Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-12-27
TIE WATERS AND SOCIETY

7 ,e trial Of the Baron Won Schroe
der ibel suit against the Call has re.
sui in very proper verdict for the
pa er. There is however, peculiar
phi of the case worth Noticing
An 'ng the witnesses who testified to
the Scandalous "goin on at the |
hos cry over which the gay Baron
pre- ded, were numbers OF walters |
Th,g had served refreshments at all |
hcr of the night to the lively crowd |
of dies who futtered about the
BARNS orgies, and they saw the
lads in many compromising posi-
tor with the gentlemen who were
''lr on the Baron S nocturnal merry
NAL ings. The court, however, with
true California gallantry,-ior which
ma, its name be ever blessed-cau-
tiorr1 the witnesses not to mention
the names of any of the indiscrete
mat,on who were imbibing their
second or third bottle of dry Mumm,
while sitting in the lap of the Baron,
or Mir. A or Mr.. B, as the case might
be.
Fer this gracious act the name of
the Judge, which we believe is An
gelletti, will be gratefully enschrined
in the memory Of every woman who
loves to occasionally depart from
the dusty road of matrimonial pro-
prie'y and tread the primrose paths
which lead to the divorce courts etc.
But delicate question Of honor has
arisen among the fraternity known as
the Cooks and Walters Union. This
illustrious order holds, and rather
properly we think, that waiter who
serves food and drink to a naughty
couple, who are dining together when
they should mt. should regard the
aforesaid couple as having cast them
selves upon his honor as gentleman
and that if he has seen or heard any
thing he should so far forget the cir
cumstance that when he reached the
witness stand all recollection of the
affair shold be total blank, an ab-
solute oblivian from which even the
most skillful lawyer could not cause
his mind to emerge.
The order of Cooks and Walters
consider they shOld be placed on the
same plane as father confesSorS,
physicians and attorneys to whom all
communications are regarded as
safely confidential, and about which
the majority Of the law draws its i'm
penetrable dead line.
1t were better, we think, to recog-
nize this issue and make it legal. If
it were otherwiset and were all the
tongues of the noble fraternity of
walters to become unloosed, what the
deuce would become of California
society? The peace of thousands of
happy households are practically in
the keeping of these people and were
they to once make public what they
knew and tell tenth of what they
have seen at the-the--or--
what Pandora box of woe and heart
burnings and misery would be dump.
ed upon the community of California
and perch ance some OF it might sloI
over into this virtuous sagebrush
State of ours
The community certainly should
take off its hat to the PIT dence, an
we nigh: say. the chivalry of thi!
humble organization who are nov
seriously considering the propriety o
expelling those of its members wht
went on the stand and testified in tn
famous libel suit 1t is fixed prin
ci2le in the code by which gentleme,
are governed that no man under an
circumstances should speak augh
against the character of woman il
or out of court and the union pro
poses to show the public how
stands on the issue.
After the fallen members of tn
organization have been properly dis
ciplined by expulsion, the staid an
responsible head of sagebrush fam