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WHEBI DIVORCES ABE EASY.
Tie Curious Itirimoilil Uis U Visi
on SUtes.
Trivial Causes Aaply Naffflcleat «•
Newer the Hyaaealal Nrafi
In the Veitors States.
New York World: More than a quar
ter of a million divorces have been grant
ed in this country within a score of years,
and the number annually increases. As
far back as 1867 less than ten thousand
divorcee were granted in a twelvemonth,
but the demand for nuptial dissolution
and the desire to defeat the arts of con
ning Cupid have increased so rapidly
that in 1886 the records disclosed the de
plorable fact that more than 25.000 homes
had been broken op. and to that extent
the marriage lie has not proved strong
enough to withstand the inroads of
divorce. It is true, this is a big country,
containing a popnlWbn that long ago
passed the 60,000,000 mark. But the in
crease in population lags behind the in
crease in the number of cases in which
the work of the altar has been undone.
The increase in population appears to
he shout 00 per cent., while the increase
in divorces seems to have reached 157 per
cent.
Well may the thoughtful, conservative
citizen arch his eyebrows in astonish
ment and exclaim, “Whither are we
drifting?" Rev. Robert Collyer, of the
Church of the Messiah, in this city, in a
recent sermon on marriage and divorce,
declared in his quaint and forcible style,
that “the new look on this
old sacred compact as a rollicking holi
day business shout which they need feel
no concern, as they can so easily throw
off the yoke."
People have learned that it la true in
deed that they can easily throw off the
yoke, and throw it off too, lawfully, if not
in one stale, surely in another. In a
country bound together in every direction
by the greatest system of railways In the
world, making the land between the
oceans, and from the tropic to the frosen
tone, common and easily sccessible over
these rapid-transit, iron thoroughfares,
how easy it is to dwell where one will!
His abode to-day is the land producing
figs and pineapples, where the snowflakes
visit only tbe mountain peaks. To-mor
row be lives amid gay winter sports,
where the merry jingle of sleigh bells and
the glad shouts of the toboggan coasters
lend a charm to life which robs it of its
cares and drudgery. The rules of law
governing domestic law and tbe marriage
relation are determined by geographical
position, and while the laws of one state
make divorce difficult, those of another
render it easy.
a qu turnon or geography.
These facts are clearly and forcibly
illustrated by Mr. William L. Snyder, in
his recent book on “Tbe Geography of
Marriage,” and which has already reach
ed a second edition. It is true, as Mr.
Snyder says, that in matters pertaining
to this subject, the inquiry presents solely
a question of geography.
When husband and wife become dis
contented and chafe to free themselves
from the nuptial bond they cast about
naturally to And out where the marriage
can be most easily dissolved and a divorce
most readily obtained. In surveying the
wide field embraced in the American
commonwealth.it will be seen that In
some states divorce is practically free.
Look, for instance, at New Mexico,
Montana and Washington Territory, the
two latter about to don the garb of state
hood. In Montana, if the husband will
fully leaves without Intending a return,
the wife, for that reason, is entitled to sue
for divorce. The lawyers say that law is
a rule for civil conduct, commanding
what is right and prohibiting what is
wrong; that its practical utility is to en
force rights and rudnss wrongs. What
a travesty on the moral obligations as
sumed at the altar is exhibited in this ab
surd statute, which permits the sacred
bond of marriage to be dissolved by simp
ly crossing a state line. The golden
chain of matrimony in Montana, at the
option of the parties, extends no further
than the borders of her territory, and is
literally governed by lines of latitude and
longitude, notwithstanding Balsac’s
famous saying that “no navigator has yet
traced lines of latitude and longitude on
the conjugal sea.” What a hollow mock
ery echoes from the peaks and valleys of
Montana with respect to the boasted in
tegrity of the nuptial bond, when it ap
pears that the glare of Hymen’s torch can
be conveniently quenched when her bor
ders are readied!
