Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-07-13

Hearst's Magazine contains a very
readable article by G. X, Chestertape
on Divorce Versus Democracy" The
writer says:
On this question of divorce | do
not profess to be impartial, for /
| have never perceived any intelligent
meaning of the words | merely land
most modestly) profess to be right.
l also profess to be representative,
that is democratic.
Now one may believe in democracy
or disbelieve in it. 1t would be grossl
unfair to conceal the fact that there
are difficulties on both sides. The diff
Guilty of believing in democracy Is
that it Is so hard to believe-like
God and most other things. The diff
ficulty of believing in Democracy is
that there is nothing else to believe
in. l mean there is nothing else on
earth or in earthly politics unless an
Aristocracy is selected by gods it
must be selected by men. 1t may be
negatively and passively permitted,
but either heaven or humanity must
permit it, otherwise it has no more
moral authority than a lucky pick
pocket. I
Well, If one happens to believe In
democracy, as I do, as large trust
in the active and passive judgement OF
human conscience, one can have no
hesitation, no impartiality, about onei
views of divorce, and especially abou
one 8 views of the extension of d.
vorce among the democracy.
A democrat in any sense must re-
gard that extension as the last and
vilest of the insults offered by the
> modern rich to the modern poor. The
rich do mainly believe in divorce
The poor do mainly believe in fidel
!, ity. But the modern rich are power
full and the modern poor are power
= less. Therefore, for years and de
cades past the rich have been preach
ing their own virtue. Now they have
begun to preach their vices, too,
think it is time to kick.
y There is one erroneous and element
airy objection to the popularity of di
!. vorce. which comes before any con
- ciI nf hn pafI1ro If marriage
It is like an alphabet in letters tot
. large to be seen. 1t is this: tina
even if the democracy approved o
divorce as strongly and deeply al
the democracy does, in fact, disap
prove of it-any man of common sens
must know that nowadays the thinl
will be worked against the democrac
but quite certainly against the plutot
!, racy.
It may be a sort of solemn comfor
to a gentleman of Africa to reflec
that he had no wife. 1t cannot b
anything but discomfort to gentle
man of America to wonder which viii
he really has.
If progress means, as in the lud
- crous definition of Herbert Spencer
. IAN advance from the simple to tn
= complex" then certainly divorce
part of progress. Nothing can b
=, conceived more complex than the co
y dition of a man who has settled dow
finally four or five times. Nothin
can be conceived more complex tina
=, the position of the profligate who hs
;. not only had ten liaisons but te
= legal liaisons. There is a sense
which free love might free then
But free divorce would catch them /
p, the most complicated net ever wove
=, in this wicked world.
- Among the scientific notes in tn
~ same magazine We note one entitle
pulling the Hole Up" 1t reads:
Sir William Ramsay, In addition
~ being a scientific investigator of r.
- cognised skill, has also the capacit
j, to get his ideas widely promulgate'
- Hardly any other man of science
our time figures more frequently
the cable dispatches.
The great chemists newest pl
VI nouncement has the merit OF EMIL
u novelty. It consists of plan to
IL conomize the use Of coal by burnlf
w. 1t in the ground and utilizing the 81
az thus produced.
The idea is to bore a hole abo1
a foot and half wide to the stratu
of coal. Three concentric tubes wou
he be put in the hole. Air would