Looking back over a geod many Years, there is no case that can be quoted locally which is a parallel of that just concluded in Supreme Court in which John thomson has been convicted of forging and uttering a U. S. mariner's licence. There seems every reason to think that the whole business is part of the painful legacy which every great war must leave to the world. The dis-jacation of the usually smooth-running machinery of civil government is bound to result in irregularities for lack of proper control creeping into every department, and the demand for manpower and expansion of government offices must of necessity bring into being untried and inexperienced officials. We do not refer to any country in particular those with war conditions fresh in their minds will know how universal was the state of affairs. Again at these times promotion becomes rapid and salaries attain swollen proportions, and opportunities for the unscrupulous © which would rot exist in normal times are there to be seized upon. In the case just dased there would appear reasor.to believe that the scheme was not alone ile suggestion of tne prisoner, but he may well have received assistance from people who thought they could see profit accruing to them out of it.
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