Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-04-12
DIES MONIES CORRESPONDENTS.
The Lobby-Somc at its Character
istics-Mrs. Packard-Proteotion for
the Insane Tho Death Penalty.
Prospects of Adjournment.
Dies MONIES, April 10th, 1872.

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DIES MONIES, April 10th, 1872.
Ep1roR BULLET1N:-Long years
ago, down in Connecticut, the SPUR
rels used to come out Of the adjoin-
ing woods and cat up the corn that
grew on the outside row of the field.
Now Ian ingenious man who sawEhow
the farmers suffered from this cause,
set his wits to work to invent a rem
edy, and he succeeded. His rene
dy was, to hare no o"tsiaesro'es.
When one sees the preparations
that are making, the combinations
that are forming and the log-rolling
that is being accomplished by the
lobby, to tease and worry the tired
members in the last days OF the
session into the support of schemes
they would have promptly rejected
when they were fresh and strong
we sigh for the Connecticut inven-
tor and would apply his remedy to
this case, and enact that there
should be no last days Of the SEES
sion.
The work that is done by amy leg
islature on the last ten days Of a
protractcd session were much better
left undone. The designing will
take advantage Of its failing moral
stamina as an artful son takes adj
vantage of the falling senses of a
too indulgent father, and induces
him to make will cutting off the
other heirs.
During the last days ola session,
projects that were voted down and
supposed dead months ago, will
spring up in new dress, more at
tractive and smiling than ever, and
measures that Stunned the morning
light and the MONDAY sun, creep
in, in the twilight Of the dying ses-
sion and ask to be recognized and
endorsed. The first refusal docs
not discourage them, the second re-
fusal just whcts their appetite, and
the third puts them right i'll the
mood to begin work in earnest.
The man in Scripture said:
"Though I fear not God neither re-
gard man, yet will grant this wo-
man her request lest by her contin-
ual coming she weary me-" Lcgis-
lators are but men and some of them
inferior samples at that, and they
always have been and always will
beimore or less affected as was the
man in the Bible. Eternal button
holing is the winning card. will
bet on it against truth, right, JUS
tice or even common sense. The
biggest nuisance in a county, if he
personally knows every voter and
will freeze to him industriously, per-
scveringly and increasingly, will at
last get what he desires. What
then should you expect Of the poor
legislators who are set upon, not by
conccited Bombastes, but by the
most talented, polished and expe-
ricnced professional gentlemen in
the State.
The continual dropping of water
will wear a stone. The doctrine
that one hears every day will at
last find a Judgment in the heart, no
matter how it looked on first ac-
quaintance.
A lobbyist is a dangerous person
and, when bent on securing an APP
preparation, public enemy, and
should be suppressed by constitu-
tional enactment. Oh, that 4 panic
would seize the members, or the
per diem would give out, or the
Governor prorogue the Legislature
ten days before the last day, that
the professional leeches might fail
in their attempt to fasten upon the
vitals of the long suffering State.
If 1 wrote in my last, "Alexander
Clark, Presidential Elector,'' it was
done in an absent fit; it should
read, delegate to the National Con-
vention."
Mrs. Packard is here lobbying,
but she is not working for money.
She was three years in the Insane
Asylum at Jacksonville, ILL.,, as she
AYERS, OH the prtensc that she was
insane when she was perfectly ra-
tional. Upon her escape she wrote
a book from the proceeds of which
she supports herself and husband
and children. She induced the leg
islaturc of Illinois to investigate
the Jacksonville asylum and correct
the abuses there, and to so amend
the laws as to afford the best posi-
BILE safegard to sane persons against
false Imprisonment in the asylum.
She is trying to induce this legisla-
ture to pass ssBill for the Protcc-
ton ofthe insane" a copy of which
l will enclose to you. If she had
been here early in the session her
labor would have been lighter. AS
| it is, | think there is about an even
chance for her to get favorable
hearing. -ttt
Yesterday the House passed a
| law abolishinr the death penalty.