The Ely miner., 1939-11-02

As this report is being written, the
Special Session of Congress to consider
neutrality legislation is drawing to a
close. Perhaps the highlight of this
session (aside from the Senate and
House debates) has been the hearings
conducted by the Dies Committee.
UN-ANdERICAN ACTIVITIES Dur
| ing the Special Session of Congress the
dies Committee has held hearings. One
of its witnesses was Fritz Kuhn of the
German Bund. His testimony illustrates
better than any other evidence the fact
that racial and National backgrounds
either consciously or unconsciously have
much to do with viewpoints in this
country. My real purpose however, in
commenting on the Dies Committee at
this time is to call attention to the
startling testimony of Fred E. Beal. At
cne time he was a prominent Com
munist. He made at least two trips to
Russia and talks the Communist
language. He escaped from Russia in
order to serve seventeen year term in
a southern penitentiary because he said
he preferred that to Russia. The Com
munists now denounce him as a rat.
His testimony indicated that Stain not
only was a party to counterfeiting
American money and passports, but that
the Russian Communists have had all
along a direct hookup with the Com
munist party in the United States For
the benefit of the people of Minnesota,
want to say that our problem here
and now is to make America safe for
America. Our danger is not from with
out, but from within Not only do we
have Communists in Washington who
are on the government payroll, but
thre are many scattered throughout the
United States who are being fed by
red-blooded Americans, and their sole
object in life is to ruin our Republic.
RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREE
MENTS- During the Special Session of
Congress, one of the most vital develop
ments to the Dairy and Agricultural
Of northern Minnesota has
been the hearings conducted on the
proposed Trade agreement with the
ment is to buy agricultural products
from South America and this means
that their livestock, their poultry, milk,
butter, cheese, etc., will come in direct
competition with those products of the
United States. I am opposed to those
trade agreements. They have already
damaged our farming and dairying, and
it continued will mean its ruin.
SENATOR M. M. LOGAN-The SEN
ate has lost one of its outstanding
leaders in the death of Senator M. M.
Logan of Kentucky, who passed away
on October 3rd. I first met Senator
Logan in 1920, and knew him as Attor-
ney General of Kentucky. Thereafter.
he served on the appellate court in
Kentucky and then met him in Wash
lngton when he was a United States
Senator. In 1885, as Chairman of the
Claims Committee of the Senate, he
had charge of the Minnesota Fire
Claimants Bill in which several thous-
and people in northern Minnesota were
interested. The bill involved liz mil
lions of dollars. I here pay tribute to
Senator Logan because of his great
sympathy which caused him to take an
interest in the passage of this bill
which became law, August 9th 1885.
THE CHANGING POLITICAL PAN
ORAMA-Last Fall there was a bitter
contest for the democratic nomination
for the Senate in Kentucky. Senator
Alben Barkley had as his opponent
Governor A. P. (Happy) Chandler. In
that contest Senator Logan was
staunch supporter of Senator Barkley
and the political controversy between
Logan and Chandler was outstanding.
On october 10th, Happy" Chandler
was sworn in as the new Senator from
Kentucky. His escort was Senator
Barkley. Thus does chance make
strange bed-fellows.
WASHINGTON VISITORS
time to time I have commented on the
visitors who come to my office and
those from Minnesota. They
good, solid people of that