Show VERBOSITY if the members of the legislature would submit some of their tbell proposed bills to a schoolboy grammarian before introducing and printing them the estimate of the educational qualification of the legislators could possibly reach a higher average or course a man should not dot be blamed for what he does not know but a professed reader and pleader and interpreter of the lw law ought t to see that at least his particular measures are able to pass muster ln in the common rules of syntax many of them cannot and some are so fearfully and wonderfully worded that they read as aa though they represented several pages of a thesaurus or dictionary shot out of a gun with just about that much connected seme while on this subject tt it may not be improper to suggest that the verbiage and tiresome multiplication of words in statutes framed by lawyers to is a custom more honored to in the breach than ban the observance short sentences and plain statements are features of legislative composition which the multitude know bow to appreciate it if the slim aim of the lawmakers could be more clearly fixed upon the object of clarifying instead of befogging the meaning of the statutes there might not be so much business fr far lawyers but there would be an increase of intelligent tell igent patriotism among the masses that legislator will win for himself an undying memory to the affee affections tio U a who stands standa like adamant against the idle phrases and the fre absurd language of the law books and who insists that in statutes intended for the government of the people the language be so plain and direct that the people can under stand it |