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Show DIJITV NA?-n:S NO IlLLMEDY The seeds of fascism and state socialism are being i increasingly sown in this country. There is constant political pressure to make the individual more and subservient to government. Dont try to blame the "other fellow" for this situation. Dont think you can remedy it by calling dirty names. There are a few basic ideals embodied in our United States constitution that can save this country from ever being dominated by a fascist or totalitarian philosophy if the people value the personal rights and liberties guaranteed them by the constitution. By the same token, the people will lost those rights and liberties in proportion as they allow them to be encroached upon or destroyed by promised political cure-alls whichc limit individual opportunity under the guise of the state or government being better able to care for the people than the people can care for themselves. If you are a laboring man. a bank depositor, a life insurance policy holder, the owner of a bit of stock or a bond in one of this countrys industrial enterprises or the owner of a farm or a home, you play a vital part in the American system of free enterprise. You have the right to vote and keep your government your "servant," not your "master." As you permit government to go into competition with private business by devious methods and designs you promote the totalitarian idea, whether you realize it or not. If you are a working man and government takes over the business in which you have been working, you will find you have lost your freedom of action, the right to strike, for instance. You don't strike against the government, that is revolution. If you are a business man, and government goes into business in competition with you, you suddenly find you cannot compete with government, with its power to tax you, while its own operations are tax exempt. If you are a farmer, and accept certain "benefits" from the government, you wake up to the fact you are no longer the independent son of the soil you have always prided yourself on being you are told what you can do. And there you have the picture. Free speech, free press, freedom of worship, are wrapped up in free enterprise. When any people succumb to the lure of political coddling and give up their right of private action, even in a small degree, they have taken the first step toward state socialism, fascism, totalitarianism totalitar-ianism or whatever you wish to call it. We have already started on that road government govern-ment doing what the individual has done for himself, with government cooperation and protection, for the preceding 150 years. The same excuses for greater centralized government, govern-ment, greater benefits to the people, were the inducements induce-ments offered to the masses in every European country coun-try where free speech, free press, freedom of worship , and free enterprise are but a memory today. Our. people can see the handwriting on the wall. No man can blame anyone but himself if he allows the trend of government domination of the individual and free enterprise that wrecked the liberties of European Eu-ropean nations, to gain headway here. |