It was recently my good fortune to be invited to talk to a club
of Jewish boys. Among other matters I talked to them about
law and lawlessness, and tried to show that the spirit of
lawlessness, now so rife in this country, manifests itself at
first in little ways. I reminded them of the wanton lawlessness
of automobile drivers in exceeding speed limits, and then I
sought to bring the illustration close home to them by asking
if they ever saw a fellow at a ball-game, where scores of men
were standing in line waiting for their turn to get a ticket,
pass up to the head of the line and surreptitiously induce some
friend there, or even a stranger, to buy a ticket for him, and
thus take advantage of all those who had come before him. They
all recognized the illustration. It is a very common incident
in American life. Then I pointed out that such a proceeding
is a rank violation of the law of courtesy and fair play, and
that any one who would do that thing ruthlessly is sowing the
seeds of lawlessness, and may some day expect to reap the
consequences.--GEORGE W. COLEMAN, “Searchlights.”
(1772)
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