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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY (>,' 188."
Robust Health
Is not always cnfoycil by those who seem
to possess it. The tumt of corrupted
blood may be eccretiy uudermininsr the
constitution. In time, die poison will cer-
tainly show its effects, and with all the more
virulence the longer it has been allowed
to permeate the system. Each pimple, sty.
boil, skin disorder and sense of unnatural
lassitude, or languor, is one of Nature's
warnings of the consequences of neglect.
Ayers Sarsaparilla
Is the only remedy that can be relied upon,
in all case's, to eradicate the taint of hered-
itary disease and the special corruptions
of the blood. It is the only alterative
that is sufficiently powerful to thoroughly
cleanse (lie system of Scrofulous and
Mercurial impurities and the pollution
of Contagious Diseases. It also neu-
tralizes the poisons left by Diphtheria
and Scarlet Fever, and enables rapid
recuperation from the cnfeeblemcnt uuu
debility caused by these diseases.
^ Myriads of Cures
Achieved by Ayfr's sansapamli.A, in
the past forty years, are attested, and there
is no blood disease, at all possible of cure,
that will not yield to it. Whatever the
ailments of this class,and wherever found,
from the scurvy of the Arctic circle to the
"veldt-sores" of South Africa, this rem-
edy has afforded health to the sufferers
by whom it was employed. Druggists
everywhere can cite numerous cases, with-
in their personal knowledge, of remark-
able cures wrought by it, where all other
treatment had beeu unavailing. People
wHl do well to
Trust Nothing Else
than Ayf.r's Sarsafathixa. Numerous
crude mixtures are offered to the public
as "blood purifiers," which only allure
the pationt with the pretense of many
cheap doses, and with which it is folly to
experiment whilo disease is steadily be-
coming more deep-seated and difficult of
cure. Some of these mixtures do much
lasting harm. Bear in mind that the only
medicine that can radically purify tho
Vitiated blood is
" Ayer's Sarsaparilla,
PREPARED BY WP
Dr. J. C. Aycr & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all druggists; price $1,
six bottles for $5.
"Himnwmn
Tell the children to nit out and Rave the comic
silhouette pictured as they appear from iReue to
issue. Thoy will bo pleased with tho collection.
Thia space is owned by
BLACK WELL'S BULL.
Of course we mean famous animal appearing
on the label of every genuine package of Black-
well's Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco. Every
dealer keeps this, the bent Smoking Tobacco made.
Hone genuine without trade-mark of tho Bull.
invjforaiiug
to pronounced by scoies of physicians, and bj
thousands of people to be the best known remedy
tor Debility, Dyspepsia, Indigestion. Loss of Appe-
tite, Loss of Flesh, Lung Complaints, Female
*Veskness, Gastric Irritability, Malarial Fever and
tnany other diseases where tonics are required-
differing essentially from all other Beef Foods and
Tonics. Sold by leading wholesale druggists, and
retailers generally, at |1 per bottle; 6 fer $6. De-
pot 115 Fulton street. New York.
\
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T118 Best k
IIILI/S
Hair and Whisker
U¥G,
Black or Itrowii
Sold by all drag-
gists at 50c.
0. n. ('rittenton.
Proprietor,
115 Fulton St.. N.Y.
Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, Oh! Give me back my
heart!
But the maid said that a bottle of Creole Female
Tonic would make any other girl just as charmiug
as she was, as it invariably cured all female com-
plaints and made them look young, fresh and fas
cinating.
All druggists. J. J. SCIIOTT & CO., Agent^i.
Ao. 1555.
THE STATE OF TEXAS-
To the Sheriff or any Constable of Galveston
County, Greeting:
W. J. Fredrich, administrator, with the will an-
nexed,of the estate of Caroline Hellir.ers,deceased,
having: filed in our County Court his application
fc r the partition and distribution of the estate of
tlesaid Caroline Hellmers, deceased—
You are hereby commanded that, by publication
of this citation for at least four successive weeks in
feme newspaper printed in tho county of Galves-
ton. you require C. Carl Hellmers and William
Hellmers, Jr., who are not residents of.this State,
to appear and show cause, if any they can, on or
1 cfore the first day of the March term of said
County Court, commencing and to be holden at the
court-house of said county, in the city of Galves-
ton. on the first Monday in 31arch, A. D. 1885, why
jfUch partition and distribution should not be made.
