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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.
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“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. I have helped
enslave my brothers in Britain. What
a mess!” *
As he subsquently points out the
same thing is happening here. It is
time for us to wake up!
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