Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-06-22 | Page 4 | Marriage Reduced to a Scientific Basis

i 5 I - i '.: - . To f I' ( ! i: --: , ' , iv.:.: .... ... . . Craft i: A i : : . :t ; 'I . " : t.v Is C -trove 1 c.t I ':t'. r : ; . . r ; ir;r tl.at all Lopcl: 'y I ; . .:,:'! ,:.." c ' incuruUa discs. r.nl all jau; .-rs tl at tl. Plate's cxpoe, to trcatrl to a pair.!:, s C. '.th, t'...:t tLey may no lor.,rcr rrove a Lur Ja to 11 ? IifIl j. If these Iowa' ministers wire familiar with its eoti loic history of Europe they, could Lzl tLcrda a salutary object lesson that would teach the folly cf meddling with affairs above their intellectual capacity. ca-pacity. While the-arm of the law has before now been stretched out to prevent the marriage cf the criminal, degenerate, diseased and pauper elements of socity, it is not and can never be strong enocjh to prevent the illicit union of such as are denied the right to make a lawful contract. And the consequences conse-quences of such a condition have been proved to be far more deplorable than would be those of their lawful marriage. The Iowa ministers can better promote morality, by endeavoring to cultivate a pure and wholesome sentiment concerning the marriage mar-riage relation than by striving to have it hedged about in a manner that kills its sanctity. llzrrlzzp Reduced to a Scientific Basis: An association of ministers in Des Moines, la., lias drafted for presentation to the next Legislature a bill to regulate marriage. It is purposed to provide pro-vide for a State commission, to be composed of three men and three women physicians, "to have power to regulate all the marriages in the State." Candidates Candi-dates for matrimony must appear before the commission com-mission and submit themselves to physical, intellectual, intellec-tual, moral and industrial examination. Should the commission give an adverse decision, no minister or authorized official may perforin the ceremony. This is the most striking illustration of the disposition of a few narrow-minded individuals to regulate the affairs of others that has been made public for some time. Of course there are now, and probably always will be, a few cold-blooded scientists, who, believing in nothing that cannot be weighed, measured and analyzed in the laboratory's crucible and retort, and ascribing the strongest passions of the soul to the effect of atomic vibration, hold as their fondest dream the dawning of a day when the world lhall be devoid of sentiment. That these men, whose lives are spent in solving physical and chemical problems, prob-lems, should seek to find an algebraic formula for courtship is, perhaps, to be expected. But that an association of divines whose field of work presumably presuma-bly la to lift mankind to a consciousness of the highest love, should follow after such false gods, - r . . - . t