The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-02-05


Lincoln carried on one of the great
est wars in history without boards and
commissions, and when urged to APP
point them, President Lincoln said.
think they are contrivances to cheat
the government If our President,
and I do not necessarily mean Presi-
dent Wilson, but all of those who have
sanctioned these boards and commits
sions and departing from the constitu-.
tion would take Lincoln 3 advice, what
a blessing it would be to the people.
If our governors had taken such ad-
vice what a difference we would notice
in our tax receipts in our individual
liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Mania for Creating Boards.
eff this mania for creating boards
and commissions continues for the next
twenty years as It in the past, ]
predict that no j. oe able to run
his own business. .ow, the inter
ference is 50 anno9 hat the pleas
ure of doing business to large extent
has been greatly hampered.
HBnt til most formidable and vicious
attack upon our constitution, as I view
it, since the foundation Of this govern
ment, is the so-called Eighteenth
Amendment. believe it will be the
paramount issue in the next campaign,
as soon as the people wake up to fully
realize its danger, and, therefore / will
not support any man for an executive
or legislative office who favors. that
amendment, or even the enforcement of
the same / care not what his poll
tics may be,
Matter For Each State.
eff prohibition is good thing, let
the states have it that want it, but do
not nullify one of the most essential pro
visions Of our constitution by enforc-
ing this socalled Eighteenth Amend
ment. Believing firmly that this will
be the paramount issue in the next
campaign, every candidate for a legis-
lative or executive office should an
nounce to the public plainly and IN
equiyocally where he stands. IF a
man is a prohibitionist, there is a pro
hibition party, and he should be a can
didate on that ticket.
However, the danger is not so much
in prohibition; people can get accus-
toned to that if they will. The con
stitution has been assaulted with dan
craro,4r xuaornn ana 10 o,,r ~, r.roc.a
continues to amend the constitution to
satisfy every passing fancy, to convert
what should be police regulation into
a constitutional amendment, Just to
please some certain class of individu-
ais, then there is. no reason why that
some future Congress may no likewise
amend it by eliminating tn privileges
therein given to us all, to hold and to
be secure in our property rights, there
by upsetting the work Of our ancestors
at Philadelphia, destroying our Repub-
hehn form of governments, changing
democracy to mobocracy, Republican,
ism to communism Therein lies the
danger, for what man is able to say
measure so drastic and radical
Views Future With Alarm.
Moreover, if our state legislatures
continue to appoint more and more
boards and commissions (givng each
board and commission the power to ap-
point all the attorneys, stenographers,
assistants, agents, employees, etc, nee
essary to carry out the will of said
commission, as all Of the boards pro-
vide;) |, for one, view with alarm the
future stability of our Republican
form of government, and possibly the
end of present civilization
Babylon, Nineveh, Egypt, Greece and
Rome all ancient civilizations, as glori-
Gus and prosperous as our own, have
fallen. Is it not time to call at halt
Is it not time to recur to fundamental
principles; to look upon our constitu.
ton as sacred document not to be
tempered with, or amended to satisfy
a passing fancy; to undo the act which
was slipped over on the people when
Ou6 daJIOh uCstQ Was UUW6U III ,SOE-
row, when our young men were lighting
for the freedom and democracy Of the
worlds Is it not time to give close at
tention to that provision Of the con
stitution which guarantees to each
state Republican form Of government;
to call attention to the members of our
Legislature that they are departing from
the constitution by establishing par
entail form of government, and hamper
ing, buTdening and eat out the sub
stance Of the people by their unneces-
sary boards and commissions with their
attorneys, stenographers, assistants,
agents, employees, etc.
Calvin Stewart.
KENOSHANS GASP