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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand CLICHES OF SOCIALISM a devotee When of private property, free market, limited government principles states his position, he is inevitably confronted with a barrage of socialistic cliches. Failure to answer these has effectively silenced many a spokesman for freedom. Here are suggested answers to some of the most persistent of the Cliches of Socialism.1 These are not the only answers or even the best possible answers; butthey may help you or others to develop better explanations of the ideas on liberty' that are the only effective displacement for the empty promises of socialism. 'If free enterprise really works, why the Great Depression? To enumerate the blessings fractional-reserv- e April 15, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 3 central banking capable of irresponsible and uncontrollable expansion of the supply of money and credit the engine of inflation. And this engine has been used with monotonous regulatory - in an attempt to finance, implement, camouflage, nullify, or offset the many other costly programs of government intervention. We' have had a steeply graduated income tax to penalize the thrifty and successful. We have had government regulation and control of transportation, public utilities, and many other business enterprises. Much of the more recent legislation giving special coercive powers to the leaders of organized labor had its origin during World War I. Especially in the 1920s, we began experimenting on a majpr scale with farm support programs. We have had wage and hour legislation, tariffs, and many other forms of protectionism and government control. But, most and worst of all was the inflation growing out of the deficit spending of. World War I and the Federal system and advantages of competitive private enterprise before most any audience in this day and age is to evoke the protest: Well, if the free enterprise system is so wonderful, how do you account for the unembank failures, and ployment, business prolonged depression of Reserve Boards artificially the early 1920s? Are periodic depressed interest rates of the depressions an inevitable cost of 1920s. This government promotion freedom? Free enterprise, of course, of cheap money during and after does not prohibit or preclude World War I led at that time to human or business failure. private speculation and investment Freedom to choose, to exercise of resources in unsound business one's own judgment in the conduct ventures, just as similar policies are of his life and his business, permits doing now. During such a boom mistakes as well as growth, period there always is a great deal Among of malinvestment of economic progress, and success. fallible human beings, it is to be resources under the illusion that expected that some of us will fail in the government can and will keep some of our ventures. Human on promoting easy money infailure cannot be eliminated en- flation. The continuing inflation tirely, but the harm can be temporarily hides many of the misIt is one of the ad- - taken judgments of businessmen, localized. vantages of competitive private tempting others to make similar enterprise that the penalties for mistakes instead of taking sound With actions. failure are levied against those who corrective fail the damage is not assessed government pumping forth the inagainst the whole society and money, all businessmen are that the greatest rewards go to clined to be borrowers, until those whom their fellows deem bankers eventually find themselves most worthy of success. This is overloaned onjbad risks. The crash of 1929 was strictly the other side of the coin of personal freedom to a crash of confidence in the choose. To be held accountable for soundness of the governments ones errors is to assure the op- monetary policy the timum of responsible human ac- governments dollar the shocking tion in society. This is the primary discovery, accompanied by great reason why. the free enterprise, despair, that government intervensystem is so much to be preferred tionism or socialism doesnt work over the only possible alternative: a as promised. Free enterprise can acof central planning, system authoritarian control, dic- complish miracles of productivity, tatorship, where one man makes all but it is wholly incapable of the mistakes, always on the grand causing a major boom of scale, and always at the expense of speculative malinvestment which everyone else. The great weakness inevitably ends in a crisis of readof socialism is that no one, neither justment called depression. The opening question should the leader nor any of the followers, be restated: If government control assumes any sense of accountability or responsibility; (socialism) is so wonderful, why the Great Depression? What someone else is always to blame. in what 1929, This is why the advocates of happened happens whenever intervention political central planning and government control are prone to cast the blame prices the various factors of for the Great Depression onto production out of the market and else to make free leaves idle plants and idle men, someone o be attributed enterprise the goat. But there is must socialism free not to enterprise. nothing in either the theory or the inPauli. Poirot practice of responsible dividualism, with individuals held accountable for their inevitable errors, that will explain a major sifch as the one depression following the boom and crash of 1929. Such massive social upheavals require some other explanation. If one looks back upon the events and causes of World War I, that our own he discovers government had long been in enterprise numerous major ways. Since 1913, we have had a politically controlled inhibiting free READERS OUTLOOK Write, The Christian Science Monitor) from J. Chowles of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, is