Idea:a sign of the times . and jailed thirtydays. There is absolutely no doubt that the woman who go thelesser sentence was guilty of the greater crime. But unfortunatelyfor Maggie Lee, police commissioners and others in authority didnot grace the occasion with their presence. Justice John has no excuse to offer for his light sentence for so fla-grant a crime. The Idea has all along claimed that there was a corrupt alliancebetween the trade in vice and the police department and that wasopenly shown by the apparent reluctance of the judge in passing sen-tence and the lightness of the verdict an
Idea:a sign of the times . and jailed thirtydays. There is absolutely no doubt that the woman who go thelesser sentence was guilty of the greater crime. But unfortunatelyfor Maggie Lee, police commissioners and others in authority didnot grace the occasion with their presence. Justice John has no excuse to offer for his light sentence for so fla-grant a crime. The Idea has all along claimed that there was a corrupt alliancebetween the trade in vice and the police department and that wasopenly shown by the apparent reluctance of the judge in passing sen-tence and the lightness of the verdict and the presence of the policecommissioners and others. Gilbert Pollock was visibly delighted atthe outcome as were others interested. It is a shame on the fair nameof the city that such bold schemes can be pulled off openly in courtsof justice. And the Mayor, made by the political ring, his enemiesif he knew it, dares not say a word against the gross miscarriage ofjustice. But wait ! A time of reckoning will come. THE IDEA. IN this number we are reprinting the article entitled Reign ofCrime for which we were sent to jail by the Hustings that time the Times-Dispatch heralded it btoadcas-t over theState that we did not take an appeal because our connection with an-other had been proven. This was a lie and a damaging slanderwhich we could not right because of a circulation and consequent in-fluence so much less than that of the Supreme. On account ofsuch hostility of the press it got abioad that we in accepting the sen-tence admitted tha1: we had done a crime or wrong, while the realreason for taking the sentence was our financial inability o continuethe legal expense. We have never admitted any wrong or even error or mistake in thatconnection for the simple reason that no suchwrong or mistake wasmade and we stand today where we have always stood, on the truthand righteousness of that arti :le. The motive, neither money nor malice, was our duty to our dayand generation in
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