The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-02
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
STATEMENT BY DR.. WILLIAM A. WRIT

Most NRA codes now take away two OF our
fundamental liberties; viz. hearing is not neces-
sary before a conviction is ordered because the
government be judge, jury and prosecutor;
and making agreement with the govern
ment can be ordered under threat of punishment
to agree in advance that he will give his consent
to any regulations or DEGREES which the govern
ment decides is good for him.
Beginning with the Tugwel drug bill nearly
every piece of new-deal reform legislation pro-
vides that an executive department. or commission
or administrator shall have full power to say with
fnality what the facts are and that no court or
review can go into the evidence.
In the proposed bill for aviation companies is a
threat to punish them if they enter the court of
claims and attempt to sue for damages
The present securities bills in congress make
the adequate marketing of our securities impossi-
ble The only machinery that we have for financ-
ing our durable-goods industries is stock and
security markets We cannot put our unemployed
back to work until We can finance the durable
goods industries. There is no question but that
this machinery needs reforming. But cannot
destroy the only machine that we have while we
are building new one.
Practically everything indicated in my commu-
nication to Rand as planned by the "intellectuals
has already been related, has either been enacted
into law or is in the process of being enacted.
That we are actually in the process of DELHI
erately planned American revolution has been an
nounced by the revoiGtionists themselves over and
over again. But the American people think that
such thing is preposterous and therefore they
have not been inclined to even notice the tremen-
dous changes in our government. The American
people think of revolutions as changes that come
only through the overthrow of governments by
armed forces We are not aware of the fact that
just as real revolutions can come by the gradual
substitution and changes in our laws and that they
inevitably radically increase the power of the per-
sons in charge of the executive branch of our gov
eminent.
March "a, Mark Sullivan published the follow
ing:
ct will be great irony if the Democratic party
should become the one opposing individual liberty;
but as it seems now they will go into this congress
sonal campaign indorsing the enormous deprva-
ton of individual liberty. the great transfer of
power over the individual to the government and
to the president as an individual which has marked
the Roosevelt administration"
Our forefathers knew that to recognize armed
revolution is an easy matter. But to recognize
boring from within does take eternal vigilance.
regret that any representative in our govern
ment should object to an open and free lnVestga-
ton of what is going on in the often-referred-to
American revolution. Now let the people choose.
If, after an open discussion and investigation,
the American people choose the planned economy
/ will cooperate in the new state / Will be an
American. but | don't want the state to be
created by the gradual substitution of new ideas
in government without the people being aware
that this is being done.
AS free American citizens, we have the privilege
of free speaking concerning any government pro-
cedure We can change the form of our govern
ment. if we want to do so. That is not treason,
but liberty, but the question is, do we want to do
so How are we to learn if we don't try to under
stand what we are doing? Why not investigate?
In my opinion it is not treason for few per-
sons to promote and work for a change in the
form of our government. That is not another Gull
powder Plot.
Such persons are merely exercising the right of
free American citizens but we are the traitors 10
our government if we permit few radicals, with
supreme confidence in themselves, but contempt
for the average citizen, to get away with it, while
we have been asleep.
Have We reached the place where an American
citizen, in the exercise of his right to come to
Washington to say what he thinks concerning pro-
posed legislation before congressional committees
provided for that purpose, shall be proclaimed by
our representatives to be lobbyist a propagan-
dist, publicity hound, crank who wants TO
make a stump speech? If so, where is our democ-
racy? After ALL our congressman are our servants.
Christian Science Monitor.