Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-27
BoRAH DENoUNcEs ARBITRARY
 LAws--PAssED DuRING WAB

Meriden Conn, Oct. 26.-Senator Will liam F.. Borah of Idaho. in a campaign speech here tonight, denounced "arbi- trary and oppressive laws passed during the war"
 Asserting that repeal of these laws would be ''one of the first tasks for the republican party when given power" the senator declared some of the measures were far more drastic and arbitrary than necessary even in time of war, and are wholly intolerable in time of peace"
 Some were plainly in violation of the Constitution, but passed under the vic ious theory that the Constitution is sus- pended in time of war;" he said. But necessary or unnecessary, con stitutional or unconstitutional, they l should no longer be permitted to menace
 those rights and privileges which a free
 and forward looking people should at all times enjoy. Some of these laws i are relics of two hundred years ago and
 curtan rights as old as the government | itself
 | Let us live again under the Consti- tuition and not be afraid of other mems | opinions. All the evils of free speech, a ] free press and the right of peaceable as- 1 semblage are not to be compared to evils which inevitably wait upon their denial | But it is not alone that these laws HAC uiAJuSN anu bl'pAtSsANt- liley are eN'
 pensive and burdensome to the tax pay i CT. Literally millions of dollars are col.
 lected from the people to be paid out ir
 the maintenance of bureaus and unnec J essary employees to execute laws whicl
 ought not to be upon the statute book. at all
 For years we have been striving t, l put business in straight jacket tt } strangle individual initiative and compe al ha nf,,- of l deadening rules of some bureau Of lat l we have proposed to go a step farthe and make men think and talk accordinl { to bureaucratic rules.
 We should give business a chance t
 breathe without offense and brains
 chance to think, outside of jails. hi ) tiative and self reliance have made n
 what we are and a free press and ire v speech are the peoples only real protec l ton against corruption and oppression i
 public office.
 0 The unrest and disc Intent everywher Il manifest in our country is due in n a small measure to the fact that the neo | pie feel they are distrusted and in turr - they naturally distrust their govern l. ment. This mess of oppressive and sus
 plcion-laden laws concerning almost e1 T cry phase of business and of human a1 ,- tivity, and this ever rising tide of taxa | tlon-the inevitable result of burear s cratic rule-breed discontent and resent z ment which one feels and hears wherevs T he travels over this broad land. If W :. will loosen the paralyzing grip of b, II reaucracy upon the energy and the brai ot America, the people of this countr .t will carry us by the economic and ir z dustrial crisis not far ahead. 'e Inere may be more burdensor
 and deadening more expensive and co,
 rupt form of government than a burea,
 cracy, but if so God in his infinite me, $ cy has not yet permitted it to curse tT
 human family Let us turn back on in > pathway over which we have been fra, y cling so rapidly and so recklessly. L us rehabilitate the Constitution and ii, al under it and up to it-along that roa 'n is orderly liberty and contentnent a- re prestige and power. Let us restore f, p- American republic to the American ne
 pie to whom it biologist is safer n- their hands than in the hands of the h, se reaus or even of statesmen and ne; sr statesmen.'