interests in many ways and leads to many disorders. It has a tendency to

increase pauperism and crime. It renders a large force of peace officers

essential, and it adds to the expense of the courts and of nearly all branches

of civil administration.

 

Justice Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, says:

 

Licenses may be properly required in the pursuit of many professions and

avocations, which require peculiar skill and training or supervision for the

public welfare. The profession or avocation is open to all alike who will

prepare themselves with the requisite qualifications or give the requisite

security for preserving public order. This is in harmony with the general

proposition that the ordinary pursuits of life, forming the greater per cent of

the industrial pursuits, are and ought to be free and open to all, subject only

to such general regulations, applying equally to all, as the general good may

demand.

 

All such regulations are entirely competent for the legislature to make and are

in no sense an abridgment of the equal rights of citizens. But a license to do

that which is odious and against common right is necessarily an outrage upon the

equal rights of citizens.

 

14. What method did Jesus employ in the following:

 

Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith