The herald., 1897-04-06

ment, stated that If he was endowed
| with the power of accurately judging
| cause and effect, and effect and cause,
| like Miss Holmes, he might cut his argu-
ment very short, but not being so for
/ tunate he had to speculate as to what
opposing counsel might say in the con-
| cluding argument and anticipate all
/ points that might be then raised.
| AS a preface to the line of analytical
| criticism and argument with which
counsel held the jury through the af-
| ternoon, he stated that the religious be-
lief of no one is of public importance
| without outward manifestation, and
| then If these do not conform to what has
proven best and highest in human ex-
| perience it is a moral cheat The SUI
| preme court of the United States, in up
| holding congressional action with regard
to the Mormon difficulty had held that
no body of people could establish tnem-
selves to promulgate doctrine in con-
fict with morality. If a person by in
sidious doctrine is inveigled into place
where the ideas of that person are domi-
mated by another, then such procedure
is immoral and the person dominating
the other is an enemy to society.
COLD AND UNSCRUPULOUS.
Having thus cleared the ground, Sem
ator White stated the relationship or the
several parties to the suit to one another
Some of the witnesses he held to be per-
fectly honest but the plaintiff herself
was not only not honest, but venial-
Cold and unscrupulous, her very touch
disqualified young people for the busi-
ness of life She went 50 far, indeed, as
TO make her witnesses swear that they
didn't know what she taught. MISS
Farnsworth, we'll educated, school
teacher, wanted the simplest questions
regarding the plaintiffs teaching put in
ct, al 1op o-a md nnallY conceded
that plaintiff had told her, with the
others that when upon the witness stand
they could only give their opinion" OF
the teaching, and that their own were
not always straight" VIM. Taylor had
given away a good deal of the devil
doctrine with which the plaintH had
instructed her followers, but from the
plaintiff herself neither creed nor sub
stance could be obtained, and after Mrs.
TAYLOR not one of them would tell what
had been said at any of the meetings.
Counsel argued that Miss Holmes had
been proved worse than described in
the Times articles. If menace to the
community she should be treated as
menace and her personality did not en-
ter into the matter. She was not at
tackled for being poor, or ignorant nor
for any inability to speak perfectly the
English language, but for the pernicious
doctrine which she inculcated.
REFERENCE TO MARRIAGE FAD.
Senator White then proceeded to rid
icule the members of the white circle
beginning with Frank Bailey, who
washed his feet and put on white pet
ticoat for fun, and ruthlessly criticised
the antics then performed b. the plain
tiff and others. He challenged the plain
tiff in not having denied what Dodd had
deposed to regarding her teaching about
the marriage relation. Counsel pro-
nounced such a doctrine as referred to
as opposed to the basic principle of
Christianity and the permanency of So
cial order. Since the early philosophers
made themselves heard through the |
Areopagus and in the Roman forum, no
one had formulated any such philosophy |
as she had dared to declare.
The letter wherein Miss Holmes had |
written to Mrs. Van Auken in the jar |
gon Of Spiritualists regarding con
trolls" spiritual influences" etc, next |
received Senator Whites attention. He |
drew attention to the failure of memory |
on the part of the plaintiff her repudi- |
alton of the palpable meaning of the |
several sentences having Spiritualistic |
and drew the Inference that |
the ideas which she had injected into |
the minds of her followers were merely |
a cover to subserve her own ends. That
having the gift of mimicry she distorted
her face, and then claimed that Abel
allowed by her own followers to be
synonymous with the Most High-came
down TO play the buffoon for the enter
tainment of the children. By her ath-
letic ability, counsel argued. she was
also enabled to perform the various ac-
robatic feats testified to.
After paying his respects pithily to |
young Arthur Taylor. counsel summar- |
lied the entire testimony and closed his |
argument after a four hours continuous |
address
This morning w. II. Kendrick will |
close the arguments in behalf of the |
plaintiff, and after receiving the in |
structions and charge from the court, |
the case will go to the jury.