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Show UNITED STATES COURT FOR CHINA This novel court, writes Warren R Austin In Case and Comment, which is the sanctuary of American defendants, defend-ants, is more than an arbiter of particular par-ticular controversies, more than an extension of the American system of Jurisprudence beyond the limits of the United States, to the remotest lands : from ue; it ib incidentally an interna tional forum, which, by the justice and ! equity of its decisions, equally applied 10 foreign plaintiffs of whatever nationality, na-tionality, and by the exposition and enforcement en-forcement of laws having their source nnd sanction in a government knowing no sovereign but the sovereign people, I spreads abroad the liberty we our- selves enjoy, increases the confidence ; and respect of foreign nationals es- I peclally the Chinese In the institu- ; tions of a free government, and invites the young Chinese onward in their I :.trugi?le to throw off the despotism of I old China which still lives, though I the government is called a republic, I and continues to express itself in part I through the office of iho district mag- 1111 |