Arizona republican., 1910-07-12
.C|V|CS DISCUSSED
 BY [. N. PHILLIPS
A SERIES OF SPECIAL ARTICLES WRITTEN FOR THE REPUBLICAN.
Questions of Public Interest to Be
 Treated of Dispassonately.

The Following is the first of d series
 of articles on the general subject of 'Civics" that are being prepared by E. | N. Phillips, pastor of the Christian church of this city, for publication in i The Republican. The articles will deal
 with various issues of present concern.
 the first one being rather introductory and general in it's character.
 CiVICS.
 Civics may be defined The Rule of
 the Citizen" The Science or Govern ment." A study of those elements nee
 essary to the harmonious control of a town. a city, a state or d nation Civil
 rule is derived from the citizen as the | foundation of society. Government is
 an aggregation of people upon those | principles responsive to the interests | common to each and every citizen The
 study of the citizen as a unit ir society and a ruling for those sane essentials | common to every other member of sO- | ciety-this is the science of govern ment.
 This science of government is not therefore an arbitrary arrangement Of I man. made statutes, but rather an or derly placing together of those laws written in man himself by his Creator As the science of astronomy deals with the laws of motion, size. weight, place. etc, of the stars; as the science of physiology deals with the laws of the physical body, so the science of gov ernment deals with those laws of good and evil made operative in human sO ciety ever since God originated them in the making of the first man and the first woman.
 In a careful study of those laws writ ten in mans nature, there will be dis covered a tangent beginning at the point of want and tending away from the safety point of a normal mans needs. It is technically true that the normal man has needs while the ab- normal man has wants. The normal man may have wants beyond his needs
 but in his sane thinking such wants overlap tlTe needs and interests of oth CTS. The abnormal man, blind to the needs of others, sees and feels only his wants and demands them upon the basis of necessity, whether those wants overlap the recognized rights of others or not Thus it may be seen that want is the starting point of crime. It is not necessary in this connection nor vital to these discussions that we de- fine the sources of want-whetser it may result from abuses by society on one hand or the depraved appetites and passions of the individual on the other. It is only vital to discover that want is the basis of an unholy desire which makes demands upon society with such persistence and power that license is granted upon the argument that so- ciety can only exist by endorsing and controlling such unholy desires for the necessities and needs belonging to oth- CTS. This is in simple language the foundation of that line of civil per mits known as the license system. This society does at the risk of its eX- istance, and has continued to do for thousands of years. But the policy has cost dearly. It is only necessary at this point to think of those business enterprises whose interests call for an enormous outlay of expenses for police surveillance and crime to know what in- stitutions are hinted at in this refer ence.
 It may be urged that license of an expensive and risky enterprise is per fectly legal if the majority of the peO- pie in a given community are in favor of it. We can only say and repeat that society entertains such interests at the risks of it's very existence. Anarchy. rapine and murder must follow where the laws God has written within us are violated A society wherein a ma jority of people tend toward the license