The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-17
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 shall not only secure quick and cheap justice to the litigants in the federal courts, but shall offer model to the legislatures and courts of the states by the use of which they can themselves institute reforms.
 q would abolish altogether the system of payment of court officers by fees The fee system may be properly continued for the reimbursement of the public treasury by litigants specially interested, but the fees ought to be reduced to the lowest point and the motive for increasing the expense of litigation that arises rom tbe navment of the compensation out or the fees to the court officers shouid pc removed do not think that the oeiays in justice are due to any niggaroiiness on the part of the public in appropria.iis money to meet the expenses or auai',,s aun a,,s- tration. The evil lies deeper in the sys- tau which I have referred to only in most summary way
 Imprisonment Needed.
 "of all the questions that are before the American people I regard none as 'no, important than this, to-wit; Ihe lihpron1. 1,e ment of the administration or 9us.ice' ,,I H must make 1t so that the poor man VIII have as nearly as possible the same op- nortunity in litigating as the rich man, and under present conditions, ashamed as we may be of 1t, this Is not the 1aot.
 "And now. my friends, have subjected won to a rather solemn discussion oi " rather solemn subject. l always ihe " ,,is,t Chicago because it is in sense the center of the country, mucn more 'nan Boston is at the hub, but whlcn h'd,s neople and many interests reVoiVe, making up the personnel or my and my administration I have been sur or,.ed to find how many admirable men ,,o, have In your community, and must ono,o,Jze for the drain which have maae ,,,or your resources by calling 10 Wash- ,npton and foreign courts al ieast liai, dozen of your most prominent anu a ottt,ens Tn doing so had to ask them o,l to make personal sacrifices in the mat tar of compensation, and to gather 'ne' reward from disinterested desire 10 serte the public and patriotic wiiiinshes9 ~ put their abilities at the dlsposltioii VI '"e country.
 Era of Prosperity.
 eve are entering now upon an era or ,,rosneritv which I hope will be long con timed We have just passed tarin piii which has ended for the time the dis- turhance of business that always arises from the consideration and agitation over 1 such bill, and there is nothing now to prevent the application of all the eapi- tal and all the forces which have peen suspended for the last year and nal1 or two years by lack of confidence ana a waiting for such settlement to the ex- pansion of business and the further oe- velopment of the resources or th's coun. try. But this prospect of prosperity must not blind us to necessity for carrying out certain great reforms advocated by MT. Roosevelt. recommended in the repusican party platform, which l believe are neeu- ed to return to the abuses which all men recognize the evil of in our previous pus- mess methods and management of our great corporations. I expect to consider the questions more at length at another | stage in my journey, as do also the 1, character of the tariff bill which has been | adopted, and which has been subjected to | much criticism, but tonight feel that 1 have weared you far beyond the extent | of any claim I have had to your atten- | tiOn."