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Show OUR LIBERTIES. One of the most overworked words in our lan- guage is liberty. The demagogue is always looking look-ing out for our liberties, as though some one intended in-tended to run off with them. The agitator is deprived de-prived of his liberties when he is compelled to obey the law that others must obey. -Nobody seems to know just what our liberties are, we have so many, but we often hear about assaults upon them. The inheritance in-heritance tax is such an assault, according to some-But some-But everybody coming under the operation of that law has another great American liberty still left undefiled -that of dodging the tax. The president's presi-dent's suggestion that the inheritance tax should bear more heavily on those residing out of the country coun-try than on those residing in it is another assault on American liberties. Indeed, whatever is dono or is not done is construed by somebody as an encroachment en-croachment on the palladium of our liberties. This has been going on for so many years that our liberties seem to have got used to being encroached upon or trampled under foot. But they bob uv serenely every time. It's a kind of w-ay they have so we have never got real pessimistic or gloom-about gloom-about them. Our liberties are really vital, however. But. they belong to us all in common, and when somn one tries to corral them, be assured that fellow's neighbor will report him to the police. He won't be allowed to brand them and call them his own. Our liberties are guaranteed by the law and the constitution. When some one violates the law,' he is hunted up and made to pay the penalty as. the law provides. As long as our liberties are not in more danger from lawlessness than they now are-we are-we feel no cause for alarm that they are bein? taken from us. |
