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Show Non-Catholic Tribute to Church. The follolwing editorial comment ar1,eared in a recent issue of the Chicago Tribune: "While we are searching the recesses of our chaste souls for words to express our shuddering horror of simultaneous simulta-neous polygamy as practiced by the Mormons, we might to our consternation find that we had been providing our enemies with words most uncom fortably applicable to consecutive polygamy as practiced by ourselves. Father Sherman said the other day that in the United States during the last twenty years there had been 300.000 divorces. Father Fath-er Sherman stands against a backarround which might well lend him an aspect of authority. Fifteen Fif-teen hundred years ago when turbulent barbarians settled within the confines of the Roman empire, it was th : Catholic church that coerced the vagrant lust of he barbarian heart and bound one woman ' to one man till death did them part. Today, when the sacrament of marriage-is threatened, not so much by savage boisterousness of passion as by the frivolity and insincerity of men and women to whom unshaken belief has become impossible, it is the Catholic church that still refuses to make a single concession to legaliized promiscuity, and that still keeps unblemished the ideal of an indissoluble indis-soluble spiritual union between man and wife. If we cannot subscribe to the theology of the Catholic church in this matter, neither can wc fail to subscribe sub-scribe to its practical morality. The Smoot case ought to give a tremendous impetus to the demand for a uniform federal divorce law. The easy route to consecutive polygamy ought to be beset with more obstacles. The voice of the whole Christian community ought to become as clear and emphatic as the voice of the Catholic church." |