| Show IS IT A SPIRIT OF ENVY FREAK leI legislature slature or freak proposals for legislation are not to be taken too seriously says the chicago tribune yet often they illustrate tendencies and we think this Is true in the case ot of the bill introduced in the florida senate tor for the limitation of lawyers incomes to a year this may be one of tho those sometime specimens of 0 humor which som sometimes etim enliven the tedium of legislative labor but even as satire it bugg suggests change in the american spirit the element of 0 envy has grown in our popular psychology can life was not envious etwas too vigorous and hopeful for envy it a man excelled in any direction and perhaps especially it if he excelled in business or finance we were proud of it we believe in our own country as a a land of opportunity and in ourselves as a nation of freemen each capable of taking care of himself and asking no favors we bragged a good deal andee and we fought furious battles in politics but there was very little envy of an others good fortune or greater wealth |
