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Pamphlets Available
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Copies of the following pamphlets and
other League literature may be obtained
upon application to the League’s national ’
headquarters :  
Statement of Principles and Purposes • •
American Liberty League-Its Platform,    
An Analysis of the President’s Budget Message
The Bonus
Inflation
The Thirty Hour Week Bill
The Holding Company Bill
II"riceLClpntrpg I H
he a or e ations Bi
The Farmers’ Home Bill * * *
The TVA Amendments
The Supreme Court and the New Deal
The Revised AAA Amendments I
The President’s Tax Program
Expanding Bureaucracy -
Lawmaking by Executive Order
New Deal Laws in Federal Courts V Speech 0f
Corésumegs and the AAA
Bu get rospects
Dangerous Experimentation JOUETT SHOUSE
lg};/conomici Iglanning-Mistaken But Not New
ork Re ie I- ° C '
The AAA and Our Form of Government P cmd {lt of the Amcrlcan I
Alternatives to the American Form of Govern- Liberty League I
ment
A Program for Congress h
The National Labor Relations Act-Summary Over t 8
of Conclzésions from report of the National
Lawyers ommittee • •
Straws Which Tell Columbia Broadcasting System
How to Meet the Issue-Speech by W. E. Borah December 23, 1935
The American Bar-The Trustee of American
Institutions-Speech by Albert C. Ritchie
The People’s Money-Speech by Dr. W. E. Spahr
Legislation-By Coercion or Constitution-
Speech by Jouett Shouse
The Imperilment of Democracy-Speech by Fitz- ·
gerald Hall
The Test of Citizenship-Speech by Dean Carl
W. Ackerman
“Breathing Spells”———Speech by Iouett Shouse `JE C4
The Duty of the Lawyer in the Present Crisis- Y   'l’
Speech by Iames M. Beck  
The Constitution and the Supreme Court- E _g   "'
Speech by Borden Burr  
The Economic Necessity in the Southem States ’?;·Y Lg?
for a Return to the Constitution-Speech by t
Forney Johnston
The National Lawyers Committee of the Amer-
ican Liberty League-Speech by Ethan A. H.
Oshelgey N l D h d il I
ur rowing ationa e t an In ation-
Speech by Dr. E. W. Kemmerer AMERICAN LIBERTY LEAGUE
Ingatioz is Bad Business-Speech by Dr. Neil National Headquarters
arot ers
_ The Real Significance of the Constitutional NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING
Issue-Speech by R. E. Dcsvernine WASHINGTON, D_ C_
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AMERICAN LIBERTY LEAGUE * *
NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D. C. _
Document No. 34

 • · • tentions that the AAA was unconstitutional Mr.
Arouslug Class Prqludlccs Roosevelt put behind this measure all of the
* power of the presidential office. He even went
AT ATLANTA, Georgia, an November 29th so far as to say that if it should be held illegal
last, President Roosevelt made the opening by the Courts another Slmlliar act would bg
speech of his campaign for renomination and re- paSScd_ and licncms to the fuller; méntmuc
election. The speech will be notable in history. and thm despite The fact thin It 18 t il Ongljss
Not because it was a brilliant defense of the and not the Pmsldcnt that IS Suppose to m C
administration, not because it refuted the argu- the laws under our Scheme of govfirllmcnga h
i ments of the President’s critics. It was notable Howcvcm th? also IS not Surpmslng (lu? S
‘ because it was a arent] desi ned to create ago the Amcmcan people were gwcn Stmkmg
pp Y g R elt°s contem t for the
class prejudices, to arouse class hatreds, to fan ° cXam]?1BS_ of ML OOSCV M pf d
the flame of class antagonisms. Insofar as I am Consntutlom At the €nd,0l last al? gm, ays
aware, no other President of the United States after the  nammous demsmn of t 61 uptime
ever resorted to such methods in the attempt to i Court agamst the NRA’ ML ROOSCW? t ma B a
further his political fortunes. speech of more than an hour to Washington cor- i
T d {ter the Atl ma ll ML R00Se_ respondents bitterly attacking the Court and
"” ays a .a Sp"°° · · .1 · am had taken us back to the
velt addressed the American Farm Bureau Fed- iaymg Its CCIS ,, If h h t
eration at Chicago. There he declared that he hors? am? buggY d-{YS- o that imc; mmm
and his associates are the only people who are anythmg It clearly lmpllcil t at . C avcrs gn
working toward “the destruction of class antago- auiandmcm to the C,OuSumu0n whlch would. C-
Hlam and malieeaw and, by inference at least, prive the Court of its power to declare ledgmlal
that those who oppose the socialistic policies, uva acts unc0nSt1tut1Oua1°a1?ut hcbhas not fail;
the impossible experiments, the gigantic waste, uf Present Such an ilmfm nlcm fecgusc 0 C
the huge bureaucracy of his administration are d‘S““F’t1Y unfavorab 6 mactmn 0 t C Coulltry
uilt of ana in Class a ainst class He d1d, though, assert a few weeks later in a
g y Y g g • letter to the Chairman of a House Comm1ttee
that Congress should pass the Coal Control bill
THE President Selected as the date f°r his Chi' despite doubts as to the constitutionality of the
cago speech the very time that had been set measureano matter how 1.eeeoneb]e_
weeks before for the Opening of the argument The Atlanta speech embodied a distinct effort
before the Supreme Court at W¤¤hi¤g*<·¤ fm thc to create class prejudices and class hatreds, The A
constitutionality of the AAA. You willrecall Chicago epeeeha like the Speeeh to the news, .
