Show I LESSON FOR LEGISLA LEGISLATORS TORS A source of inefficiency among legislators in this country is lack lack of of respect for forthe the co constituency they represent This absence of respect for the electorate is due to ignorance and irre Election to a State Legislature for instance is an honor which an any man might covet et Yet our State Legislatures and legislators ar are too frequently conspicuous byan by byan I Ian an utter abandonment of self The members of the Legislature value the place they hold only because of what the they can make out of it in ready cash The Legislature is for such men a market whose tricks of trade are about the lowest vilest and most deploring known among human buyers and sellers Traffic in human flesh is wicked and debasing traffic in human conscience human honor human buman sense of dut duty much uch more so The young Governor of Kentucky y at the opening of the last legislative session Bu suggested to the general assembly assembly assem assem- bly of that historic commonwealth certain thoughts worthy a noble min mind He is proud of Kentucky its splendid people and its fine traditions h He believes that K Kentucky y is entitled to the very best service her bel representatives can give He lIe feels it right to remind the legislators of the State of the nobility of the source from which they derive their positions and their power His words may in the m main in be profitably taken taleen to heart by every State of the Union Gov Beck then said The constituency whose ser- ser rants ants we e are is the noblest and best on earth a people peo peo- pe who it may be are quick to anger yet are I quicker t to forgive whose generous impulse impulses and chivalric hearts stamp them as men and women of the highest type of f All American rican citizenship and whose victories in peace as well as in inar ar war var adorn the pages of the country's history i t y Their 4 ir achievements in the past glowing with deeds of valor and courage and their civic virtues fraught with the p promise of even een greater reater attainments in the future place them beyond the rea reach h of hostile Invective and malignant abuse In Iii the service ce of a people like these what higher honor seek than upon your return to them to receive the greatest reward that can be hc given iven a n public official Well done good and faithful servant ser- ser yant vant Such a grateful recognition of patriotic deVotion devotion de- de to duty is a 3 laurel wreath worthy the ambition ambi tion of any man The Governor of Kentucky further further further fur fur- ther reminds the legislators of that State that the welfare and md prosperity of the State arc more largely dependent upon their action than upon that of Con Con- gress His lesson to the legislators of Kentucky i ia is isa isa a service tl to all the peoples of the United States and to their representatives I I |