Witness, P. 8. Wren, clerk of the County Court of
Galvt ston count}'.
Given under mv hand and seal of said court, at
my office, in the city of Galveston, this 27th day of
January, A. D. 1885. P. S. WREN,
Clerk C. C., G. Co.
A true copy, I certify.
WM. P. OWENS,
Sheriff of Galveston County.
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Used for over 25 years with great success by the
physicians of Paris, New York and London, and
. -t, „ . cure of all
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superior to all others for the prompt cure
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LEGISLATIVE PROPOSITIONS.
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Prepared b;
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CAPSULES
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Every-
where.
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1G0 Fulton street. New York 1
Will ndliig In the Home lo Itripilre .IikIIcIbI
miitn nud fruliAte Sales lo be AJierllHrd
in N*wi|<*per>.
Pfction 1 Be it enacted by the legislature of
the tt te of Texas, that whenever re»l pro-
pel ty or personal property of the value of
JlCO or more shall be levied on by virtue of
an\ execution, or shall be the subjeet of nuy
order of tale or venditioni exponas, or sh ill be
sold fit public outcry by any guardian, execu-
tor or administrator, notieo of the Rule thereof
sholJ be published in ti newspaper once a week
for three consecutive weeks, if there b9
a newspaper published in tue county that
will publish the same for the composi-
tion herein allowed; provided, tho plaintiff or
defendant ill such writ shall, withlu five days
nfttr the levy of the execution or the Issuance
of I he order of sale or venditioni expjnn, (lie
with the officer making such levy or having
the process a written request that notice of
the sale be so published; and, provided further,
that in sale« by guardians, executorj
and administrators the order for
►ueh publication shall be made by
the court ordering or permitting suih
sales upon the written application of the pirty
n eking the same, or any perstfl interested in
tfce estate to which the property belongs. The
\ alue of personal property herein referred to,
>hall be det'rmined by the appraisemeut of
the officer taking tho same in charge, or the
inveniory and appraisement of the property
belocging to the estate, as the cast) 111 ly be.
Beetion 3. That said notice shall contain a
statement of the authority by virtue, of which
the sale is to lie made, the time of levy and the
time and place of sale; it shall also contain a
brief description of the property to be sold and
its appraised value, and if it be real estate,
shall give the estimated number of acres,
rame of original survey, if known, locality
in the county and the name by which the
land is most generally known; but It shall not
i e necessary for it to contain the field-notes of
the same. Publishers of newspapers shall re-
ceive for publishing said sales, 75 cents per
square for the first insertion, and 40 cents per
square for each subsequent insertion, to be
taxed and paid as other costs; and in such
publication ten lines shall constitute a square,
and the body of no such advertisement shall
be printed in larger type than brevier.
Beetion a. That all laws or parts of laws in
conflict herewith be, and the same are hereby,
repealed.
UNIFORM TEXT BOOKS.
Heprrsenlathe Page'* Bill an Amended l>y Com-
mittee Now Pending In tbe House.
Beetion 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of
the state of Texas, that the state board of
education shall have power, and it is hereby
made their duty, on or before the first day of
July, 1885, to select, adopt and prescribe for
adoption and use in the common free schools
of the btate a list of text books. Said list shall
embrace two books by ditferent authors on
each of the following branches, to wit:
Orthfgraphy (including dictionary), reading,
writing (copy books), arithmetic, grain-
mar, geography (surface), composition, and
history of the United States; provided, that no
book of a sectional or sectarian bias shall ever
be adopted for use in the public schools of this
State;"provided further, that in making the
selection aforesaid tbe board of education may
consult with and entertain suggestions from
such leading teachers and school super-
intendents of the State as may saem
to tbem wise and proper; aud
provided further, that in exercising
the powers herein conferred, said board of
tducation shall be governed by a regard for
t he cost of said text books and their general
make-up in respect to mechanical skill, type
and durability, as also by a due consideration
for tbe scholarship, adaptability and general
worth displayed in the composition and com-
pilation tbeieef.
