The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-12

forbidding coasting-that Is ''sliding" down
hill-On the sidewalks In the village. Has |
any attention been paid thereto ? Not at
all, We have repeatedly called the atten-
ton of the authorities thereto, but no at
tempt has been made to enforce the law.
1t may be said that this is trivial matter
but Is it The one fact that we are
teaching our children to pay no
attention to the law, that they may obey,or
disobey, particular law at their own Will
ought to be enough to make 1t important
Some of the boys may outgrow the lesson
thus impressed upon their minds; but the
records of reform schools, jails, and state
prisons. show how 1t will act upon others.
Three quarters of the criminals confined in
state prisons confess that they commenced
their criminal life with these trivial Often
ces, to which no attention was paid; and
then the several steps were natural and
easy. But, aside from this is 1t Of no i'm
portance ?-of no importance at home. Is
young law breakers, engaged in an unlaw
full act should violently throw to the
ground and seriously injurc such citizen
as our venerable and beloved friend-the
Hon Luther Daniels? Should such vio-
lation Of law, attended with such results,
be passed by in silence But so it was.
And this is but a single instance. there are
a number of others
1t is unquestonably true that we are
governed too much in certain respects; that
we have too many laws on our statute
books. But whose fault is 1t q? No one
can fail to answer this question correctly
The fault is with the aw-makers-the peo-
pie. We often hear of n law being n
'dead letter." and it is probably true
that there are laws which are so
considered But it should not be so. We
hold that no law should he enacted unless
there is necessity for it, We hold that
every law on the statute books should be
strictly, impartially and legally enforced.
We hold that if 4 law Is not or cannot be
enforced. il should not be on the statute
book. And we hold that no man in en-
deavoring to enforce one law has the right
to treat with contempt other laws. We
have now, and heretofore, called attention
to the want of respect paid to certain laws,
ana with another instance we are through
and in referring TO it we shall call nc
names. 1t will be remembered that, Fri
day morning. we stated that there had been
no riot in Rutland. For so stating, our Co
temporary charges lis with Il want OF
veracity and consistency As Il part of the
proof it gives the names of a "citizen:
committee, says that they call it a "riot,
adding this sentence "1His citizens com
" Matte haze investigated the affair, heard I'll,
% s'co5n testimony upon all sides, and stat
"iclat they ka0W, and az truthfm men
"Mey tcW b. 6elieoed.' We simply desir,
to ask whether this statement is true ol
false ? If false, well and good. II true
what right had the ''citizens committee" tC
take such a course? If the statement il
true we regret il very much, but we are
constrained, now and here, to say that W.
do not believe they have taken any sucl
course as that indicated. Until we know
whether they have or not, we shall maxi
no comment. We have no desire to fight
windmill, which we should be doing if W
commented on this naked statement.