The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-02
BUTLER FLAYS
COMMUNISM
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collectivism are Of necessity re.
dictionary and can, in the end
bring only unhappinesS, suffer
ing and disaster to those masses
which they are supposed to be
able to aid. The real problem
here is not to suppress or to
limit individual ability or IN
dividual activity, or to prevent
that man who can do better
work than his fellows with his
hands or with his head from en-
joying the fruit of his labOrS
and of whatever he may be able
to save from his earnings after
having met his comfortable liV'
lng costs"
PLEADS FOR JEFFERSON
In pleading for the preservation
Of Jeffersonian principles, ne
said:
Thomas Jefferson was look
ing chiefly at the relation OF
government to the individual
and his freedom, and he never
ceased insisting upon the truth
that in a land of free men,
government is the servant OF
the citizen and that the citizen
Is not the servant of govern
ment."
Pointing to the fact that the
nennocratic party had been called
into being by jefferson and that
It had recognized this fact repeat
edly in it's national platforms, But
at IS a queer happening in
the history of American politics
that the chief fundamentally
for contradicting Thomas Jeffer'
son should be the present-day
leaders of the political party Of
which he was the inspiration"
Asking if it can be that Jeffer-
son is the forgotten man as he
was described by Randolph Hearst
In a recent editorial, DR.. Butler
said:
every believer in govern
mental RECOMMENDATION Of bust
ness, of agriculture or of indus
try cOntradicts Thomas Jeffer-
son. Every Communist, every
Nazi-Socialist, every Fascist and
every American sympathizer
with any of these forms of gov
eminent and social organization
cOntradicts Thomas Jefferson.
I.ashing, at the "taX-the-thrifty'
program of the Government, he
said:
cat this point we begin to see
that all share the wealth pro-
grams are misnamed. They
really should be called steal the
wealth programs.
at is not their intention to
provide new and larger OppOr"
tunitieS for fruitful labor,
whether by hand or by brain.
but rather to take by force some
part of those savings which the
work and thrift of others have
enabled them to build up"
VIOLATIONS OF RIGHTS
In the present abuses of the
power to tax. he saw the Vlo'
lation of the Bill of Rights and
the determined undermining OF
the Constitution. He said:
"When the power to tax Is
used for the purpose of punish
ing individuals or groups, or for
the purpose of effecting, whether
consciously or uncOnSciOuSly,
economic, social or political rev.
Olution, then every principle
which the American people hold
most dear is under attack and
in danger of fatal damage or
overthrow.
eff the taxing power be hab-
itualIy used, not to support
through a balanced budget an
economical and wisely admin
istered Government which is
Winding its own proper bust
ness, but rather to diScrim-
mate against and to punish in
dividuals, undertakings and
groups, tucuS "AUAOuV A0NAA6
amended our Constitution in
any way, we shall have well be
gun to undermine its founda-
tiOnS."
"The vengeful desire on the
part of the Government to place
an inOrdinateIy high tax upon
personal and corporate incomes
and upon personal estates will
shortly be seen to have a pro-
foundly disturbing effect on the
general welfare.
1T must quickly bring about
the dismissal from their well
come occupations at satisfactory
compensation, not tens of thou
sands, but hundreds of thou
sands of men and women. 1t
must disarrange and cripple In