Milford chronicle., 1940-10-18
ADDRESS MADE BY
Hon Ruby r. Vale AT Repnblicsn Mass Meeting In
Milford Last Friday Evening.

seeks to destroy democracy.
Inevitably, that individual and thai
autocratic group will continue II
power 80 long as the agencies oi
government can be employed for the
coercion OF free wills or so long as
public funds can appeal to the weak
nesses of men.
The struggle is now on for the
preservation of the democratic con-
troll of public opinion. which alone
in peace is the source of power.
Stout minds Of resOlute will and ear
nest purpose will welcome this
struggle for power between the viol-
ences of group aggrandizement and
the strivings for the common under
standings of human Justice, between
the forces of the communism, regi-
mentation and dictatorship of Marx
and the individualism and democ-
racy of the Founders as written in
our fundamental law.
But this confidence in the individ-
ual voter must end in the saddest
phrase of human language, lit might
have been," if you forget that the
GOuit uAAelAAg has
ed that it is without power to pro-
tect either your enterprise or the
accumulations of your achievement
and thrift against either cOnfisca-
ton or spOliation under congress
siOnal enactments which declare that
the tax is levied and the spending is
authorized for the general welfare;
or if you deny to yourselves the
right and power to conduct your own
farms and manage your own busi-
nesses and supinely submit to their
regimentation by a bureaucratic die
tatorship; or if you abandon the
tradition of American self-rule and
become the abiect subjects of the
rule of autocracy; or, if, in short,
the people fail to meet the grave re-
spOnsibility which the Supreme
Court now imposes upon them: The
duty, in the exercise of their intelli-
gent self-interest, so to choose their
and executive repre-
as to safeguard those
of private property and
on which the ecOnOm-
ic, political and social structures of
always have rested.
Forget all else that l have said
here tonight. but carry with you the
words of a great Chief Justice and
their awful significance in the i'm
position of responsibility on your
wills; for let me repeat
there is now no restraint under the
as regards either the
taxation of your property or spend
ing of public money, or the regimen
tatiOn of your business. or the con-
fiscation of your property. or the
ending of your representative DEM
Ocracy, save only your own intelli-
gence and your own self-interest as
expressed in your individual votes.
AS l opened so let me close. with
another allusiOn-TO the serpent of
many heads, to kill which was one
of the tasks of Hercules. You will
recall that two heads grew as fast
as one was cut off and that victory
only came to Hercules when with
he prevented their growth.
Never in American history as now
have so insidiOus perils threatened
the fundamental freedoms of the in
dividual and the bases of his char
acter that have developed his civil
ization, or imperiled the government
under the Constitution
by him ordained. These perils are
lydra-headed and the flaming torch /
Of liberty can alone scar the body of
when the people strike
lOwn a government that ignores
limitations. when |
hey condemn the Haunting by a
President of vital American tradi-
ions and thus by their votes for
.ver end the espousing of regimen
alton and communism.