The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-11
Switzerland's Experience.
Cincinnati Enquirer.)

rcona and social conditions driving the
 "a1can people to contemplating the highly i'm .rfait matter of the swelling tide of bureaucracy in ae Government Recently some of the alarmed taLesmen 1t Washington have taken up investiga
 ou of this subject, and from inquiry have proceed q. quite properly. to extreme denunciation. In 3GT Senato1 Joseph Benson Foraker, of Ohio, com llaiuad that the new bureaus had added 5000 per manent employees to the national pay roll fort 1i-h Senator Augustus Owsley Stanley, of Ken -uoky. showed that the number had increased to more than @0,000 and that proposals were pending augment this army.
 There are sothful-minded and indifferent people Hho may lightly look upon this question to be confined to the domain of practical politics con cerning only professional politicians. They deceive JhemselYes arrantly and have rude awakening pre- paring for their neglect of citizenship Let them ider the condition of Switzerland model of the re- ormers and the home of the initiative and refer endum. In recent times boasts have been made of its citizen army and of its guards against political bosses.
 Conveniently it's domestic carefully has been zept behind the easement This is bureaucracy. The
 ines have compelled it's exposure In recent in troduction of the budget Minister of Finance Musy sad
 switzerland is crushed under the weight of bureaucracy" Then he made public statistics show ing that the Federal Administration of $500 900 neople had 33,000 employees exclusive of those en- ployed the Federal railways 29,OOO additional. There also thousand temporarily employed bureaucrats. Every ffty-sixth person Federal employee. To these proper charge must be added the employees of the cantons, corresponding to American states and the communes the lesser political divisions.
 The President of the Swiss Republic Robert Haab, a lawyer and expert railway operator takes office with the upon these unhealthy conditions and proposes, as beginning, the cur tament of the cost of running the railroad sys- tenn in order achieve the result of "a reduction of the high cost of travel in this playground of Europe" It might be asked how it that such abnormally large number of persons are employed in this public utility. The to the query is found in the statement that the Council of Administration is composed of 55 members who are either Members of Parliament influential state councillors. In short, politics. Each administrator feathers his political nest and the Swiss people pay the cost thereof.
 If the American politicians take the Swiss ratio as factor there will be employed in the United States 1089 900 regularly and 300 900 inter- mittently in the various departments state. If the railways and telegraphs and telephones taken over public utilities to be operated by the Gov governmental bloc created and with professional and [pecuatve politics, through the bureaucratic system sitting in the seats of administration political min critics in the United States will become a cypher of the minutest diameter.
 The United States is upon the threshold of the bureau governmental plan Within the short space of three years thousands of offices have been treated and millions have ben appropriated for sal aries. If pending legislation becomes statute law housands will be named and millions more Nll be appropriated The time for action is | he present