Bureaucracy and Representative Government

to help win elections. MR. JoArr W. DAVIS: I speak ... of a great and cancerous bureaucracy. That bureaucracy has followed every increase of Federal power, history plainly tells.... If experience teaches anything it is that of all methods of government bureaucracy is the least responsible, the least intelligent. the most arrogant and tyrannical.... It is in the nature of bureaucracies that ... decision is anonymous and action painfully slow. And finally MR. ALFRED E. SMITH: The next thing I view as dangerous to our national liberty is government by bureaucracy instead of what we have been taught to look to-government by law.... We don’t want any autocrats. We wouldn’t even take a good one. Clearly, the word dbureaucracyd is one of evil connotation. As popularly used these days, it implies a state of affairs in which the expenses of government are high and the interference by hordes of public officials acting in an officious manner is excessive. An antithesis is drawn between bureaucratic and democratic administration to the advantage of the latter. On the other hand, it is charged that the critics who have been depicting the horrors of bureaucracy have an ulterior purpose in mind, viz., a flank attack upon the policies of government spending and regulation which have characterized the last three years. It is more effective and more respectable, it is charged, to condemn the wickedness of bureaucracies than the concrete acts of the Administration and the objectives it has in mind. Parenthetically it may be noted that no warnings regarding bureaucracy have issued from leaders in sympathy with the policies of the Administration.