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could find nothing to complain of as delay in justice. Their living expenses were comparatively nothing; ours are everything; their luxuries of life were few; ours are many — hence the in creased cost of living to us. Men's wearing apparel is growing more compli cated, hence the increase of time to put on our clothing. And this is exactly our case in putting on legal justice. As life becomes more complex, so every thing becomes more complex — even justice in the courts of law. The more and more complicated and involved is life, so with matters involving and sur rounding justice. They step on unison. Withal, it is the counterpart to our type of livelihood. The administration of justice through procedure in the courts is handled by a

great profession as an art and science, and this is a mystery to ordinary mor tals. Any class of skillful artisans has "tricks of the trade" in which the lay man is never taken into confidence. The lawyers may be unable to remedy delay in court procedure. Wanted — Simple Justice! This ever has been the cry of the world. What is the solution? Cut out the other compli cated, expensive, needless technicalities with which society abounds, and then legal reform will work out its own sal vation. Instead of denouncing the laws and the lawyers, let the reformers first get on the firing line and fire — at the general obstacles which beset society's welfare. ELMER E. ROGERS. Chicago, III.

The Legal World maintain good order have left their scar. The socialistic agitator has preyed on The Lawrence strike, though now a the credulity of a public too ready to thing of the past, leaves its traces, and listen to his attacks on the existing has not served to quiet the social unrest regime, and hence it results that the which interferes with the progress of difficulties in the path of sound legal our people in arts of orderly self- and economic as well as social reform government. While the view of Marcus are increased, and the statesman for the M. Marks, that we shall never arrive time being yields precedence to the at industrial justice through strikes and demagogue. lockouts, may not be acceptable, readers Just as the socialistic propaganda may admit that good can come from a complicating the Lawrence strike tends strike only when it is conducted in a to weaken popular respect for the law thoroughly just cause, without resort to fully constituted authorities, so the unlawful methods. The Lawrence strike utterances of Ex-President Roosevelt's was marked by a spirit of lawlessness, radical speech at Columbus tend to and was anything but a good example of weaken popular respect for the judiciary. a strike of law-abiding American citi If Colonel Roosevelt had contented zens. The sympathy which the strikers himself with saying that there was a aroused was in a large degree unin grave question whether state courts formed and unwholesome, and the should have the power to set aside drastic measures made necessary to statutes as unconstitutional, he would Monthly Analysis of Leading Events