The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-27
rIr MENACE or ORGANIZATION.

ln his D,a Molncs speech Saturday Senator
Cummlus accurately Interpreted the thought
ful mind Of the country when he declared or
R,ulation has reached such a point in the
United States that 1t IL tho greatest menace 70
government 1T Ia practically impossible for
conrtrr- TO got an unsolfsh ana unbiased otln-
ION said the senator, because OF the lengths
TO which organization has gone"
Continuing along the samo line, Senator Cum
minis said
"Whcro are we to get. in Washington.
when every DIT Of information that comes
10 ua, comes from a selfish standpoint?
Down thfVo now u is simply war hetwcon
organizations. Congressional committees
are constantly holding hearings upon Inn
portaut questions and I have yet to hear,
this session, single man come to q COM
mitttc hearing for the purpose of enllght-
ouiuE The committee from the public stand-
t9int All como 90 urge something that
VIII help the particular organization with
which they arc affiliated
1T crentcs In opinion, very difficult
and alarming situation"
And Of course every such organization ia in
the very nature of things seeking something
more or less than It should have. There can be
no uncertainty on this point when men or
ganze themselves cor women ether Il il rarely
TO eecurc their proper rights or just deserts
because the constitution guarantees that. but
more often for the purpose OF securing some
thing at the expense OF the great body polite
Readers Of Tho World win recall that we
have previously covered this subject somewhat
thoroughly attempting to show that orgnniza-
tion--what Senator Cummins calls superior
ganizatlon--ia at tho bottom OF most of our
economic and SOCIAL Ills. our people express an
academic opposition TO sovietlsm and socialism.
then proceed to adopt most of these isms' prac-
tces under another name
The mischevous effects Of professional labor
unlonism has been rather alarmngy impressed
on the country during the past few years.
Every thinking mind has perceived with un-
errng accuracy whittier such practices were
tending Yet those who oppose uinonsm in
its most perncious form adopt It's methods for
their own professional vocational SELFISH
ness. II doctor appoars before government
agency j. is to advocate, not something for
the benefit Of American citizenship under the
constitution, but something for the benefit Of
the particular school OF medicine he practices,
whether u be aieopath, homeopnth, ostcopath
or no path at all
The banker stands for the financial Interests
alone and divides his affections between the
various more less conflicting interests ,ith-
In that vocation; the merchant represents either
the wholesaler or tho retailer as the case may
be- and again. In tho flnal analysis stands I'm
particular and with enthusiastic determination
for the particular branch Of trade with which
he Is connected. Likewise those Interested in
mining. subdlvided again between ;ho various
branches OF that industry. And 90 It goes
There is not profession or vocation or an avo.
cation that Ia not represented by an organiza-
alton; and there is not an organization that is
not seeking special consideration at the hands
OF government
Somewhere out there In the void stands tre-
mendous majority OF American citzcns inartcu.
late. relying on their rights as set forth In the
constitution They are those who are forced
20 pay tribate tcs the/ professional labor leader
the professional capitalists and the thousand
and one organizations who constantly prey of
them.
it Is wrong manifeety wrong The system
is not susceptible of moral defense. Scarcely
am organization In existence, nor a secret So
ciely either Tor that matter. but in one form or
another, in one way or another, maintains a
LOBBY or lobbyist at every legislature. And the
tendency Of tho pcrnicious practice is to lit
orally play merry hell with constitutional rights.
and render popular government a grotcsque
monatrosiy.
Ihe writer has no hesItancy whatever in pro-
claiming the belief that no present day student
OF political economy would think Of sett>ag up
new government IN the sense the United
states government was set up by tho fathers,
without writing into the basic law OF the lana
4. positive and unqualified Inhibition ayai,s.
any secret organization or trade organization
expressing itself at all In political matters Thers
a not a thinking, studlous man of the present
generation nu' knows that such organizations
have violated time after time--stand in oterr.l
violation for that matter--of the sherman .r,,
trust law.
Every trade orsanization in the country OK
ists for the primary purpose OF "getting n
gether" against the Ratroaizing public. Tn,