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if'-'.* (PEhxiltirpa cPtist t fCroamm pabne lal dodf reKsas nsbays* iRnf rihress Henotauifiv.)t B. SPEAKER, governments do not spring up; they sre created. do not endure; they may be perpetvate< 3. Is history a picture gallery containing few criminals and many copies? Do the people of former periods set the example for the people of periods that follow? Ia there a destiny that shapes our ends? An Independent and free people may be original, make and follow their own plans, and determine their own de% tiny. This hour Is full of Interest to i«£S those who are concerned with questions affecting the welfare of the people and the i|(utnre of the republic. ^ So It 1s not my purpose today to attempt to ex- ; »®nd the fame or add to the renown of Washington. His fame Is secure even to the earth's remot- '•v,*8t hounds; his renown will grow as the centuries i^nfold the scroll of the ages. While men care for "**visdom and honor and patriotism and appreciate v .pe achievements of those who have served mankind, Washington will have a place In the minds ~#nd hearts of men In all countries and in all ages. <: (Applause.) I shall therefore take occasion on this Anniversary of his' birth to note the government •Established by the fathers, the achievements made finder It by the American people and Its benefits o mankind, and at the same time consider the departures that have been made from its funda- *lrental PrInclPle* and purposes that endanger Its T^erpetulty. It is safe to say that the creation and adoption j>f the Constitution of the United States mark the world's greatest achievement in the art of selfgovernment. The fathers under the leadership of fVashington undertook the delicate and difficult iffsk °* orPatlng a government with such endur- . :3fag principles as would make it susceptible of be- '#g perpetuated. It was provided that each citizen ^'bo lived under it should for all time be the polltl- J|al equal of every other citizen and that every man |?§hould have the opportunity of obtaining individual reward for Individual effort. The government treated was of the people, by the people, and for >J|he people. Its purposes and powers are simple, tlain, and direct It offers protection *o the cltien in his right to life, liberty, property, and in the «jjiursult of Ms happiness. The powers granted an» •numerated with such other powers as may nator- *Uy be implied from the written instrument These powers impose upon the government created the duty of dealing with national and International questions affecting the life, the character, and the honor of the republic and Its people ^J]n their national and international relations. The nnd doty of dealing with such questions as the individual citizen are left to the states #nd the smaller political subdivisions. Under this jgllvislon of political authority and duty the people #f the United States have through a hundred and lirty years enjoyed the freest and best governaent in all the world. Under the simple guajeanles of government that make the individual secure his natural rights the American citizen has been (lev el oped. He is aetf-TOliant, resourceful, courageous, inventive, ambitious, patriotic, and apprefiative of his heritage at freedom. There runs jjli rough his veins the best blood of every people korth of the Mediterranean sea. From the days |>f the fathers every generation has offered and freely given life and property for the maintenance |>f the honor, the preservation of the integrity, and (he advancement of the glory of the republic. It *\;|s ours. We must preserve it. We must not Im- -fwse duties upon it that it cannot perform. We joust not ask the exercise of functions for which /"lit was not created. We must not indulge In the jiope of things from it that it cannot give. We lust not invite disappointments in the operation |>f its activities. It is enough that it shall always jtffer protection to all that man holds dear and tia.ll continue to afford opportunities to the Inlvldual citizen to obtain rewards according to his -^dividual ambitions and efforts. ^ This leads me to call attention to the Important duties of this hour that require us to take our bearing and to ascertain how far we have already been t>eguiled to depart from It and divert and multiply {he activities of the government in matters foreign to Its original purposes, and to contemplate the Effects of such departure on the life of the govern- / jjnent and on the opportunity of the Individual clti* (5 It would be difficult to enumerate all the de- Ahrtments, bureaus, and commissions of the govern* Jnent at Washington that have been created to excise bureaucratic authority and paternal guardlishlp over the people in every part of the republic. There is no activity, business, social, or lomestic condition that is not the object of their Supervision, their solicitude, or their authority. €)ver 690,000 civilian employees make up the army fhat oversees and directs the affairs of the people J§nd assumes guardianship over them. Govern- Jnent agents and Inspectors, exercising every vafiety of authority, are found on every Pullman $ut of and into Washington. Government reports in every subject from adenoids to rat traps fill the Jjlles of offices that cover acres of floor space In jlVaslungton. The mahogany and quarter-sawed office furniture already installed has cost many fuillions of