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JEFFERSON Cry, March 5-Many
people wonder how and why 1T is that
so much more legislation is needed
these days than formerly and why SO
much legislation fails to do what was
intended by those who framed it
Such persons will have their eyes
opened on this subject il they would
read the evidence taken by the COM
mittee sent to st. Louis to investigate
the Arnold Observation-Disclosures
ment-company and then read the re-
port of the commute.
OF all the base, infamous, lying,
swindling, defrauding scuundrels who
ever lived aud did business in the lines
Of fraud and stealing, Arnold and his
gang were and are the meanest The
last ne of them deserves hanging as a
penalty for their crimes.
The committee shows that they re-
ceived, day in and day out, for weeks
s30 900 per day from men and women
who were duped by the Arnold Co. IS
advertisement that they could invest
their money an horse racing and make
2 per cent. Fer week They did pay 2
per cent per week until they Sc
cured big run OF business and had
accumulated multiplied thousands,
yea, hundreds of thousands OF dollars
and then, OF course, the bottom
dropped out, and investors lost and
Arnold & Co. with, perhaps, half
million In their wallet, left for Mexico
to join the St. Louis Colony Of bribers
and perjurers, sc
Almost every year brings out new
crimes, new methods Of fraud old
crimes dressed in new garb, and laws
must be made to punish the guilty.
Talk about s'drlving such men as
Arnold and Lampkin and Gill out Of
businessrp They deserve to be hang
ed by the neck until dead," or i'm
prisoned for life at hard work. Drive
'em to the gallowsl
The Senate passed bill calling for
a constitutional convention, and also
a resolution submitting to the people
in Nov. 1904, the question Of free
school books to all the school children,
as an amendment to the constitution;
also an initiative and referendum
resolution to be voted on also at
November elections in 1904 requiring
10 per cent Of the voters in each Con-
gressional district to petition for the
referendum before it will be submitted.
AS the law now is wife can notify
a saloon keeper not to sell any more
liquor to her husband. The Senate
has passed a bill allowing the same
right to the husband.
Another bill the Senate passed a day
or two ago--a bill imposing tax Of 25
cts on the $1,000 Of capital stock and
surplus funds Of all trust companies
and all violations Of its provisions are
punishable by forfeiture of the right
to do any business in the State.
The House passed a bill allowing
Jurors attending an inquest one dollar
per day; attending squire's court, IS
cents per day and cts. mileage.
Mr.. Ing, of Wayne, should follow up
his bills and then he would know
better how to strike committe. On
Jan. is he offered bill requiring rail-
roads to give free transportation to
all shippers of stock. 1t was referred
to the Committe on Railroads; now
Mr.. Ing is inquiring 'where is my
bill2" The ten-day rule is not regard
ed by all committees. II Mr.. Ing ex-
poets the ten-day rule to execute itself
be will be badly disappointed man.
Now, considering the ''cut-up" and
Observation-Disclosures" condition Of
of the House, the probabilities are that
Mr.. Ing and his bill will be lost on the
mad frenzy of the closing days when
Regular Order' is the cry.
Brother Brooks, whose ''slashesn
OF the authorities of the Capitol City
and of the Legislature for various
kinds and degrees Of wrong-doing are
well known, was In the House the
other day when Mr.. Davidson offered
a resolution calling for an investigat-
ing committee TO which Brother
Brooks could tell, specifically and in
detail, what he knows of "S1, 900 bills
flying in the air. in and around the
Legislature, and various other tales
of bribery and rascality that are feat
ing about like feathers in the twilight
breeze. Brother Brooks smiled and
smiled again as he, no doubt, witness
ed the wriggling and twisting and
cotton-spitting and sweating that
went on In plain view as the debate on
the resolution proceeded.
The Republicans, smart and watch
ful for all chances to hit, catch or