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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A April 1, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 3 Stand It is the amount or prevalence of violence, fraud, misrepresen- CLICHES OF SOCIALISM a devotee of private free property, market, limited government principles states his position, he is inevitably confronted with a barrage of socialistic cliches. Failure to answer these has effectively silenced many a spokesman for freedom. Here are suggested answers to some of the most persistent of the "Cliches of Socialism. These are not the only answers or even the best possible answers; but they may help you or others to develop better explanations of the ideas on liberty When that are the only effective displacement for the empty tation, predation, spoliation not bigness that should affect the size of the police apparatus. A society of people who never injure each other would need no government at all. but the more thieves, liars, ruffians, seekers of something-for-nothinthe bigger must be societys police force. One of the reasons for believing that big business and big labor require big government is the strong tehdency to equate corporate and labor union size ON COURSEi g, with economic BUREAUCRATIC TYRANNY PART Captain Joe H. Ferguson TYRANNY FUNDAMENTAL TO BUREAUCRACY power. Economic power, however, is only purchasing power, a form of power DEBT IS GOOD Foundation for coomc for which most of us quite properly Education, Inc., - Irvington-o- n strive. Actually, the more Hudson, New York By Clinton R. Miller economic power others have, the Big business and big more can each of us receive for (from his , forthcoming book, big what we have to offer in exchange. " DEBT IS A WORD") Economic power is a good, not a government. bad, power. One of 'the most learned, Like all socialistic cliches, this Now, there is a type of power bromide is born of socialistic related to size, which is to be decent men I have ever know who is also one of my best friends, told beliefs. For, if one believes in feared: namely, political me I was socialism (state ownership and power the power to force or wrong about debt. He control of the means of produc- - compel compliance. This power said debt is good. He wastryingto shows forth in business and labor talk me out of running for the U.S. tion), or that the complexity and organizations as monopoly Senate oh a GOOD (Get Out Of interdependence of the scientific-industripower price and wage and Debt) Government platform. We' state calls for national production control armed were discussing the matter at a lunch counter in Washington, D.C. planning. The individualism of the protection against competition.2 in February, 1976. I told Dr. Dean eighteenth and nineteenth, cen- -. Monopoly or political power Burk (his real name) I was sure the turies is a casualty of technology, is always associated with force, as are old theories of private There is no such thing as monopoly overwhelming number of people Government must without coercive backing.3 Now were strongly opposed to debt and property. intervene more and more in the and then organized coercion is of would vote against it if given a nation's industrial life....1 the criminal type such as A1 chance. He said the opposite was true. then it is plausible to assume that Capone employed to monopolize We decided to take a quick big business and big labor require the Chicago beer market; but, for were three other people big government'. The bigger the in- - the most part, private poll. There dustrial operation, the bigger must organizations accomplish similar eating lunch at the counter. We be the political apparatus which results oply by forming an alliance asked each of them if they thought with the compulsive force of the federal debt was bad or good. . owns, controls, and manages it. Under socialism all business and all government. All laws restricting They all said it was a good thing. I labor and all government are but competition and willing exchange was flabbergasted! I frantically of either goods or services are appealed to the waitress. She was parts of one and the same thing. reluctant to give us an opinion.' However, if one believes that examples of political-monopo(We hadnt paid our check yet, and the group is secondary to the inpower. dividual and his emergence, that all Little as well as big businesses she didnt know who was going to men are equal before the law as or labor unions, if they succeed in pay the tip.) .However, even under before God, and that men aGe en- - gaining special privileges by the this great duress, she bravely took a dowed by their Creator (not by the force or largess of government, will stand. She voted for debt. Five to one! state) with the right to life, liberty, expand the bureaucracy, add to Dr. Burk laughed! Well now, and the pursuit of happiness, then governmental expense, quicken in-tabove proposition is a non se- - flation, and lead to political I suppose you'll drop this The conclusion has corruption. Organizations in the foolishness, he said. quitor. He had a point. nothing more to do with the pos- - private sector, whether large or I had supposed that no one tulate than does the claim that a big small, require of government only would knowingly and purposely man requires more policing than a that it be incorruptible. A failure I was wrong. small one. If man is created for his to grasp this distinction will burden vote for debt. Yet combine in Five to one on the first poll proved emergence, then government is