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Show Two Kinds of Law. There was a case in the police court yesterday where a young man was charged with the theft of some boots, but the parties settled, the accused paying the accuser 50 cents. "You had no right to take money to settle a case of theft," said the police magistrate. magis-trate. As a statement of law, this may be all right, but how does the principle work as applied to larger people than, the 50-cent disputants in yesterday's court? When a bank clerk steals thousands of dollars, does the law say that the bank has no right to take money to settle the case of theft? Whatever the written law may be, the practice is to let big operators in theft settle with the big institutions they have wronged. The principle is in practice accepted that the big institution in-stitution shall be considered and enabled en-abled to recover, if it can, what has been stolen from it. The way it works out in this, as in; many other matters, is that there is one law for the great and another for the small. Toronto Star. |
