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Bv JOHN Q. ANONYMOUS The King can do no wrong! Long live the A& Senator -from Louisiana, a Northern Ro man Catholic Priest, together with a spokesman for i the Jewish race are all three, making .the welkin .ring through your loudspeaker with charges and counter charges pf demogqguery, fclwlpiperism, anti-papal, anthsemitic and anti proresiant -anathemas, ascribing to the one as having a Jew as lord and master, to the other, a desire to be the Hitler of the United States with ,the Church and State as one, the Senator chim ing in with a “share the wealth program,” so as to make every man a king. . A -Socialist of -California, Upton Sinclair, with his EPIC proposes to reduce poverty by confisca tion of property acquired by others. Trotski is using the pages of the popular Lib • -crty weekly -to illustrate the benefits of a Soviet Government in the United States, with predic tions as to how we will be sovietized and where the Soviet Capital will be located and exactly how the sovietiring will be carried out. Townsend secures some Congressional support of -his proposal to pay those reaching, sixty years a pension of $200 -per month, to be lopped off ,the increment of the wealthy. vPatman obtains the adoption in the House of his proposal to print money to pay off the World iWar veterans. •Our iRaleigh News and Observer advocates “getting the money where the money is/’ with ho revenue to he obtained from the legal sale of liquor. Five billions of dollars (how much money is hve billion) -for the relief of the unemployed to be added to a National debt of thirty billions of -dollars. / 1 Ninety percent of the Nation’s wealth hypo thecated as collateral for loans made to the Fed ,eral, State and municipal governments, thus leaving but little capital for extension of private enterprise. The Supreme Court of the United States has sustained ais constitutional a state statute giving the right of redemption of property foreclosed for non-payment of the mortgaged debt within two years after foreclosure. If he government withdraws its appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States in a case wherein a District Judge in Alabama held that the National Recovery Act. was unconstitu tional. Nash County has received more money in a lump sum for farmers than at any other time as a subsidy from the Federal Government for not planting tobacco. Farmers are receiving a subsidy for not rais ing cotton, hogs, corn and wheat, while a great drought is devasting the wheat-raising West, the high price of cotton is devasting the South’s world market for cotton and the price of bacon and eggs is so high that the American family has abandoned this proverbial breakfast dish. On April 18, 1933, the senior senator from North Carolina, Mr. Bailey, speaking in Congress on the A. A. A. bill that made it possible to pay these subsidies to the farmers said: “It never occurred to me that I would live to see the day when it would be coolly proposed anywhere in America that we should so far for get the liberties which. we received from our fathers, and which are guaranteed in the Con stitution, as to undertake to fix a price b|y actual law anywhere in this land. When we fix by taxa tiorfwe fix it ju^t as much as if we did it by im perial decree from the throne. It never occurred . to me that it would be proposed in this Congress that we should make it a crime to pay less than the price fixed by a Secretary or the Congress or the President .... 1 said something about the preservation ot tno Republic. She is not going by way of arms. I am not .afraid of {that. She is not going by sedi tion and conspiracy. This Republic wilt go when American JLiber.ty .goes, in every step we take, giving away here and giving away there, nega tiving personal liberty or the rights of personal property or -the .right of personal security almost unawares, here and .here, there and there, forget ting the great traditions .of (the past that ought to guide us, forgetting the great standards by means of which the Republic has ever lived and •must live, .forgetting ,the spiptpal fountain? jthat have made her the source of light and life for 144 years. \Vhen..we forget, we cease to exer cise eternal vigilance, we begin to see die Re public taking a transformation and losing a character .which amoonte .to .more than a revolu tion . . . . “I never thqpghfc ^we fiome to the time wjien we would let a President oV the' United States lay a ta* upon the American people, but ■ Wie are asked -to give the-power -to the -Secretary of Agriculture who has never received a vote m .his .life, .and will .never have .to answer to .the people” . It is a crime to have gold in one s possession. The United States has repudiated all its indebt ness payable in gold; billions .Off dollars .in SQ* is being nsed by .the Federal Government gamb ling with foreign nations in a socalled effort to stabilize our exq^nge crates in those .countries. The Supreme -Court has (held .that Liberty bonds are Still .payable in gold, but try to get it and take the consequences if any gold is found in your possession. The yalue .of the gqld dollar is increased to $1.69 in exchange for currency. “Flying Squadrons” of labor rode rough-shod .over .the country last fall closing .plants and pre venting persons from being .employed that wanted .employment and at a time when there were twelve millions of persons unable to obtain em ployment. .. >/r Our Junior Senator from North Carolina, -Mr. Reynolds, speaking in Congress , on March 15, 1935, said: “ Approximately AJpUU.WU people are pp lief rolls, whjch includes members of families. Over 4,500,000 families on relief rolls are rep resented in the twenty-odd millions, and of this number .over 700,000 single persons are included. Those poverty-stricken securing aid from the Government—direct financial aid or work relief aid—-inciyde professional men and women, such as .lawyers, doctors, college professors, school teachers, mechanics and laborers . ... We have billions for war, biUipns to destroy life, billions for destruction of property. Let us spend ‘billions to create new wealth and sav,e humanity. We poured billions into the palms of foreign coun tries while bands played and soldiers paraded and sacrificed their lives. Let us upend billions, if necessary, to nourish pur children who are hungry, and* .clothe and shelter our unfortunate fellow men.” Senator Copeland of New York on March 12, 1935, said: “I have said that 2,000,000 of our .people in New York City", are bn relief . . . . Who are they? They are milliners, and dressmakers and needle workers and garment workers; clerks and stenographers and manicurists ; nurses and doc tors and lawyers, ..engineers and draftsmen. They cure not persons who can go out ang, use a pick and shovel. So I am frank to say that I cannot see how the people I have, the honor in part to represent are to ;be .benefitted by the passage of this measure” ($5,000,000,003 work relief hill). Cn June 26. 