Don't Like Limits.

There is always with us the malevolent who “can't abide” laws of any kind that interfere with his peculiar notions of liberty. One of this species of the human family is the motorist who wants all speed limits abolished. Following on the example set by the no-limitations faction in England, some New Zealand motorists are agitating for liberty to go the whole hog on the people's highways. They even suggest that slow drivers should be prosecuted for keeping the speedsters back. Fortunately, there is still such a thing as sane public opinion in the matter of road speeds. The scorcher of the highways, whether a motor-cyclist or a car-driver, is a public nuisance and only brings the whole body of drivers into disrepute. The no-limits party is no more likely to succeed in the agitation than the man is who proclaims his impatience with the law which punishes him for getting drunk in public.

It really wouldn't matter in the least if the speed-fiend broke his neck, if he only did it in private, somewhere off the roads. But on the highway there are the rest of us to be considered, and, strange as it may seem, there are actually some of us who still like to walk alongside the roads without having to scramble through a fence whenever a frenzied ass on wheels heaves in sight.

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