial cases eases At pres pros present prest ent nt t divorce in England can only be ob obtained obI tallied in the divorce court after an ex extremely I expensive legal process procesa so that at only the can afford the luxury The poor poOr can obtain from the police court judges separation or 01 orders ordera ders dera de but It has recently rec been boon decided that this separation order ord r acts as a bar barto barto barto to subsequent divorce proceedings So if It the tile resolution re goes through one of the luxuries of the people of wealth and fashion in England will be open to the poorer classes But Lord plan does not Include giving women the same ame facilities as men for obtaining re relief lief from the yoke oke that galls At pres pros present ent a woman cannot obtain a divorce in England unless In addition to infidelity the tM husband hu band has lias been guilty of cruelty while the husband has only to prove In on the part p rt of his wife VUe to secure The committee to whom the resolution has hu been sent had added an amend amendment ment prohibiting the publication of evi evl evidence dance dence in divorce cases In recent recant years the press pre s has been in the Uie habit of printing verbatim verb Um reports of the most sensational M l divorce cues cases and permit permitting ting Ung details to pass paRS that never find publication in any American paper |