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...life and a high register into the booming basses of our choral organization. However the problem seems to have been solved. some decision must have been reached, although it smacks to us strongly of coercion. We leave it up to the reader to pass judgment. The cause for our concern is to wit, a notice issued to the Glee Club which reads as follows: "Notice: Rehearsal tonight at 7:30. All men and tenors...
...democratic nations the chief concern of the people is to prevent the continuation or the rise of autocratic institutions that beget slavery at home and aggression abroad. Within our borders, as in the world at large, popular opinion is at war with a power-seeking minority. . . . "In March 1933, I appealed to the Congress and to the people in a new effort to restore power to those to whom it rightfully belonged. The response to that appeal resulted in the writing of a new chapter in the history of popular government. You, the members of the legislative branch...
...these measures. . . . The way is open in the Congress of the United States for an expression of opinion by yeas and nays. . . . "Shall we say to the farmer: '. . . Now go and hoe your own row'? Shall we say to the home owners: '. . . We have no further concern with how you keep your home. . . '? Shall we say to the several millions of unemployed: '. . . We will turn you back to the charity of your communities. . . '? Shall we say to the needy: 'Your problem is a local one. . . '? Shall we say to the children...
Force on Farmers. "If the taxing power may not be used as the instrument to enforce a regulation of matters of state concern with respect to which the Congress has no authority to interfere, may it, as in the present case, be employed to raise the money necessary to purchase a compliance which the Congress is powerless to command? The Government asserts that whatever might be said against the validity of the plan, if compulsory, it is constitutionally sound because the end is accomplished by voluntary cooperation. . . . "The coercive purpose and intent of the statute is not obscured...
...thing is pathetic when you consider the number of good people who pay in their nickles, quarters, and dollars to a concern that gives no account of what eventually becomes of the money. It must be as remunerative as the Ku Klux Klan for somebody...