The beautiful sentiment in Stephan’s
love song, ‘The Silver Line,” ta clothed
with poetic beauty In Sooth Carolina,
perhaps where there ta no such thing as
a divorce; and elsewhere, where the mar
riage tie is nut limited by state Unee.
But the cruel code of Montana robe it of
its grace and meaning. The numbers in
terpreted in the light of its strange law,
become superb sarcasms and delicate
irony, because the law declares that the
wife ta entitled to n divorce became the
husband has left Montana and does not
intend to return.
nnw mxico’e lax law.
The law of New Mexico preeenta en op
portunity far securing a divorce even
more readily than that afforded by the
lawa of Montana, became simple aban
donment In Now Mexico ta sufficient
ground, eo that the spouse need not
•
necessarily paas beyond the territorial
line if he finds it more economical to stay
around within the limits. # All that is
necessary is for the husband to go off
about his business. So that If the parties
do not wish to continue to live as hus
band and wife they may makathe simple
record of their nuptial existence embrace
the mere facta, we met, we married, we
parted. What could be easier if the par
ties desired to seek fresh alliances than
simply to part. The husband abandons
his wife, she swears to it. The silver
line, which osually extends “over moun
tain and river and sea," is suddenly part
ed. The decree of divorce is granted and
that ends the matter.
Equally absurd is the law of Washing
ton, now framing its constitution as one
of the states of the American Union; for,
according to its statutes, a couple may
dissolve their marital status, by exhibit
ing any cause deemed by the coart suffi
cient, when satisfied that the parties can
no longer live together. In other words,
the court may, in the exercise of its sound
discretion, pat asunder what God has
joined together. Westward the course of
empire, westward also the pilgrims tired
of their matrimonial obligations, in search
of a convenient tribunal within which to
throw off the conjugal yoke. These lax
rules of domestic life in Montana, New
Mexico and Washington invite thither
the discontented caravans which desire
to be released from the bond assumed at
the altar of Hymen.
But it is not necessary to go west in
order to get a divorce for light and trivial
causes. In very many states all over the
country arc to be found ample provision*
which afford easy relief. Many states
have in their divorce laws what is com
monly designated an “omnibus clause."
After defining some of the grounds uni
versally recognised, light and trivial
causes, such as settled aversion, incom
patibility of temper, gross misbehavior or
wickedness in either of the parties repug
nant to and in violation of the marriage
contract, are grouped together and form
the “omnibus clause,” which is regarded
as a god-send by discontented couples.
Perhaps violent and ungovernable temper
and “settled aversion” may be feigned
more readily and encouraged more easily
than any of the frivolous grounds referred
to.
A BAD TEMPER IB EROC'OH.
For these reasons divorces may be
granted in Missouri, Oregon, Pennsyl
vania, Texas, Washington Territory,
Rhode Island, Vermont, Florida and
Kentucky. It must appear, however, in
order to justify a dissolution of the nup
tial bond in Missouri, Oregon, Texas and
Washington, that the outlandish conduct
of one or both of tbe parties is of such a
nature that life indeed has become a bur
den. “Who would fardels bear, to groan
and sweat under a weary life,” when tbe
road to divorce is so easy and tbe release
from matrimony so sure? It requires
very slight provocation, where no attempt
is made to control the passions or gov
ern the temper, especially if they are at
all high-strung, to pile up grievances and
work the mind up to such a pitch of ex
citement over small things, it may be, as
to seem to justify them in saying under
oath that living together is insupportable
and renders tbs wife's or tbs husband’s
position intolerable.
la Vermont it most sppear that there
has been "intolerable severity/' and in
Florida “habitual indulgence of a violent
and ungovernable temper” must be
shown, la Kentucky the husband Is not
bound to cut op In a very boisterous man
ner but his conduct, cruel and inhuman,
must indicate a “settled aversion” for his
wife, add this grim and silent conduct
most extend over a period of at least six
months. Cruelty, pure and simple, what
ever that may mean is a good ground for
divorce in Alabama, Arkansas, Califor
nia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana. Kan
sas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts
Michigan. Mississippi, Missouri, Nebras
ka, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Penn
sylvania, Rhode Island, Texas. Vermont,
Washington and Wisconsin.
