Evening star., 1921-06-18
PATERNAL|SM SEEN
AS BLIGHT ON u. S.
"Government Meddling in
Family" Affairs Called Doom
of Personal Liberty.


Warning that the United States is
developing toward a bureaucratic form
of government which, il not restrained
by the people. eventually will consume
the republic was sounded by Senator
William E. Borah of Idaho. and Rep
resentative Philip p. Campbell of
Kansas. in addresses. last night. before
the Citizens Protective Association in
the Public Library.
The association. recently organized.
is out to stop compulsory vaccination
and the compulsory enforcement of
all medical treatment. 1t is opposed
to birth control laws and believes that
the individual should have the right
to say what measures shall be taken
for the protection of his health and
that of his family.
While no direct reference was made
to the proposed public welfare de-
partment. sponsored by Brig. Gen.
Sawyer. personal physician to the
President. the association is under
stood to be opposed. to Legislation OF
this Sort. Its meeting last night. the
first it has held attracted an audience
that filled every seat in the .audito-
rum of the Public Library. and ap-
piauded frequently the declar" tions of
the speakers for individual liberty:
Would start Pre-Nntal Control.
Representative Campbell scored the
government for It's meddling in family
affairs. He said that bureaucracy had
developed to such an extent that the
government now proposes to nave
agents around to see when births are
going to occur and then to step in and
say what is going to be done with the
children with respect to their mental
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The Kansas member made what the
audience construed as thrust at the
public welfare department proposal
when he compared conditions in the
Virgin Islands with conditions in TINS
country. He said the government had
been justified in establishing a ma
ternity hospital in the Virgin Islands
and otherwise seeking to improve the
welfare of the natives. who had lived
under deplorable conditions for nun
dreds Of years. No such situation OBJ
justify the government developing a
similar paternaliStic system here, ne
declared.
Mr.. Campbell said the time has
come for the public to put its loot
down and say that government reEu-
lation has gone far enough: This
country has become great through
the initiative and individuality Of it's
citizens, he asserted. and. when, Du-
reeaucracy is permitted to strangle
individualism. the beginning OF the
end of our constitutional government
is at hand.
Cnu,toi Packed With Lobbyists.
Ambition for Office. he charged. is
responsible for much of the lobbying
that is done for the creation OF new
bureaus. The corridors OF the Capftoi
are now SO packed with lobbyists OF
every description that 1t is difncuit
to walk through them. ne said. s c.
bell. lis that the citizen doesn't know
what's good for him. but the govern
ment does "Bureaucrack is beginning
to throw it's blight upon us. The peo-
Pile must stop this or our personal lib
erty is doomed.
Senator Borah deplored the trend to-
ward paternalism as the most sinister
evil in our body polite. Referring to
the fact he had been termed "radi-
cal" the senator said a radical in these
days is one who struggles to get back
to the Constitution of the United
States. He expressed the conviction
that the framing of the Constitution
was guided by divine influence. and
that when the American people began
to substitute paternalism for the in
dividual liberty given them by the Con-
stitution the nations doom will be
sealed.
If we are going to put health in the
control of bureaus. we Will have
reached the beginning of the end OF the
republic. he predicted:
Senator Borah reviewed the pater-
nalism which destroyed Rome and
which prevailed in France before the
revolution. America. he warned. is
heading toward similar conditions, un-
less the people act promptly to
check it.
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He said he had Investigated all the
bills which are pending in Congress
and that they seek to regulate every
human activity known. Soon. he said.
they will be striving to regulate what
we think as well as what we say
and do.
We have been centralized in Wash
ington, continued the senator. until
the things that relate to the people in
their local communities are being
regulated here. The people should
organize to break away from this
Every citizen should re-
solve that he will permit his govern
ment to do nothing for him that he
can do for himself.
If you govern the people Of the Unit
ed States for fifty years from Washing
ton, he went on, YOU will so destroy
the self-reliance and initiative Of the
people that they won't be as capable
of self-government at the end OF that
time as are the people Of Mexico today.
Senator Borah expressed the hope that
the people would organise speedily for
a long and determined campaign to
break down the trend toward bureau
cratic government.
You will have to come to Congress
and waylay US in the corridors in COM
petition with the lobbyists. he warned.
hut yours will be the simple request of
liberty-loving Americans that Congress
let you alone.
DR.. Charles Evans presided. Brief ad-
dresses were made by DR.. Shelby Riley
and others. The association plans to