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thinks the phasing is mis-leading.
“■Principles of democratic government,” Congressman Harrison asserted, “are the same a9 they were with the founding fathers. Just as thousands of years ago a man proved that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, that same principle stands today despite changing times.” He continued by stating that * the rights of the American are the same today as they were throughout our history, and times do not alter them.
Judge Harrison was openly alarmed at the violation of rights in the President's seizure of the steel mills. “They are a business owned by individuals, just like you and me, and now one has the power to take them over,” the Congressman affirmed. He continued by saying he feared the precedent: “Suppose some years from now some President will decide he doesn’t like the way farmers are running your farms. He can look back and see that President Truman seized the steel mills, so he may decide to take over your farms.”
“Three times,” the Congressman said, “the President has come to the representatives of the people and asked for special powers. Three times the representatives have refused.” The seizure of the steel mills was a high-handed, dictatorial act was the opinion of Judge Harrison, and a violation of personal rights meets no approval in his ideas of government.
Expressions from citizens of Harrisonburg and Rappahannock county assured the people of Madison that they were getting a Congressman in their place in the 7th District who was a conscientious servant of the people he represented. “Nothing is too much trouble,” stated the visitors present, and they assured the people of Madison county that they would soon find this out if and when they needed help.
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