Arizona republican., 1910-07-12
No Less

Such propaganda is plain treason to our state. And could it be permitted there would obtain the most destruct- ible compound of anarchy and nihilism.
 Going back to the proposition that God and not man makes law, We find opportunity to sight reference from Blackstone, the father of modern juris- prudence. He said:
 considering the Creator only as a Being of infinite power. He was able unquestionably to prescribe whatever laws He pleased to his creature man however unjust or severe. But as He is also a Being of infinite wisdom, He has laid down only such laws as were founded in those relations of justice that existed in the nature of things antecedent to any positive precept. There are the eternal and immutable laws of good and evil to which the Creator in all His Dispensations con- forms and which He has allowed hu- man reason to discover so far as they are necessary for the control of human conduct Such among others are these, that we should live honest ly, hurt nobody and render to everyone his due" To which three general pre- cepts Justinian has reduced the whole doctrine of law If we were writing these lines to members of the church only few passages from the sacred scriptures would be sufficient, but re ligion and her devotees have rcsOrted to so many pranks through the scrip lures that thousands don't take seri- ously counsel from that source. They say give us something of sense, by sight or feeling, etc. Faith does not go with us. If you, maintaining that reforms are necessary, will only refer to words of men of sound judgment living within the limit of reason we might hear you. But when you mix with the counsel of politics your ritu- als. creeds and specifications of a varied deligion. we lose both our pa tience and our reason. For the sake of this feeling. which I have no heart or desire to condemn, whether enter tained by many or few, we will speak by the pen as it becomes d man among men who have desire for an honest competency in life and as a father among fathers who desire to raise their children to the sublime degree of mas ter in whatever vocation they may choose in life. While in the way of making these remarks. we desire to say that while a great many things to be said will cut deeply-very deeply into some classes of enterprises and practices, you will discover through all that shall be said, we have not spoken against men, but against the errors or society and with the intent and pur- pose of enlisting sentiment and influ- ence strong enough to adjust our so- cial life more in keeping with the ten der demands of the human heart. making toward a condition in both city and country far more safe to business and life than that which obtains.
 Now, going back to the Blackstone quotation, and before closing this weeks article. We assert that civil government rests securely only upon the divine base" god has made. We shall go no farther than to urge for consideration these simple proposi- tions: That we should live honest. hurt nobody and render to every one his due. We shall urge them as God-given to the intent of government for the promotion of harmony, peace and hap piness of the race.
 E. N. PHILLIPS.