The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-12
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be subjected to the indignity of being ar
rested.
conducting disorderly houses and gambling
places. The handbook men say a man
earns his money, and he ought TO be per-
mitted to bet on the ponies IL he desires.
And for arresting a saloon-keeper for
selling on Sunday, when they. say beer
tastes SO much better on draught than in
the bottle, that is one of the greatest acts
of tyranny and invasion of personal lib
erty since the time Of George III. And
where the police have made raids on sa-
looms, even after our city fathers re-
pealed that tyrannous city ordinance, the
Sheriff has been hailed as a monstrous
tyrant and a foe of liberty for aoetting
the police in their outrageous conduct in
invading the sacred confines of personal
liberty. Yet the law is on the statute
books.
Where a police official has been indicted
for neglect in the perfoI nance of his duty,
or fol- taking blood money for protecting
d%isreputable places, according TO the view
OF that high idealistic police commissioner
who Is himself under indictment, it is Sim
Dlv a case OF manufactured evidence, be-
cause the police were not big enough ty-
rarts to suit the chief tyrant OF the
county.
I'VE have cur laws to prevent these va
rious crimes. We a our courts to try
those accused, and our jAils to eonfine
those convicted. We a our peace Of
flcers to arrest the offenders. But the av-
erage peace officer Is dependent for his
living on holding that position. and he
must De careful that the offending wolf
is not so strong that he will turn on him
and deprive him of his means of support
for his family.
I'VE all praise a law until 1t affects us
personally. 1t Is a good law to compel
yonr neighbor to clean the snow off his
sidewalk, but it becomes a bad law when
the judge fines you s. for not doing the
same. You praise the law requiring 4
number on an automobile, and you speak
well of the policeman at the corner of
Market and Broad streets for detecting
the numbe on an automobile whose oc-
cupant had killed a citizen; but when the
same policeman stops your automobile to
your rumber so that II is distinguishable
you go to police headquarters to make a
complaint against him for officiousness.
You are always ready to blame the Of
your n%eighbor, but you are equally ready
TO upbraid them when the laws affecting
your interest are enforced. When the
American people decide that laws are en-
acted to be enforced, and that they will
stand by and protect the officers enforc-
ing the laws. you VIII not have officers
controlled by politicians and there would
be an immediate end TO graft.
This is a field in which the work Of
the Mems Club can be very effective !
believe the organization Of Mems Clubs
means a regeneration in the work of the
churches. Too often the entire work Of
a church has been left to the minister.
we have officers of the law aud jails
as a pound OF cure for vice and i'm
morality. An ounce of prevention is much
more effective. That you can secure by
the establishment of Fairgrounds and
recreation centres hat reach the Young
children of the poor and unfortunate, ana
the development of their intellectual and
moral faculties. teaching them that true
liberty is q reward reserved for the
intelligent, patriotic and v%irtuous, and that
it is MT Il boon that can be preserved
by the ignorant, degraded and vicious.