"HIDEOUS ERROR."
AMERICAN PROHIBITION LAW
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SAN FRANCISCO, November 25. Prohibition is flying in the face of lex naturae, so Horace J. Bridges, leader of the Chicago Ethical Society, lay*. Besides being at the head of the Ethical Society, Bridges is head 01 Booth House, one of the principal settlement centres in Chicago. He •tated in a letter written for publication that the people's power to change their fundamental'laws is limited—that^there is an authority.higher than th* people, one which cannot be lightly ignored, even by a majority of a million to one. Roman jurists call J t lex naturae, the natural law. and this higher authority, however named or defined, is the sole source and the sole guarantee of those "inalienable n«hts referred to in the Declaration of Independence. "A hideous error" is what Bridges ealli belief, that a majority, solely by the magio of numbers, can turn wrong into right by enacting it into a statute or a constitution. He adds that the Tighta of man are limited only by such regulation as necessary to prevent encroachment upon others, and that per•oiufl.T he agrees with ''a man named Pan! who said 'Let no man judge you in meat or in drink.' "
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18888, 31 December 1926, Page 11
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