Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1922, Page 2

| : c n e ‘ m Paterno Fe” 8 xc re 4 e 7 Et aN ena en eas FE. PAGE TWO Cbe Casper Dailp Ecibune Issued every evening except Sunday at Casper Wyo. County Ss -15 and TELEPHONES SUSINE: > Exchange Connecting Branch T Natrona Publication Offices, Tribune Building. 1 Departments | spirit in which the constitution was conceived. There- | is lost sight of that during the last fifty years doc- trines have been crystallizing which give to majority opinion a very definite hue; cleavagas between federa! and state authorities wholly unexpected and dimen- 16| sions which seem utterly out of harmony with the Entered at Casper (Wyoming. matter, Novel 22, 1916. ber BER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS City Ea ‘Portoffice as second class President and Biter | . Business Manager seociate Editor Advertising Manager| | four’ decisions and, as well, the increase of ‘trivial | litigation’ in matters of due process, ete. |. “It is apparent that the constitution was regarded by its framers as itself a bill of rights, touching the people of all the states, individually and collectively; that not only its interpretation, but ‘the exercise of ttor| the vested jurisdiction of the courts of the United tes must, in the absence of positive law, be gov- toe eee, emanaae tw te rote } Representatives, } 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago,/ New York City; Globe Bidg.; Boe Daily Tribune are on file in and Boston offices and visitors welcome. —-— | SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier -$7.80 3.90 1.95 85 $7.80 « 3.90 - 1.95 period than nm advance and the ry after subscrip- Member of Audit Barean of Circulation (A. B. C.) | Member of the Associated Press. Aso. is exclusively entitled to the publication of all news credited in this paper and local news published herain. The lated Kick if you Don't Get Your Tribune. 5 any time between 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m. A paper will be do Make it your duty to arrier musnes you it ©_your Tribune wenger. you wher you by The Tribun: livereg to JUST ANOTHER VAIN HOPE. We entertain not even the faintest idea that Wil-| lam J. Bryan can get away with a Florida senator- ship, notwithstanding the activity of his friends. and the industry of the fiction writers of the daily press. m departed from Nebraska four years ago be- was not dry enough to meet his approval. He Florida as a future home because at the time it fulfilled all dry requirements. aD within the ext sixty days complete his citizenship. | g Meanwhile in aattees dry, conditions have changed. | Nebraska resembles the old time powder horn and| Florida is saturated from the Cuban overflow. It was the hope of William J. to become the Democratic presidential candidate on a bone dry and liquor tight platform at ’Frisco in 1920; and because of the re- fusal of his brethren either to embrace him or his plat- form he was desolate and then and there consigned his heart to the grave where it has reposed until now. William J never so quite himself as when he sees) a job of saving the world or uplifting the universe. He scents such a contract now in sweeping back the rum laden waves that dash upon the coral reefs of his new- ly adopted home state. Others there may be who} would joust with the demon; but William J. remains} and ever shall remain, as he has in all other under-| takings, the peerless one. He is the digger of the last ditch and then declines to be buried in it. Like Kip- he is “generally shammin’ when Going back to the heart episode. There has been a resurrection and William J. has since taken it apart, oiled the working parts and finds it as good as ever and ready to resume business at the old stand. Since the old stand implies prohibition enforcement to be the paramount issue with public office the final purpose, the Bryan heart is expected to miss no single beat until after the primaries, when it can again be placed in’ the tomb. Florida will not adopt William J. as readily as some of his arderé admirers hope. There is still a differ- ence between a corn tassel and an orange blossom. i ah ay BE ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE. “A crooked bucket-shop proprietor is merely a thief and can be punished under the statntes forbidding lar- ceny,” observes the New York Tribu “Recent dis- ciosures regariling the number.of rascally concerns in New York City do not point to the need of any more laws. They merely prove that the laws now on the statute books have been laxly enforced. “The astonishing thing about the disclosures is that there are still so many people who can be easily gulled Ly swindlers. One would imagine that after so many investigations, each one accompanied by widespread publicity, even