but us with a private-publi- c I was wrong. For all I knew, at that ' a police power organized to defend big corruption, an unscrupulous it might be 200 million to and free productive and creative and irresponsible moment, is action from destructive action. the peoples ruler. one who would vote that debt partnership The size of private and volun Leonard E. Read good. If so, I decided I had a lot of tarily organized effort, be it work and educating to do. Two business or labor, is- unrelated to I the amount of governmental res- - 'Exceipted from Caught on the weeks before had announced my traint or control needed. A single Horn of Plenty by WVH. Ferry, intention to run for the U.S. Senate of the Fund for the from Utah. I had never taken a poll thief or a lone pirate or an in- on debt until Dean dared me to do kid- Republic, Inc. dividual killer or a one-ma- n 2See Two Kinds of Power by it. napping project may properly put I decided I was wrong on the hundreds, even thousands, of Paul L. Poirot, The Freeman, 1960. poll but right on the issue. If governmental agents on the trail February 3See From Whence Come everyone in the world believes and while a peaceful, Profits? by John Chamberlain, votes that the world is flat or that organization of enormous size debt is good that doesn't make needs no inhibitory 07 defensive ac- - anl Incompetent Employers by The either of them so. tion whatsoever on the part of Francis Amasa Walker, If most people believe the Freeman. October 1959. government. world is flat, it doesn't flatten it one THE CUBAN BARGAIN inch, but if most peoplef believe The Cuban bargain. The whole Cuban package only costs debt is good, they will be flattened tjie Soviets a million dollars a day, only $366 million this year; by it. and look at all they get for their money. My job is to convince as many a over billion costs that carrier one aircraft to Compared as possible, as fast as possible, that dollars, Cuba is unsinkable, provides many bases for many debt is bad and that very big debts safe caves its and and provide missiles, more and bigger planes are very bad. off our all this attack areas for service right power and storage promises of socialism. labor require , al ly he - Vice-Preside- nt d- shores. get Cuban troops, and Cuban-traine- d terrorists, to do their dirty work throughout the still Free World. And the Cuban military machine is already the second most powerful in the American hemisphere. How come our government cannot get bargains like this to the Kremlin, for our side? Why are they always second-bes- t spending more for bases and getting less? In additon, the Soviets if The abuse of power by federal regulatory agencies was the subject of this column last week. The powers of these agencies, exercised in a tyrannical manner, has become a major source of concern to many Americans. And PresidentTord has even admitted, although not too loudly, that some of the federal regulatory agencies have been guilty of petty tyranny. Lest some might believe that this writer is overdramatizing the issue, the definition of tyranny as found in Blacks Law Dictionary follows: Tyranny: Arbitrary or despotic government; the severe and autocratic exercise of sovereign power, either vested constitutionally in one ruler or usurped by him by breaking down the division and distribution of governmental powers. Blacks Law Dictionary. 0 CONSOLIDATION solidation of the three functions of government, legislative, executive and judicial, into one body. And, practically every' one of the federal regulatory agencies exercises all three of these functions of government. In these agencies, appointed bureaucrats write the laws, ' they enforce the laws and they judge the laws. Thus, each federal agency is a tyrannical entity unto itself. And to further aggravate the situation, none of the legislators, enforcers, or judges of these agencies are elected by the people over whom they rule. Can any of us be surprised, then, that their acts regarding the people and their property are arbitrary, capricious, and tyrannical? RULERS-N- . McGregor Company 7 or W. Lake 2950 S., Salt City, UT 60 571-430- 84115 GOVERNORS OT In the case of each of these regulatory agencies, the appointed bureaucrats exercise almost unrestrained powers over us yet we have no control over them. In this situation, we are not being governed we are being ruled. In fact, it is this type of governmental structure which results in dictatorships a government which exercises unrestrained powers over the people, but which has no effective means for the people to control the government. Now, what more is necessary for a dictatorship? Only time time for these federal "agencies to become more firmly established by precedent and strengthen themselves upon the exercise of their powers. THE SOLUTION The above problem of tyranny in federal agencies is not without a solution. We have no control over the appointed bureaucrats who write, enforce and judge the laws, that is true. But we do have control over the congressmen who vote to fund these agencies. The Congress created these agencies, and the Congress can disband them, or it can reduce their funding. Since 1976 is an election year, it is time for all Americans to raise the issue of the dictatorial powers of the federal agencies to all congressmen up for on. The TO 1 Jll Independent Salt Lake City Utah The Utah Independent Is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate Is $10.00 by surface mail in the United States, $15.00 foreign. 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