The Washington times., 1935-05-08
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But to be real, "value" must
be something that is possible.
Furthermore, it must be net
that is, it must mean a good
which is greater than the ills
! which accompany it.
And an individual has self
and a self respect, which, if they
be destroyed, may bring greatly
reduced human values.
The New Deal" and the
Union for Social Justice" in
seeking impracticable things, and
in proposing collectiViSt or mob
rule, it seems to me, are leading
their followers away from human
values. BY proposing measures
designed to rob large numbers OF
the people of their life savings,
and to encourage millions to prey
upon their fellow citizens, they
destroy human values.
| Why should So-called human
values" always seem to involve
| legislative coercion, compelling
some humans to give up what
| thew have not earned? The pun
ing others by giving to them what
thye have not earned? The pun
ishment and prevention of fraud
or exploitation do not require gen.
eral appropriation OF wealth.
Human values are, above all, in
dividual and personal. They can
not be dealt with by blanket
regulations. Nothing is more in
human than RECOMMENDATION and
collectivism.
The President surely forgets
human values when he does not
heed the cries of thousands of
small investors in utility COM
| panieS.
The priest surely forgets human
values when he incites hate
against banks" and revileS so
honorable and good citizen as
Senator Carter Glass.
Which, 1 wonder, is more
conducive to human values -
1) to hasten business recovery
so that millions may find self
respecting employment in pro
ductive work, or (2) to prOlOng
this deadly uncertainty SO that
millions become hardened to the
demOralizing system of relief?
Which is more humane-N) 10
stop unemployment, or CD to re-
lieve the unemployed?
These social reformer" per.
sons seem to be unable to under
stand that economic values are
human values. Economic values
represent balancing of human
desires against human costs. 1t
is necessary only to stamp out
monopoly and exploitation to make
them the measure of human we'll
being. (And I think that Govern"
ment monopoly and political ex-
ploitation are more difficult to
| deal with than private monopoly
and exploitation)
Not all human beings are
laborers. Many millions are shop
keepers, white collar workers, and
employers. Even capitalists and
bankers are human beings!
Is it inhuman to count the cost
of things, and to avoid debt or
doing things which cost more
than they bring in?
Why must the human value ad-
dict always be trying to buck
against the realities of nature and
economic law? ITO err is hui
man"-but it is not value!
Surely no human value is served
by destroying the products Of
human labor, or by taxing them
so heavily that the human con.
sumers can't afford to buy them
Unless we believe that humans
are fools, fail to see why human
values should involve doing fool
ish things.
One of the greatest human
values of which 1 know is that
of an orderly existence based on
stable government, stable EN-,
plOyment, stable money and
thrift, with equal opportunity
to rise on the basis of merit.
! Do you honestly think this is
the condition that these poll
ticianS are talking about?