The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-13

ment TO economic OT1Dery IN the form
of payments by the government out of
our own earnings
Govt. Domination
When we become dependent upon gov
eminent, we automatically become under
the control and domination of govern
ment and our freedom is CORRESPONDENCE
lost.
From 1776 to 1888, we valiantly re-
sisted every encroachment upon our per-
Sonal freedom by our government. Then
a great social and political revolution be-
fell this country. We underwent the great
depression. beginning in 1929, and in 1882
we elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt as
our President. Undoubtedly, Mr. Roose-
welt sincerely believed that the economic
plight of the people required revolutionary
innovations in the economic field by the
government. Under the pressure of eco
nonlic conditions and the persuasive popu-
larity of the President, Congress began
the creation of multitude of federal
agencies and the enactment of revolution
airy social legislation to provide from the
federal treasury for the emergency needs
of the people. Mr.. Roosevelt's social poll
cies have not only survived his death but
have been increased and enlarged by sue
cessive administrations.
We have permitted our Government to
adopt the philosophy that no one is capa-
Bile of managing his own property or adj
ninistering his own affairs The indi-
vidual is capable only of creating wealth.
but once it has been created then he
must pay over in some form of taxes a
large portion of his acquired wealth. SO
that it may in turn be parceled out to
the unfit, the incapacitated and the drones
by some agency of the federal govern
ment.
Sly Bride
We have been bribed to surrender our
inherent rights by our government with
our own money, in the form of hand
OUTS and have become far more inter
ested in security than the freedom of OPP
portunity Too frequently today an appl-
cant for job is only interested in the
immediate rate Of pay. the hours of work,
the holidays. paid vacations, retirement
and pensions and not in the opportunities
which the job may offer for the appli-
cation and reward of his talents.
These are the great social and politi-
cal changes that with almost revolution
airy speed have become in the last twenty
five years an integral part of our social
and political existence. We have arrived
in the twilight zone between a democratic
socialism promoted by government brib-
cry with our own money and the COM
muniStic theory that everything belongs
wholly to the State for distribution by it,
~; to1I
me that today the federal government
would dictate to me how many acres of
tobacco or wheat or cotton l could grow
on my own land, or would bride me with
my own money for not planting them, or
would punish me for noncompliance but
reward me with a guaranteed minimum
price if l did only what a government
agent told me to do, I would have thought
such person crazy, and would have been
tempted to go to the local authorities to
have him put in an asylum. Today, all
such things are accepted and enforced.
The old ancient Anglo-Saxon law that a
man could do with his property as he
saw fit so long as he did not thereby in
jure his neighbor is no longer the order
of the day To large degree his property
him how when and for what purposes it
may be used. and what portion of it he
must contribute to the government, part
of which it will give back to him and a
larger part to others.
Economic Slaves
We have recently to great degree
lost our economic freedom and have be-
come economic slaves to our government.
BY far the most radical Federal legis-
lation yet conceived is Mr. Kennedys
agricultural bill now before Congress- 1t
federaliZes all agricultural lands and
crops, makes the Secretary of Agrcul-
ture an absolute dictator. makes an eco
nomic slave of every farmer, and de-
stroys the last vestige of the free use
of property.
Thank God however, that we still have
left three great fundamental freedoms. the
freedom of speech and the press. free
dom Of religion and freedom of the ballot.
These we must preserve inviolate, even
though we may be incensed by their abuse
at times, and particularly the abuse of the
right of free speech by Mr.. Kennedy's
appointee, Oliver W. Hill. who recently
likened our Prince Edward authorities to
Adolf Echmann and our Virginia laws to
the laws of Hitler's Germany. These three
freedoms are the great keystone of De-
mocracy, and with them we have the
power, if we have the will. to limit any
governmental F'rankenstein. The great
question is has our will been already de-
stroyed by the insidious influence of gov
eminent hand outs?
In spite of all the social and political
changes which have taken place in the
last twenty-five years and are difficult to
accept by the older generation but not by
the great majority of the younger people,
who have never known or experienced
anything different, we still have the great
est country. the best government and
more individual freedoms than any other
people in the world.
Soviet Russia
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