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/ f 'I Page Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, June 15, 1950 IS THIS HAPPENING TO US? By C. P BALLENGER, JR., in The Carolina Road Builder Several weeks ago I read a ser mon delivered by a Nashville, Tenn. pastor. In his sermon he traced the rise of Socialism in England, at the same timei showing the decline 'of England’s might. I was so impressed with what I read that I have chosen to quote from it. “Let us examine the rise of the socialist power in England and there by be warned It began in 1883 when a group of intellectual visionaries, attracted by the theories of ^KarT Marx, formed what they called the Fabian Society, naming their group after Quintus Fabius, the Roman general who defeated Hannibal by biting off a segment of his army at a time thus destroying it piece by piece. Here is the program they pro posed to follow: 1. Establish a school for the train ing of socialist leaders, writers, speakers, and so forth. 2. Never call an idea or program socialistic. 3. Launch the program a bit at a time. Do not frighten people by showing them the whole program at once. 4. Assure the common people that their rights will be protected. Tell them that whatever is done will be cone for the further well being of the average man, “the little fellow.” 5. Capture the labor unions, and through them destroy the Liberal Party. 6 Use Liberal Party to get things going and then cast it aside. nail YOUR % i CAR SICK? 1 • W£ D WCLCOMC ! A CBANCC % TO S€RV€ ♦«*. YOU/ COOPER MOTOR CO. Phone 515 West Main Street UliFURNACE—cuniotcllj built tor iiu»ll CaptcltlM up » HO.0U0 Btu. For UTMOST CONVENIENCE HEATING Timken Silent Automatic "Duty- Designed’’ beating unita are built specifically to provide amall homra with all t.be comfort* and ronve- niencea of automatic oil heat plui utmost reliability and quiet opera tion. Wall-Flame Burner saves up to 2S% on oil bills. Phone us tod-- ! TIMKEN //ufornafee Olli HEA V OH BURNERS • OIL FLT.NAr S OIL BOILERS • WATER I 'ATr: 3 T. C. JOHNSON CO. Phimbing and Heating Contractors Clinton, S. C. 7. Work through schools, clubs, and churches. - " 1 “By 1905 the Fabian Society had grown in unity and power! The La-, j bor Unions were duly “at —■ heel.” j j In 1905 they made a deal with the j Liberal Party, headed by Asquith' and Lloyd''^etrrgerv-wher-eby—Labor j would support the Liberal Party in i exchange for a number of things La^ i bor wanted enacted into law, one of these 'being the invalidation of the*! Taff-Vale Act making Unions liable for damages incurred during strikes. I “That is when the New Deal struck! England. Out of Parliament came the[ eight hour day, workmen’s compen-j sation, pensions, government housing! projects, public payment of election expenses. Labor was delighted. The deal had paid off. “By 1914 the Labor Party had re presentatives in Parliament- By 1923 1 they placed Ramsay MacDonald, the Fabian fair-haired boy, in office as; Prune Minister. In 1945 they took ov-I er completely and have socialized in a most unsocial manner. The'only 1 1 thing they lack is the British version of the Iron Curtain. “Think of it! In 1905, when the, 1 Fabians got their program under i way in earnest, Britain was the strongest nation in the world. She Had everything. In forty years, the Fabian Society which never listed more than 4,000 members, became the master of England. The two great ! wars, plus the Fabian weakening process within, have made mighty England a land of tears and fears. "The Liberal Party died in 1923, when its leaders threw their votes on the side of the Labor Party. “In 1924-25 when the Labor Par ty was first in power they spent nearly 800 million pound Sterling, spending more on the “so-called wel fare than they spent on government. But they talked too much and the Conservatives took over in 1929. The world and national events were on 1 their side—the depression struck.] The people, sickened by conditions, returned the Labor Party to power. Then began the full scaled program to weaken the older order. They soaked the rich, and promised the poor a golden future on the rich man’s gold. “This was the situation when Hit- j ler began to rise to power. They j lived so much in dreams that they, feared realism. The result: England I entered World War II as unprepared; as Ethiopia. WTien the dark days! came and Britishers needed a man with a voice and something to say, a man with courage and determination, a man big enough to match the hour, they called on Churchill—a Conser vative, a man of the “Old Regime.” But when the war was over, the people, tired of austerity, listened again to the glib generalities and rainbow promises of the Fiabians, and njurned the Labor Party to of fice. ‘ Has socialism blessed the Brit ish? The ordinary citizen now knows the full misery of heavy taxation. There are no rich people any more, j and the government owns most of the basic industries. Taxes are high er. Food is scarcer. Wages are high er. Production is lower. Cost of pro duction is higher, and the cost pro hibits the British from being strong competitors in the markets of the world. Not a single nationalized in dustry in England functions with efficiency. Socialized men work less efficiently than they do for private owners under a free enterprise de mocratic system. “Many defenders of the socialist experiment will say that only 25 per cent of the economic system has been nationalized. The fact is that all basic industries, except steel, have been nationalized and everything else in England socialized. The working people are frozen to their jobs.. By law houses and businesses may be entered without legal war rants. Workers canape made to work wherever the government decrees they must. Fanners who do not meet the government quotas can have their land sold out from under them and government managers installed. Prime Minister Atlee, after mak ing an erroneous claim for his soc ialization program, now admits that it has helped only the lower third of the nation. Think of it! They have wrecked the nation in order to help the lower third! Yet, even so, under socialism the lower third now lives below the poverty line, and the up per two thirds live closer to it. “I say to you in all sincerity that there is a diseased sympathy in the world as well as a healthy one. So cialism is diseased sympathy. It is short sighted, and constantly mis takes mirages for the real thing. The fertile oases they envision do not exist. “Are the British people better off under socialism? If you were a Brit isher today you would be allowed 1V4 eggs per week, 3 ounces of but ter, 6 ounces of margarine, 1 of lard, 1 of cheese, 1 of bacon, 8 of sugar, 6 of meat, and 2 of corn beef. “If you were a Britisher this mor ning with an income of $2,800 a year, and had a wife and two children, you would toe allowed deductions of about $1,780, and would pay a tax of $288 on the balance. A workman in America would pay $28. “If you were a Britisher this morn ing you could be assured of govern ment care from the cradle to the grave. Every baby receives $16 at birth, and the government will con tribute $80 to his funeral expenses when he dies. It will take care of all his medical expenses, and grant him a pension when he is too old to work. But the man gets nothing for nothing. He pays in taxes for ev ery service rendered. No longer do the rich people help pay the poor man’s bills! There are no rich. No longer does industry pay its millions. They pay no taxes because the gov ernment owns them. » “Britain today under the Labor government is a restless, confused, unhappy land. The people are worse off now than they were during the war. Their leaders know the bottom is in sight. Spirituality is low, and distrust is rampant. Never has Eng land knowrt such depths. Yet, in the present general election campaign, the Fabians find excuses for the blunders and waste, and offer more golden promises. “Slowly but surely Englishmen are learning that the socialistic state is inefficient and expensive? They are realizing that the socialistic state cannot operate without penalties and compulsions. Where socialism reigns, liberty dies! “If this is the situation in Ejigland today with our Marshall Plan, what j would the situation be without it? Not only has the local Britisher been taxed to support the socialization of Great Britain, but I, here in Nash ville, Tenn., have had to pay my tax for the same support. 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