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  The American Constitution— I
1 Whose Heritage ?
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  The Self-Reliant or Those Who Would A
I Be Wards of Government?
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·   THIS is not a political speech. Nowadays
whenever one mentions the Constitution and his
belief in it, its violators cry "Politics.” It is
* true that in Washington, for nearly three years,
proposals have been advanced with which I am
not in accord. Very many of the things done
I in current politics transgress, to me, basic prin-
ciples of liberty. When the money changers
were driven from the temple, it was because of
the indignities offered the temple and its sacred
W _ _ _ character. To those who had sullied the tem-
HEN ye" have fimshed wah thu ple, however, it was the loss of its control which
pamphlet please pass iz an to game stirred their objections. The people of the
. . . United States believe in the American Constitu-
frwnd Or acquaintance who mlght be tion. I°m sure of it! They will not have it de-
i”te"e·”ed¤ calling his ettemien te the stroyed. We need not be troubled by those who
membership blank on page 24, { ascribe to us unworthy motives. Let them look
  to themselves!
  WE HAVE heard it said that the Constitution
  be amended; that the social conditions of today
i require a different basic law than did the condi-
· V tions of 150 years ago. But no one selects par-
ticular clauses of the Constitution and declares
for their change. Washington has preferred ille-
gal, in place of legal changes to the Constitution,
violence instead of order. If the laws already
passed had been sustained by the courts, the
Constitution would already in fact have changed
l its fundamental character, without formal
amendment.
I, So very many statutes have been passed which I
invade the Constitution that one feels it ought
_ to be possible from all the evidence to deter-
mine the primary purpose of the Administra-
tion. Out of a search for that underlying pur-
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 pose I have tried to weave the ideas which it is was Ordered to enact it, no matter haw reaseri.
heped win rerrishr be expreeeed re Yee- Ceurrei able the doubt as to ite eehetitutieheiity. The
isWYo1`S» Politicians dotisto Vi€ot`ousiY ebeur provisions are more extreme than those of NRA.
particular sections of the Constitution. They There are the same eOdes_ There is nOt only
argue about interstate commerce, the power to the NRA Punishment {Or those who disobey,
tax and the incidental right to favor particular O hnt an additional Punishment Oi 13% Pei. Oent
sootions ef tho oountt`Y» due Ptoooss ef tow and { of the mine value of the coal, upon those who
states’ rights. All sections of the Constitution   refuse to yield_ Again, D0 rnine Owner is his
Seem inVoiVod· There must be on undoi'iYinS   own master, either as to his own coal or its sale,
PEit`Poso· What ie it; Itis it now PPiiosoPPY   nor albeit the equal of his employees. The La-
o govotninonte isn t it- { bor Relations statute goes to the uttermost
Ai1’o¤dY NRA. With its innumerable codes. E limits in depriving an employer of any control
hee been deeiered invalid PY tho SnPi'oino i over his labor relations. The Utility Holding
Court- Se. toot tho Fi`¤Zio1'·i-roniko Aote in its   Company Bill contains substantially a death
determination to take from a mortgagee the   Provision for utility heiding eemPanies_ Mi].
Soo¤1`itY upon Wiiioii iiio inonoy Wo! iont· And O lions of investors in the stocks of those com-
rrew the rripie A hee serre dewrr the eeme lens t panies would, by the iew, be deprived of their
trail. Again the Court has ruled that the Con- , prePerty_ The bil] eenld lead Only, in the end, O
stitntion inoY not be ohongod by inditootiont   to government ownership of all public utilities.
