Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1922, Page 2

PAGE TWO €be Casper Daily Cribune | Issued every evening except Sundmy at Casper, Natrona County, Wyo. Publication Offices, Tribune Building. | BUSINESS TELEPHONES es 15 apd 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments Entered at Cusper (Wyoming, Posteffice as second class} matter, November 22, 1916. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - President and Editor . Business Manager J. B. HANWAY ..... EARL E. HANWAY W. H. HUNTLEY Associate Editor RE. EVANS wseee . ° - City Editor THOMAS DAILY .....- eerensl Advertising Manager} Advertising Kopresentatives. Prodden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chicago, M.; 286 ‘Fifth avenue, New York City; Globe Bldg.; Bos- ton, Mass. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago and Boston offices and visitors ‘are weilcon.e. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier sbehwtse + $7.80 3.90) 1.95 Three Months One Month 65 Per Copy ... 05 One Year . Six Months Threa Months No subscription by three months. All_subscriptions must be pald in advance and the Dally Tribune will not insure delivery after subscrip. tion ‘becomes one month in arrears. Member of Audit Burean of Circulation (/ BO) | election is the fact that a few weeks ago the city of | effect, so that he might not be under any doubt what- Che Caspet we should sacrifice American interests in an effort to revive Europe. Their position in this regard became untenable when there was a manifestation of enthus-| s insm over the results of the limitation of armaments! if conference. The Democrats then switched to the claim! that the country is dissatisfied with the Republican! congress and will overturn the Republican majority in| the legislative branch of the government at the first opportunity. The vote in the Maine congressional elec- tion shows no intention on the part of the voters to take control of congress out of the hands of the Re- publican party. An important incident in connection with the Maine | Waterford, which is in the Third congressional dis- trict, elected a Democratic municipal administration by a 10,000 plurality. This was claimed asa great Democratic victory and ar evidence of a turn from the Republican party. That the issue was then purely local, however, is demonstrated by the fact that the Republican candidate for congress carried that city on March 20 by 700 plurality, practically the normal Re- publican strength. pu sea THE WILFUL WILSON. Almost every incident in international affairs serves to emphasize the folloy of President Wilson’s stubborn insistence upon interweaving the league of nations covenant with the peace treaty. The United States senate, Republicans and Democrats alike, was ready to ratify without delay any reasonable treaty of peace. The Republicans formally notified Mr. Wilson to that ever. The Republicans also notified him that they Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited In this paper and aiso the loca! news published herein. Kick if You Don’t Get Your Tribune. Call 15 or 16 any time between 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m.| of America’s refusal to ratify the treaty, and that re- if you fail to receive your Tribune. A paper will be de- livered to you by special messenger. Make it your duty to Jet The Tribune know when your carrier misses you. Se a SENATE SUPPORTS THE SECRETARY. The power of the United States senate is back of Secretary Hughes in his demand upon the allies for payment of the expenses of the army of occupation. Politics is adjourned when it comes to the discussion of that debt, and all chades of political thousht are united in urging that the legal and moral rights of the United States in the matter be upheld. “This claim,” says Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, “has nothing to do with the reparation commis- sion. This was an agreement. made under the armis- tice, which we signed, and of which we were a mem- ber. That made the provision that the United States troops should be paid for by Germany. It stands wholly apart from our treaty of peace, and wholly apart from the treaty of Versailles. It is not a repara- tion, and the attempt to avoid it now is a mere tech- nicality.” “We were invited by the supreme council,” declares Senator Underwood, the leader of the Democrats, “and by our allies to maintain a certain number of troops on the border line at the Rhine, and in justice and fair play, the American government is entitled to stand on the same basis as the other allied govern- ments and to receive from Germany its proportion of reimbursement for the soldiers it has maintained on the Rhine, just as the other governments are to re- ceive reimbursement for maintaining their soldiers.” Senator Norris of Nebraska does not mince words in his reference to the matter. ‘When they (the al- , lies) collect the money from Germany to pay,” says he, “they pay the expenses of their own troops, re- fuse to pay those of ours, and divide the balance of the swag up among themselves. To my mind, that is treating the American government with disrespect. It is not fair, it is not honorable, and there have been many times in the history of the world when diplo- matic relations have been broken for causes much less than that which exists now.” Other senators and members of congress have ex- pressed themselves as forcibly as those quoted. Not a word of criticism has been heard against the course Mr. Hughes has taken. It is realized by all that if the United Sates permits this claim to be lost through de- fault, it will form a precedent that may seriously em- barrass the collection of the other huge obligations owed this