Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1895-03-22
GIYE THE DEVIL HIS Dues.

yituporation and unjust criticism
of the eighteenth biennial session
Of the Oregon legislature which
closed at midnight February 2S. /
Tt seems to be fashionable of late
years to sneer at the legislature
and whatever it may do or leave
undone. With an air of superior
wisdom and virtue, which seems to
afford them great pleasure and
adds largely to their self-import-
ance, certain editors who know
little and care less about the In
terests and wishes of the people,
assume that everything that was
done was wrong, and they object ]
TO all that was done and to all I
that was not done. They charge !
sins of omission, and find nothing
to their liking. They are shocked
beyond measure at the extrava-
gance and profigacy OF the men
they helped to elect. They declare
they never saw anything like 1T be-
fore-they are the worst lot Of men
that ever disgraced legislative halls.
At every succeeding session these
stale ISLANDERS and silly lies are re-
peated and worked over in every
conceivable form. Unlike the tail
ings of placer mine, the more
they are worked the richer they
appear to be. AS far back as the
memory Of man runneth, these
birds of evil omen, who defle their
own nest, and assert that they are
the only truly good and perfectly
honest people on earth, have de-
.clared that each Legislature was
the worst ever known and the like
of it could never be seen again.
Dut at the next session they
contradict themselves, and say it
is far worse tEan the other, which
they said could never be equalled,
and 80 on from one absurdity to
49,
another, e@ays declaring that the
last vas the worst. A man who
nsHflciously misrepresents private
/citizen, and Injuries him in the eyes
Of his neighbor can be prosecuted
and punished in the courts. But
the men who are elected by their
fellow citizens to make laws, elect
II. s. senators and perform other
important duties, have no protec-
ton in the courts. This system o1
misrepresenting and grossly Sian
dering legislators, in manner thai
would not be tolerated among
neighbors, has become an evil anc
needs reforming more than any
lhing in American politics. 1t II
corrupting the minds Of the peopl'
and breeding discomfort, suspicion
jealousy, envy and crime.
In the matter where the mos
fault has been found, it was jus
the opposite of what has beel
charged. It has been criticize'
more for extravaganza than 70
any other thing, when in fact tn
last Legislature was one Of the mos
economical legislatures this stat
ever had.
The estimates made by the out
going secretary Of state, Hon. Get
w. Mcbride, now United State
senator, for the next two year
amounted to about 100000 lee
than they were the last two year
and the legislature followed his el
Inmates almost to the letter an
] appropriated about $50, 900 less fl
the years 1895 and 1896 than tt
preceding Legislature appropriate
for thesyears 1893 and 1894. Th
il one Of the greatest reduction
ever made in Oregon, and it
douhtfulif there is another sta
s. ia the union where expenses q
less in proportion to the popul
tlon than they will be ID this etc
duAing the next two years. n
etat6 lax llevy for 4the present ye
sealy B mills, one Of the lowe
srF known. Ia the matter j
ptamittee clerks there were abo
Isss than two years ago. Eco