The Holly chieftain., 1922-02-16

were to be made only by the states and the lesser
political subdivisions having immediate jurisdic-
tion 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 centralization of all authority and power
incident to government In Washington.
we have already ignored the admonition of the
1athers; we have defed the laws of human nature
which have never changed; we have overlooked
the lessons of history. All these have admonlshed
us that only governments of simple laws can prop
eriy serve or long endure In country of free peo
pie. We have already been led by the delusion
that government bureaus, exercising bureaucratic
authority and police power, not authorized by the
terms or implied by the provisions of the Con-
sttution. are better for the people than 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
MIN and finds himself in the midst of q fools
paradise, entirely surrounded by government bu-
reaus. So many of the numerous bureaus Of
the government are exercising bureaucratic au-
thorlty and police power that they meet the
citizen everywhere he turns-in his fields, In his
mills. In his mines. in his Shops in his factories
In his places of business, great and small-every-
where substituting the will and judgment Of
government agent for the Will and Judgment of the
individual citizen. No matter in what direction
the citizen may turn, 10, the agent of the govern
ment is there to forbid 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 cooperation
is not only desirable but necessary. In all such
matters the smaller political subdivisions and the
states should be resorted to. In that way the
portion of the public directly concerned are able
to observe and intelligenty 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 involved In carrying 1t on. 1t Is pro-
found truth that that government is best that
governs least
The government of the United States Ia of On
great national and internationl Importance tn our
people even unto the remotest township and hnm
let OF the republic that Its place In their affections
should not be imperiled, nor should 1t he ,nn,le
the object of common criticism for failure to do for
the citizen what the citizen alone can do for him
self solemn responsibility and great duty
Immediately confront us here. We are the chosen
representatives of the American people. sworn 70
protect and defend the Constitution against nil on
emies foreign and domestic. 1t is time to begin
the process of reestabshing government of laws
under the Constitution. 1t is time to limit the
activities and reduce the expenses of government
ut Washington Applause) The process of elm.
Mating every element of weakness with which the
government has been burdened 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 the purpose of guaranteeing life lib
erty. property, and the pursuit of happiness of the
people. with the hope that our children and their
children from generation to generation may hive
In the centuries as they come and go the same
guarantees and the same opportunities that we
and our ancestors have enjoyed under the Con.
stitutlon OF the United States. (Appause.)