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"What we need most is one-armed lawyers. Whenever I talk to a legal expert, he begins by saying  'on the one the one hand,' and ends by 'but on the other."
                                                                                                    Harry Truman



George Cruikshank (artist), Queens-Bench, Comic Almanack, 1850, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons














The Jester, Montreal, 22 Mar 1878




Latin: "Let John rush to heaven."





Frederick Burr Opper, artist, Puck, New York, Federick Burr Opper. 5 July 1883





Puck, New York 16 Nay 1883
 








 


                        THE  MANNERS  OF  THE  WILD  WEST
                                         (Murder Trial )
JUDGE PERCECRÛNE: Gentlemen of the jury, is your verdict guilty or not guilty?
BILL TAPEDUR, LE FOREMAN: We have a question to ask. The evidence shows that the prisoner shot the victim six times and only hit him with the last shot. Are there no laws against such bad shooting?
JUDGE PERCECRÛNE :No.
BILL TAPEDUR: Then, so much the worse. The law is badly made: not guilty!

Le Samidi, Montréal, 12 April 1890















London Serio-Comic Journal, UK, 30 March 1894




Lincoln Socialist-Labor, St. Louis, 14 September 1895




1900

















Ryan Walker, The Comrade, December 1903






Art Young, Life, New York, 1 October 1908





Art Young, Life, New York, 26 November 1908





Judge, New York, 4 September 1909



Life, New York, 15 September 1910









Art Young, Life, New York, 18 May 1912




 
Art Young, Life, New York, 14 May 1912





Lambdin, Syracuse Herald, 1912




                               Before Her Makers and Her Judge
The Masses, New York, August 1913





Harper's Weekly, New York, 20 September 1913





Art Young, Life, New York, 9 October 1913







Life, New York, 15 January 1914




Canadian Courier, Toronto, 7 July 1914




New Masses, New York, September 1914





Art Young, Metropolitan, New York, October 1914





Life, New York, 22 April 1915



 
Life, New York, 6 May 1915



 
Chamberlain, The Masses, New York, July 1915





Art Young, Metropolitan, New York, October 1915




Art Young, Metropolitan, New York, October 1915





Art Young, Metropolitan, New York, October 1915





Attorney for the Defendant: "Your honor, the defendant was out of work. He has a sick wife and three small children."
Prosecuting Attorney: "Your honor, I object.  The evidence is irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial."
Art Young, The Masses, New York, September 1916


 


  
Leslie's Weekly Illustrated Newspaper, New York, 8 March 1919





"AND IF YOU DO IT AGAIN, I SHALL ORDER A POLICEMAN TO SLAP YOU ON THE WRIST."
Life, New York, 3 July 1919





The New Justice, Los Angeles, California, 15 July 1919




 
Art Young, Good Morning, New York, 22 October 1919




Life, New York, 30 October 1919





The Liberator, New York, February 1919


 
Life, New York, 6 January 1920




Art Young, The Liberator, New York, May 1920




Art Young, Good Morning, New York, 1 July 1920





'Dust' Wallen, One Big Union Monthly, September 1920





 
The Liberator, New York, March 1921





 
The Labor Herald, October 1922




 
The Young Worker, Chicago, April 1923




Art Young, The Nation, New York, 4 July 1923




Art Young, Life, New York, 12 July 1923




The Liberator, New York, August 1923



 
The Vancouver Sun, 7 August 1923









Art Young, Life, New York, 1 May 1924





Art Young, Life, New York, 17 September 1925




     
The Workers Daily, Chicago, April 1926

























Young Worker, New York, 11 May 1931









                                      THE  LAW  MAKERS
                                             Jacob Burck, The Daily Worker, New York, 1935?













The Sheaf, Saskatoon, 27 March 1941


















 








 







 



















 










 




























Everett Soop, November 1969



   











   



 






















Peter Kuch, Winnegeg Free Press, 2 March 1976



























































McGill Daily, Montreal, 7 Oct 1996




Vision for the future US Supreme Court, AnaSoc, CC bY_SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, 09 June 2018




The Museum of Human Rights, Winnepeg





Feola Desmond