Evening star., 1938-07-04

thus dismiss pa
triotic celebrations as designed only
to maintain the status quo
This gradual growth of cynicism has
become more marked in recent years
AS liberalism" has taken full posses
sion of the public purse and the politi-
cal jobs and the political mechanism
of coercing. voters. In their desire
to break down the historic prestige
which has attached to the Constitu-
tion-they often speak scornfully of it
as religious fetich-the liberals
would have us believe that a strict
adherence to the principles of a
written Constitution is in itself a de-
votion to economic autocracy and a
threat to the peoples welfare.
To conform, in other words, to
precedents and to the established rules
Of historic government is today held
up to ridicule and condemnation as
liberal and even Tory" Anybody
who disagrees with this thesis is a
Tory" and as such likened to the
supporters of an autocratic king of
l68 years ago.
But "autocracy' is cancerous
growth which does not confine itself
to one political party, or class or group
1t spreads to whatever area shows
itself receptive or fertile to its growth
1t needs only personal ambition, greed
for authority and power on which to
feed
Aut0cracy in Government.
"Autocracy" has been growing in
recent years in Government. 1t is a
natural sequel to overwhelming sue
cess at the polls. 1t denies the funda-
mental principle which gave birth to
the American Republic For the King
of England and the governors he sent
to the colonies were autocrats. The
right of the colonists to be secure
in their property and their papers
from unwarranted' search and seizure,
the right of the people to a voice
In their own governmental affairs and
particularly their right to representa-
ton because they paid taxes will
seem to those of us of a later day
to be so basic as to permit no chal-
lenge.
Yet today those self-same rights are
challenged, Even though the Con-
stitution ordains that there be no
search and seizure except for criminal
cause, the legislative bodies dominated
by autocrats have violated this con-
stitutional pledge.
Likewise the people of the populous
States are taxed heavily to pay for
projects in other States less densely
populated. This may well be neces-
sary in building a nation but there
is no necessity for confiscating tax
payers property without their con-
sent and without just compensation
The Farmers of the Country.
Today the earnings of the producers
In the Nation are taken from them
by the votes of the non-producers
who are herded together in the most
comprehensive political machine ever
constructed in the history of the Unit
ed States. The people who earn the
bulk of the taxes do not have an equal
voice with all those who do not earn
The tax-paying classes are the victims
Of parasitic group, calling themselves
liberals" but whose only right to the
name liberal is the liberality with
which they spend other peoples
money.
Any statistical study of the taxes
paid by the people of New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illi-
nois will reveal that centralized
Government, held in power through
the enforced control Of the electorate,
by subsidies and relief contributions
and political favors, collects the reve-
nues and distributes them to States
which do not contribute their propor-
ton to the national wealth. These in
eaualities keep the national economy
unbalanced and threaten the pur-
chasing power of the dollar.
1t might have been thought that the
Constitution and its Longtime of pre-
cedents would protect the citizen
against this policy of virtual confisca-
ton. But protection from the judicial
system is in itself now in jeopardy.
For under the guise of liberalism. 3"
the new autocracy has threatened the
seats of the sitting judges and added
judges throughout the Federal system
whose known Interpretation of the
Constitution conforms to the so-caled
liberal concept of rule by an auto
eracy.
Charges Against King.
Many of the charges in the Decla-
ration of Independence against the
Tory King of England need only a
slight change in phraseology to make
them read as if they applied to the
so-caled liberals" of today. The orig
inal text reads
He (the Tory King) has dissolved
Representative Houses repeatedly for
opposing with manly firmness his in
vasions of the rights of the people"
1t might read today The Executive
(the liberal Mr. Roosevelt) has
threatened Senators and Representa-
tives and has opposed their renomina-
ton and reelection for opposing with
manly firmness his invasions of the
Constitution and the rights of the
people
The original text reads: He Cthe
Tory King) has made judges depend
ent on his will alone"
The text today might read: He
(the liberal Mr.. Roosevelt) has ap-
pointed judges subservient to his will
and he has sought to circumvent the
decisions of the Supreme Court of the
United States by adding justices sub
xervient to his will alone"
Small wonder the liberals" and the
cynics among them prefer to ignore
the 4th of July as just so much super
A,inaic naofrinticf,a Clannn