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Show November 19, 1971 Page 8 The UTAH INDEPENDENT Yours Constitutionally By not the cause of inflation. Inflation is caused by deficit these fourteen Gary Allen. One of steps has just been inaugurated by President Richard M. Nixon. It is wage and price controls. controls are Wage and price of certainly not the first step Robert L. Preston There is an old saying that you should Always give the devil his dues. In our last column we gave President Nixon more than his dues. We made the mistake of taking him too much at his word when he announced that the wage and price freeze he planned to institute was only temporary. We knew that meant that it was going governments temporary and emergency extended controls that have been to the president of this nation, the final control still belongs to If you and to me, we the people. we will stand still without courage and without convictions while the government usurps our rights and freedoms, we shall surely loose them all, one by one. into Phase Two. Unless the people of this nation rise up and demand an end to this tyranny, it When will you rebel? When will you fight? How many of your precious freedoms are you willing to sacrifice without becoming angry in righteous indignation? means the end of the se system. In an interview with a supermarket executive the other day, he passed on the following observations to us: Im not running my business anymore, the government is. I put up the capital to get it started, and Ive done all the work and worrying to create somethingworthwhile, but now they come along and tell me how to run my business. They tell me who I can hire and fire. They tell me what facilities I have to provide and the insurance I have to carry. They force me to collect taxes from my customers and from my employees. I have to do this on my own time and at my own expense. Now they tell me what I can charge for my goods of r business and they certainly won t be the last. We have embarked road that upon a journey down a can lead us to only one final destination total state control over our lives. In spite of all the to be anything but temporary. But we did think that he would at least go through the motions of trying to make it look temporary. However, he didnt even bother to do that, he just launched right free-enterpri- take-ove- Robert L. into a government-operate- d store and get what the government says he is entitled to. Duaine Brown Have we forgotten the Declaration of Independence It will be just like it is in Russia. Actually, wage and price controls are just the beginning of a complete conversion to that type of system. At least, that is what I think. It is interesting to note that several years ago the historian. Dr. Warren Carroll and Mike Djordjevich, a refuge from Communist Yugoslavia, compiled a list of fourteen steps that gradually convert a free nation into a totalitarian communist state. You can read the entire list on page 404 of the book, Sixon, The Man Behind The Mask by and what I have to pay for my help. Then to top it all off, if there is any profit left at the end of the year, they want the biggest chunk of that too. But I dont really think Ill be in the food business too many years anyway. I believe that the way things are going it wont be too long before the government takes over the food industry completely. They will have some kind of program with stamps or credit cards so that everyone will be able to just go Preston Chevrolet which declares that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights? What right does the government have to tell us how much we can earn from our labors? That is what wage and price controls are really all about! We are told that it is to control inflation. What a fraud! this fiscal year will run at least 24 billion dollars. This is greater than the entire national debt the first year that F.D.R. took office, and this is the real cause of inflation. The artificial curb on wages and prices while the real cause goes unchecked will only result in a a complete economic collapse depression that will make the last one look like a Sunday School picnic. Then there will be a real excuse to install wholesale socialism and communism. That was the plan the first time, but it failed to do the complete job because the people of America still had too much independence and to let them take over completely. Now they are about to do it again, and they will succeed only if we let them. Wage and price self-relian- ce controls under the present circumstances are completely in n violation of your rights and the to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. These controls are completely unconstitutional. The people of America are loosing their freedoms one by one simply because they will not defend them. How about you? Are you resisting these efforts? Are you God-give- up for your standing constitutional rights? What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Thomas Jefferson. Wages and prices have nothing to do with the cause of inflation. Their rapid rise and continual fluctuation are the result of and spending. 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