Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-05
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE SCAN
DALS.

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MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE SCAM
DALS.
The Blaine letter on the marriage
and divorce of his SOMA youth of
IS, more like child than man,-is
the perennial side of a sad affair. Cos
sip and detraction and SANDER love
shining marks, and for year notorie
ty has run riot with the notorious.
Mr.. Blaine replies only to save the
name of the wife and mother from
abuse. No one who knows Mr.. Blaine
would dispute his word in this trou-
BILE, and he offered house and home
and means for the young people to
live together, but to no avail. The
marriage was rash, hurried and
wretched from the start. The parents
knew nothing of it and the minister
helped to conceal it, when the Church
provides for publicity to AVOID I'M
known impediments and objections.
Rev. Ducey hurried it through the dis
pensation mill for no reason than that
he was afraid they would go to some
other minister. She was Catholic,
the husband Protestant. The Church
laws on mixed marriages are strict
the Church is opposed to them, and
the rules require the greatest caution.
The Church is also laboring to correct
the evils of the divorce mills, and in
this case all she has for her care,
prudence and fidelity to faith and
morals, is the foul, raltry $50 gold
piece in the pocket of her officiating
minister, who throws the blame on
the archbishop and he shifts it back.
Under similar circumstances a poor
couple would never in Gods world
have gotten the dispensation and mar
riage ceremony performed on the
jump. They would have been held off
to the last and only married when scan
dial was upon them. If the Catholic
girl had persisted in going off and get
ting married out of the Church, she
would have had to do as many others
had to do before, --cOnform to laws of
the church, before she would have
been received into communion again.
1t is but just to say that few priests
would have been party to a rush.
ed-through marriage without parental
knowledge. Aping aristocratic, pow
erty and aristoeracy love to hang on
to real wealth and prominence. No,
toriety gained is high social elevation
to their gratified pride and vanity.
We have no sympathy for woman
who craps up an irresponsible youth
and marries him, when as the son of
poor man she would have consider.
ed it an insult for him to have looked
ut her on the street.
l. The Church throws around
cOurtship and marriage all the safe
guards she can against indiscretion
and unhappiness.
>. She deprecates mixed marriages
and consents to them only under pam
and protest, because she regards them
az generally perilous and fatal to
faith and happiness.
3. Rev. Ducey followed the opposite
extremes of haste, indiscretion and in
difference, and in rejoicing in his
action he rejoices in the evils that
have resulted and scorns the rights,
sympathies and sufferings of parents,
religion, morality, and society.
4. If he had not been SO eager to
assume the responsibility Of the re-
suits sure to follow marrying in
haste and repenting at leisure, and
left if to some one else if any one
chose, it would have been more cred
liable 10 his profession and his relig.
ion and more in Keeping with the
rules and conduct of both and the
record of his Church.
>. For ordinary mortals the world
would have passed over without no.
tice such action and scandal. The
personal and political prominence of
Mr.. Blaine have attracted the poison
ed shafts Of the idle and the curious
but the christian world is also always
moved to sorrow and sympathy by
family sorrow and bereavement,
whether driven to public notice or
concealed in silent suffering.
6. The stage-period of notoriety
has now been reached, and we shall
soon see what we shall see.
The Wheeling Htelligenccr says -
In the spring of 1888 the writer was
in Augusta aid heard the case stated
thus by Democrat: II don't like
bone in old Jim Blaine's body-if 1t
hadn't been for him, Maine would
have been Democratic State by this
time but that young woman who
was educated down your way is GO
ing to make trouble for the Blaines
and good deal of it. It's a shame,
too. Everybody here saw how it was.
The Nevins came here and camped
for a few weeks. They set a trap for
the young bird and caught it,"
Young Blaine was old enough to
know better, but he didn't. The
clergyman who married them should
have known better He says the boy
told him he was within a few weeks
of his majority. In law he was still
an infant and the clergyman should
have notified his father if the father
had been the lowliest of men. He
knew where to find Mr.. Blaine and it
would been no more THAI decent to
communicate with him. Mr.. Blaine
has the same right that any other
father would have to complain ofthe
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