Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-03
Iowa Newspapers
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DIVORCE.
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| Once again the gaunt and cruel
spectre of divorce stalks thru the So
/ cal dooryard Of Manson. This time 1t
is mere incompatibility of temper that
! is the cause for action and the case
| bears the decency of having no Illicit
| love compounded in its odoriferous In
gradients Unlike the other, it does
not leave the heart of a wife crying
out in anguish against the theft of the
father of her children by worldly. sell
fish, vain and altogether shameless
creature, who exploits her conquest as
brazenly as the harlot who sells her
, fawning for lncre And In this case
there is no husband heartlessly and
brutally turning his face away from
vrtuous wife and helpless children who
must bear his dishonored name to the
grave. while he loses himself in the
rioutously sinful oblivion of a wasted
life.
But
There is a little child left mother
less and fatherless in this pitiful case,
just as there are children left alone
in the other nauseating affair.
The poor babies. for they are little
more than babies, must grow up into
the world with the shadow of the
divorce disgrace upon them. Innocent
little boys and girls, God alone will
take care of them, for their poor. mis-
guided parents have proven unfit for
the responsibility which He placed up
on them when He blessed them by Civ
ing them children. The children and
the poor wronged wife alone must suf-
e.. i; 10 +l,a "a
shame and the people with the incom-
patible tempers retire to obscurity to
be devoured by the gangrene of i'll TIM
per.
Is Manson to blame for this cancer
Gus condition of her society?
No!
Are Iowa laws to blame for this
henous offense against the sacra-
ment which Jesus Christ instituted
at the marriage feast of Cana?
Not altogether.
Was strong drink or saloons the
cause Of all this unhappiness right
here in the midst of happy people?
Not at all.
Then where is the cause?
In the damnable divorce laws which
have been instituted by man to set
aside the decree of God Almighty.
For the convenience Of men in high
places who tired of their spouses and
did not dare to resort to murder to
get rid of them, a legal murder-the
divorce-was planned 1t was sane
toned by religious greedy for member
ship and power, until it has fastened
itself so securely upon civilization that
it has become the greatest problem
which that same civilization is now
called upon to solve and to rid itself
of.
against divorce from their pulpits;
let them forget, awhile, the task of
claw enforcement" as they are pleased
to call it, and lend their aid to tho
publication of the home. Let ALL re-
ligions Join with the Catholic and a
few of the Protestant religions, in a
determined crusade against divorce
and the evil will soon be under con-
troll Let all ministers of the gospel
refuse to perform the marriage cere-
mony for divorced people and let all
society shun absolutely and ostracize
completely the divorced and the
problem will soon be solved.
SHAW STRONGER THAN ALLISON.
(Brooklyn Chronicle.)
For several weeks the writer has
oeen travelling in the southern part
If Iowa, meeting large numbers of
people, mostly farmers and labor
ers Of the smaller towns. We have not
been talking politics. in fact we have
been carefully keeping still as to our
personal political opinions. No fair
minded man however could fail to OBJ
serve that even in the heart of the|