Show USELESS LAWS everywhere there in ii a elso of poo peo pie that seems to believe that the pro or r remedy for any little social irre gup larity or inconvenience as la a prohibit ory low law with mare more or le leaa es heavy fines fine or other they donot do not consider the injurious effects of lawn lawe abst that in their very nature mature must become inoperative either because of the impracticability of their general applies tion or because of their variance with customary cui tomary law after all to Is eu au brome the legislative machinery lo 10 areme i a complicated one intended for use uee in coon caw of absolute necessity neoe wity not a plaything lay thing to trifle with la in an idle hour f it t to oot mot necessary necea eary to order a team to remove a pebble from the sidewalk dewalk ai nor to call out the fire are department to extinguish a burning match senator ellworth bill in the now new york legislature la Is one to which these thebe remarks apply the gentleman pro poses floe fine and imprisonment as aa the penalty for publishing any portrait ifor or alleged portrait of any individual without his bia consent previously obtained in writing the bill la in of course intended against the be publication oleo of oo called aled cartoons oar toona it in not probable that it will be adopt ed d but bat should bould it become law in the state of now new york it will be one of boss dead laws law that never can become operative in countries where it is ie crimen ft ife se maritati majoe to make fun of certain n Wa exalted sited individuals cartoonists very seldom can ve be convicted for the simple bearon that their car rica tures while enough to give everybody an impression ot of who the original Is i yet are so BO essentially Ment laDy different from sold bald original origin a that ahat in a court it is easy to prove that the complaining party to is in error and so BO it happens that both the artists and the general genera public enjoy the fun lc in spits alte of the most molt stringent laws lawn it to infinitely better to be without the law than to have hare one that cannot be applied senator ellsworth ellisworth Elli worth s proposition it if besides beald detective defective to in tnie this that it does oot not aim at the of a clams of cartoons cartoon which way may be called blasphemous because trea passing on sacred ground if ever a cartoon law could be justified it would be ba one directed against that class of art it would have the approval of the beat element in every community and be comparatively easy to carry out |