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Saturday Aug. 1st.
Carinal Gibbons
On Divorce.
Tij. art,, artic’-Q ■ published
sometime ago in the Ladies’
Rome Jonrnal, Cardinal Gib
bons made the statement that
the divorce evil has grown
so rampant in the United
States that a state of affairs
has come to exist that is lit
he short of free love.
We are not quarrelling witi
Cardinal Gibbons as to tin
condition that he depicts. !I<
probably knows what he i:
talking about,or a man of hi:
calling an 1 prominence
should. Everybody knows
that matters in that respect
are deplorable and growing
worse, but the point we wish
to make is that Cardinal Gib
bons is one of the stanches!
supporters of Capitalism and
never tires of falsely accus
ing the Socialists of plotting
to destroy the home and ev
erything that is sacred in the
marital and family relation,
and yet at the same time in
the article referred, to he
makes the probably unconci
ous damaging admission that
Capitalism has.brought or is
bringing.about the very con
dition that he is so fond of ac
cusing the wicked Socialists
of wishing to set up. It is
simply confirmatory of the
Socialist contention that Cap
italism alone in- responsible,
though the Cardinal seems
blissfully ignorant of the fact,
or wishes to ignore it, for he
straightway proceeds to
place the blame where it
does not belong. Characteris
tic of men of his calling, he
lays it *o the growing disre
gard of religion and tha gen
eral laxity of the daws gov
erning the marriage relation,
and of course his remedy is
more religion and more laws.
it seems incredible that
men of Cardinal Gibbons* ed
ucation and expel ience, ar.d
opportunities for study and ob
servatien persistenG/vrefiu e
to face the facts and acknow
ledge .the truth, It is diirL
cult to believe that.such men
are ignorant of such palpable
causes of evils as are -appar
ent in the Question under dis
cussion. For that reas:n v e
hear so much about Hypo
crites and “intellectual, pros
titutes.” It is becoming clear
to the mo°t mediocre and un
observant that practically all
marital unhappiness and di
vorce are traceable, directly
and indirectly, to,,economic!
conditions. An old adage
says that “when poverty goes
in at the door love flies out
\t the window” and it is pret
iy nearly true, all this bunc
about happiness among the
poor, notwithstanding t.o the
contrary. Where poverty pre
vails in the home it is provo
cative of discontent oil the
part of husband and wife
and tends to create dissat
isfaction with and lack of con
fidenee in each other. Such a j
Condition i&tiot cofiduViv'e to
domestic felicity, and an e
conomic system that is pred
icated upon and decrees po
verty to the vast nuayr^y of
ijiomeSi whose ir.bvitable ten
dency is u&Tocee the wife in
j to the washtub cn factory, or
maybe the brothel, and. puts
the husband on the tramp
looking l or-a job cannot be
otherwise than destructive
of home ties, and consequent
ly make business for the di
vorce courts. Thousands of
men through the stress of cir
cumsfance- are every year
torn from their homes as ruth
iessly, though none the less
effectually than if they had
been put upon the block and
sold to the highest bidder for
cash. No matter how. much
devoted to wife and family,
no matter how many heart
aches,, they must go, and in
numberles eases never to be.
reunited.
] in or are matters in respect
to the evil complained of any
'better at the other end of the,
social scale. Too much unearn
ad wealth, too much luxury
and idleness lead to demoral
ization and debauchery,- and
inevitably tend to disruption
Of home and family.
These conditions, these re
lentless ravages of the natu- [
ral and necessary develop- j
mentof the Capitalist system |
on tl q most holy and sacred j
relations of human life, a-J
mo.og both rich and poor. Car j
dinal Gibbons and his kind |
would stay by,more, legisla- i
tion and more religion. As
well legislate againsi the
tides, and prescribe religion
for the arrestment or circurn
vention of any other natural
phenomena. Divorce is a con
comitant of the present* or
der of society, as is poverty,
prostitution, crime and insa
nity, ,and like those sock 1
cancers,_ can be eliminated
only by the elimination o!
Capitalism This, legislative)
tinkering and religion will
not do, and in the nature oi
things cannot do.
The reccut mass icre of strik- ;
ing workingmen in lLu«ti.>. will |
no doubt lead many good |>e(>j> 1 i
in the'United fc-tules to wonJei i
how tudi bai b,trities can he in'
tills (he twentieth century of oui !
Christian Civi ia.ilion. and imiv I
• I
be will move some peace so
ciety back east headed by John
L>. Ivaekefeller or Audiew Car [
negie to protest to the ' lUissian
Cz tr. Even Die Editor of iIn ;
Fairbanks Times seiav.3 to- at.
tribute such doings to the be
nightednesa of the Russians,but
is it any better in our own en
lightened,and happy land/ \Vb>
can wonder nndwthrovy up our,
hinds in horror at Russian bru
tality,when the trail of the Am,eri
can industrial Juggernaut from.
(Jarncgio's- Ind-chery at Il-muO-"
stead 30 years ago to that o!
Rockefeller's in Colorado hut
Spring, is strewn wit-h-tb'e-bolWes
jnd sr akbd Wit IV' the blood o’,
helpless despairing workers,and
it hard'y causes a riim}« ,;1(.
surf*»Qe of our unctuous compla
cency.
j Asa matter of fact, such sav
agery towards tlie- w.yrkiiiivyolass
is not so common,in Russia aspil
is in 1 lie United .Stafes, mad lor
.that reason is injure- notikjcable,
and beiugju another country
excites comment and even indig
nation.
ft! ia announced that the Uni
ted Stines postal doiartment
[will put war vessels into- cor vice
carrying mail. This-is wliatugi
| tation Iras forced. The army and
j navy might he placed sit work ir
! rigatinjf.-limd.tm'iking levees and
doing .other things much betW r
Chan . killing workers.—Appeal
to reason.
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