Proceedings of Annual Meeting, Issues 1-2; Issue 6

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Page 21 - ... self-renunciation, which is ever arduous and painful. This virtue may be defined as the love of the laws and of our country.
Page 21 - Everything, therefore, depends on establishing this love in a republic ; and to inspire it ought to be the principal business of education ; but the surest way of instilling it into children is for parents to set them an example.
Page 33 - Every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, employer or other person, who shall be injured in person or property, or means of support, by an intoxicated person...
Page 20 - Any private person (and a fortiori a peace-officer) that is present when any felony is committed, is bound by the law to arrest the felon, on pain of fine and imprisonment if he escapes through the negligence of the standers-by.
Page 21 - This virtue may be defined as the love of the laws and of our country. As such love requires a constant preference of public to private interest, it is the source of all private virtues; for they are nothing more than this very preference itself. This love is peculiar to democracies. In these alone the government is entrusted to private citizens. Now a government is like everything else: to preserve it we must love it.
Page 27 - Law is an uninterrupted labor, and not of the State power only, but of the entire people. The entire life of the law, embraced in one glance, presents us with the same spectacle of restless striving and working of a whole nation, afforded by its activity in the domain of economic and intellectual production.
Page 27 - Justice which, in one hand, holds the scales, in which she weighs the right, carries in the other the sword with which she executes it. The sword without the scales is brute force; the scales without the sword is the impotence of law. The scales and the sword belong together; and the state of the law is perfect, only where the power with which Justice carries the sword is equaled by the skill with which she holds the scales.
Page 34 - ... person, and detain them in some place of safe keeping until warrants can be procured against such person, and for the seizure of said liquor, vessels, and implements, under the provisions of this chapter.
Page 33 - ... intoxicating liquor to the person having such habit. If the person so notified at any time, within twelve months thereafter, sells or delivers any such liquor to the person having such habit...
Page 19 - Council for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as the council may determine.

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