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Show f WHY THE CAMOUFLAGE? Requests are being sent asking co-op H ' oration of the press in placing before the fiT public the platform and program for H& - constructive democracy as fathered by r the new national party, organized Octob-f Octob-f er 3 to 4, 1917. Enclosed with the letter H ' Is the program and platform, , On reading it all through we find it the H . ' old story camouflaged under a new name 'V1 "National Party" sounds better than K' '"Socialism." x "When this party was organized it seem-Hf seem-Hf etl to be closely affiliated with the wide ? . b ly advertised Non-Partisan League. ,v"; h Kere was anther case of camouflage gjf for the name '"Non-Partisan" covered Hpt the rankest socialistic program ever ex-;" ex-;" ' ploited in America. On close study of the. Hi new party program the only difference Hr ' J ' one can see between it and the Non-Par-Hj tiaan League is that the National Party v is better camouflaged in that its socialis-H socialis-H tic propoganda is clothed in better lit-H lit-H erary style. HE Its program is more dangerous, how-Mtf how-Mtf r ' ever, as it is much more far reaching. It HtC Kf advocates everything the Non-Partisan I h League does but goes much farther in Hf I favoring paternalism and bureaucratic HK s control of ; individual liberty. It prates H& - about freedom of speech and democratic Hif . . control of all utilities and then turns Hff'' , , right around and advocates .public own- K, 1''" rship and operation of steam and elec-r-Cl .lh. v trie railroads, shipping telegraphs and !" telephones, coal and metal mines, water power, natural gas and oil wells, light r and power plants, timber lands, terminal WBD v warehouses and elevators, packing plants Hp ' and flour mills and all other public utiii-H utiii-H "' ties and basic industries which depend on H" f ranchaises, or require large scale opera- H tion. In other. words it favors public H ; f ownership of anything bigger than a H ' peanut stand and if you happened to own Hv - two peanut stands the public ought to H V own the business. It favors single tax, Hp ' Lus iovernmentinsurance of several differ-His".1, differ-His".1, ' ilnwlntr! brands, continually shorter working H& "W- t would remove all incentive for indi- Hpi , i; vidual activity and make every citizen Hp4 , ' and workman subject to the bureaucrat-H bureaucrat-H -'-k ' " icrule of an official aristocracy. Hf.; ' ' ' Shades of George Washington, are the Hp(. American people ready to give up their Hj'.'" birthright of individual activity and be H ' satisfied to exist under a system of pa- w ' ternalism that would transform them in- H' to. mere cogs in a wheel of officialism H -' fhich would cause Germany's highly cen- H. tralized and autocratic form of handling H5. the individual liberties of its people .to H v pale into insignificence. HI: -We are indeed drifting far away from H the safe and sane principles of Americah H; ' democracy when an American college, as H; ' is'being done in this case, apparently al- X lows itself to be used for the exploration H;' of; these European ideas of socialism and H paternalism. Manufacturer. |