Show Divorce and Re Marriage This nations nation's entire legal structure has been reared on the principle that it is far b better to let ten guilty persons escape punishment t than to make one innocent man or woman suffer The very radical amendment to tm loathe the constitution offered before the United States senate today by Senator Ransdell of Louisiana seems to go contrary to this theory On the plea that many have haye abused abu the divorce and marriage privileges of this country he wants to make absolute divorce and andrem rem remarriage mage impossible No sane man could deny that many in innocent innocent in- in persons would be made to suffer by such a drastic measure It is an indisputable fact that the divorce evil in America has grown to enormous proportions and must be checked for the good of the country but the question should be considered consider d very carefully before any such radicalism as that of th the Louisiana statesman is accepted Divorce with the right to remarry would be prohibited forever forever forever for for- ever in the United States and in all all' places under the nations nation's s jurisdiction should the proposed amendment of Senator Ransdell be adopted We would heartily agree with him should he demand uniform marriage and divorce laws aws throughput throughout t this country with provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions to ma make e the securing of a divorce very vey difficult and possible possible possible pos pos- sible only for the most seri s' s causes causs But he is going too far The present system is too loose The variety of laws in the t I different states only adds to the disgrace of the present arrangement arrangement arrangement arrange arrange- ment and there is a crying need for reform At present the divorce system is a farce in many states and it is overworked I everywhere But the reform must be along sane That marriage is a lottery is a pretty generally accepted fact Should the law flatly and finally declare that no man or woman could under any circumstances ever have more than one chance at it We Ve think not But suppose a man and woman after marriage learn that they can never never live happily together that they are m and andare andare andare are due to years of misery ry if they try to continue their partners partnership partner partner- s ship ip ii is it going to do the nation any good to force them into such relationship Now suppose the man is a useful citizen and has hasin hasin hasin in him the possibilities of becoming an excellent husband and the woman has like qualifications for wifehood and motherhood but their disagreement is a question of temperament isn't there g going ing to be a public loss if these people after being divorced are for forbidden en to ever enter the state of matrimony again v ipie he remedy by constitutional prohibition is drastic said Ransdell today but the mala malady y is so fatal th that t nothing short of it will prove efficacious In the United States Slates divorce is spreading with alarming rapidity It has permeated every walk of life and is prevalent among every class of people The total number of divorces granted Jn iii 1867 was or 27 for every population Forty years ears later in 1906 there were divorces or 86 for each Thus for allowing the increased population divorces s had increased 19 per cent |