The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
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legislature this week gave every in
dication of lodging the problem of I'M
employment insurance, Bills
have been introduced for both aid age
pensions and unemployment insurance.
but only the former has been sent to
the floor by the powerful and exclusive
ly conservative rules committees"
This statement, like practically every
thing appearing in the Minnesota
Leader on Minnesota politics, is COM
pletely false. The truth is the exact
opposite of the Leaders statements
On the third day of the special
session two unemployment insurance
bills" were introduced in the Senate,
! ST and ST g., Both of these bills
were reported out of the rules COM
mittee the following day, December 5,
and were printed and placed on the
desks of all senators more than two
weeks before the December 81 issue of
the Leader in which it made it's false
| statements. In the House the unem-
ployment insurance bill was introduced
on the fourth day of the session and
was reported out of the rules committee
the following legislative day, Monday,
December IL, or nine days before the
Leader made it's completely false state
ments. More than that: The unem-
ployment bills were given several public
hearings, were revised, amended, re-
printed, and reported out by the Senate
Labor Committee on December 20, the
day before the Leader (more correctly
spelled "MisleaderO published its de-
liberately false statements.
This outcry that the "old guard" legis-
lature is not going to do something, is
favorite political dodge of the FL
| (fool 'em and loot 'em) strategy. The
Leader said last winter that the in
dependent progressives were attempt
ing to block relief; at the very time of
this misprinting the farmer labor mem
bers of the legislature were filibustering
against the relief measures ($10,000,O00
relief, 100000 drouth relief and $780,
900 seed loan) which the independent
progressives later forced thru.
If you see it in the Minnesota Leader
(Which Walter Liggett was wont to call
''the MisleadeD it probably isn't so.
Aspiring ones are considering offering
in the legislature resolution memoir
alizing congress ito give the Townsend
plan the consideration it deserves" Safe
and smart, all in one. Safe, for ii
commits its authors to nothing, smart
because it gives an impression of being
favorable to the Townsend plan.
More robust is the attitude of Arch
Campbell of Mankato, who is mentioned
, for Congress in the second district
,, After admitting that it might be smart
politics" to indorse the Townsend plan
Mr. Campbell in published statement
unburdens himself of this: 81 wish tt
,, say, in words which I hope all Towns
: endites are able to understand, that
regard the Townsend plan, in its preSen
: form, as the most aSinine of all thu
crackpot ideas that have been seriousl!
proposed as cures for the depression.
\ If Diogenes and his tub could com'
y back, he would cry, Eureka, I hav'
found him. an honest mani" And TIT
voters, well knowing that if they cal
. elect honest men, no matter what thei
o political views, the country will be safe
, will vote as one man for Arch Campbell
will they not? Yes, they will not
Faced with the choice between a mai
/, who has the courage of his convictions
y and a lickSpittle who crawfishes TO
votes, the great American voter all to-
often prefers the lickspittle.
+ N. j. Holmberg of Renville was
member of the state senate when tn
f department of agriculture was organizes
e in Minnesota and was active in tn
authorship and passage of the act H
became Minnesota'S first Commissions
i of Agriculture and during the ten year
v of his incumbency in that Office he or
ganized the department upon broat
n basis of usefulness to the farmers o
o Minnesota. The Minnesota cooperative
code was in a large measure Mr.. Holm
, berg'S work as state senator and a
o Commissioner of Agriculture Unde
this code Minnesota gave birth to sucl
1 famous institutions, sfowering tremend
q Gus benefits upon the farmers of tn
state, as the Land o Lakes Creamery
$ and this fostering and strengthening o
: cooperative undertakings has made Min
! nesota the center of the cooperative
. movement in the United States.
= Among other accomplishments of tn
: Department of Agriculture under Mr.
n Holmberg was the enactment of a Law
e requiring wholesale dealers in produc
S to take out licenses and post bonds TO
the protection of the producers. Thi
e act was rigidly enforced and violation
0 were promptly punished. A recen
e failure to enforce this act is now alleget
2 to have caused Mrs. Ann j. Cook,
J, raiser of turkeys near Austin, loss O
}, $5,734.50. Mrs. Cook, who had beer
doing business with the Austin Poultr,
and Egg Company for several years, de
: livered to F. D. Blake, president of tina
l concern, on November 10 and 20 last
f 1900 turkeys comprising five truck loads
;, Blake issued two bad checks to Mrs
f Cook but otherwise she has received
e nothing for her turkeys. At least, thi
3 is the story told in the printed appea
: to members of the legislature for relic
!. for Mrs. Cook.
S The basis of the appeal to the legis
4 lature is that the license of the Austin
Poultry and Egg Company expired las
] May but that the Department of Agri
e culture did not proceed against TIT
: company or against its president unit
September II last when Blake was mott
fed to quit business. While Blake dix
not quit, and later had with Mrs. Cool
: the turkey transaction, the Department