The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-01-27
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on our trails" and so on. / could
supply fifty more from my notes
but they would be Of the same ten
or. And mind you! a large per
centage Of these came from repre-
sentatives and senators in congress
Democrats and Republicans alike.
Another phase Of the general stu
alton:
There has been a tremendous
drive against monopoly. This was
lead largely by
OrlUe on Assistant Attorney
MONOPOLY General Jackson,
but Mr.. Ickes and
lesser lights have helped carry the
ball. The attacks have been gen.
eral. There has been no distinc.
ton between good business and bad
business. The result has been that
every man who has some money
tied up In business is wondering
whether he is going to have to de.
fend himself in some way. how.
ever careful he has been about
complying with the federal laws.
3. The fact was called to my atten.
ton also that many of the bust.
nesses charged with monopoly are
doing just what the government
forced them to do. The unlamented
NRA can be recalled without eff.
fort. Under the MIRA, every unit
or every line Of business was told
what to do and how to do 1t. Codes
OF business practice were laid down
for them, bearing the approval of
the President. Since MIRA was rele-
gated to the ashcan, we find dozen
suits being prosecuted against bust
nesses for continuing to do the
things they were forced to do when
MIRA was the law of the land.
Then, l would like to ask what is
wrong that real trusts are not being
broken up. The Department of JUS
tice has some able lawyers who
have been assisting Attorney Gen.
eral Cummings since the inception
of the New Deal. It appears to a
layman like me that five years ought
to be ample time in which to make
some Roadway against trusts and
monopolies. I am moved to ask,
therefore. can this new outburst
against monopoly be a bit Of poll.
tics?
But the turning of the New Deal
wheel has brought one magnificent
appointment to
Frdlse the Supreme court
for Reed Of the United
States. 4 refer to
the nomination Of Stanley Reed to
succeed the retiring Justice Suther-
land. Mr.. Reed has been solicitor
general Of the United States and as
such has directed the nations legal
affairs under Attorney General
Cummings. His service there, and
before that with the reconstruction
finance corporation. has been meri.
torious. There has been nothing but
praise Of his ability and of his char
acter. He stands out as great
lawyer and fine personality.
The appointment is worthy of con-
sidering from two standpoints. Jus.
tice Sutherland's resignation and
the subsequent appointment gives
the present President control of the
court. That is to say, the known
division Of the court between con.
sentative and liberal thought has
been switched from the conserva.
tive side to the liberal side by the
Of two men. Actu-
ally. it accomplishes for Mr.. Roose.
velt the very purpose he sought to
accomplish by demanding of con.
gress that it pass the so-called court
reform bill a year ago, a piece of
legislation on which the President
received the worst licking of his
political career.
The second important considera.
ion in the appointment is the high
!ype Of man named by the Presi.
lent. Mr.. Reed is progressive in
thought. The New Dealers always
nave counted him as one of their
but I find many people who
contend that Stanley Reed believes
irst in the law Of the land and in
,beying il, rather than indulge in
vishful thinking on a lot of silly,
lntried schemes. The country is for.
innate, indeed, to have man like
Nr. Reed on the court.
And, continuing the theme of un.
Usual circumstances, / think refer.
ence ought to be
Take q made to the ter.
Beating rife beating that
is being handed
he southern Democratic members
+ the senate. They have been max.
ng brave fight against passage of
piece of utterly assinine legisla-
ion-the so-called anti-lynching bill.
len like Harrison Of Mississippi,
'yrnes of South Carolina, Connally
{ Texas, and others, have been
gliding the fort against this vicious
.gislation. They ought to win. but
ley probably won't.
I have seen something of the race
roblem in the South, and can I'M