Show A distinction WITHOUT A A difference IN the third district court today to day duy Henr henry Dinwoodey withdrew his plea of not guilty and plead guil guilty tyll to the charge of unlawful cohabitation the attorney stated that he had bad been keeping the law for a year and a half or more the prosecuting 1 I attorney becom sentence be during good behavior on ahe the ground that he hid reason to believe the defendant would obey the law in we understand that mr dinwoodey claims he be has made no such promise but any man with a brain will 1 decide that there is no difference in principle between making a promise personally and doing it through an attorney it may be argued that mr dinwoodey dinwoody made no agreement in court but we fail to see any difference in principle between making an agree agreement mentin in open court and permitting the prosecuting officer to convey the idea to the court we do not want to see any of our gook keople eople caught upon so palpable a pin ook it may mar be represented to them that they attey can escape punishment by making a private or evasive arrangement ran gement without compromising themselves in public such sophistry may be very cunning n in 9 but it is also very transparent to guy any one with eyes such a course is last just exactly the same surrender of principle as going into court sud and making public submission in other words whether in public or in private any person who takes such a course virtu any and thoroughly acknowledges that in his mind the law law of inan iu anias as interpreted by the courts which vary with the changes of the wind is superior to th ati law of god and his sacred covenants which are as aa eternal as the throne of jehovah there is no getting away from this conclusion and everybody every ought to know it and let their actions be governed accordingly |