Show editorials 7 RIGHTS OF passengers ERS THE rights of or passengers notwithstanding the rules and byi byj by J vips af railroad and steamboat companies compin ies fes have been 0 cc more bu stained by the courts A stud entrot harvard college named hamed d ward McAllist mcallistor mell Moil lister cr bought an urt ordinary I 1 inary limited I 1 tieke tick ticket e over theft ja ld colony kinei from boston to tu new nov york for nor 1 arriving at new wow Now newport port pori only onis part br b the tile distance bult bilt buto which place the re regular 9 u farni fark V 1130 i lie iio starie go 90 ashore when lie was wag stopped groped by an allicer oc of apic the company and not allowed to leave mave tile tho boat until he had paid tha sixty six cents difference in in fare 11 ho q acceded to th tho the e demand and then brought an action against the company for assault and false imprisonment the material point of t lie tiie c case c was to determine whether thera a hoipo corporation bation ration Fa tion having agreed ag reed to carry a passenger over a through 1 route 4 a a aa reduced rate less than that asked for transport sport t to some home 0 me intermediate ter station statia lias ims a right to prevent all ail jw from stopping ing at that station until lie he hs has i pil paid opt opi ad dit ional fare flare the casa wa tried and on ap appeal peal came before judge bacon in the superior civil chiv ili ill court at boston massa chusett 3 si when the judge hold held aliat I 1 companies had bad no such ri night right ht jud judgment mentha was therefore rendered in favor of the plaintiff for 74 and costs al a together mounting amounting to to about jabout according to the decision it seems that a railroad or steamy steamboat oa t company cannot lawfully prevent a passenger from leaving the i car or boat at any station when a re regular guia gula r stop is 18 made for tee tre exchange ge of passengers the company may ap demand mand the difference nce nee in fare nare between the local a and n d the through rate rated asaif and if payment is refused recover th the same in a elvi action but hava have no other ren remedy iedy ledy maari manri MARRIAGE A ga AD dipoce OF late lat th the p papers ea east ease 9 t andrest and na West t have mid e frequent quent reference preference to the subject of ai divorce vorce they compi complain i aln ain that div divorces are increasing taking up a greit great deal of the time of the courts and showing as they declare that id a widespread dissatisfaction at present exists anion anlon among i 1 I married people catlan li athan allan in an ey essay on divorce says there is one chance in twelve thata marriage contract once entered into will terminate in a legal legai eg gai gal separation divorces have become especially notable in new england because of its ita steady li habits tibits strict religion and kind general industry also also aiso for its humer numer ical preponderance of women from froin 1890 1839 to 1878 there were 2775 divorces granted in vermont in massachusetts chu and in connecticut since the year 1870 no less than 1936 divorces have been decreed in rhode island these states do not lead leaa the van of the divorce army th the e numbers being greater in some other parts of the country but the ta are arefe remarkable in relation to the localities where half Aalf a century ago divorce was a rarity and a scandal the tho loosening of matrimonial bonds is on ong one of the si ansof decaying deay any nation or community the family is the tho basis basi sor of the commonwealth if its relations are unstable or insecurely connected the whole state of which it forms a part is in imminent danger the tho history iii lii story of dead shows that their thein dissolution jv yva yra large largely y attributable to the tho of con tempt f covenants and ab ligat libations ions lons the same samu cause will produce like lifee effects the lapse of time will firnot not change the order of nature nor avert the inevitable results of violated law corruption will produce thi the same results in the united SL states ates as esart in n rome me and I 1 in a the nineteenth century aa asure acure surely purely ly as in any former I 1 age As the figures in t the h e d divorce vv 0 r y J e e s scalo scale c jo rise so go does jho iho ho of the standard of public ni morals morais orAls onais descend laxity 16 the tha sanctity of the marriage contract is a sure sign of ofa a tendency 63 ta ausness ous ness where people treat the thel i nuptial tie as inviolable virtue virtu is la like ilke likely v jo to be paramount the tile increase ini i of divorces in in ia isi therefore to hor bor viewed with sorrow if not positive alarm one of the chief causes of ot the loose views view that are gaining ground in relation to matri bonds is lathe the prevalence of the pernicious doctrine that marriage is nothing but a civil contra contract et once it was regarded adlour among 1 all ali professedly christian 7 communities as a religious obligation tio the catholic claimed it as a sacrament the protestant as at jerst iea ica stan ai A ordina ordinance neg ned of god til the V pre ceremony was an ecclesiastical rite and lind the officiating prier priest stood as the supposed representative of del dei deity delty ty and hence honce h hence honee on the