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Show A CHANGE NEEDED. In a lecent series of magazine ailiclts, Andrew D. While, a profound scholar, a sound lawyer, a brilliant diplomat and patriotic American, In his conclusions, con-clusions, sajs that If he might suggest any changes in the American s) stem of govcrment, he would recommend the British administration of the law and the German plan of municipal government both as superior to our own. An axample of one of the weaknesses weak-nesses of our administration of the law comes to hand just now. Hlgelow, a banker In Milwaukee, Wis., by breaking break-ing the banking law, stolo a million or two. He goi the money and the people to whom It belonged are forced to sutler Its loss. Hlgelow was sentenced sen-tenced to ten years In the penitentiary. Young, a lumber camp roustabout, held up a train at llearinouth, Mont, and tried to steal a fow thousand. He got no money and nobody suffered materially, Young was sentenced to tlfty years In the penitentiary. Rig-low Rig-low moved in an aristocratic circle and was a tlgurc in sky-high finance; he was one of your genteel thieves. Young was a plain everyday holdup. Hlgelow robbed hundreds of poor people Young tried to steal from a rii.li corporation Hlgelow violated a sacred trust. Young never had any trust to betray. Of the two crimes, that of Hlgelow was certainly the more heinous' Yet his sentence Is less than that of Young by forty years. Therein Is one of theseilous weaknesses weakness-es of American administration of law and it is what Andrew D. White had In mind when he wished that tMe British amlnlstratlon of law might supplant our American methods. |