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Show nnIcnd's Jcsticd' ttnd Pen. - Sometimes the people of this country are in-' in-' clined to rail at the!" methods of court procedure. It is the nature of the American people to kick more or less about things in general, but they don't mean half of it. They do it just to keep in practice. : The most serious objection that has.been raised ' is that against government by injunction, so-called, and while there is do denying that some courts have abused their power in that respect, we can take consolation con-solation in the fact that we are far in advance of many countries in the way our law is administered. Conditions in England, which is admitted to be nn enlightened country, would cause a revolution or something closely resembling it in this country. Newspaper readers are familiar with the case of Adolf Beck, who served five years in a British prison for a crime another man had committed. It was a miscarriage of justice, and all the more regrettable re-grettable because it could have been avoided. The Judge excluded from the trial all evidence . favorable to the accused, and refused to state a case for the consideration of the higher court. I The prison authorities, and the Home office officials of England knew that Beck and Smith, the real criminal, were jiot the same person, and it is presumed that the Judge was in possession of the knowledge, yet they kept the police and the public prosecutor in ignorance of the truth. Poor Beck had to suffer. ' v ' In the famous Maybrick case, the defendant was Dot given a fair trial. No matter whether she was guilty or innocent, ehe was convicted without a chance to defend herself. The Judge was firm in the belief that she was guilty, and he charged the jury In such a manner that there was nothing to do but bring in a verdict of guilty. In England the powers i f a Judge are far greater than in this country. In the main, our system of justice is fair. It 'may not be perfect, but it is so much better than ' that of many other nations that we have reason to i Ik' thankful. , - . |