Evening star., 1926-01-10

||\A of hydra-headed laws,
wv of government by or
ganized minorities, Il
haven for professional
peddlers of morality who supply the
! pressure that keeps the mill of sense
| less legislation ever grinding that they
! may make a living.
"Our present Congress introduced
more bills in the first hour OF It's eN-
! istence than are passed by the parlia-
ments of all other countries of the
civilized world III a year
| f,X- Senator \. @. StanleYS voice
! reached Il triumphant crescendo as he
! dvelt ON the word year" that shot
| like = trllrnpet blast out Of the half
| opened windows and even disturbed
! the heavy-walled privacy of his ad-
! Joining neighbor and partner. Joseph
! Tumulty, former Secretary to Wood
! row Wilson.
Senator Stanley has been talking
! for Il long while on the subject OF to
| many laws. When | suggested an
! interview he told me to come back in
a day and he would he prepared. AS |
! entered the room senator Stanley had
a miniature Congressional library col
| lected about him. He was on the fir
| ing line ready for business. Behind ii
rampant of Platu'S Republic. Aris-
! totle's Politics. Il wasonload of the
Record and Sundry magazines. the
Senator puffed Vehementy on black
cigar as he waited for my questions.
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I'm the last five wears Senator Stan
ley" l began, there has been a flood
of protests against our laW-making
mania. The president of the Bar AS
sociation only recently fiayed our law
orgy. \ year ago an article entitled
Invisible Government which WAS
an enumeration of the myriad organi-
cations anchored at the Nations Cap
itol promoting legislation all the way
from better hen COopS for the unborn
chick to enterprises of great pith
and movement attracted wide at
tention. \ few months ago an emf.
nent Episcopal Bishop exclaimed:
The worst pest in America today is
the welfare movement and the paid
uplifter. These we'll paid moralists
have engineered political blocs, forced
through laws of pitiful minorities,
held up legislation by demands for So
Cial reforms which could not be en-
forced and hung like hornets about
the heads Of haraSsed legislators. As
Il legislator of - years experience
as a member of the House Of Repre-
SentatiVeS. as Governor of Kentucky
ana as Il Tlted states senator, | turn
to you to give me the low-down on
this orgy of national legislation. How
bad is the situation? What is its
cause"
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y. Can You mention any activity,
social. moral. industrial or political.
not now unde" Federal supervision or
the subject Of some proposed regula-
| tionS? Macauiay once drew upon his
eNub"rant fancy for srotesque and i'm
! possible instances of unwarranted gov
ernmentdl interference.
why should they not take away
the child from the mother. select the
nurse. regulate the school, overlook
the playground. tiN the hours of labor
and of recreation. prescribe what bal
lads shall he sung, what tunes shall
I he played. what books shall be read.
, what phySic shall be swallowed?
Why should they not choose our
wives, limit our expenses and stint
Us to Il certain number of dishes of
meat
How many Of these things derded
as absurd under monarchy have be
come realities of our great American
democracy?
The present Congress has intro