Lover or Selfish Interest? B. Moreell

The "general welfare" clauses in the Preamble of the Constitu tion, and in paragraph 1 of Article I, Section 8, have been grossly misinterpreted and abused. In the Federalist POIpers, Madison made clear the intent of those clauses. He was replying to a charge that the clauses could and would be Excerpts from a recent letter to a friend by Admiral Ben Moreell. abused, as has actually occurred. They. were never intended to give "carte blanche" to government to do what it pleased with the peo ple's property, under the pretext that it is "promoting the general welfare." In discussions of "political charity" we often hear explana tions of the debilitating effects of unearned benefits on the reci p ients, who usually know that the quid pro quo they are obligated to deliver are their votes at the next election. But we seldom hear dis cussions of what happens to the person who might have been a voluntary donor, if left free to choose, but who is now forcibly deprived of his money which will be distributed by political admin istrators, largely to achieve polit ical objectives. He becomes bitter; and he hates - not only the pol iticians but the poor who have provided the vehicle for the poli ticians' thievery, in many in stances through no fault of their own.

It has been said that venal poli ticians have a vested interest in maintaining the poor in a state of poverty. For, if the poor should become affluent, the politician would be deprived of a plausible reason for appropriating huge sums of tax monies for "wars on poverty" which will be conducted under his "command"! ~ {The Roots of LEFTISM d.n ChristendoIn {ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN THE TITLE of this essay perhaps requires some specification. By "Christendom" we mean the body of authentic Christians who accept the fundamental tenets of the Christian Faith: the Holy Trinity, the divinity of Christ which it implies, salvation through the Re deemer, the immortality of the soul and, needless to say, the message of the Bible. It might conceivably be argued that Christendom ex tends beyond the community of baptized believers; the Christian Faith has its "fellow travelers," persons who wholeheartedly accept the basic Christian ethos without subscribing to its concrete tenets.