What amounts to cruelty, however,
seems to be an open question. Whether
one slight act of cruelty will suffice to
authorise a divorce seems to be also a
matter of doubt. But in many states it
must be such as to endanger the life and
impair the physical health of the com
plainant. Bursts of passion occasionally,
petulance, rudeness even, and sallies of
passion won’t do in some states, unless
accompanied hr acts of personal violence
or danger to life, limb or health. In other
works a man can be a sort of petty tyrant
about the bouse, but his meanness in
some localities, If It does result in injury
to health, will not relieve a suffering wife
from the conjugal yoke. But In Ken
tucky. it be keeps up the petty tyrant
business longer than six months, it might
be construed by the meek wife as a “set
tled aversion” to her, and she will he en
abled to get released by the court. But
the courts have entertained all sorts of
views as to what constitutes extreme
cruelty or intolerable severity. In Flor
ida, however, habitual indulgence of vio
lent or ungovernable temper is sufficient.
Desertion furnishes a good ground for
divorce in many states. Bat a husband,
by merely parting from his wife, or aban
doning her, as in New Mexico, will not by
that means become freed. The desertion
must continue from one to five years, ac
cording to the geography of the situation.
In Arkansas, California. Colorado. Da
kota, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Utah,
Washington. Wisconsin and Wyoming
one year or more will suffice. In Ala
bama, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Michigan,
Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada and Ten
nessee two yean are required. In Con
necticut, Delaware, Georgia. Maine, Mary
land, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New
Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Ver
mont and West Virginia three yean are
necessary. In Rhode Island and Virginia
the absence most continue five years.
Drunkenness is also a ground for di
vorce in some parts of the country, and
in some quarters it is steadily maintained
that this crime constitutes a very grave
offense, and is not at all a light or trivial
cause. Dr. Collyer, in the sermon above
referred to, expressed himself very em
phatically on this subject, and bia words
are entitled to meat respectful attention
for the clear and forcible mode in which
they are expressed. The Doctor says:
“1 am not here to dogmatise or lay
down the law that when men and women
have once,made their vowa they must
abide by them, whatever may befall. 1
believe rather, and with all my heart,
that there may be a marriage which it is
far more sacred to dissolve than to main
tain—a marriage which is not only im
prisonment for life in a dungeon, but im
prisonment with torture, and with one
life, or it may be two, forever on the reck.
While it is not the dogma of the churches
of a bell in the world to come, it is hell
upon earth. And so vHo are we that we
should say, ‘There you are, and there you
must stay, for there is no release but in
the grave?’ ”
THE DBUKEAEO’a DANGER.
In more than half the states, however,
the law-making power has decreed that
life is to be marred and stained
by a miserable, debauched, drunken hus
band. They do not require a poor, weak,
suffering woman to wait until she seeks
the silent repose of the grave in order to
gain relief from sneb a life of misery as
she would be obliged to undergo tied to a
besotted husband. While there is life
there is hope, and the motto of the thirty
three states referred to is that the woman,
if she be pure and worthy, is entitled,
under some circumstances, to two chances
at tbe alter and kindly interpose an op
portunity for divorce from tbe drunkard.
This rule prevails in Ariaona, Arkansas,
California. Colorado, Connecticut, Da
kota, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana,
lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minne
sota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
Jersey* Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Ten
nessee, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin
and Wyoming.
In Arizona idleness, profligacy or dissi
pation is a ground for divorce. The motto
of that territory seems to be that the
“curtain lecture” is a thing of the past; a
tale, a memory. And the good wife may
cut loose from a profligate or dissolute
husband and seek for "pastures new.”
