The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-04-03

good n for the best good of the
largest mum Der 81 that society may
not revert to the original chaos.
Laws are here then established for
the highest ends and consequently
all such regulations are to be obeyed
because sit is the law" and the
very fact that this or that regula-
ton can be pointed at as 1.-THE law''
ought to secure, on the part of every
one, the most hearty and ready
obedience. Yet there are many
persons in the community who will
not obey certain regulations because
sit is the law but they obey
because they must or take tbe
penalty. and suck are thus held by
slayish fear rather than by high
ideals for themselves and their
fellows.
II the majority of the people has
seen fit in the past to establish
certain regulations for the good of
the entire commonwealth, those
enactments are to be followed Just
as long as they are on the statute
books and are not to he avoided by
every trick and subterfuge known to
satauic art.
Laws are established to be obeyed,
not to be broken. The surest way to
train up a na1ion OF anarchists is to
let the young men of the land get
1T Into tbeiI heads that they can,
according to their own SWEEP will,
trample under foot certain laws that
they do not happen to like. We eau
not then, In a republic, have too
much teaching along this very line,
''it is the law"
Every new comer into a state, a
city or a community, should at the
very outset be made to understand
this fact: There are certain rules
here by which these people are
governed and each one in becoming
a citizen is to be governed in all
his life and work by the same rules,
and is to be thus governed because
cit is the law" and is neither to
establish MOI carry on any business
that tends TO break down and not
uphold the law. Large numbers of
people in every community obey all
the laws and expect to obey all the
laws every hour of their life. If the
bulk of the people have this high
regard for law, certainly a few people
should not be allowed to cherish the
nation that regulation which binders
them 10 their selfish plans may be
utterly disregarded, while the many
are striving in every way possible to
build a state that is strong in it's love
for aud obedience to law.
II sit is the law" the only right
and honorable way is to obey 1t,
Just as long as 1t Is the law. II any
regulation proves to be a bad law
there is . straight forward and COM
mendable course to pursue 10 secur-
ing its modification or repeal, and
that Is the course that every one
should follow rather than become q
reckless law breaker because some
regulation seems to be %distateful.
Certain regulations that have been
established for the protection Of a
community and in order to secure
the highest ideals OF citizenship,
are Thought OF and often, called "blue
laws by some classes of citizens, but
Governor Folk. of Missouri says
"It has been my observation tnat
every law looks olue 10 tile man. WHO
wishes to break it." Then let every
one throw away his dingy blue glasses
and look through. section OF Gle lrest
plate. glass with a vision for the
highest ideals for tire city aud the
state, and alsD leg each one
,deterninc tnat. as far as his indiviu-
nal effort goes, it Will he ;tl1e glory oil
this community that IFS law il ever
lexalped. THIS will he the EAST when
every n is anxious to know first o,
all what is the claw. aud then
yields Il cheerful and hearty obedi.
encs because cit is the law"
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