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DIVORCE LAW.
HURTING THE POOR MORE THAN THE RICH.
THE CHINA MAIL,
CASE OF MURDERER'S WIFE,
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[By The Rt. Hon. Lord Buckmaster, K.C.) From time to time, the need for reform of our Divorce Laws is mado pointed and poignant by the recorded revelations of the Courts. The public, who hate in- justice, are uneasily stirred by these disclosures, and then, as no- thing is done, the question is al- lowed to sleep till it is once more aroused by some new.scandal.
Though the mischief of the pro- sent law is widespread in sub- stance, it is the poor who suffer. Apart from the inability to obtain divorce for incurable insanity or persistent denial of intercourse, the present laws do not press harably on the rich nor impede the 1lberty of their lives.
THE OBSTACLE. This fact renders even mare striking the repeated and emphatic efforts of the House of Lords to change the law. They at least know their fellow countrymen and have repeatedly recognised and sought to remedy the wrongs which others, feel. People may well ask what, then, is the obstacle to reform. There is only one an- swer the alleged tradition of the Christian Church and the literal reading of two texts, one in St. Matthew's gospel and one in St. Luke's.
These texts are read apart alto- gether from consideration of the conditions of life existing when they were spoken, of the people to whom they were said, and of the purpose for which they were utter- ed and yet it is the spirit that quickeneth and the letter that kills.
THE CHOICE.
POLICE PROSECUTOR UPON A SLOW_FORM OF TÖRTURE.
The argument from tradition is over more obscure. The tradition Itself is nowhere uniform, for the stream has flowed in many chan- nels and watered many lands.. Ita sources are to be found among hermits and eremites, in the eave STATEMENT IN APPEAL COURT and in the desert, on the lonely column and in the cloistered cell.
strange authorities to
be used as unfailing, guides through all the tangled perplexities of modern life.
IN SPITE OF TEXTS.
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"Life imprisonment is only a slow form of torture and it would be better to put them out of misery," was part of Mr. R. T. Bryan's" (Police Prosecutor) state- In spite, however, of texts: andment to the Appellate Division traditions, with the exception of Judges in the Provisional Court life imprisonment and insanity the recently, when the hearing took causes for which divorce is need-place of an appeal by a coolle and ed oven пот permit Judicial a broker, sentenced on June 6 to separation, a remedy nowhere to life imprisonment for their parti be found in the whole pages of cipation in a robbery on March 2 Scripture.
at 112, Peking-road, when $92,500 Among the poor, where separa-worth of gold bars were stolen tion orders are granted by the from the Dah Tung Transporta magistrates, the almost unanimous tion Company. opinion of all social workers is Speaking to Judges Tsan, Loo that these orders are productive of and Chul, Mr. Bryan continued wholesale immorality, and human that it was his opinion that the nature being what it is and not punishment of the accused should what ecumenical councils assume be altered from life imprisonment it to be, immorality is the inevit- to death. able., result of Among wall-to-do people the power of obtaining auch relief is often used to gratify the most mean and malignant motives, and it is time that the whole system upon which such orders are based should be swept away.
auch decrees. The facts of the case were that.
the coolle was arrested in Wusth by detectives after the crime and brought back to Shanghai. From information given by him, the second accused was arrested. The coolie admitted having received, $3,000 as his share of the pro- ceeds, and that he had bought some land in Wusik.
The crippling of life due to the incurable insanity of one of the partners to the marriage contract, though it may be less common than that due to desertion and cruelty is, If possible, even more severe.
A MURDERER'S WIFE.
The Court reserved judgment.
Eighty-three miners from Wates and Durham, having completed the six weeks' farm training course at Brandon, Norfolk, have sailed for
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A short time back a man guilty of murdering his child was found to be insane and was incarcerated
in a criminal lunatic asylum; his wife was left unprotected andcided to take strong measures in The Greek Government has de- alone; `she became attached to an-
the event of Communista forcing a other man by whom she had a
the homicidal maniac the Macedonian tobacco, werkers.
general strike in sympathy At the date of those utterances child, and
with women were chiefly considered as therefore petitioned against her instruments of pleasure and for divorce. It was the woman machines for the reproduction of who was really the suffering party, the race. If a husband died be- and not the man, and it was she fore the machine had functioned who ought to have been enabled
his brother was to undertake its management and so en and on, while the feelings of the unhappy woman were of no account.
to secure her freedom and marry the man who became the father of her child.
Innumerable instances
can be found of similar hardships Inflict- od by our laws; they provoke im- deny justice. It is surprising and morality, support blackmail and it is discreditable that, apart from the repeated efforts of the House
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MIXED TRADITIONS. Women could then be divorced for the merest trifle, but deser tion, cruelty, madness, Insanity and perpetual imprisonment ap pear to have been unknown. De sertion was unnecessary and diff- cult it was not then possible to take a ticket at Liverpool and be) lost in the Continent of America. Cruelty to wives does not seem to Lady Holland, of Holmhurst, have been practised; after all, a Wimbledon-common, has offered as wife was little more than a servant, a free gift to Wimbledon Corpora- and cruelty to a servant impairs tion 44 acres of freehold land her efficiency.
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