The Freeman asks: Why Compromise?

Noone likes to compromise, nor should anyone be expected to do so. Be done with the planned econ omy and its inevitable compro mises and failures. Give no more coercive power to a labor union than to a chamber of commerce. Free the market! L.et government protect all willing exchange and inhibit all unwilling exchange and not indulge in the forbidden exchange itself! In the free market, humiliating compromise gives way to a gratify ing freedom of choice by every one, be he employee or employer, consumer or producer. If one sup plier's price for a can of beans or his system of management doesn't suit, you have the freedom to shop around. And, if he doesn't like your bid for beans or your serv ices on your terms, he has the freedom to look around. Why compromise when we could be free to choose? ~ 29 25. Political Experimentation: THE FOUR-YEAR PLANS CLARENCE B. CARSON WOODROW WILSON, 1912 HARRY TRUMAN, 1949 JOHN F. KENNEDY, 1961 I stand for the square deal. But when I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more sub stantial equality. . . . THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 1910 And the day is at hand when it shall be realized on this consecrated soil, - a New Freedom, - a Liberty widened and deepened to match the broadened life of man in modern America ....