Repealing California’s Press Laws
By Editor
One sensible measure before the California Legislature is to wipe out the laws which were passed several years ago against cartoons, and another law, that made it a misdemeanor to write an article without the signature of the author. They were passed as a mere matter of pique on the part of some legislators that had been criticized by the papers. They have been dead letters ever since they were placed on the statute-books. Immediately after they were passed, the papers lampooned and caricatured the principal proponents of the bill as never before. Tho they have been constantly violated during the ten years they have been upon the statute-books, there has been no prosecution under them.