Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1909 — TOO MUCH LAW SAYS FAIRBANKS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TOO MUCH LAW SAYS FAIRBANKS

Be Delivers Address to the State Legislature.

IS MODEST ABOUT RECORD

Says Philosopher Was Wise Who Declared That Those Are Governed the Best Who Are Governed the Least. States Hia Work Has Been Performed With Undivided Allegiance to the Public Interest —Refers to Hia First Commission Received Twelve Years Ago.

Indianapolis, March 9. Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice president of the United States, In addressing the Indiana legislature said: “Twelve years ago I received in this historic chamber my first commission

in the public service. I received It with clean hands and I also return it with clean hands. “It is not for me to speak with respect to the manner in which I have done my public w ork, but I may be pardoned in saying tills: That it has been performed with undivided allegiance to the public interest “I have been a somewhat attentive student of law-making bodies for the last decade and It has seemed to me that there is a growing tendency to needlessly multiply the laws. “He was a wise political philosopher who said that those are governed the best who are governed the least “The statutory laws should be scrupulously measured by the reasonable public need." Fairbanks expects to spend some time on his ranch in California before he embarks on his tour around the world.

CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS.