The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-25
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BACKED Tin
HISTORY
Famed virginian Mas Ready
to "RebeI'n Against It.
Views Of Factions
By WILLIAM HARD.

court SpenQ their Tune describing
those heart-rending scenes when
the Supreme Court declares an
income tax law unconstitutional
or declares child labor law I'M
constitutional or declares a mini
mum wage law unconstitutional
and thus grinds the faces Of the
poor and rescuas the rich and
overturns the will Of the people
as expressed through the peoples
own elected representatives in
Congress.
The friends of the Supreme
Court spend their time-their
private time describing tn g
heartening and inspiring scenes
when the Supreme Court, seeing
the liberties of the people threat
ened and invaded by tyrannical
and enslaving laws, bares its
strong right arm and chucks those
laws out Of the window into the
ash can.
Each faction concentrates on its
Gavorite picture Of the Supreme
Court.
The first picture has been so
much publicly presented that the
second picture goes relatively un-
noticed.
The friends Of the Supreme Court
get 80 angry on theory with its
enemies that they themselves dis.
tinguish more for anger and for a
theoretical defense Of the Supreme
Court than for actual describing to
the public any concrete specific
good thing that the Supreme Court
ever did.
They have in their own minds a
nice picture Of the Supreme Court
and they describe this picture them
selves but they seldom transmit
4 to the public. What they give
the public is usually just roars of
horror and terror about bolshevism.
Lenin did not invent bOlshevisnl
until much more than one hundred
years after Patrick Henry, having
Immortality dared to commit "trea.
sOn" against George the Third, an
IIOunced that he expected perhaps
20 die in arms as a "rebeI" against
. Constitution containing such q
thing as the Supreme Court.
Perhaps General Dawes will say
that Patrick Henry flew the red
flag.
This article is designed to give
General Dawes a suggestion.
One Day Cited.
Why not take really good day
In the recent history Of the Su-
preme Court and show the court in
the act OF doing something besides
resSuing the rich and refusing 10
give the poor working man some
thing he wants?
There are many such days.
Let us take June IL Of last year.
On that day the Supreme Court
declared quite a few laws unconsti.
tltional. 1t was q slaughterous day
Tor laws.
The State Of West Virginia had
dared to pass d law. This was a
nice little law providing that people
IN States adjoining West Virginia
could get no natural gas out of
pipes leading from the State Of
West Virginia into these adjoining
States until everybody in West Vir.
ginia had all the natural gas that
he might need or might wish.
In other words, It was proposed
that the natural gas Of West Xir.
ginia should secede from the Union.
Then the anthracite coal Of Penn
Gylvania and the copper of Montana
and the sulphur Of Louisiana could
likewise secede from the UnOHi and
every State boundary would become
an economic barrier, Just like the
boundaries in distracted Europe.
The Supreme Court took this nice
little law and wrung It's neck. It
exists no more.
There was also before the court
on that day three other nice little
lays by Nebraska, Iowa, and Ohio,
respectively.
These laws ell undertook to tell
parents that they must not allow
their children to learn any foreign
languages in grade schools. In each
State people had been tried and con-
victed for the crime of teaching n
foreign language in grade school.
The Supreme Court almost deri-
Sively took these three laws and
chopped their heads off and re-
moved them from the statue books
OF their respective sovereign COM
monwealths.
In consequence the federal district
court of Oregon on March 81 of this
year launched a decree Of consti.
tutional accommodation against
the famous Oregon law, which told
parents that they had to send their
children to public schools and only
70 public schools.
This law had been passed by the
Ku Klux Khan. Its purpose was to