Show THE RIGHT OF SELFDEFENSE I Under the law all men even after arrest ar-rest arc held as Innocent until proven to be guilty It Is the duty of tho State to establish a conviction and the rule has been especially since the close of the Civil war that no matter what may be preached or threatened against the peace of the Slate or the safety of tht authorities 1 or Individuals the freedom free-dom of the j3peal < r writer must not he Interfered 1 with until some overt act hits hpen committed We have always held this to be unsound In law and Inconsistent In-consistent when considered side by side with other laws For instance If a man who Is known to be of desperate and bloodthlrsty nature declares his Intention lo kill another man and thaI tha-I other man under a welldeJlned expectation expec-tation that the brute will If possible make good his threat kills him the law justifies the act as one of necessary selfdefense Again we quarantine cities against contagious diseases on the score that It Is the duty of the authorities au-thorities to prptect so far us possible the health of the people We gofurthcr and make laws which compel people to perform their part In protecting the I general health Again in every lown and city there Is a police forge to proteol the lives and I property oC citizens r and uJIrc department depart-ment to guard ngalnnt lofisesby fire Again If a run Is caught saturating Inllamtnnblc niatorlal on his ossnor neighbors premises wfth oil he la rightly judged to lje h firebug and pun I tahcd l though hbThad not Ignited the pile v 1 It seems Just as clear that whon men meet and denounce law and order and counsel violence toward others because they aro rich or because they arc In I temporary authority when they convert Into I the ample liberties of this country mere brutal license and when their words are calculated to Inflame the evil passions of brutes of all degrees then I In clear selfprotection law as sacred lo the State as to the Individual such i And creatures ought to be restrained for such people the punishment ought not to be confInement In comfortable quarters and good food The founda In the lion of nearly all the deviltry country IB a desire to evade honest vanity to pose as a work that and a Hence reformer of the tragic kind when convicted of a conspiracy against the public peaco or against the safety of Individuals the punishment should be hard labor In the chain gang That ould for their vanity and It would be a cure I of would give them a realizing sense the face that they must either for themselves them-selves of for the State earn their bread by the sweat of their face More they I would be so fatigued physically at night that they would sleep rather than spend the night In plotting new deviltries If that were to be tried there would I not after six months be any more wretches committing crimes and charging charg-ing that the words of some creature had set them on flre Liberty In this land means liberty under the law and It Is State Is denied a shame to say that the nied the inalienable right of selfde fense |