The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-08-17
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buy a few votes with taxpayers
money in advance of the primaries
next year. Whether the representa-
tives and senators have such ideas
in mind, or not, I wish the voters
would put every one of them on the
spot by demanding to know wheth-
er they are going to let this nation
go any further into debt. The debt
now is so large that each of us is
going to pay and pay and pay in
taxes, and after We have passed on,
our children and theirs will pay.
Congress Failed to See That
Money Was Properly Spent
I always have opposed congress
sional action that delegates power
settled on the congress by the Con-
stitution. In these columns, there
has never been any deviation from
that conviction Since 1893, there
has been a constant trend in the
wrong direction. New powers have
been given the President time after
time. Particularly. has this been
true in the matter of handling mon
ey. Congress obeyed the dictates Of
the Constitution by appropriating
the money, but it did not do that
which there certainly is q duty to
do, namely, see that the money Is
spent properly.
In an examination of the latest
spending-lending scheme put for
ward by the President and rudely
shattered by the house, therefore, it
strikes me that another device to
get more power away from con-
gress was being proposed. In the
first place, there was little, If any,
hope that recovery could come out
of the program. We have seen only
slightly different schemes flop an
nuauy for several years. Further,
these plans that are temporarily out
of the window appeared to me to
be trick to evade the law in that
the financing was to be done with
out consideration of the national
budget and finances. None of these
new debts would show in the bud
get. The program resembled q
road that is cut around the edge
of town to avoid the business Sec
ton, by bypass. ..
Respecting the merit of the
spending-lending bill itself, there is
little in my opinion to warrant its
adoption. In plain language, the
proposal would have socialized
credit in the United States-and
cannot believ that the United
States IS ready to take up state
socialism after the manner of Mus
solini or Hitler.
The smashing Of the administra.
TONS scheme, of course, did have
its political repercussions and Mr.
Roosevelt, feeling the toes of a Stiff
boot as he obviously did feel such
a political blow, will be carrying hi
case to "the people" soon. He saic
in a press conference one day tina,
"the people were entitled to know
who was responsible" meaning The
congress. He also suggested tina,
the people ought to know in ad-
vance why there would be more
unemployment and why there would
be new taxes to pay for relief. All
Of which sounds rather like an ad-
mission Of failure. That is to say
these schemes of spending, of pump
printing, Of creating new and
greater debt, all have failed in re-
turning the country to anything
like q normal condition. We have
nothing to show for something like
$25, zoo. 100000 so expended ex-
cepting the bonds of the United
States government that are out
standing.
New Dealers, however, are still
battling. I noted one of them said
the other day that an extra session
of congress in November of this
year was surely a necessity. That
proposal will bear watching. I have
talked with many, many leaders in
congressman of long experience
and understanding land none of
them believes an extra session to be
pocoScorx,