The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-14
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
NEW DEAL HAS SUBSTITUTED ITS OWN
CODE FOR THE ANCIENT. TESTED
CARDINAL PRINCIPLES

CARDINAL PRINCIPLES
find buried in your editorial, Labyrinth OF
Laws, an apothegm Of rare significance. 1t is that
business rests on "a vogue Of complex bylaws
text for sermonizing! And while, in some as
poets it is used by as rome of Justihcation;
by others. it will be construed as an apt, fuil-
bodied pregnant phrase that is wildly descriptive
Of present-day governmental policies of "oh agin'
on agn. gojn' agin-Finnegan'"
The paragraph from which lifted this gem OF
your expression is as follows:
Il is plain that federal regulation of bust
ness practices rests these days not on funda-
mental right and wrong, which most people
understand, but on a vogue of more complex
economic bylaws. The liquor dstilleries get
in trouble for not letting price-cutting go on
uncontrolled and the yeast manufacturers get
in trouble for price-cutting. 1t is very eonfus-
ing We believe that everybody should 90
business cthcally but it's getting so dev'lishly
difficult these days to know when one Is or
isn't entitled to a clear conscience.
most recent illustration of "a vogue of eco
nomic bylaws" is furnished by Mr.; John l. Flynh'
in Golfers of coal bootleggers in the anthracite
coal region Of Pennsylvania where an alien unem-
ployed population (includng relief workers) calm
" trespass on the coal fields owned by others ana
tap outcroppng coal veins to the tune OF 81 MIL
lion dollars a year Plain stealing, in plain Eng
I;sb on which the courts ia unseeing eye and
turn a deaf ear.
The trespass and theft are justified by the boot
leggers as an economic necessity and regarded by
tho law as an Economic bylaw" that has thrust
.l.nc int nd
damental rights into the hnterland OF memory
only.
How can YOU call it stealing. asks the coal boot
logger, after we have put so much time muscle,
and hazard in digging out the coal for ourselves
burglar, tunneng deep underground to the
vaults of some bank, might with equal justhcation
ask for the same economic immunity.
From whence does this subversion of cardinal
principles of rock-ribbed Americanism spring
these economic bylaws" which threaten the very
foundations" of our constitutional form Of govern
ment?
In brief autopsy we may find the seeds OF its
growth: To millions of unthniking minds the TIM
seI slogan of "The More Abundant Life spells a
Garden of Eden built by the WPA, where loyal
New Dealers may forever roost at the expense OF
those whose labors are measured by the rising and
setting Of the sun.
We see an ominous black cloud of unionism,
guided and directed by intolerant, highlypaid pro-
fessional agitators and backed by crnging govern
mcnt bureaus, which seeks to invade, dominate and
eventually destroy the initiative that has made our
form of government the envy Of the ciS'l'Heu
world. A.
And we behold dervsh prosperity, auunco ~, "
European isms, the permanency Of when can DC
rc,d ON the pressure gauge of some 20-odd o'iiohs
&c dcbtsMdebts which can only be paid by placing
I, heavy mortgage on the future earning capacity
of the nation.
And taxes-direct and indirect, the length ana
hroadtb and depth of which arc beyond human
cacn,ation-are coercing business to pay out divl-
dends and higher wages as an economic evasion OF
litter confscaton Of their properties.
Truly, we revel in the midst of Roman holi-
day with the politicians seated in the upper tiers,
while the privileged princes" are being tossed into
the arena by an economic bylaw" of thumbs up
or thumbs down.
Surely, Mr.. Editor, there is way back to the
| fundamentals upon which We grew great-to the
Pilgrim shores of initiative, indyiduaism and in
dustry One fact is written in the history of all
ages and human experience: We can never make
true and lasting progress in shadowy land of
| economic bylaws" which have been substituted
| for fundamental right and wrong.-W. E. Mattress
| in Charlotte News