The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal February 28 1906

The making of laws and their enforcement forms perhaps the -largest part in the thought and in the discussions of the American people and vet there is much misapprehension concerning the function that positive written laws perform in the life and progress of a free people like ours. [...] It invades every department of the government; it is present' in the halls of legislation; it sits with the judge upon the bench and with the executive in the chair of state; it permeates and regulates everything. [...] A congress will not march up the rampart in the face of the double-spotted cannon of :intrenched and aggressive property interests that seek to control the government unless they realize that there are still more dangerous weapons in the hands of the people in the rear. [...] We have'Said to the man of great capacity the effective man the genius ItejOice in your strength ; the battle of life is to the strong and the brave ; what you get in fair compettion is yours and your title shall be protected ; work and strive while the day serves you the government will allow no one to despoil you of the fruits of your enterprise." Hits this:been a wise system or not ? T [...] It seeks to be a true reflex of the law of the subject as understood and applied throughout the domains of the English-speaking people." For.mere than a titlat* 0.4.centilry it has eerywhere comanded the highest admiration: Of the Profession and -judiciarv.