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Show A GOOD BULL STORY A traveling man with torn clothes and a crushed hat sat in a country hotel expounding upon the necessity of compulsory automobile auto-mobile liability insurance maintained by the state to protect the public pub-lic from damage done by automobiles. His clothes had been torn, his car wrecked and his life endangered by a driver with no assets. j A farmer in the-corner grocery store, with a bloody nose and a' broken buggy whip in his hand, was cussing his neighbor Jones for1 allowing a bull to run loose on the highway to frighten his team, j cause a runaway, upset his load of berries and nearly kill him. i Jones was financially irresponsible but nobody thought of sug-! gesting a law that all owners of bulls should be required to carry compulsory state liability insurance to protect the public from the dangers of such animals. Yet hardly a day passes that one does not read of some person or animal being gored to death by an enraged bull. - j Our present laws provide for collecting damages from people whose acts cause injury or loss to others. If persons who are liable are financially insolvent the injured party cannot secure compensation. compensa-tion. The same law applies to automobile accidents a3 to bull accidents acci-dents or to any other kind of accidents. Why should the automobile owner be made an exception to the rule in regard to compulsory automobile insurance in order to j provide against ,-a! possible insolvent driver? Why should the state ! be put into the business of insurer? The whole proceeding is just another step toward socialism. People thoughtlessly argue in favor j of this type of compulsory insurance supported by a state fund, who would not for a minute consider such' a proposition if they under-; stood it in its ramifications. The traveling man and the bull story are everyday examples. I |