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Show . The PWper.That Dare To Take A Stand 9. Zaninc Protects 10. Laid Vaises Will The Feraer Be Protected A Breeder Tax In the midst of the Civil War President Lincoln took time out from his pressing war time duties to sign into law a bill providing for the creation of land grant colleges. From this came our state universities. Likewise, from the practice of congressmen sending free seeds to their fanner constituents the United States Department of Agriculture has developed. Many agencies to help government the fanner have been added through the years, especially during the New Deal era. Production has kept pace with increasing knowledge gained and through research Two blades of experimentation. one where now grass grow grew before. A constantly decreasing number of farmers produce a constantly increasing amount of food and fiber. But like everything else touched by the magic wand of government, a vast, sprawling bureaucracy has In the jargon of developed. skid-tal- k we could ay, - If Abraham Lincoln were alive today, hed turn over in his grave. No where in the world was the specter of starvation eliminated was settled and the until America t profit system instituted. There have been poor people in America but no one in America ever died of starvation. Our. greatest health hazards come from The American farmer has produced like one possessed-- in such great abundance that the government planners cant figure out how to get rid of the over-eatin- surpluses. The g. solution is the farmers go on vacation and the planners take their place. Soon we would all be simple-l- et starving. Those on the public payroll have a penchant for planning and regulating the lives of their fellow . beings. If for no other reason, they are looking for ways to perpetuate their jobs. So, it is not surprising when the extension service and other government agricultural agencies lead the way in advocating unsound economic plans. PTObably the most heinous of all such schemes to protect the farmer is the planners dream known as zoning. Zoning doesn't affect Have the planners agriculture. ever gone into a county to sell zoning without playing this statement up big? I think not. And yet, it is a Zoning affects farmers more than anyone else. In any zoning district, except the commercial mis-stateme- nt. recreation district, agriculture is permitted, along with whatever other uses are allowed. But in a district zoned agricultural only agriculture is permitted, with a c uses few public or (such as cemeteries) thrown in. As long as the farmer is content to stay on his acres and raise crops and livestock he will not be affected by zoning, except by a restrictions such as few k lines. But let him get any ideas about doing something else, or selling land for another use,' and the zoning board will forcefully remind him that he is a seif on the land. semi-publi- set-bac- . the bridge fired and embattled farmers stood At Concord the shot heard round the world. They were fighting for liberty against a government far away. It is time for embattled fanners to fight for their liberty once again, this time against encroaching government closer to home. And Base Secered The theory that the land in any prescribed district will have a higher value because it is restricted to a certain use remains just that, a theory. In practice this artificial Restriction is more likely to have the opposite effect. The laws of economics are natural laws. In a free society they will work to the benefit of all men who will accept the challenge and meet the responsibilities inherent in liberty. A person or parsons cannot shirk their responsibilities and remain free. When government enacts restrictions to benefit a certain segment of the population, then that segment and also the whole population have given up some of their, liberty. It is unlikely that that liberty will ever be regained, short of revolution. Suppose the planners say a certain area in a city is to be residential. They claim a high property value will be maintained because the people will be protected against n uses. Eventually an offer will be made to the owner of a residential property, an offer much higher than its worth as a residence because the land is wanted for a commercial purpose. It is zoned residential and the owner cant sell for a commercial use. The offers will persist and finally an owner with more influence than the others will get his property rezoned for business and sell for a good profit. He has obtained an advantage over his neighbors who were refused rezoning because they didnt have the necessary influence. The residential district is broken up,- but with unfair treatment to some of the owners. The same thing may happen in a district zoned agricultural. An industrialist comes along and wants to buy several acres of land to build a factory. The farmer cant get his land rezoned, so he cant sell. The industrialist is forced to go to another farmer who, for reasons that have never come to light, has industrial zoning. In fact, this farmer has been awarded a monopoly. Perhaps he knew the right people. This site isnt as suitable to the industrialist but he must bow to the dictates of an interfering government, and also pay more for the land. ' The phrase broader tax base is misleading. It should be higher tax rate. If you live in town dont get the idea that county zoning wont affect you. It will hit you where it hurts the most, in the pocketbook. The Ogle County supervisors spent about forty thousand dollars of our tax money on zoning even before they adopted zoning.' The claim that zoning will be is poppycock. Every taxpayer in Qgle County is paying his share of the cost of administering and enforcing zoning. It might be of interest to you to attend a meeting of the Board of Supervisors and listen as zoning expense bills are read and allowed. ial - self-supporti- The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter, but the king of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.-WiUia- ' May 3, 1973 m Pitt But what avail the plow or. sail, Or land or life, if Emerson freedom fail? . - J . ' t ' ' j i The UTAH Independent Page' 9 The General 12. Well Refilated 13. 17e Welfare Of The Zoning Will Attract Zoied Because People Is Protected A Higher Class Of neighboring By Zoning People To Oor County Clashes Arc In the Old World dan was very important. The few who belonged to the higher class were really at the top of the stack. It was a hereditary proposition. Those few d top families and The weakest argument of all. What are we, a nation of sheep? I admit that large numbers of people fall into this category. If the neighbors get a new car or a color TV they cant rest until they follow suit, afford it or not. And, it seems that divisions of government are very much like people. 