New Ulm review., 1901-11-27
LAW AND PRIVILEGE.

DO llulJdIlCuS VI pOAo0AoA @Aoo1-1
something not we'll defined by most peo-
Pile and where law begins and personal
liberty ceases is difficult sometimes ior
people to understand. To enter INTO
full discussion of the subject would re-
quire too much space but the Review de,
sires to present one phase of the question
as briefly as possible. Man IS lnoepeh-
dent lust so long as he .d0es not run
counter to the independ nee OF otners'
IF there wac hut one nan, he would be
independent; wher there are two men
he is inst half 5 Independent. That is
society.
Whe.I men ceased to regard each oth-
ers privileges laws were createo anu
these laws were made to cover the weak
points and not the strong. AS widely
diverging in principle as some laws are
they were presumed to have been franco
with the theory of justice to those VINO
are unable to secure 1t otherwise than oy
appeal.
Submission to law is good citizenship
and q had law is sooner killed by en-
forcement than by violation. A poor
law may be disregarded, but as long as
it remains on the statute books 1t is
menace to those who disregard 1t. at
;he same time there are probably as
many laws disregarded as there are en-
forced. For instance there are laws that
make it the duty of marshals and Po-
licemen to arrest minors for smoking
and for prosecuting minors for being IN
saloons. Good laws, but they interfere
with personal liberty
The object of law is that the wishes
of the majority shall be regarded. Ii
the majority of people in the state
through their representatives say the
people shall all be vaccinated once in
five years; they are vaccinated and this
is continued until new representatives
change the law, and 1t doesn't matter
in the least if every man in Brown
county be against it. They are denied
the privilege of setting up an arbitrary
government, for the Constitution dele
gates those matters to the state.
A colony of people went to Utah, re-
moved at that time thousand miles
from civilization, exiIes in measure to
what they called personal liberty. The
majority of the people of the other
states said Utah is violating our belief
in what is right and the people of Utah
were made to obey the law.
No man is so foolish as to believe that
this age is so vlrtuous as to be able to
to exist without laws and until that time
we must submit to the provisions made
by those whom we have considered. wise
enough to govern US. If we are In the
minority, as long those inalienable priv
ileges with which the creator has en-
dowed us, are not abridged and the right
to our belief and the privilege to propo-
gate it is not curtailed, we are enjoying
the blessings guaranteed under the Con
stitution of the United States to which
most of us have come as to an sylum of
refuge from the restrictions and tyranny
of a government where liberties are lux
uries and government is expressing.
Where community believes the laws
of the state which controls it are unjust
it is unwise where those laws are at
tempted to be enforced to oppose them,
The thing 10 do is to submit, and at the
proper time work for change in them;
for the violation of any law, however
obnoxious it may be, has never worked
to the benefit of any person, while the
disregard of law where there are none to
prosecute may have injured no one
Personal liberty does not carry with il
immunity from law and laws were never
intended to abrogate the privileges of
individuals.
The Review hopes the merchants of
this city are broad enough business men
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