Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-04

tuc dAluatlVe,r eetng MS decision on an ACT OF
the legislature OF 1850, which provides that
any married woman may bring and maintain
an action in her own name for damages,
against any person or body corporate for any
injury to her person or character, the same
as if she were sole. The design of this
legislation, the judge claims, was
to remove the disabilities of married wo.
men imposed by the strict rules OF the CON-
mon law. The judge claims that the legis
lature did not intend to make any exception
to the rights of married women in favor of
husbands. If it had, it would have expressed
it. In delivering his opinion, Judge Brady
INDUCED in the following manly train of
remarks, uttering words that well deserve to
be recorded in letters of gold: SIT is neither
too early nor too late to promulgate the doc
trine that, if husband commits an assault
and battery upon his wife, he may be held re-
sponsible civilly and criminally for the act,
which is not only committed in violation of
the laws of God and man, but in direct antag-
onism to the contract OF marriage. its obliga-
tions, duties, responsibilities, and the very
basis on which it rests. The rules OF the
common law on this subject have been
dispelled, routed. and justly so, by the acts of
1860 and 1862. They are things of the past,
which have succumbed to more liberal and
more just views, like many other doctrines of
the common law, which could not stand the
scrutiny and analysis of modern civilization.
They have gone to that bourne from whence
no traveller returns. where they must rest for
ever, undistinguished by single tear shed
over their departure"
TIE universal use, and the carrying of fire
arms, is not only public abuse and nuisance,
but perpetual danger. 1t is really vice,
to which all classes and all ages are addicted.
The old in crime, the brawny highwayman,
the bloody desperado, the stealthy burglar, the
idle, vicious, dirty tramp, and the young
school boy in his teens. Innumberable crimes
are committed in sudden bursts of passion
and angry wordy conflicts, that would not be
but for the revolver ever ready
at hand; besides countless accidents
from the constant and careles:
handling of firearms. This great, universe
prevalence of carrying deadly weapons hai
grown to alarming magnitude upon the coun
try since the outbreak of the great rebellion
War 10 always demoralizing- civil war TIL
most of any. II cheapens human life, ant
| begets the habit of personal rencounters ant
deadly, individual conflicts. Wars demant
for arms quickens and cheapens their manu-
facture in almost every conceivable form
until the adult population of the country moi
| only have become walking arsanals, but the
very boys at school have their pockets weighted
| with cheap pistols, deadly weapons, which
they draw upon their fellows in petty alterca
lions, in imitation Of the manly acts of older
| If not more considerate citizens. This evil Of
carrying firearms by young and old ought t.
be put under the severe surveillance of law
and be made subject to stringent legal restraint
| The law against carrying of concealed
weapons" is dead-letter, imperative, a mer
farce, in it's weakness and ron. enforcement il
disgrace to the statute book. Parents ar
censurably derelict in permitting, withou
care or thought, or examination, their young
boys to indulge in the manly habit o
carrying revolvers. 1t would seen
that there are frightful accident
and terrible crimes enough, the direct result
OF the universal prevalence of firearms car
ried about the persons of old and young, t.
startle the community, to give 1t pause, ant
to bring about healthy reaction, and to pro
duce an adequate remedy. 1t is an evil, grown
to such gigantic proportions, and producing
constantly and daily such dire results, as tx
be no longer ignored, neglected or tolerated