The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-30

moral industrial and commercial
world Is To be owned. operated, su-
Iperviscd or censored from the birth
OF a baby to the burial OF a corpse.
and the worst is not yet.
Nli Innovation Not Progress.
The most conspicuous "progrcs-
.sivo' Is the most ingenious inventor
LOT new ways and means OF invading
the vested rights OF the states aud
tho liberties uf the citizens. Ike leg
islative ghouls CNhumlug tho dead
and buried dcspousms of the past.
luumindful OF the wise aphorIsm uf
Edmond Burke that AN innovation
is not progress
"ln the ownership, operation or
supervision Of the Industrial and
commercial activities ot am empire.
from tclcgraphs and telephones.
steamships and railroads to the cliw.
nation Of the bol weovil and the
setting OF hen, congress has ere.
atcd l0O different Cummittoce aud
commissions, boards ana bureaus
land within 10 years has actually cN-
pended the appalling sum OF $3.02l-
360, 0,1G7bb. according to the official
figures of these departments. H.
however. the moro dependable csti-
mates OF that able and accurate
statesman, senator King OF Utah
are accepted, II reaches the incom-
prchcnsiblc aggregate OF $500
100000.
Tho bulk OF this money was squan-
dercd in doing for tho people what
they could and should have done
infinitely better for themselves. The
entire cost OF the operation OF tho
| federal government from the inauE
Iuration of George Washington to the
Civil war does not approach this
| colossal and incomprohcnsih sum.
Regrets New Bureaus.
And worse still this iusattat lust
| FOR inqulsitorial power daily begins
/ new boards and bureaus. The Hppc-
| titc Tor attending to other peoples
| business grows by what it feeds
| on" and their devastating cost In
/ crcascs by leaps and bounds. For
instance, In the year 1916 the cost
| of operating the government oxcu-
sivc OF expenditures for war pur-
poses was S23l,625. .333; for tho fis-
cal year ending June 80. 1922. the
amount appropriated for the same
| purpose. not including the cost Of
the war and navy departments. PEN
sions, veterans bureau and roduC-
| tion OF the national debt, is $I,1l5,-
! 5l7,366, or an increase OF nearly
| 500 per cent. The difference In cx-
| penditurcs FOR practically Identical
services In 1916 and 1921 Is, broadly
speaking the cost Of these commits
sions with their innumcrahlo army
| Of agents aud inspectors.
This Administrations unprcce-
dcnted majority OF over 100000
has been attributed to the league of
nations, although the attitude of the
candidate was uncertain then and is
an enigma now.
The truth Is that the businoss In
tercsts of America accepted In good
faith his promise TO take business
out Of politics and politics out Of
business Talk to me OF paniCs and
deprcssions; the business of America
Is not panlcky, It IL paralyzed. You
are nagging ana breaking the brave
heart and sanguine spirit OF Ameri-
can enterprise. lts mighty limbs
are bound by the departmental red
tape OF n well meaning but mis-
guided poternalism, subtle, suffo.
eating and resistless as the coils of
n boa constructor.
Like An Old, Sweet Song.
Jeffefson's second inaugural ad -
dress, plcturing "A government revcr-
ent OF the constitution and duly OBJ
servant OF its delegated powers.
reads at this day like somo "old,
sweet song"
"At home. fellow citizens. you best
know whether we have done well or
III. The suppression OF unnecessary
offices. or useless establishments and
expenses enables us 10 discontinue
our internal taxes. These covering
our land with officers and opening
our doors to their intrusions had
already begun that process OF dom
iciliary VCXation which, once en-
tered. Is scarcely TO be restrained
reaching successfully every article
OF produce and property. - It
may be the pleasure ana pride OF an
American to ask what farmer, what
mechanic. what laborer ever sees
a taXgather of the United Statcs?'
Senator Foraker in 9O7 bomoaued
the multiplication of useless offices
and officers In his degenerate day"
declaring that the little band Of 1877
special deputies, agents and inspcC-
tors on the pay rolls OF the govern
ment 10 years ago has been swelled
to an army Of more than three thou
sand.
Three thousand agents and inspeC-
tors. There are nearer 80, 900 now.
ISumptuary and inquisitOridl bureaus
and commissions have increased
since then one thousandfOld and
federal agents and inspectors filling
the highways ana byways. tread
upon each others heels at every turn
and corner, more numberloss aud
IpernlciOus than the fleas and frogs
of Egypt.
Every business man finds an in
'epectOr at his elbow, a federal sleuth
at his heels, houses are searched,
homes outraged and the public high
ways dapplod in the blood OF unOf.
Tending citizens by a multitude Of
agents and inspectors, ignorant Of
and indifferent 10 the law Of tho
land and the rights Of the citizen.
And TO cap the climax, cOm-
mander-in-chicf OF an inquisitorial
horde advises ue that sacred and an
cient safeguards. ordained aud es.
tabllshcd by courts ana constitutions
are fragile as Zine fences tTiflina
things, to be demolished or dcspisrd
not By any legal authority state OF
federal, but IN the name Of com
munity good"
In recent interview published
In the New York world OF August
, 2S, 1921, the Hon, Roy A. Haynei
blandly asserts that AN laws re-
strict our personal liberty In SON,
I degree But these laws do no
bother the man who values com
= munity good more than he does hi