Show o o- o 0 I TIMELY TOPICS I o 0 0 BLUE LAWS ARE LAWS The Tho authorities In Hudson county New Jersey are performing a meritorious public service in jr their drive for tor or the rigid enforcement ement of ot the antiquated and impossible blue laws o of ot the state For these imbecile prohibitions are ae e laws aws-as aws as much laws as any others on tile the statutes Their habitual vIolation violation viola vIola- tion is as much a contempt for law as the vIolation viola vIola- violation tion of any others It If they are impossible of enforcement if lr they are violated with contempt because they they are are Intolerable Intolerable Intolerable erable infringements on personal liberty there Is Isa Isa Isa a remedy In their repeal The presence of ot such laws upon the statute books Is a constant incitation to lawlessness because they war with hum human n nature and are not sustained by public opinion The constant criticism that we are not a law- law abiding people Is d due e in large sure measure to to the fact that organized and fanatical minorities are always at work forcing through trickery or the civic care are of the majority the enactment of measures measures that have no rightful place upon the books Blot these and similar r laws from the statutes refuse to write others of similar import at the dIctation dic die tation of fanatical minorities ceaSe the attempt to legislate this or that alleged moral code into the people and there will be less lawlessness more respect respect re re- re for or law greater confidence in government But as long as these blue laws remain the laws of the state stat the officials who have taken oaths to enforce all laws have no more right to wink at their violation than to connive at the violation of the act their act their lineal descendant The descendant The Evening World I |