Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-09
WHAT rs a LEGISLATURE?

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representatives of the people of Minnesota
have adjourned, and are retiring to the
bosoms of their constituents. The State
has enjoyed another season of the law MAX
blessed, as the United States, with the
glorious privilege of having as many
Legislatures as there are separate
States and communities, and in nothing is
the Catholic spirit of one country SO strik-
ingly illustrated and the aspiring ambition
of all so practically realized as in the an
nual, or biennial sessions of these Legisla-
lures.
The people assemble, through their agents,
to carry out the idea of the representative
system, and to dignity, honor and immortal
ize the State.
It is on more honorable, or rather, a
more exalted stage, than the primitive as
semblies at the foot and chariot races of the
Olympic games, and equally as useful and
beneficial, as the liberty loving, and liberty
fighting political hustings of more modern
times.
Strange to say, we always experience feel
ing of sadness to see the people resume
their delegated powers, and to receive back
the responsible trust. It is sadness, like
that of death, because the places SO highly
honored, in the nature of things, will never
know many of the great names that have so
illustrated and illumed the pages of the
States history any more. All that live must
die, and, with the permission of Hamlet, we
must add, SAY, madam, it is common
Need we add that the twentieth session OF
the Legislature of the State of Minnesota
has adjourned. By way of consolation. a
secret quiet satisfaction, let it not be forgot
ten, the Senate will xeassemble in the beau
tiful month of May to add to the natural
flowers of that charming season the timid
| violets and pretty pansies of that SURPRISING
eloquence destined to make the impeach-
ment of Page immortal.
Diminishing the emotional, and recogniz.
| ing the old Latin maxim, in all seriousness
it is too soon from the cool disinterested
standpoint of Democratic journalism, tc
forecast, in all their mighty effects, the
legislation of Minnesota for the
year of our Lord 1878. Thus much
! we feel justified in saying
that the laws, special, general and mixed
enacted, are mixed mostly, that is to say
good, bad, Indifferent and doubtful. Fol
example, foreclosure of mortgages by adver
| tisement may be said to be good, inasmuct
as the debtor will not be compelled to give
half of his property in the first place for re-
lief, and then finally surrender the Other
half for the privilege. This is only an ex
ample.
AS to the other generic terms, space for
bids both argument and example alike
Suffice it to say, that the people have wit
messed the first great struggle to grab thu
sacred fund of education in Minnesota w,
have done our duty to keep OUT the entering
wedge to ward off the harpiel
from that great trust for children
I'VE have, in the first days
of the existence of The GLop,
stood, locally, almost alone tt
keep inviolate the educational fund and re
sources of the State, and to preserve thu
national bequest intact forever. The future
will be the unerring vindicator, and whatever
then may betide, The GLOBE, as now, will b.
found fighting the battles of the States mos
sacred interests, an untrembling, ceaseless
sentinel.