| Show The Tyranny of Bur c a uc r a c y The Presidents President's reference in his speech at Kings King's Mountain to the tranny of bur bureaucracy bureaucracy no Jn oration for for A Americans who who un un- un understand un understand and value value their heritage of liberty But there are arc many Americans Ameri Ameri- Americans Americans cans who do not not If there were not many we should not have had in re- re recent re recent cent years rears a vast growth of bureau bureau- bureaucracy bureaucracy bureaucracy cracy repeated invasions by iby govern govern- government government government ment in spheres of private activity the tendency of discontent or impat impat- impatient impatient impatient reform to turn to politics and government for relief which could be better ter be had from rh ate initiative and and- cooperation Our fathers knew better belter They were wisely jealous of all forms of political or governmental power and ands s sought earnestly to put checks upon it and to restrict it within the limits of essential authority For they knew that the state is government I end d government is officialdom and politics Socialism seeks to escape from the oppressions of private self interest self by bj submitting us to the oppression of of government Its appeal is based upon a fallacious idealization of the st state te and o of the nature of officialdom Socialism in actuality is and can n be ben n nothing but bureaucracy the imposition imposition imposition tion upon the individual of the will of the official To establish the tranny of bureaucracy bureaucracy bureau bureau- bureaucracy cracy in America would be not only to barter our heritage fora for a mass of pottage turning away from the in- in inspired inspired in inspired lessons of our own progress but it would put a fatal check upon that progress and submit American free men to an intolerable regime of interference and restriction More More- Moreover Moreover Moreover over it would be 00 the most difficult of all forms of tyranny to escape or overthrow Its evils would be sub sub- subtle sub sub- subtle subtle tle and pervasive not concentrated and dramatic A monarch may be bc beheaded But the tyrant bureau bureau- bureaucracy bureaucracy cracy a many-headed many monster en- en entrenched en entrenched trenched at the sources of all aU pow pow- power power power er would be almost impossible to de- de destro destroy de destroy stroy Chicago Tribune |
