Show citizenship AND AM LAW when any man defiantly announces that in the event of the enactment of 0 a law which he be disapproves of he intends to violate it he writes himself down by that declaration a dangerous citizen tile the face that he may be ot of some business or social prominence or that he may have the money with which to pay his fine or perhaps to purchase immunity makes him even more dangerous tor for to the commonest understanding it must be evident that deliberate violation ol of law by those who have money constitutes a greater peril to the nation than isolated surreptitious violations by those who make the misstep under what they are pleased to call the pressure ot of temptation or necessity laws are made to be obeyed they are enacted in response to public demand and tor for the protection and welfare 0 of organized society it the majority of the people do not approve of this or that law after it shall have ben been declared constitutional and shall have been fairly tried they have in their own hands the power to repeal it but so long as it remains upon the statute books the inevitable presumption Is that they want it and it is the duty of officials to enforce and of all good citizens to respect and obey it no man has the legal right to elect which laws he will obey and which he will break to admit such a right would be to make all law a mockery and reduce society to chaos there never was a law enacted that did not give ortense offense to somebody and that was not regarded as art an infringement of personal liberty probably no respectable person wishes to be taken seriously when he breathes a lawbreaking intention in iii such moments of exasperation he is talking mainly tor for effect As an illus tr alton aLlon the prohibition law was as bitterly ought fought as any mea measure sure that ever went upon the books and there was no end to the bombast ol of certain individuals who w were ere going to do as they pleased law or no law well they may bo be breaking the law occasionally io but it will be observed that they are not boasting about it nor doing it openly they do jt it it if at all in secret as other lawbreakers do their work and nothing would cause them greater anguish and and shame than tobe caught at it the fact Is no matter how unpopular a law may be it is the law just the same and no citizen is going to be so rash and childish as to allow his indignation to place him befort the community in the light ot of a criminal tor for defying or violating it mer merely ely because ho he like it evening news |