Correspondence: from Nathan Pusey, Elizabeth Taylor, J. Scully, Anonymous and Eldon Campbell
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editor: We are not interested in receiving a free subscription to The Alternative. Please remove the College name from your list. Sincerely, Elizabeth L....
...But the government least noxious is the one generally referred to disparagingly as conservative, for the conservative government never does very much and what it does do, it has been doing for so long that all intelligent fellows have learned to circumvent its impositions long ago...
...Additional benefits accrue to every proponent of social legislation, whether the man be a Liberal or a thief, because social legislation means more jobs for the politicos' footlings, more power for the politicos' ambitions, less money in the pocket of any private citizen who might get uppity, and more money in the politicos' greasy palm...
...There is no place in a university for anyone who thinks like he does...
...Louis To the Editor: A friend told me to pick up your "journal" to see what "the other side" has to say...
...Libertarians across the land were panicky, and I am told that the wisest astrologers trembled and personally guarded the Congressional buildings day and night, fearful that the overhead flight of even the smallest sparrow might set the whole delicate balance of the universe against this Republic...
...Axiomatically, when the politicos' power increases, the decent man's power decreases...
...There were spit fights in the Senate cloak room and the pervasive fear seized the nation that the Windy Ninety-First had not passed enough bills, all it had done was interdict cigarettes from television (causing a slight recession in the profitability of producing electronic swill) and enfranchise teenagers (causing no effect whatsoever...
...The only reform that will ever improve our condition would be legislation to limit the amount of time allowed politicians to work their mischief...
...The Alternative suggests to me that there are young people on the campus who are not rolling over and playing dead at the continual attack made upon the values and the enlightened traditions of American society...
...Now some will dismiss my fears as the vagaries of a kook libertarian, but would they purr so if the nation's most successful Mafia leaders had just spent two years conspiring together practically immune to prosecution...
...J. Caleb Boggs address himself to the subject of jelly fish...
...And considering that the Ninety-First adjourned without a national budget deficit of over 19 billion dollars, nor a dollar erosion of over 5.5 percent nor a crime increase of more than 25 percent, I suppose there is reason to feel that the Great Republic got off easy...
...My fear is not that Congress passed too few laws nor simply that it spent money extravagantly, but what has set off whistles and bells in my cranium is that throughout the last two years those scoundrels of the Ninety-First schemed together for 700 days-at taxpayers' expense...
...Indubitably the country was imperiled, for it is an almost unassailable truism known round the world that while a legislature sits every citizen's wallet is in jeopardy, along with his wife, his children, and he had best keep an eye on the family cat...
...This is not to say that all legislatures put man's freedom and well-being on thin ice, but rather that all branches of government are at best an annoyance and given enough time-a bane...
...And its passage prompts ineluctable reflections...
...If Grant had led his army as his political cronies had run his government or if Ford built automobiles in the way that his associates built candidates, we would all be sipping juleps today and driving buckboards...
...Well, that is exactly what has occurred...
...Now that the nation's savants are urging reform to expedite the politicians work, storm warnings are up...
...One might more humanely relieve a social problem with a machine gun...
...This is the Congress which brought the curtain down on the bittersweet Sixties and opened the mighty Seventies...
...Of course, politics, like cannibalism, is a tasteless subject...
...Alas, amid all the pother, I believe we have lost sight of the most ominous aspect of the whole disgusting display...
...No person of quality gives it much attention and every brand of government is noxious...
...The paradigmatic Liberal suspects that every individual achiever is superior to him and that every poor man is happier than he...
...To the Editor: I today received 2 slightly tattered issues of The Alternative and being a card carrying repressor and hatemongerer, I desire to subscribe to your publication...
...Sincerely yours, Nathan M. Pusey Cambridge, Mass...
...Sincerely, Elizabeth L. Taylor Dean White Pines College Chester, New Hampshire Editor's note - a copy of the above letter has been forwarded to the FBI...
...Every thinking man in the Republic realizes that the Federal Government is the most deficient instrument for relieving human misery available...
...From their tabernacles the intellectuals shrieked for reform and from the Capitol the honeyfoglers wailed for more gravy...
