The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-19
TELLS OF LAWS
Attorney General Hopkins Is
sues a Handy Manual.
Pamphlets Mailed to All Peace
Officers In Kansas.

Attorney General Richard ]. Hop
kins has compiled and is now mail
ing to every peace officer in Kansas.
! handy manual setting forth their
every day duties and urging them to
study these carefully to know just
what is expected and required of them
to preserve the peace or their respec-
tive communities" The pamphlet is
going to mayors. county attorneys,
sheriffs, chiefs of police. and city
marshals.
The attorney general prefaces his
duties of peace officers" booklet with
the following:
Gives Their Duties.
"It is the duty of mayor, sheriffs,
marshals, undersheriffs and deputies,
also constables. to keep and preserve
the peace of their respective counties
and to quiet and suppress all ARRAYS,
riots. unlawful assemblies and insur-
rections, and for that purpose they
may call such person or persons of
their county as they may deem nee
essary.
Amy officer who refuses or neg
lects to perform any duty imposed
upon him by law may be ousted from
office and proceeded against on his
official bond All law is inherent in
the people and all free governments
are established upon their authority.
Therefore any act of the people that is
crystaiized into law should be re-
spected, observed and obeyed, and any
violation of that law is a direct thrust
against the will of all the people as
expressed by their legislative enact
ment. The violation of statute and
the infraction of a law creates disre-
spect for law and strikes at the funda-
mental principle of free government;
consequently the respect and observa-
ton of law should be the watchword
of all the people OF this country, and
the violation of any law upon the
statute book is a direct affront to any
one who believes in our. American in
situations.
Only One Way To Remove Law.
'If there is any law upon the
statute books that is obnoxious or
oppressive, there is but onespower that
can remove, alter or revoke that law,
and that is the legislature. The bill
of rights guarantees that no other
body or agency shall have the power
to change. revoke or alter that law;
consequently laws passed by the legis-
lature should be observed, respected
and enforced, and the best way to get
rid of a bad law is to enforce it.
Mob rioting. ARRAYS and unlawful
assemblies strike at the very founda-
ton of this government, and the vio-
lation of those laws should be more
religiously proceeded against than
any OIner law upon the statute book,
because the failure to observe these
laws is insidious and dangerous.
"All of our personal liberty and
property rights are guaranteed to us
and made possible by law and the
observance of law, and whenever an
individual or class of individuals will
not submit to the law, then the time
has come when either they must be
crushed or compelled to submit or a
state of anarchy exists and our
boosted laws and civilizations are as
nothing. Every dollar that is spent
incident to good government is prop
erly spent
In the manual the attorney general
has clearly defined and reprinted.
without comment. all laws pertaining
to mobs, vagrancy, strikes and un-
lawful assembly Some laws that are
too often overlooked when the officer
must search the statutes to ascertain
what his bounden duty is,' are put in
a concise form.
The issue also contains the history
OF the case of the State versus Alex
Howat. ct al, thru the progress of the
contempt cases, thru the district