Show i I LEGISLATORS The members of ot the Pennsylvania legislature are when we remember the criminal practices In which they have so often otten engaged the most sensitive people to criticism In the whole world Or perhaps they are ber be berceuse b beCause Cause they have bave not always been hon lion honest honest est eat A year or two ago ao ago they passed an bill that proved to be en entirely entirely entirely ineffective Now they are con considering considering a measure which gives any anybody anybody anybody body the right to personally p assault assaul Many lany any editor proprietor telegraph ed editor edItor editor city editor reporter copy reader correspondent managing editor or cir clr circulation manager when the paper on which the assaulted Individual Is em employed employed publishes a false report or makes defamatory statements about the assailant his wife parent child or fiancee The bill will vIli be regarded as a joke outside of the Pennsylvania legislature And It Is a Joke Anybody who wants want to lick the editor now In any state In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Union is at perfect liberty to do so soAn All An of the parties that feel aggrieved over anything that Is published In any paper In the country is at perfect lib liberty liberty erty crt to go and whip somebody connect connected ed with the paper if It he desires to do doso doso I so And if his cause is lEt i Just he is rea rca reasonably reasonably certain to get oft with a light lightfine lightfine lightfine fine or without being fined at all The truth though Is that the news newspapers newspapers newspapers papers are at least reasonably accurate They very rarely say that a man Is a rascal unless they are prepared to prove that he Is a rascal And when a aman aman aman man who knows he is a thief Is 15 pro proclaimed proclaimed proclaimed claimed as a thief by the newspapers he nearly nearl always lacks the effrontery to go to the newspaper and enter a complaint Sometimes he does muster the courage And when he lie does the chances s are about ten to one that In Instead instead Instead stead of whipping somebody ho he gets sets a sound whipping himself and decides to let the newspapers alone In the future |