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Show 'CARDINAL GIBBONS OPPOSMFFIAGE Thinks Political Equality for Women Would Increase Divorce Evil. By International News Service. ST. LOUIS. Sept. 17 Jameu. Cardinal Glbbon, the venerable dean of the Catholic Catho-lic church In America, told the SOO men at the City club luncheon this afternoon, after-noon, that if u historian over wrote "The Decline and Fall of the American Republic," It would not be due to an invading in-vading army, but to tho criminal sloth and negligence and to tho political npostnay of our own citizens. Before his address, he nald In an authorized au-thorized Interview; "Etjual suffrage, in my opinion, would tend toward incrcuHing divorce, which Is a social blot on the United States and Is the greatest evil of the day. "If women had equal polltlcnl rights with men there Is a probability that on the slightest provocation they would seek divorce. Given such equality, 'they might overstep the bounds. Women under un-der present conditions arc too prono to go to the divorce courts, nnd political equality might make them more ho. It might have the effect of turning their hende." |