Show Letter to the Editor Dear Editor N Now ow when governments are encroaching ever more on Individual individual individual indi Indi- vidual rights and freedoms we would do well to heed words of advice given by former Church President David 0 O. O Mc Mc- Kay Individual freedom is threatened by international rivalries racial Inter-racial animosities animosIties animosities animos animos- and false political Ideals Unwise legislation too often prompted by political expediency expediency expediency ency is periodically being en enacted enacted enacted en- en acted that seductively undermines undermines undermines under under- mines mans man's right of free agency agency agency agen agen- cy robs him of ol his rightful liberties and makes him but a cog in the crushing wheel of a regimentation which if persis ted In will end In dictatorship The Magna Charta signed by King John at Runnymeade June 15 1215 was an expression of loving freedom-loving men against a usurping king It was a guarantee guarantee guarantee guar guar- antee of civil and personal lib lib lib- erty These guarantees later found fuller and more complete expression in the Constitution of the United States Today seven hundred years later consider consider con con- sider alder what Is happening in Great Britain With nationalization of of industries planned economy control of all productive power including persons and property that country of loving liberty-loving people Is on the verge of a totalitarian state as dictatorial f fas as that which the feudal barons and the people wrested from 1 King Xing John People are bargaining bargain bargain- ing their liberty for lor a chimera of equality and security not realizing that the more power you give the central government government government govern govern- ment the more you curtail your individual vidual freedom Governments are the servants servants servants ser ser- not the masters of the people All who love the Constitution Constitution Constitution Con Con- of the United States can vow with Thomas Jefferson who when he was President said t l have sworn upon the altar allar of or God eternal hostility against every form of or tyranny over the mind of oC man To preserve our independence we must not letour let letour letour our rulers load us with perpetual perpetual perpetual per per- debt We must take our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servi servi- tude If Ie we run Into such debts we must be taxed In our mealand meat meal and drink in our necessities and in our comforts In our labors and In our amusements If It we can prevent the government government government govern govern- ment from Crom wasting the labors labor of or the people under pretense of or a caring for Cor them they will be happy The same same prudence prudence which In private life would forbid forbid forbid for for- bid our paying our money for unexplained projects forbids itin ItIn it itin in the disposition of public money We are endeavoring to reduce the government to the practice of oC rigid economy to avoid burdening the people and arming the magistrate with a patronage of or money which might be used to corrupt the principles ples pIes of or our government Leaders In our Government today would do well to follow tallow this teaching and example of Thomas Jefferson Jetterson Joe Rice r |