these is the privilege of automobile transportation, with which one can go and come at
will, at very small cost.
The average American has security of property rights not found in any other
country in the world. He can place his surplus money in a bank with the assurance
that his government will protect it, and make good to him if the bank fails. If an
American citizen wants to travel from one state to another he needs no passport,
no one's permission. He may go when he pleases, and return at will. Moreover, he
may travel by train, private automobile, bus, airplane, or ship, as his pocketbook
permits. In Germany, Russia, Italy, and most of the other European and
Oriental countries, the people cannot travel with so much freedom, and at so little cost.
THE "MIRACLE" THAT HAS PROVIDED
THESE BLESSINGS
We often hear politicians proclaiming the freedom of America, when they solicit
votes, but seldom do they take the time or devote sufficient effort to the analysis of
the source or nature of this "freedom." Having no axe to grind, no grudge to express,
no ulterior motives to be carried out, I have the privilege of going into a frank analysis
of that mysterious, abstract, greatly misunderstood "SOMETHING" which gives to