The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-15

Them Gays are gone forever, when
a congressman, safely at his goal in
his office in Washington, could feel
that he was safe from the opportunities
of his constituents and could do what
he jolly well pleased with reasonable
impunity.
Modern communications and trans
portation facilities have changed all
this. Telephoning and telegraphing
are cheap and handy. And there is
the postoffice with its night letter SER
vice, not to mention fine concrete high
ways with their fast and economical
travel Then we have the airplane if
citizen is in real hurry to see the
congressman.
The result is that, though he may be
1000 miles away from home, the folks
back in the district keep in close touch
with their congressman these days. His
daily mail is almost unbelievably heavy;
the kilograms keep pouring in, and the
long distance telephone calls keep his
ear glued to the receiver large part
of the time both day and night. Then
there are the delegations of citizens,
as well as individuals, urgent in their
demands that he give attentive ear to
their plea in behalf of this, that and
the other thing being sponsored by the
group they represent.
For instance-just before these lines
were written, a delegation from my
district, representing the Workers Al
lance, called The earneStneSS and
effectiveness with which these honest
and sincere citizens argues that
should support the Alliance-supported
WPA bill calling for $4,000, 900 ,00C
relief appropriation for the ensuing
: fiscal year, made it perfectly clear thai
, they knew their subject. Also, anc
which was even more significant, they
saw slight prospects for any upturn ir
, recovery for some time to come.
In that they were like a great major.
ity of us which most the letters I re-
ceive emphasize People everywhere
recognize the obvious-that more thar
six years of New Deal experimenting
have scored no advance Whatsoeve.
(. against the depression which put it il
power. No dent has been made il
: our unemployment; farm prices ar
} down to what they were at the deptl
of the depression; industry and com
I merce remain paralyzed, and even tn
l hope which sustained so many at tn
time when we changed administration
| ;y, lob
I confusion, and dark despair reignS il
l its place.
The utter failure of the New Dea
is admitted even by some of the admin
= istration brain trusters. But the troubl
is that SO few know, or even think the
know, the reason why. 1t has no
y dawned on enough of us yet that con
: ditionS could not be different fror
. what they are as long as imports @
competitive products continue to grow
There can be no lessening of unemploy
ment as long as we continue to blu
abroad. This amounts to giving tn
foreign worker the jobs which w
should give to our unemployed. Their
is no mystery about this, it's as nat
ura1 as water running down hill, as il
REPUTABLE as that two plus two equal
\ four
The most encouraging thing in thi
connection is that the American peopl
are beginning to recognize where tn
IS trouble lies. My voluminous maj
IS shows that my people are. In TIL
L icI, tr 1>o a1o h
If as long as our administration adhere
v to policies of increasing imports, it
e futile for us to think of reducing re
e. lief appropriations unless we do not cal
a what happens to our jobleSS and OF
,e farmers, impoverished by declining pr!
S. ces, clearly brought about by foreig
d competition. Until our governmer
d stops imports of competitive goods an
IS puts our own people to work producin
them, am going to vote for adequat
relief both for the city worker an
the producers on our farms.
S, I shall quote here from two letter
I recently received and which are tyr
el ical of numerous others arriving dali
One is from farmer near Moose LAX
S. in my district, the other from pr.
3. mary producer of timber products OK
: Grating from Duluth, First let us hes
from the farmer:
nj ut gave me much pleasure to re
h ceive your letter some time ago, an
Le it gives me much satisfaction to hay
fla representative in Washington VIII
: even remembers us poor farmers. **'
It call your attention to the dairy indust1
IS and the present market prices whic
are much below the cost of production
II 1.-THE remedy, many of us believe
e a parity price through the AAA on tn
! plan as the corn and cotton farmer
receive, "**and hope you will be SUI
cessful in pushing such measu
through" No only did vote for al