Twenty-eight years ago the city of Denver appointed a "public guardian and administrator," to care legally for its waifs, strays; and orphans. The appointee was a young man from Tennessee, Benjamin Barr Lindsey, who two years later became judge of Denver's juvenile court, which office he occupied ever since. Denver was not a soft town. And there was that in it, a scurrilous newspaper (the Post), which put a terrible premium upon the social transgressions which sensational news pages did much to promote. Judge Lindsey has been a very busy man for 26 years,...
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