Show f I would-be law-makers I Ked country of ours do I K that I except I I hi M is full of reformers I everything under I Lean be controlled or regu-I of congress or a I desires a law I to restrain himself or reg- I own but there I plenty of people who I Ler to have laws passed to I Ld or regulate the other fel-I L IFe are too much I f the same which is wast-I upon and y says the Wis-I tin to be in-I exercised in the en-I of what wholesome I is we already we would I i better governed and I behave ourselves in a I re That er argues that our ethical of human conduct is in ger of sinking to the low el of a statute law our legislatures convene too and pass too many 1 that it is a difficult matter tie average citizen to obtain retain even a general laws of his own Cranks Would lere are many food specialists mild hie to by law ting- of Others think Pastry and and the American have Sore to injure the American has Still improper modes of as the wearing of cor- to be forbidden by f J it And there j the million k 2 of aa t f the 8 a. the aversion of the British ed Z ha been 11 and thus the soldier might be made to taste animal the bloody insurrection followed as a matter of And in it is sentiment rather than that rules the action of most Often it is Not infrequently it is a false religious view of the moral wrong supposed to be lurk in practices that may be innocent in What Should For our own we think that no person should be allowed to vote on the question of prescribing what other people should eat or drink until he has read John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer on has studied Rousseau's social contract and then has read Bryce's American commonwealth and Bluntschli's of the The laws of the punishing the meat eaters and the insect those of the Parsees punishing any who buried their dead instead of burning and in our own glorious country the of some of the New England punishing Sunday witchcraft and the like all these should be required for on the part of any one who has an itching to punish his neighbor for what he or for how he spends his Bigotry and intolerance die and these sentiments still live in the breasts' of many otherwise good and intelligent citizens of the land of the have heard the extreme declare that if they could have their tea and coffee would b-i treated just as prohibition would treat by making it a crime to sell these Crusade Against What a spectacle the present crusade against individual liberty Note how the rights of free speech are violated by the imprisonment of the labor Witness how the freedom of the press is threatened in the attempt of the Roosevelt administration to throw editors' into jail for the unheard of offense of the Where will it end if this as the chief actors themselves only the It is time for all men who value their right to independent action and to political ad social liberty to weigh well the meaning and import of the flood of much of it useless and much of it with which nearly every American state is being |