Show Safeguarding I American can Rights I And Aud Liberties I No man has overstated ever stated the funda fundamental fundamental mental principles of our theory of I I government or the ideals of its found founders founders ers in an clearer language than President dent elect Herbert Hoover His Ills wolds words life themselves above partisan politics and lay hy down fundamentals which every cry American citizen should read and study from flom the standpoint of their b bearing on his daily dally life hie In his Now sort ork speech Mr Hoover said in m part art The Government GO in commercIal bus business mess does not tolerate among Its custom customers rs the freedom of competitive reprisals to which private ate ate business IS subject Bureaucracy docs does not tol crate the spirit of It spreads he he spirit smut of submission In Into into into to our daily life and Ind penetrates the temper of our people not with the habit of PO POEl El ul resistance to wrong but with pith Ith the habit of timid acceptance of might I Bureaucracy is over desirous of spreading its influence and its power pow cr or lou au cannot extend the mastery of the Government over o the daily working life a people without at the same tune time making it the muter mister of the people peoples s souls and thou thoughts Ever Every expansion of GO Government m in business means ns that th Government Go In order to protect itself Itsell from the poli political deal consequences of its errors and wr is driven irresistibly pc ce to greater and arid greater control of the nations nation's press and platform Iu rice e speech does docs not live many hours after iter free industry and free corn com merce die comI I It n is a liberalism that inter preys s itself into the Government Go op operation of commercial business E Every ery I step of bureaucratizing of the bust busl bustness business nes ness of our country poisons the very roots of that liberalism that is political i equality free speech free assembly free press and equality of opportunity It is the road not to more liberty but butto butto butto to less liberty hbert Liberalism should be found not striving to spread d bureau burc-au bureaucracy cracy but striving to set bounds to It it True liberalism seeks all aU leglI legi I freedom first in the confident belief that w without such freedom the pursUit of all other blessings and is vim vain That belief is the foundation of all U American progress cal as well eU as economic I I liberalIsm I is a force truly of the spirit a force proceeding from the deep realization that economic free freedom freedom dour dom cannot be sacrificed if political l freedom dom is to be preserved Even If govel governmental conduct of business could give us mOle efficiency Instead of less efficiency the fundamental objection to it would remain rem I eel cd and unabated It would destroy politIcal equality tl U Increase rather than decrease abuse and cor corruption corruption I I It would initiative and invention It would undermine the II I development of leadership It would cramp and cripple the mental and nd I spiritual energies of our people It would extinguish sh equality and op opportunity opportunity It would dry up the ItI I spirit of liberty and progress For these reasons primarily it must be resisted For a hundred and nd fifty years ears liberalism has found its true Spirit in the American system not I m in the European systems |