r1, . " . f . n ill GOCI2T V cuds-Kisic iu::::ii3 Ac. sf ' A. ..J I ... ' :ri;CilT' IMS'4 V v'-v v . s V VS PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1910. SPRLAD OF JUVZ.NILL CRIME , RESULT OF LAS D Cardinal Logue, the DisUngulshed Irish Prelate Visiting This Country Discusses With Edward Marshall Terrible Results That Flow From Our Lax Marriage System- In ,: America We Do Not Know At All ' What Real Marriage Is What Should Be a Sacrament Is a tyere Nuptial Experiment, - ' ' . , . v ,,: Copyright 1910 by C'J. MaV. Pub. PresV ' , - f . By Edward Marshall ' jOtJR youth ar turning into crlm f , lnals because of Godless educa V tton." i'. ' Ths laxness of your 'divorce laws is a disgrace to America." ' "Tour . marriages are experiments nly." "You have, apparently, no Christian Idea of marriage at all," -' , ; Wiiere divorce is easy no home life, In the best sense of the word. Is pos sible." . "The only difference ' between ' the polygamy of the .Mormons and ' the' polygamy of the divorced is that one ia ' simultaneous polygamy, while the other 'is successive polygamy.", 4 ., . . ' ' "You. are degrading your womanhood and making of your, men Lotharios;" Kindly, charming, smiling, and above all thlngs-wunwUling, was. the wonder ful old gentleman who said these things to me. The smile of Cardinal Logue Is like a benediction, and he is almost ever smiling. . His voice when, baited to it 1 by cross-questioning, he gave Utterance to some criticism of the ha tlon which he' really admires and to which he felt that day he owed the "'debt of guest to host, was always thrill - ing with -the-soft -vibrations T of a care fully trained , speaker, and . these other and . Jbiora wonderful vibrations . of a man whose speech is animated by ion vlotlons of the heart. He disliked to ay a word in criticism of a country which he very certainly admires for many of Its admirable characteristics; but, quite as plainly, on the two Sub- Joctsiwhlch-i-conStanUy-andV- possibly a little viciously, kept baiting him, he felt too strongly to bev silent under firs, v That f ours ls a beautiful country, with a canker eating at its heart as a worm eats at an apple's core; that we are a wondrous people, turning to false gods or none at all, and, therefore; to ward destruction, Is' what -Cardinal Logue thinks. . And he sorrows over ltt ' very plainly, very definitely, very gen uinely sorrows over It s -A Slstlngaishe Churchman. Tha cardinal, Whose homej In Ire- i land, i was, one , of the distinguished churchmen who came to New York city recently to participate in the great , celebration verthe last payments-on the mighty debt which for years had .Diirdened the Cathedral of St Patrick. the twin Spires of which rise beautiful, serene, above the turmoil of Fifth ave nue. He graciously received me twice. - On the'occaslon of toy - first visit he was garbed in i the sombre robes of priesthood, and when L saw him the second; time ;he. wore all the glory of the '. crimson trappings Of a cardinal In the Roman church. - Both times, he- was. re luctant, both times he was, when urged, ..."explicit v.-''v1---; -' ': ' I almost feel that I am doing the do- Ughtful, 'pleasant-voiced gentleman a wrong in telling only of the things he , sees in os which he thinks should be condemned, because ha sees so many things in us to ba admired, and speaks of them . so frankly and with such - genuine enthuslasmt but wo know our merits know some possiblr which for eigners .would not adjudge so meritori ous, i It is criticism, .which, always is most;:' interesting. The cardinal Is short, nol fat stooped by his years ahd jabori. , He iwa. born in Northern' Ireland in 1840, v and .70 years, and such tremendous labors as have been this churchman's would have r stooped - most; laymen" more, v Indeed. i" visot is amazing. ,, i asKea him for the address a photographer, and, much, to my distress, he hurried from , the i;oom and. up, a flight 'of stairs to get it But. he went with all the vigor of a youth, and when, two minutes later,; he appeared ; again, having se cured the Information I desired he was not breathJngwtth-Urapldity at all above the normal. This, and his won- oerwiiy clear skin, bright active eyes, completely ' steady hand, told ah . im pressive story of right and wise living. When he spoke of us with words of criticism his voice dropped -often, until it came so faintly that the stenographer who was recording what be said for me was forced to strain his ears to catch the 'words; when he: spoke in praise his tones rose and his words came distinctly.