Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-03-01

same general reasons advanced by
Bishop Hare. Officers of the federation
are accusing the members of the judi
ciary committee of the senate of hos
tility to the bill by keeping ii in com
mittee to smother it.
Bishop Hare, who was a delegate TO
the uniform divorce congress, recefv-
ing his appointment from Governor Ell
rod, has made his report by mail, from
Atlantic City, N. j., accompanying the
statement with a personal letter to the
legislators. He calls attention to his
annual visit to all parts of the state
as missionary bishop, having thus trav-
eled for the past thiTty-four years. lie
says. and no doubt rightly, that no 9TH
Gems better.
Influence on School Girls.
Bishop Hare is founder of All Saints
school at Sioux Falls, one of the well
known western chools for girls. He
refers to his association with the school
IN his letter as follows:
I have made my home for over twenty
years in a boarding school for their laugh
tiers. and while | confess that / have some
times been shocked to see the injurious in
huence of the divorce traffic upo their
Young minds, their sensibility to noble
ideals and their promise of fine woman
hood have been my pride and my joy. Few
men have enjoyed more than l have the
hospitality of the homes OF the people OF
our state, most of them so healthy In
morals and attractive in all things beau
tiful and good.
/ am intensely jealous regarding the
sweetness, purity and happiness of the
home life of our state. What is. called
migratory divorce is striking q terrible
blow at thai dear domestic sanctuary. The
people who come TO our state to seek d.
vorce generally have money. This possess
sion Of money puts them in the position,
always influential, of patrons. Even our
self reliant, independent people, alas, seem
subservient TO them. These divorce seek
ers dress well. They spend money freely
for professional services, for hotel con-
ven.ences, FOR house rent, for hack hire,
and for jewelry. The air of culture and
fashion which they carry about with them
makes them appear to many persons, eS-
pecially the , nung, as worthy of admira-
ton.
They Are Periurcrs.
Poor souls, they do not know that those
whom they would initiate are. In truth,
generally members of that class OF society
which has exhausted all its eality and
health and Is, in truth, only a vain show.
Thus II is that the perjury. or these per-
sons in swearing that they have taken up
bona fide residence In South Dakota. when,
in fact, 80 out OF 100 leave the state soon
after obtaining their divorces, is overlook
ed or condoned; and the divorce which
the procure, though 1t is the horrible
contamination of many antecedent foines
and sins, comes to appear to our people
to our boys and girls, alas, as well as 9TH
ers-not as a painful catastrophe. but as
quite an ordinary event In married life!
All the convictions and sentiments which
breed respect between the sexes, and
which tend TO make marriage honorable
and the home sacred and stable, are thus
poisoned and weakened.
The present legislature OF South Da-
kota may not see Its way clear to adopt
all the recommendations of the congress
on uniform divorce: but ! trust that its
member VIII carefully scrutinize the
sources from which opposition comes and
will not let the action of the congress pass
by without some material Improvement