it may seem a long wav fron all these illustrations from paint ing and music and shrimps to the Lieutenant-Governor of far-away South Dakota wrestling with the problem of the crime-wave and its remedy; but it is not. They are the same. I ought to be able to sit down, for the problem raised by him can only be solved in the same way. The moral Jaw must be "within"? us all, and within the soul and conscience of all the nations if the laws of our countries are going to be abyed. And if they are not obeyed, then chads reigns. There will {be crime-waves and at last a crime-deluge. There is abroad generally, as the men of Dakota Bee, a spirit of "lawlessness," which the world cannot go on decently St. John truly says "is sin," and if this spirit is abroad. Here is a case of the utterly "lawless spirit that is abroad. It appears that!somehow the English motorcar licence laws bear somewhat hardly on the owners, of Ford cars. How, I do not know, nor does it matter. But the point is this. A proposal was actually made that all Ford car_owners should assemble outside London, and at a. given signal all drive into London by the main thoroughfares, and so -block all the traffic of the city. The old plan of agitating for the removal of grievances is too slow now. We must resort to force and flout the law. There is a slackening of the "law within us," and that way moral ruin lies., Honesty, truth, the spirit of obedience, sensitiveness of conscience must be taught and ground into us. But everywhere there is such looseness, pilferage at the docks, hard swearing in the courts, and such like sins, that there is no wonder there is a_crime-wave. Have we forgotten that the very basis of the world is the eternal moral law, which is the very nature and essence of God Himself
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.