Semi-weekly herald., 1911-01-30
THE LEGISLATURE.

Ac A.tl1s Vi state at the state-
asass see..ed doomed to take back
seat and remain seated until the pres
ent deadlock is broken.
A lot OF fellows each wants to be the
United States Senator from Colorado
and as each candidate has Few
friends and a lot OF enthusiastic enc
mics the prospect for a harmonious
choice is somehow lacking in the pic
ture. When the members of the sen
ate and the house get tired OF the
game some dark horse may break out
of the pasture and come galloping in
and get the whole feed pile. but mel
ther of the leading contestants are go
ing to encourage any such action at
present
In the meantime the affairs of the
people, the taxpayers, will be neglect
ed, the passing of laws will be regard
ed as secondary to the business oil
electing u pie eater for the Washing
ton pie counter position and In this
fact lies about all the hope for the
common people that we can discover
with the naked eye. We do not suffer.
as rule from the lack of laws but
from superfluity of them, from an
overproduction of fool measures. The
world got along for long time with
only few commandments as their
Io,. l,t An 1l,y Invontod n
lawyer and then stuff was all off for
it was then discovered that there was
class and degree even to law breakers,
that the circumstances and even the
position of a person might make
vast difference In the matter of broken
laws. that while what one man did
might seriously fracture law, the
same act, II performed by another,
might only bend 1t a trifle and 80 1t
became necessary, In order to make a
living for lawyers. Judges, court ste
nographers and newspaper reporters,
to pass 30 many laws that person
Is sure to violate some one of them
If he simply does nothing at all.
Each year some new crime Is In
vented and a law passed providing pen
alties for It's commission and, In rare
cases, an old law Ia repealed and
what was wrong yesterday becomes
right today, but these later spasms
are generally INDUCED in by the su-
preme court instead of the legislature.
Some legislatures pattern their hand
made laws after the laws of other
states, but In some states. like Kansas
for instance, they down the fence,
YlSvvuvnce 10 the WINDS, and
get busy on laws that are both fan.
tastic and original
As 1t Is written that mot everyone
that cryeth Lord, Lord, shall be saved"
30 1t is that not every fool bill that
is introduced becomes law for leg.
islatures sometimes appear to have
lucid intervals and at such times they
put the kibosh on all that sort of stuff
which is not backed up too strongly
by the members OF the lobby.
In one Of the eastern states the ques.
tion of state government by a com
mission is being considered and 1t may
come to pass that before many genera.
tions shall have passed away that the
government of the entire country shall
be run on business lines.
The election OF United States sena.
ators by popular vote will probably
push lot of Legislative foolishness off
the map and then perhaps. with few
more sane ideas injected into politics,
wen be proud of every member OF
our national law-making bodies.
You can buy talking machine for
$25 or marry one. The s25 kind can
be shut off and made to remain silent
when you want it to be so.