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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand 1973 Page 12 The UTAH Independent August 9, is being applied to newspapers. Recently the Florida Supreme Court sustained a state law ordering newspapers to give political candidates the to editorials and letters to the editors. The editor of the Miami political manipulation right-of-repl- Herald JOHN R. RAR1CK UAIteprwtiUvt sill CMgreulMMl District Laaisiau You've A Sight To Know Free A Press Vs. Government Control Reprinted from by U.S. Representative John R. Rarick The very idea of a federally subsidized and controlled alien to the newspaper American tradition of freedom of the press. Few citizens would allow their elected officials to vote tax money for such a notion. But a federally controlled and manged television and radio network has met little opposition in Congress. And governmental is domination mass of communications in this country is increasing with amazing speed. System by Congress. This f igure will swell to $55 million in 1974 and $65 million in 1975. The public pays behind-the-scen- tax-fre- Federal the complete socio-econom- ic revolution. In short, dose down all industry, abandon internal combustion engines, and give our planet back to nature. Well, Man is nature. Ecology problems do exist. But the only way we can solve them is to define the problems. To do this, we must get the facts. es status. e immeasurably cleaner today than a hundred years ago. Our rivers and lakes once were crystal clear. They also were the source of the worst cholera, yellow fever and typhoid epidemics the world has ever known. In 1973, one of those epidemics killed one out of astonishing. Other this for Communications rulings governing fairness, equal time and public service have proved costly and oppressive to commercial broadcasters for years. Now this same type of Industry deserves more credit than blame. American industry is spending over three billion dollars a year to clean up the environment ... and additional billions to develop products that will keep it clean. John H. Batten, President Science National The Commission Family Storage Supply P Industrial & 6 Kensington Ave. SPECIALIST The leader in quality but not in price Let us I nvestment Today 706 Silver Dollars UTAH PROVO, Gift 328-186- 2 COLUMBIA LANE Best Prices & help you plan your food storage. ) Confidential Rust Coin FOOD. 484-525- 5 G reatest Beat Inflation iff STORAGE Silver Coins 31 1 South Main self-directi- ng, God-give- Rejects Coercion by Tom Rose Reprinted from The Indianapolis News, Aug. 28, 1971 choices. IT IS FROM this theological truth that the free market derives it Kthe its inherent morality natural expression of Biblical principles in economic terms. But few people, even good libertarians, have been able to understand the philosophical base of the free because this And market. understanding is so lacking, we demand have become a FEW PEOPLE recognize the essential theological base of the free market philosophy. Thus, the inability of many people to society. Pick up any newspaper, and youll find it full of storiesof how defend this person or that group is the market free philosophy. Forced exchange is immoral because the applier of force (the taker) robs the other n party (the giver) of his attribute of being made in God's demanding rights" or wealth from others. It seems everyone wants to give less, yet take more. And if the demanders don't use direct force to achieve the desired redistribution of wealth, they turn to government to do it f jt ihem. Thus, God-give- image. What does this mean to us who engage in the economic process of earning a living each day? It government means mushrooming none of us should, if we intervenes deeper and deeper would be moral, attempt to limit into our lives in response to the and peaceful actions of free the demanders. of all goods The free market can best be others; the exchange be must and services voluntary; defined as the volunatry in a free has no force place exchange of goods and services market in short, each exchange; between free and individuals. And the party to any exchange must be free either to engage in or to concept of free exchange rests refuse to engage in the exchange on a philosophical base that is, at is about to take place but that heart, theological. is LETS GO BACK to this once free agreement reached, demands each theological basq and trace the his word. of individual party honor philosophy The market free system is the freedom and responsibility to natural outgrowth of Biblical the free market process. The Bible reveals God made morality. In such a system each will be man in His image and likeness. mans income (wage) The economic application that governed by and be dependent of we draw from this truth is that upon the value judgments others as expressed by prices in man, because he was created the market. This idea frightens free, is capable of making some producers because they decisions for which he and he their present incomes is responsible. In other recognize alone or profits) are based on words, man is capable of making (wages forms of legal or illegal various value judgments or, to state it coercion. differently, man has the ability to impute value. That is, he can look Thus, their incomes might be at something and say, In my lowered if all exchange were opinion this thing is worth one made voluntary. This explains dollar (or two, or three, etc.)." the human tendency to desire Because each man is free to competitive freedom when we seek insulation impute his own scale of values, are buyers, but to from of the competition rigors he must, unless he applies sellers. when we are allow others to arrive coercion, BUT THE SECRET of the free at and abide by their own value market process is this: While judgments. For me to force others to abide by my value Continued on page 13 year-after-ye- ar, self-responsi- ble 1 'r I I I STOP INFLATION with OLE) & ROCKY MOUNTAIN mmm MINT AND DEPOSITORY Specialists in gold coins, gold nuggets, gold dust, silver bars, silver pieces, and U.S. silver coins. Call or write for information, or stop in. YOUR Salt Lake City & & if 4P Plumbing Air Conditioning Gold Coins God-give- ht Heating & 1 is to judgments, tor instance, n deny them not only their right to be n but also their responsibility to answer for their Has I? Foundation recently collected sites air samples at seventy-eigaround the world and compared them with samples taken sixty-on- e years ago. They found that MECHANICAL CONTRACTOR Commercial ar Astonishing" is hardly the word to describe this dangerous attempt by government to silence opinion in the free press. Newspaper journalists are beginning to feel the same trend toward government pressure five residents of experienced by broadcasters for every Philadelphia. Our waterways years. Government control of be as pretty as they once the news and information media, may notbut they aren't as deadly, whether printed or broadcast, is were, either. in direct confrontation with Scientists tell us that most freedom of the press. comes from News by government edict has mercury pollution Fish in nature. caught deposits no place in a free society. forty-fiv- e and ago just years as contained twice analyzed fish much mercury as any Cruelty is a tyrant that is processed in 1971. with attended fear. About fifty species of wildlife always will become extinct this century. Thomas Fuller Fifty species became extinct last century. And the century before Side of that. And the century before that. Scientists estimate that Story 100,000,000 species of Production some life Reprinted from have become extinct animal Road ", Vol. 33 No. 3, Published since the world began. Let's not Wise. Disc Twin Recine, Inc., by blame evolution on industry! Everywhere you turn, there and While are groups telling us that we're conservation pollution concern us all, we killing our oceans, lakes and must establish certain priorities. streams. We're burning up the Some factions advocate the oxygen in our atmosphere. unrestricted halt to progress. In is rendering Mercury pollution the interest of mankind, perhaps Air our seafood inedible. there should be some control the has reached almost pollution over unrestricted progress. point of no return. In ten years, In less than two hundred years. yellow-bellie- d g the sap American industry, working sucker will become extinct. within the free enterprise The one really curious aspect has conquered of the current ecology scare is system, communicable diseases, virtually the fact that most people accept eliminated starvation, made the these statements without ever masses literate, transported men questioning their validity. to the moon, and made us the According to these groups, the healthiest, richest, most only salvation for mankind is comfortable nation in history. Political Broadcasting System", but the policies and programming are directed by a " Advisory Committee made up of unelected lobby and pressure groups, each of which enjoys a dearly year-by-ye- y" one-win- Last week some $25 million was authorized for the Public Broadcasting was in 1910. New York City's Department of Air Resources reports a decrease in air pollutants since 1965. 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