1934, the President signed Pub lic Act No. 467, which was adopted by the Con gress of the United States. This act creates 'Federal Credit Unions. Each Federal Credit Union organized under this act when requested by the Secretary of the Treasury shall act as fiscal agent of the United States, collecting taxes and other obligations of the United States, lend ing, borrowing -and repayment of money by the United States; issue and sell Treasury Cerifi cates of Indebtedness or other obligations of the’ United States and shall „be a depositary of pub lic funds. By executive order of the President there have been created seven corporations with Dela ware Charters, the incorporators being H. A. Wallace, Henry Morgenthau, Oscar Johnson, Frances Perkins, Harold Ickes, Robert D. Kohn, and Harry L. Hopkins* Without detailing all the privileges granted to these corporations, in brief, these corporations can carry on the entire nation’s business and economic life. The charters of these-corporations, are set out in the Congres sional Record, Page 1582, et. seq. The furni ture factory erected in Pennsylvania and the sub sistence homestead project at Penderlea in our State come in- under these corporations as - does - the Tennessee Valley power development. The. . financing is by the use of federal funds. in the •Christian Science Monitor, March 28, .1935, Mr. - Chamberlain, speaking of present .con ditions in Russia, says: “There are many hard faced men in Russia, who have done-quite well out of .the revolution; Gay-Pay officials who have won official favor by exploiting to the limit the unfortunate prisoners under ,their control in ■forced labor timber camps qnd construction en terprisesj hardffioUed local Soviet officials ,who extracted jtfie fyll quota of grain from .the peas ants with.QUt carffig unduly as to how many fives might be lost in consequent famine . , rThe gecent executions of Communists. in Russia after trial behind closed vdoors indicate that the Rus-" sian Theianidor, like its, French predecessor ■ not being .carried out without victims . . r/3 the Tsarist autocracy, the Soviet Government h no respects fpr the rights of the individual and any sacrifice of individuals or even of who! classes, in the supposed interests of the 6 ; is justifiable.” e Is it possible that these timber camps and con struction enterprises above referred to are simi" lar to C. €. €. <saplin planting) camps and P W. A. activities?) Those who -admit the theory of evolution real ize that,civilization 'has reached its present sta^e which is .obviously veriy far removed from the stone age, by reason of individual effort and the proper rewarding of individual effort, Mr. Chamberiain, in his article on Russia, states that the Soviet '‘officials are now recognizing the nec essity for and are making unequal payments for unequal .work. Those who do not believe in evolution piust.admit that during the short span of their lives a form of evolution has occurred in which better transportation facilities are af ^ohded, better sanitary and health conditions exist and living conditions are greatly improved. Are not these evidences of the progress of the hun\an race the results of supply and demand, of individual effort and individual demand) for the better things of life and the profit motive for supplying -those demands? Alter recalling tne lacxs set out in me lore going and reading the extracts of the thoughts as expressed by others; how can the average per son, born under the American 'Flag, taught from infancy to respect and severe the •.Constitution of tour country, -.raised in an environment of fru gality .and thrift, -with an ambitious spirit, a cherished hope and a promise of ample reward for individual effort, looking forward daily to the day When his own home should be his castle in which to rear and educate his children, be other .than BEWILDERED in the face of pres ent day (Conditions? Jn 1929 our economic ills consisted only of financial .distress caused by misuse of our Na tional credit. The ‘'brain -trusters,” however, in order -to cure our diseased .tonsils, have hroken every bone in our body. The remedy now is to repair all our fractures caused by experimenting, first by the breaking of one bone, then another, and when the fractures are healed re ove the tonsils. 'Pie F^qralReserye-bank s' ould be made a tpart of the Government so. as to allow the -;C.ongresis to coin -t^e money and REGULATE the value thereof. Had this been done in 1933 we would -not still be in this economic crisis. Once Abused, Little Used A lot of fellows who wasted their health in drinking and other forms of riotous living would -like to go back to their constitutions.— The Union Republican. No Need To Work The commissioners of Mecklenburg county the past week, voted $15,000 for relief of desti tute people in that county but before the money was voted Commissioner Baxter Hunter deliver ed himself of a speech in which he said: ‘‘If not one federal dollar had been spent for relief m Mecklenburg county we would have been l'OO per cent better off and there would be nobody starving.” Mr. Hunter based his statements on his observations that many on the -relief rolls re fuse employment because they can get easier sup port from the government. “I’m in favor of helping -the poor,” Huntjer said,- “but I cannot favor feeding and clothing those who are not poor.” This is perhaps typical-of every county m state.. Many there are who-will not work and so accustomed have they become to a government handout that,.they-will mot work even wheen work is offered. We have reached a deplorable sta e in this country and where it will end no one can tell. Only the past week a young buck from Sto'es county breezed in our office, looking the very picture of health. His clothes were clean ant he appeared prosperous. We asked him w“er® he was working? He replied that he had don no work since Christmas, that the governmen was talcing care of him and why should work? He further elucidated in a very icnng ^ erting manner that we pf .the force who get 01 .this paper and were‘hard at it when this >oU1^ American .appeared on the scene were helping .support him" and that was what we #ould antf what he expected. Just such exhibitions this is calculated to make .the heart, pfa Pa n tired and wonder where all this .Jtoosevelt t pet imerriation. xwill end find wbafr.the end wi —The Union Republican, gj.,*- ’
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