Show N LETTE LtTIE NEW CONGRESS CO GRESS WILL FIND D OLD ISSUES ISSUES EYE EVEN DATING G BACK TO WASHINGTON By RODNEY RODNEl BUTCHER DUTCHER NEA TA Service Writer WASHINGTON Nov 19 The 19 The sev soy seventieth seventieth congress will soon meet and consider various issues of import and Md If f the people of the United States re refuse re- re refuse to get excited about these issues It t may be because many of them have been up in one form fonn of ot another I Ifor for tor the last or years The twentieth t century finds May May- Mayor or Bill Thompson of Chicago howling against King George III In Just as the eighteenth century found the fathers howling likewise lIke The administration of George Washington had its problems problems lems ems of taxes debt reduction federal economy econom armaments third term for for- foreign foreIgn foreign eign relations and so on even as the of Calvin Coolidge There were blocs and lobbyists then as lIS lISnow now and there were statesmen to pro pro- protest protest protest test them Washington wailed waited until September 1796 two to months before election time lime to o decline a II third term in his famous farewell address Incidentally he used a a. form of the word choose chose when he apprised the country of his resolution to to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom v.-hom a choice is to be made He lie was not Ambiguous he ho actually apologized for forUs his Us decision he used lSd about words where Coolidge used 10 and everyone knew what he ho meant There was Vas no talk alk cf of f drafting him and the senate had lad no need to pass any third anti-third term resolution Every day the Increasing weight of years ears admonishes me more and more snore that hat tile the shade of retirement is as necessary necessary essary to me rise as it will be welcome ho he 10 said While choice and pru u prudence dence Invite Imite me to quit the political scene patriotism does d 3 not forbid It Washington too apparently had a a. western wing on his hands although It t may not have resembled the Norris Norris- Borah group which undertakes to or or- orray array ray the west against the east enst eastIn In contemplating causes which may disturb our union he said it occurs as a matter of serious concern that any ground should have been fur fur- furnished furn n t for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations north discriminations north northern ern er cup and southern Atlantic ar d al d west west- western ern whence ern whence designing men may en en- endeavor endeavor endeavor deavor to excite excl a belief that there Is 15 Isa isa a real difference of local Interests and antI views lews The Inhabitants of or our west west- western western ern e country have lately seena seen a decisive proof how unfounded were the he suspicions among them of a policy in the general gov gov- government government and end in the Atlantic states unfriendly to their Interests He warned against blocs and lobbies all all combinations and associations under whatever plausible character with the real cal design to direct control counteract or awe the regular dellb- dellb deliberation and action of the constituted authorities which would put in Inthe inthe the he place of ot the delegated will of the nation nallon the tho will of of a small but art art- artful artful ful fui and prizing enterprising minority of 01 Use tile community as likely to become potent engines by which Ich cunning ambitious and unprincipled men will willbe willbe willbe be enabled to subvert sub the power of the people As A for economy armaments and Md debts debt Avoid occasions lons of expense by cultivating peace but remembering also that timely disbursements to pre pre- prepare prepare pare for danger frequently avoid much greater Beater disbursements to repel it avoiding likewise Ise the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions oc loru of expense but by vigorous exertions in time Ume of peace to discharge the tho debts which unavoidable wars may have oc occasioned oc- oc ct onro not ungenerously throwing on prosperity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear The national parent warned against undue affection or hatred t toward any M foreign country remarking that hat There can be no greater error than nan to expect or calculate on oil real favors from nation notion to nation Eloquent pleas concerning the tho sanc sane sanctity sanctity Uty of homes hom raided by prohibition agents agent without warrants warrant are aro generally only cheap imitations of tho the court ar argument ar- ar argument argument of or James Otis in 1761 1765 against tho the Writs of Assistance Otis pro pro- claimed that special warrants only are arc legal and One of the most moot es- es branches of English liberty is the freedom of ones one's house A mans man's mansho houe ho e is his castle Md and whilst he Is quiet he Is as well guarded as a prince in his castle Patrick Henry in his winded long oration against the federal constitution constitution tion Uon raised the issue of congressional lonal apportionment which recent congress congress- congresses es ca hav have e so artfully ducked He object obJect- objected ed to Use tile wording of the provision pro that representatives should not exceed t tone one for every ery on the grounds of ambiguity Henry may have been overheated 0 but his s protest that four of ot the tho smallest states that do not collectively contain tenth one-tenth the population of the United States may obstruct the most salutary and necessary n necessary ces- ces sary amendments is reminiscent of the present day plaint about the dif dif- difficulty difficulty dif dif- difficulty of adding new amendments amendment or repealing any existing Other Instances of or repetitive his his- history history history tory might be cited endlessly |