, 1925-12-02

WHEREAS, the proposed trans
fer of said lands from the juris-
diction of the Department of Agri-
culture to that of the Park Authori-
ties. would in no way warrant such
a change. and in any way change
its present status except by trans
ferring the police Jurisdiction of the
state to the Federal government,
should u legislature agree, and
WHEREAS, since Congress has
failed to pass specific laws for
the regulation of its National parks,
and has apparently delegated its
authority to bureaus and officials
who rule these areas by department
al rules and regulations which have
the effect of law and which fire.
quently discriminate against the citi-
zens of our state and in favor of
corporations, and
WHEREAS, we agree with Sec
rotary Hoover when he said at the
annual convention of Railroads and
Utilities, meeting at Washington,
in October. 1925:
eff you believe the authority of
your states cannot protect your
citizens from injustice and exploita-
ton, you should be ready to step
aside and let some one else assume
the burden too w%eighty for state
shoulders. 1 can imagine no more
profound invasion on state sover-
eighty than such a system. Within
the lifetime of men we shall have
AnA H,,,l-1l f;f+xr ,,;11;-- noorl1
The infinite energies of this great
mas of humanity will be dulled
and their progress stopped ii we
are to attempt their government
from Washington. l believe there
is no surer method of sapping the
freedom of self government and the
sense of responsibility of our own
citizens than unnecessary extension
of federal control"
at becomes our duty to examine
every proposed step in this direc-
ton, and when a resolute necessity
does o impell, we must oppose it
If only for the purpose of the pre-
servation of self government. 1
have said in another connection,
that, after all, the object of our
whole social and economic system
is the family. The home with it's
independence, it's freedom and its
more systems of alien regulation
and bureaucratic Nominations, we
shall inevitably undermine many of
these treasured essentials of life.
1t is a part of the fulness of life
that we should live and participate
in the government of u local
communicated government that
neither wishes its responsibility onto
a centralized bureaucracy nor allows
centralized bureaucracy to dictate
to that local government, nor do 1
believe the people of our communi-
ties have yet become to supine or
SO careless of the fundamental adj
vantages of self-government that
they are ready to surrender o N
troll of their most intimate con
Germs to a p%aternal government,
however wise and powerful"
AND WHEREAS we agree with
Senator Wadsworth when he says:
I'VE have built up at Washing
ton a bureaucracy SO vast, so COM
plicated, with qualifications of such
infinite variety, hat there is not
a human being on Gods foot-stool
who can understand the operations
of the government of the United
States. We have built up a bu-
reaucracy manned by 100000 en-
ployees; a bureaucracy with its
&a-@oI1. 1&l~ 1-& I'D l;aN;-r
into every corner of this great land
and regulating or investigating or
attempting to regulate or attempt
ing to investigate the daily life of
every man, woman and child in the
country"
AND WHEREAS, we agree with
Senator Borah when he says:
GAS a result of well organized
and venal propaganda on the one
hand and sheer political expendiency
on the other, we are building up
a bureaucratic 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 human
family. =
The right, the authority of the
people to manage and control theiI
own affairs of an immediate and
local nature. affairs peculiar to the
community of the state, is a right
beyond all price. There is moth
ing for which the people a afford
to exchange it.. 1t is the only real
democratic principle found in oul
entire structure of government. II
means more to the happiness, tC
the dignity and power of those