Show MARRIAGE AND AIND DIVORCE WE are pleased to notice that the remarks of president harrison on his recent visit to salt lake city have suggested to some florae of our exchanges that the glory of the american home as they understand it is menaced in other places than in utah the springfield spring field mass mase union for example thinks that the presidents remark has a broader application than one is at first disposed to accord it he stated a principle which to is or ought to be constitutional with the whole american people the american home is the bottom fact of our american civilization and institutions and any evil invasion of the hoi Whether under political social metal or religious guise is to be restated resisted to the ex of force if necessary we have been admitting to our shores horde hordes of people whose home habits are not like ours and who have little appreciation of what we mean by home we need not only to make the rite of marriage more sacred and to guard the marriage relation relation with the strongest sanctions sanction but bat to make it possible for every family living on our soil to have a true home guarded from all intrusion and consecrated to american family life in the purlieus purlie us of our great cities and perhaps in the poorer quarters of our ama smaller er cities home life is scarcely cely possible and while we are thinking how to make the mormons cormons obey the law we have problems nearer home which are quite as difficult to solve but which must be solved if we mean to preserve the integrity of american home life alluding to another phase of the same interesting subject the new or eam lefing picayune quotes statistics which show that in the united states for the twenty years ending in 1880 there were divorces granted of which were of couples with children this prompts the to ask what is in going to be done about it Con congreso Congre greer sr having never undertake to interfere with the institution of marriage in soy any of the states beyond an effort to suppress polygamy in utah may it undertake to interfere iu in pow cases where the institution of divorce is becoming so 80 alarming to in its ito extent and tendencies that it ought to or that an attempt at uniformity in state legislation on the subject should be sought few persons will dispute who are familiar with the variety of the usages that are to be met with in different parts of the union in south carolina for instance there is no cause that can lead to a divorce not even the scriptural one while in arizona a period of desertion extending over six months is a sufficient plea habitual drunkenness is a cause in many states but in massachusetts chu alone the opium habit to is recognized as a justification for legal separation in able tem temper perI is a legal plea in florida cruel treatment outrages or such excesses as to render their living together insupportable in arkansas pennsylvania kentucky louisiana missouri tennessee and texas such indignities as to render life burdensome in georgia three years with any religious society iett believes marriage unlawful in virginia fugitive from justice in illinois refusal of wife to move into the state IJ cl imprisonment for felony in all states except florida maine maryland new jersey new mexico new york utah and of course south carolina Jaro llna then as ae to restrictions on remarriage by divorced persons persona we find that only in connecticut maine ken tucky and illinois are both parties allowed an unrestricted stricter strict ed choice in the matter in other states the plaintiff may remarry but the defendant is prohibited during the lifetime of the plaintiff or for a term of years and in some canes cames remarriage in violation of the law lie is declared bigamy all these reminders go to prove the truth of the springfield unions first observation that the presidents president Is remarks may find applicability in other parts indeed in all parts of the great american republic wherever the american home is supposed to exist we agree with that view most heartily |