that the use to which all the land in the United   Every Officer and Stockholder of a utility is
States is put cannot be controlled from Wash-   made hut a servant iu his Own house. In a very
in€ton· Lewer oontts Ptwo held invalid tiio   vigorous opinion, a federal court has declared
GniiioY Biii and tiio Wagner Rotations Bill. the { the law unconstitutional. The Tennessee Val-
Ptiioiio Utility Hoiding Con1P¤nY Biii·   ley Administration Act declares for government
ownership of all utilities as directly as if the
WHAT is the philosophy underlying all this? j exact words were in the bill. The government
The detei.mimttiOii Oi that question is the iii_ O proposes to go into the distribution of electric
teiestiue thine O i power and of all the means of bringing electric
Let us consider, shortly, some of the statutes Pttwct and ttgttt t° tttt ctttztms Et’oi'Yono oon‘ Y
that have been passed. There isn’t time to cover ttsctctt wtttt tt ttttttty would tttttmatotY be but 8
them all. They are legion. But together they govstttmtsttt °mi)t°Y°°‘
must paint Some picture ei iiiteiitieii , AAA would have told every man what, where,
You remember NRA. It Provided for eedee and how much te sow, and when and how much
of fair practice in all lines of business every- ge map' AAA ts tt nsw V°t`st°tt ef tho ttdago
where. Laymen wrote those codes and deter- Ae Ys sowj so tttstt sttstt ytttt t`°ttP‘” The Social
mined what they considered fair practice. Pun- Seeurrrr Blu tvttt’ ut rei ttttmy Ytstttsr tcstttt ttt
iehmem was Provided for violation. Amongst the accumulation of 80 b1ll1ons of dollars under
other things, competition was controlled or the tcontrol of the federal government for distri-
eliminated. The Sherman Anti·Trust Act was J button to a t‘m“°{t part °t the °tttz°tttY‘ The
waived. No business man was his own master. Potato Ctmtml BIH would have mms ttgtdty
C0ii€CtiV€ bargaining WRS C1lSl11‘iI1ed, The rights tstittsvcd tts dovotoese BVCH to the extent; Of pun,
of labor unions were given precedence. Com- IS tits him who would not be an Informer
. . . . agamst h1s ne1ghbors.
pany unions were decried, substant1ally banned. GO through the rest of the list Of recent legis
The Guttcy Coal B11; was passed Congress lation. You will find the same result. The the-
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 ory must bc that those who cry will bc given the time have believed it. Yet it seems impos- »
help, hut the self-reliant will be eehaemhea. h eibie- We, Anierieenei '1`be ienndere ei e New
You may describe the theory as the destruction World! V
of   or the   Of 8, patcr,   was Hot Our spirit OHCC.   isn’t ].°CHCCtCd A
No one word expresses the tendency.   the   to ascribe our misfortunes to Our OWU. lack
result will be the destruction of self-reliance in ef Wisdom and soltxoontrolv to ttghton the hone
every citizen of the United States. I inquire and to ropstr enn own shortoonnngs· Ne grootor
whether the cehethuueh wes estehhshea ter r benn eenid beve been dene ie ne iben ie eiien
the increase of self-reliance, or to develop the r oonstont onoohrogornont to tho sPtrtt ef tho i
spirit of dependency? V elimination of self-blame and a placing of the
. _ fault upon others. Self—reliance accepts gener-
t _ _ _ _ 3 ousl the results of its own misdeeds. De en-
THtS_ Inquiry {cad? us to a eennderenen of the T dendy places the blame elsewhere. No mah in
cmidltmm cxlstmg Just es and aftcll thc Constr _ governmental authority has recently said, as did
Ween wa? adopted was the _f°°1mg that wc i Grover Cleveland, that he thought the principle
Shoilld bmld _a nauon of Sslfqlellant P°°Pl° or a to be that it was the duty of citizens to support
Hamm of Whmcrs? Was It the Purpose t°_ glvc government, not the duty of the government to
e men theieweni ei eeiineniiee end ieee- * euppeh esteem. No man and he government
pendant actmm eve malfc hlm a were °f g°V` owes you or me the duty of caring for us. We
ernment? The evidence IS clear enough to me. — Owe that duty to 0m,SclV€S_
We used to be a virile, self-reliant people. The
possession of that spirit has been our boast. Our -
accomplishments have heeh based upon the W-HAT were the conditions at the time of the .
