Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
.COV.LANDON SOUNDSREAL
ISSUE In 1886 CAMPAIGN
Warning Against Doctrine subordinat'
ing Welfare of Man to That of State
Hits Roosevelt Philosophy.

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alarmed by the spectacle; or that
America, once realization is brought
home to it, should fail to halt the
process.
Once assent is given to the under.
lying philosophy of the subordinatior
of the individual to the state; once
the principle is accepted, or once the
process is imposed on us without
clear understanding by either those
who impose it or the people on whom
it is impoSed-once this happens the
rest follows automatically. 1t can only
be arrested by some immense exertior
Of the peoples understanding anc
strength, such as the election next
year offers opportunity for.
Individual Subordinated.
Once the principle is accepted that
the individual is subordinated to the
state. not only is the individual sub
merged. Every group within the state
must be similarly repreSsed. Only tc
the state must any loyalty be given
The ideal Of the new conception. the
'totalitarian state cannot permit any
group within the state to have any
degree of power or receive any de.
gree of loyalty. In Germany the
labor unions are being liquidated
The local units of government are
being gradually shorn of prerogative
Even religion must be abolished. Ir
Germany religion is being drastically
restrained and in Russia it is prac-
tically abolished. In Italy Musso.
lini has not yet got around to thi,
stage of the authoritarian state" but
probably that is only because next
door to Mussolini in Rome is the pow.
erful capital of the Catholic Church
and Mussolini does not yet dare tc
take that step in the program Of subor.
dination of all other groups to the
state.
Only one who is aware of the di.
rection in which America is being
taken is able to recognize the signs
as yet, with us, comparatively Nint
That immense rights have already
been taken from the individual ir
America is apparent. To cite one re-
cent vivid example, up to the present
moment every American has been free
to plant as many potatoes as he
chooses and to sell them to whom he
chooses. Up to the present, similarly.
every individual has been free to buy
his potatoes from whom he chooses
After December next no American
will have that right.
Must Look Only to State.
The jealousy which the new con-
ception has for groups within the
state was illustrated during the recent
! session of Congress by two compare
/ lively trivial incidents. With us in
America, charitable and educational
institutions, Community Chests and
similar causes have been in the habit
of receiving contributions from corpo-
rations. President Roosevelt took the
position that this ought not to be,
that corporations should be restrained
from giving such benefactions. The
instinct underlying this, the cropping,
probably unconscious, toward the
authoritarian state" is evident.
Charitable and educational organiza-
/ tons and individual beneficiaries of
such organizations must not look 10
any source except the state, must not
pay difference or pay loyalty to any,
thing except the state. Similarly in the
enactment of the national social Sc
/ curity law, President Roosevelt OBJ
/ jected to corporations being permitted
| to have their own pension systems
Only to the state must the individual
be allowed to look for security. In the
ultimate form of the new conception
the individual must not even look to
himself to create his own security. He
must rely, as does the bee, on the hive.
In the American conception of So
ciety to save, to accumulate savings,
has been one of the most priced vir-
| tues. In the beehive an individual
who would pile up personal store Of
honey apart from the hive would un-
doubtedly be crucified.
! One feels that all this is intricate.
| One feels it almost impossible to
make America see where they are be-
ing taken. Just because the issue is
difficult to make clear, one welcomes
! the emergence OF any man who can
! personify it, who has the insight to
see it. the clarity and gift of ex-
preston to make the country see it.
Gov. Landon seems to have the in
sight to see this issue, to recognize the
choice facing America. That insight
alone is enough to give him a large
qualification for making the fight next
year against the beehive conception
OF society and in favor of the tradi-
tional American conception. II, in
addition, Gov. Landon has the mag
netism of personality and the elo-
quence and earneStneSS to make the
country see the issue. he is further
qualified. If, in addition, Gov. Lam
don has, as am told he has, a record
of exceptionally able management of
the State of Kansas, the sum of those
recommendations should make hir. an
important contender
| (Copyright, 1885, New York Tribune, Incl