Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-05
PERSONAL RIGHTS
IN j. S. HELD HIT
Col. Key-Smith Says "NeW
Thought" May Destroy
All Wealth.


Sharply charging the Government
with attacking constitutional liberty
and property rights, Col Francis Scott
Key-Smith, attorney and descendant
of the author of THE Ster Spangled
Banner" yesterday declared the new
thought" to be "subversive of honest
purpose and intelligent understand
ing, and designed for the ignorant
destruction of wealth at the eventual
sacrifice of the whole people and the
Nation
Speaking before the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants, at the Old Union
Engine House. Col. Key-Smith de-
plored the voteless condition of the
District of Columbia, and called on
the press to uphold the right of free
press and free speech here and to
turn a deaf ear to false and I'M
American propaganda"
Share the wealth is the death of
all wealth. charged the speaker.
What is every ones wealth is no
ones wealth.
Individual Progress Urged.
"The American policy has ever been
through the promotion of conditions
making for the progress of each and,
through the progress of each, the
progress of all" said Col Key-Smith.
Every right-ninded person is en-
titled to assistance in every worthy
undertaking, but no one Is entitled to
support at the expense of others. The
world, least Of all governments, owes
no one a living.
"Only through the return to intel
ligent stamina of civilization, wise
laws and customs, established and
proven methods, can the wolf be kept
permanently from the door of any
people and their self support be guar
anteed and maintained"
True liberties of the American people
are being "assailed," the speaker de-
clared Return to the principles OF
the fathers" was said to be Sorely
needed. "Re-education" of the people
and rejuvenation of American thought
for the principles of American con-
stitutional government and liberty
were proposed, through fearless and
patriotic press. and through an
, american Institute" for the propa-
cation of an accurate knowledge and
understanding of the Constitution and
true political economy.
Residents Held Penalized.
Disfranchised and taxed without
representation, the people of the Ma
tional Capital of the Nation have no
voice" declared the speaker, and
little power politically in preserving
and safeguarding those great funda-
mentals for which the founders fought
and upon which they built the con-
stitutional government of the Nation.
Nevertheless, their voices shall be
heard both in continued effort for the
franchise and in behalf of their con-
stitutionai liberty and government.
Through the still prevailing rights
of freedom of speech and the press,
unless overthrow, will they continue
to be so heard in behalf of both, and
that speech and press, by ever turn
ing a deaf ear to all false and I'M
American propaganda and giving pub
licity to true American doctrine can
and will greatly advance the cause OF
freedom of speech and press and OF
preserving the ideals and principles
for which the founders labored,
pledged their lives, fortunes and
honor, and drafted, in accordance
Ohio y-+o fnv tho
government of men and security OF
liberty ever devised by the brain and
ingenuity of man."
Calling upon the American people
to follow the advice of Lawrence:
"Don't give up the Ship-the old frig-
ate, our Constitution" Col. Key-Smith
declared ut is still sound and needs
no misf1t plants in its stanch old
hull"
Hits "MiSfit Amendments"
Beware of misfit amendments and
remove those that have destroyed its
grand old lines" he said. 1T is I'M
fair to condemn after destroying its
policy and continuity and making it
crazy quilt of patches.
Frankly and fearlessly considered,
] venture to say the sixteenth, or in
come-tax amendment, to the Consti-
tuition, which changes its fundamental
policy of equality in all taxation, has
been productive of more perjury and
made more law breakers and brought |
the Constitution in more diSrepute |
than the eighteenth and was the pri- |
mary cause of the financial and indus
trial breakdown of the country. 1t |
has also furnished the means for re- |
cent Government extravaganza, the
usurpation of industry and the now |
attempted confscation of wealth."
The speaker also criticized the sew
enteenth amendment providing for
election of Senators by popular vote. |
as depriving the States as sovereign |
units of "all voice in the making of |
treaties contrary to the purpose for the
choice of the Senate as a check upon |
the Executive in making treaties"
Famed Document Read.
The Declaration of Independence |
was read by William Spencer Arm
strong.
John Clagett Proctor, vice president |
Of the organization, who presided,
stirred prolonged applause with a new
original poem, The Horse and Buggy |
Days"
Mrs. Dorothy Sherman Pierson sang
several patriotic songs, including "A
Toast to the Flag" words of which |
were written by John j. DAILY, Of The |
Evening Star staff
Rev. John E. Fort of Union Meth
odist Church, pronounced the invoca-
ton.
At the business session prior to
patriotic exercises, Proctor welcomed