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Show Nations Too Can Die By GEORGE PECK The story has oft been told about the half-witted farmer who conducted an experiment with his horses. He had come to the conclusion con-clusion that it was costing him too much to fed them, and so one day he cut down on their quantity of food. This seemingly did not adversly affect their health or efficiency, so he made a further fur-ther curtailment, still with no apparent harmful results. What this farmer overlooked! those nations have died all of them. What those who are engineering engineer-ing this great American experiment experi-ment have neglected to take into account is that nations are exactly ex-actly like horses in that they too must eat. Nations do not feed on oats and grass but on taxes-taxes taxes-taxes which are paid by all the citizens to enable government to carry on its function for the welfare wel-fare and protection of its citizen Therefore, it would seem like exercising good horse-sense to make sure there will always be plenty of taxpayers, able to pay into the government that very necessary feed money. Nothing century and a half of nutritious and ample feeding-in fact, more fat than any other nation has ever had in all history. it is gomg to take a while longer to kill off America than was the case with those other countries that were seruced by the economic planners of their day, who painted roseate pictures of equal distribution of wealth and security for all from cradle to grave. But. longer thnv. could ever be done to cut down the number of individuals or groups upon whom government can levy taxes, and what is more important, be able to collect them. Unfortunately, our American experimenters ex-perimenters already have succeed ed m whittling off a considerable number of former taxpayers and if their experiment is not called to a halt, eventually they will eliminate every one of them. When the government. t,i-o was that his horses had been well fed over a long period of time and had built up a reservoir of fat. upon which they were drawing draw-ing to carry on. So he kept cutting cut-ting down gradually until, finally he quit feeding them entirely One of his neighbors to whom he had boasted of his scheme asked him how it had worked out. "Oh! The experiment was a' huge success as far as I was able to cam- on with it. but darned if the horses didn't die and I wasn't able to finish it." H may take to reduce America from its position as the fattest and most important nation of the world, to a skinny, underfed insignificant in-significant country, that sad state , of emacipation is inevitable if the starry-eyed dreamers are allowed to continue to have influence at Washington. The story about the ' foolish I farmer who starved his horses' may be pure fiction, hut there I notrung fictional about the ' -Pinners" who either through! sheer stupidity or with malicious I ii.nt. are steering America alcn : a course tha-L leads to starvation! -nd ceath. j over a privately owned business r sets up a business of its own in competition with a private jbusmess, it wipes out some tax. iFayer? beCauSe a government-j government-j owned business does not pav taxes ! j It is easy to realize then, that if : the socialistic planners who are i moving heaven and earth to have! Lnc e Sam tafee ovw aU busine; m this country, succeed in car-! rym out their plan, this nation! one single taxpayer. i Just like the farmer's horse I t-ns nation has a lot of fat on' lt! bones. accumulated over a I Its a silly story, isn't it' It seems incredible that am- farmer ever lived who could hive been that foolish. Most certainly not an American farmer. Perhaps it really never happened. But wether real or imaginarv here is a deadly paralIel beween'j that story and what is going on i n America today. Our government : has been conducting what it! thinks is a new experiment It isn t new because over the cen- ' tunes many nations have carried! on similar experiments and like i t-.e hers-s of the foolish farmer, 1 |