11- - The general wdfare-- it sounds nice. But whenever the general welfare becomes the first consideration, we are flirting with the infamous declaration, From cadi according to his ability, to each according to his need. It doesnt work. Down through the centuries large numbers of people have died of starvation and even today in parts of the world people still die of starvation. Even though these people lived in the midst of an abundance of natural resources there was something missing. The individual didnt count, there was inter-marrie- maintained generation after generation. The lower class, who were the vast majority, stayed lower dan. There was no hope of them breaking the barrier into the higher dass. When the new land of America was opened for settlement, who crossed the ocean to seek a new home? Not the higher class. They had it too good in the old country to leave home and face life in a wilderness. It was the lower class, the serfs on the land, the bounden workers, who saved and sacrificed to get away from a dass system that they could not rise above". With their brain and their brawn they built America. As the east was settled they moved west, all their belongings in their covered wagons. They built a cabin and cleared the land and gradually they made our country what it is today. Some prospered more than . others and in their minds a few thought of themselves as higher dass. But in America class is only a figment of the mind. It is the individual that counts, be he no incentive to do better, the profit system wasnt in existence. In no other nation on earth has the production of all goods been so great as it has in the United the free States of America-und- er ' profit as enterprise system-wi- th else on where the motive. No earth have ALL people enjoyed the abundance of goods that we have. In no other place has advertising played such' an important role. The American businessman has found that advertising pays. It creates such a demand for goods that high production is necessary. This results in a lower cost per unit and brings necessities AND luxuries within range of the purchasing power of practically all people. Along come the planners and zoners with the claim that signs and billboards are offensive to the tastes of mankind. Friends, do not be misled. Remember, planning has its roots beyond our shores. Its real objective is to stifle our free enterprise system and to bring all business under government control. By choking off advertising, which is the life blood wealthy or poor. The modem counterpart of those who built their cabins by their own labor now find it necessary to live in a trailer, or a basement, or a garage until they can get a start in life. These are esthetic ' the people that zoning J of our nation, they are deliberately working to bring to an ignominious end the only system in the whole history of mankind that has ever been able to provide for the needs and the wants of its people. Think twice before ugliness you condemn of billboards. the People soon become used to their environment and take many privileges for granted. In spite of the great strides Americans have made without government interference we find some who would rather sponge off the government than to bear their share of the responsibilities of freedom. We are following the path of least resistance and in doing so we are reverting to the Old World ways. Entangling ourselves with all kinds of restrictions, zoning is an example, we are abandoning the freedoms which meant so much to our fathers. Many local elective offices appointed Give d, Once an becomes There are still those who look to America as the land of freedom and opportunity, even as our supervisors dont seem to realize what is going on. There is no more fitting definition of general welfare than "that which permits and encourages a people to expand or advance in their own environment. this. Zoning prohibits me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning breathe to free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, to me: tempest-tosseI lift my lamp beside the golden door. official entrenched in office he is not easily removed. This is all part of a gigantic master plan, but our appointed discriminates againsf. These are the people that the planners and the zoners would keep out,-e- nd thus deprive our county of its life blood of the future. Some people who regard themselves as higher class, but are shallow thinkers, do look for a community that is zoned in which to locate a factory, a business, or a home, under the false impression that they will be protected against whatever it is they want to be protected from. People with this type of thinking have gotten so far away from our American concept of government that they cannot be regarded as a desirable type to come into the community. We would do better to seek immigrants from across the sea, as referred to in the inscription on the Statue of Liberty ,- are being abolished and government turned over to officials. their position, forefathers did. They that can give -- up essential liberty to obtain a little , temporary safety deserve neither ' liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin , ! (last Be Conformity is the thing. Metropolitan areas have had zoning for some time and it keeps pushing out from there. Those people have given up the freedom of using their property according to their own best judgment. All they can do is meekly follow the dictates of the zoning officials. If they have enough influence, financial or political, they may be granted a variation. But freedom has passed out of the picture. There might still be some reason for zoning because neighboring counties are zoned if it had proven beneficial to them. But it has not. Look at the slum area of Chicago. In an attempt to correct past mistakes of zoning they bring in Urban Renewal. Who pays for that? Benevolent old Uncle Sam buys the property. The people move somewhere else to create new slums there. The dispossessed businessmen usually are not able to start up again. The bulldozers move in and when their work is done the land is sold to some one else, if they can find a buyer. The government conducts the financial transactions the only way it knows how,-- at a loss. In other places whore Urban Renewal has not yet come in they hire a planning commission to correct past zoning piistakes by tightening the restrictions. Uncle Sucker usually picks up most of the tab for this. In Act, the Federal government stands ready and willing (I didnt say able0 to hand out money wherever they can get anyone to take it. Whose money? It is argued that undesirable uses will spill over from a county that is zoned into one that isnt zoned. It would be well for people using this argument to consider carefully their thinking on undesirable uses and UNDESIRABLE PEOPLE. Essentially, zoning isnt property control, it is PEOPLE CONTROL. Just because a man is a . junk dealer he isnt automatically the scum of the earth. Most human beings will react as human beings if treated as such. To seek the. of ones fellow man is more fruitful and satisfying than to sick the police dogs on him. Wherever there is zoning there is contention and discord. Just read the newspapers. You will find it starting up now in Ogle County. Why should we follow the example of those who have made a botch of it? Let us get rid of zoning. It takes more effort to be free than to conform but it is worth it. If you dont care about yourself think of those coming after us. Must we hang this dead weight on the necks of those yet unborn? Zoning and owning are incompatible. Since the former is an interference with ownership, zoning at best is a respectable century form of theft of an owners right to own. Whenever the right to own is removed, restricted, or eroded in any manner, society declines toward a lower level of spiritual and moral values.-fro- m Zoned or Owned? by John C. Sparks mid-twentie- th Continued On Page 10 |