Section 2. It shall, furthermore, bo the duty
of the state board of education, before select-
ing and adopting tbe list of text baoks for the
branches aforesaid, to solicit and receive from
the publishers of such books proposals for fur-
nishing the same to any local dealer or dealers
in the several counties of the State that the
county judge may make arrangements with to
sell the tame. Said proposals must be in writ-
ing and must state what book or books of the
list aforesaid the publishers thereof propose to
furnish, and the maximum prices at which
tbey agree to furnish the same. From the
various proposals submitted, the state b:>ard of
education shall select the list of books specified
in section 1 of this act, and make a contract
with tbe publisher or publishers thereof for the
delivery of ther same to the dealers in said books
in the several counties designated by the county
judge. Said contract must be in writing, aud
must set forth and stipulate expressly aud
unqualifiedly the maximum price at which
said books are to be furnished to the dealers or
vendors thereof. Said board of education shall
insert and employ in the wording of said coa
tract such penalties of forfeiture for any vij-
lation of the terms and conditions of said con-
tract on the part of publishers as may, in their
discretion, seem most efficacious in enforcing
a compliance with the conditions thereof. The
board of education shall stipulate in said con-
tract the right to amend the same
at at>y time, upon satisfactory infor-
mation that the publishers are failing
to comply, or in any manner evading compli-
ance with the conditions and terms of the con-
tract entered into.
Section 3. Said contract shall not extend be-
yond the period of four years from the 1st day
of July, 1885.
Section 4. The state board of education
shall issue to county judges circulars showing
the listcf text books selected, where and by
what boufe each is published, and the terms
and conditions of the contract with the
publishers thereof for furnishing the same to
local dealers. Said board of education shall,
fiom time to time, issue to county judges such
instructions and regulations as tbey may con-
sider calculated to carry out the provisions of
this act.
Section 5. On the firBt Saturday in August
Eext the teachers of the several counties of
the State shall be summoned by the county
judge to assemble at the county seat of their
respective counties, for the purpose of select-
ing from the list of text books adopted aud
prescribed by the state board of education the
text books to be adopted for the use of the
public schools of the teveral counties. Said
teachers, on the day aforesaid, shall organize
themselves into a convention by the election
of one of their number as president
and one as secretary, and, after being
duly organized, shall proceed in such way as
seems to them most expedient, to make the se-
lection aforesaid. Said selection shall be de-
termined by a majority of the teachers voting.
Said convention, through its secretary, shall
forthwith transmit to the county judge a cer-
tified copy of the books adopted for use in the
public free schools of their county; provided,
that the convention aforesaid shall not
adopt more than one book on any
one branch from the list prescribed by
the state board of education; pro-
vided, further, that the state board of educa-
tion, if they deem it expelient, may prescribe
some other method of making a selection from
the state list of text books for the several
counties than the one herein provided for ; and
provided further, that the teachers of any
county shall fail to make the selection of text
books in the manner herein prescribed, itaha.ll
te the duty of the state board of education to
make such selection for any county so failing.
Section 6. As soon as the county judge shall
have been informed of tbe list of text baoks
adopted and prescribed for use in the public
free schools of his county, it shall be
his duty to make known such adopted
list and the name and place of busi-
ness of the publisher of each book
adopted. And said county judge shall make
arrangements at once, such as he deems best,
whertby the books adopted may be supplied
to the children of tbe schools at a cost a#
sn ail as possible, and in no instance shall the
profit on the first cost of said books to any
dealer be greater than 20 per cent; provided
that t he contract entered into between the state
beard of education and the superintendent of
public instruction and any publisher shall not
be construed to prevent the county judge, be-
fcre or after the adoption of textbooks for
the county by the convention of teachers,
from regotiating with the publishers of the
seme to furnish them at a cost less than the
one agreed on between said publishers and the
state board of education aud the superintend-
ent of public instruction. Tbe countv j'li
shall have posted up in each school-house
of the county the list of books adopted »ui the
price at which each one can be bought, aud
the places where the same are for sale.
