Note 739 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
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Extract from an address delivered by Hon. Carroll D. Wright before the fourteenth National Conference of the Unitarian Society, Saratoga, N. Y., 1891: in Arena, V, 143; printed entire in the Christian Register, Oct. 8, 1891; based on the statistics collected in his Report, 193-206. Commenting on the passage quoted the editor of the Arena says (142):
"Another charge made against our divorce laws is that, not being uniform, certain states are being overrun with persons of loose moral character, who seek release from marriage ties. Those who make this charge seem to overlook the fact that persons of loose moral character would not be liable to go to the trouble of leaving their home and state in order to gratify guilty passions. But those who find the marriage tie too galling for endurance and yet who wish to be law-abiding citizens presumably, will take advantage of liberal, enlightened, and humane laws, framed with a view to increase the happiness of the people rather than made in such a way as to foster immorality and enforced prostitution."