Evening times-Republican., 1903-10-24

some of the youger that their mature
vears would find them under very diff
fereut circumstances.
Let a man go into the court room and
see what happens TO two netshbors
who fall out about some trivial matter
which doesn't really amount TO nnch IN
The start. but which has been allowed
10 sfoiy nto the dignity co OF a law
suit Sec how every little word, that
IN former days would have been
thought nothing Of. is now magn!tied
and strained IL support some theory.
See how the fellows are put IN a cor
aer ~hen they 90 on The Witness stand
ana made monkeys Of by the lawyers,
who sci them 80 tied up and tangled
that they find it impossible 10 tell
what they know. and they are usually
prevented from telling the Very thing
they have banked on. because 1t is m
eonlpetent. irrelevent or something
else See how other neighhors are
dragged into the case and made 10
take one side on the other, thus Great
ing feelings of enmity where friendship
has hitherto been. See the delays ana
quibblfngs that drag the case along
perhaps from term TO term. in thF
meantime The costs growing larger ana
larger. In the end the real issues are
so ohscared and lost sight OF that u
oftentines becomes 4 hard fought pat
tie merely to see which will be able to
aYoii paying the costs.
Let the boys and young fellows fol-
low the progress of criminal prose
cution against some young man whom
they perhaps know. Some fellow VINO
may have been led into difficulty per-
haps. but who is there nevertheless.
| 1t doesn't cut much figure that NJ was
| led astray. The one who led him IS
not on trial. 1t is himself who has to
I face the music and he is up against
| the real thing, when the state OF Iowa,
with all its legal machinery and re-
: sources stands as his accuse. ana
prosecutor determined TO secure a
Ieonviction by all means. Too late then
TO go back to first causes and speak OF
regrets. That day is long passed, His
attorney must make the best showing
possible. ana get him off as well as ne
may be able under the evidence. tut
when he comes to stand up before the
| court TO receive sentence then ne pe
gins 10 realize what was meant When 4
was said that The way of the trans
gressor is hard
Let the girls or young women ulldet
j stand what ii means for one oil tnel'
sen 20 be dragged in court as witness
to be placed on the stand and be staree
at by hundreds of curious eyes IN WhleI
the light of sympathy hardly shlhes
Let them understand the shame ina
X sometimes brought about by the Fac
that girls are permitted to run IN
streets after dark or even IN dayilght
when they have no business there
when they hang around dark corner
I'm the evening and receive attentioh
from fellows of whom they would %
ashamed in broad daylight. Let theh
understand just to what such careless
ness viii lead them and they Woula mes
itate before they take some OF tle s'eii
that some OF them take.
But the knowledge that would thu
he gained should be brought TO ehsi
. attention. perhaps. in a kinallef an
lless public manner by theif psifeh'
or guardians. They should be laush
tho lessons at home OF course. hu
, some viii not learn Some are not WIZ
;ne 70 listen. but all will some day 2
made to know that The wages oi 81
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