The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-08-08
HIDDEN BUREAUS
MENACE TO NATION
KENTUCKY SENATOR SAYS
UNKNOWN EXPERTS" EXERT
MORE POWER THAN LAW.
PATERMATISM'S PERILS
Estimates 100000 Drawing Salaries,
And Promises to Furnish More Da-
ia Later. One Officeholder to Two
Taxpayers in Country.


ia Later. One Officeholder to Two
Taxpayers in Country.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Attacking
the hidden bureaus" in Washington
that invade local self-government and
the rights of the states Senator A. O.
Stanley, democrat, of Kentucky, in a
speech in the senate today declared
that bureaucracy in the federal gov
eminent threatens to enslave and
bankrupt this country. He said:
There is more power today exer-
cised in these marble sarcophagi by
unknown experts, the politically con-
trolled appointees of whispering propa-
ganda than by the courts themselves
The cost has become unbearable. 1t
has been said that there are 100000
pensioners on public bounty, and if
that is true there is an oficeholder
a tax-eater, on the back of every two
taX-producers in the United States.
This number, he said, of course in
cluded a host of employees of state,
county and municipal governments, as
we'll as the federal government, but he
emphasized the point that there is
about one public pensioner for every
two producers in the country.
Cites Useless Officers.
Il am now collecting data to show
that this country is overrun by
b ure aus, commissions, committees,
sleuths, government agents, inspectors,
inquisitorial bureaus and meddlers in
the business and private lives of Amer
lean citizens.
Senator Foraker in 1907 bemoaned
the multiplication OF useless offices and
officers in his so-called degenerate
day and said that: The little band of
167 special agents, deputies and in
spectors on the payrolls OF the gov
eminent 10 years ago has been swelled
to an army of more than 5000
The 5000 agents and inspectors OF
Foraker's day have increased to go,
900 or more today. Sumptuary and in
quisitorial bureaus and commissions
have increased since then a thousand
fold and federal agents and inspectors
filling the highways and byways tread
and corner, more numberless and per-
nicious than the heas and frogs OF
Egypt.
Promises Early Data.
Some day soon | am going to have
ready a list of the numerous usless
bureaus and commissions the federal
government has created in the past
few years since we have undertaken
the job OF attending to everybody's
business and invading the rights OF
the states and the citizen. 1t will be
a remarkable list.
That situation crushed France and
produced the French revolution; it
was the bane and damnation of Ger
many, and like condition will en-
slave and bankrupt this country"
Senator Warren, of Wyoming, re-
publican. chairman of the appropria-
tons committee, agreed that the in
crease in bureaucratic control in Wash
ington had made it difficult to bring
about economies i'll appropriations.
Senator Stanley mentioned specifi
cally the latest attempt to set up a
new federal control, that OF newspapers
and magazines publishing betting odds
on horse races, automobile races, prize
fights and all contests of skill and en-
durance. Such bill is pending before
the judiciary committee, the proposal
of the reform element being that any
publication carrying betting odds and
results shall be debarred from the
mails.
Paternalism Not Party.
Discussing recent reports of appro-
priations for the session as made by
Chairman Warren. OF the appropria
tons committee. Senator Stanley said:
q will chcerfully say that the able
and capable senator from Wyoming,
Mr.. Warren, the chairman of the COM
mittee on appropriations, has made an
earnest honest and interchangeable eff
fort, in my opinion, to curtail expendi-
lures and my differences with him do
not imply that he is particeps criminis
in the abuses OF which speak"