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Show THE AMERICAN WAYl CAPITALISM NATURE'S LAW 4,' j ' r'v pm By Geori Peck mJLJ.iA.J The Reds and Pinks maintain that Capitalism is doomed, in fact, that already it is in the graveside waiting to be interred inter-red alongside of its predecessor, "Feudalism." They contend that here in America, even before World War II, Capitalism, was on the skids because of its failure fail-ure to solve the unemployment problem and to end the depression. depres-sion. But as usual the Commies and Fellow Travelers are wrong. Capitalism is not doomed; it will not vanish from the face of the earth. It was under Capitalism Cap-italism that this nation achieved prosperity and if we are ever again to attain real, abiding prosperity, it will be under Capitalism and free, private competitive enterprise. Prosperity Prosper-ity depends upon the creation and distribution of wealth, and it was under Capitalism that in the past we achieved and that in the future we will achieve a great degree o these two things. No nation ever has attained real prosperity except through industry and trade and these only can flourish under some fnrm nf panitalism. All the teachings of history prove that where private property is the most secure and enterprise is the most free, in that place always al-ways has been the greatest degree de-gree of nrosoerity, Call it selfish, if you will, man's greatest urge is the profit pro-fit motive. It always has been is now and always will be. It is biological and will never change permanently. Admittedly there are times when this urge to get ahead of the other fellow fel-low temporarily weakens and mankind gives ear to the visionaries, vision-aries, do-gooders, crack-pot theorists, the-orists, paternalistic government planners and social experimenters. experiment-ers. Right now in America there are many all too many who for the time being do not remember re-member that this nation under Capitalism achieved a higher standard of living of all classes than has any other nation in all history. They forget that Nature Na-ture developed the Capitalistic system in order that mankind could exercise his predominant urge to better his position in life. They disregard or do not know that Capitalism is the only system of economics yet devised under which the individual indi-vidual who works harder and better can forge ahead of his fellow men. The anti - Capitalists do not agree that anyone should progress pro-gress ahead of his fellows. They ignore the fact that where mankind man-kind lives under some political system where individual initiative initia-tive and thrift go unrewarded, there always will be found a deplorably low standard of liv- ing and culture. What the defamers of Capitalism Capital-ism propose for America is nothing noth-ing new. We have tried many experiments with communistic and socialistic schemes. The early Puritans tried one there was the Jamestown Plan the Shakers, and a host of others. They all failed, and why? Simply Sim-ply because the honeybees in the hive eventually objected to the drones participating to an equal degree with them. Man does not want to be on an equal basis with all his fellows. That's what the Commies fail or refuse re-fuse to recognize. Only the weak who cannot or will not pull their weight in the boat are content with equal sharing of the wealth. Thus, sooner or later, but inevitably, in-evitably, the real workers in a Communistic society rebel against . being forced to give part of their well-earned gains to those who shirk their responsibilities, respon-sibilities, and the promised, idealistic Utopia collapses like a hollow egg-shell. Natural law simply asserts itself. it-self. Planned economies cannot do a job for mankind as well as an economy that functions along natural lines, permitting the individual in-dividual to produce and keep for himself the major part of what he produces. Capitalism is the only economy so far discovered dis-covered which makes man the . master and not the servant of the State we had better think i long and well before we discard dis-card the Capitalistic System. ' |