A husband in that locality must sow his
wild oats prior to courtship and marriage,
for once be becomes a Benedict he must
be staid and exemplary and his conduct
in every respect strictly proper.
Ho vagrancy constitutes a ground for
divorce in Wyoming and in many states
conviction of crime and imprisonment
therefore gives the wife a chance to re
gain her maiden name.
The question may be asked, where does
the great empire state of New York find a
place in all these various phasesof spotted
wedlock T It will be borne in mind, how
ever, that New York allows a divorce
only upon the ground of unfaithfulness.
In case, however, a husband or wife
should be so unfortunate as to be sen
tenced for life to state prison, the other
party could marry again without violating
tbs law against bigamy. But New York
and a number of other states authorise a
separation, or divorce “from bed and
board,” as His called, for cruel and in
human treatment, which may result from
conduct during fits of intoxication.
“iiRBKX,n tmr Aomin.'
■nr Hey Ml 7 Y«n l**~Aa M ferriage
totfe*.
Portland Ortgonian: Mr. George Ross,
of East Portland, has an extract clipped
from an old paper, which shows how they
united people in marriage 67 years ago.
Tbs following is a verbatim copy of the
extract:
Mr. In CUflio, of this place, has in hi*
pomession, a marriage certificate bearing
date of 1822 and tamed by one O. M.
Bom, who waa at that time a non-com
mtaaionad justice of the peace in and for
the county of Peoria, Illinois.
Hr. Claflin atatm that at that time
(1822) the county of Peoria embraced a
targe aoopa of territory, and that it has
since bean divided up into at least a doa
en counties. In all this territory there
was not afmtioeof the peace, a minister,
■or In fact any person qualified to par
form the marriage ceremony.
This man (O/M. Bom) had, however,
petitioned the governor of Illinois to ap
point him to the position of justice of the
peace, and had received news that hia pe
tition had bean mated, hut hia commis
sion had not arrived. In the meantime,
John Smith and Folly Meyers wanted to
marry, and called on Bom, and wanted
him to tie the knot. He did eo, and the
following ta a verbatim copy of the mar
riage certificate, which Mr. Claflin copied
from the records of Peoria county:
MAKXIAOR CBRTIFICATK.
State or Illinois, {
County or PnoaiA.f
To all the World, GreeHog: Know ye i
that John Smith and Polly Meyers are
hereby entitled to go together and do as
old folks does anywhere inside of Copper
as precinct, and when my commission
comes I am to marry ’em and date back
to JTtwr accidents. O. M. Bom, J. P.
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WHITECHAPEL SCENES.
Do Douii of lack the Ripper Teos
lif With Tkip aH Crime.
I Dark sa« LMthMBM ■•tag* lw
LMSanro final CrtaalMla—far-
Ufiilßf BblMlbii m All Bites.
New York He mid. Come and take a
trip through the domains of Jack the
Ripper. Through the dark and noisome
lanes of Whitechapel, pregnant with
crime and teeming with thugs and thieves.
We will take a detective along. It is a
very necessary precaution.
It should be explained for the benefit
of those not familiar with the geography
of London, Uiat the Whitechapel district
is a colony of thieves, situated nearly
north of the Tower of London on the
Thames. A few blocks down the river
are the famous London docks. Many of
the lower classes of men employed along
the river and the
KVMKBOVK WAT KB TIinCVKS
of the wharvee live np in Whitechapel.
A hundred years ago, in the time of
George 111, Whitechapel road was Just
outside the wails of London—a sort of
suburb for the poorer classes, who had
little money to pay for rent. Now It is in
the center of a vast and populous district,
with well paved streets and alleys (thanks
to modern improvements) cutting the
district in every direction with horse rail
ways and principal streets which in olden
times were the king’s highways. Vast
warehouses, private and bonded, and
manufacturing establishments rise darkly
and silently in the night on the borders
of these slums.
