The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-02

years of Republican rule and that in
three years under Democratic admin
iStration it has been revived and put
on the road to restored prosperity, the
document sets forth the services of
the New Deal in the way of protect
ing the family and home, safeguard
ing savings and investments and lay
ing the foundations for the aged,
orphaned and infrm. The consumer
is then assured briefly that he will be
accorded fair value, honest sales and
decreased spread between the price
he pays and the price the producer re-
ceives. Extension of rural electrified
ton and cheap power are promised.
Coming to the plank on agriculture,
the party congratulates itself on hav-
ing taken the farmer off the road to
ruin" and promises that all available
means will be used to raise farm in
come toward its pre-war purchasing
power. How this is to be done is not
stated in detail except that soil con-
servation and the domestic allotment
program with payments to farmers
are to be continued, as is the retire
ment of submarginal land. The plank
continues:
eve favor the production of all the
market will absorb, both at home and
abroad, plus a reserve supply suffi-
cient to insure fair prices to consum-
ers; we favor judicious commodity
loans on seasonal SURPRISES and we
favor assistance within federal au-
thority to enable farmers to adjust
and balance production with demand,
at fair profit to the farmers"
Labor Gets Some Promises
Organized labor, through President
William Green of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, had urged number
of suggestions upon the committee,
but it had to be satisfied with rather
vague promises that the worker would
be protected and his rights, both as
wage Garner and consumer, in the
production and consumption of all
commodities" would be guarded. Says
the plank: ''The worker has been re-
turned to the road of freedom and
prosperity. We will keep him on that
road" The same statement is made
concerning the American business
man, and the American youth.
MonopolieS are declared, to be the
creation of Republican rule and priv
ilege, and the party pledges vigorous
and fearless enforcement of the GRIM
inal and civil provisions of the exist
ing antitrust laws and the restoration
of their efficacy where it has been
weakened by new corporate devices
or judicial construction"
This led naturally to the matter
of the constitution and the question
of its amendment, which had been
subject of hot debate in the subcom-
mittee's deliberations.
AS to Constitutional Changes
The plank adopted is strikingly
similar to Governor Landon's inter-
probation of the corresponding plank
in the Republican platform. Detailing
some of the problems that cannot be
adequately handled exclusively" by
the states, it says:
eff these problems cannot be effec-
lively solved by legislation within the
Constitution, we shall seek such clari-
flying amendment as will assure to the
legislatures of the several states and
to the congress of the United States,
each within its proper jurisdiction,
the power to enact those laws which
the state and federal legislatures,
within their respective spheres, shall
find necessary, in order adequately to
regulate commerce, protect public
health and safety and safeguard eco
nomic security. Thus we propose to
maintain the letter and spirit of the
Constitution.
The merit system is lightly touched
upon with a promise to put all nom
policy-making federal positions un-
der the civil service law.
Permanently Sound Currency"
Coming to Government Finances, "
the platform approves "the objective
of permanently sound currency so
stabilized as to prevent the former
wide fluctuations in value" It asserts
a determination to reduce the ex-
penses of government and to achieve
a balanced budget and reduction of