Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-12-04


Nevertheless, in my judgment, the
whole question OF marriage and divorce
should be RELOCATED to the authority of
the national congress. At present the
wide differences in the laws of the diff
ferent states on this subject result in
scandals and abuses, and surely there
Is nothing SO vitality essential to the
welfare of the nation, nothing around
which the nation should so bend itself
to throw every safeguard. as the home
life Of the average citizen. The change
would be good from every standpoint.
I'm particular 1t would be good because
1t would confer: on the congress the
power at once to deal radically and eff
fciently with polygamy, and this
should be done whether or not mar
rage and divorce are dealt with. 1t is
neither safe nor proper to leave. the
question of polygamy to be dealt with
by the several states Power to deal
with it should be conferred on the ma:
Honal government ~ II s. 8.
~ When home ties are loosened, when
men and women cease to regard q
worthy family life, with all its duties
fully performed and all it's RESPONSE
bilities lived up to as the life best
worth living, then evil days for; the
commonwealth are at hand. There
are regions in our land and classes of
our population where the birth rate
has sunk below the death rate. Sure
" 1t should need no demonstration to
. show that willful sterility Is, from the
standpoint Of the nation, from the
standpoint of the human race, the. one
sin for which the penalty is national
death, race death, a sin for which
there is no atonement, sin which is
the more dreadful exactly In proper
ton as the men and women guilty
thereof are in other respects, in char:
acter and bodily and mental powers,
those whom for the sake of the state
it would be we'll to see the fathers and
mothers of many healthy children.
well brought up in homes made happy
by their presence No man, nos wo-
man, can shirk the primary duties of
life, whether for love OF easez and
pleasure or for any other cause. and
retain his or her self respect. . =
American Shipping. -.
| Let me once again call the atten-
| ton Of the congress to two subjects
| concerning which l have frequently
before communicated with them 4 One
Is the question Of developing American
shipping. / trust that a law embody.
|
part Of the views expressed in the re-
port on this subject laid before the
house at its last session will be passed
am well aware that in former years
Objectionable measures have been pro
posed In reference to the encourage
j ment. Of American shipping, but i
seems to me that the proposed meas
: lie asz, la is as nearly unobjectionable a
- otir SEA ia
ts Maine, Louisiana and Washingto,
8. 4. out what benefits part of our people
v the end benefits all, just as COVE,
c. ment aid to irrigation and forestry
Is the west Is really of benefit not or
ID to the Rocky mountain states but
all our country. If it prove imnrs
e ucabie to enact law for the enco,
? agement of shipping generally, th
at aeast provision should be made f
b better communication with Sou
: America notably for fast mail lin,
: 70 the chief South American ports.
!. Is dscreditable to us that our busine.
people for lack of direct comrluunic
tlon IN the shape of lines of steame,
, with South America, should in tn.
| great sister continent be at q disae
vantage compared to the business ne,
pie of Europe.