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Show o ; , THE LEGAL NIAGARA. During this year, according to the Berkeley, Calif., Gazette, the State legislatures of 43 of our states passed 16,921 new laws, an average of 46 for every day of the year. The total of measures proposed was well over 50,000. We are the most legalized nation in the world, and apparently our elected officials never tire of forcing "virtue" on us by passing additional laws at every opportunity. op-portunity. , Law-making is an estimable profession, when the laws are necessary and will stand intelligent scrutiny. But one wonders how many of these 16,000 new laws really re-ally come under such classification. How many of them abolish, or restrict to some extent, some of those personal person-al rights, in business or social life, which, the founders of this country held inviolate ? How many of them, instead of correcting some evil, merely create more bureaucrats to be paid by the public? America's legal Niagara is the wonder of the world. However, it's an ill wind that blows no one good, and our law-making proclivities at least give, employment to the politicians who create and pass them, and add a few, thousand more employes each year to the government payroll to be supported by the taxpayers. o |
