The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 15, Number 19, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 September 1922 — Page 3

LAW VS. ANARCHY or Liberty By Law, Morals and True Religion By William Gray Loehr, Atty., Warsaw, Ind.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Prov. 14:34. 3 Liberty is born of law. Order is the result of obedience to law. Both are conducive to and aided by good morals and true religion. The principle of freedom cannot require that man should be free not to be free. ' It is not freedom to be allowed to alienate freedom. That is that man shall not sell his birthright of liberty to go into physical or spiritual, nor mental or moral slavery. Poverty causes the fall of kingdoms, while wealth has caused the fall of republics to date. Many individuals as well as nations cannot stand prosperity. Man, as well as a nation, is not saved by wealth, no matter how comfortable his money may make him. Nor is he saved by education, however wise he may become. Not by strength, tho he feel ever so secure. By science? No!. Not even if it were possible to discover, know, and classify the whole material universe. There is one common ground for all, rich and poor, high and low, wise and simple, man or nation—and but one. It is FAITH. By the unmerited favor of God, you are saved through Faith ; in the Lord Jesus Christ; and • that not of yourself: it is the. gift of God. Eph. 2:8. The liberty of the individual ! must be bound by law; he must not make himself a nuisance to others by violating any law nor by illegal making, or using alcoholics or any other stupifying substance. Man’s work in life rightly employed is in perfecting and beautifying man himself. 'Human nature is not a machine built after a model, and set to one exact work before it, but ‘ like a tree, planted by rivers of water, which requires to grow, develope, and bring forth fruit, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. Men are not sheep; some are geniuses. Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom; therefore in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil and air of freedom in which tfey grow. The chief work actuating man’s life is not work done by his hhnds, feet, or back but by his CONSCIOUSNESS. And he nor anyone else has any more right to stiipify that consciousness than they have to take life. But some undesirable, lawless citizens are doing both. Good citizens believe that all anarchists, traitors, boot-leggers, illicit booze makers and irreconcilable foreigners who flauntingly disregard our laws while seeking shelter and receiving protection and liberty by our laws, are biting the hand that is feeding them and that they should be speedly departed or lodged behind prison walls. They are to be reminded that the best way to get a bad law repealed is to inforce it. But they do not want this done because they know the law is right and that they are wrong, therefore they become a law unto themselves and nullify it. All those who argue that laws against murder

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•dcohol, and auto stealing should oe repealed because some break chem and disregard all law, are advocating anarchy, if sifted to .he ultimate conclusion, that is .hat there should be no law; then 'zithout laws to break, there :ould be none broken; hence no law breakers and the result they :ay would be that everyone vould be 'good. Every rational person knows it to be a lie. Life would be worthless without law. There are who would kill you for a dollar if it were not for the penalty attached by law. \narchy has never been a success when or wherever tried. It was rhe condition of the world before the flood and was a failure if we believe the testimony of either man or God. It is fundamentally wrong as the statement that “might makes right” is wrong. One man’s right ends where another man’s right begins and this boundary can only be set by just laws rightly enforced and obeyed. The honor and glory of the average man is that he respects the rights of others, he )beys law, and is capable of following the initiative of righteous leaders; that he can respond internally to wise and noble things, and he can be led to them with • his eyes open and will support ’ the right with his taxes, his ' ballot, and with his life and ; sacred honor as our forefathers, the signers of the Declaration of Independence did in 1776. A people, it appears, may pro’Tess for a time and then stop because of a lack of individuality, ’eaders, and morals: China and Spain for example. Law cannot lo the work of religion. You •annot change a man’s heart nor nake him moral by law, but that : s no reason why we should pernit or approve immorality of awlessness. For such actions as re prejudicial to the interest of >thers, the individual is accountble and may be subjected either o social or legal punishment, if ither society or the legislature ire of the opinion that one or the >ther is required for its protection. It is not reasonable that it should be lawful to take away a nan’s brains and then punish him for acts he does because he hasn’t them or cannot use them. But all know he should be punished for his crimes and made to pay for his torts, therefore it is right to take away that which destroys his reason and leads him into crime and poverty. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Prohibition of the liquor traffic is the ounce of prevention that is worth a ton of regulation. It is to that slavery of rum that emancipation was to human slavery of Lincoln’s day, When the eighteenth amendment has stood for fifty years it will be equaly enforced and honored with the thirteenth, j And it will stand. Good law encourages good , morals and respectability, but law cannot take the place of ; religion. Law punishes after the >• act is done; religion repulses the ; very thought of evil and thus ► keeps thei act from being done. * Law says: Thou shall not steal;

