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any consideration to shifting language in
such a fashion that the connotation could
not be construed from it?
DELEGATE BOYER: We gave much
consideration to the proper wording or
verbiage that should be in this particular
section. Certainly it was never our intent
and I do not think anyone's intent at this
Convention that by the slightest scintilla
of evidence could the problem that you
raise come up.
We certainly do not intend to include all
business. We are not going to penalize the
good for the bad.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there further
questions?
Delegate Bothe?
DELEGATE BOTHE: Delegate Boyer,
in answer to a question asked Delegate Key
on Wednesday, the question being whether
this recommendation was intended to cover
professional people, lawyers, doctors, ac-
countants, et cetera, she answered in the
affirmative, and I as a lawyer am somewhat
concerned that there might be some con-
flict between the regulation of ethical prac-
tices in my profession by the Court of Ap-
peals and otherwise by the General Assem-
bly, and the Constitutional provision here.
I wondered if you could expand a little bit
on what your Committee meant when it in-
tended to include professionals as well as
business people.
DELEGATE BOYER: Delegate Key did
give the precise and exact answer, when
she answered in the affirmative. This par-
ticular question came up in Committee dis-
cussion, and it was the intent of the ma-
jority of the Committee that it should in-
clude not only businesses which deal in
commodities and tangible goods, but that it
should also include professions and busi-
nesses that might deal in services, which
would, of course, include attorneys and
conceivably doctors and other professions.
As you know, we have the Maryland
State Bar Association, with its own polic-
ing, through the grievance committees and
other organizations that can adequately su-
pervise and police our profession. However,
it was the majority's intent that this should
include services.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any fur-
ther questions?
DELEGATE DELLA: Chairman Boyer,
would this also apply to the newspapers in
condemning the members of the legislature?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Boyer.
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DELEGATE BOYER: There had been
some thought to that and we hoped that
this would be so.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any fur-
ther questions? If not, the Committee
Chairman and Delegate Key may return to
their seats and we will proceed to a con-
sideration of the Committee Recommen-
dation.
Are there any amendments to the Com-
mittee Recommendation?
The Chair hears none.
The question arises on the approval of
Committee Recommendation GP-4. Does
any delegate desire to speak in favor.
Delegate Koger?
DELEGATE KOGER: Mr. Chairman,
I would like to speak in favor of this
proposal.
I favor adoption of this Committee Rec-
ommendation GP-4 for the protection and
education of the citizens of Maryland
against harmful and unfair business prac-
tices. Civil disorders visited more than
eighty U. S. cities last summer, promoting
death, destruction, sorrow and confusion.
Losses totaled many hundreds of millions
of dollars.
In Detroit, forty-one persons died; over
1,000 were injured, 3,000 made homeless,
1,500 businesses looted. In Maryland, and
in miniature, Cambridge experienced the
same dismal and appalling effects. Why?
Why is this? There are many answers.
Some say it is a decline of moral stand-
ards and sensibilities — a phase of social
order decay; others say population explo-
sion, inferior schools, congestions, unem-
ployment, racial hatred, the hippies and
flower children, H. Rap Brown and glue
sniffing. I say it is the ugly offspring of
poverty and ignorance. Its name is "Eco-
nomic Exploitation," better known to the
poor and lowly as "Broken Promises."
We must do something about the eco-
nomic exploitation of the poor; the broken
promises that are not meant to be kept.
The delegates to this Convention do not
have to be worried about being exploited.
No one takes advantage of us. We know
how to take care of ourselves. This recom-
mendation is not intended to protect us. It
is only meant for the poor and downtrod-
den, because there is profit in the poor.
In the capitalistic system, dog eat dog;
buyer beware; laissez-faire. The poor do not
know how to shop, do not know the differ-
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