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Show Page 4 THE AMERICAN STATESMAN Inaugural Ball To Honor Lee Friday, December 4, 1959 FLIGHT TO R USSIA Tax-Gather- er (Continued from Page 1 Col 4) Mayor-eleJ. Bracken Lee will ments he could come up with a There was another promise that be honored Tuesday evening, Janu- canvas Orwells famous America held forth during most of rivalling ary 4, 1960, with an inaugural ban1984. its first century of unorganized quet and ball under the auspices existence. Except for the indenThe Flight of the Citizens for Lee Committee. tured, they held to the The plot, which I will suggest terms assuming of these immiE. committee servitude, Clawson, Kingsley later on, is not startling; just the knew they could keep all grants chairman, said reservations are be- usual ingredients of romance and they produced; there was no ing made for 1,500 guests, including adventure. It is the background to claim a share of their state and church city, dignitaries. of the so The affair will be held at the Un- hypothesisas to be story that is earnings. This assurance of comalmost bizarre startling ion Building Ballroom, University a. plete ownership induced industry necessary quality Of science fic and thrift The of Utah. immigrants therefore tion and thus gives promise of themselves to their tasks applied Tickets are $10.00 and may be attracting attention. The genius of with vigor and in short order came purchased at Citizens for Lee Head the fictioneer would be demonstrat- up with an excess over consumpquarters, 345 South State Street, ed by his ability to make this hypo- tion, a profit which they invested Suite 109, Salt Lake City. Mail thesis believable; that America, the in what we call capital: ships and orders should be sent to the same land that for over three centuries and all of devices to sorts shops was the land of the immigrant, had address. Phone DA their Unfortunateimprove output become the land from which the when became evitheir ly, opulence Dinner music and other enter- sons of that were immigrant the inevitable dent tainment will .highlight the ban- fleeing, and that the point of atshowed up, and though his demands quet which will be followed by traction for than had become, of were modest they resented his dancing in the beautifully appoint- all places, Russia. and shortly threw him into presence ed ballroom. Dress will be optional the Atlantic Ocean. This took some Year 2084 Many nationally prominent citiIf he has a sound grasp of the doing in fact seven years of war zens, friends and admirers of Mayor-e- social sciences, he could adduce but, being men of freedom, they lect Lee, have been invited, ac- facts and logic enough to turn this thought the effort worth while. into Mr. Clawson. cording They into a plausible theory, clude. U.S. Senator Barry Gold-wate- r, hypothesis Admits Sin and thus assure his product of sucleader the of acknowledged cess. I would suggest that However, the immigrants, being nations conservatives; Miss Cor-rin- he However, in the ways of mankind, knew wise his far prognostication put Griffith, motion picture star enough into the future, say 2084, that they could not do without the and leader in ORF1T, organization so that if he should forever. Taking a go wrong in for repeal of the federal income tax; his estimates he will not in lode the mirror they debe around good Hubbard Russell, past president of to suffer the brickbats. tected unmistakable traces of the National Cattlemens AssociaAdam's sin: the desire for sometion and a member of the Board Refuge thing for nothing. Knowing that of the AMERICAN STATESMAN; Somewhere in. the development they could not prosper if they did Dan Smoot, radio and TV com- of his story he must explain what not set up some external constraint mentator, and various other prom- it was about America that attracted on their larcenous inclinations, inent individuals dedicated to the immigrants for so many years, so they hired, by compact, a policepreservation of constitutional that the reader will understand why man to keep the peace. That is, the offspring of these immigrants they instituted government. Since have turned sour on that land. He this government was, by the terms must point out, for instance, that of its employment, incapable of the principal magnet of America producing its keep, they agreed to in the beginning was the absence support it out of their wages. of governmental restraints; what else did the wilderness have to Limit Power offer superior to the places they But, they kept that government left behind? .Those who suffered Their own experience and The U.S. has probably never had disabilities imposed on them by poor. their a more interesting or reasonable-soundin- g their understanding of history or by built into govvisitor than Professor legally-encrust-respective governments, traditions, picked taught them that ernment of the is an head S. overweening urge Vasily Yemelyanov, up sticks and went West America to at the expense of atomic program of the USSR, who, was power, grasp had those who of the is the with nine other Soviet atom wizards run afoulrefuge supposed to serve, people it of the law, of hounded y amount of power it tour and the has just completed a that dissidents, of disinherited religious cendirect atomic research of is hold of our biggest in proportion n second sons, of prison- gets in taxes. can collect to ters. it what of ers, of all who had lost hope new Prof. Yemelyanov is urging us rising above the station to which Therefore, in establishing their care to limit to join with the Reds in the de- law and custom consigned them. government they tookwas it its permitted power; taxing so The fact that they took a chance velopment of atoms-for-peaand to levy duties to collect import that instead of making nuclear reproof sufficient that they had some excise more. taxes; nothing search a race or a football reedom in their hearts. do to The proclivity governments game," the two countries share the the in held of was restraint thus the mischief face off could we wipe costs and avoid the extravagance earth all our potential