Show agat again it thero there is in another great bless iok ing which the nation will receive from the movements begun began in now new york and chicago they embody lomo very important lessock lesion ts on the tahe subject of liberty which we are sorry to may bay are woefully needed by too many of our law abiding citizens citi of the tb present age oar government has all but readied reached that point in its ita development whereat the people fire are virtually I 1 the law lav makers maker 3 cepro berresen Be presen en natives and senators so eo fa far r as I 1 their hir legislative functions I 1 ore are concerned are getting to be ba more mere automatons the questions to which they all devote their attention are simply those that the people and put before them the questions they ask them solve elves a when a measure cornea comes up for enactment are not does i t conform to the spirit of our anat institutions i does doe the interest of good government goverton nt require lit ill and will the iha intelligent t part of the nation snata lit 11 larl W but I 1 will cay 1317 constituents approve of itt will it in any manner obstruct lay any re elect election ion or promotion I 1 IN now ow it is in way easy to see sea that under ill cucci uc it a con of politics if it a dais class of people who are in tho the majority doehm any sort of a lawther law they can have it simply by for it it K that majority fire ignorant and fanatical their log ag is lalion will tie ia of f it clas calabi i and will be ba directed to al a very rry great extent against acain st those r aho bo refuse se to conform to their opinions a it that abal majority is ia comp composed ot of nitter butter makers and they want it a luw to lo restrict tha sale aale of comPeL corn petina IDU they will havo have it feeling in illo mean tim oai most law abiding citizens ilo do that whatever is law Is ia right now to feel that whatever is ia law is ia right is a dera healthy state tit of the public mind so long as laws lawa originate in and through tle the deliberations of a select body bill bat when the people intrude themselves into our legi elat glat iva va balls balla aal through lollies and their newspapers and we leeret to say ay dbr corruption funds anda become abo letual law makers it is ia highly miti ri iary that thab they comprehend that there Is in nothing in the iba itter bacrad pd hii haene e of law that bat makes tyranny wholesome to lo an honest man or legislation compatible with freedom dom abow to reach a final summation of this what desultory dalt ry theme athenae whit acte people in general acquired in the course of these late proceedings against anarchism and intimidation of 0 all sl sorts the most important thin is this under tha ilia over powering if of their sympathies for abo the afflicted laborer laberer they weri wera drift ing into ato ohp iba dangerous danie danger rons ons and aej altogether irrational opinion that bat because hubn doe was possessed of his big millions and because richard aitio was toiling toi lini in ess with no hope of 0 better limea they would be justified in ati the ays eys L ea of 0 god nad and the constitution in ia robbing tho the former and KOK giving it to the latter and the petitioners petition ers and tid the memoria lists were already abrib b bling when the iha bomb bombshells shells of tha anarchist began to thunder through chicago and likewise through pub lie opinion the wise wisa reformer reform em judiciously pocketing ther opinions listened like seri Benei blo citizens to the discussion at the bar of justice and we 1 e in the course of those do liberations libe rations they hare bate heard beard a thing or two concerning the principles of 0 go en abrim liberty which nothing but bat the th bomb of 0 an aa anarchist would bave beat into their skulls they bare learned io in a very indirect but tub sub tant jal way that john does bank ac account count jia has no bearing upon hit his rights as an american cill cili zen and the protection which the laws of the government to io him as such bach |