Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1914 — There Can Be No Great Nation Without Cohesion and No Cohesion Without Law [ARTICLE]

There Can Be No Great Nation Without Cohesion and No Cohesion Without Law

By WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD,

District of Columbia

Judge of Supreme Court,

THE people need to look upon the law as their law and to resent anv disobedience of its mandates as a defiance of their will. IDEAS HAVE RULED THE WORLD, AND MEN ARE ONLY PUPPETS IN, COMPARISON. Nothing could be belter for the people of this land today than to take possession of the idea that law, the expression of their own united personality, is a thing noble and ihviolable, worthv of .everv service and sacrifice, and that it must and shall be obeyed. THERE NEVER WAS A GREAT NATION THAT DID NOT REA ERENCI? THE LAW. There can be no great nation without cohesion, and no cohesion without law.

NO PROFESSION MORE THAN THE LAW NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED BY COMMON SENSE OF DAILY LIFE, FOR ITS VERY PROVINCE IS TO DEAL WITH THE AFFAIRS OF LIFE. LORD NOTTINGHAM, WHEN HE WAS OPPOSING AN OPINION OF THE LAW JUDGES WHICH APPEARED TO HIM TOO TECHNICAL, EXHORTED THE HOUSE OF LORDS TO RESOLVE QUESTIONS WHICH WOULD STAND WITH THE JUDGMENT OF MANKIND WHEN THEY WERE DEBATED ABROAD. I AM AFRAID SOME OF OUR AMERICAN JUDGES MIGHT LEARN A LESSON FROM THE LORD CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO.