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Show I .DISTRUSTS. W THE PEOPLE. Senator Stanley of Kentucky Is much disturbed over the conduct of I the Progressive wing of the Repub-(lean Repub-(lean party Why he should worry over H the Republicans Is not disclosed as he J Is a Democrat, and a Southern iJemo Orat at that. He Tears there la to be too much interference in personal 11b--i'iy. if the Progressives are not J checked. He sees paternalism grow j ing to great proportions and is alarmed over "the blatant appeals of Alind fanatics and llannel-niouthe i I 'f. magogues " He dreads the mob in America, and finds constitutional Urn -itations remoed at the whim of om j nipotent number? made mad Ho ; ould decentralize i i - power ol gov-j uiryiHM I senator Stanley fails to see his own ! weakness. He would break down the central aoveriuaeni and yet he would i make it stronger . Nearly all our regulator laws I which border ou paternalism have ' come as a result of abuses. One of the H fir?t big steps In regulating business 1 (jras when the railroads were compelled com-pelled to equip their cars with auto ! marie coupler and airbrakes Then' came safety devices for machinery i Later; the pure food Jaw6 were enact-H enact-H f,d to prevent fraud and to safeguard iuo public from deleterious substances, - and even poisons The Louisiana lottery was closed. "Law3 were passed to prevent the wt importation of pests. .Mining of coal was so regulated as, trt reduce the mine horrors which, i . 1 twenty years ago, occurred as regu- II liirly as the different phases of the i moon. j Health rules were enforced to eradi I aaio typhoid and malaria. I One hundred regulatory acts of this I Kind have been advocated by progres- srves, without regard to party, but to I iman of Senator Stanley's tempera- , I meat., who resents all restraints not I ai hie making or sanction, those safe- I J ruarde are invasions of state Tights I iad are symptoms of mobocracy. J "Thomas Jefferson, when he wTote t '" H he peglarqMoQ (Independence, com- milled a great mistake, if Senator Stanley is correct. He should have kept away from popular government and should have avoided the opening statement '.that all men are created equal. nn |