The Sidney herald., 1962-10-31

country for which they had pied
ged their lives, their fortunes and
their sacred honor, and for which
they had just fought a great war,
was to become great, it must do
it under the free enterprise system
and not as a Welfare State. Times
have changed, ladies and gentle
men , but the principles upon
which this country was founded
and which made it the greatest
nation in the world r still there.
They are still there, but they are
being smothered under an all en-
veloping, paternalistic Welfare
State Government.
One generation cannot guaran-
tee to another that il will live in
freedom. 1t can pass a free nation
on to its children, as our fathers
passed a free nation on to us. One
generation, as did our founding
Fathers, may win their freedom
on the battlefield, and another
generation, rs we are now doing,
may allow Jul own government
TO take our freedom from US.
There are men and women in this
audience today who homesteaded
here in McCone County. With a
few horses, little machinery. hard
work and a pride of independence
and accomplishment you built up
those homesteadS, and you did Il
yourself. When drought, hoppers
and hail came, you didn't turn to
the Great White Father in Wash
ington, ID. c., and say "send me
one of those green checks, 1 have
not got the CUTS TO make it by nv
self. No, you frightened up youl
bels, your wife put some patche:
ever the old patches on your pant.
and you TOUCHED it out. Mex
year! And next year finally came
and you were proud because with
the help Of the Good Lord with
rain, no hail and hoppers, you hac
a crop and were getting ahead
And you did this as a free mar
by yourself, and you had a right
TO be proud.
But something happened. 1t star.
ted in the 30's with the grea-
drought and great depression. We
lost that pride of individualisn
which had made this country
great. We decided that those pat.
ches on our pants were old fash.
Toned. That to succeed by the
sweat of u brow and the brain.
which the good Lord gave us wa.
outmoded and that we had better
rely upon the paternalism of the
Great White Father in Washing
ton, DC.
In the past 30 years we hav,
gone from the ideals Of u found.
ing fathers to the idea Of the Wei
fare State-Or as one speake.
termed 1.-THE iHfare state. be.
cause it is based on the theor,
that we as a people are seriously
Ill and must have the government
as a Doctor. Up until the great de
!, preston we had been protecteC
from the evils of the Welfar,
/, States by a Supreme Court VIII,
{ interpreted the Constitution as OIL
5 founding fathers meant il to be
/ and kept the government out O
our social and economic life. Blu
; with the appointment of new JUS
tees to the Supreme Court in TIT
3Os, the power of the income Ia,
| which had up until then been useC
sparlngly, a new definition pu
upon the words "To provide 70
| the Common Defense and Promo.,
the General Welfare" election {,
I office and appointment to impor
| tant positions in Government O
, those who believed that there wa
I nothing wrong with government
: going into debt. The Government
borrows from the citizens, tn,
{ debt is owned by the citizens, tn,
citizens r the government anC
consequently we owe the debt t
{ ourselves. And so we started
5 down the road to the illfare STATE
predicted for us by Karl Marx.
! We have brOadened the phrasI
= 'to Provide for the Common Def
ense" TO embrace the whole world
t We have spent some 80 billion