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Show Two Economic Dangers Exist The average American citizen, we believe, favors the utmost practical freedom for the individual, individ-ual, including freedom of enterprise, enter-prise, with fair competition and , equal opportunity in the economic sphere. This being a basic faith of Americans, it is not surprising that certain business interests attempt at-tempt to use these principles to avoid governmental regulations and controls. Strangely, they have nothing whatever to say about trusts, monopolies, cartels, tariffs, subsidies and other favors that the government has given to busi- J ness at the instance of business itself. The freedom of the individual and of enterprise can be stifled by the activity of government or the practices of big business. It is immaterial im-material so far as the average citizen cit-izen is concerned, whether opportunities oppor-tunities are denied by one or the other. Federal control is no more damaging than agreements to fix prices, allocate territory and stifle competition. |