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U. S, DISHONORED BYC.0.P. HESAYS Only Liberty of Small Groups to Pick Pockets of People Lost, Party Hears. (Continued From Page A-8.) —_— liver the people from the clutches of an irresponsible government? But when some three or four out- standing acts, conceived and consum- mated in behalf of labor, or agricul- ture and the honest conduct of busi- ness and designed to constitute this as a government of equal rights, are cast aside by the rigors of technicality and the application of antiquated economic predelections in the inter- pretation of the document, as indi- cated by one of the great dissenters, we are asked to condemn the Legisla- ture and Executive as attempting to inject some alien concept into the fiber of our institutions. We have sought to serve the Amer- {can people under the Constitution. ‘We have thought that under its broad and generous outlines we might rescue the people from national disaster. We have sought to treat it as a life-giving charter, rather than an object of curiosity on the shelf of a museum. We shall abide by its decisions and | geek to shape our program in accord- | ance with them. Supreme Court Inability to Agree Is Cited. But when nine eminent men on the highest court cannot agree on what the Constitution means, is it any won- der that 531 members of the United States Congress find difficulty in agreeing about it? And when five of those eminent men say a law violates the Constitu- tion and four of them equally emi- nent, learned and sincere and equally alive to the compulsions of modern life say it does not violate the Con- stitution, then we gre at least relieved of any obligation to underwrite the infallibility of the five whose views prevail. Is the court beyond criticism? May #t be regarded as too sacred to be disagreed with? Thomas Jefferson did not think so. He did not hesitate to denounce the | decisions of John Marshall and the majority he led. Andrew Jackson did not think so. He did not hesitate to denounce the | decisions of John Marshall and the maljority he led. Andrew Jackson did not think so. In 1832, speaking of a decision of that court, he said, “John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it.” Abraham Lincoln did not think so. In his first inaugural address he said, “If the policy of the Government on vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevokably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Gov- ernment into the hands of that emi- nent. tribunal.” Mr. Justice Stone does not think so. In his recent dissent from the un- fortunate decision of the majority of the court, this great lawyer and great | American not only said that the legis- lation’ involved was constitutional, in which view Chief Justice Hughes and Justices Brandeis and Cardozo con- curred, but criticized the opinion of the majority by saying: “While uncon- stitutioral exercise of power by the | executive and legislative branches of | the Government is subject to judicial | the only check upon the ex- | restraint, ercise of judicial power is our own sense of self-restraint.” “The Constitution,” said Chief Jus- tice Hughes during the interval when he was off the bench, “is what the judges say it is.” Supreme Court Denounced By Theodore Roosevelt. What judges? cases happened to be in a majority of one. Theodore Roosevelt did not think so. Speaking to the Colorado Legislature in 1910, with reference to two recent decisions of the Supreme Court, #aid: “If such decisions as these two | indicated the court’s permanent atti- tude, there would be really a grave cause for alarm, for such decisions, if consistently followed up, would upset the whole system of popular govern- ment.” . Gov. Landon and Col. Knox fall upon each other's necks with hallowed reunion because they rode the Bull Moose behind Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. In that fight Theodore Roose- velt had so littl® regard for the court’s decisions that he advocated their “re- call” by the vote of the people. These judges have decided that un- der the Constitution the Federa' Gov- ernment cannot lift men, women and children out of the degradation of un- conscionable hours, wages or working conditions, because it invades the Tights of the States. They have de- cided that the States cannot do it, be- — RESORTS, OCEAN VIEW, VA, ATLANTIC HOTEL >+ Attractive. modern. homelik Chesapeake Bay. Dellcious Southers oo Eflg 108ting fishing bathing. Write for OCEAN (I’ MD. THE BELMONT Terms Retionante, " PR snne. ON BOARD WAL K BREAKERS gy roarbwavi gl running water Fhone 76, ¢ B. TIMMONS, et THE DEL-MAR lo Baths. n View, the people will have ceased | The five who in most | he:‘ 1 Josephus Daniels, vention Hall. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1936. L Ambassador to Mexico, chatting with Mrs. Millard E. Tydings of Maryland in Philadelphia’s Con= —Wide World Photo. