Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-16
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Monsieur he said, 81 have
called upon you for an opinion upon
a problem which has always per-
plexed me. 1t is a problem upon
which the opinions of persons with
ont experience are wholly without
value, and unfortunately, all those
who have had experience aed WERE
therefore, able to give me an
opinion, have been always persons
lacking in a certain element Of in
| t~eIligence, 1 have not had the
| opinion of a man of intelligence
who was also a man of experience
upon this problem.
He paused. The man before him
/ did not reply. He waited as in a
| profound courtesy for Monsieur JON
| ouelle to complete the subject with
which he had opened the discourse.
He had taken a small chair, and he
sat in it as a man of great strength
| and yigor and of an unusual buiK
| rests his weight upon something
which he is uncertain Will support
it.
He did not move, but the ex-
pression of his face changed sllSnt-
". His eyebrows lifted as IN a
courteous inquiry. Monsieur JON
quelle went on. ne Seei4eu hoI ~A
tirely at ease.
81 shall not pretend at ignorance
of your affairs, monsieur. Tne law
courts of England are brutal and
direct. They have no consideration
for anyone, and the press of those
| islands has a less restraint.
when one is charged with a
| crime in England, and comes into
| its courts, no humiliation is neg
lected. That one is innocent means
| nothing; but this innocence is pres
emily demonstrated does not pre-
serve one, in the events preceding
such a verdict, from every imagin-
able humiliation"
Monsieur Jonquelle continued to
hesitate. But he went on
.Monsieur," he said, "out of this
unfortunate experience you will
| have come, l feel, with a certain
opinion upon the problem which dis
! turbs me. And 1 am sure, monsieur,
| you will not deny men the benefit oil
| that opinion"
The Project of Police looked up
like one who with hesitation re-
| quests a favor from another.
Lord Valleys replied Immediately
II shall be very glad to give you
Inv ODlIllOu upOL diS POAAb 80 49,
| matter" he said. Surely ! have
been spared little. I have had
every experience of humiliation. The
| criminal law of England is q bung-
ling and cruel device. Those who
find themselves concerned with 1t,
l profoundly pity.
'There is no consideration of fam
lily or culture hat in any way mltl-
gates its severity or in any direction
preserves one from odium, once n
machinery of a criminal court OF
England is on its way. The exper-
fence of it is a horror to me. mon
sieur; but if it can result in any
benefit to you or to another, L am
willing to recall it. What is the
problem, monsieur, upon which you
would have my opinion?"
1T is this, monsieur" replied the
Project of Police. as it your con-
~clusion, upon this experience of lie.
that there is a Providence Of God
that undertakes to adjust the affairs
of m~ankind-to assist the helpless
and to acquit the innocent-or 40
you believe that it is the intelll-
gence of man that accomplisl1es this
result? What is it, monsieur,
that moves behind the machinery OF
the world-chance, luck, fortune or
some sort of Providence?"
Lord Valleys seemed to reflect
while the Project of Police was
speaking, and he now replied with
little hesitation.
"Chance, monsieur" he said, rs
unquestionably the greatest and
most mysterious factor in all
human affairs, but it is modified and
diverted by the human win . :.
Human intelligence, monsieur, and
chance are the two factors"
The Project of Police continued to
look down at his hands.
"I have been of a different
opinion, Lord Valleys" he said. II
think there is an intention behind
events, a sort Of will to justice, to
righteousness, as one has said. 1t
is not chance IS we usually define
the word, and the human will can
not circumvent it . 1t is strange,
as I see it, Lord Valleys.
"This thing we call human IN
telligence seems to be able to aid.
| to assist, to advance the vague, i'm
mense persistent impulse behind
events, and to delay and to disturb
1t, but not ultimately to defeat it.
! "Take the extraordinary events