The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-05-01
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! Well Known ST. pauliie Makes
Final Observation.

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AS Well Known 81. pauIiie Makes
4 Final Observable
TO THE Enron The legislature
has ad jjourned, the members have
returned to their homes and the
people are now lookin ing over the
new laws 10 see IS they can study
out the intention Of the legislature,
Or, IN the case Of corr orations, to
see how hard they have been hit
People have come to exp ect that
when a Legislature convenes It will
contain lot of men who have no
greater conception Of what legisla-
ton is needed than the Sultan Of
SuIu has of the different brands Of
toilet soap. And still Others are ex-
peeted who will introduce a flood Of
bills extending all the way from the
|absurdly silly to to the outrageous
or pernicious, simply that their con-
Istituents may read their names in.
the papers as the authors. Like.
| the boy with the ssbean stalk he
doesn't care what he shoots at but
he must hit some one. else what's
| the use Of having a bean stalk.
| There is always a bucolic JAYS
iambitious for the fame that comes to
/ the author Of an important or revo-
llutionary measure, and he can hardly
wait for the Legislature to organize
before he introduces a bill requir-
ling eggs to be sold by,Weight. An
lother species of jay who mas per-
haps never been east OF Shakopee
seeks fame through an effort to
Ilegislate morality intos humanity.
and he introduces a bill to prevent
actresses from wearing tights. Some
Iducky little representative with a
home or hal f-made intellect
] wants. to keep up with the process
sion and he hopes to put an imper-
lishable halo about his. head by try
/ ing to pass bill prohibiting cigar
cite sucking. There is also a lot OF
/ impecunious cranks who appear to
think that corporations should be
Istrangled to death on general prin-
ciples, and no legislature could be
! expected TO be sworn in which did
mot contain a mentally denuded son
of the soil with a bill in his pocket
for the removal of the,seat of gov
1 eminent to the treeless and I'M
Ipeopled prairies Of his beloved
Kandiyohi.
The promptness with which the
lire pressible member from Kandi-
yohi presents his capital removal
hill, and the similarity Of all the
.I.bills for that purpose, warrant the
7, conclusion that a large stock Of re-
i moval bills were printed IN dupli-
4 cate years ago for the use Of legisla-
tors from that county and that one
Iof them, properly filled out, is
4 handed to every new member with
i his certificate of election.
4
Now every man who sells eggs
has large and small hens which lay
q large and small eggs, ectively.
/ The average size is about the same
~ those Of one poultryman with
4 anoth er-so that no one suffers be-
cause they are sold by count, and
mo one would gain or lose anything
4 if they were to be sold byaweight.
i On the other hand eggs were not
/ made to be weighed, and the dealer
\ who undertook to handle them on
that basis would lose more through
\ breaks in the commodity itself than
through breaks in the market.
4 The man who wants to prevent
cigarette smoking, if he's sincere in
his reforming effort, should not
] stop there. All will agree that
cigarette smoking is bad for the
health: So IS cigar or pipe smok-
ling. So IS coffee drinking, pie eat
] ling and a whole lot Of other things.
i But it would beas senseless to try
Ito try to prevent people from eating
certain kinds Of pie, or bread, OF
Imeat as to prevent thep from smok-
ling tobacco in certain forms We
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