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Show Attorney General Inconsistency in Law Enfprcement f In line with the recent statement or The Bulletin that the citizens of Bingham were lawabjding, we believe we can safely say tl4t it is perhaps the most consistent Lv enforcement community- ftrtfie (XmStr-"""' " In this connection 4he ' attorney general of the United States, John G. Sargent, In addressing the convention conven-tion of the Pennsylvania bar association, associa-tion, severely criticized citizens who accept and demand enforcement of some laws while winking at or encouraging en-couraging the violation of others. He said that a century and a half ago each citizen was an Individual and got on as an individualist, but since those days a time has come when the whole of society suffers when one individual falls to function either in his economic sphere or in obedience to law. . ft The attorney general observed that none can obtain the fruits of others' law violations without rewarding the actual violator with some sort - of profit. In this circumstance, then, he added the natural Inquiry is: "If my respectable neighbors pay someone some-one to violate the law to get what they want, why should not I pay the cracksman to get what I wantT" It was Attorney General Sargent's opinion that as the burdens of making mak-ing a living have decreased, the burden bur-den of dependence on and duty towards to-wards each other of the citizens has increased, and he Insisted that that duty and burden must be borne and discharged "each one by himself. " - Mr. Sargent also took occasion to criticize some newspapers, declaring that the flippant, jeering attitude naturally nat-urally would breed a 'feeling that if law officers were snoopers and gum shoe artists in enforcing one law, thfey would be the same in attempting attempt-ing to enforce other laws. |