The Cordova daily times., 1922-04-13
THURSDAY, APRIL 13. 1922
LIBERTY IMPERILED

] A ty-eight States, who have had an organ Aized conference and executive committee since 1908, to halt the march toward fede1 al empire, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of March ses that they are transferring all the powers 19 warns the people of the destructive process of local self-government to remote and ire sponsible bureaus at Washington, D. o. and that "portend inevitable disaster to the most promising experiment in free government ever before attempted by man,
 After telling of the abuses in tie trace to- ward empire'' the Post-Dispatch proposes a remedy in the form of a constitutional amend ment declaring that the Congress of the Unit ed States shall have no power to lay and col lect direct taxes save in time of actual war.
 Apparently, the time is near when the peo- ple must use their supreme power, embodied in Article V of the Constitution, to call a na- tional convention for the revision of laws and the restoration of the reserved powers of the States When that is done, the people undoubt- edlv will repeal the power of the federal gov ernment to command unlimited revenues, save in time of war.
 Alaska is the worst among the horrible eX-
 
 tice. growing out of actual contests among Washington bureaus to dominate the Ierr- itorv. but other sections, outside, have sim liar grievance Governor Robert D. Carey of Wyoming, issued an address in 1920 at Harris burg, Pa., from which the following excerpts are taken:
 ''If one desires to study the operations of these Federal bureaus and agencies in all their glory he should visit the Jackson's Hole coun- try which lies just south of the Yellowstone National Park. Most of this section is in for est and game preserves and here we have the best game country in the United States.
 ''The Bureau of Parks is endeavoring to add a large part of it to the Yellowstone Na- tona1 Park, while the Biological Survey wants it for game preserve. The Forestry Service is not in favor of park extension for the req son that 1t would transfer control from the Agricultural to the Interior Department. The Reclamation Service has large reservoir at Jackson's Lake which is irrigating lands in Idaho, and on account of the large volume of water that is up during the irrigation season the river is impossible and there are no bridges. The land along the river IS being constantly washed away and damaged, but the owners have no redress.
 ''There are two Carey Act projects which the General Land Office will neither approve nor disapprove. Practically all lands for home-steading are withdrawn from entry and the development of the country is at a standstill
 Numerous writers from the East have been imported into this section to write propaganda to assist the different Washington bureaus to get control of this section. Every one has a press agent except the man who is trying to live in this country and to establish a home ''
 With such examples of the evils accompany ing the "rapid march toward federal empire and confusion," warning the country of the rise and fall of Persia, Bablyon, Egypt, Garth age,Greece and Rome, the Post-Dispatch ap- peals to the States to act to arrest it. It urges the Governors, as the sentinels guarding the safety of the people of their respective States,