is, the prison authorities won't let him, so he has to do it
while he has the opportunity.

It must be admitted that this is rather hard on the innocent,
but they now have to suffer with the guilty for the sins of an
indolent and uninterested legislature. Moreover, if such a
right of arrest were proposed, some wiseacre or politician
would probably rise up and denounce the suggestion as the
first step in the direction of a military dictatorship. Thus,
we shall undoubtedly fare happily on in the blissful belief
that our personal liberties are the subject of the most
solicitous and zealous care on the part of the authorities,
guaranteed to us under a government which is not of men but of
laws, until one of us happens to be arrested (by mistake, of
course) and learns by sad experience the practical methods of
the police in dealing with criminals and the agreeable but
deceptive character of the pleasant fiction of the presumption
of innocence.




CHAPTER II

Preparing a Criminal Case for Trial


When the prosecuting attorney in a great criminal trial arises
to open the case to the impanelled jury, very few, if any, of
them have the slightest conception of the enormous expenditure