The Washington times., 1917-09-16
THE MAN VS.. The STATE IN AMERICA
By TRUXTUN BEALE.

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UN BEALE. q
Does the huge and sudden taxation,
the official waste Of the produeers'
earnings, the arbitrary and ignorant
official price-fxing and countless
other official annoyances stimulate
the desire to produce?
Turgot, the great French minister
Of finance, had no magic 20 to enor-
mously increase industry and trade
in France. He was simply wise
enough tc remove the Official re-
strictions that fettered production
and abolish the officials. BE gave
the country economic freedom.
But what finally happened? And
here comes the warning to the
american people. The official para
sites became too strong for him and
had him removed; therefore, the
French had to 90 through the revo-
luton and the terror to get the Of.
ficials on their backs.
The Roman empire itself was
crushed under the weight Of its ad-
ministratiye machine.
Law-Made Remedies.
The laboring class, as well as the
other classes in the country, seems
to be diseased with the superstition
Of the efficacy Of law-made rsme-
dies.
Yet it is on their backs that the
army Of officials that we are now
making must be borne. Show me
an idle man and / will show you one
that works overtime, says confu-
cius. Show me an official and
will show you q laborer who has to
work more than his share.
II every German peasant now car
ries soldier on his back it viii not
be long before every American Ia
borer carries an official on his. Il
must be apparent to all that IL men
are taken from the producing class
and placed m q parasitic official
class, the wage fund is thereby made
smaller, but still the official must
live.
A Huge Machine.
Government will soon become q
huge machine to take the fruit Of
their labor from the intelligent and
the Industrious and hand it over to
the parasitic and idle, thereby allow
ing them to breed and multiply ct
the expense Of the better tissue Of
society. In few generations great
Increase Of poverty and misery will
be entailed upon a deteriorated peo-
pie A great PHILOSOPHER said many
years ago if fools were seyed from
The consequences of their folly, the
world would soon be full Of fools.
But it will be asked what defense
;ould the poor have against the ag-
yressive and predatory rich. This
question was answered a half CEN
Jury ago-quick and costless JUS
ice in the courts. It is a truth Of
as well as physiology, that
when an organ attempts to do two
.hingS, it does neither well. The re-
'ult is we have mass Of preventive
officials who never prevent and an
administration Of justice which Is
1arbarously slow and barbarously
expensive.
Disgraeeful as it is, justice in this
,ountry is denied - the poor. And
n the performance of this most i'm
,ortant function of the State free
lom will again bring better results
han oficialism- As q man of busi-
less, consciously seeking only self
-egarding end, unconsciously does q
,ublic good, so he who seeks justice
n a court Of law for a self-regard-
ng end alone, unconsciously confers
lpon the state the public benefit Of
the laws in a much
more efficient way than can be &c
omplished by q mass Of idle and in
lifferent officials appointed to pre-
Tent infraction Of the law.
So, even in its performance Of itS
most vital public function, private
comes to the assistance of
he state.
This, then, is what my book at
empts to demonstrate: That the be-
ief in the sovereign power of polit-
cal machinery is q gross delusion
lI1Q IIldl LucIC dTC limits OeNOnQ
which state functions should not ex-
end.
Slow 0fficialism.
It demonstrates that officiaIism Is
low, that it is expensive, that it is
Inadsptive, that it is unprogrcssive,
hat it has a tendency to tyrannize
md a tendency to become corrupt,
hat it creates a large and danger
us official class, like in structure to
militant state, that endangers both
,ersonal liberty and business enter
rise.
That it impoveriskes the people by
aking numbers from the producing
lass to form the army of officials
Vho must be supported out of the
ruits of their labor. 1t shows that
ifficialism uses vast means to OBJ
ain small ends. That an excessive
y large official class instead of be-
oming the protector of rights be-
ONES an aggressor upon rights.
That officials appointed to exer-
Use functions beyond the proper Im-
Is Of state control too frequently
ave tendency to become either the
orrupt tools Of capital or dema-