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Show Danger of Today Is From the Lawmaker Rather Than From the Lawbreaker By ARTHUR T. HADI.EY, in Haptr's Magazine. One of (lie greatest dangers which now confronts us is the increasing demand for ill-considered legislation, and llie increasing rcadmcs of I would-lio reformers to rely on authority rather than on public .sentiment for securing their ends. I When the republic was first founded, we had more to fear from the law breakers than from the law make-?, from the absence if authority j than from its nverexereise. I'pople believed n individual liberty and ' even sometimes irulired to carry that idea fo extremes. Bat this love of I iiuertv lias gradually given place to a 7.'-?A f"r standardization. The new Inns'MTsu-v. in the words of Ixird Karrer, is passionately benevolent and Ml-S'u'.'!:' iv fund of pov or. 'I't, ' iv. it is from the law maker rather than from the law breaker j . nr An.' ri;;!ii traditions of self-government have most to fear. |