Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-10 | Page 16 | Invisible Government

Invisible Government T. T T 0 th the humble citizen who knows of his representatives in office on only what the newspapers nC can tell teU him it would seem that this land of the tho b brave atc the free iree and tile tho fair lair is s enduring more than th the ordinary dose of invisible government at the thc present time Tho The wheels arc going goinS' round but thic they seem hidden liddon and secluded d the machinery of government gov gov- rattles raffles in its accustomed groove but the motion thereof of is lost to the sight of the thc comparatively comparatively unimportant common people who s in certain works of pleasurable fiction are arc referred to as the bone and sinew of the tho nation Secretiveness may not be prima prim facie fade evidence c of trickery but man that is born of woman oman suspects suspects sus ems peets whatever Cr is jealously kept hidden Yr Mr WilK Wit ViI K Fol n may mar have had the tho beat best of motives for compiling a tariff bill in secret con conferences with his friends in Congress ho 10 may have excellent ent reasons for continuing those star chamber methods now that the lawmaking branch of the government go is in Washington and presumably attending to its duty the majority party in the House ma may be able to i present sufficient excuse for or its settling legislative questions in in secret party caucus behind closed doors But we and a 1 great many man more Americans are arc sufficiently lium human hum tn to doubt it There are arc some spectacles that arc are too dazzling dauling I Ind and nd brilliant for the human c eye ce e to withstand but the they have ha nothing to do with the science of go gov gor- After all nil the business that is being transacted t at Washington is our business Y We Weare Weare Yare are vitally interested not only because we wc own it in f fee simple and unencumbered but because what what- is b being ing done mightily affects our fortunes Wo dont don't like to have c anybody h try to hoodwink hoodwink hood- hood hoodwink wink or deceive us Maybe just now nobody is trying try ing but the human impulse to ki kick k a n large and c commodious hole bole in the panels of a locked door doom dooris doomis is is at the present writing too shon strong to be resisted And besides it has an abundance of legitimate ex cx- I cuse cue I