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Show o The Ver . of Public Opinion. Public op'" ion was tho first great Ju'ge. It drove the malefactor from -his own : plo to the desert, to live an exile, with every man's hand , against him. Its Judgments are still true and righteous. Cunning lawyers may befog Juries. Wrongdoers may hide behind technicalities. But there aro verdicts of public opinion which are branded into their skin and which they can never erase. Not for all offenses, but for certain offenses that is "the great corrective ind punitive." Its valuo can not be easily overestimated. overesti-mated. There are men in Now York now who are finding tho verdict of public opinion scarcely less bllehting than tho sentence of a criminal court. (New York World.) o- A |