The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-06-04


and in fact his public servant. The
government Is his own creature and
the thing that moves him IL pride of
power rather than dutiful and affec-
tionate alteration He acknowledges
no personal sovereign He owes no
obligation of fealty or service to any
man In kingly guise. He is not only
the pier of the greatest. but he Is
himself the lord OF the mightiest.
He forgets that though there Is no
sovereign to command, there is none
the less a sovereignty TO be obeyed
We fail to differentiate between the
mere man of flesh and blood who as
sumes to be the sovereign and the alb
stract and impersonal sovereignty
which by common agreement we vest
Tor the time being In those persons
and instrumentalities we have ap-
pointed 10 direct our civic affairs,
And in that failure we lose the pecu-
liar sense of loyalty which moves the
subject Of the king
The supremest test of patriotism
is loyalty 10 the law at the sacrifice
of private profit and personal liberty,
for ii is fundamental of all govern
ment that law is a restraint of the
individual for the common good. and
unless we comprehend and support
that principle we are incipient rebels
or traitors lacking the courage or
the opportunity to do evil and re-
framing from crime only through
cowardice or fear.
But so far from exercising and re-
quiring in others this dutiful and sac
rifical loyalty to the law we view with
little or no concern the daily disobe-
dience of the solemn commands of
the sovereign and we are so thought
less as to applaud those who are
smart enough to evade the statute
through the imperfection of its pro-
visions
My observation is that the aver
age man vino violates any law of
personal restraint is unconscious of
any sense of guilt.
The pistol toter' feels quite in
nocent of doing a real wrong, and is
indignant if an officer presumes to
intrude upon his personal liberty
Such intrusion, it may be marked, is
SO rare in Texas that the officer who
commits it is apt to apologize for
troubling the gentleman with tn.
gun.
.I In Hike manner a large element y
a community that has invoked pr
t hfbition against the liquor traff
: may be found studiously and pers
e tently violating the law with no co
sciousness of committing a crime.
These two offenses are especial
notorious in Texas. One of them l
culcates a disregard for human IL
, and for that reason is Particular
. abhorrent to civic property IN
other begets neighborhood strife an
fractional passion and for that reasol
son is especially deplorable. But
aside from these incidental conse
uuences, they are both high crimes
against the sovereignty of the com
monwealth. They are acts of disloy-
alty. The men who commit them
are criminals and deserves the same
social TSpfpdCH iudt 70 Nioitcu uPoh
any other law breaker
Commercial Di>Ioyalty
There is another kind of law
breaking or law-eyasion that more
strihngly exhibits the American trait
OF disloyalty. 1t is the wicked genius
of commerce for inyenting devices
in restraint of trade Besides our
numerouss federal and state laws
against conspiracies to destroy com
petition. monopoly has been hateful
To- the law "siuce the memory of man
ruuueth not to the contrary. lt Is
forbidden In every civilized govern
mcnt and iu the simi-ciyihzed it Is
regulated by license for the common
good In America ID is Fet0guiYgd