Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 18, DeMotte, Jasper County, 31 March 1938 — Twin Foes of Democracy [ARTICLE]

Twin Foes of Democracy

By RAYMOND PITCAIRN

National Chairman Sentinels of the Republic

With shocked, amazement America hag been reading the tragic tale of what is happening under Communism and Dictatorship abroad. Trials that are travesties, wholesale executions, widespread death by bomb and gunfire, reckless disregard of treaty rights, of national rights and of human rights—so run dispatches from Europe and Asia. What are the purposes behind all this? What brought it about? Essentially both Dictatorship and Communism, whatever their protontoons, are twin foes of representative democracy, as we have always known it in America. Their aim is to subordinate the individual to the State.* Their theory is that the dtison to incapable of running his own life, thinking hto own thoughts, choosing hto own religion, producing hto own and the nation’s goods under hto own direction. These things, they believe, can bo better directed by the politicians In power. The mon who founded America and buUt it into a great nation ostabitohed a different pattern. They held that government was of, by and for the people, and that the politicians were the servants of the people, not the masters. They believed In the tntoUigenoe, the enterprise, the abUMy and the freedom of the ImttvMual oittosa, and planned a government to onooarago those vtrtuea The American epic proves how wwiw. But thsre are among us theorists and bureaucrats who disagree with the founders and builders of America They would disoourans initiative and enter* prise—by vitriolic attack, by oonffaonvQVy oy QWwwtlTf MMBMi of mnatton. seek to ritSo enterprim by law. T>ey prefer to see the potttlrian In power, the individual ettimn submerged. That Isn’t the American Meal of ropthat lot them study the