| Show A MOST PALPABLE FAKE the laws of mexico provide that a mormon who wishes to take a second wife must present a certificate signed by his first helpmate to the effect that she is willing and he must also have the express consent of the second wife and her parents says the philadelphia inquirer the tribune published the above on sunday morning morn ing without comment tor for what purpose we know not the writer seems to be entirely ignorant of the subject of which he writes write the laws of mexico we are informed do not recognize any but monogamous marriages and only when contracted within the prescribed forms orf of the elvil civil law and while a man and woman may be married by religious ceremony it la 19 not a legal marriage As to the matter of certificates and consent mentioned in the above in regard to plural marriages th the e laws of mexico require no such thing as such marriages have no legal recognition concubinage is said to be practiced by mexicans and the mexican government ia 19 extremely tolerant or willingly ignorant of it as other governments govern menis sometimes are in relation to certain irregularities but ini in matters of civil forms forma and legal requirements in relation to marriages the government is strict and unflinching |
