Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
The South Should Rally
Against New Deal Laws
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The President and the New Dealers
are trying to blackmail Southern Con-
gressmen. No loans on cotton to keep
prices up for Southern farmers unless
you pass the crop control bill
This has been tried several times in
the past four years, but not to this ex-
tent, especially when Mr. Roosevelt
knows full we'll that these same Congress-
men, who have SO ably represented and
fought for the people of the South who
placed their trust in them at the last
election, know that with such large
cotton crop as that of this year unless
loans are made on cotton, out of public
funds, it will be ruination of the South
ern farmer. Crop control of cotton is
only the beginning Of other controls and
reorganization that would follow
so much for our farmers. The Presi-
dent and the New Dealers are also strik-
ing at our manufacturers through the
wage nd-hour bill. Rush it through
now so the people will not have time to
discover the true meaning of it and
how it will affect each individual in not
only the South, but every part of the
United States.
This rush legislation has produced such
blllS as the Wagner labor act which
directly favors small minority in this
country and certainly in its present form
has caused every individual in the United
states to suffer in one way or another
while lew grow rich out of it. New
dealers expect to gain votes by favoring
tnose lew and also 1t was rushed through
IN such hurry that it is not workable
The wage and-hour bill not only creates
another bureaucracy to tell us in the
South that our manufacturers must
MAINTAIN certain wages and hours
thereby throwing thousands out of work
ana creating more class and sectional
hatred which the Civil War was sup
posed to have settled once and for all.
Another measure the South had better
put stop to now is the anti-lynching
bill, sponsored by that same New Dealer
Senator Wagner, who has already done
enough damage with his labor act and
housing bill, just to gain the Negro vote,
not to help the Negro race in any way.
Had the deep South remained the old
solid South and the Democratic party
remained its old self and had we Of
the South not allowed the New Dealers
to get control and call themselves Demo-
Gratis, they would not have dared pull
the wool over our eyes.
These so-called New Dealers are fore
ing upon the American people legisla-
ton which was started many years ago,
even before it was forced upon the Rus
sian people, the unsuspecting italian
people and the trusting German people.
Even if the Democratic party had
been defeated in 1882, this country as a
whole would have been better off and
the South would not now be facing such
| ruin that is more horrible than that we
| faced after the Civil War with all it's
carpetbagging and reconstruction.
1t is up to the South to come forward
| now and take the lead in national politics
and produce again such men as Robert
| Toombs, Henry Grady, John c. Calhoun
and many others like them in order
| that we, the old South, can save the
| Democratic party and this country.
MARTIN AMOROUs, JR.