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Show The San Francisco board of supervisors super-visors has done a proper thing in passing pass-ing a resolution instructing the delegation delega-tion from Ibat city to the State legislature to press for an amendment, to the Stale constitution in favor of local legislation. The proper practice of the republican theory of government is for the people to govern themselves, and the more directly it is done the more it is in harmony with the (rue democratic principle. To say that the people govern themselves through national representatives, nominated by packed conventions and eiceled too often by triekory and fraud, i.- mi ub-: ub-: surdity on the fae of it. The proper j vocation of a national or federal legis-i legis-i lature is to pass law lor the benelit of ; the entire people; aud of a Slate legis-j legis-j lature to exercise their functions similar-I similar-I ly foi tho State, leaving to counties and municipalities the right to govern themselves, always in conformity with the greit fundamental principle? of constitutional freedom. |