The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-08
THE ABYSS OF COMMUNISM.

prohoh1v no one has stated more clearly the d r threatening the United States through the c alization of power and paternalism than Ch1ef J re Floyd F. Thompson of the Illinois Supreme Col ho speaking recently on the subject, The Abyss said:
 The most insidious enemy of organized governmnet is patornalism. Government aid is a tempting bait and many time-proyen fundamental rights have been bartered Tor a patry helping from the government pork barrel. Billions of dollars are expended ev- cry year in this country in an attempt by the government to do for the people what they could infinitely better do for them selves The parlor bolshev.k want to regu- late our birth, supervise cur schooling, cen sor our recreation, limit the hours of our work and play, and approve our burial The individual is to be destroyed The gov ernment is to censor, supervise and operate everything and everybody in the moral, industrial and commercial world. Let us not deceive ourselves. We are plunging headlong into the abyss of communism. Private busi- ness is stifcd by government red-tape, and the individual citizen needs to carry li- brary with him to enable him to keep out of jail.
 Government iob-holders are stepping each others heels and jobs being crated daily. Illinois has seventy-hve rab- bit shepherds and fish nurses that cost s100,- % a year, doing work that could much better be done by the local sheriff We have forty fire prevention inspectors costing $75,000 a year, thirty factory inspectors costing $60,- 900 year, seventy-fve food inspectors cost ing $125,000 year. and twenty-five auto mobile investigators costing $40,000 q year. all doing work that properly belongs to our police and fire departments and that could be dcne without cent of additional expense to the people of the state. Add to these an army of state bond-issue-road attorneys, inheritance tax attorneys and inspectors blue sky and prohibition attorneys, all on the payroll of the state for the avowed puh- pose of doing what very naturally and pro- perly could and ought to be done by the several states attorneys and which would be done by them without cent of add- tiona expense to the people in every county outside of Cook Add to these, the army of b0O.000 Federal censros and inspectors and investigators and regulators, and you begin to zee to what tremendoos proportions the mania Tor attending to other peoples busi- ness has already grown.
 Do not understand me to criticize those holding these positions They are not to blame. Many are rendering valuable service ana are doing necessary work if the system IS to continue. IL is the system of central lzing power and creating jobs that I con domn. Tremendous is the cost in mil hons and millions of treasure spent to main- tain this hundred-headed bureaucratic mon ster' 1t does not compare with the cost in priceless fundamental principles destroyed Every time tho State the Nation is per mitted to do that which should be done bv the local county city government the people are surrcndering q fundamental and sacred right
 Americans you must pull yourselves to- gether' Awake from our lethargy and de- fend your liberties against this octonns of paternalism, or 1t will suck the very life- blood of the naton