Show One Hundred Billion Dollars Are the people of indifferent to their fate or do they accept a journey to the port of dictatorship as but a temporary diversion from the conventional routine of everyday life In answer to my recent request one of Mr Mor- Mor g assistants wrote me that since 1933 the government has paid the farmers in subsidies 9 the W. W P. P A. A for make work ten and a half billion dollars for maintaining the C. C C. C C. C three billion dollars the N. N Y A. A Six hundred million and undoubtedly unjustifiable relief would account for another ten billion dollars making over or about third one-third of our present national def def- def def- This colossal spending probably inthe in inthe inthe the worlds world's administrative history was in no respect a necessary part of legitimate government expense and its continuation is sweeping us toward complete complete complete com com- national bankruptcy and the of de de- de- de This is not a bad dream but a tragic fact and unless the people of America awaken to their danger they will soon find themselves permanently goose stepping to a totalitarian dirge For a time as the New Deal first handicapped the people with one regimentation after another it was accepted as a de depression emergency an and d few surmised surmised surmised sur sur- that it was vIas the beginning of the end of personal personal personal per per- rights or independent achievement But if one will look about him he will discover that today what we eat what we drink what we wear where we vye go how we go where one lives what one earns we spend what we vIe buy and how it is paid whom we hire whom we discharge and every other act of our daily lives is directed all or in part from Washington A mans man's patriotism is questioned if he fails to submit meekly to the complete confiscation of his civic rights and his God-given God heritage of personal person person- al liberty Long established businesses are wiped out with no more regard for stockholders or employees employ employ- ees than would be expressed for a swatted fly and individual initiative is scorned as an out and archaic sentiment At this writing the administration tion asks the people of the nation to give it ONE ONEHUNDRED ONEHUNDRED ONEHUNDRED HUNDRED BILLION more to s pend Will all of it be spent to help the boys behind the guns or will Billions of this money by harassed taxpayers ers ers be again diverted to keep up political fences to pay subsidies to large voting groups and the cultivation cultivation cultivation of costly social rackets while little business I Ifor I for want of business in its grave of ignominious ignominious ignominious igno igno- minious defeat Mr Ickes Secretary of the Interior said in irfan an interview interview interview in in- last Wednesday Should the small business businessman man go we vre all go C. C. C B. B Pearsall in the Salt Lake Tribune of Jan- Jan 17 1943 We are glad that Mr Pearsall wrote this glad that he not ourselves wrote it for there vl will ll be less I criticism as coming coining so truthfully from his pen and I not from ours Our present administration is extravagant extravagant extravagant I in in all its branches in in all its ramifications Mr Frank A. A Kent wrote to the same effect in his column column column col col- col- col only this week Some day we will come out of our mass thinking thinking thinking think think- ing divorce our rubber stamp minds to follow the leaders leader's course courser and attain some degree of sanity I |