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Show LAW ENFORCEMENT. "Let reverence for the law be taught in schools, j in seminaries and in colleges; let it be written ni j primers, spelling books and almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legist"0 halls and enforced in courts of justice. Anil, m short, let it become the political religion of the nation; na-tion; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasiugb upon its altars." These words we find credited to Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln in a newspaper. But whether they arc tin" j words of Mr. Lincoln or not. they breathe the spirit of the great emancipator, who saw the dangers which beset the nation from lux enforcement ot laws, the bulwark of our national strength and internal in-ternal trunouillitv. I Jn a country wherein the people are the supreme power of the land, nothing can more surely tend to disruption than the lax enforcement of the laws made and provided for the guidance of the people. Before the law all arc supposed to be equal, yet there is frequently seen a disparagment between certain classes in the matter of law enforcement. For instance, the son of a rich man may become intoxicated; in-toxicated; be is bundled into a carriage and taken to his home or a hotel room, where he may recover his normal condition. Another, poorly dressed, with no money in his pockets, is hurried into the police patrol and allowed to work on the rock pile until he recovers his senses. The offenses are similar, the same law is broken, yet the merited punishment is inflicted upon one. offender and the other goes unscathed. un-scathed. Let us have an equal enforcement of the laws, not a lax enforcement for cue and a rigid enforcement enforce-ment for another. In that lies the stability of a government of, by and for the people. |