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Show "A .MAN'S HOUSE HIS CASTLE." Tin: following, which appeared in the Chicago Mai!, will strike a chord In every freeman's heart and will be endor.-H.tI by all who have regard fur true n'jd constitutional liberty: "Rverybody knows that a 'man's house is his castle,' or, at Idas:, everybody every-body ought to. The sturdy old proverb of common law comes down to us from times as far back as the grantingof the Magna Charta, if not further. Jiut of Lite tho full significance signifi-cance of all the rights implied in tho saying, which is In reality an exemplification exem-plification of good law, have not been recoguized or respected as they ehould have been. 'A man's houso is his oastle;' in it he is supposed to be safe; privarv is sacred in tho eyes of civilization civ-ilization and no Individual has the right to violate the privacy of another: ergo, has not the right to enter his house without his consent for any purpose whatsoever. Bat the community, com-munity, for tho protection of itself, retains tho right to viohito the privacy pri-vacy of the -individual, to take his person, property, or life if need 10. Bat that right cannot be exercised without due process of law, without responsible omeial action, made necessary neces-sary by the misdeed of tho individual whose privacy is thus violated. Tho courts have so deckled, and a freb decision by Judge Collins has brought to notice the danger of violation of the principle: "A man's house i his castle." Officer John Mahoncy went to Ibo house uf Thomas Bailey, and, without a warrant, forcibly entered. Bailey s.hot him, as ho had a ierfeet right to do, and the court acquitted him. Any citizen lias a right to do-fond do-fond his privacy to whatever extent he may find necessary, save against recognized and accredited officers of tlie law with the official onlerof the community in the shajto of a warrant ta Justify their intrusion. It's a goo. I, healthy, sturdy old adage that "a man's hou-e is his castle:" ono of l!iue upon the recognition of which by each inditidual rets tbo foundation founda-tion of social organiza'ion, tribal, slate, civic, or nationat association." |
