Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-05
RED MENACE NEAR,
METCALF CHARGES
New Deal Policies Lead to
Communism, He Says
in Radio Forum.
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thoroughly into the source Of legisla-
ton which comes to the Capitol.
Some may be written in one depart
ment and some in another. The At
torney General may think one piece
of legislation to be constitutional and
the lawyers hired by a department
may advise to the contrary. Somehow
we should seek to defend the Consti-
tuition from a bureaus racy such as
this.
The Supreme Court has recently
checked the headlong plunge of our
Government into Fascism or Nazism.
Whether 1t GER continue as the one
mistaken bulwark of our traditional
Government must be determined by
the people ard the Congress. Now
that the Supreme Court has spoken
in defense of the Constitution the ad-
ministration seeks to get around that
document by devious methods. A bill
now pending in Congress will give to
the Secretary of Agriculture almost
the power of dictator over the food
supplies of the Nation. He may i'm
pose taxes upon basic commodities
and regulate the prices of the necessi-
ties of life.
Court Protection Held Denied.
The bill provides that if the A. A. A.
Is declared to be unconstitutional, an
American citizen shall have no right
to ask for q refund of taxes which
are illegally collected from him. Pro-
lection of the courts is being taken
from the taxpayer and he will have
no redress frcm destructive acts of
the Secretary Of Agriculture. Citizens
must pay taxes whether they are right
or wrong, legal or illegal. Further
more, the legislation demanded by the
administration seeks to deprive the
Supreme Court of an opportunity to
pass on the basic constitutionality of
law.
Legislation demanded by the Presi-
dent is now pending to deny to citi-
zens who have been damaged by re-
pudiation of the gold clause access
to the Court Of Claims This is the
first time since the court was estab-
lished in 1855 that a citizen has been
deprived of the right of a hearing
before a judicial body on his claim
against the Government. This reverts
to the autocratic philosophy of the
divine right Of kings
If that is democracy, then Josef
Stain of Russia was most certainly
the outstanding Democrat of his time.
Real Recovery Held Absent.
I cannot believe that the admins
tration has made any progress toward
industrial recovery. More people are
now on the relief rolls than when the
President had been a year in Office.
People are being taught to glorify
charity and many are refusing to work
because of the ease with which they
can obtain relief.
The Democratic party came into
power with the solemn promise to
bring about public economy. For a
short time this program was carried
out. Suddenly, with no more ex-
PLANTATION than a magician gives his
audience, the administration INDUCED
in mental acrobatics, and inaugurated
a spending campaign which has never
been equaled in the history of the
country.
While he was running for Office, the
Democratic candidate said of the
Hoover government:
81 accuse the present administration
of being the greatest spending admin
istration in peace times in all our his
tory-one which has piled bureau on
bureau, commission on commission,
and has failed to anticipate the dire
needs Of reduced earning power of
the people"
A month later he solemnly made |
the following statement:
Il regard reduction in Federal |
spending as one of the most impor-
tant issues of this campaign. In my |
opinion, it is the most direct and eff
fective contribution that government |
can make to business"
Costs Unprecedented.
The facts are that the cost of |
government from George Washington
to Woodrow Wilson, a period of 124
years, was $24, 500, 0eO 900. During
the first three years of the present
administration $24,200,000,000 will
have been spent. These three years
will cost the people of the United |
States almost as much as every PreSi-
dent from George Washington to
Woodrow Wilson.
The extreme heights to which this
hypocrisy has gone may well be
realized when we refer to the words
Of the Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent in September, 1882. He said:
Remember well, that attitude
and method the way we do things,
not the way we say things, Is nearly
always the measure of our sincerity"
To pay the tremendous deficit the
American people are being mortgaged
Tor generations to come. Children
born today will be paying for the
Democratic orgy when their grand-
children are governing the country.
In order partially to replenish the
borrowing power, and
Is q sop to certain political forces
opposing the administration, we are
lsked to rush through the Congress
! drastic tax program designed to
;onflscate the funds of oul citizens
Ind to punish our corporations for
successful operation. A man may
rave spent his lifetime building up
/ business that his children nay
AIRY on, and find that by I:rtue of
he New Deal tax laws, the Govern
nent will have destroyed all hLre Of
hat business remaining Lhe heritage
# his sons or daughters.
Confiscation Opposed.
The people should register pow
rful objection to the levying of Con-
iscatory taxes In order to gain the
,olitical support Of socialists and
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