Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 27, 1920, Page 2

a Che Casper Daily Cribune | and of clothing. By having old shoes half-soled, in time to pack up their another | you want. this to be in that! Issued every evening except Sunday at’ Casper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices: Oil Exchange Building ee BUSINESS TELEPHONE. Entered at Casper (Wyoming) Postoffice as second-class matter, November 22, 1916 MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS FROM UNITED PRESS I, E, HANWAY, President and Pxtiter --Associate Editor “City Bditor Business Manager vertising Manager Advertising David J. Randall, 241 Fifth Ave., New York City Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg., Chicago, Il. ves Copies of the Daily Tribun ‘e on file in the New York and Chicago offices and visitors are welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier One Year. 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Lacking this direction the process | of realizing the necessity and desirability of natur-:| al and normal conditions may require a longer period. by ee site f | ee att ip ay te dated the demand and a= === == === oo == 1° | caused a reduction im prices. : \ Autocratic price fixing has always been, is now; If prices are arbi- | and always will be a failure. trarily fixed too low, production will be diminished, ‘| and the conseqnent scarcity will farce a raising of the’ figures at which the commodities may be sold. Prices that are too high in a free market furnish their own regulation, for the large profits invite keen competition which brings’ reduction. Government price-fiximg can be defended in only one class of business—that which enjoys: a froncpoly by virtue of government authority. Rail- roai °75 | enjoy a practical monopoly in the territory they serve. Maite rate-cutting on the. one hand, or extortionate charges on the other, are evils op- posed to public policy and in such a case govern- ment interference is fully justified. Profiteering is an evil which ‘cannot be over- come by bureaucracy. No man was ever wise enough to fix prices for all kinds of commodities without doing injustice ‘to the producer on the one hand or to the consumer on the other. General laws for the punishment of profiteering, after trial and conviction before a jury, may be of some aid in controlling uncénscionable prices, but in the main, the effective reniedy is that adopted by the Boston restaurant patrons—to quit buying where the prices are deemed excessive. HE DREAMS—AWAKEN HIM. Mr. Cox has discovered another horrible plot. He dreamed it, of course. It is.that the Republicans will retain in force obnoxious war taxes in order to disgust the American people with “the Democratic administration. ; In the first place it is wholly unnecessary for Costs, long since exceeded the financial limit of Republicans to take any such unusual step. The the people to purchase. It is now a question of | the endurance of their patience and willingness to | be exploited. The breaking point has been reached in some instances and in some localities. Recession is bound to ensue, -but without the aid and encouragement of government it will linger on the way. Fars It is but natural that the inquisitiveness of the people should at times be aroused with reference to the excessive cost of government in times like the present. Appropriation of the people’s money in the amount of $5,000,000,000 for the current fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, does not impress the mind except by comparison with high record ap- propriations previous to the war, which occurred | in 1914, when pan rated was the total. It is costing the people $15,000,000 each business day to operate the goyernment mows When it 1914 $2,000,000 was sufficient. ; Although the appropriations for the present year were five billion dollars, the Democratic ad- ministration demanded $2,710,000,000 in excess of the amount appropriated which was denied by the Republican congress. The most glaring shame is in the executive branch of the government, controlled by the Wil- son administration. It is the payroll crime of the world, Qn the score of government employes and their number, tables compiled by the civil service com- mission are illuminating. They show that at the beginning of the fiscal year 1914, there were 30,- 189 gevernment employes on the rolls in Wash- ington, and 390,563 outside of the capital, making a grand total of 420,752 on the payroll. February 20, last, the date of the last estimate by the commission, there