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Show A IiEGLSIxATlRE'S TOY (By L. A. Hollenbeck.) The kiddies all havo to have their j toys. They scream -with delight lo I pull a doll, a little wagon, a pop gun or a jumping jack off the Christmas tree. When they get a little oleter, they still have their toys, a gun, a riding horse, a fishing rod and line, whipping the river for 8pockled beauties, again screaming with -delight, retiring to camp and spending the long evenings recounting recount-ing their egotistical maneuvers 4n self prase and self satisfied appreciation. apprecia-tion. A side line is a sort of a toy for tbe ciders. He dabbles outsde of his regular business to snatch a little Imaginative pleasure out of something efs?, farms and speculations, specula-tions, and the automobile has become be-come not only a necessity but a use ful toy for the seeker for pleasure . to waste his own time and the time : . i of others, with the implied re&ult of j letting tba other tellow shoulder the iburdens of the country and the burdens oif th3 government. Vanity i.s the chief accompaniment accompani-ment 'zi a toy when a man get? older he goob to the legislature. After Af-ter he learns t'ae ropes a littiu he often 'imagine ihr;t his advi.nl was a feTi-at bk-?.sitig to tho stale. II? has ot j;i j)0.r:-:csiiO! ol the py.r.50 strings of the people. Thoc- purse strings and the cunti-nto inside have new become his leys. We have no king. Part of th? prerogatives of r. kin;.; an: n-;v; vc-sio.l in th- legisla ture. The Igli'ator swells up and Pf.-nmcs, a divine right that "The kir.g can - no wrong,'' ai.d hopre ho assumes the guardianship of :!:e people and their money. He prom-iccd prom-iccd to hold down taxes when lie wa:: elected, and under the glamour cl human welfare workers and fahr theories he proceeds to spend ths people's money for things that it should not be spent for. Aye, th': jpur?e strings, and the contents inside in-side have become his toy, and ho has j suddenly become a philanthropic., j and immediately proceed to ma:r-old ma:r-old ar;e j)iii-:o!i for imp'.vU1 0;: . ' r-coplo, and encourage shifi- Jrssnr.:-.?, when lie well knov;?-. U;a; I ho hfdplest-. r.gcd (:) 1:- care of by the (i;ui:ty, withoi.t pro:n;v;:j.-. ;peophf br fen. hand 1h;.l ih ?y v.ill h -. JaJJed too wl-.en they b.vona o.-.l, jr.ixl (!ius :. u jiremium on sJiil't-jlesr;c?s.- Ther s are others too. that .want pon.-;::os, a::d a. lot cf up'-ftcr.i jai:d rciTuriius-n that are evc-r ci'v-'!ng ci'v-'!ng thn world waul, to rive it to 1!:, !,-.. iTJie poor and lu-Iplejs shoui-.i imvc faidr but nono should have po!..:o:i-.except po!..:o:i-.except those .ncag-.d Jn, tbo vullitrr.y ServIi.-9. Thai, hov.-evcr, was a i.:,".-jclelb. i.:,".-jclelb. How about tho more than ivo i::illion doi'ar building pi-.-grr.:;) ? Largely a university toy or the Icgi.--jlaturo. that will grow ejoa Ir.to Sl!Y-ju-al millions more,' and never slop jgiow.:.:?. .i!d .-.Jons vilh it come, a Jcfiir.miiiioa to devlo-: wcsks to r:u jiae from (h?. people, because they pant more mc;y. ur.icr the pre-jton pre-jton that t. v.ill j,.? collected from .the fellow who 1, ocarlj- taSco j new, Wh:i tho fact is the bulla will j miss the man that preteiico fays it pvill hit, and will bit lhc rclLnv, j that the preletue s.,ys Sl wllJ mhs and that is you and me. That I the result of a legislative toy, aided by a vanity that threatens the prosperity pros-perity of tho slate. Men tlmt seem to have sense at home, when y.u send them to a legislature, swm to wallow in foolishness. |