| Show A BIG TASK 1311 farmers endeavor to it hato a ve law amle intelligible IntellI cIble tho the illinois state farmers alliance resol resolved vel among other thing lings ti 9 to petition for the p passage of such a law as will make it the duty of tho supreme court to pass upon every new low law aria and defte its meaning with such gach clearness an 9 to ake it plain to lio lie average scholar in thi 4 resolve tile banners strike at an ei il of magnitude tint but they strike c in fit a wiy way to make the tha judges of ali court aghast many of the ablest lawyers the country las has produced pro lacci have expended all their ingenuity upon tile tho attempt to correct the th evil iu in some measure and reduce the cam confused mass ot of legislation already existing to intelligible forms of cil ei presson and to secure the iti telli lb la formula tion of new enactments but nona of them ever dreamed of imposing upon the court or of a state thy the responsibility lity anil and the herculean labor of putting all the states laws into such form fona as it s to make inake tot cot only their general purport but all their provisions plain to tili the aver average go scholar i if the court acro not overloaded with work falling within the limits of ita ili proper functions functions it would be extremely reluctant to undertake the task of findy ing ont and in words worda plain to the average scholar just what the legis future la enact iu in every cuse the farmer fanner would do well to tb begin by petitioning the legislators legisla tord for the passage sage of sucha uch a law as aa will make it its own d duty uty to put iti enactments in forms of words which will clearly and ably express its meaning and intent intention iun the legislature cannot endow endow any court with the divine faculty facility of look looking trig through the printed page down into the innermost inne mittet recesses of the legislative mind and reading there exactly what that mind intended to enact let the farmers petition the legislature to pass a law requiring itself to append to every one of its enactments tin an exegetical commentary and an analysis sufficiently extended and lucid to make its meaning plain if not to the average scholar at least to the average average supreme court we would re remind mind the tha farmers of the he time honored saying that in purifying a turbid stream it is advisable to begin at the source t them send men to the legislature who know how to express themselves in english that the average i scholar can understand anil and how to frame together the different parti of a complicated law in such a way that a man of logg logical ical and retentive mind can tell what it all means it ii ia not tile the easiest thing inthe world to find the men who are capable of doing this aud and then to put them in just the tha right place utter after election to malo them most useful to the public brit bot if both rural and urban constituencies will st set s t themselves seriously and ana earnestly about tho the work of reform just at this they will not only greatly lighten the tha labors of the supreme court instead of 0 adding thereto but they will silvis save a vat tut amount of money now sprat spent in liaiga chicago herald |
