Show GOOD LAWS AND BAD not always is it possible to judia of the merits of a law by the motive that bat prompted it or by the title and language of the enactment itself its if enforcement to la the best beat test teat of its ite quality bad the loopholes loop bolee it affords for and technical wing are the features that always ex hi hibit bit themselves too late frequently detesting defeating the purpose the statute had in view in other cases it transpires that the full effect of f the proposed law Is ia not foresees by those who enact it a aad ad it takes a year or two to determine de just juat whether the law more of benefit then than of evil hence the proposition that all laws lava regularly placed upon the statute fatute books book should be su enforced forced that in ho exactly what boat the good ones onea are made f t r they are presumed to supply a public want As aa to the bad ones were there is ie no speedier way of getting them repealed than by constantly bolding the r provisions up to public odium and no method of doing this la in equal to the plain straight bt enforcement oi 01 them abom the community to ia having quite an experience just juat now with one or two whose benefits are at least pen ped to question notable amongst them is the act said to have for its purpose the placing of the fire and add police departments of certain cities aith P upon udon a nonpartisan non partisan basis the litigation and wrangling and destruct de tion lion of discipline which that whiten whited of a statute has baa wrought during the last year and a half is more disastrous tu to tue welfare of the two departments than all the politics politic they ever bad or in any likelihood ever would have the title of the bill as Introduce ti and the objects it an bounced iuela as desirous to accomplish were in the highest degree meritorious but under the abe provision for the tenure of effice of deserving employee the community casseen the courts invoked to rein state wen men whom their chief did nut want because e he be deemed them incompetent and whore whom victory haf had a ten tendency jeney to insolence jestroe dice iDline and create the abe feeling that a public alice to in one of those department i was waa as bear a life salui tion ahn as aa could he be became of a pu pull or of influence that could be exercised upon the board another piece of recent legislation is ig viewed in many quarters with al amt equal disi disfavor avor we refer rater to vie ie law on tree spray auf no one will dis puts that the abe objects t ought nought to base be ac i complis hed by that statute are praise worthy the NEWS applauded the purpose of the bill when oral presented and does doe so BO still As A the same time we cannot shut our ears or our y abe b AMI abd the alees for fei how gaast ua the be law lav ex perie aoe baste owa teat amt the spraying 48 does loo by wany many of those thorn prea amed to understand the business to ie a rood good deal of a abam tae huge bugs seem to thrive on it 89 the condition of many orchards already twice sprayed thin season I 1 will prove then there la Is com complaint as ab to we be evil effects acte upon bees pro donod by the operation upon the groom whose leaves lave laveana and bloir omi are made to receive a polso naus d which if it does doea not kill the bow at least injures the boney of the same ame nature to we assertion auer tion that berries and small email fruits cruita under the sprayed tree tram also alao grau grass or clover with abion many orchards are carpeted receive injury wh which ich itself to in serious eff ets upon those who gat eat thereof still more grievous la Is the fact that two recent deaths of children are directly attributed to the poison that had been squirted arted from a spray pump upon the fruit of which they had eaten now we do not mesa to say eay that the benefits derived from the enforce moot at 0 this law are all swallowed up in we evils referred to the latter way may be exaggerated while the former oisy may not oe be so generally known as to be I 1 lully u I 1 ly appreciated there is a grave doubt however as a to the utility of the measure and its ita opponents are by no means slow or idle in making their position known its friends if they are conscious of any strong arguments that bat can be used in its if favor ought to be making use of them pretty soon oon or the rising tide of discontent Is likely to overwhelm the measure altogether |