Too Many Laws by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 7, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 43.

Too Many Laws

By Editor

"Too many laws" is what President George R. Peck, of the American Bar Association, declared in his address at St. Paul, August 29. He further remarked: "They are becoming too largely merely administrative and regulative, establishing rules for the direction and control of business activities, drawing lines of separation between that which is and always was permissible and that which shall no longer be so, establishing boards and commissions and providing for a scrutiny which more and more pries into affairs that once were supposed to pertain exclusively to the individual primarily interested."

And it is true. We are overburdened with laws national, state, county, municipal, till the people are law-ridden, and few laws are enforced. Better fewer laws, on civil conduct and procedure, well enforced, than so many of the character President Peck portrays.