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If you can keep your hand out of your neighbor's pocket, and your eh bow out of his ribs, if you can love your neighbor as yourself, because God told you to — if you do those things, then you are going to have very little contact with the police force. Have you ever thought of that?
Primarily the coercions of the police are for the bad. The police state — complete police control, exists where people are unself-controlled — demoralized, in other words.
OUT in Iowa some months ago a man came up to me after a meeting like this. He said, "Manion, it's true, I keep my hands out of my neighbor's pockets and my elbow out of his ribs." He added, "I think I love my neighbor, too, reasonably well. And come to think of it, I have never been arrested. I have never had any trouble with the police, but" he said, "now will you tell me, please, how am I going to avoid the tender mer' cies of the F.T.C., the O.P.S., the I.R.B., the W.S.B., X.Y.Z., and their ten thousand federal agents, who are coming through my key hole and over my transom and taking up three fourths of my working time?"
That, my friends, is the $64 question. Moral self-government and selfcontrol will not dissipate the incursions of the alphabetical agents with which we have been plagued like the lice of Egypt for many, many years. What are you going to do with them?
Why, you are going to look at these specifications, to see what government was designed to do, compare that with the millions of things that government is now trying to do. You will immediately observe that govern
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ment is now perverted and distorted, corrupted and on the way to being destroyed by being forced to do a hundred thousand things that it never was designed to do at all. If you found a machine in your shop that was being thus perverted, corrupted and denatured, you would change the operation immediately if you wanted to save the machine. Do the same thing with your government.
Please don't relax now because you put a new paint job on the face of American government last November 4. Go to work more manfully than ever before and see that these hun' dreds of thousands of federal agents who now hold your business in the hollow of their hands are dispersed and their jobs destroyed.
Many years ago Lord Acton said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you want to know what and who is responsible for the scandalous corruption of American government today, put the blame where it belongs. Put it upon the concentration of power in Washington. That is the seed of great corruption.
REMEMBER, that the man who is President of the United States finds in the hollow of his hand more power than is in the hands of any executive on earth outside the Iron Curtain.
Think of that. The thing to do with that power is dispense with it. The thing to do with that power is toi send it back to the local communities and to the individual self-governing citizens in an attempt to regenerate the self-control and self-respect, the