The mirror., 1923-08-09

Qldtc pTOSeIltOTS were unlteu III marriage
and thus brought US into being. The laws
pertaining to our nurture after birth and
our education we will admit are also good.
If then, we were brought into the world,
reared and educated by these laws, we are
their offspring their slaves in sense, as
were our ancestors.
With our parents we retorted not when
reproved by them nor did we strike back
when we were struck-that is if we were
wise we didn't! We wouldn't suffer vio-
lence to our mothers and fathers and there
fore much less to our country; for one
ought to submit to ones country when it
is angry or sends one out to battle to be
slain for Justice requires this of us.
If we attempt to corrupt or destroy our
laws we destroy our country which is un-
just, considering the laws have given US
birth, education and having impaired to us
all the good it was in their power to, still
proclaim that when we reach the age of
discretion-which in some of us is hard to
ascertain-and having become acquainted
with them and the business of state, if we
are dissatisfied with them may take our
selves and our property and come hither
from thither and go hence! elsewhere, in
other words The laws have neither
hindered our going nor encouraged our
staying, in fact, with prohibition and the
income tax it has rather encouraged our
leaving as it were in sense, don't you
know But if we stay after seeing how.
they administer Justice, blind tho she be-
and in other respects govern the state, we
have actually entered compact with them
to abide by their rulings. If we fail to
obey the laws we have in three respects
been guilty of injustice. We do not obey
those who gave us being; who nurtured
and educated us and having made COM
pact to obey them if they do wrongfully.
They are considerate in that either we
must obey them or persuade them and we
do neither.
By not leaving this state or this nation
we have entered the compact with the laws
which is profession of approval and in
attempting to corrupt or destroy them we
refute this profession, for we agreed to be
governed in deed though not in word
Therefore we are but violating the compact
we ourselves made though we were not
compelled to enter them nor compelled to
decide our entrance in short time but
over period of years during which time
it was our privilege to depart if dissat-
unjust.
If we succeed in corrupting destroying
or evading the rulings of these laws by
escaping to another state or nation, say
Pernambuco, without paying the penalty
enjoined on u.s. what do we profit our
selves or our friends, numerous though
they be? We would enter another locality
as destroyer of laws, or evader of their
mandates, which is the same and would
be looked upon with grave suspicion by
all upright and solid citizens, including the
police force as corrupter of laws which
would confirm the opinion of the august
Judges who will thus appear to have con-
demned us rightly. If we avoid well gov
erned districts and 60 to, say Budapest
would it pay us to live? 1t would be said
of us, we had so base desire of life as
to violate the most liberal of laws. In
fact, that's the trouble, they're too liberal
for most of us.
Should we succeed in evading their man
dates, thus disgracefully returned injury
for injury-for we are not unjustly treated
by the laws but by men, cruel men the
the rascals I'VE give evil for evil, having
violated our own compacts and the con-
ventions we ourselves have made with the
laws and having done evil to whom we
should least of all do evil, namely, our
selves, our friends, our country and the