| Show I N SID S I D E EST S T U F F The Thee B By News e PAUL J Behind h MALLON The News v Note Note During During Paul Mallon's two weeks' weeks vacation News Behind the tho News from Washington written b by Rodney Dutcher will appear in this space n By RODNEY DUTCHER V WASHINGTON Thero ASHINGTON-Thero There is just justa a chance in case anyone wants to tobe tobe tobe be optimistic that the country wont won't go to the dogs regardless of ot who's elected This is said ald with full realization of ot the tho gravity of assertions that Roosevelt's reelection means chaos and dictatorship and that Landon's election would lead to bleak reaction and fascism While it may be that there Is Ismore Ismore Ismore more general worry about the fu future future Lu- Lu ture turo this year than practically ever before beCore conclusive evidence shows that such worry is by no means unique Anyone with a nose for research can learn quickly that most of ot the laws and institutions most highly regarded today so say nothing of ot presidential choices were once widely viewed viewed viewed-or or at least publicly de described de- de scribed scribed scribed-as as certain to wreck our nation Viewed With Alarm Early food and drug legislation was denounced as unconstitutional unconstitutional an infringement on state rights and and by Congressman Bartlett Bartlett Bartlett Bart- Bart lett of ot G Georgia as part of ot the onward march to centralization and bureaucracy inefficiency and corruption Tho The income tax was a bogey for many years The illustrious Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator David B. B Hill of New York branded the tho proposal as discriminating discriminating dis criminating sectional and communistic communistic com corn and the equally famous Senator Sherman of Ohio insisted congress would be embarking on ona ona ona a program of socialism communism com corn The New York Sun insisted that no measure so effective ever be before before before be- be fore had been proposed for the creation and maintenance of ot tramps Tho The Review ef of Reviews said it was unmanly and un- un American Viewed With Horror The celebrated Joseph H. H Choate attacking the income tax before the United States supreme court said it was being defended here upon principles as communistic communistic and as ever have havo been addressed to any political assembly in the tho world Chauncey Depew described the courts court's invalidation of the tho law Jaw asa as asa asa a national deliverance and arid New NewYork NewYork NewYork York newspapers described it Is saving the government from being dragged Into a communistic warfare warfare warfare war war- fare against the rights of property and the rewards of Industry A constitutional amendment ratified in 1913 you'll remember put the law in full operation but butas butas butas as late at af 1909 John D. D Rockefeller Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- feller teHer was saying that when a aman aman aman man has accumulated a sum of money within the tho law the people no longer have any right to share in tho the earnings resulting from that accumulation Twenty-five Twenty years ago lobbyists were opposing the parcel post law lawand lawand lawand and telling congressional committees committees committees commit commit- tees that our government already has approached the halting line of socialistic and paternalistic legis legis- lation Parcel post it was said would drive the small country merchant out of ot business and was an extension extension extension exten exten- sion of bureaucracy More Ioro Grave Alarm This administrations administration's references to private socialism also seem to be old stuff tuff In 1888 President Grover Cleveland was warning against the communism of combined combined com corn wealth and capital in con- con v with proposed antt antitrust rust laws Years later the American Bankers Bankers' Bankers Bankers' Bankers Bankers' Bank Bank- ers' ers association was warning that the Clayton antitrust bill would bo ho injurious to business and the National A Association of ot Manufacturers Manufacturers Manufacturers said unless there is a cessation cessation cessation ces ces- of hostility to legitimate business the vitality of our commerce commerce commerce com com- merce and trade will be critically impaired The Chicago Tribune decided it was vas one of the most dangerous and subversive measures ever seriously considered by an American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean congress Senator of Connecticut said it was socialism socialism so and despotism The federal reserve system bill was revolutionary socialistic and unconstitutional according to tu Senator Aldrich of ot Rhode Island and practically all the bankers insisted it was ruinous Unsound and dangerous said the New York Times Feared Senators' Senators Election When direct election of senators senators sena sean tors was proposed the eminent Senator George Frisbie Hoar of ot Massachusetts announced that when that was accomplished the American constitution is gone Senator Elihu Root warned that the tho senate senat had been established by tho the constitution to protect the American democracy against it It- It self Passage of the first Interstate commerce commission bill Senator Senator Sen Sea ator Hoar said would create a panic The moral moal of all this if any seems to be that most of us can afford to avoid high blood pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure over the Ute campaign until the cool days dars of October Copyright 1936 NEA Service Inc |
