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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1922)
NO x £S FROM UNITED 4 STATES SENATE. (Continued from Page One.) the Ssimie last evening. decisive The one man whose vote was in favor of the sugar interest, was a Senator from a Northern State, whose family own three great sugar plantations in Cuba. In like manner, a tax has been placed upon wool, and upon every article into which wool enters as a material. There is not a family in America that will escape this t?x, and it was forced upon the Senate by four men who are tlie largest sheep owners in tire world. It was literally a case of where four men took advantage of thei- offici d position iu the Senate to give themselves hundreds of mil¬ lions of dollars. As long as tb's tariff shah stand, 't will levy such tribute as no four uiugs ever exacted of enslaved that peoples. tax will go to eveiy man. woman and child who uses any fabric in widen wool has been one of the materials necessary for its composition. The woolen underwear, the woolen ets, the woolen caps, the woolen gloves and hosiery—every one of the almost innumerable articles in which wool is a part of the compo¬ sition, will pay its tax to those four Senators. Many of the worst features of this bill have been so fully treated in speeches and edi¬ torials by myself, that I will not at present thresh the straw again, but taken as a whole, the Bill is one to make the blood boil. The most revolutionary feature of the Bill is that which surrenders to a body of men whom the President shall appoint, the almost unlimited power to lower or increase tariff rates on articles of vast value. Such a things has never been done before: it mixes the Executive with the Legislative powers, and one of the very purposes for which our Government was founded was to forever separate the Judicial, the Legislative, and the Executive. The judges have no authority under our system of Government to make any laws; yet they have made so many that to a great ex¬ tent the spirit is not the form, and our Govern¬ ment has been changed. It is the business of the judges to construe laws, not to make them; and 1 am one of those lawyers who believe that the jury has as much right to judge the law as it has to decide the facts. It was never intended that the. Legisla¬ ture should see to it that their laws are exe¬ cuted. That, power belongs to the Executive, and the Executive has no more legal right to make a law, by proclamation or otherwise, than the Legislature has to set in operation the Execu¬ tive machinery which carries out the law. According to the original Judiciary of 1789, it was provided that where the stitutionality of a law was drawn into tion, £ho test case should be brought in State court having jurisdiction, and from court there could be an appeal taken to State Supreme Court; and from the Court of the State, an appeal could be to the Supreme Court of the United States. During the making of our present Constitution it was several times proposed the Supreme Court should be given the au¬ thority to declare unconstitutional an Act Congress. On each occasion the proposition was voted down. How, then, would you get rid of an constitutional law? One might be tempted to say, that same methods which put an amendment the Constitution of the’United States might used to set aside a statute which was so riously unpopular that it met with tion of three-fourth of the States. The subject of the Soldiers’ Bonus will probably be the next to occupy the tion of the Senate. Lest my position bo misunderstood, I state again, that I am most heartily in of the principle of the Bonus. I stand where George Washington where Thomas Jefferson stood, and where statesmen of England, France, Italy, and ada stand. But 1 am not in favor of voting dollar of tar, upon the bent shoulders of people. There ia no reason under the sun why Bonus could not be paid in cash, by a pnee of the paper money which was by W. P. G. Hording and the Federal Banks, between the first of October, 1920, tl>ft present time. Let the Government keep its word with soldiers. Let A reissue the billions of dollars weie destroyed by the Republican Party at command of J. P. Morgan and his THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON. GEORGIA. scoundrels, who wanted to inflate the value of their gol4, and deflate the value of property. They have well-nigh wrecked the country, and there can be no revival until the life-blood, dravim from the arteries of trade, be put back. Another plan of paying the Bonus, is to use a part of the foreign debt' as a basis of credit, and issue our own money upon it, mak ing thfit money legal tender, thereby putting beneath it the rock-like strength of such for¬ eign countries as Great Britain, France and Italy, as well as the granite foundation of our own Government. Thus the soldier can be paid his bonul, as be has been paid after every war except, the last one c , and instead of hating heavier taxes to pay, there will be an abundance of currency, which will make the existing taxes ten times easier