Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-02-10

u tiny. This hour is full of interest to
those who are concerned with ques-
tons affecting the welfare of the people and the
future of the republic.
So it is not my purpose today to attempt to ex-
tend the fame add to the renown of Washing
ton. His fame is secure even to the earth's remot-
est bounds; his renown will grow as the centuries
unfold the scroll of the ages. While men care for
wisdom and honor and patriotism and appreciate
the achievements of those who have served man
kind, Washington will have place in the minds
and hearts of in all countries and in all ages.
(Applause) shall therefore take occasion on this
anniversary of his birth to note the government
established by the fathers the achievements made
under it by the American people and its benefits
to mankind, and at the same time consider the de-
partures that have been made from its funda-
mental principles and purposes that endanger it's
perpetuity.
1t is safe to say that the creation and adoption
OF the Constitution of the United States mark the
worlds greatest achievement in the art of self
government The fathers under the leadership of
Washington undertook the delicate and difficult
task Of creating government with such endur-
ing principles would make it susceptible of be-
ing perpetuated 1t was provided that each citizen
who lived under it should for all time be the politi-
cal equal Of every other citizen and that every
should have the opportunity Of obtaining individu-
al reward for individual effort The government
created was of the people, by the people, and for
the people. It's purposes and powers are simple,
zen in his right to life liberty property, in the
pursuit of his happiness The powers granted are
enumerated with such other powers may natur-
ally be implied from the written instrument.
These powers impose upon the government Gre
ated the duty of dealing with national and
international questions affecting the lfe the char
acter and the honor of the republic and its people
In their national and international relations The
right and duty of dealing with such questions as
affect the individual citizen left the states
and the smaller political subdivisions. Under this
division of political authority and duty the people
of the United States have through hundred and
thirty years enjoyed the freest and best govern
ment in all the world. Under the simple guaran-
ties of government that make the individual secure
in his natural rights the American citizen has been
developed He is self-reliant resourcefu cour-
ageous inventive ambitious, patriotic, and appre-
catiye of his heritage Of freedom. There runs
through his veins the best blood of every people
north of the Mediterranean sea. From the days
of the fathers every generation has offered and
freely given life and property for the maintenance
Of tie honor, the preservation OF the integrity and
the advancement Of the glory of the republic. 1t
is ours. We must preserve it. We must not i'm
pose duties upon it that it cannot perform. We
must not ask the exercise of functions for which
it was not created We must not indulge in the
hope of things from it that it cannot give We
must not invite disappointments in the operation
of it's activities. 1t is enough that it shall always
offer protection to all that holds dear and
shall continue to afford opportunities to the in
diyidual citizen to obtain rewards according to his
individual ambitions and efforts.
This leads to call attention to the important
duties of this hour that require to take our bear
ing and to ascertain how far we have already been
beguiled to depart from it and divert and multiply
the activities of the government in matters foreign
to its original purposes and to contemplate the
effects of such departure the life of the govern
ment and on the opportunity of the individual cti-
zen.
It would be difficult to enumerate all the de-
partments bureaus, and commissions of the govern
ment at Washington that have been created to ex-
ercse bureaucratic authority and paternal guardi-
anship over the people in every part of the re-
public. There is no activity, business social or
domestic condition that is not the object of their
supervision their solicitude, their authority
Over 100000 civilian employees make up the army
that oversees and directs the affairs of the people
and assumes guardianship over them Govern
ment agents and inspectors, exercising every va
riety of authority found on every Pullman
out of and into Washington. Government reports
every subject from adenoids to rat traps fill the
files of Offices that cover acres of floor space in
Washington. The mahogany and quarter-sawed
oak office furniture already installed has cost many
millions Of dollars, and more is being purchased.
If a yearng dies Of blackleg on a farm in
Kansas, the government at Washington acts on
the case. If hog dies of the cholera in beg lot
In Iowa, the government at Washington takes
charge If a weevil bores through boil of cot
ton on a plantation in Texas, the government at