Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-06-15
People approve Ends.
Not Means

MOI M0dUS
TT is MORE than possible that a
l majority of the American peo-
pie would agree with and approve
the Fair Deal program and pur-
poses as enunciated by the Presi-
dent in his jefferson day speech in
Chicago, but l am convinced the
majority would not agree with the
legislative program he has pro-
posed for achieving the ends he
seeks. Every good American can
applaud his purposes, but the ma
jority are fearful of the means of
accomplishment.
The President approves the main
tenance of our free enterprise sys-
tenn, but his legislative proposals
would work to destroy that system
and to establish in its place So
eialistic system as means of
establishing cleavage between capt.
tai and labor and the people gen.
orally. He would repeal the Taft
Hartley act and re-enact the Wag.
.ner act as a means of establishing
a Fair Deal between labor and
management and the consumers of
the nation.
A majority of the people
would not agree with that as a
means Of. accomplishing a re-
suit. AS a means of protecting
the interests of the farmers
and assuring them a fair re-
turn on their work and their
investment, he would have
congress enact the Brannan
plan at a cost to the people of
a sum he has not attempted to
estimate, a sum to be paid for
out of taxes to be paid by the
consumers.
Practically all of his legislative
program has been definitely and
consistently socialistic, and 1 am
not at all convinced the American
people would accept a socialistic
form Of government as a means Of
achieving the Presidents Fair
Deal purposes. His means to a
laudable end all point in the wrong
direction.
In his G;icago speech, he show
cred greav praise on Jefferson,
whom the people appreciate as one
of the nations great and construc-
tive statesmen, but he did not re.
fer to that Jeffersonian phrase,
which is considered one of that
statesman's greatest pronounce
ments. 1t was jefferson who said:
1.-The best government is the least
government" 1t was Jefferson
who was the strenuous opponent of
the Capitalization OF government
in Washington.
The spending and the GEN.
tralization Of government the
President asks for are in no
sense Of a Jeffersonian origin.
The one statement the President
made in that Chicago speech that
would meet with general approval
was his demand that the opposi-
ton present program Of definite
purposes. He insists that the op-
position put into words what it
stands for, the ends it would seek,
and the means of achieving such
ends.
Senator Taft, in replying to the
President, did not definitely meet
the Presidents demand for either
Republican purposes or the means
of achieving them. Possibly he was
not in a position to do so, but a
group of leaders of the party could
do that, and with it, the people
would have choice as to which to
support.
Not In his Chicago speech,
but in his messages to the con-
gress, the President has shown
his means Of achievement to
be the road to socialism. The
American people would not
willingly and knowingly accept
that road, they are fearful Of
the thorns with which 1t is
paved, but the people do not
know either the ends or the
means Of achievement pro-
posed by the Republicans. As
Of now they have no opportuni-
ty for a choice.
Purposes alone are not sufficient.
The people want to know the
means Of achievement leading to
the ends that are proposed. In one
way or another, the President has
expressed both the ends and the
means proposed for their achieve
ment of the Fair Deal program, a
program the congress has so far
been unwilling to accept. The Re-
publican opposition has offered
nothing Of a definite character,
either as to ends or the details of
achievement. That is what the
public is awaiting.
y
Keep the Communists out ot our
schools and away form vantage
points Of influence on the minds of
our children.
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