were 100,110 workers on the payroll in the capital, and 660,000 outside of Washington, or a grand total of 760,110 for the nation. Testifying before congress, Mr. Herbert D. Brown, head of the government’s bureau of ef- ficiency, said that there were thousands of super- fluous employes on the government payrolls. This situation is due and has been due to lack of any comprehensive policy on the part of the ad- ministration for ‘a return to normal conditions apd for war retrenchment. War organizations have gone on and many of them will continue until the present administration is supplanted by one de- voted to economy, tax reduction and a general lift- administration itself, the Demoeratic party, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Cox, through their association and combination, their public sins of omisson and com- mission, have rendered conspiracy of this character enjoy special powers under the public laws | 4.50] of the states and, in the nature of their business, : their permanent with us. y NOT FOR COX. : campaigning in several of tht Eastesa states, says: “The women voters are not for Mr. Cox. They don’t like this method of approach to the presi- dency. On the other hand, they ate impressed with Harding’s almost reverence for the place and the spirit of humility with which he discusses things vital to the republic. They want. no more cocksure people or know-it-all policies.” : THEY USUALLY WIN. “Everything points toward Republican victory, but that only should excite those who believe in Re- publicanism to a greater and more strenuous effort to make that victory secure,” says Mrs. Corrine Roosevelt Robinson, who is campaigning for Hard- | This is true Rooseveltian sentiment. This | branch of the Roosevelt family does not go into | battle unprepared, nor do they quit short of victory. | TIS TO LAUGH. Jim Cox-rants against the rich. Having seen to it that the corporate manipulation in Dayton gas and the exploitation of a government airplane and landing field enterprise at Dayton have not been disclosed. to the public, it is uncertain just how many times a millionaire Jim Cox is. Safe to say, many times, ° So ‘his demagoguery is ridiculous. The “kept us out of war” stuff permeated the entire Democratic outfit in 1917 and was practical- ly applied by Cox, Wilson, Bake, ct al, as is dis- closed in the Scripps cases. Harry Dougherty, the preconvention manager of Senator Harding's presidential campaign, pre- dicts that Ohio will give Harding all of 80,000 ma- jority. Recent * developments make its probable that | superfluous and profitless from: a political or strat- |” egical. point of view. ‘ If Mr. Cox had been in possession of his sober faculties, unconfused by visions and had taken the pains to inform himself, he would know that a Re- publican congress did attempt to end the tempor- ary war powers with which the administration is clothed in aid of reduction of taxation upon the people, but was met by the executive veto and Democratic opposition. Notwithstanding, the Republican congress did | reduce the Democratic administration estimates by a couple of billions of dollars and curb to:that: ex- tent Democratic extravagance and waste. sft é who know and think glo :not, segard. these efforts in: the light .in:,which; Mr. Cox views them. - Neither have they discovered or imagined any inclination toward prolongation of tax bur- dens on the part of Republicans. They find the contrary attitude to be the fact. CONSTITUTION OR COVENANT. Addressing the Republican state convention of California Hiram Johnson said to his fellbw Re- publicans: Sy gcaey “T congratulate you upon the outlook for Re- publican success. So widespread is the dissatis- faction with the present administration, so great the hostility to many of the acts of the president, and so acute the justifiable fear of the metamor- phosis of our foreign policy that apparently noth- ing can prevent overwhelming Republican success in November. “The language of. the two candidates is plain and unambiguous. The one says he will go into the league, and I am proud to say that our candi- date says that he will stay out of the league.” “Senator Harding has plainly stated the issue: ‘The constitution or the covenant.’ That is the para- mount issuue. The two are irreconcilable. We cannot be governed from both Geneva’ and Wash- ington. We cannot follow our present chief mag- istrate without forsaking the father of our coun- tiy.” ; : LIEN ON AMERICAN YOUTH. United States Senator Thomas P. Gore of Ok- Jahoma, Democrat, who declined to stand hitched ing of burdens from the shoulders of a distressed and discouraged people. TRIFLING WITH ECONOMIC LAWS. Again we have a demonstration of the efficien- cy of the law of supply and demand as a price con- troller, and its superiority over the government regulation as advocated by the Democratic ad- ministration. Exasperated by increased prices in fashionable Boston restaurants, prominent business men agreed: to discontinue their*daily noonday gathering around the luncheon tables, and the telephone. operators, stenographers and shop girls ‘have. organized a “bring-your-lunch-from-home” movement. The diminished: demand for restaurant lunches will in- evitably bring the prices to a reasonable level. Government regulation, through the depart- ment of justice, gave the first big boost to the price of sugar, and all the later efforts of the attorney general to bring down the price were of no avail. Only when the supply was more than adequate and holders found themselves with a surplus, did the price decline. It was the same with prices of shoes to the Wilson League of Nations and was defeated for renomination by the admmistration’s horde of officeholders, declares: “4 believe now as I always have believed,” said he, “‘that when the San Francisco convention draft- ed the League of Nations as its leading issue, it drafted disaster. I believe that the covenant of the League of Nations as drafted at Versailles and urged by the president, is a lien on the life of every young man jn America. I: went to my political grave on that, very issue. I might have been re- nominated if 1 had yielded on that issue, but I re- fused to yield, even to bring about my own renomi- nation.” TORS FROM ABROAD. paign Ambassadors John W. Davis to Great Britain, David R. Francis to Russia, Roland Morris to Japan, of absence so timed as to contribute their bit in aid of Mr. Cox. They will return anon to their foreign: posts ; | We have with us to make merry in the cam- | Hugh Gibson to Poland and Henry Morgenthau | selected for Mexico. The gentlemen secured leave | one of the big problems confronting the next ¥ ministration will be our relations with Japan. journey to the United Stes we ey wi ew : of the Cox ability like Cox, is responsible for the workmen's. compensa- tion law in Ohio, and, therefore, would get a large “Mr. Coz was not governor when ‘the workmen's compensation law was passed any more than he was governor when the ten commandments were made,” ated or by a statesman of proved With Joseph G. Cannon, aged 84, rumning for congress in the Danville, Il., district and Chauncey | M. Depew, aged 84, stumping the state of New|! York for the Republican cause; it would seem that the distinguished physician who said man’s day of usefulness ceased at 60, had better revise his Will. wonders never cease. Tammany mem- bers, disgusted with Wilson, Cox and the well- known league, are backing away from the wigwam and joining the Harding Democratic league. The secret is out. The sadly depleted condi- tion af the Cox war chest was the cause of his picturesque allegations. The hope being to induce Democrats to. come across. Women throughout the East, joining with their | ] sisters of the West, are becoming the most out- spoken’ opponents the Wilson League of Nations has. ‘ PERE SA ER EAN If the question is in order, will Mr. Cox, in case of his election to the presidency, make ‘his friend, | Col. Deeds, secretary of war, or admiral of the air? The tise in price of Liberty bonds came with election returns from Maine. - They will take a real | | jump after November 2nd. George Creél is to take the stump for Cox: With minder of an important episode 2 history of the ee ‘women, Captain Niekerson is cary on the stone this inscription: “site home and office of Esther ‘Morris, fi woman justice in the world and Mother of woman's suffrage.” be placed ness ‘to both of them marking at the job, the perjury. busi- |” WMENT PLANNED F0R | FIRST WOMAN. JUSTICE as ’ LANDER, +Sept. 27—Standing i, the rear yard at the home of Capta:;, 4s a lump ot be used as a ye enfranchisement Sins The stone is to uth Pass, Wyomi: Mrs. Esth 2 at IGHT is the most’ used sense in the school child's life. If its powers of “vision are abnormal they cannot pro- gress in t¥eir studies. We are equipped by our knowledge of optometry to prescribe the proper corrective glasses for your child. \\ BURNETT OPTICAL (2 )W.G. BURNETT — S.t - BUTLER HENNING HOTEL BLDG. ( e J ——~ CASPER. WYO. 2 —— —— THE! IS 2 man. m Coe ee} IN OUR town. 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