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Show 1 C'mcAiiU hs an "institution," supported by voluntary contributions, contribu-tions, called the "Bureau of Justice," Jus-tice," the function of which is to , see to the administration of justice 1 In cases of misfortune, oppressing ; meanness and cruelty." It is doing ' a largo work and doiti;: Hereditably, for in its first year it dealt with 1 1100 cases and in its Second 2300. ' But what a commentary it is upon I tho administration of justice In Chicago that in so many cases the , victim of misfortune, oppression, meanness and cruelty was ferccd to depend upon the help of a charitable charita-ble organization for the protection which the law is supposed to secure 1 to every law-abiding citizen. Instead In-stead of devising and constructing ; new machinery to make up for lite ; defects of the old, would It not be better to go to the root of the evil? I The path that leads to justicS is of-, of-, ten long and tortuous. It might lie t shortened and straightened. |