The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-12

~SSASS
A Re-Declaration Of Independence has
been drawn up and adopted by the Nat
ional Economic Council, Inc. and will
be carried into every corner of the
nation.
Those Of our readers who agree with
us that America is the best place in the
world to live and the American way is
worth fighting for and dying for, will
be interested in the principles OF this
declaration which follows:
WE, the undersigned citizens of our
respective States and Of the United
States, bound together by an unalter-
able determination to fight this war to
: victorious conclusion, do make this
declaration.
ON July 4, 1776, our fathers met IN
Philadelphia and declared Americas in
dependence. As sovereigns they erected
IN zach colony a republican government
Of limited powers, reserving to them
selves their natural and in~alienabie
rights. They fought an ~exhausting war
and made good their declaration. Then.
IN order to form a more perfect union,
they adopted q Constitution to secure
the blessings of liberty to themselves
and their posterity. Under that Con-
~stitution the feople Of this country have
enjoyed moro freedom and greater
opportunities and a higher general level
81 v~ell-being than men have gained
-nndss any other system Of society.
THE principles of liberty and free
government thus established are now
being violated and destroyed by public
servants whom we nave entrusted with
hirh national office, and by their ap-
pointees. They have erected a multi
tude Of new offices and have sent among
us . swarm Of officers and federal en-
ployees who harass the people and eat
out their substance. They exercise
legislative overs SO that today many
Of the laws controlling our business and
domestic lives are made. interpreted and
onforced by b~ureaucrats who are neither
known nor responsible to the people
thsy govern. They have gained power
over the public purse so hat billions
q dollars of the peoples money have
boen wastefully expended for purposes
unauthorized by, and unknown to, the
beople's representatives.
The courts have been rendered sub
1nrvient to the Executive and have be-
eeme subordinate agencies Of that branch
~ royernment, instead Of being the inn
r~xtial tribunals to which we rightfuliy
49, for protection against executive or
llerislative tyranny. The press Is
hnxassed, its freedom threatened, and
- radio controlled. The wage Garner
Y heing forced into associations not of
~ own choosing. The farmer is being
atprived Of his right to manage his and
"a dispose Of his crops. The employer
be deprived of authority to
a6anare his business as to provide
~Sods and services to the extent neces-
sery for the armed forces and the civil
il population.
The autonomy of our respective States,
w~naranteed by the Tenth Amendment OF
- Federal Constitution, has been cur
1r1led by Federal authority without
wsrrant of law, SO that State officials
- no longer able to protect our domes-
~ Interests. Thus, the form OF gov
Snment which our fathers founded to
asrure liberty to the individual is being
nnred into one in which, under the
S~ane of social reform and on the pre-
1T Of the needs Of war, freedom is
A~snr concentrated in the executive as
symbol of the State.
8As sovereign citizens of our respect
- States and of the United States, we
Armand Of all of our elective officials,
"A State and Federal, the resumption
exercise of their powers in accord
a~ee with our constitutional system. we
land the re-establishment Of the
lSSfslative, judicial and executive as
.-erate and coordinate branches OF
~uernment, equal in dignity and power.
~ demand that the Bills of Rights IN
49, respective State constitutions and
". Bill of Rights in the Federal Con-
.1ikntion be scrupulously observed. We
5~~and that all our foreign policies,
nolitical and economic, be related defi-
,stoly TO our American needs and ideals,
~ With the objective of protecting and
,~Sroetuating the form of government
.s1 economic policies which have made
- country great. We demand that our
yS~si~n policies, whether political or
.@nomic, shall not be permitted to de-
.t4cy 81 impair either q form OF gov