Show DRAFT RESISTERS it is unfortunate that jut just when we 1 should h old have a perfect unanimity of sa sentiment ciment in this country on the question of prosecuting the war mr beram ain misguided persons should persist in treasonable resistance to the selective draft even some rome pre preachers them who of all others should both practice and teach unswerving loyalty to the country have advised their hearers bearer to resist the law it r is hard to believe these people are deliberately disloyal we would much porter to believe that they sin through igno ignorance dance one must be low indeed in the scale of ores crea tion lion when he can deliberately be tram lra his country and his people E een en that beatific designation of our country as the land of the fee f ee has grown to mean in many ignorant mand minds something entirely different from its ita meaning to the person nho he sees life as it is the man of normal intelligence sees fr eLdorn as purely relative he knows there can be no absolute freedom As long as there remain I 1 two t w 0 hu human man beings on this earth neither can possibly be entirely free the welfare of either must of necessity circumscribe the freedom of the other it is just this fundamental fact hoyeler hoa hoy ever that many ignorant minds fall fail to grasp to them freedom has no other meaning save license once assured that they are free men any force that interferes with their conception of freedom is to ancia tranny and not to be white ted it is high time we revised the pao popular polar conception of freedom it II is time the basic truth were stressed that there can be no freedom with out absolute obedience to law the dis regard of law tends toward anarchy and anarchy is the very antithesis of freedom again many minds fail to appreciate Pre preci crate ate the fact that without the law and its fost fostering erime care there could be no such thing as freedom even safety and without stable table government there can be no effective law law reduced to its essence is but the crystallized will of those affected laws for the protection of life and property properly depend entirely on the will of the various individuals it is simply the public will reduced to a code these small malcontents are stand ng ing treatments enta of the efficacy of laws ass and governments without the fostering care of civilized government it would have been impossible for their forebears to lot have evoked anything like a creditable specimen of humanity as even their unworthy selves their lives have been guard ed shielded by the protecting power of this same form force called law which form force they now in their ignorance and stupidity imagine they can set act smile aside at their pleasure we as a a people have gone too far afield after freedom we have made of it a fetich we have distorted and stretched its meaning until t ise e national conception of freedom bears very tittle little resemblance to the renown genuine e article we must get back to the old P batha t we must stamp L indelibly on the public mind the eternal fact that perfect freedom can come in no other way than through derfelt 1 all obedience diance to law it may take a fo few faring squads to make this impress impre and if so 0 aude ahe b sooner Booner they are called calle it out the better I 1 |