Show EGG LAW WH The Tho 1921 legislature among other remarkable things passed a law in relation to eggs that deserves a little analysis The world Is several thousand years old and this Is the first time that we art are that K h Kwas was necessary to encumber t statute with a law on eggs A man who deals In eggs must mustI I get a license and must candle all o othe o. o the eggs It doesn't say tsay what hint kinu of eggs whether It ss 28 s hens hen's eggs goose or duck eggs or or fish Osh eggs ana ano you ou know fish eggs are used as foo too and If a dealer violates tes this law lav lawtie no tie Is to be heavily fined and put out of business Heretofore when a dealer soli soh eggs it was supposed to be for hi hit own selfish interest to sell a good quality of or eggs and if it he sold a POOl pooi Duality of eggs or any other com coin commodity the buying public would woul take care of that ana and put him out ol of business that business that was tae me penalty A sound business man doesn't need t t. t statute to tell him what quality o o. o g goods he shall sell That is his his his' business business busi busi- ness and the public A wholesale would not dare to sell a poor quality of any kind of goods to a local dealer dealer deal deal- er er as a first class quality of goods for fear he would lose JOse the loca dealers dealer's trade The penalty be that the lying denier dearer would lost los his standing and would immediate be put out of business That is a D. law of ot trade of common sense and the same is is true of the loca dealer with the c consuming public He must deal In good faith with hi buying public or e ese ease se nis his neigh neighbors bore bois will put him out of business and so with the producer the ranchman ranch ranchman ranchman man he must sell a good product or else get in n bad repute with his local lo local local lo- lo cal merchant and these things cant can't be ignored for to ignore them means ruin and that is the punishment the penalty of ot being crooked In business No need to legislate on every little thing of life the public individually individually and collectively will take ake care of ot it itself elf The legislature might as well legislate on the ethics of ot a horse trade and make penalties for the shrewder man n the tile trade or tell a wife what sue SIle sayto sayto say sayto to her husband when he le ha has gambled away his earnings or legislate legislate legislate leg leg- the relative price on different grades and nd varieties of apples instead in- in instead instead in in- stead of leaving it to the haggling of the market What is the use of loading down the statute books with an endless lot of ot laws that are a genuine gen gen- g gen genuine m- m nuisance to the public individually individually individually and collectively The statute books are full of them The legislature legislature legis legis- lature has been a sort o or a statutory hot bed where a lot of storm brain-storm theorists have pl planted some mental germs that have grown and blossomed blossom blossom- ed out into a weird and sickly plant that irritates the body politic andare and andare andare are as as the boll or r the alfalfa to the of the south and west The Tho remedy like the orchard Its that thai fights the blight by cutting off oft tho the infected spots slots must be her heroic lc ana anu this objectionable legislation should shoula be pruned and cut out of the statutes statutes statutes stat stat- utes so that the people will willi be more free and so that they will not be compelled to consult t an agent Inspector inspector inspector in in- In- In welfare worker nurse spy detective or lawyer every time they the take tale a walk or take a prink And that isn't all All such ouch bills and laws of that nature either eitner have ilave a good fat salary provided for or else have provisions for a lot of clerks and agents at good high wages so that they can reach into the pockets o I of ot the people and get more money J Jand and the egg law is no exception to that rule and then the state officials are ever trying schemes to get more and more money to meet the unjust demands L. L L. L A. A H. H 1 10 0 o I |