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Delegate Hanson.

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DELEGATE HANSON: Mr, Chairman, I rise to speak

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for the amendment with a sense of real despair. I

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happen personally to believe everything that is said

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in the proposal of the Committee. I believe it is

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right. I believe it is just, and I believe it ought to

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be the policy of the State of Maryland, I just don't

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believe it ought to be in the Constitution of the State

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of Maryland. I don't believe it ought to be in the

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Constitution of the State of Maryland because I think

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it is utterly meaningless in the Constitution of the

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State of Maryland.

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Where I think it has meaning is in the marching

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orders of the political parties, in the laws of this

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State, in its administration of justice, in the compassion

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of its officials and in the discussion of the laws. I

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think in the Constitution it has a meaning equal to those

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words in the 1867 Constitution that said monopolies are

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odious, contrary to the spirit of a free government,

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principles of commerce, and ought not to be suffered

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and this in the Constitution hasn't stopped