Judge — September 9, 1911 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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E D eee Os) The Humbug Lawmakers. UR lawmakers like to work in hot weather. The Legis- latures of the States of \ Connecticut, Massa- chusetts, New York, and Georgia were in session up into July. Congress was meeting daily, tackling tariff bills, constitutional amendments, and other grave subjects. The diligence of the statesmen was only on the surface. In nearly every instance that has been mentioned the Legislatures were mere skeletons. A few members of each ap- peared daily and went through the form of doing business, sometimes recording their absent associates as present and voting. The same was true in a degree of Congress. This world is much given to humbugging. Speaker to President? INCE our history as a nation began, but one Speaker of the House of Representatives has passed on to the presidency. And he was James K. Polk, of Tennessee, of whom the historians have not much in praise to say. This tendency on the part of our countrymen to avoid making Presidents out of Speakers might discourage Champ Clark if he were in fear of precedents. He is not a man of that sort, however. The fact that Missouri had never furnished a Speaker of the House might have discouraged him earlier in the year if he had not the be- lief that he could break the prece- dent. A City Bureau of Farming. Tr IS anticipated that the revised charter for New York City will con- tain a provision for a bureau of farm- ing. There is no joke connected with ‘eae this statement. New York City has more than fifty thousand acres of unoc- cupied land. A great deal of this land is under cultivation and the value of the agricultural products of New York City is as great as those of the States of Nevada or Wyoming. By the way, New York has more miles of car road than any other city in the world. To Togo. HE Paris editor who thought to slur the Japanese admiral by saying that Togo was a dog’s name was nearer right than he meant to be. Togo isa sea dog's name. One Way To Get Publicity. HIS year, for the first time in sev- enty-five years, the Governor of Massachusetts was not escorted to Har- vard College commencement by the Bos- ton National Lancers. This organization is formed especially for that work. Gov- ernor Foss this year went to commence- ment accompanied by five members of his staff in gorgeous uniform. He made the change, he asserts, in the interest of democracy. Some who know the Gover- nor thoroughly intimate that he discard- ed the Lancers for advertising purposes. Caustic Comment. HE ADMIRED statesmen who have had charge of the investigations in Washington this sum- mer of course pro- fessed to be acting in the interest of the people. On the floor of the House of Representatives they have told how the people were being wronged in various ways, and they worked through resolutions for investi- gations in about a score of channels They thus secured celebrity for them- selves and many good places for lawyers, stenographers, and attendants, which, if they were not so high-minded, might have been used as patronage to help se- cure renominations. All the investiga- tions started out as if with brass bands, but many of them have not been heard much of lately. If the investigators were not too good to be true, influence may have had effect on them. * Out in Illinois State Senator Jones has become a progressive Republican candidate for Governor and has start- ed on an automobile campaign through- out the State. The announcement is made that he is to have the aid of Sen- ators and Representatives from Wash- ington who are of his way of thinking. The convention will be held the latter part of September, and then we shall see what happens FALSE From beginnug to end to Jones. x A loving cup was presented to Mayor Gaynor of New York. So somebody loves him! * Some of the things that DO come back: Boomerangs. Bad checks. Curses. Dunning letters. Overdue notes. Unkind words. Your wife's rela- tions. comicbooks.com