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law, they bad the right to go into that character, and you saw
that on cross-examination they dared not do it. I have here
an authority that puts it right squarely, that ‘whenever any
one hes evidence (83 Ga., 581) in their possession, and they
fail to produce it, the strongest presumption arises that it
would be hurtful if they had, and their failure to produce
evidence is a cireamstance against them.’

You don’t need any law book to make you know that that’s
true, because your common sense tells you that whenever a
man can bring evidence, and you know that he has got it and
don’t do it, the strongest presumption arises against him. And
you know, as twelve honest men seeking to get at the truth,
that the reason these able counsel didn’t ask those ‘“‘heir-
brained fanatics,” as Mr. Arnold called them, before they had
ever gone on the stand—girls whose appearance is as good as
any they brought, girls that you know by their manner on the
stand spoke the truth, girls who are unimpesched and unim-
peachable, was because they dared not do it. You know it; if
it had never been put in a law book you’d know it. And then
you tell me that beeause these good people from Washington
Street come down here and say that they never heard any-
thing, that he is a man of good character.

Many 2 man has gone through life and even his wife and
his best friends never knew his character; and some one has
said that it takes the valet to really know the character of a
men. And I had rather believe that these poor, unprotected
working girls, who have no interest in this case and are not
under the influence of the pencil company or Montag or any-
body else, now that man, as many a man has been heretofore,
is of bad character, than to believe the Rabbi of his church and
the members of the Hebrew Orphans’ Home.

Sometimes, you know, a man of bad character uses charitable
and religious organizations to cover up the defects, and some-
times a consciousness in the heart of a man will make him
over-active in some other line, in order to cover up and mislead
the public generally. Many a man has been a wolf in sheep’s
elothing; many a man has walked in high society and

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