universality of self-reliance. Has there been a A¤1o1`to¤¤ Revelniien? Woro thoY hottor than
change, that the theory of paternalism could today? The 8ttomPt has been made, in oomo
have received so much support, even for a brief of our reeent lawn, to sive thom VottdttY by roo·
period? Millions of people seem, for the time son of the extraordinarily unfortunate condi-
being, to have accepted the principle of tho tions which have existed since 1929. The Fra-
destruction of self-reliance. Perhaps that has zier-Leinke Bill ottomPtod to toko from eredi- J
happened because it is easy, in times of stress, to t01‘S their Soo¤1‘itY» without o01¤Po11S¤ti011, bo- i
appeal to the weaknesses of mankind, to have cause of the needs of necessitous debtors. We
them agree that their difficulties are not of their have, in Minneeetns o moratorium i=tot· It was
own making but arise from the evil-doings of sustained by the Supreme Court by a majority
other people, What a diiforonoo it might have decision because it left with the mortgagee his
made, could we have heard from someone in security. The United States Supreme Court in l
oihoial authority in tho iast six years that a this case, quoting from the Federalist, said as to
man’s misfortune is hrought ahout by hnnsehv conditions when the Constitution was written:
` in part or in whole. But no man has been told "The widespread distress following the revolu-
by government to searoh his own heart and d tionary period and the plight of debtors had called
decide Whether 01. not he was Prodigal in the ` forth in the States an ignoble array of legislative
use of his Property before the crash came. schemes for the deteat. of creditors and the invasion
_ _ _ of contractual obligations. Legislative interferences
EVCIY mam has been t°1d that ble follow ott1· i had been so numerous and extreme that the con-
zene, if possessed of 81lY property whatever, fidence essential to prosperous trade had been
have been responsible for his ills. We must for undermined and the utter destruction of credit was
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 ‘ threatened- °The soher PeoPte of Arhertetu were reliance. In the case of a particular individual
convinced that some ‘thorough reform’ was needed it is easy and well to be Sympathetic with the
which would sinspim a general prudence ami mi unfortunate even when perhaps the misfortune ?
dustry, and give a regular course to the business _ ’ , _ , r
of Seeietyeo 1S the result of a person s own misdeeds. It 18 p
uite a different thin to establish such s m- {
The Court further approved of the statement of q . . g . . . Y ,
, , , pathy as a principle of life and of a nation. But
Chief J ustice Marshall 1n Ogden v. Saunders: . ;
no man can build the laws of a country to fit
d The Pelwer   shsofsigis tris _reletrf’t; sttuetmu of the case of every individual citizen as the situa-
e e tor an- cre itor, o inter ermg wi contracts, a tion arises. We have had, until recently, a gow p
power which comes home to every man, touches the f 1 • d t f
interest of all, and controls the conduct of every Crumént 0 awS’ an not a govcrnmcp 9 _mCn `
individual in those things which he supposes to be choostng to uPPtY eseh tow as the lndlvldual
proper for his own exclusive management, had been case arises, ascribin to the one who a lies the
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used to such an excess by the state legislatures, as hw the Omnisciencc Of the djVinc_ We can, J
to break in upon the ordinary intercourse of society, with benefit to Ourselves, read a quotation from ‘
and destroy all confidence between man and man. . G t. .tt h d d f .th
This mischief had become so great, so alarming, as ·! re 1uS’ wm cu un rc S 0 years ag0’ W1 _ rc-
not only to impair commercial intercourse, and léltloll to the character of contractual relation-
threaten the existence of credit, but to sap the ships. He said:
3;;; ;j“;_E$e Pearls- me stmt the ¤=·¤·=t·*r st , sop up pppjppp wp   supplied ppp ppp]., ppp,. .
' ments from the divine oracles, which inform us
that God himself, who can be limited by no estab- p
U  E do11°t need to develop the thought fur- lished rules of law, would act contrary to his own _
ther. Isn’t it clear that the Constitution was nature, if he did not perform his promises ··-· It
adopted with the basic determination te im is a most sacred command of nature, and guides the
. whole order of human life, that every man fulfill
crease self-reliance and to make people look . ,,
_ his contracts.
after themselves; not to yield to the weakness _
of the wasteful, and not to deprive self-reliance Mr- Justtoe Trtrrthtes in Ogden o· Sdundere
of the value of its perseverance, its thrift, its also quoted Wtth oPProVsd from the Federelist=
labor and its self-sacrifice? In Ogden v. Saun- “Tho Sober peoplp of Amgpjca app weary of the
ders, to which Chief Justice Hughes referred, fluctuating policy which has directed the public e
Chief Justice Marshall went so far as to believe eeurmtlsj They here seen with regret sud with
that no state could pass an insolvency law which imhgmu°n’ that Sudden qhanges and 1FglSlauv°
ld dc rivc a credit I- f h, , ht t interferences in cases affecting personal rights, be-
Wou P _ O 0 IS r1g_ 0 pflrsue come jobs in the hands of enterprising and influ-
the property of his debtor, even if the msol- ems.1 specu1ators; spa snares to the more tpaup.