- r f:. '-' "i: : Z H4 thinks we ar mighty people in a mighty land; he glories in the free dom of our Institutions and man-making methods; he sees in us a' wondrous mental vigor which the older nations on the .ocean's other side may envy, but not rival. In our public men he discerns marvelous ability, and in our women many admirable traits; butwe have faults grave faults. And under protest he spoke to me about them. On Two Greatest faults. Chief "of these, he thinks, is the evil of divorce. " Next most deplorable, he, thinks, is the lack of religious training in our public schools. - - - , A few weeks before I saw him I had talked with- Lord Northcllffe, the world's greatest Journalist also an Irishman, although now a British peer. Northcllffe had found our greatest fault to be too much conventionality. Cardinal Logue does not at all agree with him. He finds our greatest 'fault to bo too . great an independence of those laws of God and man which he considers necessary' to the preservation of society,. . . Our lax divorce laws and our ten dency to fly to them without what to him eeems sufficient provocation, he thinks the greatest of our faults; to the absence . of religious i training in our public schools he attributes the increase of juvenile crime, which of late .has been so widely noted that the infamy of it has reaohed across the seas and to his ear. ;;;. , . I tried, with a Derslstencv which t afraid I carried almost to too great a length., to get the cardinal to preach a f-.u.vu .v jh iinsm.j' , oungregauon which the American Sunday newspaper unera weeKiy 10 tne men who speak through it; but after careful thought of the idea, he decided not to yield to my strong urgings. It was not-becauaa4i iacKeg material or lacksa convictions : it was because the thought was strong in nun ma- ne was ners, m some sense, as tmr guest, and should not take so great a liberty as to admonish us m r how most to Influence you for good." upon . the subject af divorce I In duced him-to expreps hlmBelf with free dom, though, and what hff Bald is both of Interest and of Importance, coming as u oes from a man of such great eminence, a man whose whole career attests hi brilliant Intellect and devo tion to the causa of human uplift . Th Svils of Divorce. ' Tour ; divorces," , he, said earnestly, 'are a disgrace, to' your great nation." His kindlv ace took on a look of deepest gravity and, real conoern,' He did. not use. the word' "disgrace" with harshness, but with the true, priestly Inflection -of .regret and admonition, There' are few signs-of advanced age In his movements. Neither his. Hps nor his hands are at tall tremulous. But now he leaned back . In his chair his head deep sunk between his .shoulders, and his eyes closed. His f ace, as he eat thus, pausing, evidently in a search for words, war infinitely sad,." perhaps a bit indignant, surely very full of pro test. - ' ,.: ;i. ; i. ... "You do not seem to have a Christian idea .of marriage at all."' he went ? on slowly. fl,am sorry to say such a thing about a. people .whose - guest , I arn bul you say you are willing to accept the blame. I would not wish to have Amer icans think me discourteous. Your mar riages seem, In many cases, to bs'mere experiments. ( What ; is it about your people ' whlch creates ..this . state of things? I do not know; I .cannot pos sibly Imagine.; In this unfortunate con dition you stand quite alone,---"- "in Italy there has been much talk about -uniiappy-marrlages,- and -for -a uuie mere whb Discussion or divorce as the one remedy. From all sides Came a call for legislation which would permit divorce, and flnaly laws were remanded even in the king's speech. ; After this such law were passed. But, In a little while, after the nation had had time to think about It a revulsion came. This grew. Before long the whole country was In fierce revolt against the institu tion. , JKven; the free thinkers of whom there are too many now In Italy came out definitely In opnosition. and enough Influence was brought to bear to kill the evil shortly after It was born. ''Divorce! It is a dreadful thing. It oniiaiizesj men ana degrades woman hood. ; You must get rid o It, If you would " prosper Iplrituallyvaha socially. As it is, as I have said, it seems to me that you have no proper Idea of mar riage at all.'- The Catholic church con- Ldemns. divorce and does not weaken, be- - ...... it u ,uv Ult UV. I . tSVilV VJ. the institution. - . Our v Marriage Experiments. w 'Tbur Ttnawiages' i no said slowly, seem to be experiments only, v Divorce can end Hhenj at any time for any cause or ror no cause. And that destroy the family, and what; destroys the family aesuoys society, Again I ., say. you seem to have no Christian Idea of mar riage at alt , - .;'., - v.-.