The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-03-13
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Hazel Brannen
Hazel Brannen

NaSHiDgloH that IS representative oil
the people it serves. It's congressman
must please the people or they would
no longer elect them to office.
The fact that our congress is re-
preventative is a pretty terrible in
dictment of the American people.
We hear much loose talk about our
glorious liberty and free country. OF
how we should die to defend it like
our forefathers did when they sought
to escape from the tyranny of Eng
land. The warmongers Of the ma
ton, all of the years beyond age of
active service, say that our youth
should be prepared to pay the price
of preserving democratic govern
ment, just as their grandfathers did.
1t is true the settlers of America
fought a war and paid with their
lives for the privilege of establishing
a government in a new country free
from the dominance of /overbearing
lords of England. They established
in this country after they won their
independence a government they low
ed and respected because they had
carved it with their own hands, paid
for it with their own blood. What
they fought for was dearly won and
well worth the price.
Today we do not have a such
government. Instead Of having a
people bound together by mutual
love of freedom, law and order we
have a government of bureaus upon
which the people depend for a liv-
ing.
The people no longer demand
good government and law and order.
They demand that the government
support them. The new deal has
been largely responsible for promo
ton and PRONUNCIATION of these ideas.
A people tired Of thinking for them
selves have gladly adopted the poll
cies of the great leader in the White
House and followed him without
question.
The idea of the American people
today is to get everything they car
from the government. Who would
question this?
Only q few years ago the Supreme
Court Of the United States was po-
ken of in a whisper. School children
were taught they were good men,
absolutely above politics or above
reproach.
Today the Supreme Court of the
y. s. is a joke. Every school child
knows the appointment to this au-
gust bench is nothing more than a
rich political pfum bestowed by one
politician on another politician in
payment for services rendered.
There is considerable room for
thought on the subject of whether
u form of government as it func-
tions now is worth saving.
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1t seems inconceivable that the
United States of America should
give Great Britain a nation known
to be far richer than us, 7 billion
dollars, every dollar of which will
be wrung from the American peo-
pie either through borrowing or
taxation.
At the beginning of the war Bril-
tain listed from six to seven billion
dollars assets which she could draw
on TO pay for supplies if we would
only sell them to her. She didn't
even want boats to carry them in.
After a year has passed and the
President has declared his intention
of making America the arsenal of
democracy everywhere, the Britains
have spent only two billion dollars
yet saying they are destitute.
In the second year of the war the
President proposes to give them
seven billion.
1t doesn't make sense. But an
unthinking American people r
willing to do anything but face facts,
In the past ten years we have got
ten in the habit of letting someone
else do our thinking for US. We
haven't courage and backbone en-
ough to say what we think is right
if it seems to oppose popular OPP
inion at the moment.
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1t is significant that the first
thing the British government asked
for after the passage of the Lend
Lease bill was nothing less than 'fthe
whole American fleet"
If the American people don't see
the handwriting on the wall there
we might as well cease to exist as an
Independent nation.
Britain, as usual, is bleeding ano-
ther nation white to put butter on
her bread. She cares nothing for
what happened to America nor the
American people as long as she
whips Germany or as long as we
whip Germany for her. That is her
only concern.
Something for our readers to
think. about: Examine the powers
hold by MuSxalipi Stain opd Hitlar