vency law was passed after the contract relations trious and less informed part of the community.
arose between debtor and creditor. Yet no man The? have seeh· tee» thet ehe legislative interfer-
can tell me that the heart of Chief Justice mw IS bbm thc im}; t°ffa Img item °f f°t"i;m°“S;
. . . . . ever su s .
Marshall was hard or his spirit unsacrificing. I d Y cqucn m cr creme Bm? mmm Y pm
. _ _ uced by the effects of the preceding. They very
am Sure he could here been as SYmPathettc with rightly infer, therefore, that some thorough reform
unhappy and unfortunate people as any man in is wanting, which will banish speculations on public
power today, But I gm jug]; ag cc;-tain that he A measures, inspire a general prudence and industry,
believed that Principles Of Strength, of Self_reli_ and give a regular course to the business of society."
ance, should not be destroyed, or even lessened (jhjcf justice Ma1·Sha]] Said:
b l l k' lf- ° ' ,
cgalgse PEO}; C ac lflg Sch reliance Wife tmlug ‘ "In the rudest state of nature a man governs him-
es C upon 0 Pay? In un applness an [Pistol" self, and labors for his own purposes. That which
tune, the debt 31°1S1I1g out of their lack of self- he acquires is his own, at least while in his pos-
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 session, and he u1ay· transfer it to another. This from them their property or their incomes by
transfer passes his r1ght to that other. Hence the _ _
right to barter. One man may have acquired more rcawn °f mlsdceds done bY them m Years Past
skins than are necessary for his protection from the The money is taken from them in the guise of
cold; another more food than is necessary for his taxation. This is the s0·called distribution 0f
immcdiaw uS°· Th°Y ¤%*°° °¤°h *° SUPP]? the wealth. Do you know of any rule of conduct
wants of the other from his surplus. Is this con- amongst men other than under government
tract without obligation? If one of them, having h. h . h h f h 1 h
received and eaten the food he needed, refuses to W lc pcrmlts t C C angc 0 t C ru 68 after t 6
deliver the skin, may not the other rightfully com- event? D0 You and any feeling of Safety when
pel him to deliver it? Or two persons agree to you consider that, I10 matter how little you may
unite their strength and Skill to hum ¥0g¢¥h¢1' for accumulate by self-reliance and self-sacriiice,
their mutual advantage, engaging to divide the ani- that money may be taken from you 01, your
mal they shall master. Can one of them rightfully h . b 1 t . H 9 Sh ld
take the whole? or, should he attempt it, may not cus Y aws no now In C CCL _ _ Ou YO?
the other force him to a division? If the answer to n°t be ablc to rely upon thc SuPP°S1t1°¤ that if
these questions must aiiirm the duty of keeping faith you comply with the rules of the game, you will
between these parties, and the right to enforce it if A bg gntitlgd to the benefits? 0f what use is Self.
violated, the answer admits the obligation of con- ' reliance and Selféacriacc? If people, CXc1,ciS_
tracts, because upon that obligation depends the ’ in no Sclffcliancc no BCH Sacrific d . 1. 1
right to enforce them. Superior strength may give g n v ' ti, Omg lit 6
the power, but cannot give the right. The rightful- , Workv ccmstémtly lmprudentv may In later Years
ness of coercion must depend on the pre-existing u t8k6 fI'0TI1 YOU 0I' YOU! f8II\ilY that which you
obligation to do that for which compulsion is used. have fairly gained, will you subscribe to that as
It is no objection to the principle, that the injured a good principle of government O1, a principle `
pany may be dw w°°k°St'” tending to sincere development of the soul?
IT HAS been out of fashion of late to Say any_ Are not fairness and justice attributes of God,
thing which even seems to suggest a defense of and ought HWY DOB th€1`€f01‘€» to be attributes
the rich, or, for that matter, the well-to-do. So of government? • A1`? W6 t0 Ch8¤g€ UIC Biblical
far have we gone from the principle that this is i PI`€°€Pf S0 that It Will read, “I'¢ is m01‘6 blessed
a government of laws and not of men, that we y to I`€°€1V€ than t0 SWBW?
