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Show Judicial Furct.ious. Tito New York Time' alitor ably and logically t'.ia -u- thu act of Presidnit Grant in r.'liisinE admit tanee to tho White house ol Dr. Mary Walker, unli-as she would array herself in garments appropriate to her sex. The Times holds that as the president intimated that she was not dressed in a manner becoming her sex, he was guilty of a hold and tyrannical ty-rannical assumption ol judicial fuuc lions. Under the constitution it iu tho right of every free American citi- , zen to ring the front door bell of the White bouse and Bend in his or her card, and the president has no rii;ht to go behind the caul to decide de-cide difficult questions of the visitor's visit-or's sex. His powers iu relation to visitors are purely ministerial. In the cane of Dr. Walker the president not only as-sumcd that she was dressed in a manner unbecoming her sex, but cunningly refused to put himself on record bv Bueeifvhu the preciBe nature of her tex. Dr. Walker wears masculiue trousers and a feminine "basque." To which of these garments dni tho president take exception? Did he look upon Dr. Walker as a woman, and hence stigmatize stig-matize her trouners as an inappropriate inappropri-ate garment, or did he consider her a man, and go find Unit with iu-.r feminine femi-nine " basque"? The box of Dr. , Mary Walker is one- of those things uuon whioh even the ablest scientific expert has not yet ventured to give a decided opinion-It opinion-It is true that a western dog made up his minu a futv months aao. thai the doctor belonged to tho male sex; but it is believed that his opinion underwent under-went a change after he hod made an attempt to sample her -ankles, and had suffered from the poisonous effects of those anilino dyes which give a dangerous brilliancy to in short, after the coloring matter ot the red stripes had disagreed with him. Siuce that rash exp-. rinient, public opinion as to Dr. Alary Walker has been ur.decidcd, and the weight of evidence tends to show that Dr. Walker herself has not definitely made up her mind as to her sex. In those circumstances what could be more impudent than for the president to make himself the judge ot so grave a question? What is there in his previous pre-vious history which has filled him to decide a ma'ter of such momentous importance? Hnw can he expert tbat a free people will quietly sit duwn and see a difficult and delicate question ot morals and clothing settled set-tled by the sword of a grim soMier? If the country quietly acquiesce in this assumption ol judicial functions in the Walker case, we have no security that the president will not decide upon the eex of Me?srs. Hewitt, Hew-itt, Watlerson, and Williams. Let us make our stand now, before it ie too late, and resolve that henceforth the sex of an American citizen shall not be arbitrarily decided by the decree de-cree of a military dictator. |