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Absolute freedom of action, free dom from all restraint or prohibi tion, immunity from all* punishment —this is the Condi Aon which is called anarchy. But this ideal con dition can only be realized by means of wealth, great wealth. The para dise of absolute freedom, of perfect anarchy, is inhabited only by the very rich, its portals are opened on ly to them, and the only credential card required is a large bank bal ance. Only millionaires are anar chists. Are we then to condemn all law as unjust in its nature and in its operation ? Is it inherent in the na ture law that it should bear harshly upon the poor and allow the lich to escape its burden? No one who has learned lo observe c uld make that assert.on. We are surrounded by laws, phv s'eal and moral, and the very princi pie of our life is subm ssion to law. Law r gulates the conduct of men as well as the movements of the star’, and the infraction of the laws of conduct must result in p mishment as well as the violation of physical laws. “Law is the reason of life, and rea son is the life of law.’’ But the test of r ason is eternal justice.. Only those laws can be im perative to reason which are just. To quote Henry Ward Beecher, “A law is valuable not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.” The fact that a certain ru!e of conduct obtains the force of law by formal enactment does not make it sacred. We must not be deceived by the name. Every pest and para site lives according to law. The cancer has its laws as well as the healthy or ganism, but they are blighting and deadly laws. There are laws of deca dence as well as laws of growth, but only the laws of growth are binding to the reason of an intelligent being. We evade and circumvent nature’s laws when they oppose us or would injure us. Any law which tends to build up a part of any organism at the ex pense of the whole is a pernicious law; and any law which tends to en large or enrich a part of a commun ity or social organism at the expense of any other part is a dangerous law. Society is an organism which must progress as a whole or peri h as a whole, and in the struggle which goes on between the several interests, the law, to be a good and wholesome law, must preserve the just balance. The moment it begins to discrimi nate in favor of one interest and against that moment it be comes bad law. The laws as they are today make anarchists. They should be so modified that anarchies cannot ex *st. The sting of injustice must be extracted from them. That “equal ity before the law” which is so proudly proclaimed by the law books, works injustice. And it will work injustice as long as men are born into unequal economic conditions or are forced by those conditions to become unequal. Acts forbidden by the law are for the most part of such a nature that the rich need never commit them, and the many can scarcely avoid them. The penal ties imposed by the law are for the most part such as to make normal life impossible to the many, but they do WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. not affect the few. They are a farce to the sharks and a tragedy to the ants. For so long «as sharks and ants live under widely different condi tions, a social contract of equal terms for both is only a betrayal of the ants. —Fodor Sackin-Teieh, in The Public PENNSYLVANIA NERVE. The Philadelphia Press, edited by a man who knows better, speaks of the $37,000,000 surplus revenue wrung from the taxpayers as a “souice of genuine congratulation,” and then says: “The fact that half the entire revenue was put into Un cle Sam’s pockets by forci n rs who had goods to sell i.t America is a factor of especial in ere .t. ” W'e had supposed t. at this men dacious claim tiiat ‘ the foreigner pays the tariff” was now confined to the benighted reg ins of the backwoods stump; but here it comes again, in a newspaper edited by "a man of ability and experience, who has served as our minister to Rus sia and as postma ter-general. If it be true that the $333,009,- 000 collected in customs duties at .our pints last y ar was “put into I tide Sam’s pockets by foreigners,” why do we have any < th ar k nd of taxes?. Why not make the defence less foreigners who “ha\e goods t> sell” pay all our national expenses? Why censure a billion d 11 ir Con gress as extravagant? Since the for eigners pay half of it, and can be made to pay it all, why not spend $2,000,000,000? And if .a surplus of $87,000,000 is a “source of genuine congratulation,” why not double the joy by squeezing from the helpless foreigners $100,000,000 more of un necessary revenue? As a sapient Republican candidate ont-e observed: “It is easier to handle a surplus than a d.ficiency.” Double the sur plus by giving another turn to the screws by which we extract a third of $1,000,000,000 in a year from “foreigners with goods to sell.” How many of the people are fooled by such mossgrown fallacies as that put forth by the Philadel phia Press? —Boston Herald. Agents Wanted In every town and post office to so licit subscribers for Watson’s Weekly <zn<) Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine Write today for Agent’s Outfit and sample copies. Address Watson’s Jeffersonian Mag azine, 608 Temple Court, Atlanta, Ga. 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