Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-19
OTHERS VIEWS
FROM MIR. WRIGHT.

To the Editor:
Recently there has appeared in this
paper two cunningly written articles
against the Presidents court plan.
The writer of them, John w. Hester
of Oxford wrote to great length to
convince the unthinking farmer and
workingman that the President was
all wrong in trying to do away with
our five old men dictatOrs and put
the control of the country back in the
hands of it's peoples representatives.
If one will notice carefully they
will find that many of these folks
who are fighting Mr.. Roosevelt have
an axe to grind. They try to keep the
axe concealed but they always have
it. One Governor does not favor the
Presidents child labor amendment
nor his court plan either, I think car
ries his axe under a long coat tail,
1t is noticeable that these axe car
riers all wear coats. Unlike the great
producing class who have to shed
their coats in order to work, they
have their coats on to better hide the
axe they wish to grind on the other
fellows grindstone
In another article some days ago,
Mr.. John w. Hester wrote to- great
length against the Hon. Henry A.
Wallace Secretary of Agriculture for
his stand in behalf of the tobacco
farmers who were left out in the cold
by the Legislatures of the tobacco
States when they sought to get some
control plan that would save them
from hungry maws of the tobacco
III
ing, that tobacco production control
was matter for the government at
Washington. Why should Mr.. Hester
doubt that being true when he we'll
knows these farmers have had no
help except what the administration
at Washington has given them. All
they are going to get will come from
there, and it does seem the tobacco
farmers would realize by this time
that our State is run by the Demo-
cratic Machine which is fabricated by
Clay Williams of Reynolds tobacco
Company, and his kind who only care
for the growers to make enough on
one crop to be able to grow another,
I think the very best thing every to-
bacco grower can do is to get in touch
with his Congressman and demand of
him that he at once get some law
whereby the crop can he controlled
or something done so the growers
may get a profit out of it's produc-
ton. There is more signs of a big crop
being planted this year than 1 ever
saw and if Mr.. Roosevelt and his ad-
visers can't find some remedy the
growers are going to suffer a lower
price than for long time.
In his article about Wallace and
the control plan Mr.. Hester says:
"This matter of letting the producers
determine what the agricultural po-
icy of the nation shall be is not the
Democratic way. X x x We might as
well let the lawyers of the country
determine what the laws shall be, or
the manufacturers determine what
the tariff policy of the nation shall
be-" That reads like Mr.. Hester is try
ing to be funny about this serious
question, for he knows quite well that
what ails our country now is that law
yers have made our laws and tariff
policy and that all were dictated by
the big manufacturers, while the far
mer and worker has been left out in
the cold. In other words organized
wealth has got a mortgage on our
country that the lawyers wrote, and
if Mr.. Roosevelt cannot do something
with the Supreme Court to lessen the
powerful influence of its five die
tators, the producing class in Amer
lea had as well go jump into the sea-
Henderson, April 18, 1897
JAS. H. WRIGHT.
1906-F'ire raging following earth