| Show AW AN impossible LAW THE jersey city argus says the new law against polygamy enacts that children born of the second old later marriages shall be deemed illegitimate and cut cutoff off from all share in the parents eduie es thia his provision would seem to be beff lightly lional for the reason that it proposes to punish one person for an offense offence another person has committed commit led but of course congress cannot tie de expected to bother itself about little ali ties of that sort and resides oe siles the parent may very easily evale evade the provision his right to do with his bis own as he be pleases cannot well be disputed sod and if he be happens to possess aia aa estate worth dividing he can give to his bis by any marriage whatever he be pleases during his bis lifetime the provision is moreover an open confession that congress is unable una bleto curb polygamy in suck such a case common sense sefile would seem to di die c tate that congress should devote itself to matters it can handle but that is 10 probably lust just what congress did not want to do and to avoid doing something useful it devoted its time t to 0 i the passage of an impossible law against the mormons cormons Mor mons |
