Show i LA LAW BREAKING 1 By L L. A A. A Some people people- repeat like liko a a parrot that Crime is is' is increasing More than fifty years ago rigo I heard a young man sing a song sous one ono line of or which I said Oh Db Id I'd give this whole this whole world VarIa for to know sir lr why America increases in increases in- in creases In crime Now comes the statistician and tries to prove piove that crime is Increasing If Its It's the same am old story and Disraeli remarked C a z afew few years ago th that lt There are arc three o kinds kinds' of lies Lies Lles les damned lies mind and statistics I Tho The last session of or congress congress 71 71 da days the days the s the s senate nate passed GS bills hills grid resolutions The house passed less than tho the senate And yeti 1 Dawes wants to speed up the tho senate to amend ts rules lules so that more that more bills will iII bo be I passers passed as e 1 Dawes wants to jal jam through a lot of fool legislation Itis It Itis is better to debate these bills to the limit Jim Reed Keea of oi Missouri teas lens us that this this this' country now norv has laws More rore than a man crin can read ina in ina ina a lifetime and ana ho he couldn't remember remember ber her them even if he read then them The common law was hotter batter It would stretch to conform to custom and andreason reason The statutes are legal cast Iron they will break like a clay pipe stem The he people do not know mow the thel l Paws laws ws and soma s some me of them ahem they do kno know y and will not obey like obey like the thc Sunday laws and other amber laws you OU might mention The legislatures make the laws to suit the tho 1 propagandists dints glee theorists various salaried I Iw welfare w c workers salaried prohibition prohibition tion lion agents stew llew thought propagandists propagandists lists bios bloc theorists various alious salaried solicitors and real fanatics with their continual Blah Blahs Blah to pull the woo wool over the eyes of at the people people peo peo- ale and some of the tho legislators belong belong belong be be- be- be long to this or the other of ot these biased and interested cliques The resistance of a large fraction of the pe people an any law Is s negative negative negative neg neg- proof that the law in some es- es essential es essential s- s respects violates a law of nature na na- na- na ture The law of or the working of or the human mind is a part of the law of nature and few and few th there e be ho that re re- re alize It The adjustment of natures nature's s facts to the human mind is profound wisdom and a law that does not largely conform to that idea will be bea a failure Because a legislature cannot make a law in the sense of creating it It can merely recognize a true principle as It applies to the human mind Therefore bad laws are what make male the great bO body body or 0 o criminals and ignorance foolish foolishness ness bigotry and fanaticism are arc 1 the causes of the bad laws and of 3 criminals This applies principally to lo statute made crimes and real crime is not increasing an and the ithe world is growing better T r |