Show 1 I Di Dignity Ups Upset t 11 JF IF F THE spectacle st staged ged at the state tate capitol inthe in the cour course e of a public hearing on the i insurance I I bill proposing to give the state a monopoly over industrial insurance is y ary indication lawyers I must be as jealous of their works work as aspiring I authors and budding playwrights J. J Robert Robinson Robinson Rob Rob- Rob Rob-I inson assistant attorney general and author of f the monopolistic measure it is said resented some remarks remarks' rem addressed dressed to the bill by Wesley Vesley E. E King and started to emphasize his resentment with aright a aright a aright right to the body and a left to the chin or or or-a a aright right to to the chin and a left to the body It mus must be said here that Mr King eith either r rY by Y clever footwork or able assistance from the by bystanders bystanders py- py standers escaped unharmed while white his adver adversary was carried bodily from the committee room 9 much against his will and the wishes of bloodthirsty blood thirsty witnesses Often it is said the side attractions attractions c are more appealing than the main show The lower house must regret that it did pot not make this a special order of business extending the h privileges of the floor to Mr King and Mr Robinson t Seriously however we we cann cannot t und uncle understand stand how a man skilled in the law and its devious 1 1 arid and sundry ways of settling disputes of one f form and nd another without resort to prim primitive tive methods should so far forget himself unless it be bet be as as lwe e eJ J have suggested that he is intensely jealous jealous' bill bilt Of course every man is more or less ress' 5 sensitive sensitive tive to to 1 his s own creations b but pt i in matters matters of J e egis- egis is- is lation criticism is to be expected In the framing of laws one cannot withhold criticism m in n deference deference deference defer defer- defer defer- ence to the feelings of the author In the case of a book or a play one m might do that because he is not necessarily bound to wade through the book or sit through the play Laws however ha have ve a wider effect and criticism during the 1 r F 7 r r process formulation 1 tendS tb c chave f have hav I. I some soine effect on the law if not on the author author- f t tWe We Ve hesitate to address any particular re remarks remark to Mr Robinsons Robinson's bill in the light of the experience ence of Mr King Much could be said about it but since the author is so sensitive perhaps we had better not say if all Still we feel that we must muster the courage to say that we believe that monopolies controlled by the state are arc bad Under the present law Jaw the employer has the option of of placing his insurance with the state fund or private companies If the state fund is I superior to the other it would seem that the regular rules of competition would give it monopolistic monopolistic monopolistic i control The mere fact that the pr proposed posed I Ilaw law automatically forces patronage for the state fund and destroys all forms of competition is enough to condemn it r r |