Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-03-05
HENDERSON IN co. DAILY DISPATCH THURSDAY MARCH s. 1886

be accorded the trade and commerce
policies of the respective states. Inc
child-labor case is not quite IN Poin''
though it has considerable persua-
sive force. In that case the coHlnAo-
dities made with child labor were
barred from interstate commerce. not
merely from certain states.
But the question is OF tremendous
import. The Court has thrown tnis
agricultural production control prop
lem squarely into the laps OF the
States, where, think, under the FED
eral Constitution it belongs Can the
states control production as distlng-
uished from the mere conditions OF
production? Without help from the
general government, as indicated,
they can't do it, and would not like
to be advised by the final authority
that production control can't be had
Surely, would acquiesce therein, but
I would be awfully sick.
Even though the second suggestion
, should be found defective from con-
stitutional point of view, would not
give up the problem as incapable of
solution. In the third suggestion
there is a way that would work itself
on the commodity basis and limit
the availability of the bounty to the
states within the compact, and they
would get in all right. There is no
constitutional objection to the boun-
ty system. Hamilton advocated that
system for industry instead of the
protective system. But the protec-
tive system is not subject to such Wis
Utility as the bounty system and
therefore less Objectionable, though
equally vicious in principle. I prefer
the second suggestion to the third
| because I am fundamentally opposed
to taxing all the people for the bene-
fit of the few or pressure-producing
minorities.
This further suggestion and I am
through: Many farmers are clamor-
ing for the limitation of the produc-
ton not only to the present produc-
ton area, but to the producers there
in. l am farmers son and all my
property is in tobacco producing land,
but I am frank to say that the I'M
thinking selfishness of the farmer
himself is likely to negative the eff
forts of his real friends. Leadership
of the dependable kind does not con-
sist in facing the followers and get
ting their wishes as to the course to
be taken, but in looking ahead at the
terrain to be traVerSed, at its ups and
downs, it's limitations and handicaps
When l was a boy it was said that
the South had natural monopoly up-
on the production of cotton. Now half
or the produced is grown outside of
south. The U. S. Supreme Court SUI
stained the New York milk control
statue. 1t later sustained the price
dlfferential statute, but when it came
to limiting that protective feature to |
those producing milk on January 1,
1888, the Court baked and properly |
so. upon the ground that such was
unreasonable and arbitrary. Let the
tobacco grower take a hint and not
try to freeze the production to any
definite area or to any particular !
group of producers. Make the control
plan flexible enough to take care of |
normal growth and expansion. Rea-
sonable as opposed to complete con-
troll is all that is possible. Anything ,
else will discredit the whole control
program.
JOHN w. HESTER.
Washington. D. C.. Feb. %, 1896.
P. s. Since the foregoing was writ
ten the U. S. Supreme Court has SUI
stained the statute forbidding the
shipment of prison-made goods into
states that have outlined the same.
But this does not leave the tobacco
production control program in the
clear, for exclusion is not the obiec-
tive here, but the limitation of pro-
duction to production-controlled |
areas. However, the prison-made |
goods decision is encouraging all the
time
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