Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-11-11

"HERE will be no work for the
hungry horde of our unemployed
citizens until our high taxes are
i cut. The suffering is greater
than during our last war. If
the yoke of our high cost of gov
eminent Is not thrown of. chaos and
bankruptcy will eventually prevail.
Somehow, the people must be aroused
to this fact. That is the vital thing
that faces this country. Only then will
the people put up wartime front and
go into effective action. This National
Economy League is the peoples instru-
ment of action-their weapon for the
tax fight that must take place. This Is
the first time in our history that there
has been an effort to organize the long
suffering, too often inarticulate great
majority of our citizens to form a
peaceful army of protest. The success
of this movement is of concern and in
terest to every citizen in the country.
Our Government in the past has
functioned for the benefit of all the
people 1t is today, however. controlled
in considerable measure by groups OF
selfish but splendidly organized minori-
ties, who have a death grip on the
throat of our Government, city and
State as well as Federal. When I say
death grip, mean just that.
century and half ago our ances-
tors broke away from king who taxed
them without representation. We sud-
denly awake today to find that again
we are taxed without representation,
but this time the tax is imposed from
within While the great majority OF
our citizens have been tending to their
own business and peacefully bending
their backs to their jobs, groups, blocks
and minorities. by tehir wonderful or
carnations and Hobbies, have forced
their selfish will upon our lawmakers,
local and Federal. We, the great ma
jority. are paying taxes without voice
to support the selfish few.
Costs $4,000 ,OO0, 900 Year.
These laws for the special few have
crept into our system unaWares. until
now we find that the total yearly cost
of the Government is Sl5.000,000 900.
This is staggering and where the dam
ger lies is that it is nearly one-thlrd
OF the total income of all of our people
working for a year. 1t means that all
of the people who are employed must
pay their earnings from three months
labor each year to meet the cost OF
the Government. Let no man think,
that he is avoiding this burden OF gov
ernmental cost The people, then, are
working for the benefit of our Govern
ment. that was formed to function and
should function for the benefit Of the
people.
The Government. controlled by selfish
groups, is taking charge of the people,
and unless we are to see disorder pre-
vail and liberty gone, the people must
proceed to take charge of their Gov
eminent. Our bill of rights includes
the right of a citizen to honestly hold
and acquire property. Today, unfair
laws conflscate a citizens rightful prop
erty through taxation. Our liberty. de-
spite the safeguards OF the Constitu-
ton, has been invaded by the Govern
ment through minority imposed laws.
We must remember that the power to
taxation, not war, that has brought dis
aster to nations Of the world.
Our present crisis has been caused by
the operation of forces long accumu-
lating." We are faced with the curious
, situation of poverty and distress in the
midst of plenty. We cannot put the
blame on any one thing or any one
party or person. Democracy itself is up
for trial We have been betrayed tC
selfish minorities. not by ignorance and
the forces of evil. but by our own IN
difference and lethargy
Majority Of Citizens Blamed
The blame then rests squarely on the
shoulders of the great majority OF the
citizens of this country. 1t has become
increasingly difficult for the people to
bend the Government to its will. Proc
esses of necessary change have been
too slow. That is why in this emer-
gency some unusual procedure is neces-
sary. The Economy League has been
formed to meet this emergency by
getting millions Of members and organ
ling in congressional districts. with
the object of protecting our local, State
and Federal lawmakers from the self
ish minorities who now have those law
makers at their mercy.
There are said to be $50 lobbieS in
Washington. and every State and city
is overridden with them. There is need
for a second Declaration of Independ-
ence to break the servitude of the
people to organized minorities. The only
way to accomplish this is for the great
majority to also organize, for masses
of people cannot act in unison without
organizing.
As our Republic reaches the cross
roads there looms up vital truth,
namely, the dependence of one group
of citizens upon another. That is the
very mark of this particular brand of
civilization we believe in. We are a
Nation Of specialists. Our system is