The Nome daily nugget., 1913-12-23


 When wc all get so good that there Will not have to be any laws and any legislation and anybody to interpret the laws that the legislatures make and any officer tn enforce the laws the other officers construe. And when all oI the socialists gre dead or satisfied this is going to be one grand old world {" liN" in. And it's going 10 he one nf the most stupid places in the whole great universe
 But that time is long. long way of. At present we have laws. more laws than We need or can possible use and we have some hundreds of mere or less learned gentlemen draw ing high salaries three hundred and siNty-five days in the year trying to evolve more laws. This may be 9 good thing for the lawyers. and surely these
 70 rlrmen have as much right to live as have the butchers and the scrihes. Also this making of many laws is the greatest boon in the world to that great class of genial theorists the so- cialists. Just think where the socialist is going to get ofy when everything Is all right. That is one of the saddest thoughts in connection with the com ing "f the millennium There are go- ing [" be so many people who will be unhappy when they cannot dig up something to kick about
 Fortunately for them this millinium is d long way off and there are still some thousands of laws that must be made and unmade before we reach the days when everybody will be good without law and officers of the law. The" fore the people who believe in the r..ghty kick of the sovereign peo- pie. as represented by a small clement Of discontented ones. will have plenty oi time to kick themselves into an ear ly grave while the cheerful optimists make the best of conditions as they are and as they have become by many years of rational and progressive thought on the part of the greatest minds of this and of other countries.
 After all the people who rise to the position of lawmakers. the ma ajority of ttem at least. are men of education or of brain that is not warped by the narrow limits of fanaticism.
 Many of the lawmakers are where they are for purely selfish reasons of profit for themselves and others and there are about ninety per cent too many lawmakers and law enforcers. But on the whole these people are above the average in intelligence and they are for the most part patriotic. The laws that arc finally passed and approved by the people who have the making and approval of them are much better laws than if they were made by the man who kicks against any law and any condition merely for the pleasure he derives from being against something.
 There are undoubtedly times when a people must. for self protection pro- test against the laws and those who enforce the laws. but the protest is useless if it comes in blatant denoun. citation of things as they exist. The remedy provided for the people who live under our for moi government Is simple nd effective. If the laws are bad and should be changed, or # those who interpret and enforce the laws are obnoxious, there Is a very sippie remedy for the people.
 Just now this remedy may seem to be out of the hands of those in cer-t tain localities of the country. And yet If enough people. no matter where. object to the laws and go to work with concerted action. and with rational methods they can change the laws. They will nlever change anything fof the batter by shoutins from the house. tops that they are kicgstS and that they mean to kick over either the law or any other established institution of the land