Show I I I A SURCEASE SE OP LAW Indianapolis Indianapolis' News Now that thai congress and most of the s state lale legislatures have adjourned Including that of Indiana the country enters onva onna brief period of legislative legislative legisla legisla- tive the quiet With congress meeting every y year ar and silting I about aboul twelve months out of or every overy twenty-four twenty and with the Iho legislatures of beven seven states meeting annual annually andall andall and andall I all the rest resl annually bl thero Is not not not much much danger that the c country will suffer from lack of ot legislation The rhe doctrine doc doe trine that the world I Is governed too loo much docs does not find I much practical recognition In our system of or government And In view of or the number of our making law bodies the Iho frequency o of their meeting and th the tho generally haphazard haphazard hap hap- hazard manner In which their members arC are elected perhaps per per- h haps ps wo we ought to lo congratulate ourselves that things areno aro are no worse and that wo we get so many good laws and so few tew bad jines ones Congress often oHen falls fall to do Us its whole ole dut duty duly and stale slate legislatures sometimes make malo bad had records but bul tho they al always always al- al ways do some somo good things and tho the net result of oC their sessions 8 generally makes for tor progress and reform And no matter how bad a Sl record they may make there th lo is always tho the Supreme court between them and the people to pass upon th constitutionality of bad laws Thus the people survive and tho the country countr manages to lo forge torga ahead In Spite spile of excessive or unwise e legislation No doubt douht there thero I Is loo too much class legislation In all the states and too loo much legislation of ot a crude crudo and experImental experimental ex- ex kind but tho the power to correct It Is la alwa always s 's In Inthe inthe inthe the hands of the people Abraham Lincoln once said d The Th The people sometimes make mistakes but they always alwayn right Ho meant that popular government had the saving s. faculty of at winning out In the long rul run Yet a year or two of ot rest from legislation Is useful in giving the thc people a breathing spell and a little time lime to catch catchup catchup I up In their knowledge of or new laws |