Thou shall not kill; and thus | throughout the decalogue. True I religion by tjie Word of the Lord j says: A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one j another; whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you so to them. With the walls of salvation surrounded, the law that man should follow is so simple—do right. Special talents and intellectual gifts are not aeedtd for the knowledge and statement of truth, but for the nvention and statement of falsehood." One of the falsehoods takes the "orm of German liquor propag■nda, to-day, that Prohibition vas forced through against the soldiers will and while they were sway. This is an insult to the aoblest men of the nation who were willing to sacrifice, and die f need be, as many did, for their ’ountry—to say they are friends to the enemy. *This beer and liquor clamor is only a disguished attack of defeated Germany to utilize her booze capital invested here and lying idle, to get her slimy clutches and damnable work in to destroy victorious America. Citizens awake! It shall not be done. Stand by your rights—use the ballot. If you do not believe that these interests are still in the country just look at the names, Schlitz, Guggenheimer, Anheuser Busch, then look up their records. Again the lie is apparent when it is considered that the eighteenth amendment was passed in the regular constitutional way by .a two-thirds vote of congress and then ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures. It can legally be repealed only in the same manner as it was amended. The representatives, at the time the amendment was passed, were . men previously elected by the, votes of the men who later became soldiers. While in the army most of the boys could and did vote by mail and there was nothing put-over-on them. (The writer was a soldier.) No soldier, no American who has seen Spain in her decadience wishes the United States to follow her. None who seen France with her wine, England with her rum, Russia with her vodka, or Germany with her beer, and has noted the awful results, will wish America to become like any of these. Many a soldier will say that he would not trade the good old U. S. A., for all of Europe and the world beside. Then America must not, dare not, take-on or retain European vices. America, the bulwark of political and’ religious liberty, is striving for economic freedom, that strikes and lock-outs need be no more. She does not need any of the red imported variety Liberty is only worked out under a government, “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” under God. Religion may be classified: (1) the primitive, savage or personal, that the meaning of life lies in personal enjoyment for which man exists —this applies to an-

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I archists and apostles of booze j personal liberty; (2) the pagan, ! family, state religion, that life is I the enjoyment of the group or I the success of a nation regardless of right, that “might makes right”—and this applies to the 1914 “Germany ueber alles,” “Me and God” varieties; (3) and last the true religion of Christ, the divine teaching, that the meaning of life lies in the fulfilling of the will of him who sent you, therefore try with all ypur mind, spirit, and strength to know that will and do it. Religion is the: right relation established be- 1 tween the separate personality| of man with the universe—God,! man, and things. And morality is that ever present guide to life which results from that relation. Special forms of social life produce morality only when the results of religious influences are nut into them. 0 man; what doth the Lord requires of the, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God? Mich. 6:8. The religious person should be moral; the moral person should be religious, in fact to be their best, all should be moral and religious. Moses, the law giver, rebuked with equal vigor offenses against religion or morals. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil—their tongues speak lies. Make you clean; cease to do evil; learn to do good. Act you like men. The prophet of truth stands his ground and his message resounds as the very voice of God through every land where the greed of gold makes men unjust and the love of pleasure banishes; compassion from human hearts. In conclusion, religion, morals, and good laws are necessary. All : law snould be enforced, then the ' bad law repealed but no law ever nullified. Anarchy shall not be tolerated, that no one shall be a law unto himself. The ill of the world shall not be drowned but searched out and cured. If man does not correct the evils of the present world, the world will remain in turmoil until the Prince of Peace shall come to judge the world. The wages of sin is death (to man or nation) but the gift of God is Life. Romans 6:23. The choice of life and death is set before you. Choose life. Authorities and references: “Mill on Liberty,” Carey and Tolstoi on “Religion and Morals,” The Bible. P. S. —Every citizen has a civic duty to perform on registration day, September 9, and October 9, 1922. o When you are ailing, write down carefully all the remedies your friends suggest for you and then burn them. Then you will feel much better. o What has become of the old fashioned boy who used to take pride in telling how many cords of stovewood he could saw in a week?

