THE WEST SHORE.
Vol. 10.
Portland, Oregon, December, 1884.
No. 12.
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Reference to the index given in the current nuinW
of The West Siiohe will show .what a multitude of
topics have boon described and illustrated during the
year. Complete volumes lor 1884 or 188.1, IhmiuI Willi
paper cover, are now ready. Upon receipt of 12, either
will be sent to any address, postage free, or both for $.'1,
One dosiring information of this region will find the
money well invested.
The large saw mills on Pugnt Sound are again r mi
lling on full time and being worked up to their full
capacity for ten hours daily. Hanson's Mill, at Tacoina,
is turning out 225,000 feet daily, the Berkeley Mill
212,000, and others in proportion. More vessels have
boon chartered during the past two months than ever
before during the same poriod. Sixteen vessels cleared
at Port Townsend for foreign wrts in October, carrying
cargoes of lumber aggregating $109,559 in value Kevivaf
of octivity in the lumber trade will make times easier on
the Sound, and must have a beneficial influence through
out the whole Northwest
The West Siiohe will enter its eleventh year with
the January number. Its history has been one of steady
progress toward greater excellence, and at no period
have the improvements boon so marked bs during the
year just closed. The volume for 1885 will bn far stijx).
rior to its predecessors in evory particular. As an illus
trated journal, giving valuable information alxmt the
Great West, and original engravings of its scenory, cities
and industries, The West Siiohe occupies the field un
challenged; and as a clean, wholesome illustrated family
magazine, it has no equal at the same low subscription
prioe. 8pecial attention is called to the index for 1884
in this number.
"EASY GOME, EASY OO."
So ofUm has it been used in that connection, and so
expressive is it, that the mind instinctively associates
this trite aphorism with some homily on the subject of
economy; but, urgent as is the need of impressing upon
our people tho advantages of frugality, tomornuoo and
moderation in expenditures during these times of finan
cial depression, it serves, in this instance, to introduce a
few thoughts on an entirely different topic -the subject
of divorce. Our laws aro Un flexible, and our courts
construe them too liberally. It has of lute become thn
tendency to look iixm marriage simply as n contract to
lie ontered into lightly, and to bn nullified for any of n
sooro of general causes, each of which has many sub
divisions; and it is to be regretted that such it is rapidly
becoming in the popular estimation. Contracts are
agreements between parties for the performance of some
specific act, which may at any time Is) annulled by the
mutual ailment of thn contracting parties, except in cer
tain instances where thn rights of others are nlTocted; not
so with marriage; and this constitutes its chief distinction
from a civil contract The institution of marriage is thn
foundation of society. Were it but a contract, to lie
entered into carelessly by any one, no matter how unfit
to sustain thn married relation, mid dissolvable at pleas,
uro by tho contracting parties or by thn simple formal
application to the courts, it would certainly lie an unstable
foundation upon which to IntiM. To hold otherwise
would Is) to subscrilin at once t the d'Sitriuo of "natural
selection" rts advocate! by certain free love communities
which have established themselves in some of our great
commonwealths. Good government has it sent in thn
virtue of the siple governml. Thoro can Iw no moral
government for an immoral jsioplo, no honest adminis
tration of laws for a issipln who are dishonest, mid who
choose, from their own numlior those who shall make and
execute them. Therefore, for the pruttwtiou of society,
for tho preservation of that msiial morality which forms
the essence of good government it is necessary that thn
institution of marriage bo considered as higher thnn a
mere contract that it shall Im regulated by law; that
unfit oorsons should bo denied iU privileges; and that
once entered into voluntarily, it should U diflleult to
shake off the responsibilities and duties thus asNiuiHKL
Yet the same consideration for tho general morality or
the ooplo which makes it necessary to elevate and pro.
tect tho marriogo relation, equally requires that tho mar
riago lie set aside when either jmrty is guilty of such
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ConillKI as lo reimer urn oiiuii'iii"'
n......,1.iri.blo Imrden utsm tho other, or provocation or
the very immorality which it Is primarily aupo to
prevent That one of average moral imture ami nmu".
mcut should l chained to another whoso every thought