If the people, through initiative and referendum, can ever surpass the present Legislature in the consideration of fool laws, they will have to become past-masters at the art of foolishness. Just look at the edifying and state-wide usefulness and eminent statesmanship of some of those measures — nine-foot bedsheets, 10-inch hat pins, prohibiting swearing, and salary grabs galore. A record to be proud of. Yes, indeed.

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Why damn the initiative and referendum? Held as a club over the present Legislature, it has exerted a powerful influence in forcing through those laws that the welfare of the state demands, but which corporation greed opposed.