Show NEW YORK I 1 THE press of new newark has been very verr pronounced in ark enunciation e of mormonism dl displaying abing aying ay at the same time a vast amount 9 of deplorable ignorance of the subject but arg the grounds of their assaults to b be e well taken Is there not an ample field for the exercise of all the journalistic forces or ol the city and state in attack log 1119 the ibe locial disorders dia orders there prevail I inac 0 some of them are too vile tor for detail in a family ne newspaper ws paper others are so public that comment upon them is proper and Is occasionally made in the most orthodox religious publications among the latter is the marriage quest lom it is a serious subject it lies lies at the fun foundation dation of society and affects it in all its relationships and conditions here is how the law stands in sew new york as expounded by the court of appeals by the law of this man and a woman who are competent to marry each other without going before a minister or magistrate with no previous public notice given with no form or ceremony civil or religious ana with no record or written evidence of the act kept and merely by words of present contract between them may take upon themselves the relations of husband and wife and be round to themselves to the statland State and to society as sue such and if after that thu taa marriage is oried denied proof of actual cohabitation as husband and wife acknowledgment and recognition of each other to friends and acquaintances and the public as such and the general reputation thereof will enable the court to presume that there was in the beginning an actual and bona fide ade marriage ane independent remarks on this ex position this makes the marriage contract simply a civil contract not different from a contract between two men by which or ore oce e buys and another sells a horse it moreover surrounds the contract with less safeguards than that by which one buys and an other sells an acre of land it if the powerful papers papera of the c commercial am metropolis were to turn the might of their influence upon home dome reform it seems they could accomplish much more good than in pecking away at something they know little about at a distance of thousands of miles howard the pungent newspaper correspondent in a recent letter from new york to the chicago news says i we have divorces livor ces with us all the time precisely as we have the poor with us all the time and one of the chief subjects of discussion one of the bones of society as of law most continually gnawed is the embarrassment attending the divorce schemes of the various states in this great and glori ous amion the idea that a man who it id divorced by one ol of our judges in the aty t ity hall park can jump on a car ride to the terry cross over to new jersey and be le legally 1 L y marriell married to the partner of bis p present rm nt j vs leaving the divorced partner of uis aforetime joys free to dance off into connecticut with the gentleman who iwho has the honor of her ber hand bond for fo T the ensuing eustin term be it short or long strikes the american bump of humor very hard but bat it should strike something be sides the bump of humor common sense lit IB traversed social decency is shamed and the most ordinary idea of morality jis is knocked in tae head bead by this sort of thing which goeson boea OH day in and day but d ut year after year yea r R referring ei erring to fc the spurts of virtue which agitate tae press when something unusually vile vifa occurs he be remarks these spasmodic eri endeavors deavors to deal ebli with great crest social problems t there 91 ere really being but one ead in n view the political advantage of ong oae or gr a another oth e party amount to plot bobbing hAig TF w the end while high life he gets fa rp e in order that it may marry somebody else and low life pigs digs together avoiding both the marriage fee ee and the divorce costs it is worse than folly to attempt by occasional incursions upon the camp of et the enemy to do more than create a moment momentary vy ais disturbance tur bance every one of olur big churches is closed so the devil having nothing else to do goes down to manhattan beach to long branch Branci ito to saratoga up the river down the bay ay and abro through tug g all the haunts of men here and hereabouts and bascome has come I 1 am told to the conclusion that he be might just as well as aa the ministers take a aree there is for him to do the e w word ald here her and hereabouts is rushing pe pell Z mell into everything iba ils 4 hot and hollow hotter T the 0 more the literature tm hotter the amorosi ties told the better the book sells sails the holl dwer the more ahn shammy th tha mere far farcical moll cal a bejet 11 a 0 on goings are to fw 4 peem ev t to baloy theu theto ft bles athe on the brim attract e than tapi i the refreshing liau liquid gor to vie itie 0 glass the shifting panoramas of f so clai cial development to in our oar gay ay and giddy watering places att attract rac ot thou sands where the concord school hool of philosophy draws a dozen when the ministers come back in the autumn when their churches are swept and ana garnished when the organ is tuned s sopranos tall fall bonnet is prop pro sapo er t I 1 ahey ey vi aiu tell all as the same old 1 1 q jaws r and the 3 bah iah d wo will nod in AF ironi aou 4 r v 0 t e case may be while tile the red hot tail will prance around the sue 1 town never uncovering a roof unless thereby he can bring about a domes domestic tic disclosure but cover covering hig up crime barting fresh gin mills te achito the apart idea how bow to shoot luto into the very very heart of hurr hurrah abdom dom and enjoying hi himself to his cinders content these sketches of modern society only rive ove the outlines oi 01 the evils existing and they are not peculiar to now new york they represent the loudl tion of 0 affairs ip in every great city of the union and sho show w which way the nation is ia they also proclaim the deep hypocrisy and the pious baham of periodical assaults on utah and mormonism Moru which are made in the pretended interests of morality and servo serve as texts for the and disciples of social retora |