The Press., 1897-04-22
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A Joke That Has Gone Far Enough
 Under existing conditions expert tes- timony in criminal trials is to be re- garded, according to the point of view, as a farce or a tragedy. The expert wit ness presents us the humiliating spec tacle of the alleged scientist turned ad- vocate, mountebank aud trickster. He appears as professed partisan-for hire. He hides his true opinions behind equiv ocal or evasive answers-for a consid- eration. He expresses by implication views he does not really hold-that he may seem to earn his fee In word, he sacrifices his mistress, Science, at the shrine of MammOn.
 At all events, he is openly accused of all of this and much more i'll kind. He is rallied at, scoffed at, jeered. The most charitable of popular opinions as to his character seems to be that which regards him as an unmitigated joke. And mean time he is placed in such position that it is impossible for him to defend him self against these allegations. He may be a true scientist, learned, honest, con scientious, but under existing methods he cannot prove that he is such. The populace will judge him by his com pany, and as matters stand some DOT tions of his company are pretty certain to be bad. Whatever his real character, the fate of poor Tray awaits him.
 The spirit of the law is said to be common sense. But its letter has cer- tainly permitted a wide departure from this alleged standard The attempt to add to the communal veal by utilizing T i'll something not far removed from total failure. What should be most serious function has passed into joke, and by common consent the joke has gone far enough. -Dr. Henry Smith Williams in North American Review.
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