Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-04 | Page 5 | Walt Mason

WALT MASON ( ' CHOOSINt; YOUR LAWS "This law," men say, "forbidding H drinks, was put across by locoed glntu J whose belfries swarmed with bats; H tho other laws we will obey, but to H this one we say ,"Xny, nay' and also, ' Slush' and 'Rats" We'll lift n chickens from their perch, we'll rob H no train, we'll burn no church, we're H law-ebldlng Buys; but we will have olr forty drops In spite of all the law? I ami cops, and all tho frantic Drys " H Kespoct for law Is growing lax; the H outlaws ever bolder wax, their busl- H ness never stops; they hear the moral H voters say, "This one punk law w H won't obey we'll have our forty H drops " The man in high, command- H III', pl.l'e piMir-. I'il.7e VeriiOlen in his face-, and thinks he's being smart; H tho merchant, nnd the ermlned Judge H must have their little sip of budge, H some comfort to Impart. The rich man treats his friends to win that's old and elegant and fine, and cooled H on costly Ice, nnd says, while moisten- Ing his tubes, "The law Is for down- H tr.-M ; ,i -n boohs who cannot raise the price " The nuin who would not swipe a hen. or take his neighbor's iron men, keeps booze in his abode, and so res- H pect for law grows weak, and If for H nnarchy wr'i seek, we've found the shortest road.