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, June 24—“One- eyed” Connolly, America’s No. 1 gate crasher, got into the Democratic Na- tional Convention yesterday, but it was a humiliating day in his long and successful career. When a man bites a dog, that’s news. And when “One-eyed” Con- nolly finds himself ushered in to a national event without having to use his ingenuity, it falls in the same category. His nemesis at Philadel- phia was Col. Edwin A. Halsey, sec- retary of the United States Senate and seargeant at arms of the con- vention. Perhaps Col. Halsey remembered 1928, when Connolly rose to unusual heights of strategy in outwitting the what happened at Houston, Tex., in | 'Halsey Clears Way and Takes Fun Out of Conuolly’s Crashing‘ doorkeepers of that Democratic gath- ering. Connolly recalled yesterday how he first got into the hall at Houston by walking up to the gate with a broom and asking the ticket takers to move aside while he brushed away the lit- ter of ticket stubs on the floor. The officials of that convention at last disposed of the problem by giving Connolly a badge, which he saved and used to gain admittance to the 1932 convention at Chicago. Now comes the sad part of the story, view. When Connolly came to the present convention he found that Col. Halsey had already appointed him an | honorary assistant sergeant at arms. What could he do but put the bright- colored badge on his coat and pass through the gate in the conventional | manner of one who belongs there? cause it invades the rights of private property. I presume this progressive and logical course will soon lead us to the conclusion that private property cannot do it, because it violates the law of gravitation. What we need is a new definition and a new interpretation of interstate commerce. Every article that is grown or mined or fabricated in one State and destined for another by whatever means of transportation is an object of interstate commerce, It is in com- | States. Commerce, like water, seeks | its own level. Like the wind, it goeth | where it listeth; and you can no more divide this Nation into 48 air-tight and water-tight economic compart- | ments than you can parcel off the| heavens to control the winds or the | rains. Over against the Hosanahs of Hoo- ver for the tortured interpretation of the Constitution I place the tortured souls and bodies of men who work and pray, of women whose God-given right is not fulfilled in a sweatshop, to restore to the school room and the playground. One day all these will| thank God for Franklin Roosevelt. But we were told at Cleveland, and will be told until November, that we have taken away the liberties of the | people; that we have bound them in' chains. and that they are fettered in | the dungeons of moral and economic | | siavery. | Oh, for another Lincoln to strike these shackles from our feet! What is this freedom which we have crucified? This liberty we have slain? | Is it the freedom of workers to free | collective bargaining? Is it the free- dom of farmers to escape the loath- some peonage imposed on them by land and produce speculators? Is it the freedom of investors to circumvent the secret devices of stock manipula- tors? Is it the freedom of bank depositors from the fear of loss of their saving: Is it the freedom of home owners and RESORTS. VIRGINIA, | OHKNEY SPRIHGS Orluuy Spnngt, Va. Only 3'; hours' drive over splendid | macadam road to Washington's popular Moun- tain Resort. Golf. tennis. dancing, _swimming. horse- back riding. bowling. Gen- tile clientele. American Plan—Attractive | Rates. S:nd for Booklet. New Waverly Hotel Virginia Beach, Va. K al | Ocean Front—Every Convenience Private Baths BOOKLET MRS. B. G. PORTER. Msr. PRINCESS ANNE HOTE Virginia Beach, Va. Direct ocean front, cool verandas: 11 petition with every other similar article | originating in or destined for other | and of children whom we have sought | home lovers to protect and preserve their firesides? The fight for freedom in the past three years has been the same fight | that Thomas Jefferson made in 1776 for the freedom of the common man, that Lincoln made for the freedom of a race. Back of Hoover's cry for freedom | at Cleveland stood the immemo:ial pawnbrokers of the Republican party { who shout with glee that they have experienced a counterfeit conversioa. Back of him stood the Republicar party’s holding company, the Ameri- can Liberty League, which, if it had existed in 1776 as now officered and manned. would have been against *h Declaration of Independence, the Rev- olutionary War and the Constitution of the United States. which seeks to coin the flesh and blood of human beings into profits, averv stock-jobber, every monopolist of privi- lege and power, every propagandist for the discredited and defunct alliance | between politics and pelf. 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Reasonable Rates Southern Coouu | 'I’Ill CIISTMONI’ INN eror William Wopds, EAGLES MERE of puppet satelites in official positions in Washington under the guise of popular government, the liberty of long pampered interests to use the forms of law to fasten their teeth in the vitals of American economic life, the liberty of power and utility combinations to strangle while they rob alike investors and consumers, the liberty of organ- ized crime to flaunt its black flags in the face of State and Federal statutes and we have destroyed the liberty of any powerful or selfish group any- where in this Nation to claim that the capital of the United States is located anywhere on this continent except in the city of Washington, in the Dis- trict of Columbia. Farmer and Home Owner Not Against New Deal. Who are those who raise their strident voices against the objectives of the New Deal? Not the American former, whose in- from a gate crasher’s point of | tnroughout the Nation and countless Back of him stood every interest | creased income under it has lifted him out of the economic basement. Not the American home owner, who still dwells under his own roof and asks a heavenly benediction upon it. Not the laboring man, whose long hours have been shortened and his rewards increased. Not the worker whom we have rescued from the status of a wandering mandicant. Not the honest investor for whom we have provided information and pro- tection. Not the working womaa, whose tender and immortal functions, over the dead body of monstrous greed, we have sought to save and beautify. Not the child whose eyes until now beheld the doors of a school room as a mirage which vanishes upon ap- proach. Not the