Pocahontas star herald., 1926-08-19
Bill Jenkins Announces For
Representative
(By u. L. Morrisl

(by ~. IL. MOrrlS)
No Mans Land, Aug. Ave have
Just received communication from
Bill Jinkins, who desires to represent
No Mans Land in the next legislature.
We pass 1t along to you and wash our
hands of the whole affair
The announcement follows: II have
decided to yield to the pressure Of my
many friends and offer myself as a
candidate for representative. 1.-TWO Of
those friends have even initmated that
If my name was on the ticket and
there was no opposition they would
vote for me-,
1T is nothing but fair that the vot-
ers should know just how / stand on
all questions Of public interest AMI. If
they are able to find out, l have no
objection. / do not propose to allow
any candidate to make any bigger
prediction promises than l do nor
more of them.
"Havin~ been born and reared oil a
farm / am still a farmer and propose
to stand up and fight to the last ditch
for the down trodden farmer, md
promise that II l am elected to repre-
sent you, the very first bill that shall
introduce will be one to double the sal
airy of your state representatives. In
this way | will be helping at least
one farmer and that is more than the
others have been able to do.
1--WE have had too many lawyers IN
our legislatures. They work with tie
idea of law practice rather than law
enforcement. They get the main idea
smothered under deluge of verbosity
Then when they go before the courts
they get mixed in their latin and wan
der around in that wilderness of words
while dame justice leans on the hilt
of her two edged sword and takes a
nap. Then they have to call In a
bunch Of farmers, wood choppers aud
clerks to straighten IL up and get them
started of again.
"Now If you will send farmers to re
present you. they will get along with
fewer words, use more horse sense
and less latin. We will boil those
laws down to a vest pocket edition so
that even a lawyer can understand,
and put them on sale in the 10 cent
stores.
1--WE might profitably use the time
of the next four of five sessions In re-
pealing laws instead of passing more.
"A number of people wish to repeal
the prohibition law because we can't
enforce it; furthermore they claim
that we are losing a vast amount OF
revenue on account of IL. So 1t might
be n good idea to begin by repeating all
the laws that we can't enforce ana
establish government for revenue
only. You know that there have been
laws against murder for 6OO0 years
and we haven't stopped II yet. Think
of the revenue we could get by repeal
ing such a law and collecting revenue
from the murderer. Also think of the
income To be derived from the auto
mobile thieves, the hi jackers, bank
robbers, burglars, forgers, confidence
men. black mailers, etc. Then we
could simmer the marching of govern
ment down to the single department
of the treasury. and its bureau of in
ternal revenue. That's the kind Of
economy that would make Coolidge
jealous.
"In the course of time we might find
| there were a few revenue dodgers and
some criminals who refused to pay
their license fee SO I'm order to be
consistent we should promptly repeal
the revenue law also. That would do
away with the last department Of gov
ernment and let the bars down for
simon pure anarchy.
"Now my friends If you believe In
this survival of the fittest stuff, aud
that might makes right and you want
to get back to the good old days of
the cave and the jungle, the bludgeoH
and the stone axe. | earnestly solicit
your vote and your influence in this
or any other election"