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Show BEATEN ONCE MORE. The British Parliament has once more killed the bill authorizing the marriage of a man to his deceased wife's sister. Each year for many years this measure has been presented and has been defeated. It shows the stubborn methods of our cousins across the Atlantic and is the more astonishing as the world continues to give up one bigotry after another. There Is no moral of physical phys-ical objection. It is merely a senseless prejudice and. mo'reover, it is a direct curtailment of the rights of free citizens, men and women. Really what right have legislators to dictate to a man and woman that they shall not marry, when only an ancient prejudice can be invoked as justification justifica-tion for the tyranny.' It is of the same character as the other law which decreed that the body of the criminal should not be buried in a church yard. Utah could give the great "British law makers some pointers on that subject, because there was a time in Utah when a man did not have to wait for his wife's death in order to marry her sister. sis-ter. That was rushing the matter a little, it is true, but it was but a notice to England that she was becoming old fogylsh and there was one spot in America that held her ancient superstition supersti-tion in sublime content. |