Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-07-05
VATTERSON MADE
HIS LAST Speech
nl.II\It,~ N~T ~ BII( AD-
nRE>N At PERRY CELE-
BRAIlON,
TOO MUCH LEGISLATION
y, clart~ Nation /. Iariug u pcrll
1ndl T. Nruacng Future 81
the iicpublic.


llT-l\ -hAh y, o., JlN lI'hI'
W.Itcrsou. vice president general %.
the lntrrs.,t. pcrly Centenary CONE
mission. was a speaker ~ the Perry
celebration h-it today Co.uuei Wat
t,r.uu uuuuuu,od that This Was ia"
las. p4hI. address he intended to
make IN The course ~ hls address
The speaker took occasion to dwell
anon what b, declared Go rc '3 peril
m,uacuc the uurc Of the republic. '
tie said r pert:
we are told sud mos tur us hc-
lir,r. tnlt those are best governed
uho ac least governed. Yet We
b.lc. one INC congress ln The nation
capital. aud forty-eipht little con-
erceqes in the several state capitals,
ronotanuv IN session. TO make ana
unmakc laWs 10 vcN the people and
confuse the courts Inevitably, re
spect for law is lowered, and here,
ls elsewhere. familiarity breeds con
trmut
The danger is admitted. Clearly
seeing the evils Of too much legisla
Nou r. cdu for more. Through
chance majorities, stable in nothing,
~, would regulate the tastes morals
and h.hils of the ueoulc ry act Of
.s4,nblV
"P,rcnolsUv reproachinP congress
we would Nevertheless augment the
powers of congress. We are Great
ing a system Of centralized bureau
.racy ana supplementins the civil
service with mulIllarious rominls-
sious. We have d standing army or
officials. CollcctN ism, roobing a man
ot his iudi,iduahty, trusts nothing TO
Tho lore, Of nature the genius of our
tustitltions and the Providence of
Gnd
wet we disdaiu alike experience
|prd forecast. We are threatened
|uith Government hv hysteria, dis
Illl,iuc tts aN,ess on The one hand 10y
/ IN, ,aiueI,rious assertion of our
I grandeur. nuisance, uu the other
4 b..nd cNnrresiuE its humanity
I ,arou.h m. exploitation of visionary
COLONIES nf lmpossihic relief
no ny.rpaipt the picture? Is il
.lut In. morltirr cffigy Of an old
r.,n's ucssinlsm" Let us not be too
..r, .f n,rselyes If we preserve
mai which Washington and Franklin
nId Irffrrsou contemplated: that
I,i,h lone. and perry. Harrison and
/ 15.ln,. fourht for, that which each
I I'd. i'm IN. war of sections claims u
mined M intelligent frccdom-wc
.hal have don. we'll
w, ha,, NOT been SO well govern
81 tbat We may not be better gov
,rrrd Rut would summon reform
ihrolieh reason. not emotion
WrnId have regeneration come by
,ro,yth ust b, spasm. and so, de-
rita the Impotence and unthinking
. ! look for them to come in their own
GOOD time and order because have
r,,b I'm that people who seem chosen
OF cod. i'm that fabric which seems
,r5ain.d of God. in the destiny OF
mar land under the blessing Of God
n.ho iu It's darkest hour raised N
}Yasliuetou. to defend and Lincoln
ltn save for His own all-wise purpose
lana will N yer suffer the empirIc ol
I'm. sacrilepious to undo the work Of
hi. hand
perry nailed to his masthead th'
brave words of the unconquerapI'
Lawrence. Don't give up the snip
Nav We not amplifv and extend then
T.. embrace the sweep and reach 4"
our institutional system? on lah'
and sea. in glory and In peril Wheh
lever the republic rides the waves lot
proudly or is threatened by Toe
within or without, let IS take then
las "a message from Heaven, ana pas
Itl.n, on 20 our nrighbors ana teacl