Show SOCIAL EVILS The Tho Springfield Republican takes an n n optimistic view of nt the general moral condition n of at notwithstanding the fact that divorces ar art are more numerous every year Our con contemporary contemporary temporary argue argites that divorces divorce are Ile more frequent not o there are n l more CaKOS ot of violation lI of or tho the marriage covenants than formerly but because b auoe married people are aro becoming less pt pi tient mill and submissive tinder such con condition and separate rather than live IIvo together and duffer euter r ns na many did Old In Inthe the tho past The statistics show that g divorces i were cro granted during clueing the year 1001 In Inthe the tho stute of at Massachusetts In 1901 1003 there thero were more cases of or separation but the tho number wo quite nn en Increase oVer that of or previous years In fact tho the divorce III In that stats state doubled In hI twenty years The rite Republican shows that of or the tho 1000 divorce grunted during the twenty years or nearly I were because ot or desertion Ie mostly 1110 t I on tho th part of or the husband divorces were granted for Cor adultery and of or thee o 1993 1 3 or less leslI than were given to women were wera for Intoxication going to women agaInst bibulous husbands 2693 26 3 for cruel nail abusive treatment 2617 being obtained by wives These four causes causo account I for of the tho total of oC divorces for tor tho the twenty years Tho The others rere tor for various causo Hut flat so far from J tiLe tha present situation die dis discouraging i a 1 moral point of or view 1 I our oU contemporary holds that wo we may account for COl tho tim Increase In divorces on tIm tho Assumption tl that the moral tone tonee e of or society has lias Improved Instead of or de he declining det t clining on the th whole there Is III less l sl 0 drunkenness ru less cruel and II treatment anti less laxity In sexual re relations lotions lations than formerly obtained 11 The tIt I Republican concludes 8 It Is quite ro roll l lt t ble hie le that this rise of the tho lie dIvorce rate ralo Is III IIII I duo llo simply to nn Increasing then of ot people to t be hu hold down by hy the I restraints Imposed by II law or conven conen convention i lion tion under tinder conditions which are lies hos hostile ho t I tile Ul t le to Individual comfort or 01 happiness Time The argument might stand wore were It riot not for tor tho tIme fact Hint thure there mire are many signs algae of or n a 1 lower moral standard Only tho Ula other day Rev Hev Dr Mahlon on C Peters according to a New York dl charged that Inebriety Is 25 Increasing among society women Ho Ito raid paid In III port part Closely Close the tie on In ii I time tho fashionable drinking places of our city elt and nine out of ut if en sti drink hulk drink their tipples j with those of or men mell and the calls HH us n S i frequent drinking with men and wo wor o r luen and amid ons at It a luncheon at dinner tinner 1 nt upper r and times young yount t and old ohl to my II nothing of the he drinking In their homes home where I except their maids tt sees cs thi theta in Ia lt I physicians know that 1 I tell 1 tho time truth ruth Alcoholism among women omen I Is on oh I the I j Toke Tako another Illustration A prom Irom f i Inert a 1 few months month ego go In t nn nfl address before beCore u a medical j j I that If It the should j I reveal nil all the th s terrelt rr ts in tn their I Klon milon society s would be disrupted nail d He had imai ret ref reference I I cr fe to the criminal practices which ha hue h are in so common that In his hist 1 t estimation 0 unborn children j have b been n put out of or existence since 11 the tho lie days of I nt Lincoln In the tue l i estimation of ot this authority It U has c come conw to be A R Met fuel f ct now that only the tho vicious the time Ignorant nd tho ho very ety poor I producing tho Ula th future American 1 ell lIen in III any considerable numbers I Not only Is this condition prevalent r to a 1 larger extent than then ever evor but It Is IsI I finding lading open o n defenders Quo Ono married i I woman some time line ago wrote In tho the Independent stating that though she ho jho 1 and antI her lust husband Iero ero young strong and comfortably situated they hey had agreed not to have any children Tho The reason renson she gave was that hat the advent of children In III the family would mean neali that she sho would have to devote nearly all nl of ot her time to them and that would woul take her away from her hel work of so 80 social cial usefulness Now Noa if Ir such facts are arc not the symptoms toms tommie of or a It social disunite that threat threatens oils ens to heroine become fatal we fall tail to read rear thu tho sIgns Films ot or tho hue times The Increase e In divorces Is but another symptom of or the ho ailment and there In Is II only one OM urns reme remedy dy for It mind and that hint IN Is the GosPel of or the he Redeemer That eau cart cure curo time thu social I evil arid and when the cure is effected j the tho symptoms will disappear I |