Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 14, 1921, Page 2

PAGE TWO Be Cbe Casper Daily Eribune | Issued every evening Sunday at Casper, Natrona’ County, Wyo. Publication Offices: Tribune BUSINESS TELEPHONES_—_-----_..___--15 and 16! Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting Al! Departments) i Emered at Casper, (Wyoming) Postoffice as second-class: matter, November 22, 1916. | MEMBER REPORTS 3. B. BAXNWAY EARL BE HANW. W, H. HUNTLEY R B. EVANS .—- TSHOMAS DAILY --.---— TS ASSOCIATED PRESS FROM UNITED PRESS Advertiaing Representatives Davia J. Randali, 341 Fitth Ave. New York City Prudden, King & Pradden, 1720.28 Steger Bidg., Chicago, / Ti. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New) York and Chicago offices and visitors are welcome. i scriptio= t be paid in advance and the fribune will not insure de‘jvery efter subscrip-| arrears 4 Daily tion becomes cue month in REIT POE RETF Seema | Member of Audit Burcau of Circutattons (A. B. O--| ——— Member of the Associated Press / The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ose for publication of all news credited in this paper and also the local news publishc? Lorein. i Kick if You Don't Get Your Call 15 or 16 any time between © and 8 o'clock p. m. tf) you fail to receive your Tribune. A pap@ will be deliv-| ered to you by special messenger. Make 4t your duty to let The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. | Ss a ADMINISTERING POLITICAL DOPE. If President Harding is to make good on his prom- ise of less governr.cit in business, he must curb the present epidemic to take the government into part- nership in industrial and other enterprises requiring an extension of bureaucracy and the creation of aid societies. The earnestness of the thing is shown in a bill in congress whereby the government shail pur- chase agricultural products in this country and hawk them in the market places of Europe, and $199,000,- 000 is asked to start this work, Again the govern- ment is asked to finance every country,in’ Europe in} order that they may le with us. Here is a par- ticular indestry which by govetrnrsent legislation is presented with a copper-riveted monopoly on a cer- tain commodity, and there is another industry which it is designed to curb by a government license’ to op- erate. The government is pulled this way and hauled that—iommed inte a crevice to make up a deficit, or strapped to a saddle to handicap a so-called “trust,” or spliced to.a guarantee of a profitable return on private capital. The foreign observer of “democracy in the mak- ing” must long ere this have reached the conclusion that this is a government of the government, by ‘the; government, and.for the government, and the only way democracy may participate in the shindig is tg! become attached to a government payroll. And in the background are the Plumb planners and their alli¢s sounding the chorus of government ownership of rail- roads, mines, and practically every other form of in- dustry, incited to their antiphonies, by the example of those who ought to’ know better. Certainly if present tendencies sre not repressed) thet socialism against which we all rail, but the tenets of which so many of us are avid to adopt will even- tusiiy engulf us. Lenine has had his day with that| insane idea, and Lenine has had enough, if reports are}! to be credited. A centralization of power is fast de- veloping in this country which, if not restrained, must terminate in a despotism the like of which was never known. Even now state lines have become little more than the boundaries of magnified voting precincts, and it would seem if no move cout. be undertaken unless the president. was approached to act as arbi- ter and to give his sanction or dissent, To the eternal credit of Mr, Harding it may be averred that he looks at such manifestations of infirm- ity with extreme disfavor and has more than once ex- pressed his wish that private controversies might be settled by those immediately concerned. But after nearly a decade of dictatorship during which busi- ness was neuroticized by every political anodyne, it might be somewhat natural that the White House should be looked to as a dispensary where, if a cure could not be found, a hypodermic may be adminis- tered which will afford sc~ue temporary relief. Are we to repudiate the teachings of those who| founded the nation? Shall we remain deaf to the! warnings which find their echo in lunatic Russia? The} patriot and the skeptic has each his own answer, and at present the former is counted with the majority. For -country’s sake and for conscience sake, there- fore, let us put an end to this program for govern- mental participation in every private human activ. ity. Let the government attend strictly to govern- ing, without distinction of class, and let private in-| dustry pursue its course, strictly within the law, held| strictly accountable to the law, and, backed by the law, let it settle its problems without recourse to some sort of legislative opiate. —- -0 DOES NOT PROVE its CASE. | The New York Herald has presented elaborate sta- tistical tables to prove that while the Republicans in control of both branches of congress, were advertis- ing the fact that tremendous savings to the taxpa ers were being made, in reality nothing of the kind) has occurred, and the peoples’ money is being spen with more recklessness than ever. ‘At the time the] appropriation bills were passed,” says the Herald, re-| ferring to the bills for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1921, “much credit was taken by congress for} cutting the estimate, but no actual saving resulted.” If that be true it is a reflection not upon the Repub- lican congress, but upon the Democratic Wilson ad- ministration, which determined the scope of govern. ment expeditures for the year ending June 30, 1921, The Herald’s first article of the series has presented) with it “Table No. 1” which