The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-03-01

same general reasons advanced by
lSishop Hare. Officers af the federation
are accusing the members of the judi
clary committees OF the senate of hos
tility to the bill by keeping 1T in com
iEttee to smother il.
Bishop Hare. who VAS 4 delegate to
tho uniform divorce congress, receiv
ing his appointment from Governor Ell
lod has made his report by mail, from
Atlantic City y. j., accompanying the
Sta,ement with a personal letter to the
legtslttiors He calls attention to his
annual visit TO all parts of the state
as missionary bishop, having thus trav
+leG for the past thirty-four years. He
says and no doubt rightly. that no 9TH
"r z~-~son in the state knows its citi-
,zetla better
Influence on School Girls.
Bishop Hare is founder Of All Saints
school at Sioux Fails, one of the we'll
inoun western schools for girls He
refers to his association with the school
ia his letter as follows
have made my home for over twenty
years in a boarding school for their daugh-
ters and while | confess that have some
times been shocked to see the injurious in
sluenCe of the divorce traffic upon their
young minds, their sensibility to noble
ideas and their promise of fine woman
hood have been my pride and my joy. Few
7nen have enjoyed more than have the
hospitality of the homes of the people of
our state, most of thcm so healthy in
morals and attractive in all things beau
am intensely Jealous regarding the
sweetness, purity and happiness of the
home life of our state. What is called
migratory divorce" is striking a terrible
blow at that dear domestic sanctuary. The
people who come to our state to seek di
vorce generally have money. This posses
sion of money puts them In the position.
always influential. of patrons. Even our
self reliant. Independent people. alas, seem
tsubservient to them These divorce seek
srs dress well. They spend money freely
Tor professional services. for hotel con
Nenences for house rent for hack hire
and for jewery. The air of culture and
makes them appear to many persons. es-
pcc.ally the young, as worthy of admira-
Iion.
They Are Perjurers.
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 reality and
health and Is, in truth. only a vain show.
sons in swearing that they have taken up
BONA tide residence in South Dakota, when,
jim fact 90 out of 100 reave the state soon
after obtaining their divorces. is overlook
they procure, though it is the horrible
consummation of many antecedent fonles
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.
An the convictions and sentiments which
breed respect between the SEXES. and
which tend to make marriage honorable
and the kome 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 it's
members will carefully scrutini2e the
sources from which opposition comes and
will not let the action Of the congress pass
b. without some material Improvement