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Show OBEYING THE LAW We hear a great deal about the enactment of too many laws and it is true that the country seems to be engulfed biennially in a veritable ver-itable flood of new legislation . One result, is, so we are told, that law enforcement is made very difficult. This is doubtless true, but the very fact that it is true" makes it more the duty of every good citizen, to see that he obeys the law himself. One good way to prevent the enactment of more unnecessary and foolish laws is to enforce) all laws that are on1 the statute books, and so bring about a reaction against the tendency to make too many new laws . Many, of our leading jurists are! warning us that the flouting of the laws of the country is now becoming a national peril . Touching Touch-ing upon! this point Attorney General Sargent recently said in an address ad-dress before the Pennsylvania Bar Association: hen intelligent, educated men hold up to ridicule the rules for its conduct which society makes and devote their intelligence, wit and resources to make crime and criminals attractive, it is to be expected ex-pected that the thoughtless, the ignorant, the vicious, will try and get rid of the oppressor of the criminal, in any way, by any means, that will be most effective." "Day by day, because some one pays for the doing of it and because be-cause the great body of law-abiding citizens is complaisant and says nothing to show its approval, flippant, jeering writers, publishers, soap-box orators and cabaret performers sow the wind and society reaps it all in whirlwinds which blast and destroy." |