EQUAL JUSTICE FOR EVERYONE SHOULD BE GOAL

To the editor:

Something good can be derived from Rush Limbaugh's drug addiction. Your
newspaper has the opportunity to provide a service to the community and the
nation.

Select two economically poor or middle-class residents charged with using
illegal drugs. Parallel their prosecution with that of Limbaugh's. Give
your readers weekly reports.

If the results fail to show equal protection for all classes, your paper
can take the lead in demanding progressive change. It may take time to
bring about change, but don't give up. A hundred years from now history
books may read, "Equal justice for all citizens is traced to a Cape
Girardeau, Mo., newspaper."

I know the very concept of equal justice for all is a kooky liberal idea.
Some may even consider it unpatriotic. I think the idea has merit. Hey, it
may even rank with the efforts of liberals to secure the right for women to
vote. It took more than a hundred years for that concept to become mainstream.

PAUL J. ALLEE, Jackson