The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-07-03

ASuSln III subsequent issues. But
here is a simple remedy if these
banks are not to be abolished.
First, let Congress provide that no
national bank shall send any of it's
deposits OR surplus out of the State
either for deposit or loan elsewhere.
Second, repeal the 10 per cent tax
upon the circulating notes Of Safe
banks. These then in every locality
would be created when more money
was needed. Congress has absolutely
TO power 10 prohibit State banks of
issue, The States reserved this
power. Yet Congress, under the false
pretense Of raising revenue, extermi-
mates these banks, although not
single dollar Of revenue has or ever
can be collected under it. When a
people will tamely submit to this vi
oiation Of the Constitution whether
they think it wise or unWise is i'm
materially is there any hope of main
tanning a free government when the
supreme law Of that government is
thus violated? On the other hand it
is as clear as the MONDAY sun (and
will be SO shown that the United
States has no power whatever to
charter national bank.
In McCulloch VS.. Maryland Tin
1870 Chief Justice Marshall decided
that they had this power And how
did he arrive at this decision? He
expressly held that no such power
was expressly given. He next held
that it was not necessary and
proper" as provided by the Constitu-
ton to carry out an expressed power.
Therefore there was no power to
create a bank. But he held, in pur-
suance OF his usual course Of usurpa-
ton (the bitter fruits of which are
now being reaped) that when the
Constitution declared that Congress
should have power to pass call laws
necessary and proper carry out the
foregoing powers Chat is those ex-
pressly named) that necessary aud
proper" did not mean what it said,
and what every schoolboy knew these
words meant when the Constitution
was pending. He held that "neces-
sary'' meant appropriate. He
hereby destroyed the Constitution in
its entirety and he made a new and
different Constitution; converting
one of limited and .amed powers"
Ito use his exact language in other
cases) into one of unlimited powers.
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the discretion Of Congress. There
fore sovereignty, not over some
things, but over every matter, was
transferred to Congress as COM
pletely as it rests III the English Par
lament
Marshall made probably the wisest
set Of men who ever assembled
among the most silly. For "appro-
pirate means proper" and proper
means appropriate. A thing may be
appropriate and not be necessary;
and even Mr.. Jefferson admitted that
bank was an appropriate means of
collecting revenue. And Chief JUS
tice Marshall admitted that bank
was not q necessary means in the
usual sense of the word to raise rev
enue; which was demonstrated to be
true through long years when no
bank existed. SO in order to give
Congress power to create national
bank, he wrote one word out of the
Constitution, and wrote another
word into the Constitution, changing
its entire meaning. And 10 and be-
hold! When the debates we're
opened. they completely overthrow
his sophisticated reasoning and
showed that the convention which
framed the Constitution refused to
give to Congress the power to create
corporations engaged in commerce
between the States; one reason being
that the power wOulu be prOsttuted
to create national banks When the