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Show - THE 4 C continued on to our southern boundary, be the greatest asset from the viewpoint of economy, utility and world wide publicity that we of Utah, could possess. Juab and Sevier counties have available funds for such construction and are continuously asking. that these funds be matched with federal aid, and for that type of road only. If the state could find ways and means for expending $234,000 on the wastes of the Great American Desert, it could better have afforded to match this same money with federal aid and assisted the poorer counties of our southland in constructing their part of a highway of this nature. IT I ZEN fiuencc of organized minorities. Artificial propaganda, : paid agitators, selfish interests, all impinge upon members of legislative bodies to force them to represent special elements rather than .the grat. body of their constituency. When they are successful minority rule is established, and the result is an extravagance on the part of the Government, which is ruinous to the people and a multiplicity of; regulation and restrictions for the conduct of all kinds of necessary business, which becomes little less than oppressive. Not only is this qne country, but we must keep all its different parts in harmony by refusing to adopt legislation which is not for the general welfare. ?; , .. IN NAME OF JUSTICE j j If the Federal Government should go. out of existence, the i In God We Trust we find inscribed upon all our coins and common run of people would not detect the difference in' the afhere in Utah it stands for more than, the meretwords imply. The fairs; of their. daily life for a considerable: length of time. , But criminal who has the coin need have little fear of our courts, if the authority of the states were struck, down disorder aphours. . . proaching chaos would be upon us within twenty-fou- r apparently.. When the James boys robbed their first bank, it was thought No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty- the most horrible crime, outside of murder, that could be com- could be divorced from local No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which mitted, but now a stick in the paper regarding a bank robdid not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction and bery is about all it is worth. When bank robbers are turned loose among the people with decline. Of all forms of government, those administered by bua suspended sentence, it cannot be considered much of a crime reaus are about the least satisfactory to an enlightened and these days, and the leniency shown a young robber the other day progressive people. Being irresponsible they become autowill have its bad effects upon the youth who is just on a balance cratic, and being autocratic they resist all development. Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted it breaks down represenas to whether to walk the straight or crooked path. The entire town is talking about it and the good people are tative government and overwhelms democarcy. It is the one wondering what is the matter. .That something is the matter is element in our institutions that sets up the pretense of having a foregone conclusion or else a bank robber would be punished. authority over everybody and being responsible to nobody, While we ought to glory in the Union and remember, that Nearly in the same breath,. a helpless woman was. arrested in Ogden. She had an invalid husband to support and two chil- it is the source from which the states derive their chief title dren two and four years of age. She was arrested upon a liquor to fame, we must also recognize that the national administration charge and sentenced to 120 days in jail. It is said she is about is not and can not be adjusted to the needs of local government. to become a mother. It is too far away to be informed of local needs, too inaccessible A transaction of this kind would cause a revolution in Red to be responsive to local conditions. The states should not be induced by coercion or by favor to surrender the management Russia where we are told the people are not civilized. Two innocent children and a third about to be born must be of their own affairs. The Federal Government ought to resist the tendency to compelled to go through life, if they live, with the stigma of the be loaded up with duties which the states should perform. It jail upon them. does not follow that because something ought to be done the And this we call justice. National Government ought to do it. OUR RIGHTS I want to see the policy adopted by the states of discharging their public functions so faithfully that instead of an exVery recently the President of the United States made an tension on the part of the Federal Government there can be a address at Williamsburg, Virginia, on the Sesquicentennial of contraction. These principles of independence, of the integrity of the the Virginia Resolutions, before William and Mary College, have not diminished in their which deserves to be read by every American citizen. Union, and of local We are constantly referring to our rights. There is a Bill importance since they were so clearly recognized and faithfully in the Federal Constitution, which is what declared in the Virginia convention of 150 years ago. We may of Rights, reiteration and the first ten amendments are often called and there are Bills of wonder at their need of constant Rights in some of our state constitutions. We are constantly defense. But the fact is that the principles of government have the same need to be fortified, reinforced and supported that thinking of our rights but not so much of our duties. President Coolidge, in his address, called attention in an characterize the principles of religion. Of this address, the New York Times in an editorial, on almost startling way to the responsibilities which the people of the states have for their own government. It is probably a May 17, 1926, makes the following significant statement: As President Coolidge points out, we have had many painO fair statement to make that at the present time we are passing through a real crisis in American history. There is a great deal ful illustrations of the tendency of the bureaucratic system, and of radicalism abroad. That radicalism has for its object the of government by commission, to become offensive to individual destruction of our institution. In addition, there are many well rights, overbearing, inefficient and corrupt. Mr. Coolidge is meaning people who would like to develop and extend the power in line with a visibly rising public opinion when he expresses of the Federal Government. The President has not only statetl the hope that we shall, not contnue to burn our fingers in that that an extension of the power of the Federal Government is fire. And the Philadelphia Public Ledger in an editorial on undesirable but he goes so far as to say that the power of the Federal Government should be contracted. We quote below some May 17th, 1926, says: The surrender of States Rights and privileges has meant important extracts from his address and we commend them to the careful consideration and attention of every American centralization of government, and this in its turn has hatched out a swarm of bureaus. Washington has become citizen. with commissions, agencies, boards and bureaus doing work The President said : : But there is another element of recent development. Di much of which, even when. necessary should be done by. a state, rect primaries and direct elections bring to bear upon the polit- a city or a county government. The effect of this centralization and the subsidies and ical fortunes of public officials the greatly disproportionate in-, ; . . . v r f , ... t - self-governme- nt. . -- self-governm- so-call- ent ed, re-statem- ent, . . top-heav- v. i |
