The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-07


"At Columbia, s. c., Senator Byrnes d., D 0.)'
who holds position of prominence IN the DEM
ocratic leadership, urged constitutional amend
ment authorizing Congress to legslate on all
questions that affect interstate commerce" The
South Carolina Senator, according to the fuller
report made " The SRlnRbis State OF ms ao-
s. r>1kaa> <&x - ~ AASe gone far as
= >><sss -frhsx "a ~ n that it is for the
people to say whether the time has come FUR
Their to amend the Constitution to permit the
national government to legisate on matters al
fecting interstate commerce, with,a view to deal
ing in that manner with broad social and eco
nomic problems which the state cannot solve, act
ing independently.
Even so, Senator Byrnes knows, sure,
that in South Carolina the ratification of such
an amendment however phrased, could not be
secured if at all, without battle. He told his
audience in Columbia that the question which ne
raised was "likely to be burning issue in our
political life for several years to come" which IS
true if such constitutional amendment is pro-
posed Nowhere moreover, is the issue likely to
"a burn more iercely than in the South Carolina
Senator'S own State s.
%fWhat The Citizen has TO say of South
Oar b IS via prove to be true of large
majerity az tae 58aSsates, if the Socialists
make serfotls ass rgnined attempt to
mutilate the UnitS rs Constitution so
as to transform this se56ntry into a Ger
many, Italy or Russia, under smoke
screen of legality.
A large majority of Americans do not
want their country Hitlerized, Mussolin-
lied or Stalinized. They don't want Roose-
welt for dictator and they don't want a
dictatorship by New Dealers, Brain Trust
erS, Bureaucrats, Union Labor Moguls, Big
Business, Little Business, poor folks or rich
folks. They are satisfied with the Amerl-
can system of representative government,
defective as it is. Many of them have been
temporarily knocked off their balance CT
common sense and courage by conditions
which have been magnifed and propagan-
died for the one purpose of making ar
opportunity for the enemies of the Repub-
lie to get in their dirty and deadly work,
While it is true that some of those who
talk glibly, of changing the Constitution
may be honestly misled and mistaken, it
is fact that all of the radicals in the coun-
try know what they want, what they are
doing, and they think they know where
they are going and where they are trying
to take this country. Those who are hon.
estly mistaken are simply playing into the
hands of the radicals.
The changing of the Constitution to
make this country Socialist or Communis-
tic State, however, is something that, in
the language of The Asheville Citizen, viii
turn on the heat throughout the United
States. This newspaper does not believe
that supporters of the American system
and of our Constitutional government feal
to have this fight brought before the PEG
pie. They win welcome the opportunity tx
give the radicals first class thrashing thai
will settle, the issue.
The people of the United States viii
never consent to- have the fundamental Law
of the land changed so as to lodge all pow
er and authority in Washington. The fed
eral government now has all the power i
needs and more than it needs for the goot
of the country and the welfare of it
people.