The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-02

ing to create equal opportunities for all. 1t is
irving to give every family the chance to own a
home and every landless farmer the chance to be-
come the owner of the soil which he tills
These changes cannot be accomplished except
oraduaIv The most that can be done for the
landess farmer, for example, Is to make 1t pos
sible for him to buy land and pay for 1T over
period of time provided he proves hlmsef 10 De
honest, capable and Woodworking If ne is not IN
dustrious, thrifty competent and worthy OF trust
it is not in the power of government to assist nm
Ear towards the goal of home ownership.
In all this there is nothing that is foreign to
our American doctrine. On the contrary, it is an
attempted fulfment of the principles which as a
nation we have professed from the founding OF
oar government.
But the political demagogue who breaches that
millions can be made prosperous by arbitrarily
taking from those who have and giving to those
who have not, through what is called "red1strl-
button of wealth." breaches that which our COM
mon sense as we'll as all human experience should
tell us is viciously false.
So also as to those Missionaries who have figured
it out that they have discovered some scheme by
which millions of people can be maintained IN
luxury without work from this time on, not only
withou tthe imposition of an iRtolerable burden
upon the government but actually to the enrich
ment of the country's population whole Those
who think this are seeing mirages. They are the
victims of decisions.
Nothing of this kind has ever been accomplished
anywhere since the world began. Such dreams are
idle because they are hopeless of falfllment. They
are dangerous because those who cherish them are
sure to be disappointed bitterly.
Preachments and proposals that have for their
purpose the exatation of class hatreds and of the
doctrine that there is some magic in government
to make everybody prosperous, and equally pros
porous may not be labeled Communstic but they
are saturated with the spirit of Communistic error
Communism in Soviet Russia, We know,
has not operated to make everybody there alike
prosperous 1t has operated to make millions equal
ly miserable.
Farmers especially should know and remember
that in those countries where private enterprise
has been stifled and government has been made
supreme it is the farmers who have been penalized
most.
In Soviet Russia the larger farmers were ruth
lessly exterminated and the small farmers have
been treated like slaves. They tried to resist and
so many of them killed their cattle and sheep and
swine and goats rather than turn them over to the
State that there is still the greatest shortage of
livestock in Russia. But all resistance was futile.
Hundreds of thousands of Russian farmers were
driven from their homes, either to perish in Arctic
wastes or to labor under the lash public works.
There is the highest testimony that in the great
Russian famine of two years ago millions of farm
ers were literally left by the government to stave
Moscow claims that the Russian grain supply IS
now adequate but black bread, the standard ra
tion is selling in Russia today at 80 cents pound;
and the earnings of most workers pitifuly low.
Millions of people there never get enough to eat.
There has been no magic in Communism to save
the masses of the population there and especially
the farm population, from the severest hardshps
and sufferings.
Let US hold fast to the truths that have been
tested through the ages. 1t was because they held
to these truths that our fathers made this coun-
try the great nation it became. The heritage they
bequeathed us it is our privilege and our duty to
maintain.