Show LAW AND REFORM can cnn properly accuse the NOBODY Philadelphia Evening Lodger Ledger of exaggeration when hen it remarks that men occasionally make mt the mistake I of or regarding now law and reform 3 as i synonymous Man Many men occasionally commit this error Too many mako make It permanently permanent and eternally I New laws and reforms along moral lines cannot be bo synonymous else the tho laws would not bo necessary Law must be bo an expression of ot dominant public sentiment else Its enactment Is Is not worth tho the time Um of or the tho ordinary obtuse legislator There Is a specific comprehension amon among most American citizens of ot the lengths to which law may go so In circumscribing personal liberty lIbert and when those bounds are passed law however drastic and however however however how how- ever efficiently enforced is worthless It is 19 without effect except that because because because be be- cause it Is honored more In the breach than iri in the observance it breeds disrespect disrespect disrespect dis dis- respect for all law Education must Inevitably Ine precede reform and the la law that seeks to promote promote promote pro pro- mote reforms The Tho public mind must bo be prepared for changes In rules of ot conduct the tho more moro so when hen years ears of ot uninterrupted enjoyment of ot a privilege privilege Ilose has made that privilege seem a right Few Americans are aro disposed to respect a law that requires them to todo todo todo do something or to refrain from doing something without an any appeal to their sense of or Justice or of ot morality It must be obvious that law Jaw is Id commonsense commonsense common commonsense sense else law will not get Itself obeyed When the common desire of ot a community com com- community or of or a state or of ot the nation expresses Itself In law reform and law then become synonymous although ItIs it itis itis is paradoxically true that tha under such circumstances law Is least necessary They cannot become synonymous non when tho the one seeks to achieve the other ina In Ina ina a community that is not yet yot ot convinced i either Is desirable Inculcation of ot morality morality mor mor- aUt Into the individual b by law Is practically practically Impossible although promotion of or morality b by law Is possible since Ince vice vico banned and concealed finds fewer opportunities for indulgence than vice Ice condoned and openly permitted Personal liberty Is a phrase too often otten misunderstood and misapplied Many ran persons demand It under circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances th t evidence It Is license and not liberty libert they de desire lre Frequently ItIs It ItIs itis Is but the excuse given for practices that infringe upon tho the liberty of ot others Reform and personal liberty are arc not Incompatible |