Gunnison Valley News | 1929-08-15 | Page 4 | Warning worth Heeding

'warning worth j HEEDING. j The United States is drifting slowly slow-ly toward state socialism, in the opin-jion opin-jion of Matthew W oil,, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor. "The socialism of Marx we could escape," says Mr. Woll, ''because it could not come except by a deliberate willing of its coming. It could not come upon us unaware. The new form of state socialism and I think that name for it is as accurate as any can come upon us unawares, can grow on us, can develop around and over us out of the very democracy we have cherished, and1 can seem, in the coming, to be a protecting force instead in-stead of a blanketing incumbus. ''We are at a crossroad where we must decide whether, in our vast new world of industry, we are to submit to an insidiously envolving suzerainty of the state, or whether we are to find means of preserving the democracy demo-cracy of our fathers, the freedom of our earlier days, the institutions which have marked the United Stages apart among nations as a country in which the individual did amount to something and could move to please the inner urgings of a sovereign citizen."