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Show II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 H 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 It 1 1 M I I II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II III 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 II I It 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 II 1 1 1 What Is the Lifeblood That Keeps Industry Alive, Growing and Prosperous? By CHARLES R. CLARK, in The Independent What is the lifeblood that keeps industry alive and growing and prosperous? What is the vital fluid which our civilization must have in free supply, or wither and die? To understand the situation clearly we go back to the origins of our governments, and what do we find? We find that the United States was not founded on a group of people, rut on an individual the American citizen. The Constitution, which was drawn and adopted aa the basic law of our country, was erected from the first word to the last on one single, simple principle. That principle was nothing more than an acknowledgment of the right of every individual to liberty of person, liberty of property, and liberty of contract. Flora this single, simple principle has grown the tremendous industrial civilization civiliza-tion of our nation today. The foundation of all our greatness is the human individual, and his right to work, play, love, and worship as he will. All our marvelous economic progress, which is the wonder of the world, has been based on the individual, and not on government, as the mainspring of activity. There is no American industry that has been invented and developed and built up by government. The origin, and life, and growth, and success of every business in this country has been in the minds and hearts of individuals. Our nation's greatness grows from private enterprise. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItllllllllllfllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllliiiiiiiin. |