Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1875 — An Explanation. [ARTICLE]

An Explanation.

It would seem that when our “Reform House ol Representatives at Indianapolis voted themselves each a set of the statutes contrary to law, they did not know of the existence of the law, and that now they have got them, they are still equally ignorant although their moral naturet seem to have undergone a transformation, as they passed a Resolution the other day declaring it <jp be the sense qf- the* House that no perquisites should bfi received by members. " : V f* T : '•••>' It has been suggested that they had better basi commenced with spelling books than statutes, but it must be remembered that the average Democratic politician has a sovereign contempt for spelling books and “rich,” but is a born “const’toosh’nal” lawyer. But what will be the remorse of these pure patriots when at some future day some grown up son or daughter shall be looking through these same statutes — kept in the families as monuments of the glorious positions once held by their fathers as Legislative “Reformers” —and shall read to tha astonished parent that they were taken from the State in direct violation of their own provisions. Will not these noble sires, if they do not hang themselves to escape conscience, spend the remainder of their days “hanging on the ragged edge of despair ?" “Where ignorance is bliss/tis folly to be wise.”