SECURITY FOR DEMOCRACY
POSITIONS OF DICTATORS., Dictators never get - control of a prosperous people Only the dispossessed or those who fear the dispossessed have even needed the “man on horseback” and his promises of “bread and circuses.” This is as true of modern Italy as of ancient Rome, asserts Mr Ralph M. Blagden, writing in the “Christian Science Monitor.” Security for the dispossessed of America—the 12,000,000 unemployed, the hundreds of thousands of share-crop-pers, the underprivileged “third of a nation”—thus becomes, probably, the commanding internal challenge to American democracy, as war is its chief threat from without. Democracy is.ideally an instrument of moral and spiritual progress, and its essence may be destroyed by excessive stress upon mere material advancement. But minimum security should be a basic product of democratic morality and .the absence of this security is both a threat to the national welfare and a reflection upon the moral level of the nation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1938, Page 9
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153SECURITY FOR DEMOCRACY Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1938, Page 9
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