SLATS’ DIARY By Ross Farquhar. I Friday—l give away to sum Temtation today witch I got punished a plenty for. I had ben

out on a hike with Blisters and Jake and when we cum home I seen a fresh Pie on are table. I up and calls ma but she had went down to the grocry so I tuk the pie and we eat it. And finely she returned back home and ast me why I done

it and I replyed and sed I cuddent help myself. She cum back by rimarking that it looked much like as if I had helped myself. And I had to suffer. Saturday—Mr and mrs Hasket was seen at the pitcher show tonite and the older inhabitance says it is the 2nd time they ever went out together. The other time they went out togather was when the Furnace xploded open. Sunday—l am lerning to draw pitchers so I can be come a artist when I am groan up. I drawed a pitcher of a Peach today and went and showed it to Jane at Sunday skool and ast her if she diddent think it was a reelistic peach. She told me Yes it looks rotten. Monday—Skool will comence next Monday. I gess I wont mind it so much for this has ben a very discomforble summer. Just wirk all the time like in a army. Ma is the Gen. and pa is the paymaster and I am the bull gang. So let the ole bell ring agen. I say. Tuesday—We selebrated uncle Gabe’s 99st berthday today. Pa shuk hands and ast him if he had lived a happy life and he sed Yes he gess he had. So fur. Wednesday—Got holme with a dirty face and hands and ma made me wash up for Co. as they was 4 gentleman and a noosepaper man comeing to are house for supper. Thursday—Had a site with Pug Stevens today. Ma thot I had lost a tooth in the site but I haddent. I had it in my pocket all the time. o Now that the radio craze is subsiding, practical people may step in and make something useful out of it.

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SAVING THE FARMER’S WIFE One Badger farmer, who has a keen sense of justice, declares that one of the standard puzzles that he has never been able to solve is, why some farmers favor machinery on the farm field and none in the home. He declares that not 10 percent of the farmers in his neighborhood have washing machines, while IJO percept of them have selfbinders, mowers, hay loaders, hay forks, and every one of the work of the soil. Our enraged farmer works it c.ut something like this: “Just let any farmer do one washing, stand over the board at this back-breaking job, rub all forenoon and all afternoon and he would pass a unanimous vote that the washing machine’must he installed before next washday.” Our farmer has another way of stating it: “When it comes to using up one good wife, or a few cents worth of power, I will use the power first. That is mere humanity, to say nothing of avoiding essential waste.” No farmer thinks of sowing oats by hand, or plowing with a hoe, but he expects his wife *o wash by hand, churn by hand ■•nd do a lot of other jobs which can and should be done by power as this enlightened farmer puts the situation. How solve the problem? Our farmer, who has made the above arguments, has what he calls the home workshop. It is a simple frame building close to the house and is just 16 by 20 feet, one story high. In one corner is the gas engine. In one section of the room is the washing machine and the ironing machine. Another is taken by the cream separator and the churn. A small dynamo providing light for the house and barn is in another part of the room. Our farmer says this building contains the most useful and necessary plant on the farm. And he has some space left for other machines he says will be needed soon. Use power for the home as well as on the field, is the slogan of one progressive Wisconsin farmer. o IT’S. SO In the newspaper you have the cheapest and most effective means of telling your merchandising message to the people of this community. Everybody sees the paper. f Moral: Advertise in the Syracuse Journal.

THREE TYPES OF SURFACE Indianapolis, Sept. 4. —The Maintenance Division of the State Highway Commission soon will start to surface approximately nine miles of State Road No. 4 between Haysville and Crystal, according to announcement by John D. Williams, department director. It will be recalled that on August Bth a Highway Commission opened bids for three kinds >f surfacing on this project and 'ejected all as above engineers’ ’ estimates. The three types of ! surface considered are: gravel on sandstone base; gravel on gravel base, and waterbound macadam on sandstone base. Ac--11 cording to Mr. Williams the com- . .mission while it intends for the . Maintenance Department to sur- ! face the road, has not decided l upon the type of surface. State Road No. 4 crosses the j southern part of the State and leads from the Indiana-Ohio line ■ through Lawrenceburg, Aurora, Versailles, North Vernon, Seymour, Brownstown and connects with the Range line road at Bedford. From that city it continues west and south through Orange, Jasper, Spencer, Warrick and Vanderburg counties t< Evansville. It serves a great volume of east and west traffic across southern Indiana. . q Try the classified columns.

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