the foolish investor would begin to be wary: “SsBut no. The story of the victims of ‘520 Per Cent Miller’ was sent broadcast over the nation and over the world. Yet a few years afterward Whittaker Wright had little difficulty in obtaining vast sums of easy money from people in England and America. “Ten or fifteen years late along came Ponzi, who duped thousands of people into believing that he could thake them fortunes over night; and hardly is Ponzi safe in jail before we find that scores of men of his sort have been fattening on the gullibility of the sophisticated and suspicious city of New York. “Upon swindlers of this sort the law cannot be too severe. They deliberately seek to rob the poor and the ignorant, and are too often highly successful. The more of them caught and punished the more others of the sarne sconudrelly inclinations will be discouraged. “This, however, is not going to cure the evil. To the adage that ‘there’s a sucker born every minute,” cur- rent among gamblers, a member of that profession has aided ‘and two to hook him.’ #*As long as there are gulls there will be sharks. In dost cases the victims of the sure-thing men and the rich-quick operators and the crooked bucketshop Keepers are séeking something for nothing. Like the man who buys ‘greengoods,’ they are after an unfair advantage in the rice for wealth. “Until they learn that the only safe way to get nioney is to work for it the papers will continue to publish their names among the lists of the victims of the sharper.” Directly upon the heels of ali of this evidence comes the Bischoff affair in Chicago, involving millions of dollars gathered in from the foreign born of the stock- yards district and sunk in private speculation. The suckers, it may be said, are born much faster than the sharks who devour them. a2 BASIC COMMON LAW. Joseph Whitla Stinson, writing on the subject of the common law, says: ‘When an associate justice of) the supreme court of the United States lays aside the great reserve of his high office and speaks to the in- cvitable publicity of his utterances reaches a much larger popular audience, his words have tremendous importance. “The associate justice confines himself, unfortunate- ly, to an experience of but five years in the supreme | ical and civil rights. . | MARS Glee erned exclusively by the common law.’ The common law was not, says Story, ‘introduced as of original and universal obligation in its utmost latitude; but the limitations contained in the bosom of the common law itself and, indeed, constituting a par: of the law of nations, were affirmatively settled and recognized in the respective charters of settlement. Thus limited and defined, it has become the guardian of our polit-| + + And by the goodness of God we are now enjoying, under its bold and. manly prin-| ciples, the blessing of a free, independent and united government.” (Commentaries, Section 158). “The importance of this fundamental common law in the constitutional and state jurisprudence of our) country cannot be overestimated. It partends the! uniformity of municipal law in the United States and| the binding together of the nations in one general in-| ternational lega! order, It is to this common ground, the essential common law principle of the American constitution, that ‘the statements at Washington, Lon-| don, Paris, Rome and Tokio’ must look to accomplish | the world’s rebirth into the new order.” HE SAW THAT IT WAS GOoop, “If a perfect mathematician should constract an arithmetic,” says the Minneapolis Journal, “he would| naturally make it perfect. There would be no mis-| takes in it. The corre¢t methods of working out the! problems would be given, and the answers furnished would be correct. Having finished his work on the would see that it was good. children who would bring the mistakes to| the text book, and who would learn by practice how to| climinate those mistakes and, finally, how to secure the| correct solutions of all the problems, | | “We are told in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, in the Hebrew Scriptures, that God made all things perfect and that, when He surveyed his work! en the seventh day, ‘He saw that it was good.’ It is \the children of men who make the mistakes, the er- rors, the sins, and who are learning by their practice more and more to eliminate the evil in their lives— that is, if they are real students of life. “And now comes the pessimist, the advocate of the) sordid in life und in literature. He points ott all the| errors and the sins of the world, dwells on them with noxious exaggeration, and uses them to prove that the world is a vile place, not constructed by Divine wis-| dom, but, apparently, by a kind of fiendish ingenuity to compass the unhappiness of mankind. ; “Tt is much as if among the students of arithme- tic were some who, pointing cut all the mistckes made by the chiidren in school, conclude that the arithmetic was the worst possible : ° books, made with fiendish in-| gendity for the purpose of entrapping the innocent and simple minds of the children in error. But the purpose of arithmetic is good, as we know. Should we not also conclude that the purpose of the world as we have it is good, that it is the result of Divine wis- dom and love, and intended for the instruction and, in the long run, for the happiness of all its children by teaching them not to make mi stakes and, by show- ing, in’ practice, the ways to avoid mistakes? Mee Sal WHAT THE TARIFF DOES. “The doctrine of ‘supply and demand’ is simply the expression of an ascertained economic law,” notes the| American Economist. “There is nothing arbitrary, sbout it. When there is a scarcity of any commodity the demand increases and the prices naturally become higher because purchasers bid against each other. If} diamonds were as plentiful as ordinary pebbles they| would lose their excessively high prices. If gold could be chemically produced in quantities it would soon be- come a ‘base metal.’ Iron is now, a base metal be- cause it is so common, although it is in Teality more valaable than gold, for it serves many more useful Purposes, ~ “The statement that the tariff fixes prices is untrue. Supply and demand fix prices, in the last analysis, in every instance. What the tariff does is to limit the supply of foreign products and increaso domestic pro- duction, a very different thing from price fixing. That| has been proven in countless instances. For instance,| the tariff on steel rails was $28 per ton for many} years. Yet for many years, and during those same years, the market value of steel rails was $28 per ton, or exactly what the duty amounted to. Wire nails were for a long time sold for less than the tariff im- posed on imported steel nails. The effect of placing # tariff on steel rails brought the prices down from over a hundred dollars per ton to an amount lees than the duty itself, although the price did not remain there. For five years the prices were even less than the duty, ng in 1898 to $17.62 per ton. Prior to the impo- sition of a duty on. wire nails the prices on the im. ported article were seyeral times what they were sub- sequent to such duty imposition. In both the case of steel rails and wire nails the lowering of the price fol- lowing their being made dutiable was due to the fact that prior to that time they were not made in this country and we were obliged to pay just what the for- eign producers asked, But the imposition of a protec- tive tariff induced domestic producers to engage in their manufacture and the lower prices resulted be- cause of the increased ‘supply and because of the fact that there was domestic competition. With a home supply we were not forced to depend upon foreign producers and so were not at their mercy. “Prior to the enactment of the agricultural emer- gency tariff we said that it would not result in in- creased prices for farm products, but that it would in-. crease the opportunitieg for making sales of domestic products in the home market. We said that foreign- ers would not care to pay the price of admission to! this country and hewce that our own farmers would, have a chance, whereas they had theretofore been un-| Gersold by foreigners who could produce at much low-| er costs. Results have proved the truth of our pre-| dictions. Sales of American wheat in the home mar- ket have increased, but the prices have gone down be cause there has been an overproduction. Not only did we import less wheat during the past year, but we ex- ported over 61 millions of bushels more of wheat dur- ing the calendar year 1921 than we did during! 1920. | “We concede that it would help the farmers for a short time if congress should raise the prices of agri- cultural products, but the final results would not prove beneficial to them, It must be borne in mind that agricuiture is not the only productive industry. Min- ing and manufacturing share the field with it and, what is more, furnish customers for agricultural prod- ucts. Agriculture is entitled to exactly the same kind of treatment, the same measure of protection as are! mining and manufacturing. That is a proposition upon which all sincere Protectionists unite. Now if the. prices of agricultural products should be regulated by) law, the purpose being to increase the prices higher than they would be fixed by law of supply and de-! mand, it would work injury to other industries, un- less they should have the same benevolent treatment: ; Manufacturing and mining are entitled to have the | Py has during that period been of their products boosted by law as much as