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Groton (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
the eastern counties. All of them run locomotives where they wish to. Suppose that, on the Fitchburg Railroad, one locomotive, for a year, never got farther than Groton,--what do you think the Directors of that road would do? Would they take up the rails beyond Groton, or would they turn out the engineer? There is a law of theGroton, or would they turn out the engineer? There is a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, thoroughly executed in every county but ours; and here the men appointed to execute it not only do not want to, but you cannot expect them to. They were elected not to execute it, and they say they can't execute it. Shall we take up the rails, or change the engineer?which? Men say, to take the ap and labor, in that statute. It never has had one trial yet on this peninsula. May we not ask simply one trial? The locomotive has never attempted to go beyond Groton. Why take up the rails yet? If Berkshire should say, We can't execute your law against polygamy, what should we do? Why, appoint fresh sheriffs, not repeal the
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
in quelling the mob. Deputy Chief Ham did it in thirty minutes. It is only the presence of grog-shop Mayors that makes mobs omnipotent. But suppose Mayors cannot execute the laws, -what then? If Berkshire should say, We want, every one of us, to have two wives, and practise that plan, sending word up to Boston, We cannot execute the other law, do you think we should sit down quietly. and let it go? How long? Boston has five or six trains of railroads,--one to the Old Colony, one to Providence, one to Worcester, one to Lowell, one to Fitchburg, one to the eastern counties. All of them run locomotives where they wish to. Suppose that, on the Fitchburg Railroad, one locomotive, for a year, never got farther than Groton,--what do you think the Directors of that road would do? Would they take up the rails beyond Groton, or would they turn out the engineer? There is a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, thoroughly executed in every county but ours; and here the men appointe
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
ound. I know the value of the common schools of Massachusetts. It makes my house worth a thousand dollars morch they break before the very sun and noonday of Massachusetts. Such are the reasons for the Law. One half tut one half of the criminal expenses of the State of Massachusetts,--just three times our proper proportion. orderly and legal assemblage of the citizens of Massachusetts. It was at a time when one of the most efficiene to execute a law that was hated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts full as bitterly as Beacon Street hates ut the engineer? There is a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, thoroughly executed in every county butt to a hand in the execution of it. Now the State of Massachusetts feels an interest in the execution of the Mfs, not repeal the law. So in this case, let not Massachusetts kneel and say, I too am a slave to the grog-shopolicy has been somewhat successful. Agitate I and we shall vet see the laws of Massachusetts rule even Boston
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
not a question now. So with temperance and the Maine Liquor Law. Time was when the question whether a man had a right to sell liquor openly, licensed or not, was discussed; we have passed that point, and reached the time when the majority — in other words, the State--decrees that these shops shall be shut. Now let me show you, in a few words, why it should decree that. In order more clearly to show this, let me go back a little, and ask how did the Mayor and Aldermen, the City, meet this Maine Liquor Law? They said, You may decree it if you please, we won't execute it. You say we shall not license anybody, but we will effect the same thing, for we will let everybody sell, except just those whom we should not have licensed. These are the exact words of the order to the police some years ago. The Chief of Police replied to a question from the Massachusetts Temperance Society, We have directions never to prosecute a liquor-seller, unless he be one who would not have received a lice
Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 25
executed, when you have entrusted its execution to men who do not wish or mean to execute it,--who were elected expressly not to execute it, and have the strongest motive not to do so? No matter how good individual policemen are, while such men rule them. You know when Bailie Nicol Jarvie, in Scott's immortal novel, let Rob Roy out of jail,--he was an alderman, a bailie, and let him out,--he said to Rob, If you continue to be such a thief, you ought to have a doorkeeper in every jail in Scotland. O no, Bailie, replied Rob, it is just as weel to have a bailie in ilka borough. It answers the same purpose to have a servile and complacent Mayor and Aldermen as to have a base policeman, because they arrange the juries, and they fetter and command the police. The consequence has been, that there has been no effort to execute the law. The defence put in is, We cannot execute the law. The Mayor said of the riots of 1860-61, We can't put them down. The reply of his own policemen was, T