dollars, and more is being purchased. - If • yearling dies of blackleg on a farm in Kansas, the government at Washington acts on *he case. If a hog dies of the cholera In a hog lot -in Iowa, thte government at Washington takes |uirgc. If a weevi! bores through a boll of rot- -fca on a plantation In Texas, thr government at Tor ainy yean druggist* haw watahad with much interest the remarkable record maintained by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder medi» eioe. It ia a physician's prescription. Swamp-Boot ia a atrengthening lacdh cine. It helps the kidneys, liver and bladder do tiQp work nature intended ttor should do. 8wamp-Root has stood the test of year*. It is sold by all druggists on its merit and it should help you. No other kidney medicine has so many friends. Be sure to get Swamp-Boot and start treatment at once. However, if yon wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer ft Co.. Binphamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and tion this paper.-- Advertisement. Beware of stirring up a sulky In an. Cutieura for 8ore Hands. Soak hands on retiring In the hot sodt of Cutieura Soap, dry and rub in Cutieura Ointment. Remove surplus Ointment with tissue paper. This Is only one of the things Cutieura will do if Soap, Ointment and Talcum ate used far ail tcUet purposes.--Advertisement, is SPIRIN WARNING I Say "Bayer" when you buy Aspirin. Unless you see the name "Bayer" on tablets, you ar* not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physician® over 22 years and jproved safe by millions for few men bewail the loss other man's money. Headache Neuralgia lumbago Accept only "Bayer" package which contains proper directions* Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets--Also bottles of 24 and 109--Druggist*. Mpiria t» tto tn4i nark of Barer Uanafactm of Uatoee«tI«aeMast*r of SalfryHwieM Colds. Toothache • Earache * - "* , » • • _• A,; v. tobacco quality We state it u our honest; belief that the tobaccos uaed^^p?^^ in Chesterfield are of finei quality (and hence of better*" *^ ' tute) than in any otherx ^ v f " yigarette at the price. * * Hr*rt T*h*tn fli Washington la stirred to ytftt, Nothing escapes til* vigilant eye of the government and Its innumerable functionaries. If the price of one article goes up, let the government take charge of the seller; if the price of another goes down, let the government take charge of the buyer. And thop the carnival of government activities goes merrily on. Government control Is the remedy ft* every 111, and government regulation - the source e<-every good. The people pay all the expenses. In some Instances they pay It all through the government at Washington. In the case of other activities they pay half through the government at Washington and the other half through the governments of the states. But the people pay all the expenses of this Complicated machinery of government, that has Its agents looking over the shoulders of every business man and directing affairs of every cltlaen. The fathers embodied with rare wisdom those elements of strength and endurance which were essential if the government was to be perpetuated through the ages. They avoided with the foresight of statesmen the things that lead to dlsap- ^pointment and discontent among the people. The fathers studied the experience of mankind In selfgovernment. They studied the lessons and profited by the teachings of_ history. They sought and found the causes of failure by other peoples in the experiment of self-government. They did not wander hito the realms of fancy. They were creating a government for human beings whose nature has remained the same through all the centuries of time. They knew that the things that In other ages had invited criticism, provoked discontent. and resulted in disappointment and revolution would lead to the same end in future ages. They therefore created a government adapted to the nature of man, a simple government of laws to be enacted and enforced by the chdBen representatives of a free people. The purpose of the government was to protect them in their natural rights, and to enable them to meet their national and International duties and obligations. Its powers were limited. a- The fathers did not contemplate at any time Wider the Constitution they gave us a government by men. It was not in the scheme of the fathers OtBt at any time the people should be beguiled lpto using the government at Washington for supervising or directing their pwely personal, local, and domestic affairs. They knew that iik a government of free people no man Is big enough or wise enough or good enough to command ahother, his political equal. In what he may or may 'not do. It Is fundamental that a free people may not be expected long to endure the annoyances, the vexations, the arbitrary regulations, the restrictions, or the disappointments that are incident to government by men acting as the functionaries of a central authority, directing the affairs of and exercising police powers over the people in the remotest parts of their territorial llmjits. Bven the assurances of government bureaus that the authority exercised over the liberty of the citizens is for his own good will not long beguile the Citizen Into a surrender of his right to live under a.fovernment of laws enacted by his authority and consent that merely protect him from injury fef, others and protect others from