Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-15
GOVERNMENTS BY THE PEOPLE OR OFFICIALS

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The whole controversy over the big appropriations made the
legislature grows of inverted form of government
matter of fact the official elements not only engineer
the big appropriations but the campaign to head OFT the
referendum.
All through the legislature the game of the everxpand
ing demands of ofhciaism.
The question is how economically can department or
an institution be rum how reduce the expenses?
But the only question is how make places for
officials, how get more out of the treasury?
Mere cerkshps expanded into state Offices in violation of
the constitution.
Subdivisions of department egisated into bureaus Of
s not provided for by the constitution given assistants
and commission after commission has authority to draw the
treasury.
department head enlarged to superintendent of
this that at increased salary and assistants provided at
fat salaries each.
Institutions of higher education loaded in the way
instead of being made nearly self-sustaining.
High pressure ociam clear through from Washington
to local affairs.
Federal officials get passed. and doubehoot the
taxpayer by drawing both and federal salaries at the
time.
There quite number these doubeheaders in Oregon
The who opposes predatory ocaism must expect v
lent abuse and hired detracon and vcaOn of the bene
Charles of all forms of graft
The people getting wise to the mposons of the system
This be shunted and must proceed
from the governed the governing class.
If proceeds from the latter costs twice much
should and the taxpayer pays the carnival bills.
Mr. Paron says the big corporations got special protection
and helped logro through five million dollars of jobs
He may have overstaed the graft but not very much.
The legislature appropriates millions but creates offices
that permanent burdens of millions
The direct appropriations of money represent only onehaf
the burdens fastened upon the necks of the people.
Assistantthis Commissonerthat Boardforthis Commits
sonforhat clerks to do campaign work. the tangs of the
featherduser brigade pile up the taxes.
The Desert Land Board the Water Board, the Forestry
Board the various Land Boards and the multiplication of
functions for earth air. ands children Sheep game fish,
fruit bugs microbes and saaried officials to set China
pheasant hens state disclose the spread
ing disease of paternaism.
This system not peculiar to Oregon but is nationwide
product of the educational system that at public
pense shapens the wits of the already favored and predatory
class.
This system divorces labor and production from public affairs
and puts the social parasite class in the saddle
The officials not the servants of the people, but their
ters and dctators.
The legislature not representative of the taxpayer but of
the taXeater.
takes it's instructions from the governed from
who govern.
AS the state grows bigger and weather. the cost govern
ment should grow less and less.
But grows and and the functions of
duplicated by federal and state laws from courts sheep
inspectors
The referendum the last and only club left in the hands of
the people, and they too often strike bndy the effects in
ing to reach the