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from the injustice or inadequacy of inflexible law? The present attack on equity is, furthermore, an attack upon a fundamental principle of our government. Be it ever so cunningly hidden, arbitrary limits for the judicial enforcement of law can mean but one thing in the last analysis — the substitu tion of the principle of a privileged class for the present constitutional requirement of equal protection. Let those who seek to establish a privileged class beware lest they be not the chosen ones! To shackle the hands

of the court is to challenge its impartiality. If a judge is open to that charge the court should not be deprived of power — the man should be deprived of office. As long as the court is sitting to administer justice let the substantive laws be changed as you will, but insist that law enforcement be not put into manacled hands — insist that the law, whatever it may be, shall be enforced in the same manner against every man, of whatsoever class or condition of life! CHICAGO, ILL., August, 1908.