The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-11-19
PRESSURE GROUPS WILL PUT
SCREWS ON CONGRESS

The Texas Weekly calls attention to the
fact that a number of the eountry's pres
sure groups are all set and prepared TO
ride Congress as soon as that body is or
ganized in January. We quote para
graph from The Weekly:
Pressure groups preparing, 1t is evident 10
start to work on Congress Immediately upon the
convening of that body in January. The PROBES
sionAl leaders of labor groups and farm groups Oh
this ism and that iSm issued statements as soon as
results of the election became known, that II they
had not supported the New Deal the final hgureS
would have been quite different. These gentlemen
profess to see in the overwhelming triumph OF the
Democratic ticket an endorsement OF all they nave
done in the past and admontion to carry on
along the same line. II is no exaggeraton TO say
that apparently every crack-pot theorist VINO mas
had his finger even temporarily in any one OF the
manifold New Deal pies is now convlnced-or'
anyway wishes to convince otherS-that ne swung
enough votes TO prevent the election OF the ne
publican candidate for president And the gentie-
men are not, you may be sure, preserving any
thing in the nature of modest silence regarding
what they saw is their doing AS matter of fact,
they are making perhaps more noise than would
he Warranted even if one could be sure that they
GOOD many newspaper columns have been given
over since the election to their announcements
and the average newspaper reader certainly must
feel by now. if ne has accepted all these statements
literally. that the reelection of President Roose-
Welt was not due to the circumstance that most OF
the voters wanted him to stay in office four more
veaas but rather to the fact that leaders, some OF
them self-styled leaders, of various organized
.rohps gave him their personal endorsements. And,
rs we saw, it has become evident that these same
leaders are preparing to put pressure on members
of Congress to get just what they want from that
body How many of their various schemes will re-
ceiye the approval Of the lawmakers cannot, of
course be foretold at this time. But we may be
quite certain that the pressure groups are going TO
be Very busy for the next few months"
Bloc or class government in Washington
has been rapidly growing in the past tit-
tean years The present day movement be-
gan under Republican administrations fol-
lowing the World War and it has made
greater advance in the past four years than
in all the previous history of the country,
for the reason that the present national
administration has sought to give the coun-
try class government. 1t has stirred up
class dissension and hatred and has posed
as,the champion of certain groups of citi-
zehs in opposition (even to the extent OF
using the power of the national govern
ment to suppress and oppress) to other
grbups. u.s., orr - B.. q
The thing The Texas Weekly is talking
about is this bloc or class government, IN
which what are known as pressure groups,
representing minorities of the country
population, seek through class legislation
to gain special privileges and, thereby, adj
vantages over other groups of citizens. By
putting this pressure on congress they seek
tocompel the law-making authority to pass
laws favorable to certain classes, providing
for subsidies of public money for class dis
tribution, or for other special favors to
minorities.
The pressure groups, in larger numbers
than ever before, perhaps, will be in Wash
ington when Congress assemblies, each OF
them with its tale of how it was either re-
sponsible for the reelection OF President
Roosevelt or contributed immensely to the
outcome of the national election; and, In
return for this political support, each bloc
or group will demand payment for serv-
ices rendered in special legislation, the pur-
pose of which is to get for the particular
bloc advantages over other groups of citi-
zens by invoking the power of the federal
government In most cases itswill be. an