that when the National Lawyers Committee of Paper eorreepondeme on May 31st, was a deli.
the American Liberty League madc Public its nite attempt to arouse classes of our people
Eicport on th? National Labor Rcléticms Ach bc' against the judicial branch of our government.
ore even a single case on the subject was pe11d· Those facts must be faced-
ing anywhere, Secretary Ickes as spokesman for
the administration declared that our Commit- . _ _
tee was insulting the Court and that its action ` THE Pmsldcm IS HOW booked for _anOthBr
was aimpudaaen what of the President of the speech. Let me tell yon about ·the settmg that
United States`? He is the head of a coordinate has ljecn arranged for 1t’_ It will be lmdclz the
branch of the government, of equal importance ·= auspices of the Democrat1c Nat1onal Committee
with the judiciary, but of no greater importance at a Jackson D&Y Banquet OH January 8th. The
under our Constitution. At the very moment charge to _thO?C who attelld wm be $50 per
when the Supreme Court was listening to com plate. Inv1tat1ons to the d1nner have been sent
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 to the holders of many important Federal jobs. did, what about tbo ]aw? If he did not, what is
This includes even Republican members of semi- he going to do about this bi-azon attempt of his
judicial bodies such as the Board of TaX AP- Committee to hold up government employees?
peals. At least part of the dinner invitations
to Federal officials have gone by registered mail.
Receipt by the addressees thus becomes a matter IN ACCEPTING a degree conferred upoll him
of record. In an explanatory note enclosed with by Yale U¤iVo1‘sitY in Julie of 1934 Mr- Roose-
the invitations it is stated: “Five dollars of this velt made tho pious deoiaratioll that he knew
amount covers the cost of the dinner. The re- notntng about tno Politics of tho mou he aP-
maining $45 goes to the Democratic National Pointed to otiiee- Mn Farley has never so
Campaign Fund.” The announcement of the attomptod to camouflage his purposes, Consist-
dinnor was rnado by Chairman Jarnss A_ Farley   ently and ruthlessly he has enforced the spoils
of the Democratic National Committee which   Syototn- Not only must an applicant P1’oVo his
sent out the invitations. Now it happens that   Pat`tY Subservience but he must also prove that
Mr. Farley is not only the head of the National ° he Was F·R·B-C·—that is, that he was for Roose-
Committota Mia Roosovoltts Campaign managor velt before the Chicago convention. In the
and the official dispenser of all Federal patron- onotmous bureaucracy built up under this ad-
age, but that hc is also l>ostmastsr_Gonoral, a ministration more than two hundred and thirty
member of Mr. Roosevelt’s Cabinet and there- thousand civil employees have been added to
fore a Federal official. It is impossible, as tno govotntnont PaYt`on· The Vast majority of
Pointed ont hy Sonator Norris of Nohraska’ to these have been selected on the basis of partisan
separate Mr. Farley into two different personali- patronage and Without roierelloe to Civil Service
ties. When he is Postmaster-General he is still t`ogtttattons· Indeed, it is Hot too much to Say that
Chairman of the Dornooratio National Commit- this administration has done more to destroy the
too Whon ho is Chairman oi the Domooratio Civil Service than has any other administration
National Cornrnittoo ho is still l>ostmastor_ since the Civil Service Act was inaugurated by
Ganaral_ Grover Cleveland.
Let me read you a portion of Section 312 of And 11oW this horde of government employees
the Ravisod Statutos oi the U_ SJ is being asked to contribute to the Roosevelt-
‘”It is unlawful for . . . any officer or employee of e Farley campalgn fund through the expedient
theUnited States, or any person receiving any salary ef Jackson DEW dtnnots to be held at different
or compensation for services from money derived points in the country.
from the Treasury of the United States, to directly
or indirectly sctlioit, receive, orsbe in any manner
§3i.‘;°§§i‘},‘i§1,L“§?ZZiZS{1’ir3`£iEff‘iL“§“§;,?`“,¥,ii?Z§i“§SIZ To THOSE whe have analyzed the New Deal
pose whatsyer, from any other such officer, employee, philosophy it is apparent that the AAA em.
