The Ely miner., 1938-01-27

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ton between good business and bac
business. The result has been tha
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 abou
complying with the federal laws.
The fact was called to my atten
ton also that many of the busi
nesses charged with monopoly are
doing just what the government
forced them to do. The unlamentec
NRA can be recalled without eff
fort. Under the NRA, every uni
or every line of business was tolc
what to do and how to do it. Codes
of business practice were laid dowr
for them, bearing the approval Of
the President. Since NRA was rele,
gated to the ashcan, we find dozer
suits being prosecuted against busi
nesses for continuing to do the
things they were forced to do wher
NRA was the law of the land.
Then, I 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 e
layman like me that five years ought
to be ample time in which to make
some headway against trusts anC
monopolies. I am moved to ask
therefore, can this new outburst
against monopoly be a bit of poll.
tics? Is Mr.. jackson, at the behest
of the administration, trying to fino
out whether the country will charge
the depression to someone else? In
other words, is it all something of a
red herring by Mr.. Jackson, whose
initials are r. H, anyway.
But the turning of the New Deal
wheel has brought one magnificent
appointment to
Froise the Supreme court
for Reed of the United
States. I 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 a 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-
servative and liberal thought has
been switched from the conserva-
tive side to the liberal side by the
appointment 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, piece of
legislation on which the President
received the worst licking of his
political career.
The second important considera-
ton in the appointment is the high
type of man named by the Presi-
dent. Mr.. Reed is progressive in
thought. The New Dealers always
have counted him as one of their
number, but I find many people who
contend that Stanley Reed believes
first in the law of the land and in
obeying it, rather than indulge in
wishful thinking on a lot of silly,
untried schemes. The country is for
tunate, indeed, to have man like
Mr.. Reed on the court.
And, continuing the theme of un-
usual circumstances, think refer
ence ought to be
ldRe q made to the ter
Beating rife beating that
is being handed
the southern Democratic members
of the senate. They have been max
ing a brave fight against passage of
a piece of utterly assinine legisla-
tion-the so-called anti-lynching bill.
Men like Harrison of Mississippi,
Byrnes of South Carolina, Connally
of Texas, and others, have been
holding the fort against this vicious
legislation. They ought to win, but
they probably won't.
I have seen something of the race
problem in the South, and / can un-
derstand what the basis of south
ern objection is. On the other hand,
there is only one basis for the pres
sure which Senator Wagner, New
York Democrat, is putting on the
bill and the reason why the senate
was tied up in deadlock of the
flibuster type for days. That rea-
son is that Senator Wagner is try.
ing to get control of the negro votes
in New York city's Harlem area.
Senator Wagner has done lot Of
things since he came to the senate
to mark him as man with a good
mind. But how he can justify his
leadership in a movement of this
kind is quite beyond my ability to
understand.
During the debate which has been
conducted almost wholly by sena-
tors from the South, plain words
have been spoken about the future
of the Democratic party.
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