People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — DEATH TO DIVORCE. [ARTICLE]

DEATH TO DIVORCE.

WOMEN RAISE THEIR VOICE AGAINST LAWS. They Hold That the Present Systme Is Entirely Too Lax and Want General Reform —Legal Separation Discussed Pesterday. Washington, D. C., Feb. 28.—Complaints against the present system of divorce laws was the harden of today's session of the national council of women. The discussion was led by the official report of the committee on divorce reform, read by Chairman Bottelle Dietrick of Massachusetts. It embodied responses received from a number of state governors, who were asked to call the attention of the legislatures to the status of the divorce laws and to appoint a committee to consist of an equal number of men and women, to •onsider the matter. The question, the report said, was one vitally concerning the happiness and welfare of 70,000,000 people, and added: "Women should 'thoughtfully consider the significance of the fact that thirty-one of these masculine servants jf the people made no response to this just request cf representative women. Only two —Gnenhaige of Massachusetts and Brown of Rhode Island — [ir<,n:i.'ed to do all in their power to cayry cut the request. The governor of South Carolina wrote that that state had no divorce laws, and its people were better satisfied than their neighbors, whose states have divorce laws.” The report said that the fact lhnt twenty-three states have appointed bodies of rnen to tinker with divoice laws, without appointing any women, ought to siiow wo.ru n in what estimation the men of the United States r.old their opinions.