A Halt Called on Laws in the In
terests of Criminals.
To The New York Hbrai.0 : It lj a
remarkable fact that nearly all the
legislation In this country during the
last thirty years has been In the Inter
est "of the criminal classes.
Plangent reiteration of sentimental
platitudes on the part of reformers with
axes to grind Is undermining the foun
dations of a former robust Individual
ism ; the Inevitable fruit of this sort of
activity ir a social structure which but
faintly adumbrates tho Ideal. In the
future let us pretermit no opportunity
to oppose all statutory enactment in the
Interest of the criminal and unfit.
The Sullivan law plays directly Into
(he hands of burglars and holdup men.
Parole boards. Indeterminate and sus
pended sentences are destroying the
safety of life and property; Instead of
apprehending and executing murderers,
teformers are agitating to abolish cap
ital punishment.
The Eighteenth Amendment nrd the
Volstead act are supreme begetters of
crime: bootlegger#, dishonest prohibition
agents, robbery, secret drinking, blind
ness, unmerited death and general dis
regard of all laws are the dfrrct out
come of fanatical and futile efforts to
Inhibit the consumption of alcoholic
potations.
Does the Americanization of foreign
ers consist In efforts to teach them how
to graft antf urge fool laws? Should
they not rather be protected from eon
tact with our diseased Ideals? Present
activities resemble lecture courses for
r.egroes <m the art of eating wafer
melons. Ai.sr.RT R. OAtt at:n.
N*w TorsK. March 6.
I.Kit.
Msrs-Wliat about this r.aral holldsi ?
The Drvll?T shouldn't worry. old n-.an;
they taks a forty days holiday from m?
I every jear.
An Kdllorlal rrhllef.
Pro.(' tl.n W'athvna (/for.) Times.
