Evening star., 1935-06-09

States will disin-
teerste." he warned in an interview:
unless the Constitutional safeguards ol
liberty are preserved"
Knows Constitutions.
Murray knows a great deal about
constitutions. He was president OF
the convention that wrote Oklahoma
basic law a quarter century ago ano
has a reputation as a constitutionai
attorney.
The Constitution is our protection
against mob rule" Murray declared
as he reclined at ease on his hotel
bed
The despotisn of a majority Is
worse than the despotism OF one man
because you can shoot him.
"Destruction of the Constitution
would be worse than an invading army
of a foreign foe And not mother S
son of us but wouldn't take up arms
AGAINST an invader" The home-spuA
statesman waved his pipe for en-
phasis.
We already are going to Washing
ton for everything. The trend toward
Capitalization of Government will lead
ultimately, unless checked, to central
ization of wealth and privilege and
the establishment of only two classes
of citizens-the very rich and the
very poor.
Must Preserye Union.
when the States lose their identity
and power of local self-government,
the Union as conceived by our fore
fathers Is dead.
"You hear the cry that great
emergencies justify unconstitutional
remedies.
Let me tell you that the Constitu-
ton is of value most in times Of stress.
It is like the levees along the MiSsis-
sippi. They are valuable only when
the food is raging"
Praising the Supreme Courts in
"alid~tion of N. R. A., the wartime
Representative declared the one great
weakness of our Constitution is that
there Is no limit on the number of
Supreme Court justices"
Congress could increase the num-
Der to say 81, and the President could
name enough Tugwells and Richbergs
and other braintrusters to do whatever
they want to do,
y The economic troubles Of the
country lie in the banking system
and the Stock Exchange do not
want to propose remedy but to point
out the error.
Does Not Want Office.
Il am on the sidelines. I do not
want to be in Office When disaster
comes, those in Office will be the first
to get shot.
We have gone about solving our
economic problems in the wrong way.
Creation doesn't err-man errS. Jo-
seph, of ancient Egypt, was practi-
cal statesman He urged the storing
of surpluses against time of famine
:ather than to destroy the surpluses
and raise prices.
Tt wasn't high prices We needed
but an equitable parity of prices be-
tween farm products, labor and manu-
featuring.
High wages are a deception. Low
prices would mean low cost of liv-
ing and low cost of production, en-
abling us to compete in the world
markets, which now are denied to us
because of our artiflcially high prices.
Need New Pump.
THE big fellows are all for the
codes-they want to get around the
antitrust laws. They are the only
ones that are truly benefited. What
If wages were raised 3313 per cent?
The cost of living advanced As per
cent
+, You cannot govern a people by
mechanics. They said prime the
pump Well. we primed it and we
never got as much out Of the pump
as We put in. say we need a new
pump.
"Relief-the dole-has broken the
morale of the people. 1t is in the in
drstrial centers that the greatest
danger lies. If there is breakup of
the Union, the North, South and West
will go along and the East will
blow up
z We need to 60 back to the whole
some policies now abandoned. dis
like the word progressive in govern
xnent or religion because it implies
changes in fundamentals