JUSTICE!

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1222, 2 September 1911, Page 14

JUSTICE!

Sir,-In last Saturday's issue of your parer there appeared iu tho, law reports column, an account of a case against a storeman for tlio theft of goods to the value of ill. : The storenian .at the time was receiving £i ss. a week, .and had three children to keep. The man was sentenced to 18 months' .imprisonment with hard labour. Now, sir, mv pen is a feeblo one, but if it was ten thousand times as strong and able, it could not writo. language strung enough to condemn the monstrous iniquity and abominable inequality of injustice meted out to men'"in different ■walks of life. When wa remember the jfacdonald case; aye; and of men iu higher positions to day in New Zealand, we may well ask: Where does, the impartiality of justice come in? Case after case could lie cited in which men who had stolen hundreds of pounds, have received much more. Icnient.treatment than this man, and thoso samo men in positions of far greater trust', and receiving, ten, yes, and sometimes one bundled times, the remuneration that he was getting. The awl'ul travesty of justice, the partial tempering of the wind .to tlio relined and cultivated offender,;the unevenhanded balancing of tho scale's of justice, rouses to tho highest pitch the feelings of aiiy fair-minded man. And I say Woe! Woe!" to that country iii'' which justice sits not' blindfolded,. but wi.tlr both eyes wide open. Thanking you iii-. anticipation for tho space allowed me, —1 am, etc., . IMPARTIAL. August 28, 1911.