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mans pericardium is through his purse
and every rape-tiend lyme he'd, every
murderer hanged by the mob takes 9.
single off some lawyers house. Doubt
less mobs sometimes make mistakes but.
in this particular they may well challenge
comparison with the courts. AZ q rule
Judge Lynch will harm no man unless
his guilt be established beyond the per-
adventure of a doubt. With limit is
simply Il question of identity and evl-
dence. There are no delays, no loop
holes In his law, no technicalities and
contuuances, no foolish ed-tape and no
lawyers fees. How is it in our crimi-
nal courts? On one side is the prose-
cutting attorney eager to convict, no mat
ter if the prisoner at the bar De innocent
as babe newborn, for both his fee and.
professional reputation are concerned;
on the other side is the counsel for the
defense, intent only on securing an ac-
quittal, tho he knows his client to be
guilty of every crime in the calendar.
The defendant is alternately painted as
an angelsof light and goblin damned,
the lawyers pro and the attorneys con
seeking to "make the worse appear the
better reason to dozen sleepy dunder-
heads wto view the proceedings with
eyes that bespeak the intelligence Of a
string of burnt holes in blanket. It is
not an attempt to determine right and
wrong, but tourney between opposing
counsel, the prisoner the bone of con-
tention and ignorance officiating as UNI
pi1e. And so it is that the courts, which
should be the pillars of order, become
the midi of anarchy. Statutes exenter-
ated by technicalities and courts evlscer-
ated by red-tape constitute the @raison
d'etre" of Judge Lynch-and he will new
er be debenched by denounclng the ef'
feet while the cause is permitted to re-
main. We have mob-law because we
have lawlessness, and we have lawless-
ness because we have too many criminal
shielding lawyers. The courts should
be stripped of all circumlocutory Gus
toms and made in truth temples of just
ice instead of tilting- grounds for smart
attorneys. The unit rule should be
abolished in the jury-room, a two-thirds
vote made sufficient for a verdict, and
intelligence instead of blank ignorance
called to the box.
Mr.. w. T. Stead, writing of Queen
Victoria's reign in the Review OF Re-
views, pays this acknowledgement to
| the work of women
'sThe reign has produced no greater
novelist than George Eliot, no better in
carpat1on of organizing ability and di.
| vine tenderness than Florence Night1n-
gale. In Mrs. Barrett Browning it has
seen the greatest female singer since
Sappho. In political economy it has
given US Harriet Mart1neau and Mrs.
Fawcett. In the distinctlvely creative
gift of inspiring enthusiasm, of compel
ling conviction, it would be be difficult
to name three men who could be COM
pared with Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Booth and
Mrs. Besant."
Congressman Gaines of Tennessee IS of
the opinion that Mckinley is trimming"
On the financial question:. He says so
plainly in the following: .. ...
"In my judgment Mckinley is trying
to fool the entire American people. He
is backcapping the Wolcott commission,
and he is trying to throw dust into the
eyes of all the marts and bourses Of the
old world.
CONGRESS was in session more than
four months, and Mckinley did not
utter word on the currency question
until congress was about to adjourn, and
when he knew that nothing could be
done. Then he pretended to have a
very earnest desire to carry out the
wishes Of the gold Democrats OF the In
dianapolis convention.
''Look at the double-dealing which is
here apparent. President Mckinley has
already appointed foreign monetary
commission to discontinue the gold
standard by international agreement.
Senator Wolcott says that the commits
sion is making satisfactory progress.
aThus you see that while one commits
sion is working to discontinue the gold
standard, President Mckinley asks con-
gress to authorize another commission to
perpetuate the gold standard. Was
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