Perhaps we should listen to this man's take on encroachments on our liberty.
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthen itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle."
James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785: Works 1:163
Indeed....... Unfortunately, in 1913 the citizens did not take alarm......