much appreciated. To answer his questions. To what end?. ..To what purpose? I reply: Rhodesia and South Africa are to be sacrificed, courtesy of the duped American taxpayers, as were the Russian people and all the other millions now behind the Iron Curtain, the Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodians, etc., as well as those now under communist (spell that internationalist) control in this hemisphere, to accomplish the carefully concealed, long-ranbillionaires plans of power-hungwho, alone, have profited by all the wars fought so far in vain in the cause .of peace! Americans will be next unless we waken to the fact that our county governments are now being Federal merged, quietly, as COGs; at least one formerly sovereign state, Montana, is now controlled by a Federal appointee in Denver, Colorado (the Capital of Federal Region VIII); have recently been Congressmen led (some Unwittingly) to sign a Declaration of 7iterdependence designed to replace our astute ge ry Declaration of Independence; and now a Constitution for the Newstates of forefathers America has been proposed and will be pushed for referendum in Americas this, Year! May God guide us all to put Him first in everything, that His. will may be done on Earth, and soon! Yours for an alert, informed and active Gtizenry, Blanche D. Harrison Washington, D.C. 20003 DOUBLE-PAI- AGENTS D Dear Editor After Krushchev told Eisenhower that they should merge their intelligence services since they were both paying the same people, we could understand why Ike then opposed Sen. McCarthys exposures of communists in our government. Too many of them on the payrolls of both countries. And now, when the Church Pike and Committees were the CIA exposing they, too, avoided the exposure of the KGB, fearing perhaps that too many agents would be on the payrolls of both angencies? That Krushchev thought these double-pa- y arrangements were so funny shows who gains from it, and who loses. OSHtApo DE-FANG- ED Captain Joe H. Ferguson FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS CONSTITUTION The fact that a federal court has upheld the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land is news in itself. And in this case, it is especially good news! A three-judfederal court in eastern Texas has ruled that the owner of a business has a right to demand that an inspector from OSHA (Ocu pational Safety and Health Administration) must go to court and get a warrant under the rules of probable cause in order to enter a business and conduct an investigation. The court found that the 1970 act creating OSHA attempted..." a broad partial repeal of the Fourth Amendment", which is "beyond the powers of Congress". Of course, this is a fact that thinking Americans have known since the inception of OSHA. It is heartening that an American businessman has had the courage to defy OSHA and take them to court. And it is especially heartening that the court has found in favor of the Constitution and the American citizens. ge OSHA BATTLES ALL OVER COUNTRY From Texas to Idaho to South Dakota, Americans are upholding the Constitution and telling the OSHtApo where to get off. A second victory against the gestapo-lik- e tactics of OSHA was won on February 19 before U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Bogue in Rapid Gty. The Judge ruled that an American employer can demand that an OSHA inspector prove his identity by filling out a Public Servants Questionnaire". Now, any American businessman worth his salt will make this demand, and also demand a warrant before OSHA or an agent from any other federal agency comes into his place. The information on the above two rulings was presented in the Bulletin of the John Birch Society for April, which went to approximately one hundred thousand members. The May issue will contain more information on the Public Servants Questionnaire, and this writer will pass it on to you. The John Birch Society, Belmont, Mass. 02178, has been probably the most effective organization in getting information to people regarding OSHA, and in getting its powers curtailed. Lets spread the word! FERGUSON TO ANNOUNCE FOR CONGRESS APRIL 15th Joe H. Ferguson, captain for much Frontier Airlines and a figure in the well-kno- conservative movement and Utah politics, will announce his candidacy tor the nomination for United States House of Representatives Thursday morning, April 15 at 9:30 AM. Ferguson said he chose April 15 to announce because of its also being the deadline for filing income tax returns. With taxes now taking 37 of the gross national product. this date has come to be one of ' significance to all Americans, Ferguson stated that the main thrust of his campaign will be against high taxes, increasing flation, and an uncontrollable bureaucracy. A reception and ne ws conference will be held at the above time at the Hawk's Nest on the third floor of the main terminal at Salt Lake Gty International Airport. All campaign workers and friends are invited. Sincerely, . J. Kesner Kahn Chicago, 111. 60649 Political Arithmatic Continued from page 2 year. The dollar is doomed unless remedial action is taken soon. in ANSWER: Stop the annual $30 billion rip-o- ff in the welfare the regulaagencies, and equal wastage businesses tive complex. , Sell the government-owne- d back to private industry, thus realizing a capital sum of many billions of dollars, plus saving an annual operating loss of additional billions. Economics Department NORTHIVOOD INSTITUTE Ih Mm lndp.nd.nt Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Independent Is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $10.00 by surface mail in the United States, $15.00 foreign. Second Class Postage nd chang Paid at Salt Lake City of address forms and corraspondonca to 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Utah's Largest and Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly 1 |