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Show Two Kinds of Law. -There was a rase In tbe police court yesterday where a young man waa charged with the theft of aotne boots, but the partlea aetlled, the accused paying Ihe accuser (0 cents. "You had no right to take money lo settle a case of theft," aaid the police magistrate, magis-trate, Aa a statement of law, thla may be all right, but how docs the principle work as applied to larger peoplo than the .'uci'iit dlsputanta In yealnrduy a court? When a bank clerk steals tbouaaiula of dollnrn, does tbe law any that the ban'.( bus tin rlulit to t:iko money to nettle 1 Do cut... of theft? Whatever the written law niny be, the pructlce l.i to let hlg operators In theft settle with ihe hlg Inatltuitona lliey have wronged. The iiilnclple Is In priii'tli e- ai i -opted that the big Institution In-stitution shall he coutildcrcd mid enabled en-abled to reinviT, if It ran, whsl has been stolen from II. The way It works out In this, as In many other mutterM. la ttiat there la one law for the gn at and another for the sinnll Toronto Htur. |