Evening star., 1925-04-05
i. s. FACES MENACE
Of WORST KIND Of
RULE,B0RAH WARNS
Deadly Bureaucracy Backed
by Both Parties, Sena-
tor Charges.
ASSERTS VOTER is DENIED
VOICE IN GOVERNMENT
Denounces Revolutionary Trend
Sponsored by Few Men to
Gain Control.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
CHICAGO, April limited States
Senator WILLIAM f. Borah, speaking
here tonight before the Izaak Walton
League of America, charged that "As
p result of well organized and Venal
propaganda, on the one hand. and
sheer political expediency on the
other, we are building up a bureau
cratic form of government-the most
expensive, the. most burdensome, the
most inefficient and the most arbitrary
form of government which thus far
has been permitted to torture the hu-
man family"
Leading up to his indictment of a
tendency to place the most sacred and
private relationships of the home un-
der the furtive eye of the special
agent" Senator Borah referred to the
many searching problems" involving
International relations, industrial
welfare and national power, which
now confront the people of the coun-
try.
Demands Principles Stand.
The question 1 submit tonight is"
he declared, can we not solve these
problems without surrendering or de-
stroying the great underlying prin-
Ciples of our Government? Is this
new economic life incompatible with
the principles which distinguish our
Federal Constitution?
1t is most disturbi fact as we
approach these problems to encounter
on every hand the erroneous belief
that the way to meet these new ques-
tions is to effectuate some change in
the structure of our Government.
The supreme test of craftsmanship
In this day and era, it seems TO me,
is not the constant and reckless
tinkering with government, but the
intelligent application of the ma
chinery and the principles of Gov
eminent which we have.
Nowhere and in no way is this
vicious program of change for
changes sake, this fatuous stumbling
in governmental affairs, more pro-
nounced than in the gradual but GER
tain destruction of the States and the
centering of all power, all govern
mental activities at Washington.
Says Old Parties Join.
I'm this irresponsible vandalism,
the disciples of Hamilton and the dis
ciples of Jefferson join hands. No
political party in Washington seems
willing to stand against this subtle
revolution, against this un-American
and un- democratic program.
Every conceivable thing relating
to human activity is being given over
TO bureaus administered from Wash
ington. This results in waste and
inefficiency touching all local or State
affairs, which in itself is burden
some and bad enough. But it's capi-
tai offense is that of undermining the
confidence and destroying the capac-
ity of the citizen to assume and meet
the duties and obligations of citizen
ship.
The right, the authority of the
people to manage and control their
own affairs of an immediate and local
nature, affairs peculiar to the COM
munity or the State, is a right be-
yond all price. There is nothing for
which the people can afford to ex-
change it, 1t is the only real demo-
cratic principle found in our entire
structure of government. 1t means
more to the happiness. to the dignity
and power of those Lincoln lovingly
styled the common people than any
other right or privilege they are per-
mitted to enjoy
system Held Wasteful.
destroy it and the average citizen
becomes the victim of bureaucratic
interterence-tortured with its per-
sistent leering upon the affairs of his
daily life and burdened and ex-
plotted by its chronic inefticiency and
habitual waste.
IF there ever was a real struggle
for popular rule for the preservation
of the popular voice in politics and
governmental affairs, it is involved
in this effort to reserve and preserve
for the people back home the right
to
affairs in accordance with local wis
dom and local conditions.
The remorseless urge of centraliza-
tion, the Unsuitable nav of bureau
cracy, are depriving more and more
the people of all voice, all rights
touching home and hearthstone, of
family and neighbors. There is not
a practice, custom or habit but must
soon be censored from Washington.
There is not in all the relationship of
parent and child, of family and home,
anything sufficiently private or sacred
to exempt it from the furtive eye of
the special agent.
Sees System Denounced.
II venture to say that coming gem
erations, when they awake to the
deliberate robbery, to the uncon-
scionable devastation of their herit-
age of local self government and
begin to suffer the tortures and the
burdens of such a system as will fol-
low. will denounce in the unmeasured
terms of defrauded people those
who have cowardly frittered away
their rights.
1t is often charged that there is
a conspiracy somewhere in this coun-
try, well organized and subtlety ac-
tive, to bring this Government more
and more under the control of the
few, under the domination of great
wealth. Whether such a purpose
consciously exists or not, we do know
that such is the natural trend of all
popular governments.
But if any such scheme does exist,
with what Satanic glee the con-
spirators must witness the willing
ness of the people to concentrate all
governmental power at the Capitol
and place the whole machinery of
government in the hands of a few
How easy becomes their task when
once local self-government is de-
stroyed and the States reduced to
mere geographical expressions and
the reigns of power are by our own
cowardly surrender placed in the
hands of few hundred men. Let it
not be forgotten that local self-eov-
ernment is the citizens citadel of
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