Arizona republican., 1905-07-27
PHOENIX. ARIZONA, JULY 27. 1905
The Women Hail a Daniel

Circuit Judge SlONer, or halA99H City. is a modern Daniel. The Re publican expects to see him acclaimed hv gentle woman throughout the country as one of the wisest and most inst men that ever sat on the beach In the trial of a divorce case the other day. Judge Slower announced doe urine which. women will insist, should have all the force of statutory enact ment. In brief, the learned judge up held the proposition that a wife has the unQuestionabIe right to go through" her husbands pockets in search of coin and currency of the United States, and. upon finding the same. to abstract it and convert it to her own use and profit.
 The applicant for a divorce, bru- fal man. presented as one of his grieV- ances that his wife was in the habit of searching his trousers for loose change. of mornings when he was still asleep. But Judge Slower impatently dismissed the complaint. He announc- ed that his court would never be party to undermining one of the most cherished rights of long-suffering wives In the language of Missouri he stated. obiter dicta, that flinders is keepers" in the case of a wife searching her husbands pockets
 AS was to be expected, Judge Slov- CTS decision has thrown him into the limeIight of publicity all over the country. Fortunately for his peace of mind. the comments of press and peo- ple are quite generally commendatory. The Milwaukee Sentinel observes:
 Good news for Judge Slover of Kansas City. This profound Jurist will be gratified to learn that one re- suit of the momentous and far-reach- ing decision giving to wives the legal right to rife the trousers pockets of their sleeping husbands and appropri- ate the cash reserve therein is a boom for him for the federal supreme bench
 It is not known, however. what views are entertained by MT. RoOse- welt concerning the burning question of a wife's right to swipe the contents of her husbands pockets. The senti- ments of the women are no doubt fairly expressed by one of their num- ber. Dr. Frances Dickinson of Chi cago. a leader of the radical element in Chicago women's clubdom. Dr. Dickinson frankly regards the Slower decision as the greatest modern mir acIe" She repturously says:
 70. noble, upright judge! a Daniel come to judgment! He ought to be in the supreme court of the United States. Watch Slower, of Kansas City. He is the jurist of the future. This is the first honest interpretation of law relating to women that I have heard of for many years. All laws have been made by man, without the slightest consideration for woman. They are always executed by man in favor of himself. To discover a man executing a man made law against his own sex, and for the benefit of woman. is absolutely miraculous. SlOver has the right idea. Hurrah for him!"
 While there are among the more conservative of the sisterhood some dissenting voices to the Dickinson slo gan. "Hurrah for Slover.'' it is as rule cordially received, Mrs. Margaret Warren Springer voicing the prevail ing sentiment, and incidentally taking a quiet fall out of MT. Springer, by declaring: Judge Slower is a wise old duck, and I am his friend for life"
 Of course. sentiment and the large ly ex parte approval of the favored sex are not sufficient to carry the day for the Slower supreme bench boom. Much will depend on developments as to the legal soundness and practical results of the decision. But things already begin to look rather favorable for Slower. able lawyers consulted in the matter inclining more or less posi- lively to the opinion that technically the judge is right. These profession al views, as gathered in Chicago, range from the violent radicalism of Attorney filling Ca bachelor) who says. "The husband hasn't any kick coming at all. for they are just as much her trousers as his" to the rath- CT non -committal position of Colonel J. Ham. Lewis, who after consulting his whiskers, cautiously replied:
 "If the wife is the biggest she gen orally gets the treasury into her own keeping. and if the man is superior she takes 1t from him when he's asleep. Personally, I never have had the treasury. It's always been in my wife's keeping. You may draw your own conclusions"
 Presumably the usually precise and punctilious Colonel Lewis meant the bigger, instead of the biggest" unless perhaps referring to the whole Lewis family" and the conclusions" seem ins*ly warranted by the slightly mOurnfuI note in his admission are Co the effect that the treasury is often