The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-04
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 The Pittsburg Sun discusses the dis creditable divorce records of this country and the shame it has brought on the name of our people. but thinks the remedy is easy. All that is ne- cessary." it argues, ''is to make it harder, very much harder. to get mar ried. and to make it matter of-years before those who have been divorced could repeat the blunder." Then The Sun makes these comments:
 People are able to get married now almost sdT any anywhere S easier than they can store. Two fools without a single thought can get married on a dare or the impulse of a moment. No wonder people do not all take marriage as seriously as 1t should be taken. The good old plan of publishing the inten- tfon to get married long beforehand, month, at least. and of insisting that a legal marriage can take place only in the community where the woman Is known and has her real residence, would put a stop to this disgraceful of which 60 much marital misery and divorce comes.
 A girl or boy who cannot legally aS eStats of which . R tRes may GS Se @ res may legally enter into a compact ltely more to society than the trans fer of a million dollar holding. It is 8 scandal that such things can be.
 It is a worse scandal that men or women who have made a failure of matrimony once can without an hours interval after. judicial release from one obligation take up another. We can stop this sort of disgrace whenever we want to. But concurrent. consistent not so much to reform divorce law, but to make marriage a more serious matter, such as only those who are well-advised and reasonably sure of tn emselves will undertake.
 There is no doubt in our mind that both marriage and divorce are far too easy in some portions of the country, if not in alL Hasty.. ill-considered and nl-assorted marriages are not conducive to the welI-being of the best and highest civilization, and easy divorces tend to diseredit the sacred ness of marriage. The remarks of The Sun are we'll worth considering. If improvement can be made in its plans and theories they should be adopted. or at least discussed.
 The statistics show constant in- crease of divorces, and the percentage now Is little less than appalling. As a contemporary remarks If this goes on and continues to get worse we will soon reach a condition where matri- mony will be but little more sacred than the trial marriages" which some have advocated; that is. let a couple marry each other with the mutual un- derstanding that they will live to- gether as long as both are contented with their condition, then they may separate without any legal formality and each be free to marry again. The contemporary contends that under our laws we are fast coming to the state or condition of those who favor the trial marriage plan, inasmuch as, under our present easy laws. people can obtain divorees with so little de- lay or inconvenience that they had almost as well marry and retain the privilege of separating at any time they choose.
 If 1t were possible to get all the States of the Union to come to an agreement and pass uniform marriage and divorce laws much good would result. beyond a doubt. AS the matter now stands legal marriage in one State may not be legal in another State, and a divorce granted under the laws of one State may not be recog- nized in another. This. as a matter of course is the source of much trou- ble and confusion. and sometimes leads to criminal proceedings against parties who have not intehded to vio- late the laws If all the States had precisely the same marriage and divorce laws 1t is obvious that all this confusion would be avoided and there would never be doubt as to the stand ing of parties It may not be possi- ble to get such legislation but 1t is plain that something is needed in the way of remedy for existing evils.
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