Show I WilY WHY THE TIlE CAMOUFLAGE REQUESTS REQUESTS' are being sent asking operation co-operation of the press in placing before the public the platform and program for constructive democracy as fathered by the new National Party organized October 3 4 3 1917 1017 Enclosed with the letter is the program program program pro pro- gram and platform On reading it all through we find findt It t the old story camouflaged under under under un un- der a new name name National National Party sounds lounds better than When this party was organized It seemed to be closely affiliated with the he widely advertised Partisan Non-Partisan League eague Here was another case of camouflage camou- camou lago flage for tor the name Partisan Non covered the rankest socialistic tlc program program pro pro- program gram ever over exploited in Am America i On close study tudy of the new party part program the only difference one can see ee blOt between it and the Partisan Non-Partisan League ague is Ia that the National Party Is s better camouflaged In that its socialistic so- so a Is clothed in better literary style Its program Is more dangerous however as It is much more far far reaching caching It advocates everything I the he Partisan Non League does but goes much farther In favoring pater peter paternalism and bureaucratic control of Individual liberty It prates about freedom of speech and control of all utilities and then turns turn urns right aro around nd land and advocates advocate I public ow ownership e and oper operation of team steam and ead electric railroads shipping telegraphs telegraph and telephones coal and metal mines water power natural gas and oil wells light and power plants timber Umber lands land terminal warehouses ware ware- I houses hO and elevators packing plants plant and flour mill mills aid aud all other public I utilities and basic industries which which depend on PU fran or require I large rg scale operation In other word words It H t favors public ownership of 01 any any- thing bigger than thana R a f Peanut at stand nd and aed it If you happened to wn i two tw-o peanut stands lands t the te e public ought to own the th business l. l It ft t favors Il I tux tar ov I ern t Insurance C of ot r ent brand brands continually lug Ing days etc sic etc It would remove e all aU Incentive for tor I individual activity and make every citizen and workman subject to the I I bureaucratic rule of an an official ar ar- l I Shades Shade of or George Ceorge Washington are the American people ready to give up their birthright of individual activity ty and and be satisfied to exist Under tinder a system eft df pa paternalism that would I transform them into more cogs in a whee wheel of officialdom which would cau cause e Germanys Germany's highly centralized and autocratic form of handling the individual liberties of Its p people ople to pale Into We are Indeed drifting far away from tl the e safe and sane principles of American democracy when an an American American Amer Amer- ican colleye as is being done in this case apparently allows itself to be used for the exploration of these European ideas of socialism and pa pa- The The Manufacturer |