workless millions left by the Hoover administration as heipless derelicts of an economic and indus- trial tornado, for whom we have pro- vided work and shelter and attempted security for the future. the constructive step which we have taken in behalf of the unemployed, the aged and the infirm. During the 12 long years of night in which the Republican party con- trolled the Nation, no attempt was made even to deal with this prob- lem. All they hold out now is a vague and impossible promise de- signed to deceive and thwart the hopes of 11,000,000 aged people millions who will become aged in the years of the future, Who opposes this new fight for democracy today? Who throws across the pathway of real liberty lighted by Jackson and Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson the impediments of falsity and the tangled timbers of deception? | men from the trall which leads to real and not a spurious freedom? Who pours into the faces of our peo- ple the poison gas of doubt and fear and suspicion? Not the more than a million and a half young men from every State and town who have been offered a haven from idleness and possible crime. Needs of Towns and Cities Have Been Gratified. Not the thousands cities throughout America whose needs for better living advantages have been gratified. Not the anxious fathers and moth- ers of the Nation from whose hearts has been removed the fear of the kidnaper and the gangster. Not the millions of school children | whose facilities for the enjoyment of | learning have been increased. Not the millions of sufferers of tor= rential and devastating floods whose — | RESORTS. 8-DAY GASPE TOUR "H ~all expenses. 2 in room. l]" 1in "ma Pml Ington evers Sun., Jut 0 tnnwu National Raliways, 922- Iflt SI W, lfl Il C | “GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY | | TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST” | ATLA\TI( CITY, N. J. Set Sail for HOTEL whmc cITy Sea Wirter Pool... Baach | ‘ Buthing. .. Ses Woter Bathe .. Damcing Doty with Bert Estiow andhis Orchewrs ; fates and Plaa Virgmia Ave.. 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HOTEL STANLEY Ovean End—South Carolina Ave. $1 Daily; $2.50 with Meals BAR—GRILL—DANCING DEI.AWARE CITY Tetnessee Ave. 2nd from Beach. I.Alll) Pr Kentucky Ave. Near Beach {4 ‘The Republican platform denounces | Thomas Jefferson and re-lighted by | | Who seeks to divert the masses of | of towns and | safety and protection we have au- thorized. Not the consumers of electric en- ergy for whom we have provided an honest, yardstick. Not the honest business man who asks nothing of government except the assurance that he shall be per- mitted to compete with others on' a basis of honesty and justice. Not the great moral leaders and apostles of America who have seen at last some of the sacred precepts of the Golden Rule applied to the prac- tices, motives and powers of govern- ment. “America is in peril,” say the plat- form fabricators of the Republican Old Guard. It would indeed be true if they should ever again regain con- trol. “The powers of Congress have been usurped by the President,” say Hearst and Mills and Moses and Bingham and Hoover. The same was said of Wash- ington and Jackson and Lincoln. The American people expect their President to be a leader, not a craven dummy in the lap of some ventriloquist. “Regulated monopoly has displaced free enterprise,” say these who put together Joseph's coat at Cleveland. When under their domination did anybody see or hear of free enter- prise? Uncontrolled monopoly was their middle name. “The New Deal administration con- stantly seeks to usurp the rights of the States,” say these master build- ers. But for nearly a century and a half they have sought to hamper both State and national authority when directed against their pampered pets in politics and business. “It has dishonored our country by repudiating its most solemn obliga- tions,” and on that platform they nominated a candidate who, three years ago, urged the payment of pub- | lic and private debts in money of the printing press, redeemable in neither silver nor gold. “It has created a vast muititude of new offices.” So runs the monoto- nous refrain. Government Adds Workers For Increased Tasks. If we had continued the Republi- can policy of doing nothing about relief, nothing about the farm crisis, nothing for labor or business, noth- ing for homes and farms burdened with debt, nothing for one-fourth of the distressed population of this Na- tion, it would have been possible to create new offices. But you cannot double the tasks of government and not increase the number of employes. | If this is Republican condemnation of doing something as opposed to { AP0 THE PIACE | have been m: doing nothing, let them say so and| take the consequences. If it is a Re- publican approval of doing something and a condemnation of using the means to accomplish it, it is rank hypocrisy and unworthy of notice. Figures are important to register results, but the astonishing figures of American recovery are not the most important thing. There has been no such volume of recovery in so short a time in the whole history of the world as occur- red here in the first six months of 1933. It paused momentarily in 1934, but it has gone steadily upward with no sustained recession. It has in- cluded every form of human activity. I do not wish to burden this ad- dress with statistics, but for the sake of those who measure life by figures on a table, I give you the essential indexes of improvement: Farm prices, 50 per cent. Farm income, 53 per cent. Farm purchasing power, 40 per cent. Factory pay roll, 59 per cent. cent. Factory employment, 33 per cent. Industrial earnings, 35 per cent. Stock market prices, 40 per cent. Bank deposits, 33 per cent. Railroad traffic, 16 per cent. o Automobile production, 30 per cent. Construction permits, 50 per cent. Industrial production. 