Milford chronicle., 1936-10-30
Nationaism against InternatiOnalism, american Ideals
against Glass Hatred Representative Democracy
against State DespOtism, IndiyidaaGsm Under The
Constitution Agamst Communism Under Il Dictatorship

7 ductiOn and through eXtOrtiOnai
taxation to cOnfiscate its capital.
= France. Spain and Russia are Ii
( three radical governments Of El
/ rope. The last is aggressively intel
5 nationally cOmmunistic, Spain is
r the savagery of civil war an
= France Is on its brink. When Spai
, eleven months ago began its polio
} Of property cOnfiscatiOn, fOllowin
the example Of Russian exprOpria
tion, civil war in Spain became in
L. evitable If the right of individual en-
terprise was to be preserved to IL
citizens and property confiscatiOn
with its certain sequel Of civil wa
averted in France.
Harsh as the truth is, in the Opin
ion of discerning minds, SPANS
civil war has not only saved France
but to this moment has stayed q
general European war. It is not an
eXaggeratiOn but a reasonable con-
viction that the peace of Europe, II
not of the world, is at this moment
in the palm and power of one man.
Let the Russian autOcrat, Stallin,
raise the clenched fist of commun-
ism in aid of the Spanish commun-
list government now on its knees
and Mussolini and Hitler will be at
RUssia's frontiers and England will
turn the tide in favor of western
civilization with its basal right of
individual initiative and effort in
ordered nations, ruled by law-fOr
there are those in Europe as in Am
erica who are determined to the
sacrifice of property and life that
communism and all tendencies to-
ward chaos and all 'isms" alien to
western civilization shall be crush
ed.
The President disavOws cOmmun-
ism and repudiates all communists;
but he protests too much, for no ac-
cusatiOn made necessary the denial.
What we realize is that the newt
able tendencies of his policies. as Of
steel to a magnet, must end in a
sOvietized America. What we know
ia that his administration has not
only avOwed the necessity of a man
aged state like only TO that Of Rus
sia; but that the class legislation i
on which bis experiment rests is not
only sOcialistic in concept but COM
nunistic in tendency and in fact, in
its RECOMMENDATION of individual ef-
tort. in its crushing OF individual
initiative and enterprise. in its re-
Dudiation of profit in industry and
IN its confiscation Of private wealth
md reserve surplus capital through
he instrumentality Of extOrtOnate
axatiOn.
What the liberal and sensitive
minded of America and Europe fear
s-that IL Russia's aid to commun-
stic Spain should divide Europe in
D the two contending forces of in
ividual rights and property under ,
he rule of free nations and of in
ividual servitude under interna-
iOnal cOllectivism, then a radical ]
merican President may and will be /
riven by the extremists of his party :
} espouse the cause of world radi- :
alism to the restriction of the ira :
itiOns and ideals of America and ;
ie extinguishment of the beacon a
ghts of the worlds liberty.
This is not a fanciful but is a real a
ienace. for did not the President +
the United States at the behest of T
Is radical advisers force an un- I
illing Congress to recognize Soviet tl
ussia? Has he to this day repudi- h
ed the espousing communists Of /,
S administration, Tugwell, Ickes 4
ID Wallace, who not only urged the q
cOgnitiOn of Russia but explicitly
we repudiated the profit motive in II
Custry and have declared for "a Is
Operative Commonwealth" as W
ainst the representative demo- Ol
acy ordained by our constitution? m
)reOver, has any revolution long ol
mained within the control of the Al
who initiated It; ra- IN
sr, is 1t not the history Of mankind m
It a revolution becomes daily An
ire radical and destructive and its n
ders more cruel and ruthless er
III exhausted with the frenzy Of se
own passions Il falls PROSTATE IN
the feet of a dictator? in
Ne may or may not be on the m,
'ge Of a war among the nations Of tn
rope or Of civil strife among the Of
,ples of those nations; but this is ID
deep conviction-that It will be on
atal day for the Americanism Of err
fathers, for the structure Of els
ernment their constitution or ms
ned, for the right OF individual If
iative. effort and property which ON
protects and for the liberty, en- hiI
Prise, happiness and prosperity of ser
citizens which II has fOstered, II mir
'adical leader Of communistic
lght and tendencies should be cor
sident Of the United States when the
ope is in civil conflict or when for
erica is in struggle between the ira
es Of individualism and COM izei
ism. A.,
he radicalism Of the Roosevelt nni
inistration has assumed a most \
iious and dangerous form, for NOT
attack is on the fundamental nor
Of the nation whlch establishes Of
democracy and con- n
es the liberties OF Individual neo
iom and political equality Of all the
ems 81
Ie attack on the Supreme Court yi6i
be United States and the con- roll
tion Is not constructive to the the
OF remedying evils but Is de- by
tive for the purpose Of break they
lown the basal principles which The
re the ideals Of America and