Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-12
1t Has Happened Here
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MOT only can it happen here but has already hap
N rcuc5 here
Fut,ely almost soorctiycly, the Office Of Price
Administration has established system Of courts of its
very own courts enjoying such wide and varied powers
that e} c1ntroveft and nulhy the Constitution of the
United stes and the BID 81 Rights Courts that in theory
and practice con- sentence Americans to restitution and
starvation without resort of appeal
Tins new punitive Bureaucratic mill is called OLA,
and already operating ma san Francisco. Established
by d.eroo o.. the OrA BIT NOT BY CONGRESS, this
caur. Is presided aetr bv Everett c McKeage New
Peal lame u. aa Tho voters Of that city twice repu-
das5 At til, polls after h had twice been appointed by
former Coz Olson
JUDGE tfvf5f7tf accurately says of ms post,
which he was appointed by President Roosevelt:
.'No court in American hi,tor, had such powers
Is has this"
McKeaec is right
No American court at any time has had any such
inclusive and conclusive powers
John Francis Neyan eminent San Francisco attor
ncy says Of the extraordinary and eXtraconstitutonal
powers
According to Mckeagc'S Interpretation of his
poNcrs The wife and children of soldier could
I've sentenced starvation by his court for the inraction
Of regulation promulgated by an inexperienced
bureaucrat.
The wife would be presumed to know not only all
the but all the regulations, and challenge the whole
OPA organization. including OPA Director Prentss
what the regulations yesterday, what they today
and what they will be They constitute such
contradictory the greatest living lawyer could not
tell YOU what they are"
90 THIS is what we have come to.
- That while fighting to defend and perpetuate that
system of sefgovernment and way Of life called Ameri
can we have allowed ourselves to fall into the very trap
we have been endeavoring to destroy.
These OLA courts the most direct contradiction
IF everything that we have imagined our rights.
They are arbitrary and dictatoral and despotie de-
vices invoked by privilege grown mighty and irrespon
sibe through -carelessness and neglect.
WYE HAVE permitted Instruments of tyranny to arise
w that match and in effect, Guido the worst that we
could expect from foreign dictatorship
AS Mr. Neylan says:
THE creation of federal courts by any authority
other than Congress is a RECKLESS DEFIANCE OF
THE CONSTITUTION and the Congress has no
authority to grant to any court the powers that Judge
Mckeage claims for his tribunal"
How long before the American people rise to fling
this nsoent bureaucracy from its seat of usrped power
How long before the American people decide to re-
store TO themselves the independence and honor and
and defaHed the greed and lust for power of modern
politicians and half-educated theorists?
WYE HAVE indeed come to definite crossroads of
w democratic career Either cancel the presumptu-
Gus attempts against our liberties BY the OPA the OLA
and the associated alphabetical abracadabra of bureau
cracy or we succumb to the very disease fighting:
Government by ukase, government by compulsion gov
eminent for governments sake, and American liberty be
damned
And that is something which there are still many
millions of Americans willing to die to prevent.