Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-24
REGULATION, SAYS
BORAH, running us.
Senator Declares Bureaus
Win Rule individuals at
Heavy Cost, if Not Checked.

Increasing governmental regulation
Of and interference with private and
business life is undermining the
ability of the American people for
self government, Senator Borah, Re
publican, of Idaho, asserts in an ar
ticle in the current issue of the Ma
tons Business. The prediction is
made by the Senator that unless this
tendency is checked 1t will be only a
matter of time before there will be an
officer for every 10 persons in the
country
Every conceivable activity of mind
and body viii be under the direction
and surveillance of a bureau" he adds.
Inspectors and spies will leer upon
the citizen from every street corner
and accompany him hourly in his
daily avocation. Taxes will be $40 per
capita. Forty per cent of the national
income will be demanded for the pub
lie expenses.
we will have a republic in name,
but a bureaucracy in fact--the most
wasteful, the most eXtravagant, the
most demoralizing and deadly form of
government which God has ever per
mitted TO torture the human family.
Doom of Government. A.
THE people must be taught faAt in
encouraging the Capitalization of their
affairs in Washington they are dig
ging the grave of the American Gov
eminent as it was conceived by the
Constitution makers.
They must learn that in looking to
the National Capital to cure their all
ments they are weakening the fiber of
true citizenship and destroying the
self-reIiant spirit of Americanism,
without which this Republic cannot
endure And we in Congress must
stop needing every little group which,
like the tailors of Tooley street, petit
ton us as we, the people of the
United States
1--WE have before US a task worthy
of the finest intellects. Our agricul-
tural problem. our transportation
question, the regulation of our great
natural monopolies. coal and water
power; eXtravagant and corrupt tend
encies of Government. State and Ma
rional; the enforcement of law, the
protection of human life and prop
erty. the bold attempts TO debauch the
electorate through the profigate use
of money-all these cry out for our
most serious attention.
Clam0r for Change.
AS we approach these problems, it
Is most 10 encounter OIi
every hand the erroneous belief that
the way to meet these new questions
is to effectuate some change in the
structure of cur Government. and
thus everybody is proposing change,
until the whole structure is implicitly
under condemnation.
Our difficulties and our evils flow
not from our form of government. but
from our failure to appreciate and
utilize, according TO its great prin-
ciples, the Government we already
have.
1T is easy to attack our Govern
ment, but it is far more difficult, and
It calls for greater industry and ability,
to make wise use of the instruments
which have been placed at our dis
posal.
This clamor for change merely for
changes sake. this haphaZard fioun-
dering in legislative affairs. is no
where and in no way more pronounced
than in the gradual but certain de-
str-uction of the States and the center
ing of all governmental power in
Washington.
I'm this irresponsible vandalism the
disciples of Hamilton and the apostles
of jefferson join hand. No political
party in Washington seems willing
to stand against this subtle revolu-
ton, against this un-American, I'M
Democratic program