Section 7. When any text book has
been once adopted for use in the public
schools of a county, it shall be unlaw-
ful to change tho same for a period of
six jcurs, unless the stute boardof educa-
tion and superinte ndent of public Instruction
lia>e superseded the same by another, when
rendered necessary, under the provisions of
l his act.
Section 8. It shall not be lawful for any
n i ml er of tbe state board of education, or tho
lUperintendent of public instruction, or any
tcunty judge, or any other school officer, or
any teacher of a public free school, to have
si j picui.iary interest, directly or indirectly,
it! tidoptii g or advising the adoption of any
list book for use in the public free schools, or
111 eii) plying said schools with the same. Nor
shall he actus an agent tor any publisher,
e ulhor, look-seller or dealer in said liooks.
Nor shall he receive any compensation 111
aiiy nay for his influence iu procuring the
adoption of said books; and any school officer
or u aclier so offending shall be guilty of a
itisdi meaner, and shall be fined, on convic-
tion, in any sum not less than fifty dollars, nor
ir.oie than five hundred dollars; provided, the
pi ovisions of this section shall not apply to auy
school officer or teacher who is himself the
author of the text book he is seeking to have
adopted.
Section !>. It shall be the duty of the
county judge to make iuqulry of each
teacher respecting tbe text books
used In bis school, and if any teacher is not
conforming to the provisions of this act he
shall be instructed by tbe county judge to do
so at once. Should any teacher, after such
instruction, fail to carry out the provisions
aforesaid, tbe county judge shall withhold
from him one month's salary, till be is satis-
tied the teacher so failing has fully complied
wilb tbe provisions herein referred to.
Stction 10. The judges of the several county
courts shall see that the provisions of this act
are fully carried out where they are given
authority, and it is made their duty to do so,
as well as all regulations prescribed by the
state board of education and superintendent
ef public instruction in pursuance of the pro-
visions of this act.
Section 11. City and town superintendents
of education shall be governed by the pro
visions of this act, also.
Section 12. Tbe introduction of tbe new text
books shall be graduated in such manner as to
cause as litt e loss and sacrifice as possible on
tbe pait of those who already have books ami
by the change would have to buy others; but
in the fommtien of all new classes the new
hooks shall he used; provided that after the
1st of September, A. I). 18841, only those that
have been adopted can be used.
Section 13. Within the meaning of text
tcoks as used in thit act are included maps
and charts also.
Beetion 13. The trustees of any school dis-
trict or community, with the approval of the
county judge, may purchase text books for
those not able to purchase them; provided,
tbe amount of money so used shall not exceed
tworty dollars for any one school in any one
year, and shall be paid out of the money set
apait to the credit of the school district or
community which so uses it
( Allin I.M, DHADLY WEAPONS.
Bill by Mr. lilnihrough—The Outcome of Nu-
merous Proposition* Submitted to Uom.
rottleei—Pending tn House sh Sub-
stitute Bill.
A bill to lie entitled an act to amend articles
318, 319, 320 ami 322, aud to repeal article 333,
title 0, chapter 4, of the Revised Penal Code,
r.rd to enact a new article in its stead, prohib-
iting the carrying, importation, sale and gift
of certain deadly weapons.
Section I. Be it enacted by the legislature of
tbe state of Texas, that articles 318, 319, S'W
and 322 of the Revised Penal Code shall here-
after read as follows:
Article 318. If any person shall carry on or
about his person, saddle or in his saddle bags
any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung shot, sword-
care, spear, brass knuckles or any other kin i
of false knuckles, bowie-knife or any othor
kind of knife, manufactured or sold for the
purpofe of offense or defense, he shall be pun-
ched by a fine of not less than $100 nor more
than $500, and in addition thereto may bs im-
prisoned in the county jail for a term not ex-
ceeding one year.
Article 319, The preceding article shall not
apply to a peace officer or policeman, or per-
son summoned to his aid and actually in the
service of Buch officer, nor to a revenue officer
engaged in the discharge of his official duty,
nor to express messengers white on duty, nor
to carrying arm3 on one's own premises or
place of business, nor to physicians while rid-
ing during the night in the prosecution of
their professional services.
