Lady Margaret Thatcher took some time, when speaking at Brigham Young University, to discuss the moral individuality of America and the uniqueness of the American view that government is instituted to protect the divinity of man and to guarantee his moral security, and that political power arises from an equality of moral duty and responsibility in each of the citizens who make up the body politic.
Voters of the state of Utah have just participated in a primary election, during which Ross C. Anderson, won the Democratic nomination for Congress in the 2nd District. Among lawyers, Mr. Anderson is seen by his peers as being the best of the best - the very best. He is seen by his enemies as a formidable foe, and his possible service in the Congress does not augur well for such men as Newt Gingrich, whose main source of earned income is not from the U.S. Treasury, as it ought to be, but from such entities as the "Dirty Water Industries," and Bob Dole, who was paid $400,000 by the tobacco lobby during the year but has received upward of $3 million from them.Lady Thatcher expressed her nation's gratitude for American participation in World War II. (My generation fought that war.) In those days our enemies were strangers. They were Nazis. But the most malignant foes of America today are a peculiar breed. They are members of the U.S. Congress who pollute the law at its source.
Lady Thatcher's visit was made at an unusual time. Seldom have America's principles been as sorely tried as they were during the year when Gingrich, Dole and other demagogues arbitrarily shut down the government and furloughed federal employees nationwide, accelerating federal indebtedness, but never revealed the consequences of their brazen behavior.
Citizens of Utah will have an opportunity to test Lady Thatcher's definition of government and political power by going to the polls and electing a fellow citizen who is willing to take upon himself the duty of defending the moral security of our homes and our country. They will do well to vote for a candidate as worthy of their confidence as Ross C. Anderson.
Mary Jean Freebairn
Salt Lake City