| Show A VAST INJURY TO SOCIETY THE newburyport massachusetts berald commenting eai on he suit entered by mrs james G blaine jr A against her husbands parents for alienating her husbands affections from her states state that she is a roman catho catholic le and d therefore is forbidden by her faith to bo institute proceedings for divorcee and raises the question whether or not the divorce laws of this country chantry are a failure the herald in the course of s discussion of 0 this question makes the following pertinent remarks virtuously about the wicked ed cormons mormons and their polygamy but they at least are bound to and support yie he first wife alter after they have taken the second whereas we allow a man to have several wives living at one time or a woman to have several husbands wath no obligations whatever except to the last everybody Every everybody bodi who has looked into the matter at all knows that in a majority of cases the application for divorce Is for the purpose of oe allowing the petitioner to marry again some one whom tie be or she prefers erso to the wife or husband they are bound to and that in very many cases the cae is gained by collusion or f frau rau deither because e cause the respondent does not care to appear or it I 1 is so cannot a arranged anaed that he be or she cannot pr because of ignorance that any suit is to be brought the person gon who does not know ol of such cases within his bis own experience has a very vary limited knowledge of what is going on about him they are very common as every lawyer at least knows knowe mow how this ibis Is touch much more corrupting than polygamy which in ia an advance upon the beast ial promiscuity which prevailed before the institution of marriage and is thought brought back by the great facility tecil ity of divorce was one of the most corrupting things in etame in the corrupt days of tile the last of 0 the republic aad it is a danger which threatens america it there were no children or the socialist d dream ream should be realized even then the permanency of the tha marri iso agi relation would by be to the advantage ot of abe individual and of society but in the present constitution of 0 t lang things the freedom of divorce is most corruption marriage is not merely for pleas ure ore and the gratification of an appetite but it is a public institution which demands self sacrifice on the part sart of those who enter upon it this is i true where therelo ereis th the most love and of temp temper erand and the most favorable these cannot be looked for la in the majority and that these should be dissolved whenever one of the pair desires another partner is 14 degrading to them and a vast inbur binl ury to society toe the evils of making marriage marriage indissoluble tor for any cause are not dot so 80 great areat as chuse by which a divorce is granted whenever one of 0 ike parties want it and that is the practical state of the case to in the united states at the present and is a beam in the eye in comparison to the mote of polygamy in the mormon eye |
