The Red Cloud chief., 1882-06-01

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sion and the members have returned
10 the boom Of their respective con-
siituencies.
Few people entertain 8 proper ap-
probation Of our Legislators. Perhaps
this may be accounted for by the fact
that the average citizen does no, real
ize the immense amount Of labor per
formed by each Of our law makers.
Every legislator, when he goes up to
the capital for the ir-t time, deems il
has duty 20 introduce a bill. He con
siders il n duty he owes hi. eons,itu-
ents. and feels that be would fail To
fulfill his destiny did he no, introduce
something TO be wrangled over By his
fellow blockhead-. The consequence
il that when each member. in the
discharge Of this sacred and solemn
duty, has showed IN one or more bills
tina, are OF no account and were never
intended TO pass. and would not
amount TO anything il they did pass.
the legislature has more OH Its hands
than j, a attend To in the allotted
time, consequently the time j. fooled
away and nothing Of importance is
done.
The prime object of a legislators
life being To introduce bills, he does it
with a perseverance, and a lofty di-re-
gard Of the wishes Of his constituents
that is sublime.
The labors Of Legislator are arduous
in the extreme. and many a poor fel-
low finds i; advisable after a heated
session" 10 go east 10 visit his rela-
tives" for Il few weeks and recuperate
his wasted energies before returning 10
the bosom Of his family.
The farmer, though "A well meaning
man, as a general thing, almost in
variably fails to appreciate what is
done for him by the hard working law
makers. The farmer can repose in his
downy couch and dream the happy
hours away until noon, while the
legislator, far from home and friends,
where no woman's soft hand lat least
not his wife's) can stroke the flaxen
hair from his noble brow. and with
kind words and loving deeds cheer
him in his daily toll, he is forced to
rise at the unseemly early hour Of ten
o'clock and he ready for work by
eleven, and he has To continue to
work with only a few hours intcrmis-
sion for refreshments, until the sun
has long passed the meridian and the
witching hour of 4 p. NJ, invites him
to repose and TO forgetfulness in the
sweet companionship Of the flowing
bowl.
The laborers who dwaddle their time
away carrying the hod or breaking
stone, little they reck if their represen-
tative in the legislature is wearing his
precious life away moving the pre-
vious question:" or exhausting his
vital energies in herculean efforts to
have the resolution Of q brother mem
Der "laid on the table"
1t seems to be one of the immutahle
laws of nature that a part of the hui
man family shall do the work and the
other part draw the pay. The hod
carrier, he has nothing to do but carry
the brick and mortar to the top of n
five story building, the mason at the
top does all the work.
The bloated bond holding knight of
the buck and saw, with nine small
children and n sickly wife to support.
he has nothing to do but { saw wood
from sun up till sun down and luxu-
rate on a princely income of seventy
FIVE cents a day. while the poor legis-
lator has TO work two hours and
a half and sometimes even three
hours a day, for which he receives the
miserable pittance of three dollars a
day with mileage, free railroad passes
and a telegraph frank.
We hope that the time will speedily
come when the intellectual giants of
our legislative halls, and they are all
! giants-in their minds, will he appre-
ciated as they deserve, and that the
great mass Of free Americans, made
free by the efforts of these ~selisacrifi-
cling men who new accept an %(unlof
fered bride, will be brought TO realize
that this sorrowing world is bet
ter and brighter from having produced
the brilliant bat much abused legisla.
tive statesmen who annually sacrifice
themselves on the political altar for
the public good.