Time: Sun Aug 31 09:27:53 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA11678; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 09:24:44 -0700 (MST) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA10786; Sun, 31 Aug 1997 09:24:20 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 09:24:21 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Rep. Louis McFadden in Cong. Rec. <snip> > >Subject: L&J: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, June 15, 1934 > > > CONGRESSMAN LOUIS MCFADDEN > U.S. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, > HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES > Friday, June 15, 1934 > > THE CONSTITUTION OR ITS DISAPPROVAL - WHICH? > >Mr. McFadden. Mr. Speaker, let us suppose that >one of the Presidential candidates in 1932 had >promulgated as a platform the following: > >First. I propose to undermine confidence in the business >leadership of the country generally by parading before the >American public, through Congress and commission >investigations, outstanding examples of mistakes and >malfeasance in all lines of business. I propose that these >exposes shall be staged in such a way as to give them utmost >publicity possible, with a view to creating the impression >that these cases of wrongdoing, whether intentional or not, >are typical of all business. I shall in my inaugural address >charge the depression and the ills of the public generally >to the leadership of the country and shall state in that >inaugural address that the business leaders have been not >only incompetent and stubborn but also dishonest in many >activities. > >Second. I propose to encourage and extend Government >competition with many lines of private business and to >institute governmental control and regulation of business >activities through at least 50 new bureaus and commissions >which I will set up in Washington. > >Third. I shall oust the more experienced Government >employees and supplant them with new appointees, exempted so >far as possible from civil-service examinations and chosen >by my political campaign manager, and I will add at least >50,000 additional Government employees to the Federal pay- >roll in the first year of my administration. > >Fourth. I propose not only to abandon the gold standard but >to debase our currency, repudiate the promises of the >Government to pay in gold, and make it a crime for private >citizens to have gold in their possession. I shall call upon >some college professors to establish by experiments a new >monetary system with no definite and fixed value for the >monetary unit. > >Fifth. To assist agriculture I shall pay a bounty for the >killing of many million pigs and sows and the plowing up of >one-fourth of our cotton acreage; and I shall furthermore >distribute to farmers from the Federal Treasury sums >aggregating several hundred million dollars, in such a >fashion that the farmer will receive greater revenue for >nonproduction than he will for production. Cotton being one >of our principal export commodities, I shall take steps to >artificially raise its price so that American cotton will be >at a disadvantage in world markets and thus stimulate the >expansion of cotton production in foreign countries. In >other farm commodities I shall fix the prices regardless of >the supply and demand. > >Sixth. I propose to demonstrate my faith in the Russian >experiment in Communism by recognizing Russia, by reducing >the Russian debt to the United States, and by lending the >Russian Communist Government a few hundred million dollars >from our Treasury. > >Seventh. In order that I may not be hampered by the >prejudiced viewpoint of adherence to the old system, I shall >dispense with and ignore the advice of experienced business >and political leaders and surround myself with brilliant and >clever young men who have nothing to lose by abandoning the >old system but who are bitterly opposed to that system and >zealously devoted to the creation of a new order. To these >young men I shall entrust the drafting of the important >new legislation for carrying out my policies, and this >legislation I will drive through Congress, urging the >necessity for this new legislation as a part of my program >to meet the emergency. I can thus destroy the old order >under the guise of trying to save it in an emergency. > >Eighth. I propose to tell our people that this being the age >of plenty they should work less, and produce less, and >demand more for what they do, and to emphasize my belief in >this program I shall employ millions of idle people to do >unnecessary work and pay them therefore higher wages than >are paid by private employers for useful work. > >Ninth. I shall advocate the redistribution of wealth, arouse >the workers against their employers, the producers against >the distributors, and while urging the producers and >distributors to increase wages and maintain prices, the >consumers will be told that they are being robbed. > >Tenth. I shall prevent the criticism of my policies: First, >by continual emphasis upon the terrible condition from which >I am trying to save the country; second, by controlling the >radio through the Federal Radio Commission; third, by >establishing such intimate relations with the Washington >newspaper correspondents as will cause them to interpret my >actions and policies as I desire them interpreted, and by >threatening their publishers with loss of advertising and >circulation through popular revolt if they criticize. To the >more obstreperous I shall throw down the challenge that it >is unpatriotic to criticize the President in times of such >emergency. > >Eleventh. To avoid the constitutional barriers I shall cause >attacks to be made upon the strict interpretation of the >Constitution as being out of date and no longer adequate to >protect the people, and where the judiciary seems unwilling >to approve my legislation I shall cause them to be attacked >in the press and threaten them with investigations and >popular disapproval. > >Twelfth. I shall seek control over all the affairs of the >Nation and shall strip the States of all their rights of >local self-government. This shall be accompanied by the >regimentation - persuasively, if possible, if not, then by >coercion, threats, and intimidation - of industry under >codes, compelling the business interests of the Nation to >engage in private contract to grant my bureaus and >administrative authorities complete control of their >affairs, constituting them legislators, judges, and juries >whose actions and decisions shall be conclusive; and if any >recalcitrant member of any industry dares challenge the >constitutionality of the act of Congress under which I >proceed, my young lawyers will meet them in court and assert >my right to do this, and deny their right to challenge it >because they have agreed by private contract to my terms and >cannot attack the constitutionality of an act under which >they have sought to do business. > >Finally, I will stultify States, counties, cities, >industrial establishments, and individuals by establishing >Federal loan agencies that will extend credit to them and >mortgage their assets, so that I will have their property in >my hands as security for their debts, so that they dare not >challenge my actions. This power of debt I will use to the >utmost. Thus the Constitution shall be subject to my will, >because there will be none left to oppose my interpretation. > <snip> ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. 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