Show consistent VERY A rew days since the downtown down town organ of know and infidelity published a purported interview with a person from the sea girt empire who is said to have stated that it if in england a man had been asked after conviction ot of an offense whether or of not he would thereafter obey the law and answered in the negative that such convicted person would immediately be sent up for two years for contempt and been given the full penalty for his offense beside the statement was so absurd that no attention was paid it it being kregar regarded ded as the of a fanatic or one who had looked upon the wine when it was ruddy but this morning the organ falls back on its newly acquired information in an editorial stating that three offenses are committed by nearly every man convicted unlawful of cohabitation first perjury when arraigned second the offense charged and third contempt of court in refusing re to give the saving promise puck puch mus must have looked somewhat into fatu futurity rity when he what fools these mortals taisie be theider the idea of a defendants plea when arraigned being construed as perjury his conviction by a picked jury such as in the language of a certain federal official would convict jesus christ being conclusive of guilt and finally his bis refusal to renounce the woman he has sworn to protect and support and to shut the door against his offspring being construed as crimes is a conclusion which the father of lies lies must surely chuckle over as he reads it and contemplates how utterly depraved his minions are it is generally understood that a prisoners plea is simply a joinder of issue which places his case on trial and not being under oath has no other practical significance that conviction by a j jury u ry drawn for that purpose is 18 a matter of course they simply I 1 rowing following the routine madred mapped out oat bor for them them beforehand and I 1 finally that a refusal to do as the court requires as a condition of absolution is no more a contempt of his authority or a defiance of his processes than would be tile the opinion of an a attorney that the evidence did not warrant the verdict the raiders must be reduced to desperate straits indeed when n they falsify so plainly that a child can see their villainy and draw deductions duct ions so absurd that a lunatic could detect the sham |