Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-11-13 | Page 10 | Greatest Perils of American Nation

GBEATEST PERILS 'OF lEfllCi RATION Divorce, Socialism and Apart-iii Apart-iii en f. Houses Threaten, Says Areliliisho) Oleniion. KANSAS CITV, Nov. 12. Tn an address ad-dress to 5000 pooplo in Convention hall bore last, night, Archbishop John J. Glonnon elf St. Louis declared Mini, divorce, di-vorce, socialism and apartment hoilsea were tho great perils that beset the American nation. "Tlio modern city dwoller has be-como be-como something like tho cliff dweller in the pueblos of "tho weal.," said tho Rev. Glonnon. "Tho apartment houses, whatever its advantage, js noL and cannot can-not becomo a homo. A wifo is admitted to them and possibly u parrot, but a wife and a parrot do not e.onsl.itule a family no moro than an apartment houso constitutes ti 1101110." Speaking of divorces the archbishop said that "every divorce granted and every divorce law written is a challenge to Almighty God that' men can make bolter laws than lie: j "Divorce laws and divorce courts," ho continued, "are an unmixed evil worso than the dostroving : -.lgels who) marked with blood tlfo door posts of Egypt and recorded tho death of their first-born. For lovo is the first born! of every household and tho announce 1 merit ot its death bv the divorce thai ; follows is the harbinger of national J death and destruction." j