Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-25
SENATOR REEDS DIFFERENCES

SENATOR REEDS DIFFERENCES
 When Senator Reed of Missouri sounded protest against governmental effort to regulate the business life and private conduct of the people of this nation he voiced sentiments shared in by majority of such dimensions that could he recruit in election would give him the presidency almost by exclamation.
 Now that the nation has time to digest and analyze the effect of such departures from intended constitutional usages the baeful effect expressed in the general moral breakdown the scouting of laws hitherto consd cred sacred and observable it would appear propous to halt the mill which is steadily grinding out regula tons of similar nature and begin the process of scrap ping of those have unsited either to public good or temperament
 It would be a sad acknowledgement to concede that America has suffered such moral breakdown that the longer to be entrusted with the right of selection of rules to govern their daily conduct If such the case then America democracy has proven failure and the experiment of allowing full freedom Of expression in government has equally failed
 Washington was willing to trust the judgment of the people in his great adventure of creating the American nation Lincoln expressed the faith in his refusal to accept the counsel of his advisors who set monetary gain above the principle of freedom and begged him to withhold his emancipation proclamation His judgment rewarded and vndicated when the people laid aside their daily tasks and marched his standard prepared to sacrifice life if necessary to vindcae the principles for which the great cOmmOner stood
 Again we find such great scholars as Dr. Charles Elliott Theodore Roosevelt and other contemporaneous great minds subscribing to the same principles.
 And may be pointed in passing that every brilliant mind in the legislative halls of Washington train ed in the psychology of governmenhave subscribed to the principle of individual action and strict adherence to constitutional procedure Whether the present condi- ton is the result of medcrity in the composition of legislators gravitation toward the older order of government before the establishment of free America with the people inclined to repose their veal in the hands of few rather than the full respon sibity freedom of the ballot grants moot question: The fact remains however, that each year the nation gravitatng closely to centrazaton of power that has developed the condition of which Senator Reed painsa nation with spies pryng into the peo- pes most intimate and private business and pene trating the homes.
 Senator Reed states fact when he says that con- tempt for law is the result of overegslaton and the pcaon of rules which reduce the average citizen to the status of a subject of despotic monarch.
 Coolidge says the question in Mexico is of guard ing American Property rights It makes deal of differ when the alleged rights of oil barons at stake in opposition to the rights of Alaskans when they had their frontier taken from them with less plausible reasons
 Following the revelations of death thru poisoned li- quor comes the of two killed and one hurt by a waterspout. Apparently nothing is safe.
 Over in Jersey they arrestg the State troopers for making an arrest No wonder Governor Moore wants to make Alaska penal colony. Some of his gun men liable to get punctured by temperamenta cop