Show halfon Us in jail take this from pennsylvania lawyer judco henry A fulls fullar r ot of luzerne county human behavior under modern li Is now hafted 1 fit by so many restrictions restriction that it has haa become impossible tor for ten oten the tha best intentioned people leopa to go eo through tho the day without committing one or more mora crimes so we aro are all in it or at it this judge says it Is fair air to assume that in our country land ot of the free crimes are being dally daily committed andi and it if these were all prosecuted tor for punishment one halt half ot of our federal population would be confined in jail and the other engaged in getting them there we used to hear that one halt the people were nuts and the rest were squirrels what the pennsylvania judge says comes to about the same thing he was moved to utterance by the case brought before him ot of a young girl who had neglected to take out a license for her shepherd dog who had been fined 10 with costs of 3 and who in default of payment had been committed to jail tor for fifteen days the judges opinion ends with discharge of the defendant and this conclusion the law la is fast developing into a self devouring monster perhaps we might call the national congress and aalthe state legislatures into simultaneous six months session start by bypassing passing a blanket repeal of all existing laws and then make a new batch from the bottom up colliers |