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It is earnestly to be desired that some method should be devised for doing away with the long delays which now obtain in the administration of justice, and which operate with peculiar severity against persons of small means, and favor only the very criminals whom it is most desirable to punish.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt expresses the need for a method to eliminate long delays in the administration of justice, which disproportionately affect the poor.

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