Show CURE SUGGESTED L FOR DIVORCE DIVORE EVIL 71 Reform in Law Regulating Issuance Issuance Issuance Is- Is of Marriage Licenses Licenses Licen- Licen i. i ses Proposed OATH FOR THE APPLICANT 1 l I I ery Ir Man nn i hill to Get fot Married Mn-l Mn Show v ho JIe He Cult CUll Support 4 if Wife i he he Is able to oW obtain aln in a n mar nyu i igO gO license every man mrm in Utah may Jt compelled c c by hy law to show that he heIn I In n support a. a wife I A bill hili to that e effot ef ef- ef tiet fot may he be introduced Into 1110 the thern next of Harry J. J Robinson of ft I 11 m ont one i of or the Ow n now new w 1 legislators llda g-llda tor Is th lie tho Intro Intro- I lCt 1111 of such Much a u measure Ir o if i not lit the only ono one of nf f t members t or of the 1 legislature I who wh i. i Li c I IS I'S S an Idea Iden that there should ho bo a r re- re M tI fr In the law ta taTe Te rc ul the tho J issuS u- u S i o of f marriage l' l lIc licensor m and 1111 while l the jie h bin Ims has not yet n I definite J yet jl it hits hns nJ met t with 1 approval 01 o of various legislators legislators- ol oitt In sort Lake count bounty n as os well as ns In parts of oC the tile state stale Tho flo purpose e of nr compelling mon men to 10 sh show that they tIey can Rn support a wife wile i H A to 0 to cut ClIl down the number of or divorces 11 i iS S Homo uw people believe c that strictures I upon pon certain applicants for Cor licence will willi Ill I I ht heck ck tills lills is evil 0 The oath now at- at I al-I I atch ll r lo o tIe the Issuance of a marriage e license doe not comprehend the p responsibility of or the tho male cant rint Any imp impecunious Jr person peron on ma may mayo I 1 0 o to tn the county mt clelI clerks clerk's s 's e In any count County in iii Utah demand a marriage c license e and compel om pel a a. compliance with lils demand If In III a few ew months mOnth he heS S U unable to hl his wife u a divorce I u usually l II follows and one o of the causes of or tt the th can enn be he laid to the fact thai man mun was as not obliged b by bylaw law to take talt oath that he hp was financially finan finan- daily responsible ihl r L It Is said that a great reat number of oft I S divorces l spring from flom preparations pre pre- to lo support a n wife On the ulel hand it ft may be lM b by L. L that the enactment o of a t law Jaw requiring re- re r quiring- quiring financial responsibility lIt would S make m marriage ditl difficult cult for the thC nS- nS j. j S r None o of the members of the coming corning r. r f je legislature who have ha been heen talking of or r i 5 5 the proposed amendment to 10 the Ihl work of the little litte blind In Utah Ulah Is i god opposed op- op J posed to matrimony Most of them arC are S opposed to divorce orce and to aid the cause cluse of marriages that stick they are in lit favor ol a of a change that will make moke marriages ju just t as easy and divorces a t little harder harler 5 In just jut what form will come this S inquiry into th the he family exchequer It ItIS iti i IS it not flot known but I if the bill pas passes es the thel l legislature there will be a revision In the thO oath that will remind each S c cant nt tot for license that it is obligatory upon hIm tm la tv support the the- he marries and the grind o of the divorce OIce mill One of or the themen I men who ho will sit hit In the thc next legislature legisla- legisla legisla-j legisla C i. i turf ture Fays Fay's says of the S I I have talked with a a. great Teat many people p fI ople about this proposition and 5 while I may not take C the Initiative I believe e It a hill hili will vIll be le Introduced at tho the IH next session Jon of oC the legislature The id idea l of requiring a man to show that ho he can support a wife has taken definite form and amI will l be c generally recognized as ns one of the best cures cure for forthe forthe the existing divorce olce evil Wh Why Ive I've I known of or instances where men mardell mar- mar dell with only two or three dollars In their pockets jut just enough to P pay for fOI fora fOIn a- a license and get a ju justice ot of the peace act ho to to perform O the ceremony It Isn't an any I wonder that under such Ruch circumstances I Ol dIvor proceedings come quickly Support h by Wife If Satisfactory Of oc coUl course e If a n man has property Jl It j vary iH that he hl should he hp ai nt work or 0 nr If IC hi his expresses es willingness willing ness to lo support him and can Neither I do I J think It Would be necessary to re require to- to quire ni al man mazi to ho bo at nt work when hen the tho license was ivas Issued If he would swear J he Iw h had HJ trade and that he ha had earned I a ln living hat would b be ll enough nough It J could bij Wi taken as i e evidence that I he lie would his wife I 1 think j It is Ismy In my notion II to require oath as asto asto asto to winning bread capacity If Jf the naco oath oath Is fise IRe tho the man mun would be he liable under O the tI perjury J law but bitt it Is m my idea to provide also iso a special penally In tills this et etso i |