Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1905-09-02
EDITORIAL COMMENT
DIVORCE.
W. C. Black, Editor

A COMMISSION Is soon TO meet ana discuss ways Wheteo
"A the marriage laws of the different states can be harmoniz.
n, Il : cited that the laws of South Dakota and several other
states of the union are calculated to encourage the breaking OF
marriage alliances, while South Carolina has no provisions
whatever for mismatedc couples. The different states of the union
have laws bearing upon this important subject that taken as a
whole are as complicated as a crazy quilt. When the commission
has met, it will be to adjourn, Tor hateV IT'S ac'lou II 'an 's''
only with the merest Of patitudes.
The clergy may rant and the legislators may devise new re
strictions but so long as mankind exists, there will be mesaliian-
ces and lots of them. There isan old saying that no man knows
ven his next door ne,ghbor, nor does he know himself, tor
there are constantly changing emotions in the mind OF every man.
that are rs shifting as the sands of the sea. OF all the things IN
the world, love and marriage are most demonstrably a matter OF
nr;mordial fate. In the first kiss of the betrothed, the passions
of all our fathers unite in us, and untold generations to come cry
out in the longing to be born
Nature ordained in her blind shaping OF the emotions that the
human animal, like animals less human, should mate at the seas
on when the unrenecting instincts hold sway. Civiizat'on' with
all its complexities OF education and reason, has postponed the
mating eason a full decade or more. There is little doubt but
that the influences of present day society are responsible IN a
large degree for mismating, for it seems to have become a part OF
our educational system to endow the mind with ideas that Go
not allow ofa clear conception of the holiness OF the marriage
state.
There are certain things that concern none but the eontrac-
ting parties, that cause people to rave and rant and Great d
greater hub bub than the shadow OF a wing drifting across a
chicken yard. Let alone, adjustment follows; aggravated by Cos
sip, separation is inevitable. There are certain things that arise
within ourselves, that make for unhapplness and lead TO sePara-
ton, that taken at the proper time are easily adjusted. Many
unnecessary separations occur through these agencies. The writer
has known parties personally, who have become divorced and re
married. who would give half of their allotted existence to again
be with their first love, which only goes to prove mans lneonsls-
tenCy.
After all is said and done, cause for divorce will resolve itseh
into one thing: the inability to properly conceive OF the duties at
tendant upon the marriage state. The basic principe ofnarfiage
for woman is womanhood; for man, manhood. Failure on the
part of either sex TO meet these requirements, must always b Ia
tai to the happiness of both, and will remain for all time to come
cause for separation. which if MT legalAed will resolve itself in
to prostltution. In the meantime the woman, who had rather
be a free woman in hell than a bond slave in heaven and the
man ,who through ignorance or disease, is denied the bliss OF the
proper conception of the headship ola family, must he provided
for by statute. Those Who love as nature ordained can h, ye no
conception of their lot, but can only pause and pity.