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Show MRS. TAFT ON DIVORCES. Whether we agree with the principles of the Republican nominee for president or not in the coming campaign, we must pause in the very beginning begin-ning of the struggle to give expression to our satis faction at the view expressed by Mrs. Taft on the subject of divorce. Mrs. Taft had a long talk with a woman reporter during a trip made last week by rail from Xew York to Xew Hiiven. She didn't say anything particularly new or startling concerning concern-ing the divorce evil, but she made it plain that she is very much opposed to the whole bad business. She said that if it were in her power divorce would be stopped entirely, which is doctrine as preached by the Catholic church. ''The laxity of our divorce laws is a menace to the very morals of the nation," she said. "It is aji appalling evil and it seems to be on the increase instead of diminishing. 1 remember the time when cue read of persons who never knew of divorces, di-vorces, but now everybody comes in contact with divorced neople in every class of society. It is countenanced by the so-called highest social circles, cir-cles, and it is made light of, and a woman iji many instances is received with as much favor after she is divorced as she was before." The so-called highest social circles which are here referred to are the circles in which the divorce evil is the greatest menace to the nation. It is very hard for any one brought up with the strict teachings of the Catholic church to believe that a divorced man or woman who remarries can retain any elements of respectability. And divorces procured pro-cured through the laxity of the laws of the different dif-ferent states, with no other reason in fact than that an affinity has been discovered, to be followed fol-lowed almost immediately by the remarriage of the divorced persons, are so abominable that people with only a small sense of morality are scandalized. Recently there was a case up in the Salt Lake courts which was the sixth divorce secured by one man. Could anything be more thoroughly'disgust-ing thoroughly'disgust-ing than this progressive polygamy? This, of course, is an exceptional ease. But the conditions which permit such an occurrence are most reprehensible. repre-hensible. They indicate a Avoeful indifference to the commandments of the Almighty and show by their existence-a loose morality and decay of virtue which is striking at the very foundation of our civilization. The vagaries of the Socialist, the skepticism- of the XTihilist, the lawlessness of the Anarchist, these are hut exoteric evidences of decay, de-cay, while the evil of divorce, cloaked in the elements ele-ments of respectability, insidiously creeps into the home, the foundation of our national strength and virtue, and by wrecking that threatens the overthrow over-throw of the government. Mrs. Taft views the question writh alarm. She '' . ,, ji... mVwL. in mi i fjmiwu.ii w , .wm mwi i .,11111. utiiini w says it is getting to be a matter of such indifference indiffer-ence to people that many persons marry with the thought in mind that they can easily slip out of the matrimonial knot and in no way lose any social prestige by such a step. "When a country's people even a small percentage per-centage of them go into the most sacred relations in life with such a thought as anticipated divorce, then there is grave danger ahead," said Mrs. Taft. ''We might build up the greatest navy in the world so we might have the good will of every ruler of the earth; we might have a credit and commerce unparalleled in the history of nations, but when within the homes of our country there is moral laxity and family tics can be broken up in a twinkling, twink-ling, through a process of law that is looked upon as a matter of course just as one would file a will or deed then there is a greater danger to our country than could come from a war with foreign for-eign nations." Further on, Mrs. Taft says there is no peril in our country today that, can come so near destroying it, and we quite agree witli her. It is indeed time to call a degenerating people back to a closer observance ob-servance of the law of God. else they destroy themselves. |