Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-12
Christians Massacred.
Obedience to Law Is Liberty.
BY Err. FRANK CRANE.

Our best bow to Mr.. Bonar Law and
his gang of rowdies in the British parlia-
ment. and to the dynamiters who recently
contaminated the nutty November air at
Indianapolis with their malodorous con-
LESSONS; also to Lieut.. Becker, and to
the militant suffragettes of England.
Gentlemen and ladies. lou are all OF
a piece, You are the kind that go after
what you want, and, IL you can't get it
any other, way, you smash things. You
are ready to fight, ready to kill, ready
TO do anything but play the game accord
ing to the rules and take your medicine
like men when you are beaten.
We would not insinCate anything or
hurt your feelings, but would say that If
edge of the earth and push you off we
should feel better.
We, the people. the mix of rich and
poor, miilionaires. bricklayers, store
keepers, society leaders, hired girls and
Woodrow Wilson, are struggling along
trying to evolve. We know social con-
ditions are not yet ideal, the millennium
is several hours late, and there is some
talk of the train being off the track.
Some of us are socialists, some are
single-taxers, and there are republicans.
democrats, bull moosers, prohibitionists
besides number OF anythingarians, ana
not few who are PLAIN crazy.
Each one OF us wants to win. Each
Is convinced he ought to be it, and have
things served him on a gold platter.
Eacn believes his particular program
would solve the problems of mankind in
a few minutes. If the unbelievers were
not SO pig-headed.
But
But in this great game Of getting on
we are trying to play fair. We aim to
be good sports, and the definition OF q
good sport is "a good loser"
Violence, whether throwing books at
the first lord of the admiralty in parlia-
ment, or setting nitrOgylcerin, internal
machines under buildings, or numbering
one of your own companions, you don't
seem to care for; that We will not stand
The English people are the freest on
earth, from the chin up. The English
race not only stands for freedom; it
stands for law.
On the courthouse at Worcester. Mass.
is the motto of our civilization; read.
mark, learn and inwardly digest it, II
you please; it is this:
.'The Obedience to Law Is Liberty
Our institutions are such that any man
or party can change them and have his
will with us, provided he can persuade
a permanent majority to believe with
him. If you choose you can have the
Constitution amended SO that only red
headed men can be senator's; all you
have to do is to get enough people to
agree with you.
But don't. you be in a hurry Don't go
to shooting up the town, assassinating
Presidents, dynamiting obdurate pluto
Gratis, or making a rough-house at West
minister.
We are ready to try any experiment
But in the language of the gentleman
from Missouri, you've got to show u.s.
We would demonstrate with you, all of
you who are impetuous to have your
own way, either in personal aggrandize-
ment or in the salvation Of society; we
would gently demonstrate with you. as
the cowboy in Wichita, in the early days.
demonstrated with the angry tenderfoot
who pulled a slver-plated thirty-two and
gave signs of trouble; BE careful. son.
Don't you let that popgun off around
here. You're liable to get hurt. This here
community is purity tollable partickler."