injunction from every altar papal episcopal Episco paI pal br or dissenting q what imbat GD hath i joined olied together lct let not man iut put asunder n but today to day the marriage covenant ia ii widely regarded in the same light as a contract to deliver dellver so many brick brlek for so much money or to perform a piece i e of manual work in a given time or to fulwil fulfil an any mere commercial or financial bargain god is thrust oui out of the transaction marriage is declared in tile the ser scrip 1 tures to bo be ord ordained affied of god mo modern law claims that it is ordained by th the tho eState state 1 vows 9 lightly madare made are apt tobe 11 lightly t broken popular opinion on makes the tile sanction of the tho church unnecessary sary sany and even oven when h on its ceri are used in in marriage they are counted as nought 0 but forms lorms and lot not essential to the contract indeed the idea is is gaining ground that ceremonies of any kind I 1 ecclesiastical sias sins or secular are only concessions to society ety submitted to for the sake of decorum and thata mutual agreement between the parties is hi all that is actually needed to make mako the contract valid and complete min win I 1 what wonder then that people who tire of each other through constant contant association who quarrel over some trifling disagreement who become dazzled by other attractions who have wedded for money and nind find not bring what they expected or who are dissatisfy dissatisfied led with their condition from any real or imaginary cause seek without any compunction or idea that there is anything wrong in it to release themselves kes ies from their marital obligations gat ious ions and ia vail themselves of the loophole of the law simply to aliard them themselves against any legal lebal consequences that wight L ensue ansu e if it they they thes paid no attention to the law the moral aspect of the case cage case cuts but a small figure in m the business and religion is left en entirely but of the quel question guestion this is a wide departure from the way of the lord and la Is sure bure to be fruitful of evl evi I 1 jesul ts 1 I J the mormon theory of marriage is based on the doctrine that god a as the father of the human family has the right to a voice volee in their matrimonial unions ahei whenever everee he has had a divinely authorized 0 priesthood on earth he has given abose hose who held the keys thereof the right night under prescribed rules rule to perform ceremonies in the solemnization of matrimony A proper marriage is theun thoun the union lon ion forever of persons fitted for each other by natural adaptation affection and esteem by the administration of a div divinely appointed ordinance this is the kind of of marriage or ordained gained of god when it is entered into performed and carried out in tee the spirit thereof it admits divorce either elther liy the act of man or the proa pro icess cessor of nature mature Death does not divide the parties purties to this eternal contract when sealed on earth it is sealed in heaven its ita belong to the tho parents in the world to come as weil well as inthis in this ilfe life the family organization thus commenced in in mortality readies into and proceeds in immortality death do does doea lot hot biot them part orif or if it seems soto so to do the lighton light of eternity will show that the tho separate separ separation ati on I 1 is s but eming rhe fie hero here is thel ther beginning of A ja kingdom 4 with a dominion and a glory that aro arc ever increasing a and nd will never end numbers cannot give the idea of its extent words fail to picture its boundless realities infinite ina ins desty jesty mid inerrable inet rabie rable bliss blis s thi is celestial marriage very briefly and imperfectly put it comprehends ends and includes under divinely appointed regulations the order of plurality of wives iveson on which we wb have flot space now to 0 descant but it maybe marbe may maa be at aked 1 ed ia a div divorce orce always wrong we do not ilot say so to there are circum circumstances under which hoe those who have been joined in marriage may land and peril penni aps ought gh t to be parted there are covenants and obligations of a sacred ed character contingent to and with order of matrimony in Itri mony and those wiio wilo who violate them have no noa valid claim on antho the power bower of the crowning contract with its ita blessings that is based base dupon upon them speak speaking ing in a g general sense divorce is totally unjustifiable on trifling grounds is a sufficient cause so declared in holy writ and we ive are arc of the tile opinion that it is improper and unrighteous for people ao to live together and cohabit where abiding disgust and aversion exist in the place of love and resl resi respect act where such conditions prevail pa evail evall they tiley are proof that the ulion union was jan an error and all grave ermons errors thit that are capable of adjust adjustment mentor or xem removal oval should be rectified pr abolished but it frequently happens that the supposed aversi aversion oia oil oi is anly imaginary ury try or is p produced ro by causes which we davenel ther space nor inclination at present to di discuss but which if removed would be followed by a renewal of affection some of those causes