When he said, "Idaho is to be more congratulated on what the legislature did not do than what it did do," meaning in that statement that radical and evolutionary legislation was frowned upon and was not permitted to be enacted into laws which would have the effect of embarrassing the state in the years to come or until the legislation in question could be amended or repealed.

The nation, many men were elected to office, particularly in the state legislature who were untried but who were fired by an ambition to "do something" and by that something is meant the desire to create by legislative enactments a general program which could be a panacea for all the evils with which the body politic is affected, little realizing in many instances that the remedy proposed was far worse than the condition which they sought to relieve.

In the worthy desire to bring about normal conditions and the adjustments necessary before business can again function, the process was sought to be a failure. The fact that Idaho, as most states have upon its statutes more laws now than are enforced or could be. 