The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-01-29
NO POPULAR DEMAND FOR
PRESIDENTS PROGRAM

Last year President Roosevelt announced
and insisted that the program of national
legislation which now lies before Congress
was Immediately necessary, that it was
emergency stuff, that there was terrific
popular demand for the enactment OF
these laws, and that he had an iron-clad
mandate from the people to force and COM
pei their passage.
The regular session of Congress failed
to enact this program into law; the Presi-
dent called a special session for the same
purpose, but the special session failed to
pass any of these laws. Then came the
regular session again. Congress has been
in Washington for month. The fight on
the anti-lynching bill has blocked consid-
Grafton of program which the President
labelled emergency" a year ago, which
has not been enacted in any part-and,
yet, the situation is viewed by the country
with the completest and most evident COM
placency.
There is no popular demand whatever
forthe passage of the Presidents pet meas
ures. There is no outcry or uprising in be-
half of the enactment of the presidential
legislative program. There is no threat Of
revolution behind widespread and thun-
dering demand for the passage of the bills
prepared by the executive and laid before
the Congress for enactment.
The country is placid and, apparently,
completely satisfied that Congress has done
nothing in this direction. All that the coun-
my is worried about, as far as the press
and other sources of information have been
Able to ascertain, is the industrial and gen.
eral business situation. The people are
waiting patiently not for Congress to enact
more defective, unwise and unconstitu-
tionaI measures, but desire the Congress to
repeal outright much of that which is now
the law of the land and revise and amend
the remainder of the Presidents laws to
see if they can be made practical and
workable.
Nearly all the little demand that is to-
day being voiced for the enactment of the
presidential legislative program comes
from special interests and pressure groups,
from organized minorities. Red radicals
favor anything that will create more trou-
bls and stir up dissention and hatred
among the people, that will disturb and
upset industry and business, because their
plans call for continued trouble, moving
on, If possible, to revolution and commun-
ism. Various minority groups favor this,
that or the other proposed law, which they
believe will bring special favors to their
particular group. '. So si... - =
The great and overwhelming majority
Of sensible, conservative Americans would
pc gratifed and satisfied to see Congress
repeal majority of the laws enacted I'M
der new deal pressure, amend those left on
the statute books, adjourn and go home
for two years without enacting another
law. ...-.- 81
Ii that course was taken and the coun-
try was given decent chance to recover
free from political messing and muddTing
borrowing and spending, government in,
reference and oppression, there would be
the strongest possible hope for recovery
restoration of normal conditions, and the
preservation of the Republic in spite of the
pressure of world conditions and the dan
gers that beset the nation in its foreign
relations.