Williams news., 1922-05-12
PUBLIC SENTIMENT MAKES LAW AND
 ORDER

lived as the animals do, in pairs in lone y caves, lived without laws in primitive tlmes-when they lived as the animals do, in pairs n lonely caves,
 but even then there were the laws of nature ana probably the laws of the father of the family When man began to live collectively in tribes, laws adopted otherwise this social lie
 would have been impossible. As the society group grew larger and larger the laws became
 correspondingly voluminous
 Always there have been those who objected to law. Laws necessarily must curtail the freedom
 of the individual. To gain the benefits of a
 great collective existence like that of the United
 States of America, the individual must surren-
 der hundreds of privileges he once enjoyed. It
 was necessary that he cease taking for his own
 all that he could lay hands on; he must give up
 the prifn neval right of seizing any who
 might please his eye and making her his wife; he must give up the right to fish, hunt and camp
 wherever his fancy saw fit; he had to give up the practice of treating with physical violence all
 who displeased him and of of clipping heads + and and a thousand other prerogratives once his, he was forced to surrender. The safety of social
 life and the continuity of the social state made the surrender of such privileges imperative. These rules of conduct which promoted the welfare of society were made into law.
 Yet all thru the history of the rise of the human there has been opposition to laws by those who proited at the expense of the pub striven to put all laws into disrespect because some law had been passed which prohibited their exercising license to put individual pleas ure above the general welf are, each in his own particular The largest group of law break CTS have always been those who insisted upon taking that to which they had no legal ttle-I the thieves, robbers, pirates, burglars pickpock- cts, claim jumpers and host of others. Object ors have insisted upon exercising license of kill ing their fellow men. There are those who would profit by selling adulterated foods,, for bdden drugs, and poisonous and injurious bever- ages. All of these groups resent the passing of laws that would interfere with their exercise of personal liberty and all are trying to make their criminal paths smoother by cultivating a general disregard of all law in order that the particular law to which they object may not be enforced.
 In America public sentiment makes laws and entorces laws. The first triumph of the pub the next is in building up the public sentiment 1 Which will secure enforcement of the law. The objected to the passage of the law apt to con- tnue their opposition by opposing it's enforce | ment. It often takes generation more to build up the sentiment that is needed to secure strict enforcement of good law. It is often necessary to wait for the protests of the original protestors to be silenced by the grave, before 1 united public sentiment can be secured. Here is the test of real citizenship. The true American. ceases his objection to law after that law has been legally passed and thereafter bows to the will of the majority and joins in building up the sentiment for law enforcement.
 It is the part of every true American to insist upon law and order-the enforcement of all laws indiscriminately and impartialy The man who fails to do this is not % per cent American A part of the press of America is continually harping upon the theme t'disrespect for law there always have been, not only in respec to this or that law, but with respect to all laws. This was true of the first tribal law truly it is now the case in regard to the volumnous stat utes of our own land. There is no surprise in that. The great wonder is that hundred mil 1on people can live together in peace and har- mony at all. There must be an amazing amount of obedience to and respect for the laws of any land to make such condition possible. Stages of ages past would have declared such a thing impossible. They would have declared that na- ton like Amer1ca could never be, because of the selfish human nature Yet here is America to- day, unified and at peace. The law violations are after al1 but nipples the surface of the vast sea of law abiding public sentiment. Every c1tlzen should glory to be numbered among the lpholders of the laws which make this great 6Chn y lend his bit of support to the predominating ( sentiment for law enforcement. The life of the nation rests upon the observance of It's laws.
 The man who tries to make jest of any law of our land, Is playing into the hands of thieves and murderers. They welcome anyone who is engaged in spreading disrespect for any law for ilsrespect of one law creates dsrespect for other aws
 What woeful sight it is to see dilapidated umble-down fence in progressive town like Williams What pain it gives the iohh hor ]