Show oJ t t Epp E pp y r e hV z t RA Y PITCAIRN An Object Lesson 0 From r tJ rBy Europe By RA RAYMOND PITCAIRN National Chairman Sentinels of the Republic They that can coil give up essential lib liberty crt to obtain a little temporary safety neither libert liberty nor safety So spoke Benjamin Franklin sage sae of the Revolution and of our early Republic His words ring as true today as they did a century and a ahat half hat ago Turn to the news vs from modern modem Europe 1 If you would see the evidence What do we lead read Reports of government threatening to plunge its people into a n. war of conquest which statesmen fear may embroil all Europe Reports of government elevating religious and educational intolerance to the status of a national policy polley Reports of government sacrificing the freedom of its populace on the thc altars of Communism and regimen regimen- tation n. n Under what types of governments are these things happening The answer is clear Under those whose people for Cor the 1 sake of a promised promised and and unfulfilled economic safety have delivered their essential liberties into thc the hands hand of highly centralized authority author anther ity whether ity-whether whether a dictatorship or ora a communized communized com- com bureaucracy These are the dangers which the Founders of or our nation knew linew and foresaw when they wrote a Constitution Constitution tion that del denied ed despotic power to politicians and vested all ultimate authority in the people These are the tragic possibilities which men and women who love America seek to avert today when they fight efforts to weaken those thos guaranties of or personal liberty and opportunity ty that are written into our Fundamental Law They know know from from the lessons now apparent in Europe that Europe that Franklins Franklin's warning could be rewritten to read They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a a. little temporary safety lose both liberty and safety Dont Don't let that t happen t to America |