The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-09-21
THE LATEST INNEUNDO

THE LATEST INNEUNDO
 Saturday the White House issued statement which notorious newspaper owner" named with the charge of giving the impressi that President Roosevelt "passivey accepts suppt of alien organizations hostile to the American fol of government"
 Of course, the President an American of ge erations standing, has such idea, and "notoro newspaper owner" not, most of the people in u country know it. But the fact is that the inneun Is not particularly new. For weeks Colonel Kn and Governor Landon have repeatedly touched the same note with such language as freedom ire the coercve hand of government has always be- a distinctive feature of America life"
 Discussing the much discussed American Wa which has become sort of theme song of the prese the New York World Telegram draws u word picture:
 Being as strongly in favor as anyone could be of the philosophy that the nation is gov erned best which is governed least and as resentful of unnecessary interference by bu- reaucratic agents into the affairs of the n- dividual, nevertheless we feel that much too much generalization is going on in this mat ter and much too little facing of the reality of governments rapidly growing relationship to the increasingly complex life of our people
 AS that life has become more complicated government by sheer necessity, has entered into 1t more and more. For the sake of clari- fication let's leave the Roosevelt admnistra- ton out of the picture entirely, and the pres ent Presidential campaign, and look back over the years that preceded March 1883
 There was time for example when man could build house as he fit. If it fell down on him that was his funeral But it came to pass that building codes injected themselves into the communities and thereby set their limitations on the freedom of the individual. Experimentation"
 Then too keeping COW in the back yard was common family custom in the early days, but health departments appeared and the COW was out. More restrictions on the American way"
 Once man could travel, as Governor Lan- don puts it, from cradle to the grave with a pack on his back, and never feel the directing hand of government But that era passed too when licenses required and the itin- erant merchants full freedom of opportunity was restricted by the amount of the fee
 And what about the meddesome customs inspector, child of the Republican tariff who goes through your socks and shirts and things in the full gaze of your fellow passengers as you shift embarrassedly from foot to foot on the dock of port in the land of the free?
 And what kind of business is it in terms of complete freedom that you can't be borne or die, or, be married without having a lot of family history spread on the public record? And just how did the high-handed get that way, who search your at a State line for the corn borer? And how come that the in- come tax collector should be empowered to inspect the nnermost workings of your private business affairs, with peep at your teeth and squint at your tonsils if he thinks the exi- gencies require?
 Why, in the name of independence should taxicab and railway and bus and electric light and such rates be regulated by a lot of the politically appointed, and. if we are going to have liberty what's the idea of meat and milk inspection and why shouldn't druggists and patent medicine makers and food companies use whatever they jolly well please in the prep araton of their products?
 It is not required that we labor the point with more examples-a the pre- Roosevelt variety and many local not federal in scope 10 show that limitation on personal liberty has been growing at geometrc rate and that the efforts of Republican campaign orators to pic ture such limitations as something peculiar to one administration are, as the saying goes the bunk
 The so-called notorious newspaper owner" inc lent IS just some more of the same thing on perha more vicious scale Ever since the Liberty Leagrs initial banquet it has been part of the polite attack to attempt to tie the present administratic ID with things which hint of not being American. nay be good political strategy, but such person attack on the President is likely to disgust a gre many sound Americans who conversant with u act that the Roosevelt lineage runs back to u 4ayflower.