{"newspaper_name": "State journal & flag.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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: THE CREDIT SYsTEM.-A committee of the Indiana Legislature made report in ia. vor of repeating all laws for the collection of debts, in which the following passage oc- CUTS :--"From the best calculations they have been able to make on this subject, they have arrived at the conclusion that the an nual expense to the people of ihe Uni ted Slstes, on account of the legal cred itsystem alone, in the pay of judges clerks, sherfls, marshals, magistrates, constables, deputies, jurors, witnesses, lawyers, loss of time in litigation, &c., &c., cannot be short of the immense sum of tpo millions of dol lars to say nothing of the vice, corruption, pernries, strife, discord and crimes, embi,. tered feelings between man and man. and of amity and love among members of families. poverty and ute. ruin of both plaintiff and defendant, in which the innocent wives and helpless children are oflentimes the greatest sufferers"