The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
are like the incorporators-candida for the place of the damned
 Dealing With incorporated Sin.

Dedlln9 Witn incorporated oln.
 How to deal with incorporated sin has
 always been the great problem in the
 betterment of society. and 1t Is the most
 difficult problem facing our country today.
 Il gives sin social power, power to mould
 and direct the conduct of men in society.
 A wicked institution will rob- steal, kill,
 and corrupt beyond the power of any
 individual to stay. The devil has always
 been a successful applicant for license to
 do business in society and a seeker after
 franchises which grant him power to do
 his criminal work without fear of the
 law: and society has always been very
 liberal with the prince of the power of
 the air. The great need of our times IS
 to put Into our legislative halls and on
 the bench some men who know social
 ethics as well as law.
 A judge who will always give personal
 rights precedence over social protection
 can do an immense lot of damage to so-
 ciety. law intended to stop gambling
 in society was but yesterday declared un-
 constitutional because 1t was conceived , that in some hypothetical case 1t might
 interfere with the petty rights of some d
 mingham is left without protection against
 this vice. It Is as true of law as of gospel that the letter lxllleth and the spirit maketh alive, and a liberalism in law
 will kill the best statute passed to pro- teet and redeem society. If there Is any doubt let 1t be given in favor of the ef- fort to protect society against incor- porated crime, and let not our very courts
 become consorts of satan. It Is high time the devil was deposed from the posi- tlon of being the favored interest in the legislation and administration of public justice even though he be able to retain the best legal talent in society. Out with the regime of Annas and sons which cruehed the Christ, by It's awful power of incorporated and entrenched robbery He has always been very strict con- struetonist when it comes to contest ths validity of a law for the protection of
 the public morals and wealth Every ef- fort to save the world he has thwarted
 and cruicified its savlors Is the consttu- l tion an instrument for the preservation of the rights of the predatory?
 Responsibility of Every Man. ?. Jesus was such a devoted friend of | the people that He went to His death l rather than suffer incorporated sin to
 go without His emphatic protest. Every
 man who allows incorporated crime to | continue without his most earnest protest l becomes particepts crmins therein. Y You | cannot draw distinction in morals be- | tween yourself and the world Tn which l Iixa for arta af aa and 1t Is q part of you. Every Jew was l responsible to a greater or less degree | for the corrupt corporation of Annas and sons, and Jesus did not shirk His, put proceeded in summary fashion to express it by cleansing the temple of Its robbers who had been entrenched In It's courts. The body polite creates the corporation and is responsible for its course and con- duct and life, and the body polite Is the people in their civic capacity. Jesus felt the weight of civic responsibility and did not seek to shirk It but rather to come up to It's full measure of obligation in His life. He was no social coward, no civic shirker who came not to the help of the Lord against the mighty, but as Son in His fathers house He set 1t in order nor thought his duty over until that was done.
 Civic Virtue.
 We want civic virtue today like that. and He has so many nominal followers who have need of His spirit and courage to meet the civic demands of our day as He met those of His. We do not need men who will do their duty to the protection of their country with the bayonet so much as with the ballot, for the enemies who are entrenehed within the state are more dangerous thah those who are likely to assail us from without. It was Caiaphas who when his associates said that If they let Jesus alone Romans will come and take away our place and our nation re- marked that 1t was better that one man ne and the whole nation perish not. But history proves that 1t was not the Roman who was at that time threatening Jewish society, but the spirit of this very Caiaphas. The Roman did not de- stroy Jerusa lem but that city committed social suicide, and the Roman simply came and took away the carcass. Ths only thing that could have saved Jeru- salem and Jewish society was the patriotic spirit of Jesus and that she did not know, CONTINUED ON PAGE 7D