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Show BlHifl bTATLSMANSllll AM) l'ATKIOTISM li Bojiu rather fantaatlo bills haro been iBaBai InlroJuced Into the prtneut ljeglila MBHHS ture. That body has had the good ffHffi Judgment thus far to promptly knock IHm them on the hend and kill them on HBjjEI tlielr Journey toward final iutagv. R Hurhpropoerd enactmenta remind us BHnHU that attemtts to materialise similar IHuK leglelaUveabiurdltlra are made all over lllH the country. Kveu Coogrns, which r!&fiafl ought to be an aggregation of the cen .V2HK trallied wisdom and sUtrsmanshlp of fllH'' the vhole nation, la by no meansftfe HsHr from them. filgHE' These legislative eccentricities ahow vHi u necessity for men who are elected IvQBeI 1v(,rt'c,t the people In Important I'fllHBi publlo cacltlea making thcinaelves jHK familiar with the genius and principle KHH! of American Institutions. Home of the BHB jroputed meaaures show woeful Iguor rB anco 'n )fct rrKrd. There are f jH few rulra which, If ktjt LflH In mind by all law-makers, KwH would be useful III guaglng the quality RKBjB of any proposition for a statute. Wilt VfllBK the invasure, If It becomes law, l tfjHE beneficial to the reoplo aa a wholtT If -BfK not, It should not te enacted. Dots It BflHH prefer one class of the op!e over MHR other.? Ifso It ought tolosmaihej. MBmE Does It place any tlaaa ot the loplo fljnH under dliadvantagea that do not apply lnnf to all other cltUens alike? If eo It la HHta safe as a rule to sit on and flatten II. tBUsj J" 1 Invade an Inherent right of NaHRtf- a"7 cltlztu cf cU,"? lt that Is lta ft BaHStfc chsracter It Is only fit to bo torn up aW BBsfiaf nJ coru,''"cJ to the wilts baaket. I KBSSt lllghts that are loherrut are not con I HaOf fernd by law; neither can they le. MVasflK tllVy re lr" W"U ",rry n"" WUo i IflH Otnies Into the world. They are, 1HHE principally, the right to life, to liberty, flHVjjl and the praceable oifHiilon of ror BE ty. Of neither of tliee ran Hip cftlxeii HBr' bedeprlvrd by auy process that dot IHHK, notably equally ta nil othtr oltlxeii; TKJK atherwlse there would be uo t(uallty HKnJ before the law. JvHjHHv If' '''''' wnoi R 'pw yfari Ki kHsana W" UnlUd 8ulf mlnlilvr to the court ItHflaBwi of Bt. James, delivered, . by u quint, a VlsBBBBBBiaW lecturo lu tho city of IMIuburgh yHHbu on tlieAmerloan theory of government BHHISfl Ho gave au ablo uud coinprohenhlvo HHMhBi eifoiltlou of the genius aud principles W !K ' bUr ntltutloua. He laid down n r MPP1! broad proposition with regard to con I lfl;M stltutlot allly. It was to the ttu j ' T I tbat auy law which was not of equal i l i aJi Mcatton to all alike, or which lu- p ' vadid what he defined as i Inherent i 1 ( i rights ef man, was net ron-tltutloual and cou'lJ not bo made ao. eveu If any one department of the government or all of them combined should w declared. de-clared. In rnaklrifC this declaration he muat have meant, of count, that It could not be made constitutional In art although al-though It mlsht be made so legally aud Judicially. He ought IohavefuaIiried hldcoUratlun,however,by ex lalnlng that when tho govrrnnunt, or lta Judicial department, decltrrsameature constitutional It become ao toall In tenta and puroes. The decree of the power which the constitution ltelf det-lgnatee as the authority for deciding what Isor what Is notgoodlaw Is the finality on the question of contltu tlonalliy. However, trtrf attempt at law maklLg ought to be guaged by the theory ol equal rights and the principle of even Justice, which Is the etseuce of government. Without u-tlce all governments are tyrannic, no milter as to their form. Whin that principle 1 eliminated from a Ilepunllo It be comes more despotic than a monarch; As Kx-Senator IMmunds lately iprerd It "Ten masters are ten time worse than one." Htatesoienand patriots are not over plentiful. Their flrttromddiratlon If, what will conduce to the tuhllo good. Mere politician are not thus governed. ritey reort to expediency and are directed di-rected In their operations by ulterior motives. Individual anl party ben fits are their ohlel oonsl leratlons. |