...Conservatives murmur that it labored too energetically and from delusions of exigency...
...the thief urges social legislation to free man of his purse...
...Obviously incumbent upon all of us, whether we be conservative or liberal, is that we be available to hear and listen to another man's viewpoint...
...The growing articulation of the conservative viewpoint is much needed in this country...
...And it was all the handful of decent statesmen could do to restrain them from drowning themselves...
...Indeed, when politicians meet to legislate, decent thinking men should meet to pray...
...In the case of the Windy Ninety-First, one hour and twenty-five minutes would be cutting it pretty close...
...Whether the legislators are advocating enlightened treatment of jellyfish or some other minority group, the result is always disaster...
...George Nathann...
...Bearing in mind the abundance of bounders and cretins composing the Ninety-First, I am sure historians will consider it the darkest period for the American Democracy since the Civil War...
...To the Editor: I cheerfully accept the Philip Freneau Award of the Saturday Evening Club and the welcomed prospect of a free subscription to The Alternative magazine...
...The Windy Ninety-First excited criticism from every species of Americano, and in this way served as an unerring barometer of the volatile state of our Republic...
...Liberals whine that its speed approximated that of the Great Glacier, and the ground crept across was all wrong...
...But far from attributing this relative good fortune to the legislators' probity, I attribute it to their incompetence...
...His use of "irony" can only be described as sick, and I feel sorry for him...
...They threatened a nation of relatively free men for almost two straight years-pausing only for one month during the summer when the heat of their rhetoric combined with the season's mugginess to overwhelm the Capitol's air conditioners...
...At every opportunity our eminent Senators and Congressmen sank their muzzles ever deeper into the public trough...
...It is "social legislation" which has made the Liberal government so dangerous, for not only is it the favorite device of the relatively innocent Liberal, it is also the favorite gimmick of thieves...
...A couple of the articles in the January issue were interesting, but one in particular-George Nathan's editorial-disgusted me...
...Very Cordially, Eldon Campbell Vice President and General Manager WFBM Indianapolis, Indiana EDITORIALS (continued from page 2) Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun discoursing on the most profound matters of democratic process-nay, on the very foundations of civilization--now sees the Rt...
...The thing I have feared most is that students who do not have as their aim either orderly or disorderly revolution have had no counterbalancing expression unified at student level...
...Conservatively, John Scully St...
...After all, habeas corpus is still alive, the Bill of Rights remains visible and national treasures such as the Washington Monument and Rose Kennedy are not yet deposited in Swiss Banks...
...He adores the good life and loathes the rich...
...He is a congenital busy-body and his favorite vehicle for snooping and pestering his betters is "social legislation...
...Liberalism's only constant characteristic, so far as I have been able to perceive, is a sincere disposition to muddle...
...George Nathanbe cutting it pretty close...
...I have read with appreciation and enjoyment the sample issue you sent me and am thoroughly persuaded that if the "revolution" can be conducted with more of the spirit which is evident on your pages, it will be a popular success...
...No general could manage an army, nor could a businessman conduct a business, as a politician runs his government...
...Yet Liberals keep plugging for more snake root...
...The politician's talent is for talking, and he should never undertake anything more ambitious than a public reading of the Manhattan telephone book...
...Hence, enclosed is a $4.00 check...
...When he does attempt something grandiose, he generally fashions an abomination...
...The Liberal urges social legislation to free man of the burdenof individual responsibility...
...Its final weeks featured unrelieved chaos, as every solon exhorted passage of his own cherished boondoggle and a swarm of Democratic Senators began competing with one another to represent their party in the National Tall Tale Championships two years hence...
...Anonymous) New Haven, Connecticut To the Editor: While I cannot endorse or support every philosophy or every idea expressed in your November issue of "The Alternative," I do want you to know that I commend you and your associates and that I am delighted that there is something besides the underground press at work on the campus at Indiana...
...The most intolerable government is generally the government referred to as Liberal, a word-when used by intellectuals and news commentators-possessing a meaning roughly equivalent to the Hebrew word, kosher (fitting, right and proper) though a word utterly devoid of meaning to all intelligent persons...
Vol. 4 • February 1971 • No. 4
