The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-30
OBEY THE LAW.
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has given way to st. Anthony. Meth
DDS of doing business are new. Strange
" enough, in the days of trusts we
cannot trust ourselves to hold our own
railroad stocks, and so organize a
Northern Securities company to hold
them for US. A new literature possess
ses us. There is a bigger man than
Shakespeare. Everything must be up
to-date. The minister finding in the
hymn book the rhyme:
"Oh, may my heart in tune be found,
Like David's harp of solemn sound.
and believing the harp an out-of-date
instrument, changed the lines to the
following:
''Oh, may my heart be tuned within
Like David's sacred violin.
1.-The chorister, not to be outdone,
rewrote them thus:
lob, may my heart go diddle-diddle
Like unto Davids sacred fiddle.
81 do not know who the chorister
waS-perhaps his name was Trigg.
Can you expect one so employed to
spend time in cleaning the snow off
the sideWalk OF worrying because the
alderman from his ward has for a few
hundred dollars Joined with others il
giving away valuable franchtsa2
FOREIGNERS RESENT TOO MUCH
LAW.
Another cause is the heterogeneous
ness of a city'S population. No one of
our large cities is filled with people of
d
pouring multitudes on our shores from
every race and cline and they gravi-
tate toward our large Cities Even in
staid old Boston there are more Irish
men than Americans Chicago is pre-
eminent in this respect. Not only is
your foreign population enormous, but
it is made up not from a single race.
but from many. It is the most cosmo-
politan city on the continent There is
scarcely a race on the face of the
-1,-l.1 ~ r.cr, fa6 n
many by many multitudes. 1 reme1n-
Der hearing one boast that Chicago
had more Irish in it's midst than any
cities in Ireland save Dublin and Cork;
more Poles than any city in Poland;
more Germans than any city in Ger
many other than Berlin and Munich,
and so he went on until 1 felt con-
strained to interrupt by saying, And
doubtless more saints and sinners than
any places in the universe save heaven
and hell
ssNow this gathering of people from
varied races and with different ideas
of duty to the government and the
meaning of liberty lead to frequent
violations of law. To many OF them
government is an enemy and law
means tyranny. Many find pleasures
| and practices they. have been accus-
toned to at home (and which having
been accustomed to they feel are
| among their inalienable rights taken
/
municipal laws and police regulations
Is it strange that they fret at such
laws and regulations and disregard
them when possible? A German ac-
customed to spend his sunday after
moons with his family in some con-
yenient garden where beer is SOLD, VINO
finds that the sale of beer on Sunday
is prohibited, does not feel guilty IL
he disobeys the law, and certainly
never helps to enforce it. And the
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he frets and denounces as trespass
upon his rights, and the less he cares
for the enforcement of other orol-
nances In short, he condones a gen.
eraI disobedience of other laws anu
REGULATIONS because he is Vexed az
having this enforced against hlmseM,
CITY AND COUNTRY CONTRASIEtIID
Il have thus spoken of some or the
| causes of the greater violation IN the
! civ than in the country. Let me now
| turn your attention to some of the re
suits of such violation. And IN oroer
to fully appreciate this we must con-
! slider why it is that there are SO MANY
minute police regulations In a city, 50
MANY things forbidden by such regu-
lations. which the state does not oeelil
If necessary to forbid when done IN the
Contrast one living on his farm in
the country. half a mile from any :,
neiehbor. with one living in the mlos'
of a densely populated city. How many
more things the former can do witnoul
injury or annoyance to others. Ano
| the true idea of liberty is not doihs
| whatever ones judgment or WlShes
| suggest but the right of doing those
i things which do not interfere VIII
the wellbeing and happiness OIL others
The rights of others are the pouh-
daries of every mans liberty Ine
| from his kitchen on the ground: ns
NAV put his pigpen in front OF MS
parlor: he may burn soft coal ana lel
the black SCOT pour out OF MS chimney
erin or gasoline in his barn; ne may
/ drive his horse or run an automobile
as fast as he pleases within the nm
its of his own farm: he may let MS
hogs roam at will within ms own ~
closure: give them II he sees NJ lnt
freedom of the place. AS the lrlshma1
living in rented shanty SAID. Ine
pig has a right in the parlor, iof lns
pig pays the rent Many OF tnest
things NAV be offensive to one 5 olIac'
tories. NAV breed flies or bugs or thost
Invisible little scoundrels which science
introduces to US and calls bacteria
(which do such incalculable mlscnlel
may disfgure the looks OF the nulioihs'
and grounds; may even be dangerous
to life and limb but so long as he alone
is affected if his nose can stand th'
smell: if he is content to nave pug
and bacteria about him; if he is willing
to risk the chances OF ms HE OF hfnD
the law permits it.
DIFFERENT IN THE CITY.
but place the same man IN city
and he must be restrained in these re
spects because otherwisesf1e offends o
,endangers others. The SCOT from hi
soft coal fire will spot the faces AM
spoil the dresses of our ladies'; the pig
pen fills the air with odors which ar
offensive tc his neighbors' sense 0
smell. The Stops which are thrown on
may. perco1ating through the soil, pas
into the underground water courses
There may be typhoid germs therein
Not he and his family alone will suffer
for Cornell university and the city o
Butler attest the fatality which come
from the polluted water supply OF
city. You know what the sewage of
city means, for when turned into tn
river which divides this city it loade'
the air with multitude of awfu
smells, which made the far famed cit,