is iculture.” Shu SAN [TODAY | ‘Thomas C. Howard. Yesterday’s gone—it was only a ¢ream . Of the past there is naught but re- membrance. Tomorrow's a vision thrown on Hope's screen, A will.o’-the-wisp, a mere semblance. This moment my past and my future 1 form: I may make them whatever I choose ‘By the deeds and the acts that I now THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1922. I use. Perhaps it is! shall say?” dimmer pert perform. By the words and the thoughts that So I. fear not the future nor mourn o'er the past For I do all I'm able today. Living each present moment as though Love Me Love me, dear, as the shadows dim Reach toward the golden West, Love me; e'on as I'd have you love me best. Love me at eve's fast approaching, | Leaving foot-prints on the heart; | only this I ask you, dear, Love me till the shadows part. Love me just for what I am, dear, | Not for what I ought to be, Nor for All my worth to others, Only what I am to thee. | Love me, because you chose me Queen of your heart to be; Love me, now and always, Just because, I'm Me. ‘Who knows? Who the shades ¢row —Liliian Van Burg pe SNE atest Jewelry and watch repairing by ex- workmen. All work guarantesd Casper Jewelry Mfg. Co, O.S Bide. 35-tt Here's another ‘bout Wyoming— Since it seems to be the “fad,” And to know that others praise it, lt reatly makes me glad. I have lived in old Kentucky, Where the blue grass waves so grcen! Also in Oklahoma, Where a biade ia never seen I have aleo lived in Kaneas, Colorado and Ideho; But since I came to Casper, I've seen the entire show. Although the wind blows freely, And snowflakes fill the air, It’s not like hot winds in Kansas, Without cool spot anywhere. Singing Wyoming’s Praises By Maud Heald. |More to appreciato my home. ({And I'm proud right here to say Nor like in Oklahoma, "Bout one-osix in shade. 1 “Grow Old Along With Me” I seo nearly every morning in exact- lyly the same spot two old men holdingy an animated conversation. They are neatly dressed, have strong intelligent faces, and certainly are not chatting about the weather nor other superficial subjects. ‘They are settling questions ot transcendent importance. They are not arguing: they are together search- ing for the truth. Nothing less than the armament conference, the indus- trial unrest, the world's rehabilitation, is engaging their alert minds. As Tj No breath of air stirring And a bed bug grand parade. Nor like in desolate Idaho, Where snows come every day. The avalanch gives no warning And forest fires sweep their way. I'll slick right here in Casper I think no more to roam Except for brief excursion Where tho business wheels are turning Old John D. can see, “its fit,” If he can trust his millions, Let us trust a little bit. ‘There's a sweetness, not expressive That 1 hope to be in Casper On my Sixtieth wedding day. pass them I try to catch a word or two to satisfy my curiosity, but al- ways fail. Their earnestness is too deep to be loud. Their tones are low. but freighted with the seriousness of wise and thoughtful men. I know nothing finer and more im- pressive and inspiring than the ard- ent interest of an old man in the prob- lems of the world. About to lay down: his staff and leave the stage of earthly existence forever, he still plays a man's part_in the reat drama. 1 haye} '70 than at 2v, 30 or 40. sometimes heard expressions of won. dér that old men.and women should retain their interest in this transitory existence and should find place for any considerations except for the new and larger life on whose threshold they stand. They know that only a few brief years at the most will be granted them here, and yet in spirit they stand shoulder to shoulder with the young explorers just entering the world’s strenuous life. But to me it is su- premely natural and reasonable. The vower of habit is enormous. Living: to the man of seventy has become sec: ond nature, Death is not the real thing, but life. Buch added year strengthens rather than weakens his held upon and interest in life. ‘The end seems >s far or farther away at Is it any won- der then that the men and women of 70, 80 ind 90 foel the beating pulse of the world’s life with all the curiosity and enthusiasm of youth? I once know a woman of 90, an earnest, devort soul, to whom the fh visible things of the future life were as real as the sun and moon, and who| yet was in livellest and most intimate touch with things about her, and even with the restless, surging life of +na- tions and the race itself” ‘Had she known she was to live 60 years longer she could not have been bound by stronger tes to this transitory exist- ence. : The old man who has fallen out of the onward march of the world’s life is an anomaly. ROLAND CORTHELL. 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