ml p°m°n' bodies the very basis of it. Under the guise of
The quotation I have just given is from the benefits to the farmers the effort is being made
Corrupt Practices Act. It applies to any and to regiment and to regulate the whole life of
_ every employee of the government whether un-   the American people. If production of certain
der Civil Service or not. It applies also either   crops is to be limited and controlled, the pro-
‘ to soliciting or receiving contributions.   duction of all crops must be limited and con-
Did Postmaster-General Farley have anything trolled. The regulation of potatoes is the natural
to do with the sending out of these campaign and inevitable consequence of the regulation
fund invitations, which were sent out by the of wheat and corn and cotton and tobacco. If
Committee of which he is Chairman? If he hogs are to be controlled so must cattle and
4 s

 ShooP· But the SYStom oamlot stop lhoiio Thoao they cast real doubt upon the fairness of a
who handle or manufacture or distribute the professed referendum held and directed by a
Products of the fa1`mo1` moat also bs I`ogultod· very important executive department of this
Severe PEHHIUGS ml1St hc attaohod for anx V1o1a' administration. The editorial that I have quoted
tloll and S0 WG must iiI1¤HY hayoio as m tho was published on November 7th last. It was
, Potato Control Aotv Pumahmom fo1`·o1tl}oI` buYoI` widely copied in Iowa and elsewhere. I have a
or seller who by 8 h311‘°S breadth infringes the photostat of a letter from Mr. Short to Arthur T.
law- Wallace of Des Moines, Iowa, dated December
12th, 1935 In it he says that not a sin l
_ _ _ e _ . g e state-
SPOKESMEN f01’ tl16 ¤dm1111SU`¤U0¤ $3Y the ment made in his editorial has been questioned.
program meets with the approval of the
interested farmers. The cite what the term * '_ _
Y. Y I FOR one refuse to believe that either the
the huge vote of approval in the recent corn-hog American 1 h 1 _d
eo .
referendum. They do not tell you that out of able Ortifn P 6 {is a xiii; c’ 01; any consti sr
. . . or c
3,500,000 potential voters less than one million = acm ii V8 H ta? 0 _ Bm’ is pmpgrfr to
o r m .
took part. Nor do they tell you some other , P g im a Feglmcntatlon an wm
. . . . t1on. I refuse to believe that for the sake of
important details. Let me read you an editorial what Seem tcm b Ht d I d b
. . . . or
published by Wallace M. Short in the Unionist amrnalisti P ary Engl S oi out ii a
. . . c
and Public Forum of SIOUX C1ty, Iowa, the P , gfwmznmcy FY in Surrcn at
1 A . the liberty which 1S their birthright. I refuse
home state of Mr. Wal ace, Secretary of gri- to believe th t th _11 d h
a
‘ culture. Soon after the referendum vote Mr. at 1 ay W1 en Dis?} C aufimpt to
ra one c ass .
Short wrote: Y o our popu a 1on against an
“ E h H 1 Th d O 31 other or to arouse prejudice toward the Supreme
On our way to st ervi e ast urs ay, et. , C t · th · · - · · .
we stopped to see a friend in High Lake township, OLE In C BXBIZCIS? of Its Judlclal funcuon to
Emmet mumy. We aiscoveea imw the cmmnog up Old the Constitution- Fortunately sash day
referendum was conducted in one township—the Corn- mgyg and more al] Of us, of Whatever class and
Hog committeemen visited each farmer of the town- • · ·
ship and labored with him to vote for the Corn·Hog wllcrévgr LS1tuatcd’ are realizing that the Con"
program. The committeeman handed the farmer a Stltutwn lo our Safoguard and 0l11' defense
ballot, and where possible got him to mark it for against oppression. As Walter Lippmann so
the Corn-Hog program. If the farmer was unwilling Well uts it_
to do so, the committeeman visited him again. If P °
the farmer still held out, he received a third visit. “’]‘hm·e is no conviction Se vital te the American
This third visit in some cases was on Friday night people as the conviction that no one anywhere at
before the election on Saturday. One or more any time shall have a monopoly of unlimited power.
farmers still declined to mark the ballot for the It is upon that conviction that the Republic rests.”
program, saying he would vote at the polling place ‘
on Saturday. Then the committeeman informed the
farmer that he would not have a chance to vote
at the polls, as all the farmers had been seen and
the polls would not be opened for voting. A few
farmers visited the polling place on Saturday and
found the place closed, so had no chance to vote.
The election oiiicials merely took out of their pockets A -
the votes they had secured in their canvass of the '
township from house to house, and counted them,
and announced the result without the trouble of V t
going to the polling place.
“If any person desires to question these facts, let ’
him call on us for the proof and we will furnish. it.”
All will agree, I think, that these are serious
charges. Either they are true or false. If true
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