Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28
Sample of English, Justice.

Sample of English Justice.
Astonishing evidence of what the
machinery of English justice is cap.
able of when it deals with member
of the nobility, has lately been fur.
nished. The case of Lord Hastings,
who was fined two weeks ago for an
indecent Offensc with a little nurse
maid of IA years in Regents park,
came before the Clerkenwcll sessions
on appeal. The court is nomiEally
composed of all the magistrates of
the county, but seldom do more than
two OR three actually sit. Thirty or
forty magistrates, all who were elig-
ible, appeared Saturday to try Lord
Hastings appeal. The same evidence
was given as in the magistrates
court, and which the Judge there de-
clared left no possible doubt of his
!ordship's guilt. The little girl was
most cruelty cross-cXamined, till she
was, in fact, speechlcss with shame
and fear, but she did not change her
evidence in any respect; neither did
the corroborating witnesses. Dukes,
lords and Others testified to the high
character of the defendant. even one
of the magistrates taking the stand
for the purpose and then returning to
the bench to act as one of the judges.
Lord Hastings repeated his defense
givcnin the lower court, saying finally
that the reason hegave the girla half
crown was because he thought she
would like penny, but he had no
small coin. The magistrates with
drew for consultation and soon re-
turned with decision acquitting the
defendant of the charge.
If the United States wanted or
expected to take Hawaii at all, the
right time to do so was when it was
first offered to us. There were no
vexations and harassing questions.
Other nations made no objection.
The enthusiasm of the IIawaiians
who wanted annexation was rednot.
Now on second thought some of them
are not so sure they wanted annexa-
tion after all, and all the IFS and butts
of the average vacillating human
mind have had time to come upper
most. Japan wants Hawaii herself,
and European nations are beginning
to think it would never do to let the
United States have these islands. So
it goes always. Merely vote at the
right time, followed simply by a
signature, and it would have been all
settled, and President Cleveland
would now be appointing postmasters
in Hawaii.
"Sir," writes Professor Goldwin
Smith to the editor of the London
Times, "the pomp, immense and
impressive, though republican, of a
presidential inauguration must bring
home to the mind of every thoughtful
Englishman who witnesses it the
momentous fact that America has
the safeguards of a real monarchy,
while Great Britain has only a monar-
chial pageant" Heproceeds to say
then that this fact makes the differ
ence between American democracy
and the democracy into which
England is drifting. He regards the
variety of republicanism which
Europe seems to be approaching as
merely form of state socialism.
American republicanism in his
Judgment is the real thing. 1t has
thus far escaped the danger of a state
socialism. The idea that a man
must do everything for himself is. in
Professor Smiths opinion, a much
safer one than the idea that Govern
ment must do everything for him.
At conclusion Of the worlds fair
the monster Krupp gun, the largest
piece of ordnance in the world, will
be presented to Chicago by Herr
Krupp and mounted on a fort built
in Lake Michigan opposite Hyde
park, permission for construction of
which was secured at Washington.
The fort will be five acres in extent
and will be for business as we'll as
pleasure. Mounted on it, the great
gun will be able to protect the entire
city front from attack by water, as
it could sink an lron-clad with q
single shot. The work will be com.
menced and pushed with greatest
rapidity SO as to be in working order
before the fair closes. It will cove,
five acres with the most approved
defences.
The new United States cruiser De
troit made glorious record on her
trial trim.