Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1895-12-06

strive for their betterment through the
agency of bright and shining personal
example. And, if his heart must fill to
overflowing with indignation and horror
when he contemplates the compound
fractures received by the appetite law at
Bismarck, let him, for consistency's sake.
extend his criticism to official laches
along other lines. There are a great
many laws on the statute books besides
the one that allows majority which was
majority only by u thousand or so to
fasten upon the state an enactment which
at least nearly half of the voters believe
to be an unwarranted interference with
the right of every. citizen not IN prison to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happl-
nesss =
If the theory be. accepted that all laws
are holy and righteous aud should be
obeyed by every citizen without question,
then the early Christians were wrong
when they refused to worship IDOLS and
it rs likely that, if antids,arians should
ever unearth a copy of the Rome Roasler
or the Jerusalem Journal. artices against
the Christian violators of civil law would
be found therein as vehement as those of
the Steele Ozone in opposition to the
violators of civil law at Bismarck. Henry
VIII sent orthodox Catholics and Prot
estant dissenters to the scaffold for vlo-
lating the laws of the realm and yet his
tory tells US that the victims were good
people who died for conscience sake.
The Purltans held illegal meetings before
they went to Holland. and our system Of
prohibition injunctions and contempts is
very much like the English law that pun
ished owners of houses wherein they m"t
and imprisoned the congregation without
impartial trial by jury. Witches were
burned according to law in New England
and, had Cotton Mather been editor of
the Steele Ozone, undoubtedly he woniIf
have reviled those citizens who refused to
carry fagots. Roger Williams treated
with contempt the Puritan laws against
religious freedom, and, when things grew
warm, betook himself to the wilderne 81
and ate stewed skunk with the aborigines.
Pictorial history shows gentle-fnced
man sitting on log In the forest. Yet
he was breaker of laws passed by the
"better class" Of his day, and, as such,
his memory should not be respected by
the Ozone editor. The men who threw
the tea overheard were violators of the
laws of kingdom to whose other laws
they gave willing obedience. They were
lawbrcakers, pure and simple, and were
80 considered by their brethren across the
water; vet even man with as great re-
spcct for the observance Of all laws As
Brother Wood possesses will not at this
late day object to their being spoken of
in America as patriots. Then there
was law of this great Nation
hing free-state men to assist i'll the arrest
of runaway slaves. DOES Brother Wood
weep when he remembers how generally
and enthusiastically that law was hpnored
10 the breach? Yet it Was the law, and
the southern newspapers were as ind,g-
nant and howled as dolefuly over the
nOn.enforcement of it at as the Ozoue
do over the infractions ut the Slope
rnetropolis.t
Dropping "has.bee examples. we
will call the attention of our fellow victim
of the delinquent-subscriber evil to the
fact that many other laws are being
openly violated. not only in Burleigl
county, but in Kidder Has he raised
his voice IN con lemnaticu of the county
commissioners of his county because they
have, year after year, failed to make pre-
'iminary publication and enforce the pro
visions Of the bankrupting noxious. weed
law? Has he been filled with righteous
indignation because the authorities of
''poor old Kidder" have seen fit TO ignore
the commands of the impossible cactus
| destruction act? Has he roasted tht
states attorney because that official has
failed to inform against cltlzens guilty OF
performing "servie labor. public sport.
mechanical employment or public traffic
on the Sabbath7 Has he never, himself,
picked up on Sunday the dropped stitches
Of pied form or rush OF job work
Yet there are" laws Just as aoly agains
these OMISSIONS and commissions as there
are against violations of the pro.alkali
water law. ~. 454s
Again, there is a fine of one dollar, will
the alternative of incarceration in tht
body of the doujon keep, against profan
ity. And we ask Brother Wood what, il
the name of the Great Horn Spoon, would
become Of the country editors Of the stat.
should they be. punished for violatins
this law while erasing the name Of sub
scrlber who has hied himself hence with
out llquidating2 There would be no pro
lection whatever for vested rights if th,!
privilege of bucolic scribes cost dollar
or jail term for each explosion. And
we're the fine imposed In every instance,
what other safety-valve could be provided
for the country printer when suddenly
and without warning stlckful of soil
nonpareil collapses into pi3 Further
on the law says that, IL any justice o1
the peace hears profane swearing, he may
Immediately convict the offender, with
out any other proof" Yet we have no
doubt that there have been 'squires ia
Kidder, as well as in other counties Of
the state, who, had reflections been cast
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