Evening star., 1934-09-03
FOES Of LIBERTY
SCORED BY BORAH
Senator Rallies Labor to
Defend Democracy and
Preserve Freedom.
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ulterior purposes. It is not a question
of surrendering liberty and attaining
security. The question is, Shall we
surrender liberty and lose Security?'
"The siren song of security has won
over labor in more than one country
of the Old World and the invariable
result has been the loss of both Sc
curity and liberty.
Would Be Betrayal.
"Any scheme for security, based
upon the surrender of liberty as we
Americans understand that term and
as it is imbedded and preserved in our
constitutional form of government.
would be betrayal of American labor
and American civilization
Senator Borah, when Congress ad-
tourned, declared a one-man cam
paign against the bureaucratic gov
ernment of the New Deal and the mo-
nopolistic tendencies which he found
in the operation of the N. R. A. He
said today:
mo one knows better than labor
that, where constitutional government
has been broken down, supplanted by
the totalitarian or bureaucratic state,
labor has Immediately been robbed of
its rights, its freedom of action and
forced down to the level of economic
slavery.
Cites Foreign Trends.
"No one knows better than labor
that in all these schemes Of absolute
government, of arbitrary power, such
as Fascism, NaZi-ism or Communism,
the soul of labor has been tortured,
murdered and that only enSlaved,
brute force remains-that back Of all
arbitrary governments are hunger and
peonage for the average man and
woman-that behind all Hitlers covet-
ing power and promising freer days
stands a Thyssen with his monopo-
liStic schemes forging ShackleS Tor the
toiler.
There is no exception to the rule,
and never has been, and If we are
to Judge the future by the past, never
will be, that when constitutional gov
ernment has been destroyed and lib
erty has been denied or forfeited,
labor becomes the victim of ambition
on the one hand and the prey of
greed on the other"
Often Caught in Trap.
Senator Borah said that more than
once "this trap" (based on the sur
render of liberty has been set and
more than once peoples have been
caught in it. He continued:
''Need I cite the nations or call
the names of people as an illustra-
ton? They are to be found upon
every hand. We read of their doings
daily in the press. In what country
has labor the least security, where is
the standard of living lowest, where
the outlook darkest? In precisely those
countries where labor has thus been
betrayed in the name of security.
Constitutional rights and liberties
are the weapons by which the average
man and woman are to win ultimate
security and the only weapons by
which they can hold the field after
the battle is won. A free people are
entitled to have both liberty and Sc
curity. Let's keep our heads and
we will get them. The hour will
never be dark enough and adversely
will never be deep enough to justify
the American people in surrendering
any part of the essentials of liberty
In the name of security.
Substitute Not Clear.
"There is another rather important
and surprising pronouncement not in
frequently heard of late, and that
Is this: That in our modern economic
life democracy will not work. 1t has
broken down. We must have some
thing else. Just what we are to have,
just what Is to be selected out of the
wilderness Of disjointed, incoherent
and discredited schemes floating to
the surface, to take the place of
democracy, Is not clear. In all the
wrecks Of governments which lie be-
hind us and in all the experiments
now being tried out. it still seems
difficult to select a model with which
to supplant democracy. But some
thing else we must have Democracy
was fairly satisfactory in the period
"a eAAS oAAARAC me- bAlC 44CC, QCIlSu
days of our fathers, but not now.
That with which the fathers got along
very well will not do for the children.
In these days of the radio and movies
and monopolies. democracy will not
work.
How do we know it will not work?
Who has tried to make democracy
work in any particular crisis and
found it to be a failure? Who at
any time has summoned the energy,
the reserve intellectual and moral
forces Of our democracy, and when
SO summoned, found democracy un-
willing or incapable OF effective re-
sponse? II the men who guided this
democracy during the first 100 years
of its existence and during a period
when democracy was truly on trial
had had no faith in democracy, if
their zeal had been enervated by a