New-York tribune., 1921-07-31
Crossing the Sahara
Eighteenth Amendment Already Repealed by Majority
Opinion of the People, Says Hudson Maxim

against personal liberty, is still obedi-
ens to natural law and the law of God
and he is, furthermore, obedicns to the
| aunoamental, constitutional laws of
THIS country, put there to safeguard
our liberties.
ihe Eighteenth Amendment, the Vol
stead net, the many state laws recent
" enacted, like the Mullan-Gagc law
oi New York State and the Van Ness
law OF New Jersey, have made us a
nnt'on of lawbreakers, and lawbreak
ers who glory in their disobedience.
There arc laws which, as Shakespeare
said, "arc more honored in the breach
:hsn in the observance.~
Witness what Oliver Cromwell .,;d
regarding such fnnaticism as has i'm
posed the affliction of prohibition mon
US In writing to tho Scottish clergy
and rejecting their claim to Suppress
dissent in order TO extirpate error. he
said:
Your pretended fear lest error
should step in is like the man who
would keep all wine out of the country
lest men should be drunk. It will be
found an unjust and unwise jealousy
to deprive man Of his natural lib
erty upon n superstition he may abuse
IL When he doth abuse it, judgc!"
Lnscbreukers
who have been the pioneers of prog
ress, the great scientists, philosophers.
dascoverers and inventors, to whom we
owe all our modern civilization and en-
hgntenment, all our conveniences, en-
Joynents and glories of znodern life Z?
They have all been lawbreakers, each
III his time, and many of them were
racked and burned and crucifed and
t9r17-eu NOS. UNANIMOUSLY rs l.wbyes,k-
crs- Christ wns 8 lswbreakex. Galileo.
] Bruno, Roger Bacon, Copernicus, Mar
tin Luther, in the realm of invention,
science, philosophy and morality. were
ell lawbreakers. The story Of their
lives is an iliad of "holy terror
The Spanish Inquisiaion was merely
en- enforcement agency, the same as our
| prohibition agencies. E was an agency
| 30 enforce the law of She land against
aercsy. II England thousands upon
| thousands OF Christian martyrs were
burned in obedience to the law Our
Puritan fathers, who came to this coun-
~ thet they might be free to worship
God in their own way and to prevent
| others from doing the same thing, ran
rcd-hot irons through the tongues of
Quakers in compliance with the law
They hanged innocent men and women
against witchcraft.
| Mirabeau, when he stood up in the
tennis court and refused to yield, and
Lafayette, who chanpioned American
liberty, were lawbreakers. All the
heroes Of the French Revolution and
the American Revolution were law
breakers. The Boston Tea Party was
. bunch of lawbreakers. Paul Revere
sounded the alarm to LOT of other law
breakers. Nathan Hale was a boot
logger of liberty and a lawbreaker.
George Washington, Benjamin Frank
lin, Patrick Henry, Thomas jefferson,
Thomas Paine, John Adams, John Han
cock, Alexander Hamilton were all
lawbreakers, and, recognizing the grav-
ity OF their situation, Benjamin Frank
lin said when he put his signature to
the Declaration Of independence,
"Centlemen, we must all hang together
or hang separately"
He who first said "thc sun moves"
ne who first proclaimed the existence
Of other worlds than ours, he who pro
claimed personal freedom as human
right and raised his hand against the
injustice of the law-giver and pro-
claimer of the divine right OF kings
and the right of the nobility to en-
slave the people, was a lawbreaker.
Always, in all ages, the hand of op-