Show ARE WE I 1 GOVERNED TOO MUCH the other day a square bawel 01 old 1 I farmer came in III with a complaint lie said 1 I have lived a long time in kansas and never before have I 1 seen so many inspectors running about investigating so many different f L rant bluds of things and butting into private business as are infesting the country now there Is a reason la in the ho old mans colli complaint pla III t oro diio of the greatest cuppes of the world Is too much and too c expensive government As lias has always been the casette case the constant tendency of those in III control of government is to multiply their authority and powers jc jefferson frela was right it if lie he said he was wag accredited with saying that government is best which governs least the prin primary iary aral ai d a almost the sole legitimate function of government la Is to to see that cui 3 citizen who behaves belunza himself A if is protected protect ea in his rights ot of arson ard property pio that means that the weak shall not be abused abased by li the strong tiong fc and so far as 14 I 1 huni anly possible the shrewd shield and shall not despoil the hulle and the ignorant in short uio the government Is or ought to be a supreme policeman acting with alth perfect impartiality strong ind and protected by this all loading and altogether just anil and impartial police bower the hie citizen should have hae the opportunity ty to bork aik oik out his own dea tiny alii that kind of nil an ideal govern incitti su so fin far ns as vve vie can learn from hitoi has acier existed and peril haps api never will but certainly it la in tin 1 ideal to be wished tor for in the united states the average producer is causing on his hia imick back ono eighth of nn an office holder who is in III some form or another directing III his movements in other words abstracting his salary from the pockets of this human beast of burden on whose back he Is riding greenleaf kansas sentinel |