Nor can anyone question that the highest obligation of government Is to secure justice for those who. because they are poor and weak and friendless. find It hard to maintain their own rights. * * * I do not think that we should be overharsh In judging ourselves. however. for the shortcomings have been the result of changing conhditions. which the great body of our people have not fully appreciated. We have had in the main just laws and honest courts to which peoplepoor as well as richcould repair to obtain justice. But the rapid growth of great cities. the enormous masses of immigrants (many of then) ignorant of our language). and the greatly increased complications of life have created conditions under which the provisions for obtaining justice which were formerly sufficient are sufficient no longer. I think the true criticism N.hich we should make upon our own conduct is that we have been so busy about our individual affairs that we have been slow to appreciate the changes of conditions which to so great an extent have put justice beyond the reach of the poor. But we can not confine ourselves to that criticism much longer. it is time to set our own house in order.
Identified stereotypes
Many immigrants are ignorant of our language.