Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-04-15

erty OF other persons. They nave
developed among the strikers them
selves resentment against every
one who owns farm or home or
a business.
The tragedy of this condition, to
leave the subject Of currency for
moment, is that the strikes show
how little respect for law and order
exists among segment of our pop
ulation. 1t is not only tragedy. It
is dangerous sign and unless
somewhere in our nation, govern
ment asserts its authority and pro-
tects rights, we may possibly be
faced with a circumstance in which
our nation will be held together
again only by use of army guns.
To get back then to the bond
market it seems to me there is a
=, closely knit skein
Onsound of conditions that
Ground prove where GU r
government h a S
gone into unsound ground. It can be
pointed out how the tinkering with
the currency has carried through
to the ultimate consumer and the
wage worker. 1t can be shown how
the national government has dis
regarded the rights of part of the
population and favored another part
of the population and in doing so
has created class hatred which is
liable to cause trouble in the nation
for the next fifty years.
Notwithstanding the lessons to be
learned from these experiences we
observe how the same mistake is
being made in another way. l refer
now to the attitude of administra-
ton leaders who are supporting
President Roosevelt's program to
add six justices of his own choosing
to the Supreme court of the United
States. Throughout the argument
that has come from proponents Of
the Presidents packing plan there
runs a constant and recurring ap-
peal that if we can only have six
new justices in the Supreme court
we can do all of the things that are
necessary to bring about labor
peace and complete business recov-
cry.
Disregarding the merit or demerit
of this argument, it seems to me
one cannot help looking somewhat
into the future and determining on
the basis of experience of the past
what may happen if the Supreme
court is emasculated as the Presi-
dent proposes.
said earlier in this article that
there has grown up tremendous
disrespect for law. The continued
prattle about the necessity for ''new
blood" in the Supreme court is sim
ply and frankly another step in the
direction of a government by men
and not government by law.
1t is to be recalled that Mr.. Roose-
welt was given by his rubber stamp
congress more power than any
President of the United States ever
has exercised before. I do not make
the charge that the difficulties that
I have attempted to analyze above
resulted directly from according the
Chief Executive so much power.
But history surely teaches the les
son that where one man has so
much power available he always
makes more mistakes than where
that power is exercised by the prop
erly appointed or elected represent
atives of the masses of the people.
recall a homely saying, often
heard in my youth, that two heads
are better than one even though
one may be cabbage head. I am
quite convinced that the 435 men,
bers of the house of representa-
tives and the SO members of the
senate have more wisdom collective
ly than one man.
Adverting again to the questions
Of currency and prices, we have
only to look across the Atlantic
ocean and see what happened in
Italy, in Russia and in Germany
where one man attempted to estab-
lish his own ideas on the currency.
From what I have heard from off
cial sources, it must be true that in
those three countries I mentioned,
there are billions of pieces of paper
money that are worth altogether
little more than the cash value of
the paper on your walls. 1t al
ways has worked out that way.
Some Of the business interests Of
the country apparently are taking
~ -. time by the fore
ldRe tn1e lock and adjusting
BY Forelock themselves to con-
ditions where the
government is by men and not by
law. A few days ago the distilled
spirits institute announced that it
had elected w. Forbes Morgan as
it's president. Mr.. Morgan, an uncle
by marriage of Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, resigned as treasurer of
the Democratic National commit
tee to enter the employment of the
liquor interests. While there was nc
official announcement concerning
Mr.. Morgan's salary, the gossip per-
sists that he is to be paid something
like five-hundred-thousand dollars
for five years work in his new job.
His election raises two questions
What can Mr.. Morgan do for the