-: "Thera . are ' two s evils In America which giva it, a unique distinction, and they are not widely separated in their character. - One of them Is the polyg amy of the Mormons, out in Salt' Lake City, . and the other is the polygamy and polyandry of your other, citizens in almost every other portion of tha coun try, due to , this pernicious 'bossibilltv of wholesale divorce. . Mormonlsm Is bitterly condemned by the very folk who most vigorously support' the other horror; but Mormonlsm has Its advan tages 'when compared to the" system of polygamy which' so " obtains : in other parts of "the TJnited States i; - Te Mormons have a number of wives, contrary to Christian principles: but they look after, them and. take care of , their children., They shirk no re sponsibilities. The divorced man who remarries has a number bf wives, con trary, to Christian firlnciples, and cares for neither them nor thelr-ehildren. I The only dlference which I can -see be tween tha polygamy of the divorced is that tha Mormon's is a simultaneous polygamy, while the divorced man's Is a successive polygamy. Of - the two. the first la better; but they both are wrong all wrong! "I am worried for . vour .wrlfun There Is a" loosening here of the very ties which should bind tightest. Sta tistics show a large decrease in your church memberships, except ia : Catho lic church membership. Lack of church membership it is, I think, which leads to your ; extraordinary records of Ju venile crime, of which I shall say, pos sibly, a few words before, you leave. nut divorce Is. by faf. the fcreatest evil which you have to combat, and It seems to be the only one of all your evils which you are not maklnsr the least effort to combat but'are coddllna and encouraging, fostering and increas ing. You cannot prosper SDirituallv or socially while this ; Is going on. You must get na or divorce utterly and achieve a pr,oper Idea of marriage be fore you can say safely that you .have succeeded as a nation.' -. . " '. . ,j W o Wot Know mat jKatrimony .I- -. - - Ought to - Mean. rt "It would appear to roe that there are plenty of people in . America who do not know at all what matrimony means or should mean, - who either never knew or have forgotten that Its chief characteristic as an Institution is and must be, If society is rightly to be maintained, excluslveness. The law of Qod and tha best Interest of naari de mana mis. , xiiobo two things tiever clash the law of God and the best in terests of man. ; One la invariably the Other. . "The Catholic ' church condemns di vorce becatfsa divorce is against ' the law of Christ The church and I, and all good Catholics, as churchmen, must ana ao conaemn it first ror that cause. for. its antagonism to the teachings of all good religion. But looking at it even from a material point of view, one cannot find the slightest- reason for anything except condemnation. It was born of selfishness and lust and with out consideration for any really worthy thing. A divorce law is a lawless law. Divorce Is an anarohleal Idea. . It must be rulnoua to the welfare of the fam ily, and the family is the foundation of society. - "See what occurs!, This man Is di vorced; that .woman is divorced; they com remarry,-and again theyseek dl vorce and get it . The welfare of So ciety aemanas one woman ana one not actually occur where the existing laws are not definitely appealed to, tnere-ls. In the minds of both parties to. the marriage contraot here-iri Amar Icar the knowledge that those laws may at some future time be appealed to, and this mere knowledge utterly de stroys the sense of true responsibility in the minds of both husband an! wifa. That sense of ahsolute responsibility is essential to the welfare of society. -The family , life, all family? ties, are lrre vocably destroyed, f Divorce which : on demand can break the ; bonds which should be : most permanently binding, by doing so corrupts the husbanU,,' and leaves the children rotbed of both their natural protectors, lead the Children Into Loose JUves. , .u i.uiuk uui encourage tne cnu dren to lead loose lives In their turn. and so the evil spreads and spreads un til to. lengxn u reaches everywhere and cankers everywhere. Morality, raving vanished in the parents, must Inevita bly vanish in the children, , unless by the grace of God they are mlraculoasly preserved in purity, which sometimes happens, certainly. And by destroying the morality of the .child ; you oobtroy the safety of society. ! 'j, ' :s - iivorce, therefore, is not only, con trary to rligious laws and spiritual laws, but Is against the best practical Interests of t,he country.,. The two are Interlinked to closely that one cannot be disturbed without disturbance o tha other; but that fact la In- these , days frequently forgotten. Divorce is unde niably an economical mUtake - ea ell as a most henlous sin against religion. It is an evil which eventually, if left uncurbed, must utterly disrupt your social, fabric," , , . : . "5hen you think us. in a bad way,' una economically? You think that social anarchy .confronts ust" The cardinal, who had been speaking wm, closed eyes, his fine Old bead , sunk petween his shoulders, raised his head a bit, looked up at me and smiled. I did not