50 per cent. National bank earnings, 100 per cent. Decline in commercial failures, 66 per cent Increase in national income, 50 per | cent. New securities issued, 50 per cent. Perhaps the most significant of all, to industry, cent in the rate of business failures and the decline of bank failures of 100 per cent S. Agriculture Saved From Impending Ruin. But there are human values far be- yond these figures. The important point is not merely that farm prices have increased, but that American agriculture has been rescued from impending ruin. It is not merely that the condition of labor has been im- proved by the reduction of the num- ber of unemployed from 15 millions to 10 millions of workers, but that labor has been dragged back from the | brink of peonage and that with one- fourth of our population destitute, their hea comfort and self-respect ntained. and there has been no sedition, riot or bloodshed during the worst catastrophe in our and not merely that banking is the decline of 66 per | industry have been saved from hank- ruptey, but that faith in banking and industry have been revived. The answer to that enigma of denunciation by some of those who have been saved and others who may not have needed it is as old as Hamil- tonian reaction” and Jeffersonian democracy. This has been a balanced recovery. Benefits have been bestowed upon all groups with as even a hand as government can assure. But there are other gains which have been recorded in the past three years of which I am thinking, and of which the American people are thinking. These are the moral and spiritual contributions we have made to the life of our people which are beyond computation by the standards of the dollar. We talk of the gold standard, the gold content of the dollar, and men who do not know the history or the significance of money talk about the | lled Purchasing power of ssme; 50 pec| gold dollar and the so-called return to gold, denying the obvious truth that the American dollar, with a larger reserve of gold behind it today than ever before, is the soundest medium of exchange among all the| nations of the world today. But I am thinking of those im- mortal reserves of character which partake of the essence of the heart and soul of a nation which have been strengthened and perpetuated by what | we have been trying to do. I am thinking that while we have preserved homes and acres and rail- roads and banks and insurance com- panies and factories and all the tangible and corporal symbols of the people’s wealth, we ‘have also pre- served the intangible and im- measurable values that take form in the realms of pride and service and honor. We have preserved and stimulated respect for law and the rights of the average man. We have increased the loyalty of the people to the Government, which should be their servant, We have restored the faith from which must spring the defenders of the flag and of the Constitution. We have cultivated a study of the science of government and its truest functions among millions to whom government was something apart and | detached and without meaning We have renewed and reinforced the belief that after all government and trusted leaders may hear and heed the cry of the humblest worshiper at the shrine of equality. We have rekindled the vanishing ‘ravth in the survival of the best ag well as the fittest J We have revitalized the answer tof the question which has rung through all the ages “Am I my brother's keeper?” We have sought to confound ths cynics who despise the moral con- ceptions of the more abundant life | for which the Master lived and died | We have under the leadership of a man of rare and superb courage endeavored not to tear down what others have legitimately constructed, not to destroy the material rewards of honest toil of mind or body, but | to establish a fairer, juster order that will give to every man, woman and child in this Republic the right to stand erect in pride and self-re- spect, to sec the stars on high and share the glory of the s We meet of Liberty Hall, in i 1y Love, in this State of W | where eight score ye: | Jefferson gave to the | familiar creed of human was here that he bec man of the drav hewers of wood | foundations of ou It is here again. in !he mdst c{ | these historic scenes that we invoke | the spirits of departed patr re- | kindle our belief in the nobility of | their cause, and rededicate ourselves to its complete fulfillment It is here, with such a leade: in such a cause, with such a record, that we accept the challenge and hasten our feet to the field of battle. My I conclude with with quotatior:: “No greater thing could co our land today than a spirit of religion—a revival that wo sweep through the homes of the tion and the hearts of men ar | women of all faiths to a realizati of their belief in God and their d cation to His will for themselves an for their world. I doubt if there any problem—social, political or ec nomic—that would not melt b the fire of such a spiritual awaken- ing.”. The American people are not afraid to follow, they will follow, the man | who spoke those words. He is the present and the next President of the United States, Franklin Deland Roosevelt. orld an freedom me to lnLu\ LSE w z;r INDIES SES ver OG/ES cANT TAKE - OF Ql/AlI LOGIES arein order when you order the wrong beer. But, even the most graceful apology is a poor substitute for GUNTHER'S BEER. GUNTHER'S is available in practically every licensed store in Washington, so, it’s as convenient as it is wise to buy GUNTHER’S all the time. 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