Show LtuhLUC 110011 It may bu a clner way to I reflect upon too members 01 00 auemtillng leglililure to t express a disbelief In the sense of 1 justice < or oppn latlon of hIgh purposes 01 modern lazialstorsso tut the redaction analogically Is qUill unfair Ni debt there are many per boom who attain to t membership In modern lawmaklnE bodies who art not tbo Foul or honor ana who do not regard their highest duty legiSlAtOfS 1 lo bo the welfare at Ihe whole tate many who do riot esteem the public good 10 be above considerations at individual eolfishaois Hut lo Insinuate Insinu-ate that lenlililars ot modern limes am deficient Intho series of i J il 1 uo or appreciation ap-preciation of t high rurpitcr aa cnm pared with the leglilitcrs of Eighty or a hundred years ago In their being thoroughly rrpreseutillvo of the ea pie electing Ilicm Is I to deny a patent historic 1 fact It there be degeneracy It Is I thst ol the whole people not specially of theme uleo ed to Gains for legislators today are rts repretentatlvo of their constituency as were those ol ftu ala years ago of the peo lo then And to Buy that the people ho retrograded retro-graded Is I to assert that tho clvlllzitlou they have maintained Is I a dcterlirat Ing Influence The record of lri J > alive a-live crltliliru Is I that ad for as clroum stances permitted It the lawmiter of tho tejlnolng of t Ibo century wa relatively as much au object adverse ad-verse comment as the legislator uf today but tbe lapse 01 years bat ca t 0 hlo aruund the former which for the alter will nor appear except 1 to coming generations From the ordinary logblaturo today I to-day the people OIlY expel as perfect ao expression ot the popular willis as will-is given In an earlier period In the nations history There may bo ex ceptloually bad leglils to rep aa I there may bo exceptionally fjood ones but as a whole It la with the representative as It Is with the represented the fountain gives forth bit which Is typical of lie own condition And It the people of a state sfua a distrust and a doubt 01 tbe Integrity ot their chosen representative they rally be auto that such a course will bear fruit of t Its Llnd In popular government gov-ernment mutual confidence between the pact Is and their agents It an essential es-sential lo successful administration The expression of a high sense of honor and apNolllou on Ibo psrlol the people calls for response of a elmN lor character from their servants In the came 01 legislators II loplr the latter 10 trelo uvorytbing at a narrow elllBh character lo I rise above InJl Idual prefereniea or anluioiltlc to maintain principle rather than havo recourse to temporary expcdlencyand 10 net tr and In loh1I ot ifs state asa as-a whole and in a manner that I will lour to I present and future good for the start It the retponso to proffered con ldnec and esteem be below this standard stan-dard lion the culptblo party must link Into devolved odium II la not optimism for the people to anticipate the txhlbltlon of relatively as high tenaeof honor and patriotic duly In legislators and other olllclala nowadays act In i any period of our nations history his-tory |