The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-18
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NEW DEAL AS
LIBERTY FOE

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CHICAGO, Sept. Climaxed
by a mammoth night celebration
attended by more than Is, 1000 per
sons in the city stadium, Chicago
observed the 149th anniversary of
the Constitution yesterday as
former Senator James A. Reed of
Missouri, challenged its foes with
the cry:
THE Constitution may have
been framed in the horse and
buggy age but 1 would rather
ride in buggy in company with
George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln
than to embark in q chariot of
fire, seated between Tugwell and
Frankfurter, with Donald Rich
berg as pilot"
TALK TO BAR GROUP
The address Of Reed, outStand-
ing Democratic statesman, was be-
fore the Chicago Bar Association,
one Of many organizations which
celebrated Constitution Day.
His call to protect the document
which safeguards American liber-
ties was reiterated by the two prin-
cipal speakers at the celebration,
Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg OF
Michigan and Maj. Gen. John
son Hagood, recently retired from
the Army after being relieved Of
his command following criticism
Of New Deal" policies.
Protect Constitution
Reed, who is president Of the
Jeffersonian Democrats, asserted
that Americans had always be-
lieved their officials would protect
the Constitution and added:
"That is what you would ex-
pect from the ordinary, law-abid-
ing, GOd-fearing, Oath-reSpecting
individual.
But the leaders Of the New
Deal movement are not ordinary
people. The appear to be law
unto themselves and regard
themselves as superior to the
supreme law made by the entire
people of the United States"
SAFETY FOR AMERICANS
General Hagood was cheered
when he told the vast crowd in the
stadium:
eve fought the great war to
make the world safe for de-
mOcracy. We failed in that and
now we must make America safe
for Americans"
Senator Reed said in part:
'eUnder the iniquitOuS meas
ure / have specifically referred
to (the NRA), business found it.
self in chains. Many thousands
of individuals submitted under
protest. They we're compelled
to submit because the scheme
was so organized that whole
saIerS could not, without SubmiS-
sion, sell to factories because
the factories had been induced
or compelled to agree not to
purchase from those who had
not bowed the knee to Baal.
"The country was in an Of
fetal wise, the President tighten
ing it's jaws and General John
son threatening to crack down
upon the heads Of free people.
"Such was the situation
when
MAY ~, 1885, the Supreme
Court broke the ShackleS which
the New Dealers had provided
for the liberties Of the Ameri-
can people,"
DAY OF EMANCIPATION
It was a day of emancipation.
The rays of the sun Of liberty
began to penetrate through the
fog Of communism, socialism
and bOlSheviSm of the New
Deal.
"In IA separate decisions the
Supreme Court declared the
New Deal legislation uncOnSti-
tutiOnal.
Business and industry began
to revive because business and
industry realized that in the
last analysis there was a place
of refuge and defense in the
great court ordained by the
Constitution.
"One after another, the
schemes, enactments and prac-
tees Of the New Deal were
declared to be viOlative of
the fundamental law, the
peoples law, the Constitution of
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