wonder, when I saw that smile, at the tales which had been toldto me of the absolute devotion his associates feel for him. It has been said that God gave Iteland the sweetest of his smiles, and of all Ireland's sweet smile I feel quite certain that this old man secured undoubtedly the most entirely winning. "No," said he. "Oh, no, Ido not think that social anarehy -confronts you. V I think that, you will , presently correct these gra,ve mistakes which you have fallen Into. You are a people full of wonderful , abilities. In a -country full of wonderful .. resources, you. have done wonders, :and you will do ? won ders; but before you do your greatest wonders you mustmakejrretIon of the worst amoiigyour errors. And this error of divorce, I think, la the chief among those crying, for correction. That you. will correct it I have not the slight eat doubt and you must. Divorce Breeds Other Svils. l "And when you get rid of divorce you will get rid of certain other evils which go hand In hand with it. Easy divorce breeds, looseness all along the--lines and iiwitn. your, mixed population looseness Is more dangerous even than It is in other countries where the (blood Is not so mixed. .The non-Catholics among your Ignorant are doing jfety badly by you." "Lord Northcllffe,, visiting here re cently, told me tbat;we were the White Chinese,"', ald, Rasing his strange characterisation on what he called ur slavUh worship of conventionality." VI. would not call you that." said Car dinal Logue, and took the sting out of his words by another of those wondrous smiles, 'lie may havijbeen.jiulte right in thinking that some of your ills come from the introduction of so great a for eign mixture I do. not know about thatj but I am not certain Tie was right in calling you the 'White Chinese,' for in marriage and divorces lawsOChlna is ahead of you. ? -v, ';-..,;.,:, , "The Chinese people carry out their ideas by the light of reason, don't you see? - Divorce, as you have it In America, does not exist there, I am told, and they have one extremely wise provision which you lack. There are no marriages of relatives in China, The Chinese man, I am informed, cannot even marry a girl from, the village he lives In. He must choose his bride from some point distant from his home It : prevents consant gulnity in marriages, and even that I - i am lnrormeu, is sometimes tolerated by i your civil laws and Dy certain of your, clergy, " Not even third couBins ean be married in the Catholio church without a dispensation. ' 'i. :" '.'-': ,j,V' '.i " "This habit oi divorce, which has '.be come so common In America, will if it is not corrected br you in the jyjurse of time from the right to claim so high a title as the 'White Chinese It is and must be destructive to the morals of both husband and wife, it makes the children practicaly illegitimate' and robs them of both parerita It may be worse than Illegitimacy in effect; fof illegiti macy may teach a child that sin must parry with it punishment, which is a useful lesson; . On the contrary, under the system which obtains ljere. tae child may well assume that Sin does a not bring punishment, but Is sanctioned by the law and by the customs of the Coun try. Then what will be that child's course later on in life? A course of tawleeness. beyond a doubt" .:'',V: kVr'V Ho Tendency Toward Xasiw Divorce, I asked the cardinal If there was any tendency Ih Ireland or England toward easier divorce, and , he unhesitatingly replied that there was none. v ; "There are few dlvoroea in England," he went on. ; 'Tiecause. divorce there is so difficult and so expensive None but tha very rich can posBlbly afford this sin, and that la a good thing. In Ire land there are even- less. There are practically no' divorces there at all. It requires a . long and costly litigation there to break the bonds which should not ever be permitted to he broken, ex cept in circumstances so extremely rare that they need scarcely be consid ered. And this discourages the thought of breaking them. . As long as vthls thought , does .not commonly exist the happiness, the - real Integrity of homes, is very much conserved.. - "It is .the knowledge that divorce Is easy that makes wives and husbands prone to err. It puts temptatlonln their wsy, They yield." Such Is the way of human nature. Where divorce is easy immorality will spread Increas ingly, Inevitably. i J "Unfortunately, there is at present a commission sitting in England which has under consideration amendments to the divorce laws; but we all hope they will not - make them less rigid than they : are now. It would be a great calamity to the' whole kingdom If they were , to do so. The opposition to . a ! change ia rvery "strong, 'and. is confined , by no means to the Catholics. Even the lawyers, many of them, realise that loosening of the divorce laws, while it would breed