injury by him. There is no word in the discussion by the fatten of the powers and duties of the government . they have handed down to us that leads to the belief tliat it was contemplated in their plan that the bead of any department or the chief of any bureau or tbe agent of any commission should at any time make restrictions or arbitrary regulations affecting the life, liberty, property, or the pursuit of happiness of the cltlxen. Such restrictions upon the individual as were contemplated iryx %ere to be made only by the states, and tile lesssf political subdivisions having immediate Jurisdiction, and then only by the plain terms of statute* enacted by the representatives of the people. The rapidly growing and alarming tendency today ill toward a centralisation of all authority and power Incident to government In Washington. We have already Ignored the admonition of the fathers; we have defied the laws of human nature^ which have never changed; we have overlooked the lessons of history. All these have admonished us that only governments of simple laws can prop* erly serve or long endure In a country of free people. We have already been led by the delusion that government bureaus, exercising bureaucratic authority and police power, not authorized by the terms or Implied by the provisions of the Constitution, are better for the people than a govern* ment of plain statutes. We have been lured by the promise that government agents would lead tbe citizen by the hand into green pastures, beside still waters, Into elyslan fields, then on into the millennium. Already the citizen looks about him and finds himself in the midst of a fool's paradise, entirely surrounded by government bureaus. So many 6t the numerous bureaus of the government are exercising bureaucratic authority and police power that they meet the citizen everywhere he turns--in his fields, in his mills, in bis mines, in his shops, in his factories# In his places of business, great and small--everywhere substituting the will and judgment of government agent for the will and judgment of the Individual citizen. No matter in what direction the citizen may turn, !o, the agent of the government is there to forbid or to command. Instead of remaining his protector, the government hat become his guardian. There are many matters that require more than individual attention, matters In which co-operation is not only desirable but necessary. In ail such matters the smaller political subdivisions and the states should be resorted to. In that way the portion of the public directly concerned are able to observe and Intelligently determine whether those they have employed to do the particular things they require are rendering a service that justifies the continuance of the activity and the expense involved in carrying it on. It is a profound truth that that government Is best that, governs least. The government of the United States Is of great national and internationl Importance to our people even unto the remotest township and ham€ let of the republic that its place in their affections should not be imperiled, nor should it be made the object of common criticism for failure to do foi? the citizen what the citizen alone can do for him* self. A solemn responsibility and a great duty Immediately confront us here. We are the chosen representatives of the American people, sworn to protect and defend tbe Constitution against all en emies, foreign and domestic. It is time to begin the process of reestablishing a government of laws under the Constitution. It is time to limit the activities and reduce the expenses of government at Washington. (Applause.) The process of elim inating every element of weakness with which the government has been burdened and which now make it the object of criticism should be gradual but persistent, until we can again look upon It; as the simple government of laws, given us by the fathers for the purpose of guaranteeing life, liberty, property, and tiie pursuit of happiness of the people, with the hope that our children and their children from generation to generation may have In the centuries as they come and go the same2 guaranties and the same opportunities that we and our ancestors have enjoyed under the Constitution of the United States. (Applause.) . : THE DAUGHTER OF PLANTER T llartha Washington Not Especially 4 Distinguished Among Other Belles of Her Tims. f|fartha Dandrldpe, daughter of a Virginia planter. She was not able to %>ell well, so It might be inferred that ghe was not well educated. But spell- |bg was not regarded as a necessary acquirement at that time. Little { ;'v Martha learned to sew, to play the spinet and to dance, which were the most Important lessons for a girl She made her debut Into society at the age of fifteen years, an attractive girl with hazel eyes and light brown hair. Martha soon became one of the belles of the quaint tittle town, hut then were other belles in Vlr- «tnl*n society, an« If ^ Martha had not married George Washington, her name woqld be known only t* antiquarian lor* Couldn't Stand for That. Billy did chores for tbe women of the neighborhood. In his eagerness to get out to play he had grown careless and several of the women had jacked htm up a little. One day he did not go to his work and his father, thinking be had forgotten, reminded him of the fact, when he said: "Have quit, dad; couldn't stand It ; I was getting henpecked." - ... Beginning