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Show Swarm of Officers In re-reading hat immortal document, the Declaration Declara-tion of Independence, which recites the grievances which impelled the American colonies to rise and throw off the British yoke, we were struck by a paragraph which appealed ap-pealed to us with a new significance. Referring to King Gorge. Ill, it declared: "He has erected a multitude of new offices and send hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out our substance.'' It appears that "swarms of officers" were distasteful to the sturdy forefathers. What would they say to .the HYmy of office-holders who "hasass our people and eat out our substance" today? F;very session of Congress and every session of the state legislature enacts laws creating new offices. Seldom is an office once established ever abolished, except to creat a different, and more expensive office or offices, in its pake. Office-holders' salaries are often raised, but never lowered. Some day, possibly, a majority of the voters will rebel, re-bel, as did the early fathers, and by their ballots, instead of bullets, call a halt on those legislators whose chief aim appears to be the increase of public pay-rolls. |