Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-02 | Page 16 | Filipinos Must Give up Plural Wives by 1950

Filipinos Must Give Up Plural Wives by 1950 Polygamy to Be Abolished Abol Gradually to toS S Avoid Conflict With Moros MANILA rl IL Ti P P. I 1 Feb 1 AP P A- Polygamy wh which ichi prevails pre among the tho of or the Philippines Philippines Philip Philip- pines in Mindanao and Sulu do pilo a an American federal law prohibiting It s ill be bo abolished twenty years lars hence under a a. new amendment to the tho marriage law I a passed sed by the Philippine l legislature and approved by Governor General Davis Divis The Christian elements of or the i islands wanted wante pol polygamy gam abolished h d 1 Immediately h but the legislature de decided decided de de- that it would be better to terminate terminate ter tel minate that form torm of ot marriage gc grad grad- The The- Koran tells a Moro that that- he hem m may i take unto himself el four fOUl wives Vind tho tim tribe thinks that book is the thelast last word on the subject cl The American law Jaw against polygamy polygamy am amy is not enforced In Mindanao and Sulu Suhu J beca because e of or the time policy of or interfering as little as pO possible with the customs of or tho the natives naU Another o amendment to the time mar mar- riago Jago law makes it il easier for tor Amen Amen- cans cang and other othel foreigners to be married In the Philippines Under a law pa passed sed in ID 8 19 8 persons contemplating conteri- conteri plating marriage had to produce their baptismal or birth certificates and witnesses whom they had known for 01 se several sevraI ral years ears who would swear that the contracting parties were not married to else l o. o Since it was wat difficult for Ol many foreigners to meet these requirements require require- meats ments when far tar from home anti and old friends they went to Shanghai or Japan to 10 be e married man They also spent their honeymoons In those places with the result that the lo lost t mone money The new ness law lifts these theBe rc restrictions