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Show BLUE LAWS ARE TOTALLY WRONG PRIEST ASSERTS i r I Boston Collene Teacher Says Pilgrims Found Only Evil Results MORALITY BY LEGISLATION HELD ALTOGETHER FUTILE Fears Contempt of Laws if Public Sentiment Is Provoked (Bv International News Sorvlccl ! BOSTON, Jan. 21. "Blue lave Ilslatlon la wrong In theory and fatal I In practice." declares Rev. J. L J iCorrlgan, S J.. professor of social 'ethics at Boston college. I "These blue law' proposals' says Father Corrlgon, "remind us of Pilgrim Pil-grim da: s. If we may Judge from the evil results of such laws In tho early-days early-days as witnessed by no less an au- f V-,s.,-lt th,.r. rSr..rtrnor Hr:i it for.l him- ,self, nothing of good, but, on tho contrary, con-trary, much of barm may be expected If such laws are written again upon the statute books- ' ),Y, s 11 1 LD FUTILE. "History Is against tho hopps and theories of the Lords Day leaguers The Lord's Day leaguers might profitably read early Pilgrim history to learn how futile It Is to try to legislate people Into moral living. "The Intolerable effrontery and assumed as-sumed superiority of these latter-clay advocates of Puritanic observance Is In line with dozens of other Invasions of personal liberty of late, where a determined and Hell-organized minority mi-nority have Imposed their will upon a majority. thus undermining and 'subverting the very fundamentals of i democratic, government anil Imperilling Imperil-ling American fr;dom Ii3c!f. Fan-latieu! Fan-latieu! minorities? -v always dang"-ouSi dang"-ouSi but never more so than when they fancy that they aro doing tho will of tho Lord. ( OK PEMPT I OR M l. LAW, ' It in a fact of human history and experience, explain It how you please, 'that ' extremes provoke extremes. The rulo is Inevitable. "When restraints re-straints become intolerable, reaction. ; like the swing of a pendulum, sets In. The real danger trom such restrlc-jtivo restrlc-jtivo ami repressive legislation, apart from its Injustice, is the fact that It gives rise to contempt for all law "When there arc upon the statute I books measures which are not sustained sus-tained by popular sentiment and pub- lie opinion, all law loses respect and comes into contempt. It Is the same when laws are not enforced save to ;the extent of causing irritation and resentment, law suffers In tho respect Of the community and the result Is a reaction of crime , CA1 si. OF W-IFF.CTION. ' "Many keen students of our social problems think that the present crime wave In the country Is due, In lurgo i measure, to this very defect In tho i Volstead, prohibition law Sabbatarian Sunday regulations would certainly provoke violent disobedience and cynical cyn-ical disregard for tho law. It would be fanatical Idiocy to enact them I "If thp ministry of our Sabbatarian clergy has broken down, a little good searching will probably reveal that the true cause of the defection ninoug their flocks Is that the pleaching of religion and the chexlty of Christ have been supplanted in their pulpits by .social uplift and civic harangues." oo . |