Show CAUSES FOR DIVORCE senator PIERSON of or sin francisco ini vree pree with the magnitude of the social evils resulting from the laxity of tile the existing laws in relation to divorce or which lie he supposes to spring from that source has introduced into the legislature a bill which be believes belleve swill will prove a panacea for the evils in question the senator proposes pro pre poses to make ad adultery ul the only legal ground for ais als solving the marriage marr fage jage bond thero there Is no doubt that the tho fundamental ldoa idoa of this thid new and radical retrogressive gres sive measure will meet with the ho heirty airty approval of or several highly respectable and influential classes in the 1118 community it is certain that our grandfathers and grandmothers would have regarded with horror the tho facility with which divorces may now be le obtained in most of the states of the union whenever the parties desire desiro for any reason to dissolve the matrimonial the old sacerdotal eacer idea of the s of or the marriage rela reia relation tiou pervades all tho religious 91 sl sentimental literature of all the christian centuries excepting only that of the presen tio til tion which is tinctured with a more liberal or latitudinal faint according to the theory in wed by long tradition and vei ver vt erable as associations the marriage relation no matter how hastily or rashly entered into must be held indissoluble for any but a single cause no matter how uncongenial the parties may be boo too matter how clearly they may have come to lenze that they cannot live together in peee pece and arid harmony no matter how plain it may bave have become that the matrimonial contract wa a blunder resulting from folly or tience fience and that the of the relation can entail nothing but misery blighting the whole future of both husband and wife no matter how bow carne cayne earnestly aly both may desire to sever the intolerable bond in i pite orai oral of all ail such con iterations as these the s P prat irai trai ion iou of the ill assorted pair I 1 is s regarded from the extreme religious point of vie lievy as a scandal and a sin this is the pinion held by many rood and aud in d plou piou people nad aad senator 18 bill reflects the these se ortho dox arid and time views the opposite and more modern theory which seems to have teen rapidly gahie gaining ground during the la lat last t quarter of or a century is based upon tipon tie the of individuality it protests against the sacrifice of a whole life in consequence of the mitake mi ni take hta of a mo moment it lb insists that the forced continuance of uncongenial wedlock is a horrible out raze rage upon all the i and arid do cencie most precious to the human soul soui it hints at awful consequences resulting from these enforced bonds murders by violence or poison suicides suicide wretched homes where reace peace arid and happiness are un known bickering and arid broils endless contention cruel tyranny and wasted lives ane questions opened by senator bill are as complex as they are momentous much is to be bra said on both sides great evils can be traced to easy divorce divorces but are they greater than those which spring from euf eul enforced breed union between those who have come to detest each other if a man neglects to provide for his wife if he is cruel to her if he ho outrages her sensibilities an and subjects her fiber to privation and humiliation if he lie persistently violates every vow ho he made at the altar is she still to yield him love and anti belin ceto submit to his bru bality and permit him to drag her down to his own beastly level does dues she owe no duty to herself and to her own individuality has she for forfeited felted her natural right to liberty and the of hap bap happiness pines Is the romantic itic llie gui gul of ort oft who under the influence of the illusions of youth idealizes a scoundrel into a hero and marries him to bo be bound to him for ilfe life and shut off forever from the hope of bf a brighter future when whan riper years have brought her wisdom and knowledge of the world these are arc some of the con cou flicking considerations which the legislature will bo be called upon to weigh when senator bill comes up for discussion they will be found worthy of the most mo serious attention and all theas som bled wisdom of tho the state now in iu session at the capitol la lit not greater greatel than will be r quiren to with them is J F chronicle |