Show individual liberty must be compatible with he liberty of all AH by WILLIAM G MADOO ex secretary of the treasury liberty is not freedom but anarchy all liberty roust must LAWLESS be restrained to tho the point whore where it is compatible with the liberty of all there cannot be private rights in any proper sense of defined and determined by the community comin the term except as they are in acting through its appropriate organs whenever a question arises for example concerning the relation of public utilities the prevention of fraudulent securities issues the protection of the health of women and children or the control of traffic in habit forming drugs and beverages the first and greatest obstacle j to be overcome is almost sure to be argument that whatever might etli otherwise corwise be a valid exercise of the states police power is ia a wrongful invasion invasion of private rights in tho the past tin this s argument has been comm commonly i only use used d against constitutional provisions it being assumed that the scope of private rights could extend no further than the terms of constitutional g guarantee now it is being contended under the influence chiefly of a dislike for one of the recent amendments to the constitution that there are rights whichard which chare are sacred from interference by society even when acting in its constitution making capacity the stion strongest gest because it is the soundest argument against government regulation is not the tha doctrine of natural rights but the argument that the government is unfit to discharge the duties which it is proposed to con confide rid e j in n it find and that private rights are pot safe in its hands |