Show THE READ HEAD OF THE FAMILY in most moat of the states legal enact ment makes the husband and father as aa ahe the head of the family liable for the support of wife and children to the extent of his ability to earn a livelihood this la Is not dot only apon the theory that they are his by natural relation ship hip brought about by his voluntary action bis but also because of the well comprehended fact that in becoming husband and wife there is ie formed a co 00 in the nature of which the wife does her chare abate of work in the home willie while the klu hue bandas banda special opportunity is to secure boure that portion of tile the live livelihood liboA which cornea comes through outside labor lo in this respect there to is a division ot of wil toil lo in which the wife does huot luot always have the least burden while the children being for years helpless or dependent pendent tg look to both parents for ve the aid due from that quarter from the mother in household duties and the tether in providing such necessities and comforts of life as he la is able to earn where bus husbands bands and fathers fall to provide properly for wives and children when they are able to oo do so go we the law provides provider a penalty for the neg beg leol besides the legal obligation under which the husband and father is in re hect speet to supporting wife and children be majority of tue the people lu in these valleys recognize a moral and religious obligation of the very highest character lo in the same direct direction iou in tact fact it way may be said that there are notie none in ID the community with a sense of justice who would attempt to find any excuse tor for the head of a family who refused to do his bin best beat to sup gup port wife and children it is with them a mutter matter of sacred honor that bat rises above the requirements of legal enactment and irum from anich as aa citizens they would scorn to escape even it if there were no law on the subject tto far aa the latter day saints are GQace meU the religious zelig loua principle 0 n responsibility of the head of nt the family to out forth oreb in ID the comma command tid of the lord who said IQ in a revelation given april 1332 concerning women and obil aureo women have claim on their husbands for their maintenance until their husbands are taken laken all children have claim upon their parents lor for their main devance until they are of age this to the saints sainte is ie binding upon them pem as the law of god and any effort to eyde evdo it would be a violation able by the withdrawal of fellowship there la in no one worthy the name of latter day saint who would wilfully refrain from doing his hia beet beat to support wife and children on a recent occasion president Pre eident wll wil ford woodruff called attention to thin ihie principle and made special mention of the fact that to in camm where there were plural wives while the law passed by congress forbade the family association there was in it no intimation would excuse legally or morally a man from providing for such wives or their ob children omildred ildreD and as president Pre eident or the church be stated elated that any man who refused such support was under severe condemnation the justice of this position has been generally recognized by those outside the church as well is as in it and writers among the former have not been slow to express in emphatic language an their contempt for individuals wiio who would abick their natural responsibility lity toward innocent women and abi children luren bound to them by the most sacred ties toe the beads of families who engage in this shirking business are few and far ar between among the Si saints latS it indeed there can be found any so regardless of honor bonor and wati manhood hood and if there be buy auy they obtain no sympathy or respect therein from their oo who are atry much of the same opinion as an the apostle paul when he be wrote on this subject to timothy but if any provide not for his own and especially for or those tit of his bin own house bouse be bath delaler the ibe faith and is worse than an infidel |