Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-21
OUR UNFRAMED GOVERNMENT
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 trained men in America is the busi- ness of governm nt".-S. s. McClur, Ito the students Of Washington uni. versity recently MT. Mcclure has been a remarkab- lyi successful magazine publisher. He came to this country poor Irish boy and made his way in this country in the University of Hard Knocks. Here he. accumulated his education, and the fact that he is asked to address uni versity students indicates that they have respect for what he, knows.
 But this statement as above quoted is subject to qualifications.
 It is true our representatives Tn congress are net necessarily trained to dhe. job They undoubtedly are not as wise in government as some of their numerous critics. Yet they are operating according to the constitu- tion of the United States, made and provided, and any. criticism of tho system necessarily criticises the con stitution and cur method of govern ment as handed down by the fathers of8the republic.
 Are bure aucracies, sf ahtocracies, oligarchies,I monatchies, czarocracfes or klRgocracies any better?
 If everybody in a bureaucracy, for example. is highly trained, and with a sAssfre to serve the people and g,Avsfpment efficiently his main in- eantNe,N such .buieauca'acy Twill be highly efficient, But there is, no knarantek; that such dminently ai'rui- stic motives will guide a lt,,reaueracy aat aaIl times; and the9, they are infiph- ph fteV worse than government through nntained ,parliaqmentariaps. .]. .15a !; iYl'he, trouble with cur government is not tha, untrainsd minds are the servants of the people. but that too much politics are allowed to ente. into their conception of duty. These false standards are based largely upon precedent.
 One of our greatest faults in govern ment, for instance, is that congress is permitted tc vote appropriations and order their expenditure at the same time. This is not due to the "untrained minds Of congressmen- for there is no evidence to support tile belief that Trained minds would act Il whit differently but to a sys- tenn that inevitably results in ex- tra, ,agance. To this extent we can erilicise the constitution and congress sonal rulings and precedents that are bound up in the system. Tine fathers of the republic could not forsee that representatives would ex- change vo es with each other in treasury raiain@ exp 1ltions. for in- stance, because they did not see how fa political expediency would run rampant.
 Proof of the pudding Is that the more trained the minds ill congress become the more political their ac- tons. f'armers as rule can not De accused Of having the trained minds of lawyers; yet put farmer Ill q position of trust to a constituency elect him to congress on a platform of economy--and he will nave sut- ticieatly untraned mind to stay eco namical. Consider the records of rural representatives ln state lcsls- latures They are hide bound To- ecCnomy nine -tem.hs Of the tlme, and the sreatGst fault that the trained minds of city representative have fo find in them Is that they as q l,iie re- fuse to ioin ln indiscriminate money spending.
 Instead of more trained minds Ill Our halls of making we nea1 mere of the simple, untralned, honest straight tforward sasnwy from the country, who believe taxes are higF
 enough and that any amount ot eN'
 plainins by trained minds will not
 suffice to turn them from thel tptedges tQ thcu constituents. 1 -Oef.O-