Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-28
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NOTE OF WARNING.

NOTE OF NAKNlNG.
 A notable address that contained a note of warning was delivered by Archbishop John Ireland on the oc- casion of Washington birthday cele- bration by the Sons of the American Revolution at St. Paul's His remarks were especially appropriate and time ]y at this date owing to the abundance of radical and freak legislation by the various legislatures throughout the Union, and the danger which confronts the Nation of of too many laws. The distinguished prelate evidently had in mind tbe maxim of Jefferson that 'the best governed are the least governed" the speaker pointed out that it was tn intention of the fathers of the re- publice that political liberty should be the guardian of civil liberty. AS the people themselves were designed to be the lawmakers, no laws should be enacted that would go beyond neces- sity in the restriction of civil liberty.
 And yet is there not some peril to civil liberty from political liberty-at least from what I may be allowed to call the exuberance, the riOtousness of political liberty?" asks the archbis- hop. AS matter of fact" he con- tinues, i've have too many laws. Our legislatures are too anxious to in- crease the bulk of the statute books. AS things are tending we shall soon have so many laws that, wrapped around, as it were, by serried mail, we shall become prisoners, forbidden to stir or to walk. It certainly were so if the bills coming year by year before the sessions of congress or the legislatures of states were to be turn- ed into binding enactments."
 The possession of power, as shown by the churchman, is an incentive to excess. What is the use of power, he asks ironically if it is not put to use? Legislators introduce bills and seek their enactment into law that they may be fondled as their own children In this connection the archbishop says: The mania for legislation fre- quently shelters itself under the name of moral reform. Far from me to oppose prudent legislation in the bet terment of morality, when crime IS to be punished, natural rights to be safeguarded, great and wholesome measure in the interests of the public veal to l. supported. Today another form of legislative mania arises from the industrial restlessness into which our times have brought us. Here again let there be laws to punish in- justice and wrongdOing on every side, whether on that of the weakling or the strong, on that of the laborer of the capitalist Let there be laws wisely reaching out to the encouragement of social peace and of social prosperity, to the bidding high of the fair vision of legitimate democracy, equal indus trial rights for all, equal opportuni tlcS lOF ldleuC duu LOT cueISy. bul let us be on our guard that in the pursuit of justice we do not bring on injustice, that in coveting social prosperity we do not encounter social disaster and chaos. Above all other things let us be sure to despoil our selves of all throbbings of envy, jeal- ousy, hatred. in our clamorings for industrial legislation
 In the defense of those business en- terprises against which the shafts of legislative ire are now leveled Arch bishop Ireland said: "There is in this land today the delusion that men may become rich through legislation in lieu of toll talent and economy, that to build up one class naught else is needed than to pull down another, and there is growing up among us a hatred of success in others. how ever much that success may have been the reward of most praiseworthy efforts. That accumulations of cap