Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-03-07

WISDOM OF the GeDeral Assembly, anu,
in accordance with the fashion of the
times, accepts official dictum in lieu of
Democratic principle. The House of
Representatives, by a most decisive ma
jority, last Thursday passed the Doc
tors Trust Bill, and gave official Dem
ocratic sanction to the good Republic
an cure-all, ~paternalism. God bless the
people! Being as children, they shall
no doubt inherit the kingdom of heav-
en-, but they need solicitous guarding
while yet of the earth earthly; and for
tunate 1t is that in their innocence and
unsophistication there are those who
stand as a bulwark between them
and the wiles of the wicked. This is
a gracious dispensation of Providence,
and the REGISTER, converted through
profound thought and legislative N
actment, ceases its unconsidered oppo-
sition and heartily cries ''hail! hailr"
with the progressive age. Blue
and nux vomica forever! Down with
the bone-rubbers and the layers On of
hands! They are effete, and went out
or ought to have gone out-eighteen
hundred and odd years ago, with the
locusts AID wild honey of that primi-
tive age. That they didn't go out, but
remained until last Friday to endanger
the world, shows the p%roneness of man
to evil and the necessity of his r~estric-
ton by statute in things temporal as
well as spiritual. 1t is a latter-day de-
velopment that man is made mainly to
be legislated for and against; that he is
his W chief enemy; and that the less
he is left to his own devices in matters
concerning himself solely, the better
for '.the public welfare"-that sacred
~nonentity to which every citizen ought
to be willing to sacrifice his intellect,
his liberty and his soul. In further
ance of the principle here feelingly
and sincerely, if feebly, set down, the
REGISTER begs to suggest to the con
gregated wisdom now dominating the
State at jefferson City, that the COM
ponent parts thereof make good use of
the few days yet remaining to them by
passing the two bills herewith respect
fully submitted. Or, if time pushes
too closely, then that the Governor
Immediately, upon the conclusion of
this present session, the
legislature in an extra session of thirty
days, TO the intent that these bills may
be enacted into law:
AN ACT to regulate the practice of
theology in the State of Missouri.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of the State Of Missouri, as foLtooOs:
SECTION l. That from and after the
passage of this act, it shall be unlaw-
full for any person in the State of Mis-
souri, to preach, or act as a minister OF
any religious creed, denomination or
sect, without having first passed a ia
vorable examination before the State
Board of Theology as constituted by
the I'd Section of this act, and obtained
a license therefor from said Board.
SECTION 2. The Governor of the
State of Missouri is hereby directed to
appoint a State Board of Theology,
consisting of five members, one of each
of the following religious denomina-
tions: Roman Catholic, Episcopal,
Methodist. Presbyterian and Baptist;
said members of the State Board to be
duly ordained ministers of their res
pective denominations, and to receive
an annual stipend of $4,000 per annum
each, for their services as members OF
said Board.
SECTION 8. The duties Of the State
Board of Theology as constituted by
Section 2 of this act. shall he to sit in
continuous session in the Capital City
Of the State for three hundred days in
the year; to hear and determine upon
all applications for license to act as
ministers of religious denominations,
and to conduct examinations therefor.
SECTION 4. There appearing an
emergency, it is hereby declared, that
this bill be and is a law from and after
its passage by the House and Senate,
without waiting for the signature of
the Governor.
AN ACT to regulate the religious de-