Show DIVORCES T f it appears by official statistics stati sties stica that there were in ohio last year ces this ia i at the rate of one divorce to every three thousand person persons of the population and one to every twenty six of the number of annual marriages the causes for which these divorces voices di were granted are arethus thus stated adultery absence 2 c cruelty and neglects drunkenness fraud 65 63 65 20 that there should shot d be one divorce to every twenty six marriages or in other words that of every twenty si six K marriages one should end in ift a divorce Is a sorrowful and eloa eloquent tent dent fact and demonstrates mon strates the irreverent and flippant laxity of morals that pervades the community more conclusively than pages of writing could nor is ohio an extreme case we recall a paragraph that went the rounds a few weeks ago to the effect that there were eight hundred decrees of divorce granted by the courts of chicago alone one single city in the state of illinois 1111 illi nois and wo we recall another statement that there were granted in he the t state of last year fifteen hundred divorces indeed we can scarcely take lake up a boston paper that does doe not contain reports of several trials for divorce or statements of divorces granted narrated in a matter of course it il t might t be as well to t 0 inquire whether there thera is not something wrong wrong iu in the organization of a community or r in its ideas of morality and anil religion when such alarming indications as these are exhibited the family famil is the foundation and type of the state and a corruption which disorganizes dis organizes and degrades the one will sooner or later impair the vigor and influence of theother many persons are prone to borrow their ideas of right and wrong from the laws and to imagine that their whole moral duty consists in doing what the law enjoins and avoiding what the law forbids when the law therefore makes a mere contract voidable for drunkenness voluntary for separation incompatibility of temper or other trilling trifling causes it is no wonder winder hat that persons who find their marriage marr lage bonds irksome should set about getting rid of them with with the same coolness as they would seek geek to get out of any other bad bargain what the ultimate effect upon children families the morals and religion of the community and the peace and welfare of the state of these thes e things must be if it is not pleasant to contemplate JV 3 Y dispatch |