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Show THE CITIZEN jtle for these renewable I will exhaust these re- whereas a sane management Jserve them. The effort is being develop information which only preserve, but will productivity of this ninety-ceof our state. fore during Forest Week let rjace the facts, let us study the rlect ghin es. na-sourc- in-it- he A, G. McKenzie and Chas. H. Smith of Centerville. The four new members of the board are George H. Smith of Salt Lake, John F. Mendenhall of Springville, Mrs. D. W. Moffat of Murray, and Mrs. Jennie Lowry Leslie of Manti. nt of mint come our renewable natural re-wi- th the aim of making them Let us grow trees, productive. land wild life rather than be to merely let them grow. the hope that American For-te- k may successfully fulfill its lission of education on a pro-fgreat importance, I am, Sincerely, GEO. H. DERN, Governor. many trees will be planted on BUREAUCRATIC GOVERNMENT Senator Bingham, addressing the Senate recently at Washington, called the Senates attention to an article printed in the Nations Business, for February, 1927, by the Senator from Idaho, Mr. Borah, which brings forth in a very remarkable manner one of the things which seems to him to be most necessary to be considered by the members of Congress and by the people of the United States. In one paragraph the Senator from Idaho says: As a result of well organized proratersheds this year? Of all paganda on one hand and sheer political expediency on the other, we are Utah ought to give much at-- I a condition under which to tree planting, but so far building up We been doing is to cut down every conceivable thing relating to human activity is being given over to low the barren hills to take bureaus administered in themselves. Some day we will regulation by Washington. This results in waste j deplore our utter lack of in- and inefficiency touching all local or fo tree planting. state affairs, which in itself is burdensome and bad enough. But its capital JEW RAIL EQUIPMENT offense is that of undermining the conthe fidence and destroying the capacity of illion and a quarter dollars in the citizen to assume and meet the r equipment to be used on duties and obligations of citizenship. i Lines of Southern Pacific I ask unanimous consent, Mr. Preswith distinctive fea-le- ident, that the article may be printed to western transportation, iq the Record as a part of my remarks. ithoried in an order placed There being no objection, the artito an announcement cle was ordered to be printed in the jW. Mahl, general purchasing Record, as follows: Whose headquarters are in San (From Nations Business, Feb., 1927.) $c. We are building up a condition un' is the first portion of a large der which every conceivable thing refor new equipment which South- -' lating to human activity is being givific company will add to its en over to regulation by bureaus adDe-.within I the present year. ministered from Washington. the present order will com-i- n The Cancer of Too Much Government September. (By Wm. E. Borah, U. S. Senator from Idaho.) OIL INCREASE Back in August, 1924, in Nations Business, I suggested trying to look is nature a kind mi;ber ahead 30 years in the light of the ten1(i she has disappointed all the dencies in government during the past "l-ists who were telling us a year 30 years. Unless we call a halt, I said r ago that oil wells were be- - then: fewer and that they would There will.be an officer for every wt altogether in a few years, ten persons in the Republic. Every fotement issued by the United conceivable activity of mind and body Bureau of Mines says that the will be under the direction and surcapacity of the petroleum veillance of a bureau. Inspectors and from jes anof the country continue to spies will leer upon the citizenaccomincrease. There are now every street and corner and Jkapieted petroleum refineries in pany him hourly in his daily avocation. united States, with a total daily Taxes will be a hundred dollars per capacity of 3,061,007 barrels, capita. Forty per cent of the national thats a lot of oil! income will be demanded for public expenses. We. will still have a Republic in pV FAIR OFFICIALS. name but a bureaucracy in fact the V,tate fair board has been reor- - most wasteful, the most extravagant, an new officers selected for the most demoralizing and deadly sent year. W. C. Winder has form of government which God has human elected president; H. L. Mul- - ever permitted to torture the first and Lewis family. irdi n of Little has occurred since then to Logan, second vice-a- t. George S. McAllister is change that unpleasant prospect. It is .er and Miss Martha Gibbs, still the remorseless logic of the presrnes S. Holmes will con- - ent drift of things. It is true there the manager. On the have been several happenings to enwith. Messrs. courage the belief that an awakening & Mulliner and McAllister are is not wholly impossible. The refusal T of rail-eompa- ny, w to-ccord- ing of vice-preside- t nt, 11 of the state legislatures to adopt the without surrendering or destroying the child labor amendment to the Constigreat underlying principles of our tution and the public outburst which government? Is this new economic thwarted the effort ito put through a life incompatible with the principles Federal education bill were what of our Federal constitution? As we approach these problems it is might be called hopeful symptoms. But the disease is still heavily upon most disturbing to encounter on every our body politic. Just the other day hand the erroneous belief that the way some of my colleagues were blithely to meet these new questions is to efproposing a Federal commission to fectuate some change in the structure take over and control professional of our government, and thus everybaseball because they had read that body is proposing a change until the some of the players had been involvwhole structure is impliedly under coned in scandalous events. This instance demnation. was strikingly illustrative of the difIf some humanitarian cause calls to ficulty of effectively checking the habus from one corner of the country or it of trying to find a legislative noseconomic distress sounds a note of trum for every public and private ill. alarm from another, those in public No one is better aware than I how life, apparently not knowing what else hard it is to resist the appeals which to do, propose some change in the are made in the name of humanity for structure of the government,- some the support of some of the legislation amendment to the constitution. It is to which I refer. It seems d like the case of which Burke spoke to oppose measures having when he said: Politicians who do. such meritorious objects for example not understand their trade sell their as the abolition of child labor but the tools. Federal government is not the agency But, in my judgment, neither the for such purposes. dictates of humanity on the one hand The problem is one of public educanor sound principles of national protion. The people must be taught that gress. on the other demand or require in encouraging the centralization of that, in meeting these great and new their affairs in Washington they are problems of the twentieth century, we digging the grave of the American disregard the underlying principles government as it was conceived by the upon which this government was orConstitution makers. ganized. The organic principles of this They must learn that, in looking to government wisely applied and lived the National capital to cure all their up to in out national life, will save ailments they are weakening the fiber and serve every interest, spiritual and of true citizenship and destroying the material, of our people, and enable us spirit of Americanism, as a nation to reach the highest plane without which this Republic can not of happiness, prosperity, and power. Our difficulties and our evils flow endure. And we in Congress must not from our form of government but stop heeding every little group which, from our failure to appreciate and like the tailors of Tooley Street, solemnly petition us as "We, the people utilize, according to its great principles, the government we already have. of the United States. call We have before us a task worthy of Time and economic changes may for a readjustment of the machinery, the finest intellects. Our agricultural but the great principles themselves, problem, our transportation question, born of toil and the regulation of our great natural the cardinal maxims travail, of suffering and sacrifice, monopolies, coal and water power, exunder all circumstances to be travagant and corrupt tendencies of ought sacredly respected and vigilantly pregovernment, state and national, the enI say sacredly because I beforcement of law, the protection of served. lieve that upon the preservation of human life and property, the bold atthese principles depend the most sactempts to debauch the electorate red things of life, liberty, and order through the profligate use of money and the physical and all these cry out for our most serious and progress, moral well being of millions yet to attention. It is doubtful whether anyone can live. 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