The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-01
FAIRBANKS PAYS
TRIBUTE TO FARMER
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greed should swerve us from this pur-
pose. 1t is as much our imperative duty
to protect capital and labor in the free
and proper. exercise of their functions as
it is to restrain and forbid the encroach-
mentS of wrong.
There is no more vital or wholesome
lesson to be drawn amidst these num-
perlesS evidences of peace, these rewards
OF the toll. and the genius of the hus-
bandman and the craftsman, than that
we are surrounded and governed by law
which is as vital to us as the very at
mosphere we breathe is necessary to
our physical existence; vitiate either.
and 1t is done at our peril. In the OBJ
SServance of the mandates of the law
lies the only sure guarantee of those
orderly conditions which are the life of
trade and which yield to labor and cap
ital their surest and largest returns.
30 long as the law stands upon the stat
ute books. it must be respected and en-
Forced 1t must not be left to the indi-
V1dual or any number of individuals to
sit IN Judgment upon the laws which
shall or shall not be obeyed. If a law be
an unWise one it must be repealed in a
lawful way; not by the individual, but by
the state. There was much sound philoso-
ply in Gen. Grants observation that the
best way to secure the repeal of a bad
law was to enforce it.
Enforce the Law.
The lax enforcement of the law by
courts and executive officers breeds a
contempt for it. If the constituted au-
thoritles do not faithfully and firmly exc
cute 1t, the lawlesS element will not hest
tate. to set it at defiance, and to defy
the law is to strike a blow at the very
foundation of government. The officer
who, either from ignorance or fear, fails
TO compel obedience to the law, is as
much an enemy of the state as those who
openly defy all established authority.
Sporadic cases of lynching and burning
IN many quarters have stirred deeply the
just Indignation of the country Be it
said to the credit of the great Northwest
that she has been singuiarly free from
the revolving offenses which have oc-
CURED ELSEWHERE. Lynch law is an in
dei1ble crime and disgrace. 1t not only
murders the hapless victim, but assassf-
mates the good name of the community in
which IT usurps authority. Force beyond
the pale of the law is the forum of saw
agery: The mob which disregards all
lawful restraint is the rule of anarchy.
1t rests upon the animal instinct and
brute force. 1t trarnples under foot the
noblest and most cherished traditions
Wnlch nave come down to US from the
immortal fathers who founded our insti-
tut1ons. 1t is at war with the home. the
church and the state. 1t breaks upon
our, peace with cyclonic fury, and when
IT has spent its frenzy it leaves wreck,
rum and dfshonor in it's wake.
The mob which is the expression of
race hatred Is the most perilous- We are
a people composed of many races. In
fact, all tongues are found among our
population Providence has placed us
here, and together we must work out our
careers. We should cultivate among
each other spirit of generous tolerance
and secure to all races, the weakest and
strongest alike, the fullest possible en-
Joyment of these fundamental principles
for which free government was ordained
and which found utterance through the
inspired pen of Thomas Jefferson, Life,
liberty and pursuit of happiness" To
secure these our richest blood has made
immortal and glorious the battlefields of
the, republic. Our heroes died for all
races. They died that all might equally
snare the blessings of the best govern
ment instituted among the children of
men, Our flag is not race flag 1t is
the everything symbol of equality before
the law OF all races who acknowledge
its authority.
Delayed Justice Breeds Violence.
The protracted delay and the miscar-
rage or Justice arouse spirit of resent
ment which often finds its expression in
the unrestrained violence of the lawIess.
1t is essential that there should be a per-
slStent rather than an intermittent senti-
ment IN favor of the prompt, orderly and
efect1ve enforcement of the law. We
must deal with all infractions of the law
through the established judicial tribunals
-seasonably. vigorously and justly.
The certainty that w-bfeakerS will
be speedily punished will go far to deter
breaking. The virtue of the law lies
not so much within itself as in its inflex-
fble enforcement While we insist that
outraged Justice shall be swiftly avenged,
we must not rob the accused of the full
est measure of protection to which he is
entitled under the constitution and those
orderly methods of procedure which are
the fruit of the wisdom of centuries. Ven
geance should not be met with ven
geance, but should be compelled to an
swer in that serene tribunal whose judg-
ments are altogether just, in that forum
where presides the majesty of the law.
Liberty Is Not License
One of the surest safeguards against
disorder lies in the thorough inculcat ton
of spirit of justice among men, For
without there abides with the people a
love of justice, laws are impotent and the
ministers of the law nerveless. We should
teach the love of justice at the fireside
and in the church. in the schoolroom and
in the press. We should teach it every
where.
There are some in our country who. de-
spite all the splendid lessons about them
have an inadequate conception of the true
meaning of liberty. They fail to realize
that. liberty and license are not correlative
terms. Let them be made to understand
that in the United States law IS liberty
and liberty is law. We have no hospital