Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-23
RECOGNITION OF WOMAN'S ADVANCE


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cellent and irrefutable source for know
ing, it is legible between the lines that his
words are we'll considered commentator,
with perhaps just spiteful commingling of
jealousy at the invasion of professional
prerogative.
At the Devon assizes in Exeter, England,
in the trial of perjury case the counsel for
the defense remarked that O woman would
say anything. Baron Huddleston could not
endorse such a general statement as that,
but he added that it was we'll known fact
that woman could tell lie better than a
man. 1t was a remarkable circumstance
that when woman was determined to say
that which was untrue she did it q great
deal better than a man. Whether it was
that man was more conscious of his dig
nifty was metaphysical question he could
not answer, but it was certain that a woman
did tell story much more logically
and perseveriugly than man could. He
was glad that it was a question for the jury
to say, whether the woman in the case
should be believed, for he himself, Judge
and Baron Huddleston, admitted his inca
pacity to gauge the veracity of woman
when she appeared in the box.
Out of the box. then, and enrolled in the
ranks of the legal profession, and to what
success and power could she not arrive, by
the fitting and yet more subtle exercise of
this unequaled talent? With such natural
aptitude and an acquired hair-splitting dex-
terity craftily qualified in the legitimate
study of the law, it's most intricate develop
ment is yet to be mastered by women clam
orous for admission to the bar. The
things, and in time, perhaps, for
greater achievements in fiction, the drama
and the law. If Shakespeare could
have accepted the Huddlestonian theory
of woman's supremacy in lying, we never
should have such bloody botch as Iago-
talking to himself, and letting everybody into
his infamous transparency. And then that
pitiful guy Othello-slew himself in sheer
disgust that he had been the dupe of such a
clumsy bungler.
This judicial opinion lots in flood of
light for the benefit Of commentators, crit
ical experts, and curious examiners of hui
man nature in general. To the majority it
will prove valuable argument that Shaks-
peare wrote Shakespeare. If Bacon had the
arranging of that immortal corps drama
tsque, no doubt he would sometimes transfer
parts, and shift scenes in accordance with
his professional experience, and with an eve
to precedent and citation by his brother law
yer, Baron Huddleston, in the reign of her
worthy majesty, Victoria. Perhaps, too, he
might not have been averse to giving Eliza
beth setting according to his memory OF
her, and her diplomatic success in what
Baron Huddleston calls woman's Unborn pre-.
rogative. Possibly the Judges opinion has
purely English pertinence, and will not
apply outside of his immediate clientele, be.
cause he must have foreseen that great
many of the fair sex would be affronted by
taking it literally, while the sensible few, &C
cepting it as an Indirect tribute to thei1
finesse and fitness for the law would be toe
modest to endorse him outright, and thereb,
offend their thin skinned sisters.
So his position with women i'll genera
will be about as popular as Sir James Scar
let's, afterwards Lord Abinger, who, in hi.
judicial capacity, decided that "'twas law
full for an Englishman to beat his wife witt
a stick the thickness of his thumb
And, therefore, he at times received a.
many tributary sticks, the adjudged Lawful
size, as Preston S. Brooks did canes.
On this side of the water, the superiority
so memorably conceded by Huddleston, judge
and baron at the Devon assizes, Exeter, mus
remain a mooted question while we have
Mrs. Agnes D. jerks and Mr.. James E
Anderson, who should toss up on the "meta
physical question whether he is more con
scious of his dignity-that he cannot tell
story as logically and perseveringly'' as hi
competitor. Ben Butler ought to be umpir
only he'd be solid for the Baron and thu
bewildering Agnes would be fortified in he
own and the judges position.