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plish what It dare not frankly avow.
It has also come to pass that under
the power to lay and collect taxes to
provide for the general welfare, the
general welfare Is whatever Congress
may deem 1t to be. Let Congress de-
eide that a measure Is In the interest
of the general welfare, 1t may appro-
pirate what 1t will for that purpose !;
and the Supreme Court Is powerless to
naked to our enemies; thus Is our in
destrustible Union Of ipdestructible
States becoming q rhetorical mirage;
thus do our governmental expenditures
rival the mad prodigality OF the
Caesars; thus do the productive forces
of the country drag the ball and chain
Of collosal tax burdens. II our Govern
ment Is to be killed, 1t is just here that
the mortal thrust will be given. Here
is the Achilles heel Of the Constitution
Against the impending, indeed, the
menacing danger, what Is our protec-
ton? Political parties cannot save US;
the Constitution cannot save US; the
Supreme Court cannot save US. We
must save ourselves. An enlightened,
aroused and irresistible public opinion
is our only hope.
is leadership. National leadership?
Yes. state leadership? Yes. But,
above all, precinct, township and COM
munity leadership. Leadership that is
self lf-sacrificing. informed. intelligent
and courageous.
Leadership sufdciently self-sacrific-
ing to 60 out among the people and
review with them the problems of the
present in the light Of the lessons OF
the past, to the end that public opinion
may be intelligently formed and wisely
directed.
Leadership that is sufficiently in
formed to know the Constitution and
thoroughly to understand our theory of
government and the machinery con-
structed for its operation; that is ia
miliar with the forensic battles that
have been fought over our Constitution
and laws. with the relative spheres of
the Federal and State governments and
the Importance Of maintaining both in
their full integrity; that appreciates
the danger Of centralized power; Is
companion in spirit with the great men
and noble women who have adorned
our past; is saturated with our history
and our traditions. with our national
ideals and our national spirit: that
loves our Constitution, reveres its
founders and abhors paternaism. So
cialism and communism as destructive
Of liberty and the genius Of our free
institutions.
Urges Legal Leadership.
Leadership with the intelligence to
apply its information and the lessons
Of the past to the problems of the
present, and to reconcile government
with liberty; to reawaken the public
consciousness and convince the people
that they can have such government
as they desire and that they do have
such government as they deserve; that
their active interest and participation
in public affairs are both privilege
and an obligation essential in the
maintenance of representative govern
ment: that the most worthless citizen
is he who, oblivious Of the public bust
ness, devotes all of his thought, effort
and time during his barren life to the
amassing of wealth; that liberty has
survived only because of its triumphs
in continuous battles against central
lied power; that it can only be pre-
served in small areas and that our
national security depends upon the
maintenance OF the rights Of the
States; that taxation with represen-
tatlon may be as tyrannouS and in
tolerable as taxation without represen-
tation: that no man has the right to
demand that the Government give him
dollar Of another mans money unless
he earns it: that as the late President
Eliot Of Harvard said. 'Abject de-
pendence on government is an accursed
inheritance from the days Of the divine
right Of kings; that the ever-swelling
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rlent Golfers. not only wastes the sub
stance Of the people. under the pre-
tense Of taking care Of them, but also
threatens to submerge and sweep away
their liberty and their economic free
dom: that the sacrifice Of constitutional
restraints and constitutional division OF
political power to policy OF opportun-
ism and the emotional demands OF
seeming humanitarianism will in the
end destroy our Government and with
it our liberty; that the only safe course
for us to steer no matter how urgent
may be the demand or how seemingly
dire the need. is the one charted out
for us by the Constitution: that if that
course is followed, though for time
We may encounter rough weather and
stormy seas threatening to engulf US,
in the end We will drop anchor in q
safe and peaceful harbor; that any
other course, though it meet the de-
mandS of the hour, in the end will
wreck and destroy us.
Leadership SO courageous that It
cannot be intimidated by Government
boards and Government bureaus. or be-
guiled by Government favors; so cour-
ageous that forgetful of self, it dares to
stand against the multitude. though it
stand alone: so courageous that it will
not yield slavish and cowardly obeiSance
to selfish interests or menacing mi
norities that are utterly oblivious OF con-
stitutional limits or the consequences
Of their ruthless violation.
Where shall we seek this leadership?
It must come from the body Of the bar.
Only there is the needed equipment
Only there are the spirit OF self-sacrl-
flee, the information, the intelligence,
and the courage to be found in requisite
combination. Furthermore, ours Is q
public profession; both by our training
and our calling we are obligated. as We
are specially commissioned, to deal with
the conditions that now imper1 our
national safety.
And so, in turn, from the layman to
the lawyer comes the Macedonian cry.
Fortunate, indeed, are we that in such
crisis as now confronts the Nation,
we have at hand the inspiration needed
for our task We boast of our coun-
try's broad expanse of territory, of its
mighty rivers that run down to the sea;
of its majestic mountains whose snowy
submits pierce the clouds: Of our at
tractive cities with their teeming mil
lions; of our limitless resources of mine
and field and forest: Of our efficiency
and achievements in commerce and
manufacture, in science and the arts;
Of our Army and Navy; and of our
fabulous wealth. Yet not one nor all
of these combined afford our greatest
cause of pride. Our chief glory is in
the ideals and the spirit of America.
1t is these, and what they have wrought,
and the encouragement they hold for
mankind that inSnire OlIr pride and