Evening star., 1938-08-23
Senator Lashes New
Deal for Farm
Burdens.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY,
stan Correspondent Of The Star.

8.
Farmers indirectly are feeling the
effects OF social security taxes, al
though farm labor does not share in
the benefits. Senator Tydings, Demo-
cratic aspirant for denomination, told
this agricultural community last night,
as he again defended his exercise of
independent Judgment.
When Senators check their brains
with their hats in the cloakroom,
goodbye democracy" declared Mr..
Tydings, addressing more. than 500
persons who had gathered on the
courthouse lawn from surrounding
Queen Anne County.
Standing in the center of an agri-
cultural section, he declared agricul-
ture will never thrive until business
generally is revived, so that people
may consume the products of the farm
With at least 100000 unemployed,
the farmers trouble is due to under
consumption, he said
Calls for Go Signal
You can't make business go by
taxing it, cussing it, beating it and
frightening it," the Senator continued.
Give, business green light. Tell it
to go ahead. That's the common
sense way of seeking recovery, but now
everybody wants short cut
Although devoting most of his speech
to the ills of the farmer, Mr.. Tydings
paused several times to challenge the
claims of his New Deal opponent,
Representative David j. Lewis. who
Is running with the full support of
the Roosevelt administration.
Referring to Mr.. Lewis claim that
Mr.. Tydings voted with Senator VAN
denberg. Republican, of Michigan on
number of issues, the Maryland
Senator shouted:
The way for Mr.. Lewis to get me
out of the Senate is to show. not that
voted with the Republicans, but that
voted wrong"
Cites Anti-N. r. A. Vote.
Further on the Senator declared he
voted against the "nefarious N. R. A.
which, he charged. set aside the anti
trust laws, permitted industries to fix
their prices and thereby increased the
cost of living to the farmer The basic
difficulty with agriculture, he said, is
that the farmers are getting low prices
for their products while the cost of
the things they buy has been forced
up by variolus legislative measures.
Recalling that the Supreme Court
threw out N. R. A. by to decision,
the Senator added
And yet Mr.. Lewis has the ef-
frontery to say I wasn't good Demo-
crat for voting against a law that
allowed manufacturers to fix the prices
Of the things the farmers buy"
Il did not vote for the Supreme
Court, for the Government reorgani-
cation plan, for the confirmation Of
Mr. Justice Black or for the N. R. A
and would do it all over"
He said he would have supported a
court change by constitutional amend
ment, or a more liberal judicial retire.
ment plan. In the reorganization
fight, he said he stood with the Gov
ernment employees, war veterans and
farm groups in asking for an amend
ment to enable majority in Congress
to pass on the reorganization recon-
mendations instead of requiring two
thirds vote to override the Executives
orders, but this was refused.
Sees New Arbitration Test.
Turning again to his opponent, Sen
ator Tydings told his audience that
Mr.. Lewis, in effect, states he will vote
for whatever the administration asks.
The present tendency, he continued,
Is to make the measure of a Senator S
ability not whether he was right or
wrong, but whether he voted for every
thing.
If you want that kind of Senator,
my friends of Queen Anne County,
then don't waste your vote on me. !
think the people of Maryland want
some one in Congress with backbone,
who will stand up and fight what is
wrong and approve what is right"
Asserting that the Nation cannot &c
on indefinitely living on the future
Senator Tydings described the present
national debt as "a first mortgage on
every household in America"
Senator Tydings said the farmers
are helping meet the cost of socia
security without sharing in its bene.
fits because the pay roll taxes on in.
dustry are felt by the ultimate con-
sumner He told his listeners, also
that even though they do not pay an
income tax. the Government is col
lecting s3.50O,0O0,000 annually from
various commodity and excise taxes
which amounts to between $50 anc
500 year for the family of each
wage Garner. These indirect taxes, he
said, are paid by the consumer or
cigarettes, gasoline and many other
commodities.
In seeking to bring the national debt
home to his audience as a personal
burden, the candidate observed that
most people carry life insurance, and
that the insurance companies are
among the heaviest investors in Gov
ernment securities.
so, your money is being loaned tc
the National Government. That |.
where the Government gets the money
1t sends back here in the form of re.
lief or w. P. A-from that source
and from taxes. 1t doesn't come from
Heaven"
Senator Tydings is remaining or
the Eastern Shore today, but merely tt
visit friends and hold conferences ir
Kent County, after which he will re.
turn to Baltimore for his next addres.
tomorrow night.