Article 320. If any person shall at any
church or religious assembly, or any school-
room or other place where persons are assem-
bled for amusement or edacational or scienti-
fic purposes, or at any circus, show or public
exhibition of any kind, or in a ball-roan,
social party or gathering, or at any voting-
box on the day or days of election, where any
portion of the people are collected at any elec-
tion. or at any other public place where peo-
ple may be assembled to muster or per-
form any other public duty, or to
any public assembly, or at or in
any drinking saloon or grocery or
other place where iutoxicating liquors are
sold, and shall have, on or about his person,
or draw or display, a pistol of auy kind, dirk,
dagger, slungsbot, swordcane, spear, brass-
knuckles or any other kind of false knuckles,
razor, bowie-knife or any other kind of kuite
manufactured or sold for the purpose of
eflense or defense, he shall be punished by a
fine of not less than $150 nor more than $500,
and by confinement in the county jail for a
term of not less than three inonths nor more
than one year.
Article 322. Any person violating any of the
provisions of articles 318 and 330 may be ar-
rested without warrant and taken before th9
proper magistrate or court by any peace
i fficer upon information of any creditable
peison, end any peace officer who shall fail or
refuse to arrest such person on his own know-
lege or u. on information of some creditable
person shall be punished by a fine of not less
thau $50 nor more than $500.
Section 2. That article !i®3 be, and the same
is hereby repealed, and the following article
enacted in is stead.
Article 323. If any person shall sell, or offer
to sell, or expose for sale, or bring into the
State for the purpose of selling, giving away,
or otherwise disposing of any pistol, knife or
weapon mentioned in article 218, he shall be
for each offense fined iu any sum not less than
$100 nor more than $300, and may be impris-
oned in the county jail not less than one nor
more than six months.
DEFENDANTS TO TBKTIFY IN < KIUIN VL
CASES.
Anatyula and Argument on a BUI Now Before
the Legislature.
ITo The News. I
Franklin, Tex., January 31, 1885.—The
legislature is about to commit a great folly.
Tbe bill to allow defendants iu criminal cases
to testify has passed the Senate, and possibly
■will pass tbe House. Thero has been very
little discussion of this question, so far as I
know, through the press or among the people.
Lawyers are, of course, talking about it, as
they know it is a vital question, the most vital
of any that can be approached in our crimi-
nal law, and those who have expressed them-
selves to me are opposed to the bill. A ques-
tion of such importance ought to be thoroughly
ventilated before it is finally acted upon. We
lawyers know that no greater change could
be seriously proposed in our criminal law, and
we are looking on with the deepest interest to
see the result. But lawyers, in practice at
home, generally take tho law as it is made for
them, and concern themselves more with its
application to their cases thau in forming and
refoiming it by legislation, therefore very
little of what they thiuk of this question has
appeared upon the surface. Outside of the legal
profession we would notexpect, at the iuc p
ti< n of the proposition, much discussion from
the very nature of the issue. A great change
is threatened to the criminal law of this Stats,
affecting more directly the power of the
courts to do justice than any that has been
proposed since the adoption of the code, aud
j et we find the press aud the people profounl
ly silent. When this new principle is e:i-
greftfr' upon tbe law, aud tbe peop'e s«e the
iails emptied, court after court, aad uoboiy
convicted, we will bear a hjivi against tie
law, and lawyers in the legislature; then the
dlftuBsiem will begin; then the people will say:
" You stole a march on us, aud forced this
law through without giving us notice of it;
you lawyers did it."
Now is the time for men to express their
views upon this subject; and if, after a full,
fair and dispassionate discussion, it is thought
l est to pass the bill, then let it bt done, and
thin let it be enforced.
I oppose it because I believe it is wrong, aud
because it is a radical change in the law that
can not be made wlthoot changing a great
many ot her features of the la w that altogether
li nke e ur stem complete as It is.