Then there are big breweries, hospitals
cemeteries, almshouses and other institu
tions not far away. A surprising feature
of the neighborhood la that well-lighted
streets with tramways and 'boa lines are
but a few squares away from where these
murders are committed. The Whitechap
el district may be likened to certain local
ities in the country where
DABS AMD GLOOMY
swampe, filled with pestilential vapors,
lie between the great highways. A visi
tor walking up Whitechapel road would
little dream of the horrible dens within a
stone’s throw of the brilliantly lighted
sbope. Only the policemen on duty
there recognise the flashily dressed men
and women who hurry along the pave
ments aa the wont type of London
thieves and murderers. Their restless
eyes and scarred faces long haunt one
after be takes a second look into their
villainous countenances.
It was but a few minutes after the de
tective turned off the Aldgate road that
we found onreelvee in a dark crevice-like
lane, with the darkest and moat forbid
ding
BUILDINGS OF TUB BLUMS
riling on every side of ns. Hie streets
are m well paved as Broadway in New
York, bat some of them are not more
than five feet wide, and then we entered
this Petticoat lane of history, celebrated
among thieves from Cheyenne to Austra
lia, all the world seemed cut off. A feel
ing of unutterable loathing and horror
came over one as he caught sight of the
scenes within the tenements. The lane
is the headquarters of the most danger
ous thieves in Europe. Every class and
nation is represented. Low Jews, Gen
tiles, convicts and prison birds of all des
criptions swarm the place like vermin.
“As a Saturday night scene, the region
of Petticoat has no equal on the globe, 0
said the detective. At every few steps
were the passage-ways leading out of the
lane like tunnels in a mine. No cave
could be gloomier or move forbidding.
As we walked up
THI UWO BLACK ALLEY,
called Petticoat lane, one of the govern
ment officials said to me, “Yon see Dick
ens did not ezaggvats.” People unfa
miliar with these districts think Dickens
drew his characters from imagination.
The man was right; the Bmikes and
Oliver Twist, the Fagins and the Dick
Swivellers were as thick as flies. An or
dinary American child would live about
three days in such a place, yet there
were hundreds of children hardly able to
toddle, that darted in and out of the
passages like rats. They were the little
thieves, soon to become the big thieves of
London. The atmosphere was thick and
fetid, the fog hung over the alleys like
lead, and the few scattering jets of gas
burning along the lane, were hardly visi
ble ten steps away.
Turning oat of a lane through a dark
passage Into a little area, and standing
beside a small addition back of the other
bonase, and pointing to the boarded win*
down, the detective said: “In there la
where g
was committed.'* This is Miller's court.
While we were looking at the place and
wondering which way the suae sain ran
after he had killed the poor woman, little
yellow-haired children came dancing into
the area, ami listened with a curious
boldness, as il we were aboot to open a
box of valuables and there would be a
chance for tliem to steal.
In Osborne street, where the first of all
the murders was committed, and tne vie-
I tim unknown, the white chapel which
stands in the very middle of the White
chapel road, is almost in sight. A walk
of a few steps hum the horrible place
leads one to the open thoroughfare where
the jingling belle of the hone can an
heard and the chimes of Whitechapel'
Number 28.
ring oat on the night air as they do in
Christian lands what* thievss and mur
derers are not so near civilisation.
We next rame to the celebrated
PBYISO PAM TAVKBN
which is the rendesvous of dissolute
ciiaracters of the lowest type. , We enter
ed the little room where only ‘‘first-class”
custom vs are served. In spite of the de
tective’s efforts, a couple of young thieves
got into the room and proceeded to order
“bitter” lor two,’apparently as an excuse
to be on band should there be a chance
to steal a watch or cat a throat.
