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    "ocrText": "(2)\nion. It is not enough that certain rich and powerful interests,finding\nthemselves pinched in codes of their own creation,seek to back out by an\nattack in the courts upon minor phases of the New Deal.\nTo gain the confidence of the public, those protesting against the con-\neconomic\nstitutionality of the new and social order which the President seeks to\nevolve,must bring a legal action with an eye single to finding out how far\nCongress may go in delegating power. It is recognized that it has the pow-\ner to delegates administrative, executive and judicial powers to bodies of\nits own creation. Congress has done this in many instances over tne last\ntwenty years.\nIn a talk last Monday at Flat River, I told of the great powers given\nthe Federal Reserve bank and the Federal Trade commission;of direct and unusu-\nal rights granted the Railroad Commission. Tnis delegation of authority\nhas been upheld in every instance by the supreme court of the United States. .\nTruman declared that the supreme court is bound to respect the changing\nscene,\nsocial and economic< just as it has in allowing Congress to delegate\nextreme power to existing bodies. He said the constitution was not a set\nof thongs binding the body of the peopple, but an instrument calculated to\nset back the horizons of action in pace with public thought.\nTne law is crowded with vitality, he said. If it were not,the people\nwould find every effort abortive, ,regardless of changing conditions and new\nvíews on the more feasible means of guarding against legal, social and econ-\nomic wrong, of bringing a better sense of order into effect.\nSenator Roscoe C. Patterson,one of the more piteous bewailers against\nthe New Deal ,particularly the effort to feed and clothe the people and to\nfurnish them work,would return at once to the days of Hoover for recovery.\nHow many days of Hoover? The former president has slightly over three years\nunder the rugged individulAism scheme of government in which to break thex\nback of the depression. He had in all that time Senator Patterson to help\nnim. Now that Hoover is gohe to return no more, what could Patterson do all\nPreservation Copy"
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