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Clarence Manion, former Dean of Notre Dame's Law School, in an address before National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association says: "Our greatest defense against Communism is the integrity of our States Rights Constitutional System"
By CLARENCE MANION
;ng to contemplate the great unprecelented interest manifested at the polls, che fact that so many millions stood in jine for hours on end in all parts of the country in order to register their small voice in this tremendous decision, but there is nothing in this election result to act as an anesthesia, to serve as an excuse for a relapse into an apathetic conviction that the future of this country is now safe. On the contrary, there are very many disturbing portents in the election.
I am not at all convinced that the basic evils with which American business men have wrestled for twenty years were all defeated, last Novemiber 4. On the contrary, many of those difficulties have been underscored. Too many people on both sides of the political fence seem to regard those | evils as a permanent part of our American life.
For many years past, the business man has been definitely on the spot in the United States. A great deal of your energy and your activity has been given over to a defense of what is called private enterprise, the life blood of the business profession in America. That battle for the defense of private business is not won by any means. To win it permanently you must get down to the basic primaries
of Americanism. There is a mammoth educational job to be accomplished in this country with reference to those primaries.
Within the last twelve months I have been in every state of the Union and in some of them many times. I think I have felt the pulse of American opinion and I tell you that not one American in ten thousand suspects that the structure of freedom is built exactly li\e anything else is built; namely, from a blueprint.
Yet we all know that nothing comes off our assembly lines that is not carefully planned in advance. First there is a drawing board, and then a transition from the drawing board to the assembly line. After the thing is produced, if it is any good at all, it is painted.
Paint makes a thing look a lot better, but it doesn't cure its essential basic defects in structure and mechanism. Don't think for a moment that this country has been cured by the bright coat of political paint that was applied to it last November 4.
Basic defects in popular understanding are still there and until those basic defects are corrected, then there will be no peace for the American business man and there will be no real future for a free America.