are effectually prevented in plural marriage when wien it is 19 properly practiced practised and hence the divorces div in plural families families are less jess in proportion than in in divorce should not be po so easy of attainment as modem aw make it it be so lightly treated as modem modern custom encourages it to be the e consent of parents the sanction of god due regard to for the fitness of the lar Jar jarrles ji arties artles fues fles the abolition of marriages of convenience whether they financial orb arother or other thel me mercenary or unworthy consid considerations emt I 1 and a clear understanding of th the e eternal and solemn obligations of or the nuptial contract will do much to prevent the spread of the divorce mania wedo riat ex expect debt these considerations to prevail in the world but all israel should be impress zed edwith with the sanctity of bf the thin marriage relation the sacredness of the marriage tate and the ete eternity rn ity of the marriage covenant so 80 that divorce may be viewed with aversion and that families may be founded which cemented by abiding love and by that pd patience tience forbearance gentleness and charity which are its constituents may indy be ds as enduring as the thrane of jehovah and bear everlasting traits fruits as numerous mid atad bea beautiful d as the countless stars that g gem em the t sky i ti THE perplexing PROBLEM I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 i tinn THE press kik despatch dispatch patch reporting n 9 rin tin an alleged 4 interview 1 nier view with our u r church immigration agent elder W C G staines has bas attracted con considerable fd attention and some newspaper comment the sacramento 7 rd union has a double leader on the subject which we reproduce here omitting merely the introduction after referring to the large mormon ll immigration 0 of the present year sear in spite of the evarts circular and anif to tiie ane obligation assumed by the tho republican rep publican party to stamp out polygamy it says the central 0 obstacle o as ta C ae to all an enee enec C tive legislation in the premises consists in the erection of polygamy into a religious s tenet 1 I it f the mor alor mons were merely experimenting in a new social system like fhe the oneida communists or the brook farmed farm earm eccentrics it would not be difficult to bring them within thelah the law andio and to put down their polygamous practices but 14 when a 4 community eom com undertake to hold hoid that their religion not only J justifies but requires plural marriages and when evers every to extirpate polygamy results in th the creation of fresh sympathy for thew them as victims of persecution it becomes a most intricate and bewildering pro blem biem the theory of our government me nt moreover stands in the way of severe measures toleration is the principle which w 11 leli icil has been accepted as the guide in all religious matters and experience shows thau that no other principle ca can n with any prospect of harmony harman F be to adopted in so 40 mixed a community it is is argued that polygamy is is a breach W ef the civil law and so it is bu but t this fack fact cannot affect the situation tio tic n materially we wb finitia fenain utah precisely the same me kind of difficulties ties s which 11 have ave confronted us at it the south in the latter section the futility of all attempts to enforce jaws aws which are contrary to the prevailing sentiments of the people has been abundantly demonstrated and a similar passive repudiation cfall measures directed against polygamy VI ilu baffles the government in utah and it must bo be recognized further that the support which was formerly derived for tor anti polygamous sentiment from the belief that it was in some so me way opp opposed ased to divine ordinances has been almost entirely withdrawn withdraw n of late it may be doubted whether any auy y earnest or general opposition to the practice could now ka established upon such grounds and this being so til the tendency is inevitably tow toward ard a philosophical consideration of the tile moral significance of the tile mormon system A further cau baue e of embarrassment consists in the pei pet leu kel acl hat that whereas all the theories ories pries assume that polygamy aga lis jis opposed to progress of any the mormons cormons have succeeded rucee eded in I 1 n aclise achieving in g remarkable industrial results despite this drawback or br aa as they might say partly in conse cone quence of it and though there may be te no doubt as to the kompara comparative misery of pol poi polygamous relations so far as the v omen ai e conqer conger concerned ned it is difficult to insist with profitable emphasis upon this thi doctrine so long as the women akl appear ear car determined to uphold the practice oven bously than the men if therefore there foie role polygamy is indeed a twin evil with slavery it is a far more difficult evil to deal deai with and neither ei a review of past eff efforts lorts again shit nor non a careful examination of the existing situation appears to justify sanguine all aib anticipations tic pat iong ioni congress lias notoriously failed railed in sin ever every yat attempt tempt to suppress plural mirrl marriages wes and i there is 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