| Show J t tI I OM BP CRAMER r BY AY FLOYD FOYD ASSOCIATION tOR rt q i RIE t C. C Far from being of benefit to tal i Big Business the Free Enterprise Enterprise Enter prise Big system sm guarantees eS the thel freedom of small businessmen en enand and the farmer In fact tact the Free Enterprise f system stem not only guarantees freedom but Is al also O the source of freedom Let me mc Illustrates illustrate There are two extreme views of ot the ithe relationship between Bus Bug Business mess iness and Government One view Is that government should do nothing the or let Iet things ride school of thought The other Is Is that government gov goy should control everything every thing that Is 15 to say socialism Where would the small busInessman bus bus- i and the farmer windup wIndup wind windup up If It either of ot these Ideas prevailed pre I I Under the no control no control whatever er theory the strong would get stronger the rich would get richer and all others would be redu reduced ed to weakness and dependence de Half a century ago the Amerlean Amerlean Amer lean people rejected that theory decisively Beginning with the first antI trust antitrust trust act and continuing continuing contin ever since laws have been enacted to curb monopoly ana to encourage and protect small business Thus by an American solution tion the sd called so-called Little Fellow h has a s been protected T True r rue u e enough not all of ot these laws were wise and not all rall of them were effective However with all the troubles a small business business bustneSS busi bust ness man has hes he's better off here today than he would have been If we had gone socialistic tic tlc and If 11 we had all ended up working on whatever Job the government happened to Ito assign us to Ito I So with the ithe farmer Between drought and rand flood lood crop failure and overproduction over the hazards hazards haz ards of farming are many and great i I But the American way for tor many generations now has hass been to enact measures to help are tar farmer mer during lean years to I keep our farms operating under private ownership and to avoids avoId the Russian style Russian style collective I farm tarm How flow good these laws have been and whether some of them have gone too far or far tar enough h Is Is In a free tree country a matter for continuing discussion with continuing examination of how each law Jaw works out In practice But once again as In to the case of small bu business the American has avold avoided d the ex Americans are not crushed by the rich Lich Americans are not regimented either Free Enterprise has always enabled them to fInd a way out of every dilemma Free Enterprise has kept us UI free tree Les Le's stay free tree |
