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Foley, Ala., Onlooker: “Because we believe the people of this nation are now being taxed to just about the limit of their endurance, we of The Onlooker are prone to oppose any measure which will add to our tax load. When we consider the great amount of tax money which is now being used to support a great portion of our population- in idleness, we think our people will do well to frown on any measure which will tend to increase the tax burden.”
Gat«*ville, N.C., Index: “It isn’t that we are advocating indexible rules, practices, and laws governing the farming industry. We still put some credence in the old law that ‘changing times demand changing laws,’ and <we fully expect and look for old practices and laws to be improved as time moves along. Yet, too many changes, too much politics, fattening subsidies and a super-abundance of ‘spokesmen’ for the farmer could so weaken the whole structure that it will either topple or grow into disfavor somewhat as organized labor did when it formed the Roosevelt partnership and then outgrew its britches because of the false notion that the country would stand for most anything.”
Canadian Texas, Record: “Yes, it is possible that if we continue to relinquish our personal dignity and our individualism to government we will one day wake up and find we have relinquished oar country without a struggle.”
It’s a safe bet that nothing* since World War II with, the single exception of the Korean conflict,
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