The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-05
LIBERTY ~ RESRLN LAND.
How the severity or the setutats was
Initiated.

"ost OBSERVING or II
I 20 grove that they were truly free
toey made 1t point, when travelling
abroad. to deride the customs adopted
by other peoples to regulate their be-
harior; and, for example, no Yresru-
man who visited the great Namreg ma
ton felt his homecoming n success until
ne had TESTED ponderously about the
verboten signs which the Namreg
people erected to protect life and prop
erty and to promote public convent
ence among them.
Yet the Yresrunians were ver,. sensi-
tive about their reputation Cor the
production OF charms. and whenever
the speech masters found opportunity
TO enact an etutats forbidding any ac.
which a substantial number Of persons
mad been in the habit OF performing
they quickly did SO. having In each
case in their repressive proposals the
support of all Yresrunians not addicted
to the act whose suppression was to
be decreed
Thus 1t came about that no people
possessed more notable collection Of
thou shalt nots than did the yres-
runians. and no etutats books in the
world furnished n more terrifying array
OF punishments than did those OF Yres-
run land.
Official meddlers were as thick in
fresrun land as they were in their
heads: and no other Illustration can
convey an adequate understanding Of
their astounding thickness.
Yet in spite of the setutats with their
prohibitions and penalties. and all the
medd.ers, the Yresrunans boasted that
their liberty was unqualified and unre-
strained and this boast was not with
out truth, as will be plain from one
example.
Rotom srac were popular among the
fresrunians. and ran with amazing
speed along the highways. killing great
numbers of persons
The kllees being more numerous
than the killers. the speech masters
and charm makers promptly enacted
an etutats prohibiting the killers from
killing. and ordering them to go slow
in the streets
This etutats. according to the custom
Of the yticauqol. having been enacted
by the charm masters. could not be-
come effective until it had been signed
by the Ronrevog. who had sworn an
oath to obey and enforce the setutats.
So the Ronrcvog sigped It,
Rut there was no way to enforce IL
without the cooperation Of tho Rowan,
who had sworn an oath to obey and
enforce the setutats. and who appointed
the Ecilop RenoissimmoC, who had
likewise sworn an oath to obey and
enforce the setutats.
Therefore the Royam told the Ecilop
to enforce the etutats
against rotom rae killers
The Ecilop Renoissimmoc told all the
nemlortap under him. each Of whom had |
sworn to obey and enforce the setutats,
TO enforce this one strictly. Conse-
luently 1t seemed probable that the !
-otom srac would go slow and the kill
ngs decrease violently in number
But when it happened that the Rom
revog and the iRoyam and the Ecilop
having one day an en-
yagement To watch the nemlnrtap dis
play their professional skill. had tarried !
90 long at the dinner table. moralizing
ieeply over the manifold excellences Of |
\ new and powerful society OF meddlera (
whose motto was
"YrErAs TsRiF.
md found themselves late for the |
'ports. they leaped into rotom rae !
'wned by the killers and killees in !
Common, and called to the driver. who |
vas namlortap sworn like themselves |
n obey and enforce the setutats. to make
he greatest haste possible to the scene
II the exhibition.
The namlortap first Of all drove |
through crowded streets and avenues
aster than ytcfas tsr!f counseled: and
hen faster than common sense justi-
led and then as fast as the devil. con-
rary to the etutats in such case made
nd provided. which indeed they frac-
ured in many places. So fast did he
rive, in truth. that the rotor rae came
ear TO collision with another, so that
he RonrevoG. and the Roya,- D. and the
-Cilop RenossmmoC. nd the namlor-
ap, and the unidentified citizen. in the
Their rotom rae might have been seri-
usly disiigured: which would have
cen n public calamity.
When the Yresrnnlans rejoiCod that
his calamity had been averted. some Of
he screens asked why the IionrcvoC.
he Royam and the Ecilop Renoissim-
roc had violated the ctutats. and thus
Endangered themselves ard others. To
hich all the enlightened Yresrunians ne
lied that the Ronrev <. the Royam, and
ne Ecilop Rcnoissimmoc were so i'm
ortant that they did not need to obey
10 etutats. and that common folk had I
ettcr conduct themselves accordingly
nd cnvied what they called the llup
n ioycd by these great men.
The namlortap had among his ac- ,
certain Yresrunians less
nportant than the Ronrevog, the
Cyan and the Ecilop Renoisslmmoc, .
nd thereafter. whenever he saw them 5
m etutats. he remembered
NV his passengers had acted on that G
imous day. full Of importance. lunch
IN. ytefas tsrif and dignity: and he
linked his eye, binding himself, and
Id his acquaintance to so ahead and
nash the etutats. hut to he quick
lout II. The obscure and tho indif- a
rent soon recognized the possibilities
the system thus initiated and they
emit their ways, breaking setutats on
Ich side behind, and in front, with /,
10 greatest enthusiasm,
Some time after this famous hlstori- ,
II incident this same namlortap was so
judiCious as to d!sobey rule Of the !
Hop which tho Ecilop Renoissimmoc ;
the moment wanted obeyed, and
was brought up on charges. and |
rtured severely and dismissed from
8 Job: and that was the end Of him.
But the Yresrunians applauded the
rilop Renoissimmoc loudly for his
ompt and stern action in this superla- 4
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