business for them, also would breed trouble for the social fab ric; and so they, too, oppose the idea. "To an Irish churchman . the condi-' tlons existing In America - cannot be otherwise than horrifying. In some ways you may have progressed worthily beyond the older nations, but in some ways you have retrograded." , : y' vi : Not . long before I met the cardinal I had been talking with another man of eminence , upon the subject of the in crease in our cities of young Criminals. I mentioned this to Cardinal Logue. He made a gesture of real horror. It was" as if the thought of something he had heard or read upon the subject had been brought into his mind and filled It with revolt.,-- , t ' . ' ' '; ;"':-:v;v-'Toung' ciimtaaJfc'f V'z'y' "I know little of the slums of either London or New York; r; he said,, 'but; I. have heard about the youthful, crlml-, nals whom you . are breeding here in yours, In that you are like Paris. Paris also shows a shocking increase in the number of" young criminals a shocking change for worse in the vari ety of crimes In whloh they are discov ered. .: ..v;;'..,l;.'-::.;.,! ' "These young and vicious sinners are the product of the Godless schools In both America and. France. .v. Your youth are - turning into, criminals- because Of Godless education. To this more than to any, other thing I wouldffttribute the whole-increase-lh America of crimes of violence . among both young . and old, and in this I do not stand alone. . I have read charges-by vyour Judges and statements made by -men of eminence in . the . United States . who believe that young offenders , are the product pure and simple, of a - school aystem which eliminates religious ' training. And young ef f enders growing to maturity, become often the most dangerous and violent of criminals. -Crime tt not increasing everywhere. It is not increasing, for example, in old Irelahd. It Is not increasing anywhere Wi.ere "Children are Instructed properly to fear God and conduct themselves on Christian principles. , -;i f ."Precoctousness in crime is not a natural developmentrof the century; It Is directly , the result or ine impious banishment of God's name tncf 0it teachings from the places , wlipr t:i young are given their preparation fr their battle with the world. "I had much of my education in Paris, and in those days Parts streets were . not made perilous by youthful, murderers and thieves. Today, I am Informed, the situation there is very dreadful and baa been becoming wors,j with evory day since' the banishment of the religious orders and the aboli tion of religious training In the schools. It is pot long since two boys there, not more than It years of. age, I . think, killed a whole family. - - V j "Ireland , : has some things which properly may be -regretted, but, , thank God, this increase, of depravity amon? the young' Is not of r them. We have young criminals, but ' by comparison, their sins are petty theft and things of that sort c-nly.; Our Irish", boys ar. mischievous thy may break windows now andthen, but they do. not do mur der. It Is the teaching of the church, and" that alone, which makes this true. ''No; America cannot expect to pros per, as she easily and properly might prosper, till she learha that marriage is a holy institution and that righteous ness is vital simong the , things which must be taught the young." ' The cardinal's fine eyes took on the sternness of the prophet as he closed with this prediction, tfnd the fire Btlll hung there as he bade me goodbye. Many File Expense List?, (S1pci Burenu of The lournal.) Salemi Or., Oct 8.A. E. Clarke, sec retary of the non-political committee, exponded 11407,3(1 inbehalf of Candi dates on the non-political Judiciary baj lot in the primary campaign, The money was contributed by candidates and oth ers Interested in the. welfare of the ticket . . Clyde T. Hackett, candidate for Joint representative, spent $99,05, . George N. Farrin, candidate for Joint .representa tive from Coos and . Curry counties, spent $2,0.15 5. T. Pierce, candidate' for Joint representative from, the same dis trict, spent $69.75., Alex -Stewart can didate f or ' Joint representative from Hood River and Wasco counties, spent $31.30. J. T. Harper, candidate for rep resentative, from ' the same, district, spent $8. Henry D. Reed, candidate for Joint representative from Douglas and Jackson, spent $4, L teous. I must not preach to you as a return for all your kindnesses. Be sides, you have among you able man who know yOu better, and who far bet ter understand how best to talk to you. You have been very kind to me here 1 man to everyfamllYibut-jiUh-niiJ -UwmeffcH-eeNr-ne, la practiced in America, there comes before long not one family for every pair but, an sir gregatlon, of families, The. family longer is a unit "Disastrous! 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