Show MUCH ADO OVER NOTHING CONSIDERABLE HUBBUB was kicked up in the th senate Thursday over oyer the sedition laws os enacted by the Philippine commission A feature to which the most violent objection was RS raised was the t section h requiring requiting moth mothers mothers ers era to denounce tm un their sons son for or treason t eason sons their thel mothers m brother broth their brothers brother and nd so Su o ou The law tew a is I a bad badone badone one Them The Ther can ean be no ao doubt do bt of that but it is bad bail chiefly because b use it con can ca never be enforced Can any aUf law compel a good mother to denounce her hr son Cn C n any an man or oran any an set of men enact a 8 statute which will wring wrIngS tram from the lips of a devoted tOn son denunciation of the woman who ho bore him Would Voul the members of the average family go So cheerfully to the rack and there let their bones be shat stint shattered before they would reveal circum sLuices or acts calculated to bring one OJe of them to 0 the This Is as assuredly true of the American and ind Uthe or iy the th inde independence e pend e Ke he should have ba e It Is Js true of the family also The statute be a cf lotter Xo d ORJi QIU from it and there is but little of harm The United States is indeed reduced red ted to tOde desperate straits if it hopes hOlIes to subjugate the Philippines by such claptrap It Ills Itis is liKe itice trying to t grown men Jen with a grisly head hoed carved from a pumpkin The Tue Philippine commission wasted asted its Ils time when f d w was passed pa It will wUI waste its time if jf it attempts tt to enforce the measure There is is no occasion for fortha forth tha th senate to ex Itself about the Ute matter for far r a moment for tor that too is isa ISa ispa a waste of time Ume |