enemies." of competition with each other. In pressing his plan for disarmaFreedom Nothing would seem to make more ment, he also said, We are ready Besides keeping their government sense until we look back on the jo sink all this in the sea in the the immigrants wrote into poor, Reds perfect score of ' broken interest of insuring peace on earth. charter a device for keeping it pledges, including the $11 billion But he still doesnt want any its and weak; they were in war loans from the U.S., and 'potential enemies to attend the And though this chances. no taking until we consider the duplicity and sinking. time to time from did government the threats of the professors boss. some of circumvent to And, in view of the fact that manage Only the day before Mr. Yemelon the it was, these limitations, yanov made his plea for nuclear Russias nuclear development is of most leash in during collaboration, Nikita Khrushchev built on the secrets Red spies stole whole, kept was There nineteenth century. had bragged that a single factory from the U.S., it would be safer the thrived. Security men and freedom assume and our to out USSR was in the powder dry keep turning an inordinate released rockets with hydrogen warheads at that we must still have some of property atomic secrets the Kremlin wants. amount of energy for the improvethe rate of 250 a year. and If we were attacked, he told Unfortunately, this is the only ment of their circumstances the widening of their horizons, so newsmen at a Kremlin reception, safe attitude.- ' ct tax-gather- tax-gather- ne tax-gather- er er ed 15-da- debt-ridde- world had never known. No Hinderance And America continued to be the magnet of the oppressed and the dispossessed of other countries. They came and they built The Poles came to work in the coal mines so that their sons could go to college and play football; the Irish to build railroads and to help the Sinn Fein movement in the old country; the Swedes, tired of trying to dig a living out of rocks, to farm fertile farm land and to build cities on the prairie; the Germans, fleeing from their Prussian overlords, to open tailoring establishments and banks; the Jews to peddle pots and pans and with their profits to build department stores; the Syrians to sell carpets; the Italians to dig ditches and spread their love of music; and so on. They all came to make their way in life under their own steam, without let or hinderance, which is a condition of freedom. . off-balan- by Frank Chodorov of the liberty foe immigrants so cherished.' It was a transference of economic power from the producers to politicians. Those who framed the Constitution had been fully aware of the consequence, that political power is determined by economic power, and were careful s, to guard against it; but their overcome by the something for nothing mirage, lost sight of the danger. great-grandson- Security The shift in power in time undermined the moral fibre of foe producers. For, as the inherent avidity of government asserted itself in constantly increasing levies on income, foe producers as a matter of necessity began looking to it for succor and for the solution of all lifes problems. was submerged in foe demand, as a right, for economic security, for government support and management of the economy by way of subsidies, loans, contracts and jobs. Dependence on the state became a virtue; dependence on oneself was derided as rugged individualism. Self-relian- ce Falsify - 16th Amendment So things were until the early century. Meanwhile, the character of the early immigrants gradually lost value because of the constantly increasing abundances enjoyed by their progeny. The human urgency for something for nothing began asserting itself with force; it seemed, in the light of this great productive evidence, that enjoyment without effort was more than a dream, it could actually be realized. Men being what they are, some had more of the good things of life than others, and cupidity read injustice in the disparity. If only some method of distributing the multiplying wealth could be devised, the inequity would be righted and all would have plenty. Leaders, particularly those with pretensions to intellectuality, not only phrased the thought bom of covetousness, but also devised a grandiose scheme of redistribution. That was the Sixteenth Amendtwentieth part of the ' ment Transference ce - . that before the end of this century the first under the new government there sprang up in the erstwhile wilderness a capital structure the like, of which the er Too Good To Be True i This change in the charter of government, as later events showed, really revised the whole thing. By giving the government a first lien on the earnings of the people it undermined the sanctity of private property, which was foe keystone Nevertheless, foe tradition of freedom was preserved in foe songs and adages of foe past, and memory kept the illusion alive. For a long time Americans continued to strive for improvement in their circumstances and, in spite of foe government, succeeded; foe momentum of custom and tradition dies down slowly, imperceptibly. In large part, foe momentum was aided by the ingenuity of the people in evading or avoiding foe payment of income taxes; the great preoccupation for many years was to find or make loopholes in foe laws, or to devise plausible falsification of income returns. The idea that morality is a relative matter, particularly in dealing with the impersonal state,' took hold; for instance, it was considered sagacious and proper to trade ones vote for a promised subvention. Moral decadence shows itself only in retrospect, long after foe corrosion has taken effect and so, Americans drifted along for many years, oblivious of foe fact that their, country, conceived in freedom, was going foe way of other nations which had turned from personal responsibility to statism. (Up to this point the novelist is dealing with the documented past The challenge to his imaginative faculty and his knowledge of social and political behavior starts with war in the making.) 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