The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-02-09

were to be made only by the states and the lesser
political subdivisions having immediate jursdlc-
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 admontlcn of the
fathers we have defed the laws of human nature
which have never changed; we have overlooked
the lessons of history. All these have admonshed
us that only governments of simple laws can prop
eriy serve or long endure in Il country of free peO
pie We have already been led by the deusiOn
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 "a 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 elysan fields, then on into
the millennium. Already the citizen looks about
him and finds himself in the midst of fools
paradise, entirely surrounded by government bu-
reaus. SO many Of the numerous bureaus Of
the government are exercising bureaucratic au-
thoriy ana police power that they meet the
citizen everywhere he tums-n his fields in his
mills in his mines, in his shops, in his factories
in his places of business, great and small-eyery-
where substituting the will and judgment of
individual citizen. No matter IN what direction
the citizen may turn, 10, the agent Of the govern
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 In which co-operatiOn
is not only desirable but necessary In all such
matters the smaller political subdivisions and the
states should be resored to, In that way the
portion of the public directly concerned are able
to observe ind ntelligently determine whether
those they have employed to do the particular
things they require are rendering a service that
justifes the continuance of the activity and the
expense invoN ed in carrying it on 1t Is "A pro-
found truth that that government Is best that
governs least
The governm ont Of the United States Is of CO
great national ind nternationl importance ia our
people even unto the remoest township ana ham
let OF the republic that It's place in their affections
should not be imperiled nor should it be made
the object of con mon criticism for failure to do for
the citizen what the citizen alone can do for him
self solemn responsibility and great dutv
Immediately con front us here, We are the chosen
representatives. of the American people sworn to
protect and defend the Constitution against MI en-
emies, foreign and domestic, II rs time TO begin
the process Of reestablishmg government of laws
under the Constitution 1t Is time to limit the
activities and reduce the expenses Of government
at Washington (Applausc) The process of elm
mating every element of weakness with which the
government has been burdrnod and which now
make 1t the object Of criticism should be gradual
but persistent, until we can again look upon II
as the simple government Of laws. given us by the
fathers for tho purpose Of guaranteeing life lib
erty property, and the pursuit ol happiness of the
people, with Me hope that our children aud their
children from generation to generation may have
in the centuries as they come ud 90 the same
guarantees and the same opportunities that we
and our ancestors have enjoyed under the Con
stitutlon of the United States Gpplause)