Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-04-21
OTHERS VIEWS
THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.

THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.
To the Editor:
More about the Congress and it's
Record. In passing wish to state;
do not believe any one is qualified to
vote for our Senators and Congress
| men, unless they know something at
least about their record. You would
| not hire man and send him to do
! an important piece of work without
first ascertaining something about his
| ability and Witness to do that work
properly. Then why in the name of
common sense do we hire men, that
| our enemies have chosen, and send
them to Congress to do the most i'm
portant work that concerns our lives
| and the lives Of our children after
| us, without knowing they are fit? And
worst of all after they go there and
8 do absolutely nothing for the great
majority who voted for them, we send
them back again. Now there is no
reason on earth for such doings, ex-
! cept the farmers and workers who do
practically all the voting in this State,
are ignorant Of what their Represen-
tative has done. o If they only knew
what rafting there would be among
the dry bones. What is said here about
our Representatives in Congress is
/ just as true of our Representatives in
the State Legislature. I believe, if
anything, the voters take even less in
terest in who they send to the legis-
lature than they do in whom they
send to Congress-. That means they
take very little interest in who they
send to the State Legislature Little
do we realize how important is our
Legislature.
All who read the Congressional, Re
| cord, with fair unbiased mind, will
| see that the great drawback that
those in Congress who are really try
ing to legislate in the interest of the
farmers and. workers have, is caused
by the Representatives and Senators
from that section of our country
| known as the old South. That part of
our country which is bounded on the
West by the Mississippi river, on the
South by Gulf of Mexico and the At
lantic ocean, on the east by that ocean
and on the north by the Potomac
rivre and the Kentucky line. Arkansas
also should be included in this terri
tory. The states in this territory send
70 Representatives and IS Senators to
the Congress and there is scarcely one
of them that is not as reactionary as
Herbert Hoover or our own Senator
Bailey I dislike to say this, for this
is my part of the country but it is
the truth. These men who represent
the south in Congress were brought
up in that poisonous atmosphere of
the old Southern aristocracy which
taught, that those who worked were
common and unclean, and were not to
be thought of except as slaves whom
God had provided to make the COM
forts for the rich. There is in the pre-
sent Congress a member who lives
right near Wall Street under the very
shadow of the Empire. State building
who has done and is doing more for
the benefit of the, Southern farmer
and working man than all the 81 who
are supposed to represent the South
That is a broad statement; but read
your Record and see that I am well
within the truth.
The trouble with our Southern law
makers is they seem to think, as their
forebears did of their slaves, that just
few crumbs from the bountiful
table of the rich is enough for the far
mer and worker. All our national adj
ministrations have a crumb scatter
ing machine, as 1 have often said, and
when the people cry real loudly this
machine is gotten out and the dear
people are given a few crumbs which
sad to relate, pacifys them or most of
them. Well these men from the South
in Congress are the expert manipula-
tors of this crumb scattering machine.
They do not. care a rap which party
is in power if they are allowed to run
this crumb scatter. They know the
people will continue to send them to
Congress if they can give them only
few crumbs. Think of the Bankhead |
cotton act, Congressman Warren's po-
tato bill, Judge Kerr's feill to help the
farmer, the Flanagan tobacco bill,
and the law that made farmers pillow
up their crops and kill the little pigs;
all these and many more have come
to us from the Grub scattering ma
chine of our blessed New Deal admin
istration, and these, things were voted
for by practically every Southern man
in the Congress, thereby saying that
crubs was enough for the farmer. If
we did not have about 200 men in the
Congress who were the workers
friends I would not say any thing
about these things, for it would be
useless, but we have that many who
stand by US year in and year out, so
why in Gods name cannot these men
from the South come down off their
high horse and lend hand to help lift
up the farmer and worker who pro-
duce every thing, to at least a decent
American living?
JAS. H. WRIGHT.
Henderson.