Sunday Washington globe., 1902-03-02
"old Mother Hubbard went to the cup
board.


Old Mother Hubbard went to the cup
board
The Counsel Your honor you will mo-
tce the line says Old Mother Hubbars
went to me cupboard. It naturally follows
from this that khe cupboard means she
hadn't but one
The Prosecuting Attorney Ny learned
friend has not emphasized the line cor
rectly. II should be. Old Mother Hubbard
trent to the cupboard Obviously She might
have had two or three"
The Judge retires to consult recent decis-
ions on emphasis.
Instead Of the Mother Goose rhyme sub
stitute paragraph or section Of the Con-
stitution and the case is not altered.
In our police court one cannot expect to
find silk purse evolved from the auditory
appendage of a SOW Environment is great
force in development We cannot expect
Justice to be served IN nice little packages
tied with silk cord in a justice shop whose
atmosphere would asphyxiate a polecat.
Men absorb their surroundings. If the po-
lice court, dirty and barnacie infested, re-
fleets the present cultured state Of society,
then society's culture is but bad sort of
NGMGEIs AZ DlG1GMA ANaRNNNa1ANr AeAN
abiding citizen who finds himself forced to
appear in the police court feels that he
needs a bath afterwards, even though he
appear only as a witness. The most glaring
violation Of the sanitary laws is the present
condition Of the police court.
The brilliant geniuses who sit in iudg-
ment Of our faults are well paid. The dis
trict attorney, whose Hibernian peculiari-
ties does not include that of oratory or elo-
quence, is well paid. Day after day we
read Of fines being paid, yet we are fur
nished the most i'll smelling, i'll ventilated,
atrociously furnished, most uncomfortable
barn imaginable This luxuriously barren
shack is digui6ed by the name Of court
The law is for every one, and decency de-
mands that it be served in as attractive a
form as possible. No wonder cases are
HoilS pressed and complaining witnesses
fail to appear. People who bathe regularly
in this city dread TO appear in police court
as complainants, however much they desire
to defend their rights. If the present
police court remains unchanged the judges
might at least arrange to have all persons of
refinement forced to appear there afterward
furnished sterilization gratis.
II also seems in order at the police court
to approach all cases in sledge hammer
manner Courtesy is not found in the
emasculated dictionary of certain lawyers.
Impudent and grossly insulting questions
are asked witnesses contrary to the rules Of
evidence. A gentleman performs his duty
becoming a gentleman prosecuting at
torneys, lawyers" Judges" si al are not
necessarily Synonymous with the word
Hooligan.
To return to the FIRST remark that our new
code is a dismal monument Of pedantic con-
ceit, it seems strange that lawyers do not
recognize that a multiplicity of laws is
worse than a few basic laws Tigidly en-
forced.
The average lawyers mind is bombastic;
not analytical. He doesn't know what a
false premise is, hence he believes in his
conclusions and regards them as honest.
II has always struck me as incongruous
that a man can be tried and convicted of
perjury, while the prosecuting attorney or
counsels address to the Jury in the average
case is a tissue Of Misrepresentation and
meudaciiy yet neither the prosecutor nor
ih reurst same $50 Of conviction
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