and Commencement. The Latin commencement is more formal than the Saxon beginning, ss the verb commence, is more formal than begin. Commencement is for tbe most part restricted to some form of action, while beginning has no restriction, hut may be applied to action, state, material, extent, enumeration, or to whatever else may be conceived of as having flrBt a part, point, degree, etc. The letter A Is at the beginning (not the commencement) of everrslDhabet. Jlheumatisrft: Neuritis Pain m -i CIGARETTES qf Turkish and Domutie tobaemi ftfwdtdf " n' • • . >• •- l-it - V ., ~'i -• V - < rural melodrama should at lease--, have a grass plot. UIP HER DRAPERIES: IRT AND A SWEATER WITH "DIAMOND DYES* Bk1> package of Diamond Dm NO STIMULANT ABOUT THAI Painting Man Not Unnaturally Objected to Poor Imitation of the Potent 8plril Observing a poorly dressed stagger and fall prostrate on the sidewalk, a passing physician hurried to his Ride and began to feel for his pulse. Apparently the man was unconscious and the physician was about to draw his hypodermic syringe from his medicine bag when a workman with a dinner pail In bis hand stepped forward /rom the group ot surrounding spectators. "Here, give him some of this !M he said, exhibiting a whisky flask In bis hand. Grabbing this the physician poured part of its contents Into the victim's throat, whereupon the victim suddenly raised his head and spat it out, gasping. "Wot're you doin'T* "Reviving you with whisky," aald the doctor. That ain't whisky, It's cold tea." Thrilling. Ouf memory goes back to tft* time when our idea of a fast life was to stand on the corner and say, in ft^U Mid rather scared voice, to girls who chanced to pass, "Ah there^--Ohio State Journal & Accused Man Could Do With One Lawyer and Use the 'Other One as a Witnsss. N«t so long ago a Quaker dty lawyer found a formidable phalanx opposed to him in tiie trial of a case. Presumably the other side was not strong, at least in the lawyer's estimation, in point of witnesses, and when he came to sum up, the attorney detailed the following to the Jury as Illustrative of the predicament of the other side: A negro was brought before the court to plead to an offence: "Sam Jackson, you are In custody ot the law," announced the Judge. "The state provides counsel for those who lack it. I hereby appoint these two gentlemen present in court to defend you. Have you any tiling to say?" Sam's face brightened at the Judge's words. "Two lawyers, yo honah!" he exclaimed delightedly ... . and then with an engaging grin: "Yes, suh, yo honah . . . but ef It ain't crowdin' the law, cain't I swop off one of dem lawyers for a witness?" Just the Place, r • "Where Is the hotel mustcM^ hetng taina directions ao aiinple that any can dye or tint faded, shabby akilt^ dreoaes. waiata. coats, sweaters, ateehingH, hangings, draperies, everything Hfcef new. Buy "Diamond Dyes"--no ethst* kind--then perfect home dyeing ia . teed, even if you have never dyed BftfaM. Tell your druggist whether the naatarist. j-ou wish to dye is wool or silk, or whathsr ^ VJ® it is linen, cotton, or mixed goods. Dto> ' mond Dyes never streak, spot, fade, m '.Vi to use.--edveriirania^fr - ..>-g Solving Difficulties, I read In a newspaper lately, wrlteia'w a contributor to the Manchester Guardlan, that the American housewife hadr^-^0 solved many difficulties by calling herr^$.> maids "home workers" Instead of al-r lowing them to be labeled "servants."*^ It reminds me of a recent experience^' * '$ of my own. I advertised fur a "ps £ „ ;||il eral maid," stated my requirement^! and did not get a single answer. ^1 But on redrafting the advertisement "M, substituting "domestic help" for |§J§I «ral,M 1 got 19 answers.--Scotsman. Frequently thM*""Tr mrtt || pp-'given?" HI think It is on the laterp la use. mezzo floor." Personality in a man Is whst makns you wonder "who that man Is that von see sn often." To win a race a Jockey doesn't put extra wel - * * 1 "if'* ? r on the horse that helps him succeed Tfu TRBR vr wmnnn WW Ijrants to succeed in the race of Me can afford the handicap of tteadaches, insomnia, indigestion and debility. Nor can they afford to take anything that •Bay keep up a continual irritation of the nervous system. Yet this ia what many people do who drink excessive amounts of tea or coffee. For tea and coffee'contain caffeine, a substance that is sometimes very injurious. Many doctors aay that caffeine raises the blood pressure, irritates the kidneys, and over-stimulates the •Dtire nervous system. Also tbat it is especially bad for growing children, or for any tme Who has any tendency to oer- VPusoesa or temomnifc i'*Xf If yoo want to avoid a pot* nia, or nervousness, it might be well to stop taking tea and coffee for awhile, and drink rich, Satisfying Postum, instead. Po8tum Is s delicatelyroasted, pure cereal beverage-- delicious and wholesome. Possum for Health--'"There's a Reason* Mads by Postum Cereal Conine, Battls treek, ftBdw Order Postum from yoor grocer today. Drink this fragrant, healthful beverage for awhile, and see if you will not feel brighter, more active, and more resistant to fatigue--as so many thoaaanda of othsra have felt. Poatam comes in two forma: Instant Fostum (in tins) mad* inaianOj In the cap by tb« addition of boMnf watsr. Pwum C«r*al (in parka yes of larger baft, for thoM who prefer to malm tbe drink white «ha ami la h«^| praparad) SMMIS hy #5 i.