Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-22
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MIR. WRIGHT COMMENTS AGAIN

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To the Editor:
The Constitution of our country was
one hundred and fifty years old last
Friday, September 18th. The big law
yers and bloated bond holders who
have profited by it made much of the
/ occasion. They evidently want it to
triumph to their welfare during the
next one hundred and fifty years as
| it has during the past. The Tories
know that if they can keep that in
strument intact and can manage to
keep on the Supreme Court bench
men who will do their bidding ali will
be well with them and their house.
! l do not desire to find any fault
with the Constitution but the way it
has been interpreted most of the time
j cannot be too severely criticized. Sell
dom have the people--thes great pros
ducing millions-evef had it con-
strued in their favor No one knew
| this more than Franklin y. Roose-
| welt and for that reason he is seeking
to fix it so the people will be ,consid-
| cred in it's Interpretation. Because he
seeks to do just that the Tories, who
are the big money interest, say he is
trying to make himself. king, dictator
| monarch, potentate,. autocEat,. despot,
chief, and lord. All of which is lie.
and if this was my paper I would
put two strong words before the word
! lie which would tell more fully just
what kind of liars they are. Any or
binary fool ought to know just what
causes all this slandering of the Presi-
r. Ill
! brain of organized wealth and the
, farmer and worker who is fooled
thereby should live forever in poverty
and see his children rot around him.
Let us look for one moment at the
farmers plight, here in September, in
| Vance and adjoining counties. Last
1 Spring at planting time there was no
/ rain and to make matters worse dis
| ease destroyed his tobacco crops, land
was so dry he could not get a stand
!, of cotton, corn or any thing else. The
consequence was he failed to get a
full crop planted. That is especially
| true of tobacco. Late in July the rains
came until more than one fourth of
(! the tobacco was ruined. Is tobacco
/ selling any higher than 1t did last
wear? No it is still about twenty
/ cents which is about ten cents below
i cost of production, where it has been
4 since 1919 All this in spite of many
4 big meetings held to put the farmer
i on his feet. When the railroads, big
! ship companies, banks and big indus
| tralists fail in their crops they go
| right to Washington, Constitution or
no Constitution, and they get great
chunks of help. The reason they can
! do that is they are organized and do
not send men to the. Congress that
! other people pick. They pick their
Representative and the fool farmer
votes for them and is fool enough ito
wonder why he gets so little for bis
/ labor, and the labor Of MS wife and
| little children. ,s]s
1 want to say right here that any
farmer who goes to meeting To- near
| the big fellows tell him how TO get
! ,1.ore for his crop is wasting his time
unless he has the backing of an or
ganlzation. That is just as true as
] the sermon on the Mount in spite of
the great difference between the
speakers.
A man~was telling me the other day
about having lawyer do some work
for him and he thought the price he
charged was too high and said so, but
Jle lawyer came back at him with
the assertion that that was fixed by
The board and he could not change it.
And thought right straight that no
| c.ass+ needed a board more than the
GARNER. ( So / here suggest that the
farmers get a board.
If the people will stand by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and help him add new
blood to the Supreme Court he will
soon have it so those who work will
/ get fair return for their labor. I
say this with little hope as far as
l.4forth Carolina and the South is con-
celned. Nea4ly every one OF the
Lore lhan one hundred and twenty
Members of Congress from the South
are against Mr. Roosevelt in all his Ell
lorts 20 90 something to lift up the
great producing class who do all the
work and have to 1--we in a poverty
that is. shame to any country
Here in Worth Carolina Roosevelt is
hated by the rulers of the State and
already these rulers are laying their
plans to send to the next legislature
and the next congress men who will
fight the President. They want to
keep things as they are for they have
plenty and they want to keep the
farmer and worker poor so they can
control him the better. This Young
Democratic organization that so much
has been said about lately is controll-
cd by the tories-the Liberty Leaguers
and was formed to keep in power the
same bunch or kind of bunch that we
have had since the Civil War. They
seek to keep in power such cattle as
josiah Bailey, who speaking to this
organization OF Young Democrats said
that the masses were not supposed to
have anything to do with the manage
ment of their State and Nation. He
wants it left to him and Governor
Hoey and that kind. God save US. I
wish to warn the farmers and work
ag folks to fight shy of that Young
democratic organization as they would
pestilence. Vote for nothing it off
II IS unless you want to continue in
iavery. 1T is composed of the scions
# wealth and being southerners have
. thought or feeling for those who
labor. They are out to down Roose-
velt and that ought to be enough to
make all who have to work to eat
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