The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-08-31

We, members and candidates of the Republi-
can Party of the State of Montana in conven-
ton assembled, positively reaffirm and re-
dedicate ourselves to the following basic be-
hefs and principles and pledge ourselves to
strive for their accomplishment by every con-
stitutional means
1. The United States has become the great
est power on earth by unparalleled develop
ment of its resources through private initia-
tive and creative enterprise under a unique
government of limited powers preserved by
checks and balances and deriving it's rights
from the written Constitution. We believe in
government by law rather than by admins
trative decree in the name of expediency and
are convinced that further concentration of
powers in the Federal Executive branch leads
inevitably to the destruction of freedom, the
loss of our prestige in the world, and our even
tual decline.
z. The State of Montana is a sovereign State
of this Union and the rights of it's citizens
to govern themselves and to determine their
own destiny must not be limited by ever
growing Federal government, hungry for
power, Unsuitable in it's demands for taxes,
unwieldy in the burden of its bureaucracy,
and presently under the control of those who
hold individual freedom second to political
spoils.
3. We Republicans of Montana and the
West reject the false principle of the so-called
and misnamed "New Frontier, which is NOV
ing America backward along the age-old paths
of Capitalization, taxation, and tyranny.
We in Montana have our own frontier and
claim our birthright the development of the
priceless heritage of water, land and natural
resources within our borders in cooperation
with our sister states We will not betray our
trust for future generations by selling this
heritage for the pottage of Federal handouts.
We reject with all will the grabs of col
lectivist planners operating under the left
wing of the Democratic Party
A. The free functioning of private enter
prise, subject to government intervention only
in the protection of the true public interest,
cannot be replaced by planned economy with
out undermining and destroying the strength
of America
s. The security of it's citizens and their well
fare and health is a proper concern of govern
ment at all levels but should not and cannot
replace the responsibility and efforts of the
the family or the community to
provide for themselves through their own
free will and institutions. Security received
from a central government is bought at the
price of liberty
6. Government can give nothing to the peo-
pie that it does not first take away. The proper
function of government is the protection of
and mnorities, and carrying out
of the will of the majority in the accomplish
ment of purposes beyond the scope of private
Institutions 1t owes a solemn obligation to
the people to provide these services with rigid
economy and absolute integrity.
1t is not a proper function of government
TO attempt to maintain itself in office by buy
ing votes with the peoples money, by the
promise of future benefits, and by cruel de-
,eptons for political reasons of our senior
citizens, the less fortunate members of our
society, and our underprivileged minorities.
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