The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-08

the functions by having 1t laundered vetWeen times. The presumption Is that he used one shirt. inasmuch as the enects of the laundry upon his linen that. full of the true sociological in- spiratton confusion causes in anger at results. he introduced A bill for the regulation of laundry practice in the District of Columbia--a bill probably intended to be 8 model for benighted sections of the country where folks blessed with the possession of linen shirts, or even cotton ones, are unwil- ling to wander from the family wash | tub.
 A person may somewhat faintly imagine what would result from an attempt to enforce that New York law among the women and girls who do most of the milking in many of the rural districts. Even if the men should do the milking stunts is 1t reasonable to suppose that each man or boy will don pair of white duck pants before sitting down alongside of bossy and proceeding to extract the lacteai fluid from her we'll filled res- ervoir? Not If we know anything of the average male human, in New York or else ewhere.
 Of course there are some of the fe- male sex who would welcome any ex- cuse to don trousers. but not on com pulsion. Tell them they must thus cloths themselves and they would re- fuse if it broke all the laws on the statute books. Besides even if they would allow themselves froced to wear pants they would insist on having a say about the style and material of the garments. As to that matter, what does a mans pants have to do with the purity of the milk he draws from the cow? From the little we know about such jobs. men milk cows with their, hands not with their feet or legs and if due attention Is paid to the cleanliness of the hands and the milk vessels the milk may be as nice and pure if the milker wears woolen trousers as if he were decked in a pair of white duck pants on each oc- casion.
 Then that Philadelphia Representa- tive who wants Congress to regulate the laundry business in the District of Columbia Is about as absurd as the other. If the man had his one shirt laundried each of the 103 successive days, or if he possessed 1o3 shirts his laundry bill must have been pretty tall. but we fail to see where Congress has anything to do with it in the way of regulation.
 As The Record intimates, there Is much of this white duck pants" leg islation in the country. not only in Congress but in the states. The fad that everything and everybody must be regulated by law has amounted to an actual craze, and has been produc- tive of much harm in various States The people of Georgia have just set the seal of their condemnation on it and the people of Alabama would do the same thing if opportunity offered. The American people are long-suffer- ing, and sometimes slow to compre- bend and understand the intricacies of law-making. They may have the wool drawn over their eyes but in time they even things up with those who took advantage of their trustfulness.
 The people of both Georgia and Ala bama have suffered from this white duck pants" class of legislature. and they are not going to forget to deal out justice to those who deceived them. The Georgians had their oppor- tunity and embraced 1t with the most cheerful enthusiasm. The chance will come to Alabamians some day in the not distant future and we have no fear that they will shrink from their duty to themselves and their State. Those who are to blame may as well prepare to set their political houses in order and be ready for the inevitable result. Alabama, too, will be redeem ed.