Show IT T SHOULD PASS Senator Heyburn burn has introduced a bill to make postmasters agents for the sale of the Congressional 1 Record and ond to reduce the price to a dollar a session Should that become a law we fear the whole country country country coun coun- try would be flooded with that giddy literature which in the Record The present price i is 4 If that can cnn be reduced to 1 there is nobody nobody nobody no no- body that would tild want ant to become a statesman by reading that light and airy publication that publication that book that is filled with speeches that have been m made and speeches hes that have je been e n ordered printed The only light and frivolous matter it contains is that which is conveyed through the messages of presidents and the speeches of senators senator and and representatives es It has luau many of the ge germs of real statesmanship and then I th there rc arc are p passages which show that Grays Gray's ideal of a man who could strike the t tuneful lyre bre has been i r realized We Vc hope that bill will pass It will have good effects in many ways The he in the country ic it is a soft thing to go to e con congress con con- ng n- n g gress gess ess will be made to realize what it is to sit through one of th those se speeches which is loaded up with ith statistics which pictures the past and tells of f the future what future what the one has cost and what the other is liable Hable to cost If lf they arc are I. I shrewd they will se see in some sone of the speeches where a beautiful sentence is cut short because of hn an imperfect t memory The They will get an idea of the stature of senators a and ld rc representatives They will vill find out from it that ever ever- the president of the United States is sometimes as Homer was when Homer r nodded It will enlarge the vigilance if f f 1 the it will give them more sympathy for tho those e high in authority it will give them hope too that inasmuch as us they have haye be been n raised from the ther r ranks it is possible that the same accident may mar halpen happen happen hap hal pen to the humble citizen or his son We c c do pot not know wh vIi whether Alier Aher Postmaster Hitchcock I f will wilI stand the the innovation or not He lIe wants a law t to make publishers pay par for the advertising that they include within the covers of their magi mag- mag t i lizines What w will ll he do with a It work one pu purpose pose 1 J oj ol 01 which is to advertise advertis to tv the world the standing and status of the senate and house hous of representatives represent a- a tics tives of tilL tho United States 1 It will make thc ordinary ordinary nary man more self seli respectful because after read reail- ing Jg a great speech from some great man whom h he lie has never seen but has heard of he lie will be he sa saying ing t tn tf himself Now suppose I had been in that place t what kind of a a speech could 1 I have made 1 And theo he will chuckle and sa say to himself It might not have been so flowery but hut it would have had a heap hoap more sense It is a goo good bill We Ve hope it will pass We Vo hope it will pass so that const constituents of certain senators and representatives ma may the te more fully measure t their cir capacity and influence ip in the tie great grent congress of 4 t the le republic And so that they will understand t that at while Jungs arc are going on reasonably smooth j i the they at the same time are moving comparatively i slow show and that the salvation of the country while hile f certain is sure to be bo a slow process And they will y understand that though the tho people on Sunday last celebrated with ith music musie and aud with flowers the resurrection resurrection of or the Savior from the though tint was nineteen hundred years ears and more ago the V If world is not half redeemed good men arc scarce and aud that the regeneration the salvation and the he full enlightenment of poor mortality is one one of oi of the slowest owes processes ever undertaken in this sinful world |