Rob Roy (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
n his side, how is the law to be executed? As long as the city government is chosen by men whose interest is on that side, how can it be otherwise? How is the law to be executed, when you have entrusted its execution to men who do not wish or mean to execute it,--who were elected expressly not to execute it, and have the strongest motive not to do so? No matter how good individual policemen are, while such men rule them. You know when Bailie Nicol Jarvie, in Scott's immortal novel, let Rob Roy out of jail,--he was an alderman, a bailie, and let him out,--he said to Rob, If you continue to be such a thief, you ought to have a doorkeeper in every jail in Scotland. O no, Bailie, replied Rob, it is just as weel to have a bailie in ilka borough. It answers the same purpose to have a servile and complacent Mayor and Aldermen as to have a base policeman, because they arrange the juries, and they fetter and command the police. The consequence has been, that there has been no effort to
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
ent, by the hand of Sir Robert Peel, assumed the police regulation of that cluster of towns which we commonly call London, though the plan does not include the city proper. New York, on our continent, about six years ago, followed the example; Baltimore and Cincinnati have done likewise to a greater or less extent, and so also have some of the other Western cities. The experience of all great accumulations of property and population reads us a lesson, that the execution of the laws therein d cities prove the same fact. Indeed, great cities are nests of great vices, and it has been the experience of republics that great cities are an exception to the common rule of self-governed communities. Neither New York, nor New Orleans, nor Baltimore — none of the great cities — has found the ballot-box of its individual voters a sufficient protection, through a police organization Great cities cannot be protected on the theory of republican institutions. We may like it or not,--seventy ye
Manhattan Island (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
had lain before. He could stand up against every temptation, except Boston streets. There he lies dying, as his grandfather and father before him. Do you say that the people of these country towns have no interest in the streets of Boston? You tempt the virtue, melt the resolution and corrupt the morals of the Commonwealth, as far as your influence extends. No interest! Let me go a little way off, and be less invidious. New York has one fifth of the population of the State on Manhattan Island. Recently, in a great national convulsion, the city stirred herself to checkmate the State. For Wadsworth, the candidate of order, of liberty, of government, the country counties flung twenty thousand majority. The demons of discord stirred up the purlieus of the city, and flung thirty thousand against him. Ten thousand, the ultimate majority, carried their candidate to Albany. What was his first blow? Seymour's first act, when he assumed the Governorship, what was it? He fulfille
San Francisco (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
we commonly call London, though the plan does not include the city proper. New York, on our continent, about six years ago, followed the example; Baltimore and Cincinnati have done likewise to a greater or less extent, and so also have some of the other Western cities. The experience of all great accumulations of property and population reads us a lesson, that the execution of the laws therein demand extra consideration and peculiar machinery. The self-organized Safety Committees of San Francisco and other cities prove the same fact. Indeed, great cities are nests of great vices, and it has been the experience of republics that great cities are an exception to the common rule of self-governed communities. Neither New York, nor New Orleans, nor Baltimore — none of the great cities — has found the ballot-box of its individual voters a sufficient protection, through a police organization Great cities cannot be protected on the theory of republican institutions. We may like it or
Fitchburg (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 25
rty minutes. It is only the presence of grog-shop Mayors that makes mobs omnipotent. But suppose Mayors cannot execute the laws, -what then? If Berkshire should say, We want, every one of us, to have two wives, and practise that plan, sending word up to Boston, We cannot execute the other law, do you think we should sit down quietly. and let it go? How long? Boston has five or six trains of railroads,--one to the Old Colony, one to Providence, one to Worcester, one to Lowell, one to Fitchburg, one to the eastern counties. All of them run locomotives where they wish to. Suppose that, on the Fitchburg Railroad, one locomotive, for a year, never got farther than Groton,--what do you think the Directors of that road would do? Would they take up the rails beyond Groton, or would they turn out the engineer? There is a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, thoroughly executed in every county but ours; and here the men appointed to execute it not only do not want to, but you ca
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