The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-11
FRIDAY, MARCH II, 1892
No Probe Necessary

.t "OrganiZed society and organized gov
eminent, lost in sense of utter impoteney,
have capitulated completely and abjeety;
( and acknowledging power higher than
themselves, now beg on Bonded knees, OF
underworld lords to do what cities, coun-
( ties, states, the national government and
Z millions of citizens admit they cannot do
! rescue the Lindbergh baby. In such
dramatic fashion did Representative Kareh
of Missouri speak his mind before the
1 House Wednesday. The congressman was
urging passage of an antierine trust act
and creation of national crime investiga-
! ton commission.
We wonder if the representative took his
cue from the recent radio address of the Rev.
. Charles E. Coughlin Of Detroit. In one
of his Enthusiastically scahing attacks on
this modern commercial age this erusading
priest Knocked the government OF such
. mighty nation as this which allows a pri-
!. vatc individual to call upon enemies of law
and order to find kdnaped-baby We
. really didn't need the Lindbcrgh case to
, reveal to us the fact that our government
is failing to cope with the forces that prey.
We are engulfed by such evidence that prob
ably most of us become unconscious of any
thing out Of order.
"A Representative Karch continued his TRADE
by adding that What does this shameful
surrender to the alleged powers of the so.
called underworld mean' 1t is notice to
. The parents of every child of an American
who may have money enough to tempt the
( eupidty of some lawess gangster that our
\ government can no longer protect them. Let
. this Congress, through its best intellect,
! work out an anti-erime trust act that will
sweep aside all barriers. all legal qulbbling
. and strike directly at this appalling
4 menace.
/. Well, President Hoover named an i'm
postant commission many months ago TO
, investigate law enforcement in the United
(. States. Its reports made good reading all
through 1881 There were many pertinent
, suggestions made to the head of the nation
relative to curing present-day evils. The
first of them had to be amended to the
chief executives liking. And even when
presented to him and then revealed to the
nation. there was no suggestion from the
White House that we adopt the obvious
suggestion of the Wekersham commission
Why then should the nation waste any more
time and money upon boards, whose findings
will be of no practical value'
Our government does not need to undergo
any radical overhauling to bring about
changed condition in this country. Its adj
ministrators. legislators. and enforeers might
stand some changes. The ehaff needs to be
removed from the wheat. Our government
agents. from the highest down to the very
lowest. need to receive new set OF prinei-
pies, new to them but not to the world.
There needs to be little moral persuasion
applied to our daily acts and conduct When
this nation becomes aware of the fact that 1t
has a conscience perhaps we will eradicate
that spirit Of lawlcssness which we seem to
hold in high regard
But as long as we have men and
women advocating the relegation of natura!
laws to the background; as long as legs-
lators impose statutes upon the ,mutitudes
that deny them their naienable personal
rights; as long as governments are run for
the benefit of few and not the majority;
as long as the principles of home rule and
states rights are violated as long as honest
men continue to sell their birthrights for
little bag of gold; as long as corrupt po-
litical rings are allowed to exist SO will the
conditions to which Representative Karch
and Father Coughlin refer be with us. In
the face of them the best intentions of men
crumple. Thank heavens there are few
citizens who recognize conditions as they
are and refuse to be blindfolded to what is
going on in this nation of, ours.