The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1952-05-01

to their owners.
private ownership, their revenue in
1850 would have been approximately
$3.50, 100000 Of which $20,000,000
would have gone to the Federal
Treasury in taxes 1t is estimated
that as of today a taxable revenue of
more than one billion dollars has
/ been lost to the Federal Treasury.
These organizations pay no taxes to
the Federal government and there
by unfairly compete against private
enterprise, which is saddled with
terrifcally heavy taxation. Private
interests have been. wiped out in
certain areas; in one state of the
Union there no longer is single
privately-owned utility.
"Such public operation today de-
serves the most thorough attention
of every businessman and every
citizen, jealous to protect the Amer
lean private enterprise system. Here
is an example of the all-powerful
United States Government invading
field which was being developed
progressively in the American way
by pioneers who did the research,
who invented as they went, raised
the capital they needed from skepti-
cal investors, overcome obstacles and
Encouragement and came through
successfully to create the facilities
that serve SO many millions through
out the country today.
only yesterday the President of
the United States made most clear
out statement. With it I heartily
agree. The President stated that
/ the nation is in the midst of as great
an emergency as it has ever faced.
I In expressing agreement with the
statement I must, in candor, add that
/ do not agree and have not agreed
with the methods adopted to meet
the emergency.
In advance of coming here to Ha-
I gerstown, I was requested to make
comment upon my reason for not
seeking reelection to the United
States Senate That decision was
based on my lack of agreement with
policies of the Federal Administra-
ton. In conscience.I could not bring
myself to the point of espousing
governmental policies to which I am
deeply opposed, even to achieve an
other term in the United States Sen
ate. Consider the most recent far
reaching development.
The Steel Seizure
II refer to the action of the pres
ident in ordering seizure of the steel
industry. 1t is a natural sequence of
the type of thinking which has been
manifest in Washington. 1t should
not have surprised anyone. Indeed,
it is one of the type of developments
which I had foreseen as likely to oc-
cur, and with which I was unwilling
to have my name connected in any
way, however, remote.
Autocracy feeds upon power. The
more it has, the more it feels itself
entitled to. Each new industry, TAX
en- wholly or partially under con-
troll, adds fuel to the fire. The pro-
gress along such lines has been far,
far greater than is generally known
or suspected. Unless our Congress
and our citizens take definite action
1 to prevent further encroachment of
Government in fields of private en-
/ deavor, we shall awaken some day
to find that the America we have
known and loved is disappearing.
sIf government is to be allowed
to temporize with problems in other
industries, as it did in the case of
the steel controversy, and then to
take over the affected industries or
facilities on a similar plea of ma
tional emergency and a similar con-
tention of inherent rights what
safeguards would there be against
Federal seizure of the great oil in
dustry, or the vital electrical man
ufacturing industry, or rubber or
aluminium, or any such basic activ-
ity, whenever it seemed desirable to
do so? And let it be said that there
is always being discussed drastic
steps in these very fields of opera
ton.
The Rights OF Labor
/ "Those who would upset the
/ Ar,aoricara ,1narr Of LIE try deSnerata-