The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-04-28
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the nation Is already too large.
They think really that the new
spending ought to be limited just
to caring for the distressed unem-
ployed. Of all things, they would
refuse to vote out more money UNI
less that money were to be used
for feeding and clothing people.
think I should mention also that
there are a goodly number of per-
sons at the capitol who have low
cred themselves to the level of play
ing politics. They are even ridicul-
ing our President. They are saying
that most businesses, little as well
as big, have lost confidence in Mr..
Roosevelt and that it does not mat
ter whether the New Deal spends
one billion or ten, it will fail to re-
store that confidence. Being a SIM
ple-minded soul, I just stand by
and listen to that. On the other
hand, the heads of three important
magazine publishing houses have
told me lately that their adver-
Using contracts are being cancelled
right and left. The national adver-
tisers have told the publishers they
have to conserve what money they
have because they don't know what
is going to happen.
I do not understand why they are
so frightened. You will remember
Mr.. Roosevelt said he had urged
congress to enact only four laws
that would affect business. That is,
four this session. One of these is
the bill, as described by the Presi-
dent, ''to put floor under wages and
ceiling over the hours of labor" All
that legislation would do, of course,
is bankrupt businesses here and
there. But those can't be success
full anyway. They haven't made
any money in several years and
why worry about them.
The message of the President did
not make any mention of the laws
that hold the coun-
"A Slip try back. It is to
in Plans be assumed he did
not want to dis
turb business by calling attention to
them. Matters of taxation, for in
stance. I am told in this connection
that the tax rates must 60 higher
next year. There is going to be a
much larger deficit in the Treasury
than was anticipated in January
when I wrote in these columns how
the budget was going to be bal
anced next year under plans out
lined by the President. Something
slipped in those plans. Now, they
don't know at the Treasury when
the budget can be balanced. Sure
ly, not next year, because here is
something more than three billions
to be spent out of next years money
supplies that had not been counted
on. This hateful depression is caus-
ing so much trouble!
I hope I have not made this
Washington situation appear too
mixed up. The circumstance has
me quite puzzled, as I have plainly
tried to say.
There has been story, a rumor,
in circulation in Washington about a
tiff between Mr.. Roosevelt and Vice
President Garner. Not that I believe
in recording mere rumor, but more
because of sentence that was re-
portedly used by Mr.. Garner, want
to write about it. The Vice Presi-
dent is a lovable soul, kind and ami
able. He has a number of Texas
expressions that appeal to me be-
cause they say so much in so few
words.
Well, according to the rumor, Mr..
Garner and group of congression-
al leaders were in conference with
the President. They were talking
about the depression, or maybe the
recession. What to do about it; how
to meet it, and what the causes
were. The President, it seems, has
been sold the idea of this spending
program as an aid to business, a
printing of the pump. Rumor has
it that Mr.. Garner was asked what
he thought could be done. His re-
ply, typical Garner answer, was:
"Why don't you let the cattle put
on some fat, Chief
The President was repeatedly
quite displeased with the idea con-
:, veyed, an idea
freSident that the govern
DispIeased ment had better
quit harrassing
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