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Show The Tyranny of Bureacracy The President's reference in Irs speech at King's Mountain to "the tyranny of bureaucracy" needs no elaboration for Americans who understand un-derstand and value their heritage of liberty. But there are many Americans who do not. If there were not so many we should not have had in recent years a vast growth of burcacuracy, repeated invasions in-vasions by government in spheres of private activity, the tendency of discontent or impatient reform to turn to politics and government for relief which could better be had from private iniative and cooperation. coopera-tion. " ' Our fathers knew better. They vere wisely jealous of all forms o political o.- governmental power, and sought earnestly to put checks upon it r.nd to restrict it within the limits of essential authority. For they kn.w that the state is government, and government is officialdom and politics. Socialism seeks to escape from the oppressions of private self-interest by submitting us to the oppression op-pression of government. Its appeal l.i based upon a fallacious idealization idealiz-ation of the state and of the nature of officialdom. Socialism in actuality actu-ality is and can be nothing but bureaucracy, the imposition upon the individual of the win of the official. To cstablnsh the tyranny of bureaucracy in America would be not only to barter our heritage for a mess of pottage, turning away from the inspired lessons of our wv.'i repress, but it would put a fa'al check upon that progress and submit American free men to an 'n'.olciable regime of pestiferous intrvi'crciiis and restriction. Moreover, More-over, it would be the most difficult of all forms of tyranny to escape or overthrow. Its evils would be subtle and pervasive, not concentrated concen-trated and dramatic. A monarch may be beheaded. But the tyrant bureacracy, a many-headed monster, mon-ster, entrenched at the sources of all power, would be almost impossible im-possible to destroy. Chicago Tribune. Trib-une. , |