Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1920 — “We Have the Best Form of Government; We Need Not Be Afraid of It.” [ARTICLE]

“We Have the Best Form of Government; We Need Not Be Afraid of It.”

By W. L. HARDING,

Governor of lowa.

In my opinion the best government is the one that governs least. We must get back to government conditions as they existed before the war. We must localize government. — The federal government has its functions, and they are well defined. The same is true of our local governments. But during the war period ♦hprp has been great encroachment on the part of the federal government en the prerogatives of our local institutions. The best way to tackle our economic unrest and to meet the reds in their attempt to Russianize America is to carry on an aggressive campaign of education, telling the people of our institutions and the rights and privileges of the individual citizen under our form of government. We have the best form of government that has ever beep conceived by need not be afraid of it.