A sign on the wall ran to this effect:
Customers are respectfully in
formed that parlor prices are
charged in this department
The woman behind the bar was very
civil, and the place was aa neat aa many a
aaloon In America, bat the people who
occupied the benches wen a study lor a
painter of outlaws. Here, as elsewhere,
were women and girls—brasen, leathery
checked creatures, with bright, suspici
ous eyes, quick movements, hoarse
voices and gibbering laugh. The detec
tive informed us it was
A DAMOBBOUS PLACE,
and that two policemen were always kept
near the door. On Katurday night every
body is home and the beggvs come in to
divide up their spoils and to hold their
weekly revels. Then the big British
officers are very careful about getting
mixed up in the rows. Many a time the
policemen, he said, had been thrown
down and kicked unmercifully by the
crowd, who would yell, “You have got
him down now, give it to him until he
can’t squaal.”
“They don’t know whs*, mercy is,”
said an outside officer, coming up while
we were talking. Prom the time we en
tered the street and while we were In the
tavern, tough looking character* were on
the watch like sentinels, on each side ol
the door, hoping to get
A CHANCE TO SAID US,
or steal something should a fight occur.
When strangers come around the thieves
and receivers of stolen goods swarm from
the boles in the walla like wolves from
their dens, and a mao is as helpless
among them as a child is In the Jaws of a
crocodile.”
The detective took os into one ol the
typical lodging bouses of the Whitechapel
district. The scene was revolting. Little
signs wrested with holly, laurel and Ivy
were over the door, bearing the inscrip
tions, “Peace to All Nations,” “A Hearty
Welcome.” Also the additional intelli
gence that “This la a noted house for
double and single beds.” Here was dem
ocracy and no nihilism. Thieves, gar
rotters, beggars, receivers of stolen goods,
safe burglars, kidnappers and the vilest
of the London slams were encamped Uka
gypsies. They sat on the floor or leaned
over the table, with pots of bear and
glosses of spirits between them,
SINGING SONGS AMD BLASTHBIONO,
as they did in Hogarth’s time, when they
rattled their dice on the. stones at the
churchyard.
A word from the detective secured per
mission to go through the home. The
character of It may beimsgined when it
is stated that the price of a single bed to
but a penny or two, and that two persons
—tbs lowest of all God’s creation-may
drink, shout and blaspheme all night tor
only twopence. Little children, with
pale faces, scarcely old enough to lisp the
name of mother, lay in dark comers on
vermin-covered beds, with withered hags,
who drank beer and sang snatches of
song, half awake and half drunken, ap
parently in a stupor, and as we passed
through the long alleyways between the
bonks they stretched out their shaking
hands and bawled piteously lor a penny
to help the poor darling. We looked into
other chambers that were empty, where
a dosen cots, covered with dirty rags,
were awaiting the return of some assassin
to lie down and drink and riot in the
early Sabbath morning. The boys and
girls of these dens were as bright as crick
ets and the detective said they could pick
a pocket more artistically than the old
MMftrto.UMki.
“ We, the people of Weihlugton, mb'
fill to tbo Supreme Being hr our liberties,
ordeio thl. coneUtnUon.” This ie the
wty it le agreed the big constitution ehall
■tart out. It wfll be observed that It
doean’t undertake to commit the people
to an aaaertion that they are grateful to
the Supreme Balog he the umetllutlun.
It ie our “liberty” we are to be made to
declare oumelvea thankful Ice—the liberty
of voting down thia constitution if they
get It ao big we can’t awaflow It. In
thiacUnae, at leant, the phraseology of
the document la indieioaa and guarded.
There ka no blaaphamy in the ivpweelßn
ao long aa no attempt la made to moke
the people who rote Inc It any they an
grateful to the Bupceme Being for the eon
atltution Itaali. But since we an to he
made “grateful to the Supreme Being lor
our Übertiee,” and since wo an to look to
tbla constitution to guarantee ua In our
liberties, thia may he a aly way of frttlng
ua to look upon thia conatltntloa Be a
Supreme Being. It la quite an elastic ea
pnealon. Bat If the ooarention could be
induced la prune down ee liberally aa
it hat in thia cnee, all other erpnaaiona in
the huge document that >t being formu
lated and leave out all attempted legiela
tloo, the people would be gratenl alao to
those delegatee who an preparing
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