Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-01-02
LAWS SHOULD De.
OBEYEO, JUDGE
STONE DECLARES


Omaha, Neb. Jan. f.--civiliSa-
ton cannot exist without law and
law is useless unless actively eff
fective, Judge Kimbrough stone Of
Kansas City told the Nebraska
State Bar association here.
THE great agency which makes
law effective in a republic is re-
spect for the law by everyone,
This respect can be compelled
from such as do not willingly ac-
cord it. There now exists. in this
country, the need to enforce re-
spect for the law.
Laws are enacted to control ex-
listing or apprehended conditions,
Unless they are enforced they con-
troll nothing, An unenforced law
is not only vain thing, it Is
dangerous thing.
There are recent happenings
evincing disrespect for law and
defiance of which urge watch
fulness and action. ToIr sister
state OF Kansas enacted the social
cd industrial court law. l am not
now considering the policy of that
law. 1t may be very good or very
bad. The fact remains. that the
Legislature of that state enacted 1t
and the highest court Of that state
sustained it. AS such. 1t should be
obeyed by all within that state.
Alexander Howat and his followers,
among the miners of Kansas, do
not find this law to their liking
1t is entirely within their legal
rights to test it's validity in the
courts. But they are openly advo-
eating, and practicing. disregard
and defiance of it. This action Is
direct challenge to the will and
power of the state of Kansas to
enforce its laws,
"All thoughtful Americans
should concern themselves with the
problems of immigration. There
are classes of immigrants We can
we'll do without. They confound
license and liberty; they are not
willing to accept our institutions;
they often seek to Substitute their
own ideas and ideals of govern
ment, by fomenting discomfort and
advocating defiance of and resist
ance to existing law. They herd to
themselves with no desire to min
gle with the American mass. They
come foreign and remain foreign.
Wherever you find q sore spot
there they are sure to be. In Kan
sas and Wisconsin were some of
this character of immigrants.
at is very fine to regard Amer
| lea as the asylum for the oppress-
ed of all lands. but 1t is about time
we transferred some of our sollcl-
tude for the oppressed of other
lands to the untainted preserva-
ton of those ideals and institutions
which have protected our own peo-
Pile from oppression, and we need
not hesitate to do so because for
eign owned ship lines may lose
some money thereby.
"But a more dangerous kind OF
violation Is a subterranean sap
ping. The most pronounced exist
| ing instance of this latter kind is
the violations of the prohibition
statutes. There can be little doubt
that those statutes are not being
effectually enforced. 1t is high
time that they were. 1t is in no
sense a question of prohibition or
anti prohibition The policy. OF
hihition-whether II be good OF
be bad--is not involved. That pol
icy has been and is settled and in
my Judgment, will never be re-
versed. At any rate, congress has
passed laws for the purpose of exc
cutting and making effective the
amendment. A man who violates
| them is n criminal"