The Alaska daily empire., 1923-02-21
Upon Law and Lawlessness.
Cincinnati Enquirer.)

Emphasis has been placed upon two iustra- icns rather than upon the main argument in the ad- dress delivered by President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia University, before the Ohio State Bar Association at Columbus
 These used to demonstrate the utter futility of exercising force instead of in bringing reforms in private life and personal conduct and, while they precisely in point, still they do not reveal all of his conclusions. There have been cited by him the fifteenth and eighteenth amendments to the Federal Constitution provocatves of disrespcc for law It will be admitted that in the South the neSo does not enjoy full of citizenship because of racial feelings which themselves are sub stantiye or natural law. No anywhere else will agree that prohibition fares any better than the black man.
 Dr. Butler spoke upon the topic of Law and Law lessness' which these quoted matters but incidental His startling assertion was that the ex- sting depOrabe attitude Of the country toward re- spec fer authority primarily is due the change in educational system, which tcok place about 1890, when the old doctrine of general knowledge, general discipline and general teaching based upon the peda- gogea experience rather than upon the desire of the pupil or his family, was abandoned and the elective idea introduced. This contributing cause is still subtly at work undermining society.
 Another great factor the reprehensible exten- sion of the police power by the Legislatures of the States and by Congress. fer which condition the called demi-laWyers by Thomas Jefferson is re- sponsible. Every day witnesses the creation new statutes applying force to personal conduct and, these fail in accomplishment, the adition of more drastic provisions Lacking the support of public opinon they are doomed to failure and in reality but legal pretenses Dean Inge, of St. Pauls Cathedral London, calls them legal impertinences.
 As a natural consequence this system of bureau cracy is forcing into American government it's hate fu Prussiansm and making conspicuous the "never- ending nsolenee of elected persons assailed by Walt Whltman The evil effect of legislation of this char acter upon the mind is cumulative and grad ualy has brought about total disropeet for not only law but constituted authority.
 Again, the educator spoke of the abuse of the power of the majority which is subject the same limitations the monarchical power. As exercised in the United States, it contemplated actions from which the most arrogant monarch would draw back Tyranny tyranny still. whether offered by a single manyIheaded ruler, by divine right or by majority rule Hence the revolt against the eighteenth amendment nationwide and is not confined tc men and women of intelligence and moral sensitive ness in section alone, in the case of negro suffrage
 The dissent is complete because as the speaker stated, they regard it's provisions and those of the statutes based upon it as "a forcible and immoral and tyranca invasion of their private life and per sonal conduct" Moreover, their moral sense is af. fronted by the policy which will expend millions and the methods of Czarist Russia and the Span ist nquistion to enforce provision of the law while others of far greater significance and public import ance are accorded conventional treatment or less"
 Perhaps the speaker will be pilloried, denounced and abused without stint for this expression The probabilities strongly favor this result. Nevertheless his words will net be effaced his indictment for gotten. It is be remembered that the burden is upon the opposition to do than merely silence hardy protestants by catch words and formulas. | must explain the dominant lawlessness and bring forth remedies which, to function, be reason able and not mere exhibitions of brute force.