Show I LIBERTY VS LICENSE LICE SE New r-ow York Herald Liberty I Is a n. word of ot such graceful proportions and ond H Its un accents fall faU wo io o harmoniously har har- upon the tho sensitive eardrums of human human- Ity 13 ty that thoro is a disposition to to accept tho the word at its Us face value and in Its highest sen sense o without any effort to determine if Jr the zeal of oC the tho user of oft It t has hns not led him to confuse contuse its meaning meaning- with sith that of ot license The Tho complaint that liberty may bo pros- pros to base uses is at least us as old as us tho the French revolution evolution revolution and antI th the disposition to commit crimes In n its Us name does not seem t to grow less with the passing of or tho tim years ears If all alt human beings s were i ideally call constituted a condition under which all could coula enjoy enjo personal liberty liberty lib lib lib- erty would like other Utopian schemes chemes based on a n. high ideal meet with universe approval but no so lon long n nil as tho the first nr ancl Maat or or- Is s self Belf and most of or the tho Intermediate ramifications lead cad In tho same direction jt It t. t 14 necessary for tor tho lie majority to exercise p a little muo g but firm restraint on tho ho minority for lor personal liberty In Us its perverted sense enso may be ho held to mean the tho flowing blowIng up of ot teno- teno ment nent houses cs and wrecking of trains no less Jess than thon I ho tho bu buying of oC drinks at a ba bay bait o on Sunday or tho the I placInG of ot bets bats at ot a race raco track But nut If It tho Personal Libert Liberty te cague ue whoso whose latest achievement has been to chami Ion the tho racing men menn In n tho the fight between their Int Interests ests or rather tho the gambling Inter interests LJ which havo about the therace therace race raco track and a n. strong public sentiment which demanded de do- tho the abolition of this impetus to tho the Improvement improvement im Im- un- un provement of ot tho the breed of oC horses horses had set out do- do to mako make itself us it could h hardly have havo adopted any means more likely to bring about that hat result than its action in protesting against the order from tho the police department which resulted In Ina Ina ina a number of oC arrests In Prospect park a few fow days ago of ot persons whoso o ideas of ot personal liberty led them hem totally to disregard the rights of oC the tho public It is said that luring during tho the last low few da days s 's agents of ot tho the lea league havo have been working in tho the l Eat East a t sl side e section of ot Manhattan tho the homo of most of or tho the perSons persons per per- sons arrested in Prospect park parI for violation of or Its rules seeking to secure pocuro signatures to a n. protest against the police of Brooklyn for tho the conscientious performance of oC an unpleasant duty which has been somewhat neglected in tho the past If this i is tho case and antI if IC there Is an any connection between the Individuals individuals individuals engaged cd in aiding and abetting those thos who de- de sire to make nuisances of ot themselves In public parks and deprive respectable of ot their rights in these places and tho the gentlemen whoso whose antagonism to the tho Hart Agnew law has inspired them to mal make e euse use of or tho the Personal Liberty League and f if tho the organization Is to continue its activities along tho lie same amo mo lines It will not tako long to alienate from It any sympathy now existing amon among those who aro are not disposed to regard as hh highly hJ criminal tho ho act of or guessing with money on tho the results o of a horse race The fhe Personal Liberty League seems scorns to be begetting begetting getting Into bad company compan |