Sept. 7.
There was a time when the functions of government were much more strictly defined than they are to-day. The legislative body, whatever its name might be, was supposed to exist only to make laws. It had nothing to do with trade or commerce, except in so far as it might issue regulations generally pected to benefit the community at large. With the private life of individuals it concerned it~ selfavery little. But now the activities of all governments have been enlarged to an amazing degree, and the parliament ary institution which democracy has set up has usurped to itself powers far beyond anything of which legislators
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