The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-10-05
NEW CANDIDATEs-MORE LAWS

In EVERY county in Wisconsin,,
and in other states as we'll, the cam
paign will soon be on for the cleo
ton of new bunch of lawmakers,
and most enthusiastic support will
be given those candidates who prom
Use the greatest number and most
absurd of enactments.
Everyone wants some kind OF leg
islation to aid~him personally, and
not a few desire something that
will hurt the other fellow. The
fertile imaginations of agitators and
demagogues are working overtime
on bills to impose their views upon
the rest of the state and nation and
every cracked Drained political econ
omist in America is eager to push
forward his Ethiopian dream for the
salvation of the rest of world.
The statutes of every state are
burdened with laws that are. never
enforced and the very existance OF
which is remembered only by the
students lawyers. Every error and
ill incident to our uplift from the
stone age has at one time or an
other been corrected or abolished by
legislation land every desirable con-
dition short of the millennium has
been realized in the statutes.
But there are not enough laws to
suit a great majority of the people.
They want legislation to enable them
to do something or to prevent It's
being done by neighbor. They
want things SO shifted that some
body else will do the paying, even
to the extent of paying for the new
laws enacted for their benefit.
Hardly anyone raises much fuss
because the laws we already have
are not being enforced. AS a mat
ter of fact most of these laws were
'spite" laws to start with, and they
didn't catch the fellow intended, so
we are through with them. Now
on comes new bunch of fellows with
a lot of brilliant ideas and they
will want to try new bunch OF laws
on the suffering public. Some other
head has risen above the surface and
they demand that it be given rap.
The chances are we will get no more
satisfaction out of the new laws
proposed by the, candidates now seek
ing election than we found in the
old and that they will be- no better
enforced. But the people shall have
exercised the great and glorious pri-
vilege of ruling each other, and
that's principally what the ballot is
for in the minds of very great
number of voters.
If prediction promises are to
believed then we can expect the
greedy corporations to pay all OF
our taxes from funds which have
been withheld, the farmer may ex-
pect free dynamite with which to
clear his land, marketing conditions
will be made ideal so that all a
farmer will have to do is to grow
his crops, and the marketing pro-
blem will be solved by some market
in association, which is to be work
ed out in the brain of some legisla-
tor. Money is to be made so easy
that all a farmer will have to do is
to sign an application blank and the
funds will be forthcoming.
We have seen these. election prom
Uses work out in the past, we have
seen attempts made to pass laws
that will correct al lewis, but we have
not failed to notice that with every
bunch of new candidates our taxes
have grown higher and higher and
our troubles have become greater.
The accomplishment has been the
unseating of one bunch of politicians
and the seating of another bunch
who will be kicked out by the voter
when occasion demands it, and the
suffering public, as rule, pays for
the experiment