The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08
WHAT OTHERS SAY|

Virginia Daily Enterprise the
demagogues of Northeastern Minnesota
have been extremely successful in the
promotion of their statewide campaign
of hatred against the mining companies
is all too apparent in the utter lack OF
consideration which the industry, so
important to the general welfare OF
large area, is currently receiving in the
state capitol in st. Paul. And that the
unreasoning sentiment which foolish
and deluded public has permitted the
rabid politicians to foment will in
evitably impact upon all who live in
the northeastern section of Mime
sofa is as unacceptable as it happens just
now to be unseen by those who have
started the conflagration. 1t is the
peoples fault, the people of this nor
thern part of the state, for they have
given generous political support to that
array of rabble-rouSers which has
sought office on the pledge that they
would do everything possible toward the
end of prostrating a great industry in
the shortest space of time. That's
really what the electorate has been
voting for at the polls-and this for
some little time.
Here is the manner in which it works
out. In the Legislature, at this very
moment, the forces of diabolical an
tagonism to the mining industry are
being Embossed at their worst. So in
tent are the Benson administration
leaders upon imposing a disordered will
and vengeance upon an industry which
already pays unreaSonably excessive
sums in punitive taxation that the
House hos voted to make new and more
penalizing levies the order of the NOM
ent-and with only a very restricted
opportunity to the champions of the
industry and Of fair dealing to say
meager word in defense and in the
presentation of economic testimony.
Gag rule and arbitrary stiffneckedness
that ought to be foreign to any Ameri-
can assembly of lawmakers have been
ordered by the House high command,
these things as a preliminary to an at
tempt to take the mining industry for
ride of such proportions that one may
well wonder if there is any sanity, any
honor or any integrity left among the
group which temporarily dominates the
legislative arena in Minnesota.
Steel is enjoying quite a squirt at
the present time, a squirt which is
motivated by unnatural demands for
its products. 1t appears to be riding
the crest of the wave to new tops, borne
there by the agencies which are the
genesis of fearsome initiation. When
they have run their course, then what?
What will then be the situation with
respect to the communities nearest the
mining industry? Can it be safely
assumed that new and more punitive
extortions upon the industry, by the
state, will have no future reactions in
the local taxing domain? Thinking
citizens of Northeastern Minnesota, in
Guiding those of Virginia and other
communities, and particularly those
who own their homes and their bust
nesses, had better begin to give some
thought to the implications of what is
happening in the capitol in st. Paul
And in succeeding thought it might
not be amis to consider those projects
and undertakings on the home front
which pertain to the type of spending
which may be reflected in rearing
structures and monuments which may
become future burdens in maintenance
and support-without help in the least
to labor.
Northeastern Minnesota citizens
should inform themselves on what is
what and that which is just now the
order of business by the Bensonites in
st. Paul. That drastic tipping in the
occupational tax rate and number of
other designs upon the industry which
directly and indirectly supports prac-
tically the entire population of this
immediate section of Minnesota are
signs that should be carefully scrut-
inized by thinking electorate. And
that electorate should put upon the
rabble-rousers it has elected to Office
the full responsibility for the ills which
threaten.