Government in relation to this evil, acknowledged to be very great? Some maintain that the State can do nothing. They say every man has a right to make money in this way if he choose ; every man has a right to drink or get drunk if he choose, and it is nobody's business but his own. Liberty is the individual right of every man, and the State has no right to (181) 182 A Busy Life. interfere with a man, no right to tell him that he shall not follow this or that business. The State has no right to meddle with what people eat or drink. Its duty is to let this matter alone. Liberty is the inalienable right of every man. But liberty has its limitations. No mr.n has a right to do wrong. No man has a right to steal. No man has a right to adulterate his goods and sell them as pure. No man has a right to establish a slaughter- house or a glue factory in the center of Wooster. No man has a right to buy a lot down town and then plant on it a powder factory. Why is this? you ask. If he sees fit to invest his money in such a business and carry it on in that place, who has a right to interfere? The answer is, by establishing any such business he interferes with the rights of his neighbors. That is the simple principle. Now,