, 1923-02-04

$50 ie4 ueflahu IS TO entirely elimi
nate countless items for salaries. ma,
terial and general supplies. Let us
express tho hope that in the interest
or an overburdeneo citizenship hal
some member of our great national
congress may rise in his D ace and
demand that before proceeding to fiS
government appropriations that he
hrst present a resolution which
might properly read as follows:
Resolved, that congress shal frs,
declare that 1t will not levy taxes nor
make appropriations exceeding prob
able market value of the two LEADING
r products Of our entire country
and with such declaration they then
apportion that limit as far as 1t vii,
go TO paying the cost OF Indispensable
features and then quit, stop short and
.ay aside all Of these non.essential
theoretical dreams that crush the
bleeding toilers Of our land"
II the state and municipal govern,
ment can then limit their expendi
lures TO the other two great crops Of
h country there at least would be
a ray Of sunshine in the hope that the
minor production of the field am
dairy could be retained as a measure
of home comfort and home prosperity
l do not feel that democracy of itseli
means all that is good in our land
l feel hat our citizenship of the
class most dependable for the SUP
port of good government may be
found in all political parties. We re
member the simple. democratic life
and teachings of Thomas Jefferson
which have been a guiding star in
our country for more than a century
and in modern times, but yesterday
We had among us one of the great
est Americans OF all time, equal in
simple life. candor and defense Of the
peoples government, in the person OF
Theodore Roosevelt. Vigorous in con,
troversy whenever convinced of error
or injustice done. And you ask why
/ advocate first in the hope for dawn,
ing prosperity the laying OF a foun
dation upon which prosperity may be
built. I ask 1t for the simple rea,
son that I know of no way in which
two dollars earned Fan be made to
offset three dollars expended. and II
that cannot be done by one individual
it cannot be done by the combined
citizenship of our entire country. !
do not believe in pursuit of theories
not seasoned by experience and prac
tice, realizing that we have grown
away from original plan of gov,
eminent. bred of economy and simple
life. and wherein the national pride
conferred In the comfort Of the home
rather than in the magnificence Of
public structures. In the beginning
it was contemplated that the centra
government OF the United State,
should not be called upon to admin
lister local affairs. And I am great
ly encouraged in my hope for a re
turn to simple democratic life ant
home government by the letter which
our president, Mr.. Harding, q few
days ago, wrote t. the president o
the School Of Public Welfare of tbs
University of North Carolina, where
in he said:
MY attention has been called t.
the regional conference On local gov
eminent which o are about TO holC
for broad consideration of the social
g,l,,,ttal na1 fa,I,f,,I Drnhtan,a ~
local government. 1t is a pleasure t
record my hearty endorsement OF tbs
efforts you are making and to empha
size the need which I believe exist.
for an earnest and continuing pre-
sentation of these subject to the peo
pc throughout the country. Thu
problems are manifold and Cifficult
accentuatcd by the completely of con
dltions which have arisen during ant
following the war. There has beer
an inevitable tendency, because of tn,
overwhelming important work which
confronted the national government
to rely unduly upon It for perform
ance of many functions which cal
only be discharged properly by loca
administrative entities"
In other words, President Harding
believes in the old-time doctrine. o
state rights. Not only the right O
the state to provide and contuct III
W local self-government, but thu
necessity and duty of the state so tt
do. And that Mr.. Harding is a Re
publican and I am a Democrat, doe
not for a moment suggest to me thai
We should be lacking in appreciation
of his broad and what he believes Il
be proper views of government of TIL
people, by the people and for th'
people. II was wise In u forefath
ers in ,planning the government TO 81
contemplate local self-government t.
the greatest extent that it could b
aotpistorad This broad land of ours