New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-04-26
r. 1. p.

tits over. The 1911 session of the
Minnesots; legisl AZURE has. passed into
history. 1t occupies the place pro-
vided for it in the files Of the state
press and in the records OF the state
capitol, and its members are going
back home to hear, or try not to hear,
what the folks there think of the pro-
ceedings at st. Paul.
When person who has been SUI
ferer for long time at last has his
suffering and pain and anguish ended
by death, it is hard to feel very sad
about the end having come. just SO
it is hard to find any cause for regret
that the l9ll legislature is through
with its labors and trials and tribula-
tions. HE was a lovely: youth"
when he started out. He had all kinds
of hopes and aspirations and en-
couragement and prospects and
chances. But he took up bad habits.
He fell slave to the strong drink OF
sectionalism and the Opiate OF pre-
iudice IT bad habits are in fact
symptoms of disease, he was one OF
the sickest creatures that the state
or the county-ever saw.
TO be sure there were some lucid inter-
walls. 1t would be hard for even such
chaotic mass as that to spend the big
ger part of four months without few
such moments. In these intervals it
did some things really worth while. For
instance, there was the adoption OF the
Oregon plan for choosing U. S. sena-
tors; the passage OF the good roads
bill: increase OF the forestry fund; ex-
tension OF the agricultural education
work; the giving to the people OF q
chance to get some real benefit from
the state land in Duluth available as
dock site. All these were things
worth while. They stand out in the
record of the 1912 legislature in a way
to remind one of the line in "The
Merchant of Venice $50 shines
good deed in a naughty world" If
1t we're not for these things the record
of the session just ended would be one
to make anarchy honorable.
For of all the chaotic, undirected,
futile and hopeless propositions that
the state ever had to sit by and watch,
this legislature and this session.
furnished the most glowing example.
The charge that committees we're
"packed" was made during the ses-
sion. 10 view of the way things in
general went, there would have been
material gains for the state if the
whole legislature had been ''pack."
At least that would have meant the ac-
complishment of something definite,
a moveing twoards a definite end,
instead of wild chase around the null
berry bush, with every mans eye on his
neighbor and devil take the other fel.
low. The course of the bill to abolish
capital punishment is a good example
OF the way things went. Introduced
in the house early in January, it pas
sed that body some time in March
and the senate passed it late in April.
With that kind of management, or
lack of it, the only wonder is that any.
thing of any kind ever got anywhere
at all
But it's over. Extra session? No.
A thousand times no! Northern
Minnesota hoped for one, if reap
portionment failed at this session, but
Northern Minnesota is too humane to
want to get that outfit together again,
on any pretext. No, let it 60. We
have seen enough Of that 1911 outfit
Two years from now the styles will
change, and we'll get p new one.
Let's just chuck this old gear out on
the ashpile and forget it as soon as
possible, It's the only way to get
H back to any peace of mind Duluth
ladies Can Wear Shoes