End ourselves not free to declare that every X
m?¤» mh 0* P°°’» 1% *******1}**1 *0 *56 ****}*6*E* 0* OBSERVE the Pumas Uumy Holding Com- e
fair treatment. Cons1de1• Wlth me, 111 this situa- pany Bill! can it it be interpreted as an thin
tim] we are diS°uSSing’ the rich mem can we other than an attempt at distribution of wzealthg
be unjust and unfair to them without repercus- and its comm] by government? Entirely fm;
Smm m °m` °wu S°ulS? At their death Pen gotten are the millions of people who still, on
may DOW hav'? taken fmm them Substammuy the basis of the rules of life as then established
all °f thc pmpcrty which they haV° a°°umu' invested billions of dollars in these companies?
lated. There have been not a few cases in From them will be taken, just as directly aé y
which the taxes assessed 8g3iI1St RH estate have under taxes the property they have assembled
been greater than the value of the property. by thrift mid foresight.
We hear it declared by rich citizens that they While this is being Written thc Supreme
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are Paymg up t° 90 per cent °f their tml m' I Court has passed upon AAA. Certainly here S
wma in taX°S‘ Th¢Y accumulated that m°u€Y’ also was intended distribution of wealth Bil-
did *h€Y u°t* under the rules °f thc game which lions of dollars were, and were to continue to
existed at {116 tZl.IIIB of thi? accumulation? No Ai be taken from gvgry citizen, and given to one
g°V°rnm°uta1 agency has attempted to take class of citizens. The Social Security Bill you
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are yourselves now cons1der1ng. Ult1mately IIS the Sympathy 0f thc pub lc The myt ° cqua lm
. . . . 3the love of the symbol, the contempt for the con-
80 b1ll1ons of dollars Wlll be 1n the government erete feet, ere, in e large meeemee guilty ef the
coifcrs. {OY Buch u€€ 88 th0$€ dw!] In control of collapse of individuality. As it was impossible to
the government may deem desirable. If private raise the inferior types, the only means of produc-
citizens, having gained property, now find it UH; d¢¤;°‘i¤`a*i•¤ °i1¤¤¥*YT¥;1m°¤g ifiindwas *° liymg
unsafe from appropriation of the government 8 to t C cwest cve ` us vams B persona ny`
without compensation, who is there so rash as And again as to our depression:
to say that these 80 b1ll1ons of dollars directly ..Femmetely, en event unfereseeu by engineers,
U1 thi? control of the government will bc used economists, and politicians took place. The superb
for the purposes for which the money has been edifice of American finance and economics suddenly
collected? And two-thirds of that money wil] 60ll8PS(ii1· it firlit, the pubh; du; netogeheve 1n
have been paid into the treasury by those who tli° me uy ° suc a °am?u`°p ii' is an was nm
b H d V disturbed. The explanauons g1ven by the econo-
are not cnc tc ° mists were heard with docility. Prosperity would
return. But prosperity has not returned. Today,
AN INTERESTING beck hee r e e ently been   the more mtelligent heads of the flock are beginmng
, to doubt. Are the causes of the cr1s1s un1quely
put on your bOOkiShclVBS’ It 15 even a best A economic and financial? Should we not also
Seller. although Wmttcu by a SCIBHUSL Im utk 5 incriminate the corruption and the stupidity of the
is °°Man, the Unknown.” Its author is Alexis '. politicians and the financiers, the ignorance and
Carrel. If you have not taken the book from the m“Si°“S of th? ""’°{‘°m‘S*S? His mt ";f’d°“;
your shelves, do so. You will find its philosophy  ° dilcrfasedtglcemicuigclicc 1;:; tnituizlea gijd
. . . e w o e na n.
