Evening star., 1938-11-04
LOOSE TECHNOLOGY
MPERILS LIBERTIES
Writer Says Misuse Of
Descriptive Words
Deceiyes Public.

Deceives Public.
To the Editor Of The Star:
In this topsy-turvy world, where the
eternal verities are submerged by the
fallacies of half-baked, pseudo states
men and economists, there is deep sig
nificance in the distortions of meanings
applied to ordinary everyday words.
Ding-donged in our ears unendingly is
the assertion that conservative is one
opposed to change. Such a person is q
"bourbon"-not a conservative. The cor
rect definition of a conservative is "one
opposed to hasty change" This Nation
would have escaped a lot of trouble II
the brain trusters" had not been in
such tempestuous hurry.
The word liberal" is likewise paraded
illusively. without regard to its true
meaning. A real liberal is zone free
from narrowness in ideas and doctrines:
one who advocates extension of freedom
In political institutions" As the chief
user Of liberal" these days is one who
condemns every one whose mind does not
go along with his, it might be nearer
accuracy to describe him as "liberti-
cide"-a destroyer of liberty; a would be
suppressor of freedom of thought and
OF conscience in this great Nation of a
free people.
The use of the word "tory" as applied
by the worshipers of ages-old miscon-
ceptions and failures, is narrowed to the
English appellation of political party.
The historical fact is that the Whig
party in the United States (succeeded
by the Republican party) corresponded
TO the Liberal party in England. It is
decidedly a mistaken notion that an
american citizen is tory because he
refuses to manhandle or blackjack our
Constitution to attain class fayoritism
or lrremediable ends. Thomas Jefferson
gave us a deeper understanding of a
tory. "Toryism," he wrote, lis but con-
solldation in disguise" A tory" then.
Is "consolidationist "A single con-
solidated government" he declared
would become the most corrupt govern
ment on earth. - What has DESTROYED
the liberty and the rights of man in
every government which has existed
under the sun? The generalizing and
concentrating all cares into one BODY.
oecomlng more specific, jefferson also
wrote: 1 am for preserving to the States
the powers not yielded by them to the
Union, and to the Legislature of the
Union its constitutional share in the di.
vision OF powers; and I am not for trans.
1erring all the powers of the States tn
tne General Government and all those
OF mat Government to the executive
branch" This the modern consolidating
tories may consider with ILLUMINATING
profit.
But the greatest distortion to befuddla
the people, in the making over of this
Natlon without amendment to the Con-
stltutlon, is the sinister fallacy that the
ohlteo States is democracy" AS a.
true democracy is direct rule of the nao.
PIE, IL Is quite evident that we have M
Such government. A vast bureaucracy
approximating million. is bevond anv
oirect check or control by the people,
ana these unrestrained bureaucrats are
In the forefront of the makers-over. The
man reasons for rejecting the idea of a
democracy in establishing this Nation
as Federal Republic were unanswer.
ably made clear by James Madison when
ne wrote: "A pure democracy 80. can
ADMIT OF no cure for the mischiefs of fac-
IONS There is nothing to check the
Inducements to sacrifice the weaker
party, or an obnoxious individual Hence
IL is that such democracies have ever
oeen spectacles of turbulence and con-
tentlon; have ever been found fncon.
patlole With personal security or the
rights OF property; and have, in general
been as short in their lives as thew have
oeen violent in their deaths. Theoretic
pohtlclans, who have patronized this
species OF government, have erroneouslv
supposed that by reducing mankind to
perfect equality in their political rights
tney would, at the same time be per-
1ectly equalized and assimilated In their
possessions, their opinions and their mas.
sions." (Verif1cation: Paper No. TO- "the
Federalist.~
Such distorted applications of mean
ings as herein set forth, breeding and
nourishing deceptive 1ustercation, ex-
plain much that is out of joint in this
country today. The enslaving muddling
will go on and on until the American
people awaken to realization that the
seductive errors of this topsy- -turvy era
cannot supersede the eternal truths that
alone shall free this Nation from the
political humbuggery and stagnating un-
certainty in which it is retrogressively
foundering. JOSEPH w. CHEYNEY.
October 49, 1898.