Innocent men are not convicted itndsr our
low, but guilty men are often acquitted. That
ia a truism. Wh t lawyer enn point to his
own practice and conscientiously siy his clieut
was innocent but still he was convicted,
litber because bis "mouth was closed," or
ftom an} other cause} He may s«y the courts
differed with him about the law of the nas»,
as to whether there was a techuical violation
of tbe law, end be may say the courts were
wrerg in their construction of the law, and
that the proved facts did show a violation of
the law according to his constructions; but
can he say that his client was not guiltyAud
above all can he say his client, innocent
though he was, was convicted because he was
pot allowed to testify in his own case? That
is tbe question. He can say, " I have defended
many men who were convicted because they
were not allowed to testify; and if they had
been allowed to testify tbey would have bean
acquitted." That is not tbe <)uestion. Were
they innocent, aud were they convicted because
they could not give evidence in their own case?
This is precisely the issue, aud no other.
If a defendant could have been acquitted by
raising bis own statements to tbe dignity of
testimony to be compared and construed with
tbe testimony of other witnesses in the case,
ai d that defendant still be guilty, is an argu-
ment exactly against bis right to testify; and
it grows to be a very strong and irresistible
aigument when we consider that many would
so acquit themselves despite their guilt.
We like to acquit our clients teoo well for the
public good; there should certainly not be any
laws u ade to make it easier for us than it is.
It is quite too easy now. In all candor we must
admit this to be true. When a ju ige reads his
charge to a jury, say upon a case where cir-
e'limstantial evidence is relied upon for a con-
viction, or upon any other case, in fact, in
which all the rights of tbe defendant, real aud
technical, are set out, it reads very much like
an argument for the defendant. Yet it is the
law, established by hundreds of decisions, un-
charged by nearly a half century of legisla-
tion. Must the rules as to the court's charge
be changed ? Many guilty men have been set
free by the law as it is, and I assert, we do
not know of any one that has been punished
as guilty, when in truth he was innocent. Lst
any lawyer point to one, if he knows one-
even one. That many more guilty men might
have been acquitted, if they had been allowed
to testify, is the very reason that ought to be
ur^ed against making it a law. It is not the
object of the law, nor of the lawmaker, to in-
crease tbe number of acquittals in tbe courts,
or to make it easier for lawyers to acquit. Oa
the contrary, tbe modes of escape are bo
numerous, the rules are so technical, and the
law to liberal and favorable to the defendant,
that it is now next to impossible to convict a
man, ably defended, even though judge, jury,
lawjers and the public, may all be morally
certain of his guilt. Would it then be right
to increase this difficulty! To make it tenfold
more difficult by the addition of a principle
suited to systems more stringent than ours,
but whol.y at variance with ours? If our
laws were severe, and tho modes of conviction
more convenient and certain; if the judges
were required to sum up the evidence and
comment upon the weight of the testimony,
and direct the jury with the freedom that is
required in tbe federal courts, then we
could with perfect propriety create other
priviledges for defendants, commensu-
rate with such requirements ; but un-
til the defendant is deprived of favors
or some of tbem, now awarded by the law, his
edvecate can not complain of our law, nor of
the results of trials in our courts. There is a
lord ccmplaint, and just reasons for it, that
bo mnny guilty men are acquitted under our
present system of technical trials. The com-
plaint is r ot wholly against the mode of se-
lecting juries. It is directed to the law itself;
but, it is imniate rial where it originates, it is
a warning to us that the law and the modes of
trial ere weak enough, and if the complaint
should be answered at all, it should be an-
swered by the legislature with more stringent
rule some such as were recommended by the
Court of Appeals, as seen itrthe attorney-geu-
etal's report to the present legislature, already
repoi ted on unfavorably by the senate judi-
eiaty committee. The honest man demands
aud deserves the first consideration of the law,
and tbe disnonest man should know that there
are certain methods by which he can be com-
pelled to respect the rights and property of
his neighbors. The criminal has so many
champions in these degenerate days, so many
w hose chief ambition is to be called the " crimi-
nal's fiiend," that honest people aud their
friends are becoming somewhat timorous. A
sreat criminal advocate may well deserve to
be called tbe "criminal's friend," wiieu
his labors are confined to the court-
bouse, but we do not meet such a
one more than once in a lifetime—one that
can afford to be so called. Indeed, the origi-
nal " criminal's faiend" has been corrupted
from his first bold assumptiou of superiority
in defending to tbe real ordinary frieud of the
thief ai d villain. Long ago but one man ia a
State, at most, could dare be so called, but
now there are many who aspire to tho dis-
tinction, and expect to win their questionable
ptefeiment by labors and sacrifices entirely
too genuine for the good o.' society.
