Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11
Spend, Spend, Tax, Tax

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Spend, Spend, Tax, Tax
But the people detect no hee,
given this wise counsel. They wit
ness instead only a ceaseless effor
to spend and spend, to tax and tax
only a callOus indifference t.
mounting disclosures of graft anC
corruption and waste in the public
administration.
The religious devotion of thu
American people which has pro
duced the universally reflected
i spirituality of the American home
has been outraged by the material.
ism and selfishness which domi.
mates the National Administration
Public policy no longer is geared tc
the simple determination of that
which is right and that which is
wrong, The objective has been tc
build political strength even at the
| expense of the public interest. This
is incOmprehensible to our people
who understand fully the influence
religion and morality have always
exerted upon political stability
They know from the lessons of his
tory that national strength and
greatness inevitably find their true
measure in existing moral and
ethical standards.
But, one asks, how can it be that
the party of Jefferson and Jackson,
which once contributed so magni-
ficently to the building of the Re
public, would now sponsor and sup
port so tragic a cleavage from Ouf
great traditions? How could it de-
spoil those very concepts of hu-
manity and government upon which
rested our past spiritual and tenn
pOral strength? The answer is as
clear as it is distressing. That
party of noble heritage has become
captive to the schemers and plan
ners who have infiltrated it's ranks
of leadership to set the national
course unerringly toward the So
cialistic regimentatiOn of a tOtali-
tartan state.
The True Reuctionuries
To such end they have sought to
circumvent the safeguards to our
liberties wisely written into the
Constitution of the United States.
At one stage there was even the at
tempt to subvert the independence
of our Supreme Court by adding
new members pliable to the will of
the eXecutive-at another, the
claim of extraordinary inherent"
power without the slightest sane
ton in law. They have too fire.
quently regarded that immutable
charter as an instrument of pOliti-
cal expediency. In the hypocrisy of
self-righteOusness, they hail their
course as true liberalism. Yet ev-
cry move they make to circumvent
the spirit of the Constitution, ev-
cry move they make to centralize
political power, every move they
make to cuTtail and suppress indi-
Vidual liberty is reaction in it's
most extreme form. For the franz
ers of the Constitution were the
most liberal thinkers of all the
ages and the charter they produced
out of the liberal revolution of
their time has never been and is
not now surpassed in liberal
thought. Our forefathers associ-
ated together into a sovereign state
for the sole and only purpose of
protecting their common liberties,
not of yielding them again to a cen
tralized federal authority. Their
concept held to- the primacy of the
individuals interest; that of our
present leadership to the predOm-
nance of the state. They who
trample upon constitutional liberty
by the undue Capitalization and i'm
position of political power are turn
ing back the pages of history and
gradually reinstituting those very
excesses and abuses for which the
British crown was indicted in 1776
by our Declaration of Independ-
ence. They are the dangerous re-
dictionaries in contemporary Am
erican politics.
Trifle With Enterprise
They have trifled with that great
institution-free, private,
competitive enterprise, keystone to
the arch of our economic strength
as a nation and prosperity as a
people. BY the imposition of Op-
pressive and arbitrary controls
upon business and production; by
taxation which withers
initiative, reduces energy and, ia
the end, destroys the spirit of en-
terprise; by spendthrift policies
which stagger the imagination; by
discOuraging adherence to the prin-
ciple of private ownership of prop
erty, they have established the pre-
to a sOcialistic or even
later a cOmmunistic state. And, as
they thus chart a course with such
reckless abandon leading toward
ultimate national bankruptcy, they
to mislead and control
the public mind by patronage of
money, by devices calculated to
create an artificial appearance of
and by a continuous flow
of irresponsible and deceptive prop
aganda.
But the people in their innate
wisdom are not misled by such tao
tics of deception. Alert to reality,
they know that the value of the
dollar has diminished about so per
cent and is still going down. They
find insufficient compensation in
higher income, however