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Show JUST CAUSES FOR DIVORCES. A great deal is being said nowadays against the divorce habit. We never have able to see either the sense or principle of that opposition. ' Last week in Ogden a boy was forced to kill his father, to save his mother's life, and the testimony on the inquest showed that the man had been a human hu-man brute for years and that his family were in constant con-stant fear of violence at his hands. Now, why should a woman in such a situation be compelled to live with such a man? . ! There are other cases where men never threaten violence, but are, still more cruel to sensitive wives than a quick death would be. . . ; Young men and . women are attracted toward each other. In the blindness of love they can see no faults In the loved one.' They are married and in a year or two life becomes a little hell. Without reference ref-erence to the effect off offspring, why should such a J pair be forced to live together? Our idea is that no man or woman should be punished for life because in youth he or she under an illusion made a contract to be a husband or a wife. ' ,:' But while we would - not oppose divorces for cause, we would have the judgment of a divorce carry with it the same penalty upon the man or woman wo-man from whom the divorce was obtained, that is prescribed for bigamy. That would stop divorces for convenienc, and limit them -to a real crying cause, and the record would shield other men or women wo-men as the case might be against a union with one who had been proved as unfit to marry. N |