The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
TOO MUCH Law,

The people of the United States and of
the several states respectively are be-
coming annually more and more FESTIVE
of excessive legislation. The business
of the nation is depressed almost con-
tinually by the ever lengthening sessions
OF congress, each adjournment being
| looked forward to by interest with hopes
of relief. So to with the different states.
| The internal affairs of every state are
left to drift IN Sea of uncertainty while
legislatures are in session. Legislative
bodies are seemingly forgetting their
| responsibility for common veal and to
the public, becoming considerable of only
their own individual inclinations and
interests which are put forward with the
dictatorial hand of tyrant, or other
wise conserved by trades and Doodle
with but little reference to what their
constituents may be really desiring.
There is too much law making in
America, not only by congress but
by states and municipalities. The
formality of converting a bill into
law by mere motions to suspend
rules, and by attaching bills to other
considered bills as riders, calls for
a revolution of some character. The
enactments which really Cypress and
outrage people most are those which
have been put through under whip and
gag with no consideration except that
which found its way into the pockets of
the leaders of the guilty legislative
bodies. People of almost every class
dread the meeting of their respective
legislatures, as they do also the meeting
Of congress, whose sessions are coming
to fill the entire year. This state of af-
fairs does not exist in Englrnd, or in
France or in Germany. Measures in
tended for laws in those countries must
obtain consent to be even proposed,
which involves generally more consider
alton than is often given bills in Amer
lea that are in process of passage. The
trouble in America is too many slick
scoundrels and polished hounds worm
their way into law-making assemblages
into congress, into legislatures,
into city councils. There has not
been an instance in ten years of an ad-
journment Of the legislature that the
people of Kansas have failed to rejoice. |
That fact of itself shows not only dis
trust but that something is wrong. And |
Kansas is no exception. The legislature
of Minnesota has just adjourned and this
is the language of the Pioneer-Press:
Today ought to be celebrated through
out the state of Minnesota as day of |
praise and thanksgiving. Everywhere
yesterday men were going about with
joyful countenances and new courage.
They looked like people who had just
heard of the defeat of an invading army
Or the checking of a great pestilence.
Every tongue was celebrating the same
event. Ask any intelligent man the
reason of his buoyancy of spirit and the
answer would come quickly: 'Tnank
heaven, the legislative session is over"
There is ample reason for this rejoic-
ng. 1t is the plain truth that this COM
nunity has lived, for three months, in as
lbject terror as any people under the
sway of an absolute despot. The situa-
ion was even more intolerable in one
aspect, for the victims of tyranny have
cit the last resort of desperate men, the
light of revolution, while those who
threatened us were the creatures of our
'wn making.