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Show buy thirds without being told "thoti shaJt noY' by a handful of fanatics. The citizens of the average large city want the personal liberty to which, they have been accustomed. accus-tomed. It is a matter of principle with them. They do not want license, but they are decidedly unwilling unwill-ing to consent to abridgment of . their . liberties. When an attempt Is made to deprive thera of. what they consider their rights they are likely to go to extreme and to violate laws they never dreamed, of violating before. , - , , ' There ar all too many" laws now. The Legislatures Legis-latures keep adding new ones at an appalling rate. That ,1s bad enough, but when it comes, to going back more than a century and digging op. measures to enforce, the certain result is the creation of,con-tempt of,con-tempt for all law. . ' . V jy When Law Is Drought Into Conttmpt. '' Pittsburg is in Allegheny county. Pittsburg is one of the great cities of the United States, pro-; pro-; . gressive and fully abreast of the times inx most i things, but,unfortunate in being the home of some ( ' . fanatics who have it in their power to" cause a great deal of trouble. Some of these well meaning but anpoying persons per-sons recently organized the Allegheny County Sab- bath Observance association with the intent of tell- ing the other citizens of Pittsburg what they should , do and what they should not do. In order to make 1 themselves as obnoxious as possible they resurrect- ; ed the blue laws," enacted in 1794, and tried to j enforce them. Under the provisions of those obso- I ' , lete measures it is hardly possible for a person to breathe on Sunday without being liable to arrest, id the only manner in which it is legal to spend ' ltioney is to put it into the contribution box. Detectives were engaged" and fhey sought to convict all whom they found selling cigars, soda . water or the like on Sundays. Such measures were unpopular, naturally enough, with Pittsburgers and a hard fight was made. One of the detectives was : brought to trial oh a charge of perjury, it being ! Alleged that he secured the conviction of a store- keeper whose place had not Wen open on Sunday j . at all. An indignant crowd gathered at the office of the Magistrate before whom the hearing was held, and made a demonstration. One of the detectives de-tectives fired into the crowd, killing a man. So much for mistaken zeal. Siich movements ! always do more harm than good. People may not care particularly about buying cigars or soda water wa-ter on Sunday, but they like to know that they can |