The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-10-04

products. The home market built u
:, by the American protective syster
: belongs exclusively to the America
e farmer. He should not be eompelle
I to share his efforts with those abroa
! who pay from one-third down to ore
fourth the amount which he pays 70
: labor. In this platform is the speeifi
pledge that the Republican party wi
: give the home market exclusively t
/ the American farmer.
l am believer in the proteetiv,
system. It projects American stan
dards ard Ar erican wage earners
Let NE say % NY Republican friend.
IN the great East-it must be extend
81 10 gle equal and absolute protee
.iaa . tie farmer BY giving him tht
home market which We are building
up. These three questions. taxes
reaching the home market, enjoying
the home market, are fundamental and
lie at the basis of a proper solution
Of this imminent and appealing ques-
ton.
Now the only difference between the
majority and the minority report is
that OF how to dispose of the surplus
towering principally cotton and wheat
sad one OF two other products of which
We still produce q surplus. The major
/ ity Of the committee stood ready and
did grant to the minority everything
asked for save and except the power
Of bureau at Washington to levy a
tax or an equalization fee upon the
American farmer. There are no diff
ferences in this debate except the diff
ferences which are organized around
what is known as the equalization
fee.
There are two objections to it. The
first IS that it cannot be done. There
is no authority under the Constitution
OF the United States which permits a
Congress to delegate to twelve men
the power to impose a tax or an equal
lzation fee upon citizen of the Uni
ted States without his consent. 1t
would not be free government if it
could be done. And if anybody should
propose to amend the constitution so
as to give Congress the authority to
delegate that power to bureau the
farmer would be the first to fight
such tyranny. 1t is unconstitutional,
and the President Of the United States
found that out. Having reached this
conclusion, he so declared, declared it
long ago.
But it is said the President should
have signed it Notwithstanding his
sincere belief that it was unconstitu-
tional. Now you do not believe that!
You do not think that! You do not
think that man, President, the ex-
ecutive head of the nation, who has
taken an oath to support the Consti-
tuition of the United States, should
sign bill which he believes he has no
authority under his oath and the Con
stltution to sign.
In the one hundred and fifty years
since we have been a government, /
there has only been one President in /
all its history who did not believe
that his oath required him to abide by
the Constitution of the United States, I
and his name has been forgotten to
such an extent that it is not necessary
not even pleasant to recall it.
But, my friends, suppose it is un-
Let US assume for
moment that that power, that extra
ordinary power, exists. could never
or myself get my consent to give to
| bureau, bureau the members of
which the farmer can neither select,
ecall, or control, the power to levy
tax or fee or charge upon the
farmer to whatever extent :.
n It's judgment it thought proper to
eyy This power as proposed is given
0 that the charge may be levied upon {
very farmer of the United States .
whether in his judgment he should be .
member OF or come under the con- l
rol OF the bureau or not. In other !
'ords, 1t is proposed to delegate
over which will deny the farmer the I
light to stay out Of the scheme, which |
I'LL deny the farmer the right to get L
ut of it, and which will make him e
ay for his Imprisonment while he is Il
here. The farmer would be the first e
burn us in effigy if it should appear c
hat the bureau had levied fee which e.
e thought was improper and which
e was powerless to remedy. No, it is B
IL right to create board, to give
nat board authority and the funds to
sslst in marketing this surplus in a,
le most businesslike way possible. i,
ut do not clamp down upon the Am 81
acan farmer the bureaucratic power A
Tx upon him charge regardless p,
his discretion and regardless of his n,