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Show VXCI.N SAM IX lit'.SIXKSS Because of the apathy of business) men and others who should be alert to the menace of governmental interference with private enterprises, a .small but progressive minority in congress Is making progress in It attempt to socialize all American industries. The advocates of government operation of business and industry in-dustry have already placed se- veral burdens upon private enterprises en-terprises through excessive regulation, reg-ulation, as a first step toward their goal. In order to further harass these enterprises a multitude mul-titude of government bureaus, commissions, boards and other agencies have been set up, with their army of political job holders hold-ers to inspect, investigate, and intimidate. If these tactics shall succed in destroying private business, the road to government operation opera-tion and socialism will be open. This, of course, is the ultimate object of the whole scheme. And it it succeeds we shall all be slaves to an all-powerful political machine like that which is enslaving the people of Russia today. Experience has demonstrated that governmental conduct of business is inefficient or wasteful, waste-ful, or both. Our experiment with government operation of the railroads during and after the war is an example. Our postof f ice department now shows a yearly deficit of $150,000,-000. $150,000,-000. We have squandered $250,000,000 or more through the government's excursion into in-to the cotton and wheat markets. mar-kets. We have wasted many millions in reclamation schemes for the purpose of bringing more land under cultivation to increase the agricultural surplus. sur-plus. We have borne enormous losses in the shipping business. And so on. The tragic aspect of all this 13 that the consequences of these follies must be borne by the taxpayers, whose private businesses have been injured and in some cases virtually destroyed de-stroyed by the federal government. govern-ment. Socialistic experment in many of the individual states have had the same inevitable results. It is time that every citizen "who believes in the encouragement encourage-ment of private " enterprise and individual effort should protest against the enroachments of government in business. The place to protest is at the ballot bal-lot box. Relegate the socialistic Tioliticans to private life and Ikeep them there. Miarcy B. Darnall, Herald, Folrence, Ala-lama. |