The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-24

Every one Of the examples they
cite are false and misleading. elm
coin did not recognise the Dred
Scott decision" The truth is that
he criticized Il before becoming
President and Obeyed it until the
Civil War broke out. "He led the
people into the Civil War to wipe
out slavery" What an idealiEation
and Justification Of history. Lin
coin led the people into the Civil
War 60 wipe out the power OF the
Shareholders and conquer power
for the bourgeoiGe-and was fin
ally after much hesitation, fore
ed to emancipats the slaves to
accomplish these ends. president
Jackson, the great Democrat,
they cotinue in the vein Of .
speech By Postmaster Farley, ere
fused to recognize Supreme
Court decisions" Jackson was q
STAKEHOLDER and q servant Of
GlavehOlders, just rs Roosevelt is
q political servant Of the wage
slave-holdeFs Of capitalism. He did
ignore . Supreme Court decision
when the court attempted to
, protect the lands Of the Cherokee
Indians against their seizure by
the Georgia Shareholders. "Presi-
dent Grant increased the mem
bership Of the court to change q
Supreme Court decision. He did
80 to valoFize the paper money is
sued during the Civil War and
held by the financial aristrocracyl
These people, who now vie with
the Liberty League and Hearst in
posing as defenders Of the Consti-
tuition, echo the old cry of the pet
ty-bouregois liberals: "The Con.
stitution does not give the Sup
RENE Court the right to declare
laws passed by Congress uncon-
stitutional." But this cry has M
historical foundation. Although the
powers of the Supreme Court are
only vaguely defined, judicial sup
remacy is in no respect precluded
and the records of the Constitu-
tional Convention as Charles A
! Beard has proven, show the court
was to have such power. The Su-
preme Court has exercised this
right without restriction since the
days Of John Marshall, and viii
continue to exercise it so long as
bourgeois democracy survives in
this country, These pitiful wretch.
es complain: "the Supreme Court
has ursurped its powers" But the
Supreme Court is not alone in that
So has the President, and, ever
more, SO has the entire power OF
the state been ursurped by the
capitalist class from the masses Of
the people. The Supreme Court
is one of their agencies Of domin
alton; the Presidency is another
Revolutionists will get rid of these
ursurpers by overthrowing then
altogether. lu
But how do these people pro
s pose to uproot the reactionary
power of the Supreme Court? b.
constitutional amendment, no less
A noble enterprise indeed! Let u
pull out the teeth of the capitalist
tiger with a pair of sugar-tongs.
If Roosevelt won't turn the tricl
land It is apparent that they eth
er half-hope he will, or at least
wish their duped followers to be-
lieve he could do SOY then a Far
mer-Labor government will. The
Farmer-Labor government vii
presumably abolish all the evils Of
capitalism, If not capitalism itself
Among the other things it would
do, according to this manifesto, is
70 "use the army and National
Guard to protect the workers
against the violent strike-breakine
activities Of the scabs and thugs
Of the manufacturers; and not Il
shoot down workers striking FOL
a living wage" In Minneapolis
there 10 q Farmer-Labor mayor
named Latimer. Recently his po
| lice killed two strikers at thC
StrutWeaP plant and wounded 0v'
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