An Old Fashioned American

An "old fashioned American" is one who stands on his own feet, earns his own living, provides for his own future, looks after his own people, and is beholden to neither government, man, or devil for his support; who accepts neither largesse, gifts, subsidies, or special privileges from anybody.

He still believes, just as men did before the philosophy of tax, spend, waste, and elect came along, that man gets along in this world, not by an act of Congress, but by his own industry, character, abilitn persevernnce, ambition, sticktoitiveness, and courageous love of liberty, and that all government is for is to provide a protective framework in which he can live, and wor\ and produce, and achieve the things he longs for.

Save us from the cowardly smirk of agreement when we don't agree at dl ! Probably the greatest need of ttis nation today is free and open expression of opinion by honest men without axes to grind, on subjects most vitd to us. This is no time for me-too-ism, for that is the road to despair and ruin. Speak your mind with "words as bard as cannon balls"; write your opinions, be an artictrlate American, and protest until the heavens fall against thc things you believe to be wrong for thesc Unitcd States.

Supine agreement with things we abhor is ttre broad highway to sl,avery.