Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11

7 PF'AV ACllA Cl1cIL anu plU.OU income
tax. Net: $56.36. Also, the cost of
living has gone up 189 per cent in
the meantime. My old take home
pay was equivalent to $7127 today.
But my take home pay today ac-
tually is that $56.36. My loss in in
come is S14.91. In other words. af-
ter IL years, and with no compen-
satiOn for added experience or in
creased productivity due to techno-
logical developments, I have actu-
ally suffered a pay cut of about
SIS per week"
And so it is with all of us.
In this march away from our
traditional American standards,
few of our former liberties have
been left unimpaired. Rights and
powers specifically reserved to
state, community and individual by
constitutional mandate have been
ruthlessly suppressed by a creep
ing federal authority. Reckless
abuse indeed has been made of that
most dangerous of all sovereign
powers-the power to tax. We find
ourselves already past the point
where higher taxes might be ex-
pected to produce higher revenue
The propaganda of fear is replac-
ing our once dynamic initiative,
well-tested vision and unparalleled
energy in a frantic effort to whip-
lash the country into a maximum
of production.
This misdirectiOn of public pol
icy, which so endangers survival of
our traditional American way of
life, finds it's genesis in an alien
and foreign philosophy, its appli-
cation in American politics de-
signed to further entrench a 20
year hold upon the political power.
1t emphasizes with startling clar-
ity the sage warning of wise and
farseeing Democratic leader of
many years ago, Senator Benjamin
Hill of the State of Georgia, who
fOresaw something of what has hap
pened, but l dare say expected the
responsibility would be Chargeable
to a Republican administration.
He cautioned on the floor of the
Senate OF the United States:
Il have said l do not dread Tin
dustriaD corporations as instru-
ments of power to destroy this
country, because there are a thou
sand agencies which can regulate,
restrain and control them; but
there is a corporation we may all
well dread. That corporation is
the federal government. From the
aggressiOns of this corporation.
there can be no safety if it is allow
ed to go beyond the well-defined
limits of its power. l dread nothing
so much as the exercise of un-
granted and doubtful powers by
this government. 1t is, in my Opin-
ion, the danger of dangers to the
future of this country Let us be
sure to keep 10 always within it's
limits. If this great, ambitious.
ever-grOwing corporation become
oppressive, who shall check it? If
it become wayward, who shall con-
troll it? If it become unjust, who
shall trust it? AS sentinels on the
cOuntry's watch tower, senator's, l
beseech yOu-watch and guard with
sleepless dread that corporation
which can make all property and
rights, all states and people, and
all liberty and hope it's playthings
in an hour, and it's victims forever"
Prophetic Wurning
How prophetic this warning!
How far our institutions have been
yielded to these very excesses of !
power which he so deeply feared
and this, ironically enough, under
the stewardship of his own partyl
Let none say this is but a partisan
conclusion. For North or South,
East or West, men and women of
whatever political faith recognize
the tragic truth of this circum-
stance. But our failures in do
nestle policy can be overcome, for
government takes'its tone, it's char
ter, even it's general efficiency from
its leadership can restore integrity
to the public service; can ecOnO- |
mize in the public administration;
can eliminate dislOyal elements
from public authority; can purge |
our educational system or subver- |
sive and immoral influence; can
restore to youth it's rightful herit- |
age; can strengthen the fabric of T
our free economy; can raise the dol |
lar to its true value; can reduce |
the tax burden on individual and /
industry; can regain the course of /
constitutional direction; can recap /
ture personal liberties now impair
ed; can correct social inequities; |
can strengthen the position of both |
worker and owner in private in !
dustry, even while protecting the |
public interest; can fOrtify the ini- |
tiative, energy and enterprising of !
the faVmer so as to insure the !
adequacy of the production of food :
in lean years and it's distribution in !
those of plenty, without being Grip /
pied by the unwaTranted interfer- /
ence and domination of govern |
ment; and can rearm the nation |
without undue burden upon the |
people. The correction of domestic
evils and lapses would not be too
provided the will to do so
firmly exists.
Foreign policy has been as tragi-
cally in error as has domestic pol
icy. We practically invited Soviet
dominance over the free peoples
of Eastern Europe through stra-
tegic disposition of Soviet force at
the close. of the European war;
we deliberately withdrew our arm
les from thousands of square miles
of hard-wOn territory, permitting
the advance of Cnuinf fnrnns To tho