The Weird
and Uncanny Philosophy
of the Advocate Whose
Business it is to Make
Murder Safe
in Cook County
This is a community of law, and this community will survive or fail
as we enforce our laws and respect them. I continue the reading:
"The more we do what in us lies to secure a certain and swift
justice in dealing with these cases, the more effectively do we work against
the growth of that lynching spirit which is so full of evil omen for these
people, because it seeks to avenge one infamous crime by the commission
of another of equal infamy."
I submit, if Your Honor please, that it is safer to follow the reasoning
of this state document than it is to follow the sophistries of Clarence
Darrow.
I submit that it is safer to follow the philosophy of Theodore Roosevelt
as he laid it down in this great state paper when he was President of the
United States and was only concerned with the enforcement of the law, than
it is to follow the weird and uncanny philosophy of the paid advocate of
the defense, whose business it is to make murder safe in Cook County.
