The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-11-19

chinery. This implies a disappear
ance to large extent of the age-old
contention for states rights. 1t goes
even beyond that and into the field
of local government which, it must
be said, has not been too efficient.
That the people, as citizens of the
United States, ought not be ham,
strung by rigid constitutional pro-
visions and strict Interpretation of
them by the United States Supreme
court. This may easily be expanded
into other propositions such as mod
ification of revision of court pow
ers; mandatory retirement of
judges when they reach a given
age, or constitutional amendments
giving the federal government more
direct contact with individual cit
liens and individual businesses.
That the great business leaders
of the last score of years are out
NODDED and that
Leaders the time has come
Outn1oded for a fresh start in
business leader
ship just as the advent of the New
Deal accomplished a fresh start in
the political leadership. In this
thought is hidden various and sum
dry possibilities. There are those,
for example, who have become per-
meated with hatred of big bust
ness. Likewise, there are those who
feel that only portions of big bust
ness have been unfair and have
crushed the little fellow. Aside from
these two is a third group that
surely feels the necessity for strict
federal control of all types of bust
ness, good as well as bad, in order
to prevent private initiative from
getting out of bounds.
That many of our citizens are
willing for the federal government
to participate in business by direct
competition with private initiative.
This thought, expanded, naturally
takes on the aspect of broader
movement for public ownership of
various businesses than has been
evident heretofore
1t is automatic that reasons eff
fective with one person are not eff
fective with another and reasons
that operate to control the views of
a county or a section of a state or
even a region of states undoubtedly
have had nothing at all to do with
votes taken in other parts of our
nation.
There are unsettled conditions.
There are ten or eleven million peo-
pie who are out of jobs. Some of
these felt that they had been bene-
fitted by one Roosevelt policy; some
felt they had been benefited by an
other. However one may examine
the picture, it seems to me ines
capable that it was combination
of reasons and not any single prop
osition. 1t may be added, as some
honestly feel, that the Roosevelt po-
litical machine was able to encom-
pass all of these factors and to show
in the various sections of the coun-
try how effective particular policies
had been in those particular sec
tons. That to my mind is going
beyond the scope of intelligence be-
cause strong as the Roosevelt polit-
ical machine is, it had to have and
had to hold the faith of an extra
ordinarily large number of voters
in addition to those controlled by
the machine in order to roll up a
majority of nine million votes over
the total received by Governor
Landon.
So, again we get back to the ques-
ton: what will Mr.. Roosevelt do
,,,, ,,,., with this new
What VIII mandate, this
He Do? fresh delegation of
power that h
been given to him?
Already there are signs develop
ing among the old line, conservative
Democrats of a desire to persuade
him to be less radical than he was
in his first four years as President.
These Democrats feel that this
country needs a little less of re-
form and considerably more of
sound governmental management.
How much effect they will have on
general administration policies OBJ
viously is problematical. It is prob
lematical because included among
the new senators and representa-
tives, especially among the repre-
sentatives, are many men who do
not impress me as having the slight
est understanding of governmental
functions. Consequently, from these
and from those wild eyes already
in the house membership, we un-
doubtedly will see some of the worst
harum scarum pieces of legislation
ever proposed in the national house
of representatives.
1t is such circumstances as are
presented in the type of legislation
that l named that will test Mr..
Roosevelt's real capacity as a
statesman. 1t is to be remembered
that he will have no politics neces-
sarily to concern. him because, I'm
der American tradition, he is serv-
ing his second term and no Presi-
dent ever has served third term.
By cleaning out some of the rats
among his own advisers and by
exerting his personal force upon the
irresponsible groups in congress,
Mr.. Roosevelt easily can become
a man of history. If he fails to do
that, the story may be sad one.
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