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Show 1 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand December 11, 1975 The Utah Independent Page CLICHES OF SOCIALISM Foundation Education, lor It else. MARILYN MANION n, exchange a devotee of private property, free market, limited government principles states his position, he is inevitably confronted with a barrage of social istic cliches. Failure to answer these has silenced many a spokesman for freedom. Here are suggested answers to some of the most persistent of the "Cliches of Socialism." These are not the only answers or even the best possible answers; but they may help you or others to develop better explanations of the ideas on liberty effectively : that are the only effective for the promises of socialism. displacement empty The right to strike is IS Car owners pull up at the service station, note the increase in the price of gasoline, and curse the oil companies for making too much profit. Housewives pass up the steak and move on to the hamburger, conceded, but... Rarely challenged is the right to strike. While nearly everyone in the population, including the they suffer. People on welfare demand better housing, more food, additional funds, all of which they assume is themselves, will acknowledge the inconvenience and dangers of strikes, few will question the right-to-striconcept. They will, instead, place the blame on the abuses of this assumed right for instance, on the bungling or ignorance or evil of the men who exercise control of strikes. The present laws of the United States recognize the right to strike; it is legal to strike. However, as in the case of many other legal actions, it is impossible to find moral sanction for stikes in any creditable ethical or moral code. This is not to question the moral right of a worker to quit a job or the right of any number of workers to quit in unison. Quitting is not striking, unless force or the threat of force is used to keep others from filling the jobs vacated. The essence of the strike, then, is the resort to coercion to force unwilling exchange or to inhibit willing exchange. No person, nor any combination of persons, has a moral right to force themselves at their price on any employer, or to forcibly preclude his hiring others. Reference need not be confined to moral and ethical codes to support the conclusion that there is no moral right to strike. Nearly anyones sense of justice will render the same verdict if an employer-employrelationship, devoid of emotional background, be examined: An individual with an ailment employs a physician to heal him. The physician has a job on agreeable terms. Our sense of justice suggests that either the patient or the physician is morally warranted in quitting this employer-employee relationship at will, provided that there be no violation of contract. Now, assume that the physician (the emHis ployee) goes on strike. ultimatum: You pay me twice the fee I am now getting or I quit! Moreover, I shall use force to prevent any other physician from attending to your ailment. Meet my demands or do without medical care from now on. Who will claim that the physician is within his moral rights when taking an action such as this? The above, be it noted, is not a mere analogy but a homology, an accurate matching in structure of the common or garden variety of legalized, popularly approved strike. To say that one believes in the right to strike is comparable to saying that one endorses monopoly ke rightfully theirs, earned or not. The common train of thought in all of these examples is that profit is evil. Better a man who doesnt work get his share than the man wrho does get his profit. A recent Manion Forum radio program featured a speaker who told the other side of the story. George C. Meese, who is the Director Educational of Communications for Phillips Petroleum, had this to say: corrosion of the human subsidized spirit through idleness. The advocates of this some th in philosophy thing are ignorant of the basic fundamentals of Mans production and the exchange of goods and services. They are blind to the basic factual truth that whenever one person gets something without earning it, some other person has to earn something without getting it. That, my friends, is morally wrong. Any nation espousing that kind of a philosophy is headed for trouble, because the real irony here is that the individual who pays nothing actually pays the highest price of all through the destruction of his or her character and Many students today are being told that profit is a dirty word and should be replaced by something called social responsibility. The truth is, however, that self-respe- ct. greatly concerned about the drug problem which is rampant in our country today - and it is a serious one. However, the business which manages to maintain earnings at a reasonable level is the one best able to fulfill its social opinion, it isnt the pot, or the hash, or the LSD, or the heroin that rank as the most dangerous drugs we must contend with at this crucial time in our remaining in business and providing jobs and wages for qualified