The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-13
WILL THE PEOPLE SUPPORT THEIR
REPRESENTATIVES IN THIS
BATTLE?

In The United States News David Law
renee calls upon the millions OF citizens OF
this country who are opposed to Roose-
velt's court packing" scheme to rally to
the support of the United States Senators
who are opposing the measure. Lawrence
suggests, and urges, that one to two hun,
dred thousand citizens from all sections OF
the country should come to Washington
and personally make known to their Sen
ators and Congressman their views in OPP
position to this scheme. This method will
be much more effective than letters or tele-
grams, he believes.
David Lawrence closes page appeal IN
his newspaper with these paragraphs:
Members of the United States Senate who have
by conviction arrived at the conclusion that the
substitute bill is all right can be reasoned with
by constituents.
Again and again in times of crises, people ask
"What can do?" There is something concrete
they can always do. They can join associations
and organizations which endeavor to express the
collective wish of a great section of the body
polite.
Today the citizens can come individually or IN
groups to Washington and spend two or three
days here talking with their senator's. Last week
a delegation of $50 came from nearby state.
They made profound impression. They won the
vote Of senator who might have gone along
with the packing" substitute
There is never any harm in the making of
pilgrimage by citizens who come to talk with
their agents in government-their representa-
tives in the house and senate. And in this in
stance there will be great deal of good
Now is the time. and Washington is the place.
Will 100, 900 people make the trip and when they
have gone will another 100000 perhaps come the
following week and more if necessary? For the
opponents Of the presidents plan will debate it
at length. They have every reason to explain
the measure. This will be called "6libustering'
by the presidents henchmen but it is simply an
expression by senators of their deep-saeted OBJ
lection TO the bill. Every member of the senate
who is opposed to the substitute naturally wants
20 go on record in a speech. No senator should
miss the opportunity. It may be the last battle in
America for constitutional government and those
whose are written in the official record of
this debate will deserve to have their names in
scribed on the honor roll of the nation for all
time TO come.
The battle can be won. But il cannot be won
by less than half hundred men unaided by the
sympathy and stimulus of fighting citizenry.
Mark we'll, citizens who read this arti-
Gle, David Lawrence says that this court
packing battle may be the last in this
country for constitutional government. The
agrees with Lawrence that if
the subversive forces of radicahsm win
this battle and fasten upon this country
the dictatorship of Roosevelt, or any other
man, the only fighting that will remain to
be done will be at the muzzles of rifles,
machine guns and cannon.
But this deadly menace can be stopped
without plunging this country into saw
age civil war A majority of the people of
this nation are emphatically opposed to
this court chieanery, which they know is
merely part of the scheme to cinch con-
troll of the country and its people in the
hands of a man who declared in speech
in Madison Square Garden last year that
he proposed to be ''The Master of this
nation. 49,
Around half of the membership of the
United States Senate is facing political
death, if the people who see eye to eye
with them as to the principles at stake in
this contest do not, also, stand shoulder to
shoulder with them in waging the battle.
If the "court packing" scheme is welded
on the country, dictatorship will be in full
flower, constitutional government will be
at an end, and Congress will ultimately be
abolished, if it should develop that it can.
s--ssy,- -. &c