The Irish standard., 1910-11-12

ants; the average of divorces in Prus-
marriages, whilst in Bavaria Cath
olic) it is l out of every 2Ss."
Rev. s. Barring Gould (Protestant)
writes in his Germany Past and Pres
ent," vol. l, chap W:
"In Denmark divorce is much more
common than in Germany. From
what I have seen and heard l fear that
the morals are at terribly low ebb
in the peninsula and Its islands Out
of 10000 persons in Germany over IL
years old, 26 are divorced; in Dem
mark so, in Hungary "A, in Switzer-
land, exclusively among the Ewing
lians and Calvinists, ~; in Catholic
Austria there are only AS. and these,
Of course, Protestants. The statisti-
cal report of the government, pub
lished in 1872, says: The connection
between the relative proportion of di-
vorce and religious confessions ia un-
mistakable. In the specially evangeli-
cal districts divorces are frequent; in
the strictly Catholic they are rare"
In France divorce was tablished
during the Revolution, abolished un-
der the Empire, and restored by law
OF 1884.
Here | will add the following from
Mgr. ORiordan, ibid. pp. "a, 9b:
Mr. Bourke Cochran, the we'll known
American Catholic orator, in a speech
which he made on this subject last
June (probably 1909 at the Carnegie
hall in New York very aptly said:
'Polygamy comprehends a group of
wives at a time, while divorce
simply maens driving them tan
dem Those who call that (divorce)
sign of civilization would do we'll to
| reflect on these words of Jules Simon:
1t is not the loss of battle and the
annihiation Of an army or q province
torn away. that brings the fall of a
| people. A people dies only by the re-
Taxation of it's morals, by abandoning
its manly habits, by the efface1nent
Of it's character through the invasion
it's corruption: it does not die of its
wounds '~..,e 49, ~. IN 'iaSt' =. =
Relentless fact has been recently
| forcing on statesmen, economists and
publicists the truth of the economic
and social philosophy contained in the
doctrine and discipline of the Catholic
Church, which has always taught that
the marriage contract can not be un-
tied, and has always kept that ele-
| ment in family life sacred from the
interference of the civil power. It is
interesting to note that the religious
revolt in Germany began in lust, and
that the sacrifice of marriage to the
same passion was the occasion of the
rebellious revolt in England. The
Pope was unbending-he could not
choose but do so; he sacrificed Eng
land to the sacredness of the mar
riage bond. Every form of Protest.
antism which has arisen since then,
! from orthodox Anglicanism to Agnos-
ticism, has attracted the mark of OBJ
scurantism to the Catholic name 4,
Great Britain, the United States, Aus
tralia and throughout the British EN-
pire for guarding as a thing sacrt,.
from the human touch the sacramen-
tai character of the marriage con-
tract"
But the Nemesis has come at last.
| The dissertation of sacrament has
| slowly but surely brought it's conse-
quences out from the home into eco
nomic, political and civil life at large.
Legislators laughed at Catholic teach
ing; politicians ignored the sacrament
tai groundwork of family life and the
nations are paying for their profan-
| ity."
| The Cheltenham Examiner (English)
May 16, 1886, has:
Death sentences are eight times
greater in England than in Ireland to
equal numbers Of population. Lon
don, equal in population to that of all
Ireland, has double the number OF In
dictable offenses. Rural crime is also
shown to be greater in England than
in Ireland; aggravated assaults on wo-
men and children for the same popu-
lation-England, 597; Ireland, 337.
"Thc proportion Of crime is not only
| greater in Britain than in ireland, but
1t is also of more brutal character
"Agrarian crime, for which there is
pretext that is wanting this side Of
the Channel, is included in the list
given for crimes in Ireland"
Mr.. Trench. Lord Lansdowne's agent,
writes (Journals, ETC., vol. 2, PIP. 120,
121, 1927, in 1868:
There are ten times as many mur-
ders in England as there are in Ire