Neither the criminal nor his ambitious
friend should receive more grace than is con-
sistent with the proprieties of honest breeding
and honest living. People are getting tired of
this thing of crying over rascals, claiming
their friendship at the sacrifice of principle,
ard destroying tbe chances of their conviction.
We have been led that way long enough. We
see w hat it tends to, what it has accomulished,
and we are about to call a halt tn the interest
of public justice, public morals—in the inter-
est of our rights of property, and
because we want to live without the
fear of the deadly revolver constantly
before our ej es. This bill is driving us the
wrong way exactly, the very way we are de-
tei mined not to go, if we are to have any law
at all. The people dou't want mobs, but they
will have tbem, if the law and the courts fail
them. The honest man is a patient animal;
he is willing to toil, pay his taxes, support the
government, tbe asyiums, the schools and pay
all t he Balaries of all the officers constituted by
authority, but as patient and uncomplaining
as he is, he can not endure forever the con-
stant encroachment of the thief, the aggres
sions of the desperado, made lawful by the in-
efficiency of the courts.
He feels that he needs a friend that will take
up bis cause and present it faithfully. He
hopes tbe legislature will do it, he knows he
has the right to expect it.
Now what do we see? Crime increasing,
criminals increasing, and the law getting
more lax. What is the matter? The inef-
ficiency of the law, the example of courts,
acquittals in nearly all contested cases. What
must be done? Grant moro favors to criminals,
refuse to abolish a few technicalities, by which
convictions are reversed, even though
it bas been recommended by the
Court of Appeals, allow defendants to
testify in their own cases, and bravely
contend that they will convict themselves.
O, rediclosissimo eroel Where will all this
misplaced sympathy for crimiuals end? Can
we prevent wrong, oppression, crime, by
sympathizing with it? Henry Watterson was
right when he said, " that which is wanting in
our government is the genius of common sense,
and in our moral nature a sincerity and con-
viction." I thank him for saying that Sin-
ceiity and conviction of what is right. Let us
be convinced of what is right, and then not
barter it away for- sophistry, whimsicality,
fiction, false sympathy. Sympathy for the
oppressed, the poor, is right; sympathy for the
criminal, which would exempt him from pun
isbment, and make more crimina's, more rob-
bing, more shedding of innocent blood at the
bonds of tbe desperado, is a sympathy on the
wrong tide; it is a sympathy with crims; it is
a criminal sympathy. It ought not to be in-
du'ged, because it will ultimately lead to
crime. It is, at first, a protest against the
right, of society to put a thief aside, when ho
can not steal, or a murderer where he c m not
kill, p.nd such a protest is hostile to society,
and tbe protester is an enemy to society.
Now Jet me ask if the proposers of this ne v
bill have considered how many changes it will
nce.'sitntp in our procedure? The*' misfc ad
mil thai somethine wtll he required to eqM*l-
i;e c.ui system ui practice. Have they count <1
tbe number of places where it will collide with
the law ? Ha vethi'y observed the many Incon-
sistencies that will arise? I have said enough
now, or I would go into this point in detail.
1 hope others will come forward and express
their linn convictions upon tills subject. I
ask lawjer.<—honest lawyers, friends to socl-
etj —lo examine this matter and give the pub-
lic their views. Will Tilts Nmvs ventilate it,
after a careful, rigid Investigation? Such an
Import aut law as i.' about to enacted (ll ought
not to be still-bom. I tlilnk it would be a
great folly—a grent injury to justice and
society, and 1 urn proud to say that all the
law jirs I have conversed with upon the sub
ject concur with me. I am proud because
tiny ere lawyers, gentlemen of my profession,
who do not with to see socioty put at such a
W. E.
gii at disadvantage.
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J no, D. ltOGKIte.
J. A. liOUKBTSON.
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