to pay. Such a bonus would hurt nobody, excepting the hoarders of gold, who did nothing for then i country during the war, except to keep them selves out of it, and keep their sons out of it, to amass enormous fortunes out of it, {while dying your 3,000 sons were suffering, fighting, and miles from home, A New Epidemic In The Senate Gladstone M. Williams. The United States Senate is suffering from an epidemic of the itch. Not the seven years variety but one with a varying limitation of time. Not all of its members have contracted the disease, which appears to have somewhat subsided in growth at the present; bur. there is much evidence of the malady still. Just which member or members introduced the ailment is a matter as yet undetermined- - but there is a strong suggestion that it came from the wool ring. The epidemic—not entirely literal—has manifested itself in the form of “back scratch¬ ing.” It is said to have first started in the Senate Finance Committee, where it arose in the form of amendments to the Tariff bill. Thereafter, it spread to the floor of the cham¬ ber, and has been one of the chief pastimes of the Senate ever since. “Back-scratching” is not altogether new in legislative circles. It used to he known as logrolling, and has been a part of parliamen¬ tary procedure from time immemorial. Meanings, however, come to change their names as well as men, but their ways remain the same. ■ It is suggested that some member of the wool group became conscious of a severe tick¬ ling sensation in the neighborhood of the spine —it was a proposed high duty upon wool that caused the feeling. About the same time another member be¬ came aware of a similar sensation from a pro¬ posed duty of no mean proportion upon sugar. Shortly the malady spread to other members, some of whom wanted high protective rates up¬ on Hardware, Textiles, and related products. The situation as it was didn’t look so well. One cannot scratch one’s back as well as an¬ other, so there arose some form of unison, it was, “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours,” which means “You vote for a high rate on wool and I’ll vote for the schedules on sugar ’ ’. As a result of this discovery—every one of us rediscover things that have been known before—several “hack-scratching” parties were organized. The united spirjt was found to be quite serviceable. Several of the would-be-members of I be party restrained themselves at first, finding it advisable to offer their backs for -a raking over with the several kinds of instruments used. For instance, a member whose back tickled from the desire of a high tariff upon clothing found it hard to have it scratched with wool, a duty upon the raw product of which would increase his cost of production. But “back-scratchers” have strange bed¬ fellows, and most times they find it necessary to lie down together. The proposed dye embargo eaused several members to be seized with it violent attack of itching, which required considerable scratch¬ ing. The obligation was too great, however; members ^vere unwilling to include dye in the circle. The embargo was loo drastic—it might not wash off, so proponents of the idea were dismissed temporarily from the group. There was another peculiar phase of the malady, which dwelt with a proposed duty on potash, used extensively in the manufacture commercial fertilizers. Somehow this did not sit well with members of the farm bloc, who refused to scratch anybody’s hack that itched to the detriment, of the farmer. With this, the potash-itehers changed their position slightly—an itch is a poor itcli that requires scratching in One spot all the time. Advocates of a protective duty on potash then changed their proposal to switch the burden from the farmer to the Federal Treasury, asking that a bounty be placed upon the com¬ modity. That itch was in the same wrinkle prac¬ tically that eaused the scratching group to re¬ fuse the dye embargo. They wouldn’t take to it. But tlie general membership received a thorough currying-over before th e small fa vors were refused; in other words most of their desires bad been achieved. There is another aspect to the situation, which brings in the iimitatiop of time in con¬ nection with the disease. After the Tariff has been finally adjusted, there is good au¬ thority for the belief that a continued itching will prevail. But this time in a different light. Members of the partv who were so profuse in joining the fight for any and every kind of Tariff, raising the cost of articles of dailv no cessity, will suffer a nervous tingling of flesh from now until their present terms have (Advertisement.) » «*" . II ii ■hi umm #ff TvAti WHu • v • . sM ."3 m Si /A ft; ii Ip m ilir ■ . i A g? 4 i ' ! Kj ■ ItiSlgM VOTE FOR el. W. QUINCY Candidate for Judge Superior Courts Way cross Ciicuit TO THE PEOPLE OP THE Vl'AYCROSS JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Judge of the Superior Courts of your judicial circuit,subject to the action of the white primary to be held on Sep¬ tember 13th, 1922. 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