How often I had traced the boy who had robbed the box-car
with unerring precision to the big, lawless business man who
controlled or directed a trust, debauched a legislature, bought
a senatorship or united with the gamblers and dive-keepers to
steal a public franchise. Why was there so much kindness and so
little justice? Why were men good to children, to churches and
universities, and still so unjust? And when the other fights
were won, the fights for the playgrounds, the detention home
school, the juvenile court and all it implies, the biggest fight
of all was yet ahead. But that little fight helped us to see the
necessity for the big fight. We were being educated through the
misery and misfortune of the children.--BEN B. LINDSEY,
_The Survey_.
(2037)