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Show SERVANTS OR DIC- ' TATORS, WHICH?, 1 , e . Tho ro 'is beginning to boll The public, U tiValieulnc to tho facte, that he cxtraordlnaiy powers It granted public officials ns war meastucs aro scheduled to hecomu peace mtasurcs. Tho common clthen thqught that tho ral'roads worn taken over for tho period of tho war nnd not to cxeeod twenty-one months, thorenf-te't. thorenf-te't. 1I 'lought the telegraph and tel-CPllQiio tel-CPllQiio lines were taken overv for tho duration of tho wa' also the express companies. AS a war mensuro ho has sub-nllttod sub-nllttod o"all kinds of Inconveniences Inconvenienc-es nnd Increased rate which ho would .havo never accepted In peace times, ls'ow that the war is over ho Is somewhat surprised to have It calmly calm-ly announced that the telegraph nnd express companies and tolephono systom which have been nominally under government control as a war measure aro to bo consolidated nnd operated by tho government under a tighter reign than during tho war. "There Is no longer any thought whatevor of nccommodntl'n the public pub-lic Autocratic power granted ofllclals as a war measure apparently Is to ,be taken advantage- of and saddled ; t on tho people ns peace measures with wlJor scopo than ever. I Again wo say as war measures every ev-ery cltlz-m cheerfully accepted every Inconvor.Ienco. Dut tho men who wore given this lasta of power seom bent on continuing nnd InoYcasIng it In peaco tlme). , Slnco 1770 the America peoplo hnvo Colt enthely able to think, net nnd lootc out for themselves, nnd chooso rnd elect tholr offlclnls (paid public Tservanta If jnu pleaso) not to dlcU'.o to thorn vhnt tlwy could nnd cot.ltl not do but to carry out tho wishes of tho peoplo of, this nation.. na-tion.. App,)i"n(Jy this rulo Is to ho reversed re-versed end tho "paid servants' aro to Uecoiiio tho "paid dictators." and tho people nro calmly advised to nc-qulcsco nc-qulcsco without complaint or explnn-tlon. explnn-tlon. Agnlu we say as a war mensuro, this wn3 O. K.J as n peaco meastiro It Is un-American. It will wind up by depriving tho Ifctnteu of millions of dollars of tax rovonuo under tho governmental ownorshp program nnd Is tho entering enter-ing wedge for breaking down tho Ametlci:i spirit of Individual Initiative Initia-tive nni enterprise and turning tho nation over to officialism and social-1 social-1 Istlc rule. |