The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-14
JUDGE WILSON'S ARGUMENT.


an Eloquent ArraiSnment of Colonel
observation-disclosures New Points Made.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 13.-Judge
Jcre NJ. Wilson was complimen,ed to.
day by the presence OF large audience
Of his colleagues of the local profession
and OF members OF Congress to hear his
reply to the attacks OF Phil Thompson
upon his client and the eloquent appeal
OF Major Ben But,erworth.
Mr.. Wilson's voice was low and i'm.
prossive as he told the jury that it was
his duty'to reply to all the defendant
had said as a witness and through his
counsel. A startling thing had becn
urged on his behalf. viz. that this case
with all its revelations should not have
been brought.
Gle thinks" began the attorney,
speaking through counsel, that this
case never should have been brought,
that 1t is spreading pollution through
the country; and do not wonder. 1
nm sorry that my friend Ben Butter
worth is not here. He has said that We
are to blame for spreading this poIlu-
tion through this country. II what this
defendant has confessed on the stand
ba true, Is it possible that such things
nre not to be redressed? It is possible
that in the sunlight OF our civilization
there Ia no redress? You cannot tic a
mill stono around his neck aud sink
4 him in the sea for tho fishes to feed
upon you carnot put him in cage and
double lock it to keep him from pol
lutlnG tho women OF tho country. You
can't do that, but you can secure tho
redress that the laws OF the land have
provided"
Major Butterworth had spoken OF the
rcvulaion OF feeling abroad against this
case; but he had forgotten that in
Great Britain when such things became
stencil in tho Anglo.Saxon nostrils,
peers and mobiles had their black skele-
tons dragged from the closets and had
been condemned, had been banished-
aye, bright stars, as had been said, had
been dragged from the armament.
FOR HIGHER woMASuooD.
Even ii this was my first case"
thundercd Mr.. Wilson, 81 would be
proud Of my part in conforming such
conduct. My friend Carlisle and take
this responsibility, and We take it will
ingly, oven proudly. l suppose my
friend Butterworth would say that il
the third connt In this Indictment bo
true he would Danish tho woman and
sond the man to Congress. l stand
here for Il higher womanhood. 1 stand
here TO demand the Same standard from
woman and man. l stand agans. such
sentiments as this defendant has
uttered, that such baseness Injuries the
man but destroys tho woman"
Would the jury say that this defend.
mt was to be admitted to their parlors
and tho ou,er gates locked and barred
asainst tho woman? 1t had pleased Mr..
Butterworth to declaim, pyrotechnical.
ly, that tho womanhood OF the land was
arrayed In behalf OF the defendant. No,
athousand times no! He had said that
tho country girls OF the country did not
need chaperones, and he (Mr. WILSON,
had expected to hear it said that gray.
haired men OF AZ need body guards.
Here Mr.. Wilson produced sheet OF
letter paper and said that he could ina
Gine the mothers Of the land sitting up
writing such lctters rs tho imaginary
one he would read. OF course 1t was
simply imaginary, he said. bu. every
one could SEQ the feminine hand writing
rs the judge held it up and every one
knew that it was ono letter from tho
correspondence no hns received during
tho trial, II was, in part as follows:
plead for the dear young girls. I
cannot but ieel how urgent it is for
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