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the law and the whole spirit of human freedom.
When it fails to apologize for its vicious attack on the probity of one
of New Jersey smost eminent jurists, taking advantage of its geographical location
to cover it as to being in contempt, it is not only in contempt but contemptible.
The delays about which the World complains in its editorial, were delays
due to the policy pursued by the attorneys, with whom the so-called "victims"
alined themselves on a contingency basis.
Where decent journals are fighting ambulance chasing, the New York World
alines itself with an outstanding example of this contemptible legal practice
and boasts of its success. It worlded the potter of the press to selfish endse-
it used the freedom of spepart, for which our fore fathers fought, to blackmail,
by creating public sentiment so inimical to possible justice, as to force the
payment of money to people, who while fully deserving of sympathy had not and,
have not, proved the responsibility of the accused manufacturer, and, whose con-
dition while undoubtedly bad, time has péoved to have been not nearly so bad as
the N.Y. World represented it to be, The situation thus described by the once
magnificent World, did not actually exist and, they undoubtedly knew then, as
they know now, that such was the case. If such a condition had existed, if the
delays complained of had been the fault of the defendent, if the Judge had been
bribed, as the World clearly indicates, then it would indeed have been a
+ Hunew
"damnable travesty on Justice". att the situation had been even worse than
indicated by the New York World it would not have been so great a travesty, or of
as
such fundamental importance to the welfare of the people as whole, the damnable
travesty on Justice represented by the claimed ability of the N.Y. World toaching
is
success, in its efforts, by such misuse of public confidence as represented by its
deliberately organized campaign of manifold and contraedicting falsities.
The accused corporation has been under the painful necessity of silent
tolerance to bitter attack They cannot try their case in a hostile press. a they
offered the World their story in confidence. The World did not want their story.
It might have spoiled their ability to brilliantly crusade if they knew the truth
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