The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-04
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
Col. w.tter.on ON Prohrbition Movement.

roI. Watterson ON Prohibition Movement.
No people except the Mohammedans nave
ever been able to maintain a Prohibitlon
law. and the Mohammedans supply the
need for drink by death-dealing drugs.
The crazy people who are enlisted IN
the crusade, X other fanatics, are pos
sessed of a single idea, and that an llu-
sion. They insisted upon abolishing the
canteen in the army greatly to the hurt
Of the service and the soldier. They are
insisting upon making the District OF
Columbia dry and when they nave
bullied Congress into passing a law 10
that effect, there will be just as much
tipping as ever, nor any the less of drink,
under sub rosa restrictions, that is, n.y.
pocrisy and lying. Instead of paying
taxes to the government the dispensers
of drink will take to successful smuggling.
The farmers of Kentucky complain OF
high taxes. Yet they are asked to take
off two or three million from spirits to put
.it on themselves. And after they have
done this, Kentucky will be only "as dry
as Maine," which is not dry at ALL
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The New Divorce Laws.
On January l next a new law goes into
effect in New Jersey which is already IN
force in some jurisdictions, but wnlch
might be copied with propriety every
where. The present grounds of adultery
and desertion remain the same. There Is,
however, this important modihcat1oh'
| Where the cause for divorce arose In an
other State and was insufficient there, the
courts of New Jersey will refuse to grant
a release from marital bonds.
Thus a citizen of South Carolina cannot
obtain a divorce In New Jersey for an act
committed in his own State, nor can a New
Yorker succeed on the ground OF deser8lon,
since In this State 1t is not recognized as
a cause for divorce.
One feature of the scandal, however, re-
mains unaltered. 1t is a general principle
of law that a marriage valid where
solemnized is valid everywhere. In the
divorce decree it is generally provided that
the guilty party shall not marry again,
but, as This is considered in the nature of
a provision purely penal, It cannot have
effect beyond the States border. Conse-
ouently thes unsuccessful defendant in a
New York divorce may at small expedi-
ture of time and money place himself in
a position where he may defy with inn
punity the provisions of the home
tribunal, assured that his New Jersey mar
rage will ba recognized all over the United
States.-New York World.
President Mt Keokuk.
The second of the weeks series of Presi-
Dental speeches, made at Keokuk, was no
more startling than the first. Mr.. Roose-
welt is of the opinion that the land laws
should favor the actual settler as against
the Spectator and fraudulent applicant
q proposition that no one will gainsay. He
is deeply interested in the proposed revival
of internal waterway transportation,
though not prepared to pronounce re-
garding details-in which position he is
much like all the rest of us. He will make
no change in his familiar policies re-
Rarding corporations-and nobody sup
posed he would. The President will have
to do better han this-or wOrse-if he is
to live down to the reputation which GER
tain persons rave sought to put upon him
of being a disturber of the financial and
industrial peace.-Providence Tribune.