The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-02
ADVOCATING An AnsunpyrY


1t looks as if certain people were deter
mined to have another department of Gov
eminent created whether or no. There are
not enough Cabinet positions it seems, and
somebody else must be provided for We
are informed by the Chicago Times, which
journal indeed approves of the movement,
that President Arthur has been waited upon
by delegation of economico-philanthropis
citizens, and urged to recommend
to Congress the establishment of an Gin
dustrial department of the government,
coordinate with the other departments,
with its proper minister, and at least five
bureaus, viz, agricultural, mining, manu-
features, mechanics and commerce" The
aim and functions ofths proposed new de-
partment suggested by these "economico-
philanthropic citizens may be cleaned
from the following; "The business of
these bureaus shall be to establish and con-
duct, each in its line, classes Of work suited
to all persons who may seek employment,
giving a fair compensation for such
labor, and setting apart dividend for in
surance, governmental revenue, pensions for
the sick, old, and decrepit in its service,
and per cent. dividend for the education
of all children in the essential branches Of
education, these works to be started all
over the country, wherever there is dc.
mand for such industry, the money to es-
tabish and conduct these industries to be
issued by the Government, made of paper,
and be a full legal tender for both public
and private debts" In other words, an at
tempt is to be made to make the Govern
ment great parent and provide literally
for all the worthless and destitute among
its subjects, and the education of chill
dren in the various arts and sciences. 1t is
hardly possible to conceive of such pow
erful and usually correct journal as the
Times advocating so cranky andimpractica-
BILE scheme Modern governmental phil
osophy has established as sound political
principle, if it has taught us anything, the
fact that all peoples heretofore have been
too much governed. We have passed from
the dominion of the patriarch into
the fullest individual and commu-
nifty liberty and any attempt
to create "paternal department
is not only contrary to the spirit of modern
growth, but is unjust to LARGE portion of
the body polite, calculated too, to rob the
citizen of the freedom he has to educate
himself and conduct himself as he peases,
and is glaringly absurd. We have too
many departments too many laws, and too
much government already, and any effort
to engraft upon our system such a
vast and wildcat scheme MS that
proposed by the "economico-phil-
anthrophic citizens ought rather to
provoke smile than meet with the appro-
baton of so influential journal as the Chi
cago Times. The determination should be,
in short, to decrease as far as possible the
officials and curtail the machinery of gov
eminent, The true province of the govern
ing powers simply that of police estab-
lishment, power to guard property and
ilbhtS, anu piotNNt nv anu iuc SOOlpT We
get to this point in our politics the
happier and more progressive will
be the people. Law governs everything
trade, social intercourse, the family and
every other relation, and law, too, far
better than man can devise, and it is the
duty of the real statesman to see that these
various natural laws are not hampered or
rendered imperative by human interveh-
ton. Wodo not apprehend that the sug-
gcstions of the economical hilanthropc
citizens" even with the endorsement of the
Times will meet with any great favor or
create any great sensation, but the alb
surdity of the movement is too great to fail
of mention, and needs only to be known to
be condemned,