The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-12-20
ON This
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Just few thoughts by the Editor ON thing
Material and Immateriat


half million pieces of campaign liter
allure upon which the government PAID
postage by means OF the senatorial
frank. The cost OF this postage az
two cents per letter would be $4,000.
or many times more than Toms salary
The Sentinel further is OF the opinion
that electing Tom Schan over Magnus
johnson may have been worth that
much to the taxpayers but doubts 1t.
And the $4,000 postage bill is no mere
bookkeeping entry. 1t is actually PAID
out of the taxpayers money in the
huge appropriations congress must
make to take care of the postal de-
partment deficit.
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We take it for granted that these
figures are absolutely right. We have
no cause for doubling the SentinePs
statements. What we would Like to
know how much this would amount
to had all the senators and house
members in the states Of the Union
used the mails to conduct their cam
paigns. Would 1t not be just about
the deficit in the department of $780,
100000 over which so much noise has
been madea The lobby investigating
committee in Washington says it Is
going to investigate abuses in the
Thanking privileges.
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Senator Schall unbosomed. himself
in company with Senator Norris over
the request of the Minnesota pub
fishers in which they asked congress
to get q move on and get the tariff
bill under way and have the same so
constituted that the farmer as well
as industry will be benefited. He
used rather strong language and in
timated that the advertising in which
the request appeared was the result
of Interior mysterious influences ex-
erted by eastern manufacturers. In
his address (printed in the Congress
sional Record he stated that for over
a year now this mysterious influence
has been working among the news
papers of his state minnesota and
that the papers have been bought. In
his own words: 81 understand the
interests have secured couple of
hundred such papers in my state 1t
may have even reached 300."
A few months ago a pair of bright
young men conceived the idea of
forming a newspaper trust in the state.
They found that 1t required cash and
as this was a commodity of which
they had all but, they went to Foshay
of Minneapolis fame with their story.
He was impressed and sent the young
men out to get options on newspapers.
It is said that about 80 options were
secured without any cash consider
alton, not a cent having changed
hands. The options were never taken
up and Foshay went blooey with this
scheme as we'll as with others he had
fostered. This is the story of the
mysterious influences" that has been
working among the Minnesota papers.
The Minnesota Editorial Association
has called the Senator on his state
ment and he Is supposed to stand
right up in meeting and tell how he
got that way and also prove some of
the statements. He will probably get
out Of 1t in some way but the editors
who signed and paid for the advertiS-
ing will request something more than
a general excuse and a they do say"
explanation. There is an election
coming on and it behooves Senator
Tom to be just little more circum-
spect in his language to some of the
people of his state who have been his
best asset in the years gone by.
Whats more pleasant than a day
in June" would be copy of The
Ely Miner to an absent friend or rel
alive for the next year as a Christ
mas gift? Several have already done
so but we have room for more on our
list Two dollars a year gets this
weekly compendium of news, facts and
guesses-the latter being confined TO
this column only-and these gueSses
are as good as anybody's. 81 90 per
year in the first and second zones,
$3.50 per year, third to seventh zones
and foreign. The Miner will take the
place of q letter from home only more
so, barring the gossip.
One of our exchanges tells of a man
who saw an article in a mail order
catalogue which he decided to buy.
The fellow is the owner of a consider
able bank balance and some pumpkins
in his home town whom anyone would
be glad to have on their credit list.
He wrote the mail order house thus:
Send article. If gUcd, will send
check" The mail orde: house had a
different idea and in due time he re-
ceived letter stating, Send check.
If good, will send article
Congressman KnutSon has intro
duced a bill into congress to give the
PHILIPPINES their independence.
Should this come to pass, it would
mean much to the people of Mime
sofa. The PHILIPPINES under indepen-
dence would have much the same
status as other foreign countries and
sugar and vegetable oils, produced by
cheap tropical labor and now admitted
free of duty would not come in direct
competition with beet sugar and dairy
farmers.
Now comes the other side of the
story. Henry Ford was considerable
of q hero when he raised the wages
of his employees a few weeks ago in
the face of what has been designated
by some as a depression period. Now
comes the news that at the same time
he raised the wages of his employees
he cut the commission on cars and il
seems there are more dealers thar
employees and several million dollars
were gained. How true this is we
are not prepared to say but will say
that the dealer has been hit hard in
the past three years.
Grove Wills, over in Eveleth in his
Clarion, wakes rather inquisitive over
Henry's statement that he would quit
manufacturing cars if liquor were sole
in the United States and wants tc
know "how he can make money in the
manufacturing game in Canada ano
the European countries, where booze
flows freely" When we were young
like Grove, we also asked such ques-
tons but were told to run along anc
play, Daddy wants to read"