The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-08-30
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LAWYERS TAKE UP
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in his relation to the social or political
organization in which he finds NM
self? Undenably, he gives up much.
He gives up the right TO be law unto
himself to make war upon manklnd'
TO hold by force, nd not by contract
tr convention. in other words, ne
surrenders the simplicity OF harbarism
Eor the complicated, artificial idea
Of civilization And what does he get
in return? Does he get all that the
sp,rit of the agreement contemplates
Probably he does not. The unsatls'
fed aspirations, the eager desire LOT
better conditions, the constant pres
sure. upward and outward shows that'
reasonably or unreasonably, there Is
everywhere a profound feeling lhat
since so much has been given some
thing more ought to have been recelV-
ed This feeling is at the bottom 81
Inearly all proposed acts OF construc-
tive legislation That we are far bet
ter off than we should be without the
authority and protection OF instlIu
tional government, all must admit
but that is not the questlon-cer'
! tainly not entire question. Are we as
well as we ought TO be? The shrink
| age" in the individual life has been
something. but the larger liberty OF
| man, the liberty that can silently rest,
waking or sleeping, under the sh.eld
of established government. Is compeh'
sation a thousand fold
Legislation is not only the adoption
of positive rules of conduct, II is, u
| may so express it, experimentation
1t is feeling the way; exploring paths
THAT may or may not lead to the right
goal It is certain that many bad
laws are enacted. many unnecessary
ZONES. and many foolish ones but on
1.-THE whole. do we not move along TO
ward better things2 Undoubtedly, Wl
have too much legislation, but IS mol
our system. even with the danger OF
over legislation, a wise and good ono
in its great essential features? | be
lieve that. in a way, which is larger
than we can grasp in its entirety
we are carving out the increasing
purpose" which Tennyson declared
Runs through the ages
1t has often been pointed out tina
we are having the simple manner
and methods of our fathers. and tina
over legislation Is the great and dan
gerous evil of the times. | think thl
has been somewhat exaggerated, an
Its dangers magnifed. The old-tim
: lsimpicity of a small population, car
: mot be expected in nation OF eight
, millions. Whether the homely plalI
\ ness of life in the early days OF IN
/ Republic, was good or bad, 1t has VI
doubtedly gone forever. We hay
E grown enormously in wealth oWlr
3 tn conditions which favored us aho'
G all other nations, but the main fact
/: in bring ng about the changed methC
of our living, has not been wealt
not legislation, not any infrmity
our system of government, but Il
!. tremendous activity of the humi
n mind in the direction of science,
" would. perhaps. be more accurate
II say that the great increase of wealt
Mt and its accumulation in colossal Il
m tunes are themselves the result, al
the inevitable result of the scienti
e tendencies which have been so actl
| in the past half century. The invt
l tive energy which has dominated me
d: ern thought, must be counted most
blame for present conditions II
deed anyone is to blame. The gre
10. intellectual development of the nil
IN teenth century, the greatest in
history. took the direction of seienti
r research. and the result has been
/ transformation of the modes of livi
of the aims and aspirations OF M
N; and. necessarily. of the scope a
purpose OF legislation.