Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-30

patch on the waste in approprhtou
when our legislative bodies M
chance to handle $1,000. 0O0, 900 NJ, !,
rum of new capital outlay. Fa \,
these reasons / am convinced Inn i,
tcrest charges alone to the Goy,r.
ment would be larger than the prvnI
utility profits and no economy n,
there. Rather the way of the nrod,r,
"Nor can the Government cvn,,
as economically as private w,sN
prise. If We take over neary
100000 new employees into nv
lie service We must put them I'M
der .an air-tight civil service, /, N
hired by a separate commission ~
promoted by seniority and at ono N
have created a bureaucracy. oth,rsis
We would have nearly 5000. 900 ioa
be given out and political debsurA,rI
unparalleled in all history. Then \
certain inherent qualities Of bwvp
crazy in it's delibcrative action N
necessity to maintain joint respmsl
bility, it's enlargement Of "red ,sNstl
signed to prevent error in judEnu,
and conduct all of which are perA,n|
an advantage in purely governing saI
tons, but they become disaster vAeu|
applied to the rapidity Of moyesuI
vital to business and service. W.
bers increase for every task. The N
tentative is political favoritisr NJ
at the top where exceptional talent h,
genius must he had. neither syhb|
ty. nor competitive examination, M
politics will secure or find IT, It'd
one thing to choose a POSTMASTER IN
another to choose n railway preslllx|
These things are the actual and -
experiences of our public lif% ann
100 years of this experience Is q
proof that the efficiency OF Gcvnl
ment operation must always he hA|
the efficiency of private cnterpriss. III
the public is incapable Of convictsa|
The speaker gave statistics shvl1
to the disadvantage of the Gown|
ment managed enterprises as compnl
with those privately owned
showed that taxes must be incraiX
and that the condition of the enlpbl
would ultimately DE worse than Il VI,
is. In concluding he said:
we have constructed our goyern1(
upon the theme that its major pure
is TO preserve human liberty amlt4
changing social and economic 500
Ii we divert il to the changing
money we shall have lost sadly fOr u
future.
And parallellng and paralua
every argument against governmsE
operation Is one insistent note. ~
is the preservation OF the vital billy
tive and enterprise Of our people ~
is the handspring of progress y
reaucracy is the dead hand on lhlti
tive. Government can correct ibal
without entry into business. II q
not, then democracy shall have fsls
we are asked 10 abandon all "
we have builded as land OF oppg
tunity by injecting into II an ecoutal
patent medicine from Europe. Sxt
ism may have place with some q y
| nations of Europe because OF W
failures to provide freedom. oppor'ul
ty and service. II has no place y
US. We are building here a form
social organization OF our own.
differed with European Ideals
years. We have today in Ameria
widest extended and most ehee
utility services in tho world. Wen
developed an effective method Of "
trolling abuses. W. contribute nv
to invention and improvement than
other peoples combined. We are Nv
to abandon all this and embrace :,
social ideas. increase our cost n
vice, decrease our national ef'Nsss''
undermine our democracy, dcstrT
fundamentals upon which our NY
has become great This Is moi
, gressive. for IL is not progress Y
destruction" n