Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-11-15


rare, and denot siraRle when they occur.
God has gifted the mass of mankind
with common sense, which Is partial
name for moral sentiment. Law must
rely on this bulwark for its defence. The
voice of the people is not the voice of
God. But divine wisdom is revealed in
the fact that, with the mass of honest,
true men and women, rather than with
more brilliant but eccentric individuals,
God has placed the strength of the law.
Just as he gives to the sun the immense
strength necessary to operate the laws of
gravitation, rather than to some brilliant
meteor that flashes for an instant along
the heavens ard is gone.
We have had numerous examples in our
own State, and in sister states, Of the pull
pit and the press and the reformers of
every class, attacking the officials of the
community and putting them to confus-
ion and rout for not enforcing certain
laws.
There may be in some places corrupt
mayors and police captains and municipal
judges. My knowledge of human nature,
and of the strength of temptation, tells
me that there probably are such. But the
same knowledge also tells me that the
majority of mayors and police captains
and municipal judges are honest men
and good citizens. At any rate, the way
to enforce law is not to attack the mayor
and his brother officers. II they are cor
rupt, then attack them for their corrup-
ton. But do not speak hard words
against honest men because they do not
enforce every law on our statute books.
The laws of Maine do not have the char
acter scripture ascribes to the laws of the
Modes and Persians. They must be APP
piled with common sense. Some are OBJ
solete, and have not been enforced for
years in any community. Some are ex
perimental, and must be experimental
with. Sometimes the laws of our common
humanity conflict with the laws of our
State and the strife must be adjusted.
Some citizens think mayors duties
are all summed up in enforcing every ordi
nance OF his city and every law of his
State in his city. Some persons think
that police captain is a machine to cause
every violator of every law to be instantly
every judge upon the bench can treat law
and he humanity brought before him as
a problem in Euclid.
These officials could do this il State law
We're divine, and eternally just because
divine. But State law is human, and
city ordinance is human, and both re-
qulre human common sense in applying
them to humanity, because everything
human is imperfect and liable to be par
TALLY uni just.
do not wish these words to lessen your
respect for law A sad need of our day
improve both law and respect for it is not
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