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The System

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BY

FRANKLIN HICHBORN

(Author of “The Story of the California Legislature of 1909”; “The Story of the California Legislature of 1911”; and “The Story of the California Legislature of 1913.”)

“It is well enough, my fellow-citizens, to meet as we do to-night, and to applaud the sentiments of patriotism, and to echo the voice of indignation uttered upon this rostrum. But another and more imperative duty devolves upon every one of us individually, and that is to give his and her moral support to the officers of the law. We must not content ourselves by merely adopting a set of resolutions, and then going home and forgetting about it, placing all responsibility upon the constituted authorities. This is not a case of the constituted authorities. It is the case of the people of San Francisco. And unless the people of San Francisco do their individual duty in supporting the prosecution, the officials of the courts and of the law must fail in their efforts.”—Walter Macarthur at the mass meeting called at the time of the attempted assassination of Heney.

COPYRIGHT, 1915 by FRANKLIN HICHBORN

San Francisco Press of The James H. Barry Company 1915

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