Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1889 — Not Good in Morals. [ARTICLE]

Not Good in Morals.

The plea that Dudley is not guilty because there is no proof that anybody I yielded to his temptations, may be good : in law; but in morals it resembles the plea

set up by ths famous Ju Ige-Advocate Swaim, that the sentinel who tried to kill Guiteau by firing into the window of his cell was not guilty of any crime because Guiteau was not in the line of fire, and could not possibly, owing to his position with respect to the window, have been leached by the bullet. But then, argumentation of this sort does not hold water in churches and Sunday schools. Gen. Harrison has b en, we believe, a Sundayschool Superintendent or teacher, and Dudley, we understand, is now. Neither of them, we are sure, teaches the children that the moral quality of a design 1 or intent depends on success or failuie in carrying it out.— New York Evening Poet.