Show WEARING Ul UP THi Ill i Since Shire the church on di Ill divorce I vorce which was ivas held a short time ago I II In Now Oel York Turk the thu divorce has hos been Iwen I the subject of ot comment In a great grent stunt num number bat ber of ot papers The result of ot thirst that con conference conference ference ns IS will 1111 be Jc remembered was n 1 recommendation that I ministers refuse to marry persons whose marriage the tho minister tag reason to believe Is forbid forbidden forbidden den by b the laws of ot the church to which the lite parties partie seeking to 10 be unlit unite j belong bel on 11 This resolution Is III generally generall recommend recommended ed but tho the New York Independent rals rais raises es Cs this objection The Tho Th Roman n Catholic Is one of oC tho the Christian churches That church has hall hasa haga a 1 well law lass forbidding marriage with Hut But what Prates Protes taut omit minister would tech feel himself obliged to help execute that law Under this resolution no Protestant could be mar vied to 10 a 1 Catholic except by a 11 Catholic priest and with a 1 strict promise that the tho children of ot the tho union should all bo be brought brou ht up Catholics That may be bo ft n good lass In for tor the Catholic Church to 10 on force but not one for tor a n Protestant church to enforce All admit however hOlcer that some step tep should be taken against time the divorce ovll The extent to which It II Is practised land Is truly appalling Ip alling Hev He U J Ot at Otten atten ten presents present in tn a Itoman Catholic pub Homo some statistics Illustrating tho the situation sl Here lIere they tile are j jIn In the tho monthly Bulletin of ot the de department of ot labor for tor September 1002 IDO are aro given tho the divorces granted In CO GO cities In till all parts of ot the time United States Slates the total number of ot these hese divorces granted In iii 11 1901 1301 being ODDS The pupula of ot these 60 CO cities clues was at III the time or o a n little less than tho II one ninth that of ot the tho whole country countr Hence mill anal 69 S by II nine and wo wit obtain for Cor tho the whole country divorces divorcee n r number close to the result re of ot our calculation Yet It Il may bo bj objected that It Is I not fair to take Illee only ani cities because divorces fire are apt nN to tu ho II more numerous In cities than III In the Iho ho country To ro remove this lion I 1 have bao also gathered tho the divorces granted In sixty counties tho the total number of ot which was found to bo be I The population of ot these sixty counties was wall nt 11 the tho time or ur clev oaths of ot the population of ot tho the whole whale country countr Therefore multiplying by we wo again obtain for tor the tile whole country Consequently nIlY the lowest limit we ran can assign n HIHn to the mho number of ot divorces granted In 1901 1 01 Is III This nt at an nn Increase of ot 6 a per Jer percent cent n a year 11 given for tor 1903 1 03 the time respectable number number r of at Hence our courts broke up UI In iii 1903 nearly homes a 1 number largo large to constitute n 0 city Seventy thousand horses homes broken up In one Ine year It If there tholo Is II nay truth In hi tha tho ho statement the Is the foundation lIon Ion of ot the state stale then thell the time foundations of ot our country countr are slowly being broken up UI and tho the forces be bo brought under C the entire structure falls |