Show legislative HONOR it may be a clever way to reflect upon the members of an embling ape ace legislature to express a disbelief in the he sense bence of justice or appreciation ot of high purposes aee of modern legislators but the abe reflection analogically la is quite unfair no doubt there are many per sons who attain to membership in modern lawmaking law making bodies who are not the soul ol of honor and who do not regard their highest duty as aa legislators to be the welfare of the whole state many MADY who do not esteem the public good to be above considerations ot of individual but to insinuate that of modern times are deficient cent in the sense of just juet ce or appreciation lation of high purposes as corn com pared with the legislators of eighty or a hundred years ago to in their belag being thoroughly representative of the aej ale electing them to Is to deny a patent historical fact if there be degeneracy it Is that of the whole people not specially of those oleo eleo ed to office for legislators today are as representative of their constituency as were those oi 01 fo years ago of the people then and to say that the people have retro betro graded Is IB to alaert that the civilization th they y have bave maintained Is a deter deteriorating lorat in influence the record of legis legisla leg leia lg tive five criticism is that so eo far as cir circum cur stances permitted it the lawmaker law maker of the beginning of the century wag waa relatively as much an object of eja a verse comment as the legislator lei elator of today but the lapse of years nas ass oafs a halo around the former which tor the latter will not noi appear except to 0 coming generations from the ordinary legislature of to day the be people in anny ay iy expect as aa perfect an expression of the popular will aa was wae given in an earlier period jeriad in the nations history hiB tory there may be ex eat bad legislatures as aa there may be exceptionally good ones onee but an ai a whole it is witt alt the representative an aa it is with the represented the fount fountain aija gives forth that which la Is typical of its own condition conditi oo and if the people of a state affect a distrust and a doubt of the integrity of their chosen representatives they may be sure bure that bat such a course will bear fruit of its kind in popular government ern ment mutual confidence between the people and their agents is an er ea to successful administration the expression of a high sense of honor and appreciation on the part of the people calls calle for response of a aslani lar character obar aoler irom their servants iv in the case of legislators it inspires the latter to forego everything of a narrow darrow selfish character to rise above indi indle vidual preferences or animosities to maintain principle rather man have bave recourse to temporary to act tor for and in behalf of the state no aa a whole and in a manner that will inure to present and future good for the it the response to proffered oon con and esteem be below this stan atan dard then hen the culpable party must sink into deserved odium it is not optimism for the people to anticipate the be exhibition of relatively as aa hichi sense cense of honor and patriotic duty j legislators and other offic officials ale nowadays I 1 as in any period of our nation cat ions pa bia I 1 lory ory |