The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-08-25
w. C. T. .U.COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY MRs. ". /. HoBBs.
Republican Party Turns Down Tn,
Preachers.

NJ the state has adjourned with
oit doing anything for the people
which i'm any sense justified its
existence. The Public Ledger,
one Of the ablest and cleancst
uapers published in the city Of
hrotheriy love. or for that matter
M any other city on the continent.
NJ discussing the matter says
The General Assembly which
closed it's biennial session ycstcr-
day. If it has not been the worst
n history, has reached, perhaps,
the lowest point of Importance.
N has left undone most Of the
things that it ought to have done.
and it has done nothing except
under orders. There never was
before a session i'm which both
houses followed orders with so
little dissent and with so feeble
manifestation of independent
Judgment. The Legislature has
almost completely renoUnced its
discretion Though the Organi-
lati0n failed TO carry some of the
measures resolved upon. the fail
urc was in few instances due TO
amy resolute opposition. The
onIy forceful limitation on its
powers has been that imposed by
Tie Governors veto.
The usual great gr.st of bills
ha been ground through the
m good. bad and Indifferent.
a.l .eit to he Governor TO sift.
Some of them are important.
though the leading subjects of
.er .at'on. on which the Consti-
tuition commands action, have
hron ostentatiously neglected.
There was not even the pretense
ui unsldering a fair apportlon-
mrut, or a registration law, and
the most conspicuous acts of the
session have been passed i'm dis
regard Of public demand and Of
institutional principles.
The bills which aim 10 de-
pivc the citizens of Philadelphia
u amy immediate chance OF re-
covering control of their own
affairs must be regarded as the
most characteristic outcome of
this disgruceful session, in which
tnc prevailing contempt for an
honest ballot was fifty symboliZed
la the frequently exposed falsii-
cation of the roll call.
OF course no one regrets that
thc Pennsylvania Legislature has
terminated its worthless exist
cacc. II might have adjourned
Sine die at the end of its first
session TO the very great advant-
age of the people Of the State.
Without any doubt Pcnnsyl-
vania is the greatest State in the
Union. Its ability to endure
political rOttcnneSs, when the
stencil which comes from it is SO
great as to cause every other
State to hold its nose, and at the
same time 90 right on rolling up
record breaking majorities for
the party which is the author
and abettor of this rottenness, Is
certainly unsurpassed by any
other State. There is nothing
like it on this continent outside
u the Keystone State. 50 far as
we have ever been able to find
out.
Shortly before the last cam
paign closed the good preachers
Of the city of brotherly love or
ganized to secure the enactment
oi Personal Registration law.
pom personal investigation they
became convinced that the re-
gstration list of Philadelphia
We're fearfully overcrowded with
the names of dead men, and re-
sldents of the jails and prisons Of
the State, as well as multiplied
thousands of people who never
hved at all either in Philadelphia
OF any other city, either in pri-
son or outside of prison. Com
pairing the population of the city
~ greater New York with that
q Philadelphia. and estimatingI
mat there ought to be one vote
Tor every five of the population.
\ was thought that the registra-
ton lists Of Philadelphia contain
cl about 130,0 fraudulent
names. The good preachers
thought that these things ought
not 50 to be, and so they organi-
zed to secure a new registration
law. They reasoned that i'll
every man could be compelled to
record his own name on the lists
before he could vote it would bel
difficult for dead men to get
their names on the lists. and they