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...Criminal justice in America is now a Roman holiday. The courts are in the Colosseum. The state's attorney's office often is an open torture room of human souls. Exposure of the processes of justice, originally a public safeguard, has been perverted into a public danger. They have been exploited as a field of popular amusement. They are a rich for- age for sensation mongers and the yellow press. Their publicity uncontrolled is debasing American thought. It is contributing to the delinquency of criminal justice...
...reign of Queen Victoria; it disputed with the Eiffel Tower the palm for interest and success at the World's Fair in Paris in 1889; it traversed Europe, crossed the Alps and the Pyrenees, and camped beneath the walls of the Alhambra and within the vast interior of the Colosseum at Rome. Princes, potentates and powers have all been guests at its tables and have learned the lessons of the conquest of the New World from conqueror and conquered...