m{°’°“‘”g· Some of hm remarks are appro` crisis depend on individual and social factors that
Pmatc hc1`°• Let me rafsr to them- You will are more important than the economic ones? It is
find him saying: to be hoped that the spectacle of civilization at this
beginning of its decline will compel us to ascertain
“Another error, due to the confusion of the con- ·
, , _ _ h th th f th tastro he d ot l1e
¢·=¤*Sl_¤**·l;¤;11·2·¤_;*~·=·¤g=:¤·*1¤dgid¤a_1»iSd¤m¤¤ra*·¤ Z..T.a°'...Z.i'Li.`§T°Z..°...1F if in .-IL. $.3.......
clguabgty fish ogma I? now fmakmg gown unda * * * In fact, the economic crisis came before
t 8 OWS 0 t 8 cxpcuemic ii the nai10nS' It 1B’ the complete destruction of our ancestral qualities
therefore, unnecessary to 1ns1st upon 1ts falseness. b the idleness e er mpti e H and Sefmess ef life,.
But its success has been astonishingly long. How Y i i
could humanity accept such faith for so many years? Again wc find him saying;
‘ The democratic creed does not take account of the “,-rh I b . h d.
constitution of our body and of our consciousness. d _ 6 on yi way to lg Yum 36 I Isasgous pw-
It does not apply to the concrete fact which the Oommgncc 0 t ed Wea IS Itoh cvceop t 6 férorgé
individual is. Indeed, human beings are equal. me 6 0r§7t0 rin (ig nomna t 6 lm t are cv! cli y
But individuals are not. The equality of their use cs; 6 i Ou.}; ein mm 01; fatiimlg?
rights is an illusion. The feeble-minded and the giwar kfiromlfung t 6 Eiifmsum growl 0 ld eff `
man of genius should not be equal before the _y fuahufg the Stmgg $*1 es rgngfntwilcosl Grec-
law. * * * It is obvious that, on the contrary, uvc y_ 6 pet B wei; f 1, _ HS B; iid cve  
individual inequalities must be respected. In mod- Oggamc gn mcma mcqua m6S’ fc S Ou amp I y
ern society the great, the small, the average, and t cm an construct greater mem
the mediocre are needed. But we should not And also:
ttttdlrhlfht b V _
a cmp 0 cve Op C lg er ypcs yfhti Same I "The descendants of the founders of American
procedures as the lower. The standard1zat1on of . , , , , , , ,
. . · C1Vll1Z8I10D may still possess the ancestral qualities.
men by the democrauc 1deal has already deter- . . .
. . These qual1t1es are generally hidden under the
mmed the predominance of the weak. Everywhere, . . . .
·· cloak of degenerauon. But th1s degeneration IS
the weak are preferred to the strong. They are . . .
. . . often superfimal. It comes chiefly from education,
aided and protected, often admired. Like the .dl I k f .b.l.t d I di i H ,,
invalid, the criminal, and the insane, they attract 1 cncSS’ ac 0 msponsl I ly an mom scp nc`
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 Furtholo “The individual employe is dealt with by the act
as an incompetent. The Government must protect
"In democratic countries, such as the United him even from himself. He is the ward of the
States and France, for example, any man had the » United States to be cared for by his guardian even
possibility during the last century of rising to the as if he were a member of an uncivilized tribe of
position his capacities enabled him to hold. Today, Indians or a recently emancipated slave," i
most of the members of the proletarian class owe _
their situation to the hereditary weakness of their I iiiid ih the iast Atldfttle, 111 an article by
organs and their mind. * * * Today, the weak Albert Jay Nock on °°Free Speech and Plain
should not be artificially maintained in wealth and Languag€," the following Statements:
power. * * * Each individual must rise or “ _ _
Sink to tho iovol for which he is iiuod by tho Agam, expediency suggested that the care of our
quality of his tissuos and oi his Soul. * .,, ,,. poor be made a government job. It gets results, but
Modern nations will save themselves by developing at what iln°°? Fliisb ihc Orgiiiiizatich of mchtiicahcy
the strong. Not by protecting the weak.” and Subvcmmn mm a pcrmaiiciit Pciiticai asset-
Second, the indoctrination of our whole citizenry
D1,. Carre] tolls us why there has been S0 ivnth   falsehand dangerous idea of the State and its
much legislation running C0l.lnlZC]T to lZlT1C self- _, .unctl0nS*t at the Tuite is Sonwithlng to be run to
1_ f C t_t t_ o .i in any emergency, tr1v1al or serious, to settle matters
re 1ance 0 our ons 1 u 1on. out of hand. i
"Mora1 sense is almost completely ignored by * wiihia idea encourages, invites, nay, insists upon
modern society. We have, in fact, suppressed its i what Professor Ortega Y Gasset rightly calls the
