The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-11-15
The MODEL LEGISLATOR
0am P. Jones Speaks Forth His
Requisite Attributes.
nc Is Man of Integrity, n Good Lawver
Snner' tncorruptible-The Corrupt Law
maker Handled without Gloves
Some Hard Common scpaa
lcoPyRiGHT, 1894. /

anu congressman. We manufacture
Them to order, and If we are not salts
ned with our own product we have no
body to kick but ourselves.
! suppose the legislature of our coun.
try, both national and state, will soon
oe IN session, and they will be made up
largely OF men who were chosen bv the
primaries and elected at the polls.
a nomination is equal to an election
almost universally as far as democratic
candidates are concerned where demo.
Gratis predominant; equally so with re-
publican candidates and populist can
dldates where their party predominant.
Many men run for the legislature
whose only qualification seems to be
cheek and ambition. They have ambi-
ton to be statesmen and brains for
cobblers, the qualifications of a pig
my and the cheek of government
mule. These two qualities, check and
ambition, seem to be the winning cards.
There Is very little honor, if any, and
mcager pay, for the Legislators of our
country Some of them make money
as the boy did who said he got ten dol
lars month and what he could pick
up around for his salary as clerk in the
store. There is now very little in it for
holy ambition to feed upon and not pay
enough to hire an industrious man to
leave his cornfield to take the job, but
there is kind of glory in it to the lit
tie fellow. lie reminds me of q small
dog in high oats, he has to jump high
to see the territory around him.
We have all kinds of men in the leg
islature, sober men and drunken men.
decent men and indecent men, fools
and philosophers legislators from the
towns and legislators from the country.
AS the old woman said, the average
legislator in this country is a mixtry.
1T is told upon one of our Georgia leg
islators that while serving his sentence
in the Legislature of Georgia, a good
old honest fellow who was from the
country, he met gentleman from New
York in the lobby of the Kimball The
New Yorker was calling him the Hon
orable Mr.. so and so and talking with
him about the south, directly he said
TO the Honorable Mr.. Blank: what
county are you FROM" He replied:
81 am from Blank county" "Well sir"
he said, what kind of soil have YOU
in that county?" Richest kind of
land" replied the lawmalSer. what
sort of water?" "Finest kind of lime
stone" replied the legislator "How
are your public schools?" the New
Yorker asked. 1--WE have the biggest
sort of schools, sir" what is the lati-
tude of your county, sir?" 81 am not
certain, SIR" said the Georgia law
=.
Baptist up my way" Shades of Web
ster, Clay and Calhounl
But in almost every legislature there
are thoughtful, sensible men who give
direction to legislation and in a meas
ure control the ignorant crowd, and
these men of brains are responsible
largely for the legislation whether it
be in the interest of law and order,
peace and right, or whether it be in the
interest of whisky and all other forms
of hurtful influence.
The model legislator is sober man;
he does not drink n drop, and thus he
is removed from bad influences; he is
not the recipient of jugs and demijohns
and boxes of cigars sent to his room by
leading saloonkeepers during the ses-
sion of the legislature.
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rob the fools If thc land
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whom he annroacbes such a NAV, and
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