individuals. are We all in my history SFN - its a drug called - known as something-for-nothin- drug is This eating away at the g. cardinal self-relian- virtues and ce and is of self-respe- ct leading to the should be responsibilities increasing amounts of their individual freedom for a partial return of the appropriate products of their own labor, in the form of federal aid of one type or another. THE PROFIT INCENTIVE grumbling at whoever it is who is making a profit while strikers We when we see concerned those who seem willing to When 4 away give anything that ii doesnt first take away from someone Economic irvington-on-HudsoInc., New York cannot - by 'Im greatly disturbed by attempts to redistribute wealth in America through passage of laws designed to prohibit winners from being winners in order to prevent losers from being losers. The government does not have and cannot obtain the power to create wealth. A m e rican Th e economy has been called the eighth wonder of the world because its based on a historically revolutionary idea: that a society can function, prosper and grow on the basis of free economic choices by individuals. The market place - not government planning - regulates the 11 economy. The desire for not decree or private gain is the motivating coercion force. It is a system that has brought to the American people the highest standard of living anywhere on earth. - despite the Y e t , demonstrated merits of the system, disturbing changes are being introduced. With increasing frequency, governmental intervention is being substituted for the free choice of individuals in the market place. American Wav Features Reader's comments and quest io ns are welcome. Please write us at The Fea tures, ftgeon Forge, A m eri can Way Box 1 098, Tennessee 37863. The Fault Of The Clergy In twenty-two- , Ezekiel, chapter we read of a situation which, in a sense, describes our day. Ezekiel deals with several classes of people. He begins at the with the right place He cites a religious leaders. conspiracy of the prophets, a violation of the law and the profanation of holy things by the priests, a ruling for money on the part of the princes, and the oppression of the poor and needy by the people. The religious leaders had failed to distinguish between right and wrong. - The majority of our religious leaders have turned blind eyes and deaf ears to conditions and have gone along with the popular trend. God said to His prophets of old, I have set thee over the nations, and you are to proclaim My Truth so that kings and rulers might be instructed, and justice and peace might Men reign in the land. today who should be decrying evil in high places are conniving with evil, respectability lending to evil, and whitewashing our leaders. Our only hope is a return to the principles of Gods Word. We need strong denunciatory preaching of Our problem today, in large measure, is the fault of the clergy. There has not been a strong line of demarcation between good the Word to separate sin from holiness, evil from good, and unrighteousness from righteousness. When a people can no longer distinguish truth from error because ministers have failed to draw the line, the nation is without hope, and the judgment of God must and evil. People have been led to follow the whims of desire instead of the demands of Scripture. To base actions on opinion, emotion, and interpretation is to revert to the times of the judges when every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Without a codified rule of life, there is bound to be chaos. fall. Bob Jones Bob Jones University Greenville, South Carolina -- Dr. ee k f? .i 1: M t s s 1 exclude business men who manipulate them. is saying, in effect. it competitors; Rather, the censure should be that government-lik- e control is directed at the false idea that there preferable to voluntary exchange js a moral right to strike. power to If is impossible to rightly govern without God and the Bible. between buyers and sellers, each of Leonard E. REad is free whom to accept or reject the others best offer. In other words, --For a splendid explanation as to to sanction a right to strike is to why men of questionable character We do not belong to our declare that might, makes obtain control of unlimited power patrons. Our paper is wholly our right which is to reject the only situations, see Chapter X, Why foundation upon which civilization the Worst Get on Top in The own; stand. can Whoever may like it Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek. root of at the the Write FEE for paperbound copy, Lying deep may take it, strike is the persistent notion that 248 pp $1.50. Who dont can just let it an employee has a right to continue alone. an engagement once he has begun it, as if the engagement were his GREGORYS Come in and see our of notion own piece property. The HOLIDAY SPECIALS is readily exposed as false when on examined in the patient-physicia- n Vitamins Mixer A job is but an relationship. Water Purifier Juicers exchange affair, having existence Flour Mill Books only duringthe life of the exchange. 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