Show FALSE PROPHETS A survey of current journals opinion of lawmaking law making bodies and political pronouncements is evidence that the united states is inflicted with a growth of the genus reformer it is unimportant in what direction alleged reforms are aimed some claim they will uplift business by placing it in the hands of the gentlemen who hold public office some demand that literature and the stage be cleansed to the extent that a 14 year old child may be free of the pernicious influence of such common grade school books as classic greek dramatists others beseech a federal law against law abiding citizens owning fire arms or that it mav be a felony to play bridge on sunday if self appointed regulators of human activity could have their way all that would be left of the constitution would be a document allowing our people the privilege of delivering fourth of july orations unless that holiday should be abolished as tend arg to revive the ideas of freedom and independence which were the original incentive for and foundation of our government they come bearing strange gifts these reformers and they travel under strange names sometimes they are clear thinkers at other times mere agitators bolsheviks destroyers of property rights and personal liberty or prohibitionists of everything with which they do not agree they scream for a hearing and at the same time work valiantly so that nobody else may be heard they yelp for tolerance and give breathtaking breath taking exhibitions of intolerance they are increasingly numerous and are to be found in high places their most deadly foe is liberty such as our people now enjoy and which they would limit or destroy what material spiritual and mental progress we as a nation have made has been under the banner of freedom our industries were not created and developed by political agitators our literature by reformers or our science by fanatics we should refuse to entrust our most treasured possession liberty for the individual and right to private ownership of property to the hands of destructive antics |