manifesiaiiono All are imbued with ii.i.oSnonSibii_ 4 gravest danger that today threatens civilization: the
ity_ Those who discern good and evi], who are absorption of all spontaneous social efforts by the
industrious and provident, remain poor and are State- ‘When the mass suffers any ill-fortungi gr
looked nnon as inoi·onS_ The woman who has s1mply feels some strong appetite, its great tempta-
several children, who devotes herself to their educa- tich is that Permanent, Sure possibility of obtaining
tion, instead of to her own career, is considered cVerYth1¤g—Witho11t effort, struggle, doubt or risk-
wcak.mindcd_   a man saves 8 little money for merely   touching 3 button and setting [116  
his wife and the education of his children, this machine in motion.°”
money is stolen from him by enterprising finan-
ciers. Or taken by the government and distributed
· to those who have been reduced. to want by their BUT even if we were to accept the principle of
own improvidence and the short·s1ghE’edness of man- utter dopondonoo on oovornmont and the do-
ufacturers, bankers, and econom1sts. . ,
struct1on of self-reliance, one must ask-Who
Fnriher, will be the distributors of the benefits to those
. . . ° ‘? ' ‘
“We have been l1v1ng under the delusion that who wlll not Stand alfmc: Who gives tiiic iiciP?
democracies would survive through the weak and These P8OPiB who distribute h1ii1011S of dollars
short-sighted eiiorts of the ignorant. We begin to Without let or hindrance are men temporarily
understand that they are decaying? in office. If they were the wisest of men, they
» In tho gold oiouso dooisioo Mio Juotioo Mo_ would st1ll be only men. Their counterparts,
Royooids Spoko for oooooioooo: · lloiwever, can behfotlind throughout the land.
_ _ e _ _ _ _ e1r ex er1ence as e ° ' °
"Acqu1escence 1n the decision Just announced IS with oupo d ii in gained liy assoclalloll
impossible. * * * To let oneself slide down the h Y _ ll m€’ ll 0 us' Their hearts are
easy slope offered by the course of events and to r W at Society has made them- Their eapeeitics
dull one°s mind against danger * * * that is " are what they i1&V6 learned in this world, Their
precisely to fail in one’s obligation of responsibility.” wisdom ig not divine. These arc the mon who
I romind you of what Judoo Otis just Said in i as;r1b(; toeghemsclves the omtuscience to prop-
a decision with reference to the National Labor at Y llllil ulC’ afi iihcy and iiicir agents may
Roiatioos Act. determme, the b1ll1ons of dollars which they
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 take by force from the citizens of this country. Utah has had experience with the Federal Gov-
"On what food do these our Caesars feed that ernment. That experience was, moreover, in
they have grown so great?” What has changed days different from these, days when the posses- I
these officials of ours from just ordinary citizens sion of property was not regarded as the ear-
to divine representatives with all wisdom and mark of criminality; when the industrious, the
all ower? Wh are we to hope that their un- self-sacrificing, were honored; when to have
seliihness is grerater, that their power of self- labored hard and to have been wise was re-
sacrifice is more than it used to be? They were garded as a mark of honor. Yet we recall that
chosen from amongst us. Is there any evidence about fifty years ago one of your large holders
that, having become government officials, they of property found that property confiscated by
have become better than the rest of us? Are the Federal Government because your conven-
they wiser or more self-sacrificing, handling · tional habits were supposed to run counter to
billions of dollars as government oiiicials, than the declared conventions of the rest of the
as members of the community? What is there United States. Undoubtedly there is some credit
that ives us faith? It can’t be faith in prom- _ to be attached to the government in that, not
ises, Ioecause in the present instance, even at so many years afterwards, the property was re-
the risk of having this talk called political, one turned to you. I have heard no indication of the
must refer to the fact that these men went into intention of the present governmental despoilers
office upon promises no important part of which " to return property to those from whom it is
has been carried out and almost every portion taken.
of which has been violated. Is it in such me