Judge — June 24, 1911 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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An English United States. GITATION for a lo- cal parliament is one of the latest devel- opments in Wales. It seems to be a result of the contagion of Irish home rule. Conservatives in Great Britain cannot stomach it. It is a Welsh rabbit they cannot digest. If Ireland and Wales get local parliaments, probably others for England and Scotland will follow, and then the title of the British king- dom will be changed to the United States of Great Britain and Ireland. Possibly the example France has given of admitting representatives from Al- giers to its parliament will be imitated, and future British legislatures will have among their members delegates from Canada, Australia, India, and other pos- sessions of John Bull, and the dream of imperial federation will be realized. Needed—a Political Rest. HERE are citizens, mere business men, who make bold to assert that the country should be given, for this year, a vacation on politics, so that it could settle down to business. They are rational. People in general would be glad to join with them. But there are obstacles. Such men as William J. Bryan and Senator La Follette want to keep politics uppermost. That would mean prosperity for them. They re- vamp old and introduce new issues, which they insist on discussing. Thus they advertise them- selves. For them as for others, advertising brings prosperity. They are look- ing ahead for engage- ments at the Chautauqua as well as on other lec- ture rostrums. The more advertising they get, the more they will draw and the greater will be their income. The country wants to do business and to have a rest from politics, but it will not have its way if these men and others of their class can have theirs. To Make Husbands Behave. OME of the ideas that come out of the West are commendable, and the farther West they originate the better they appear to be. California’s Legis- lature has just made a law which pro- vides that men who do not support their wives shall be sent to prison and made to work for wages, which are to be turned over to their matrimonial part- ners. The intent of the law is to hold such men in servitude until they repent and manifest a disposition to bring forth fruits meet for repentance. = BPR AOOAMSS “IS MY HAT ON STRAIGHT?” Caustic Comment. A! MOST every class in the community has its national association. Undertakers meet in an- nual conclave. So do type- writers, golf players, dress- makers, promoters, hotel keepers, and financial mag- nates, The mothers’ an- nual congress, in which many of the par- ticipants are either spinsters or men, is an established institution. There still continue to be a few people who are not in class organizations. Fathers do not hold annual congresses. This is a busi- ness at which everybody or almost every- body works but father. He needs a con- gress as muchas anybody else. If he does not get one it is his own fault, Afterhe has been looked after, the veterans of the next war ought to be organized. * The recall has potencies not hitherto suspected. Tacoma had a recall election on its mayor and he was not recalled. Now a paper is being circulated for an- other election of that sort. So it seems that the recall can be made a continuous performance, with occasional intermis- sions for counting ballots. * A man who in any of the cities buys an Oregon or Washington grown apple pays five profits. First, the man from whose orchard the apple came gets his share. Then the local fruit growers’ association gets a percentage. Then comes the commission merchant. He passes the apple on to the local whole- sale dealer, and, last but by no means least, the disguised Ital- ian count who disposes of it to the ultimate consum- er gets his profit. There is no reason for wonder that a box containing a couple of dozen applesnow sells for about as much as a barrel used to cost when mother, made her famous apple pies. comicbooks.com