Evening star., 1936-01-07
For the Decision

Senator White. Republican Of Maine !:
'The sooner it is brought home to the
people Of America that the industrial.
agricultural. economic and social life
of this country cannot be regulated by
centralized authority the better 1t
will be for all concerned"
Harper SibIey. president, United
States Chamber of Commerce: This
important decision involves not only
the A. A. A. but principles under
which a number of other important
acts, such as the Labor Relations
Board, the Guffey act and the social
security act have been based.
Taxation should be for revenue only" "
H. G. Kenney, president, Nebraska
Farmers Union: Il believe a ma
jority of the farmers were against the
A. A. A. and hoping they could get
away from it,
END of Sales Tax"
Former Senator william NJ. Butler,
receiver for HooSac Mills. plaintiff in
the case: This decision gives con-
idence and business will rely upon it. q"
RusSelI T. Fisher, secretary, Ma
tional Association of Cotton Manufac-
turers: 1T marks the end of an in
iquitous sales tax on the basic neces-
sites of life, an elaborate soak-the-
poor tax"
Senator Copeland, Democrat of New
York: "a measure which did so much
to increase the cost of living in the
cities could not possibly have run the
gauntlet of the Supreme Court"
Frank w. Durham. chairman of the
New England Chamber of Commerce
Committee on Industrial Relations
"* We believe the burden should
be shared by all classes, not carried
by one"
Milo Reno, president, National Farm
Holiday Association: That's fine. 1t
was unthinkable legislation in the first
place
Return to Sanity"
Gov. Eugene TaImadge of Georgia, a
Democrat, but an implacable New
Deal foe, termed the ruling a return to
sanity"
The Farmers Independent Council
asserted the decision should spur
farmers on to the complete rout of the
Washington bureaucracy" Bureau
Gratis maSquerading as benefactors of
the farmer must be expelled if agricul-
ture is to survive The farmers can
thank the Supreme Court for having
delivered them from the insidious
plottings of Tugwell and his followers
in the Department of Agriculture"
Edward r. Hale, chief counsel for
the HooSac Mills, saw assurance that
constitutional government is to con-
tinue."
Holds A. A. A. No Solution.
Dexter Stevens, who directed the
campaign of Northern cotton manu-
facturers against the processing tax
and the A. A. A., declared the Su-
preme Court had turned back the
tide of bureaucracy" by removing a
"Government-imposed barrier that
has reduced textile employment by
reducing the demand for cotton
goods"
John Bosch, president of the Mime
sofa Farm Holiday Association, ex-
pressed qualification because it (the
A. A. A. is not a solution of the
farm problem
Dan Easement, prominent Kansas
stockman-farmer: THE A. A. A.
typified in itself everything that is
unSound and destructive in the New
Deal. = American agriculture is
represented by our real, patriotic, free
farmers who have refused to sign ad-
justment contracts or who have done
SO only under compulsion.
"a Death Blow"
rector of the Republican National
Committee: "A death blow to the
system of government advocated by
President Roosevelt and his sup
porters."
H. L. Mitchell, executive secretary
of the Southern Tenant Farmers
(share-croppers) Union: THE cotton
reduction program was a landlords
code and brought nothing but in
creased hardship to the share-cropper
and tenant" Voiding of the A. A. A.
by the court brought mo regret to
members Of the union" he said. "The
benefit payments of millions of dollars
have largely gone to the plantation
owners, but not to the real producers
of cotton"