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Show GOVERNMENT GUIDANCE. Idaho Falls Times Register: Individuality and state's rights, like personal liberty, are things which have, to a very large measure, been thrown into the discard on account of government supervision. Local self-government is largely a thing of the past and our morals and virtues, personal likes and dislikes, our schools, public welfare, farm affairs, are all supervised today by bureaus, each with its army of inspectors, all on the pay roll, and in addition to their personal unpopularity, add to the cost of upkeep. The federal government of the United States has gone far and beyond the thoughts and desires of the original framers of the constitution con-stitution and little is left to the individual or the local community or the state. Quoting a recent editorial in the Boise, Idaho, Statesman on this subject, that paper says in drawing a comparison, "If ya blow a balloon too big, she busts;" that is small boy talk, but good sense. I he people of the United States are becoming restive under too much supervision and board control. The power is given by constitutional amendments put over by busy minority which has a selfish and personal interest in people who are so busy attending to their own affairs that they have not time to seek to tell other people how they shall and must live, and what they may and may not do. The statute books are jammed with laws that disregard the constitution. The history of the world is replete with the story of many governments gov-ernments and people who and which have fallen from that very fault. Germany, under Bismark and the late kaiser; France under Napoleon, the nations of Rome and Greece. The idea of the framers of the constitution were that the people peo-ple of the various states might well handle their own affairs and one state be free from the domination of another so' far as their private affairs were concerned. States were to handle the details of local government while the federal government was to concern itself with foreign affairs, the army and navy and the relations between states. "Year after year," to quote Senator Borah, "Congress is lashed into passing laws which are manifestly unconstitutional and it has become to be a settled principle, apparently, that congress should disregard the constitution and leave the supreme court alone to protect pro-tect it." Congress and the courts have given to the federal government powers to the point where restlessness on the part of the people is the result, ptople who are tired of being regulated, controlled, censored cen-sored and told what to do. Every government which has tried it has failed. "If ya blow a balloon too big, she busts!" |