James Monroe. of Virginia. was in the White House at Washington as President of the United States. and Henry Clay. of Kentucky. was Speaker of the House when a little group of men gathered In a tavern In Baltimore in the month of April. in the year 1819. and organized the first lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows on American soil. and when in Boston. less than 12 months later. the second lodge was organized. The founders of our Government. the framers of our Federal .Constitution. and the men who sat in the White House and in Congress during the succeeding 150 years did not conceive that it was the function of government to regulate the lives of its citizens. to impose codes for their business. to fix their wages. to limit their profits. and to devise ways and means of redistributing wealth. Neither the early American pioneers nor their descendants nor those who emigrated to the United States as the land of liberty and opportunity ever dreamed that the day would come when the Federal Government would limit planting. plow under growing crops. and impose compulsory slaughter of livestock as a means of ridding surpluses and raising prices. Some of these features of the new deal are decidedly new. Many of the presentday experiments sponsored by the present occupant of the White House have been experienced in the past history of our country with unhappy consequences.
Keywords matched
emigrated