purports to show that! the estimates of federal expenditures for the fiscal year 1921 were: $5,064,350,793; that of that sum congress appropriated only $3,717,441,484; but that the actual expenditures for the year, as estimated by Secretary Mellon, will amount to $5,602,024,861. The charge is made that while the Republicans were gloat- ing over the apparent saving of many millions of dol- lars under the Democratic estimates, as a matter of fact they failed to provide money for the actual gov- ernment needs, which will be spent anyway, and might as well have been appropriated in the -beginning. What are the facts? In June of last year, after ell the appropriation bills for 1921 had been enacted into law, the committees of the senate and house is- sued a financial, statement based on the figures ac- tually submitted to them by the executive department and the amounts actually allowed in the appropria- tion bills. That statement shows that the executive estimates totaled $6,177,271,259, of which $4,859,- 890,327 was appropriated, demonstrating a saving of $1,474,422,602. In its “Table No. 1” the Herald charges that con- } | « | the treatment of negroes in his state, and found the | change ‘God and man would justly condemn Georgia | ing negroes out by crganized lawlessness and indiv | makes cruelty possible. gress made no provision for railroad and public debt payments but that these epeditures will amount to $1,880,000,000 ‘before the fiscal year ends. As a matter of fact did appropriate $725,000,000 for the railroads and $1,240,000,000 for interest and sinking furd payments on the national debt, in pro- viding for the expenditures for 1921. No one will assert that the Republican congress ap- Propriated with’ strict accuracy for the necessary ex- Penditures of the year ending June 30, 1921. There may have been some unavoidable deficits this year a8 in other years. The fact is, nevertheless, that the executive departments of the Wilson administration, which was in power for the first eight months of che : present fiseal year, set a pace in expediture and con- tracted obligations which resulted in huge and inde- fensible deficits which the Republicans must appro- priate money to pay. The Republican party must assume responsibility for the expenditdres it makes after July 1 next. it is willing that its record be judged from that time on, and it is also willing to abide the judgment of the people in the congressional elections of 1922. RE RE SS LYNCHING A TAX CHARGE. “The Christian world hardly knows what it owes to the brave governor of Georgia,” observes the Christian Century. “He has made investigation of story abominable. Without waiting for any outside terference, he has set to work to clean house. He able for his task. As a preacher of civic righteous- ness he has declared ‘we stand indicted as a people before the world.’ He says that unless conditions more severely than Belgium and Leopold were con- demned for the Congo a! ies.’ Making a study cf 135 cases of lawlessness practiced against negroes, he found that in only two of these cases was the tradi- tional offense of the negro against the white race sven alleged. In all other cases it was purely a matter of race prejudice working its evil will. Four characte:- istic offenses are to be charged against that section of the white race in Georgia which practices lawlessness against the negro. These are lynching, peonage, driv- ual acts of cruelty. The governor has made an sp- peal to the Christian pulpit within the state to re buke this unrighteousnes: He rightly feels that the law unsupported by the public conscience is power- less to remedy the evils that have fouled the fair name of Georgia. He also advocates compulsory education for both races. Ignorance among negroes gives op- pression its opportunity. Among the whites ignorance Certain legal reforms are likely to come quickly as a result of the charge that peonage is being practiced. Peonage can be stopped by changin, the laws relating to debt. The gover- nor shrewdlyproposes that a county which permits a lynching shai pay a money penalty. When the tax- payers have to support,a fatherless family, they will perhaps pause in the joyous lynching bee to think things over.” Pees eS TRANSGRESSING THE PROPRIETIES. If Admiral Sims said what he is reported to have said, he had no business to say it. He was not stat- ing a fact, he was venturing a conclusion of opinion, ‘and his position as a high officer in the American navy gave unusual consequence to it. An,American ad- miral may hold whatever opinions he may choose and he may. privately epress them to his friends but when it comes to expressing them at a public dinner, where sentiments are sure to find their way into print, it becomes another. matter entirely. ® In the public, he represents the government of the ‘United, States. ‘He cannot be entirely disassociated from it, regardless of the time, place and circumstance, His utterances ere bound to be.clothed with, more or less, official importance. The United States government has no criticism; no sympathy and no opinion with reference to the Irish question or the manner:in which either side thereto is conducting its affairs. Moreover the United States -government is not sending naval officers abroad to voice criticism, at public functions in an- other*country, of citizens at home whose private sym- pathies may be opposed to their own. The United States asks of all of its citizens an obedience to its laws and an observance of proprities with’ respect. to friendly nations. If it is true as asserted by Admi- ral Sims that a certain group of our people has shown sympathy for one side to a European controv- ersy does it better matters for him to go to Europe proclaim his attachment to the other side and at the same time berate his fellow citizens? The admiral is a splendid sailor and a courageous fighter. He has execrable judgment in selecting after dinner topics and a miserable taste in applying similes. PIS Cek Wa AE POPULISM NOT FHE REMEDY. “A revivl of populism is predicted,” says the Wash- ington Star. “What bore that neme swept the west and made a strong impression in the south thirty years ago. The farming interests then were greatly de- pressed. Drought, grasshoppers aid middlemen were charged with the trouble, but the remedy proposed and adopted by the sufferers was a new political purty. “This was orgenized, and both of the old parties contributed to the membership. In the west the Re- publican party was most affected; in the south the Democratic party. “The most brilliant man in congress from the west hn J, Ingalls—was a victim of the movement. J es BR. Weaver of Iowa, a man of force, and at one time of influence in national affairs went over to th: new order, and lost his ho'd. Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, then a young man and a Democratic mem- ber of the house, turned to Populism, and lost out. He has just returned to congressional life, but as a Demo- crat. Mr. Bryan in his first race for the presidency was accused of being more Populist than Democrat. “But, though a power in spots for a time. Popu- lism never came to national control; nor the men. it brought to the fror’ to infinence. Senator Peffer of Kansas, Senator Allen of Nebraska, Senator Kyle of South Dakota and Representative Jerry Simpson, fid not long retain office, and the party disintegrated. “The farming interests are again greatly depressed, but only as. all other interests .re. Would Populism remedy the. present trouble any more than it did ti earlier trouble?” —_——___o—___-__. FINALLY, It is with tremendous sigh of relief that the city of Casper witnesses the commencement of repairs in the paved area occasioned by the installation of gas and water lines, It is understood that instructions had been issued to the Warren Construction company some months since to perform this work, but this concern, so far as may be observed in recent times, shows alacrity only upon the days when estimates are available in cash at the treasurer’s office. And while the Warren concern is on the job of re- pairing it would be well for the city to point out the various defects in the several sections paved in the past and which also need attention. fo TASER PRET EA The National Drygoods association presents figures) to show that there has been a general reduction of 331-3 per cent in the retail price of drygoods in the past year, The same cannot truthfully be said of goods} with more moisture in ’em. ei John R. Thompson has offered one thousand bucks} for one good reason why the manufacture of revol ers is permitted in the United States. To date the reason has not been presented. | SG ' Tomorrow is flag da Will we show our love and respect for Old Glory or are we too busy? MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1921 a tremendots su¢cess in curing the war because there were no tmports of paper from Europe, But neither the American manufacturers nor their selling agencies took. ad vantage of thelr opportunity, which was one that probably never -vill re- melt under sueh favoraide cir-/°f four American nees. The Americans were the; Americans are now clear out > ones in the market and the Ar-|™4fke@ The contract referred rentine importers had to take what '- Sus offered, but the American man-|DY the Argentine “government cturers overlooked the fact, that) the signing this very lack of competition gave them a one opportunity to learn ti local ,rsarket requirements and ¢us- toms’ ul the American paper man- ufacturers evidently did not think: it necesscry to imitate the Europoan fuctories which formerly had con- trolled the Argentine market, and es- pecitlly the German methods, with the rosult that there recently has been. a considerable decline sn American pa- per sales, while the importation of British and German papers is tn- creasing constantly. The American paper mills made their most important mistake In try- ing to impose American types and forms of paper on the Argentine mar- ket instead of making papers to mest the market requirements and to suit the local tastes. One of the princi- pal factors in the success of the Ger- paper trade in Argentina was willingness of the Gérman. mills ake paper in any weight, size Tr, provided that the order was ra metric ton or more. The Amer- ican mills refused to take on this kind of business and although they suc- a for thy moment in forcing the tine trade to take what they fered, this trade is already back in serman ‘hands. The American mills huve tried to {force onto the Argentine market their newsprint, weighing 56 grams to the square meter, in spite of the’fact that it ow heavier than the buyers wantec The American mills have very reluctantly made up 62 gram newsprint in some instances but usu: lly Rave flatly refused to make any- & lighter than that. German mills, on the other hand, offer newsprint velghing 15 grams to the square eter, which means a saving of near. ly per cent in freight alone and he lighter paper {3 entirely accepta- vile for many uses in the Argentine market, German newsprint is being delivered n Buenos Aires at 17 cents, Argen- Une gold, a kilo, while American newsprint is cfered at 23% cents, Ar- gentine gold, a difference of more than 27% per cent in favor of the rman paper. German book paper ‘s selling at 30 cents, Argentine gold, a kilo, against 42 “cents asked for American paper of the same class, or 28% per centin favor of the Ger- nan paper. In other papers, the rman* price is between 20 and 25 r cent lower than the American e. One German paper mill “'reeently. worked’ the Buenos Aires market) thoroughly for the sale of No. 1 book or writing paper, clear \white, weigh- ing 50 grams to the square meter, wound on bobbing, at 12% marks, f. o. 6. Hamburg. In steel the German prices are even lower and the. 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