The Idaho recorder., 1922-02-17

were to be made only by the states and the lesser
political subdivisions having immediate jurisdic-
ton. and then only by the plain terms Of statutes
enacted by the representatives Of the people, The
rapidly growing and alarming tendency today is
toward Capitalization of all authority and power
incident to government in Washington.
We have already ignored the admontion of the
Fathers; we have deied the laws of human nature
which have never changed; we have overlooked
the lessons of history. All these have admonished
us that only governments of simple laws can prop.
ery serve or long endure In country of free peo-
pie. We have already been led by the delusion
that government bureaus exercising bureaucratic
authority and police power, not authorized by the
terms or implied by the provisions of the Con.
stitution, are better for the people than govern
ment of plain statutes. We have been lured by
the promise that government agents would lead
the citizen by the hand into green pastures. be-
side still waters, into elysian fields, then on into
the millennium. Already the citizen looks about
him and finds himself In the midst of a FOOLS,
paradise. entirely surrounded by government bu.
reaus. So many of the numerous bureaus of
the government are exercising bureaucratic au-
thorfty and police power that they meet the
citizen everywhere he turns-in his fields In his
mills, In his mines, In his shops. In his factories
In his places of business. great and smali-every-
where substituting the will and Judgment of a
government agent for the will and Judgment of the
individual citizen No matter in what direction
ment Is there to forbid or to command. Instead
OF remaining his protector, the government has
become his guardian.
There are many matters that require more than
individual attention matters i'm which co.opera zion
Is not only desirable hut necessary In all such
matters the smaller political subdivisions and the
states should be resorted to. In that way the
portion of the public directly concerned are able
to observe and intelligently determine whether
those they have employed to do the particular
things they require are rendering service that
justifes the continuance of the activity and the
expense involved in carrying Ii on 1t is a pro-
found truth that that government is best that
governs least.
The government of the United States is Of .,
great national and internationl inheritance ~ ON
people even unto the remotest township AMI han,
let of the republic that It's place In their nfec,nnS
should not be imperiied, nor should n hs ,na,
the object OF common criticism for failure To do for
'he eiuzeh what the citizen alone do for him
self solemn responsibility and n great ,u,x
Immediately confront us here We are nm. ohs
representatives of the American people SWORN ,n
protect and defend the Constitution against NIL an
emies, foreign ana domestic. IL is time In hagir
the process of reestabliShlng u government, NJ la,.
under the constitution. II is time to limit tho
activities and reduce the expenses of yovarn,,or,
at Washingten (ApplauseJ The process of elim
mating every element of weakness with which ,h
government has been burdened and which n,,,
make 1t the object of criticism should be- pra,,no,
but persistent, until We can again look nnon !,
as the simple government of laws. given us nv ,bs
fathers Tor the purpose of guaranteeing life, lib
erty. property and the pursuit of hapninsss ~, ,h
people. with the hope that our children and thoir
children from generation TO generation mnv have
In the centuries as they come and GU the sam.
guarantees and the same opportunities thar wa
and our ancestors have enjoyed under the Com
s'itnti'n of the United States, (Applause)