| Show ONE GREAT EVIL Of OE THE COUNTRY Has Too Tao Many Laws LegIsla LegIslatures lures tures Too Anxious to Swell Statutes Says Ireland LEGISLATION NOT A CURE ALL lt 11 lolI J stets d t Iro III Irly m Inch h h l l II III I t Lieu I nl St PaUl Pcb Feb hop Ireland helan in nn an address today nt at time the S ms of at the of birthday of the loll It t was wall the limo Intention ot of time the fathers ot o othe t the republic that political liberty wits to be time the stud the protector of o civil liberty erty he hall It was thought and most t tIghtly SU so that being In u the lito h Ia too 10 laws a WOJ would bo be enacted that would go beyond necessary limits In III restrictions thons at 01 cl 11 freedom We IVo hove huv too ninny laws our lutes arc too noxious to Int Increase the tho bulk ull ot of limo statute book As AH thing site ule we shall shull soon SOOIl huts hUe so many laws that wrapped around us au It even 10 b by mall mail we shall shull become Pris Prisoners lI to stir or to tl walk It 11 were so lO It the tho bills year by b year ear before the sessions ot of or 01 the le legislatures Were to 0 he be turned into en enactments rho Ilme for tOl legislation shelter Itself colder time the name or of immoral 0 n Fur Fun front mo coo to legislation hl the alto betterment ot of moral It Ity But far tal from tile ml aise to O the tho mound moral legislation which at best no results to un an abridgment of oC public civil chU liberty whIch Ils umea tu to cover coel the ground ot at morals so lO that no room remains for the free or of conscience e which b by Its and narrowness HOI annoys H irritates and defeats rather than assIsts time very purpose it II proposes as Its Today roll a another form or of legislative mania from IlUm time tho industrial rest Into tub which our tunes times have havo brought us Hore let there ho In laws to punIsh Injustice and w Ing whether on the port ot of the weak ling or the thu strong on that ot of thu labor or er or that ot of the t Let Iet there bo be laws wisely reaching out to the en of at social p peace and of so prosperity to time tho bringing nigh high u ot of th the fair Vision or of legitimate racy equal Industrial rights for Cor nil all equal opportunities for tor talent and for fOI But BUI let us he be tin of our OUI guard that In time the pursuit of justice we do not bring on 11 that In coveting social prosperity wo we do not encounter social disaster and chaos Above Aboe nil mill other things let us UI bo be sure cute to despoil deoU ourselves ot of nil all throbbing of at envy jealousy hatred In our for Cor Ind industrial le legislation lion Is In the tho land today the tie Ite h slon that men mell ma become rich through legislation Ill III lieu ot of toil IoU talent amid I that to 10 build up tip ono nought else elso I ls heeded than 10 pull Jull down mid there Is growing lip up us n 11 hatred ot of success In Imm others however much that success may mR have hlo been the rew reward artl or of most praiseworthy effort That of oC capital corporations trusts may have their had faults and 1111 need to ho be watched ove r by thu tho state with diligence and care I 1 shall not den deny limit But t I do den deny that q o capital and corpora are alo to bo be prejudged ns guilty that mon loon having part In them are to be almost as without right to work without right to fair play pay which Is the native oC af nil all Amerl I canA Anti And J I deny en that all men tiro equally talented equally tarl equally that all are uro more or ar less entitled tlc to un art equal possession or lit Or nn n Oqual In toward t r den that can over be without Its rich and Its comparatively comparative poor that American In and enterprises can cun nyer thrive and hold their owlet on In worldwide corn petition without there being here hare suit there to Its needs needa large accumulations or of wealth rind fluently largo large gatherings or of In men en associations us as contributors to its wealth Destroy great enterprises enterprise mAlI impassible the of man many In and It over eer crimes comes bo be or of nod odal pos Let there thero Lt br J I say Joy legislation but legislation with all an eye CO to tho Iho which Is he fostered 11 by JURI Ice to all by wIsdom It ot of methods b by n II full Ail recognition ninon ot of the tho luWI Ians or of nature in the mho In life lito or of our ot of the reta lions or of ous class ot of men to taw on nn other and or of all classes or of men toward thu nation It at j large |
