The 'Great Industry '

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 15, 13 April 1905, Page 1

The 'Great Industry '

America's ' great national industry ' is humming along to a merry tune. The New York Supreme Court recently disposed of a large batch of divorce cases at the rate of ome in ewery twelve minutes. A tidal wave of corruption, like tihat which preceded the downfall of pagan Rome, is passing over America and stamping the unity and sanctity of domestic life, which axe the bulwarks of tlhe State and of cixil society. Under the Stars aiid Strip«ss there may, perhaps, be found cases as flagrant as those recorded by Martial and Juvenal— where one divorced woman had aorrhed at her tentih (legal) hAißibafiM, and another went through the form of marriage eight times in five years. In this respect, at leas/t, ojne must return an affirmathe answer to. the tnjdigrt&nt query of ' Truthful James ' : ' Is our civilisation a failure ? Or is the Caucasian played out ? '