Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-25
FumbIing
By Congress
S+irs PegIer
Body Has Abdicated IFS
Powers, He Asserts =
Tuesday, November =. ~
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

cal trimmers and panhandlers
our Congress is these days when
il is openly said and never de-
MED, because it is wretchedly
true, that the law-making body
of a nation which purports to-
be the greatest republic on earth
is afraid to pass any law that
would place decent restraints on
an organization which includes
racketeers and dictators because
the President won't give the
high-sign.
The President OF the United
States is not the legislative
body.
He is the executive, the gen.
eral manager, the chairman OF
the board and he has no right 10
give orders to Congress but
duty to take orders and execute
them.
Congress has duty TO issue
such orders and the members OF
both houses are guilty of an
injury to the people and the
American form of government
when they deliberately refuse 10
perform their job.
The Presidents advice may be
sought and respected but there
was no intention ever that he
should tell Congress what laws
il must pass and what laws IL
must refrain from passing.
Nevertheless, the n a O n a
legislature OF the United States,
under the rule OF President
Roosevelt has abdicated its
powers, its duty and all but tip
petty rewards of office and Il
now so far gone in submission
10 the rule of the boss that the
members openly admit that all
legislation must have the APP
-proXaE of -theAWhIte- House.
THE French parliament was
rotten al the end and per-
ished of its own poison, but the
pathetic crowd who are selling
eut the American people today
aren't much better, if any
They talk of the robbery. eX-
tortion. physical brutality and
arrogant suppression of citizens
plain rights by groups OF thugs,
thieves and anti-American con-
spirators in the service Of the
kremlin and they conduct in
vestigatlons which prove their
worst gossip and suspicious.
But. in all the years Of the
Roosevelt presidencies, not one
law have they had the honor
and manhood TO enact which
would trim the powers OF these
undiSguised rascals
They send out fycops 70 the
ends OF the country 10 dig up
evidence which can he found in
any newspaper any day.
( They drag witnesses 10 Wash
ington 10 give irrefutable and
undisputed evi dence Of the
Niciousness which is eorrupting
the whole nation; they draft
bills.
They argue and then. having
discovered the foul truth they
complain because the President
won't give them his gracious
permission 10 do their obvious
duty
There are said 10 be some
men in both houses in whom
self respect and honesty are not
quite dead. but if so they are
50 inexcusably docile or dun
that all few Of them togethev -
can't even raise A row.
And some of those who clown
II before the country as friends
OF labor are. on the contrary,
traitors 10 the interests and
rights OF the very people whom
they profess 10 serve best and
have sold them down the river
10 AS vile and greedy lot Of
slaNe-dfiVers as ever laid the
lash on the cringing Uncle Toms
of ante-bellum days.
E0R years now they have
l. known that the Go was a
political organization. members
of which courted the Commu-
nists and raised. them TO posi-
tions Of dangerous power over
millions OF decent American
citizens.
They observed that some Of
the unions were knitting Ameri-
can soldiers and sailors and the
American people in the back
with fraudulent strikes and
Siowdowns up TO the time Of
Hitler's attack on Russia but
then turned-to with gaudy cries
of patriotic purpose.
They saw Mrs. Roosevelt in
suit them and the people whom
they are supposed to represent
by coddling a batch of fractions
colts Of the Trojan horse.
They know and admit that
millions Of dollars have been
wrung from the sweaty grasp Of
common breadwinners by the
most audacious and rapacious
gang Of thieves that ever
preyed on humankind.
They know that the laws
known as labor's gains are, in
fact, labor's chains.
1t isn't that the United States
Congress lacks information OIL
the authority to restore freedom Z