The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-31

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I'VE CHOOSE HUMAN FREEDOM"
To many Americans. the most i'm
portont sentence in the Presidents re-
cent Proclamation of an Unlimited Mo-
tionoI Emergency, was this: II coll
upon all the loyal citizens engaged in
production for defense to give preee-
dence to the needs Of the notion to the
end thot q system Of government that
makes privote enterprise possible moy
survive"
Thot, coming from the Chief Exec
utive, who hos been given powers as
greet as any ever held by his predeces-
sors in office, is heortening. Far it is the
private enterprise system thot main
toins and strengthens and vitolizes de-
mocrocy. II Is the privote enterprise
system which is the bosis of social, eco
nomic and political liberty. And it is
the privote enterprise system which the
dctotors, wherever they hold power,
have destroyed. 81
Todoy the private enterprise system
is being coIled upon to give us and the
embottled democrocies oversees the
tools Of war and defense We ore deter
mined to build for ourselves miIitory
and naval establishment which will
moks II impossible for any power or
any conceivable combination Of powers
to invade and conquer US. But, unfor-
tunotely, all Of our possible enemies do
not lie without our borders. Some Of
the most effective enemies Of the pri-
vote enterprise system - the demo-
crotic syster1-ore operating within.
And some OF them hold important posi-
tons in government itself
How else can the ruthless political
drive oooinst the electric industry be
described except as an attack on pri-
vote enteFprise-on attack which has
stote socialism as its cIeor-cut goal? Or
the equally aggressive drive to place
oil natural resources under bureou-
.crotic domination? Or the constont at
tocks against business on all fronts
ottocks whose obvious purpose is to de-
stroy the confidence Of the American
people in the system which has made
this notion free and rich and great?
No one claims that private enter
prise is perfect. Perfection is not Of this
world. But any honest man knows and
will admit thot the faults of private en-
terprise can be corrected, through the
orderly, democratic process Of lawful
regulation. And any honest man knows
and will admit that the overwhelming
proportion Of businesses in this coun-
Try have responded whoIe-heortedIy to
the requests Of government for maxi
mum cooperation in the name Of no.
tonoI defense and security. This is
especially true Of the natural resource
industries-cool, power, oil metals -
which ore the very root OF the defense
effort.
In the speech to the nation which
the President made on the same day he
signed the Proclamation, he sold this:
I'VE choose human freedom-which is
the Christion ideoI." Freedom involves
many thinos-ond one thing it in
/, volvestis the right Of men to engage as
private, free citizens, in legitimate bus
iness, without persecution from their
government. II involves, in short, the
preservation Of the private enterprise
system. SocioIisn-whether it goes un-
der the name Of Nozism, Foscism,
Communism or anything eIse-meons
sIoveY ond' degradation for the peo-
pie. Look obrood II you doubt this. And
then fight every ottock Of freedom at
home.