The Washington times., 1922-07-04

>>S'sS@ rule OF Attorney
WILLIAM HARD. General Palmer
and Assistant Attorney General Gar
van. Judge Anderson said to me
the other day:
| Our sense OF liberty and our re.
| gard for legal rights seem to be on
their way toward recovery through
the operation OF the Eighteenth
Amendment. This amendment, 7
Will remind you, has TO do with
| liquor. Few people were disturbed
when the houses and persons of i'm.
| mlgra ptS were subjected to unlaw.
ful searches ard seizures in the ef
tort To discover scCialistiC pamphlets
Millions or people seem to be
violently disturbed and their deepest
and most sacred feelings for the
Constitution and for constitutional
guarantees seem to be wounded and
outraged when anybOdys house or
person Is seized or searched for the
dls'oHery OF intoxicating beverages.
The idea of freedom OF speech
brought few lawyers into our court
rooms to defend the Constitution.
They are in our court rooms now in
dense throngs to defend the Consti.
tuition on behalf OF freedom of
thirst
l may have forgotten the exact
words that Judge Anderson used but
nave been at great pains to re-
meaber his thought. His thought
contains in beautiful ironic form the
great political fact that multitudcs
or people-eVen in America-are
found defending liberty and resisting
tyranny only when the tyranny Is
directed against their own behavior.
Ihey will then resist that tyranny
ana at the same time infliCt some
other tyranny on their neighbors.
Will now quote from my dis
tinguished colleague Mr.. Charles e.
Hart OF the Senate Press Gallery
and OF the State OF Oregon.
Mr.. Hart tells meas a fact with.
out comment-that in the state Of
oregon there will this fall be a ref
erendum vote 10 compel all parents
70 send their children to pubic
schools. They may prefer 10 scpd
them to private schools. Neverthe.
less. they must and shall send them
10 public ones. This is to hit Romkn
Catholics. In order to hit Roman
Catholics, II will equally hit a lot OF
other people who are not Roman
Catholics.
lf i, as an Episcopalian, should
want to send my son to an Epis.
copalian private school where re.
ligion is taught. l, nevertheless,
under the system proposed in Ore.
gon. would have to send him to a
public school where religion is not
taught, and where il cannot be, and
should not be taught. Thus n fight
against one religious communion
turns into a fight for the secuiariz-
ing Of all education and for the bu.
reaucratizing Of all education; and
IL Americas famous private schools
such as Groton and ST Paul's and
st. Marks and Phillips Exeter and
Phillips Andover-were situated IN
Oregon they would run the risk
after a while OF getting closed and
o. getting replaced by a public DO.
litical educational monopoly.
l will now quote from the dis.
tinguished campaign orator, Mr..
Demosthenes Bunk. On thousa nds
of platforms today Mr.. Bunk will
assure his fellow citizens that they
and their forefathers have always
been lovers of liberty. Nothing
could be falser.
In our colonial days the Episco.
palians chased the Puritans out OF
Virginia and the Puritans chased
the EpisCopalians out Of Massachu.
sets. On the other hand the
Quakers in Pennsylvania, the Bap.
lists in Rhode Island and the
Roman Catholics in Maryland es.
tablished religious liberty.
Similarly the patriots in our Amer.
ican Revolution unlawfully and vic.
lently confiscated the property OF
their political opponents, while on
the other hand in the course Of our
war against Mexico the voice Of Dan.
lei Webster and the voice of Abra.
ham Lincoln were raised to assnr:
their legal liberty to oppose the war.
time opinions Of their countrymen.
The fact is that in America there
have always been two currents-one
toward liberty and one against II.
The Fourth Of July Is the day Of the
current Of liberty and the day OF the
loudest declaration ever made
against the current of tyranny either
here or in any other land The final
point of the Declaration of Independ.
ence Is not that II declared an inde.
pendence against Britain.
Many countries have declared
their independence against other
countries. The unique superiority
of the Declaration of Independence
is that it declared a certain indie.
p"ndence against all government
whn tsoever.
II declared that all men-all-
have certain "uhalienable rights"
and that these rights are given to
them by their Creator" and that
no government can deprive them OF
these rights and remain n govern.
fment entitled TO their obedience.
No government, Not even our
own! That is the topic that Samuel
Adams and Thomas jefferson would
today be discussing n they were ad.
dressing us In tha plaCe NJ NJ ne.