country by Europe. The legal position of the United States, based as it is on the armistice agreement is admitted to be un- assailable. So far as the moral aspect is concerned, there is no more reason for remitting the claim for military expenses than there is for cancelling the cash loans to Europe or the debts arising from the credit sales of surplus war supplies, and supplies sold through the American Relief administration and the American Grain corporation. It is understood that Secretary Hughes has sent identical notes for transmission directly to the allied governments, and that eventual payment of the $241,- 060,000 will be firmly insisted upon; but the United States will indicate its readiness to arrange terms.and conditions of payment that will impose no undue hard- ship upon the allies. It is the same spirit in which the other European obligations are to be settled through negotiations by the foreign debt refunding commission. ee eae THE FIRMNESS OF MAINE. Democrats have had considerable to say about the special congressional election recently held in the third Maine district. They expected an enormous slump in | THE FARMERS AND THE UNIONS. would not ratify a treaty with the league covenant in it. Nevertheless, in his determination to be the su- preme ruler of the world, Mr. Wilson wove the league into the treaty. That was the cause and the sole cause fusal was approved by a 7,000,000 plurality vote at the election in 1920. One of the most recent incidents showing the evil effects of Wilsonian autocracy was the failure of the allied nations to pay to us the money which we were legally and morally entitled to receive in reimburse-! ment for the expense of keeping our troops on the Rhine». No nation has disputed the soundness of Amarica’s claim but they suggest that since we did not ratify the peace treaty we are not in a position to urge the payment. President Wilson denounced the 39 Republicans senators a “small group of wilful men.”| A still smaller “group” was Mr. Wilson himself, who, by his “wilfulness” insisted upon his own ideas being adopted regardless of the judgment of the many. ae calls the juror who said that the jury could have agree: if the other eleven men had not been so stubborn. The the present. diesumior soa et pity of it is that America is every day paying the pen-jtarict rates of the new Ireland, its alty for the Wilsonian stubbornness. trade with the United States seems likely to move on with comparatively Uttle change. The class of material which Ireland has been wurchasing ; from the United States, is of a char- “The farmer is by necessity an independent, self-' acter which her people must continue sufficient individualist,” remarks the Philadelphia to have, and there is no other place North American. ‘He is a capitalist, a proprietor, a in the world where they can get it manufacturer, an employer of labor. He represents With such convenience to themseives. the largest single class of consumers using the goods Wheat and flour, oats and oatmeal, which labor makes, and every successful effort by Ia- Parley and rye, petroleum in all its fe forms, tobacco, and sugar made up bor to increase its wage return is felt by him. the bulk of the $42,000,000 worth of “Avowed and dominant purposes of labor unionism’ merchandise which the ‘United States are to shorten the working day, to establish arbitrary exported to Ireland in 1920, and she and uniform conditions of employment and to restrict paid for it too with the outturn of her per capita production. All these aims are at war with factories, especially lincns and other the interests of the farmer. He cannot recognize an ™@nufactures of flax for which her eight-hour or ten-hour day, because his tasks cannot sere! re a world wide reputation be deferred and because his operations to a great ex- tinue to want, Our lnpens ne om tent are controlled by the seasons and the uncertain- jana in 1920 were $38,000,000 ln value ties of the weather. Nor can he adopt uniform rules or nearly as much as our exports of work, because there is no uniformity in his prob- thereto, and they were, all of them, lems. And finally, he is always striving to expand her domestic products chiefly the out production, not to contract it. {turn of her factories. “The two classes are conscious of economic antag-' In fact the trade between the Unit- ouism. Organized labor is the first to protest when ° States and Ireland in 1920 was the foodstuffs raised by the farmer rise in price; and tester in value than in any earlier the farmer is the first to complain when the cost of {09 Go) neninat $61.000 gg goods manufactured by organized labor increases be- org $30.00) 0on In ute vee cet 3 and $30,000,000 in the year precedt: cause of wage inflation. This conflict of interest 1s (ne war. While Ireland hes pulte me natural and will continue. r turally drawn a large part of its im- A basic difference Is that the farmer has two dis-|ports from the governing country, tinct operating problems, while labor has but one. The England, and sent the bulk of pislens , our own. le res farmer smbeei fees exow, bie craps; andbien, market TT oul oe ucsrmineesaita them; he is at once a producer and a merchandiser. the past decade of $425,000,000, aho As we have indicated, in the field of production his in-| \auaiy ‘divided. between inoporte ong terests are not the same as those of labor, nor is col-' exports, and in the past quarter of a lective action feasible. In disposing of his output, century practically a billion dollars however, he finds benefit in collective action; but there ne United States is one of the is no common ground with labor here, for labor does few countries which has maintained not market what it produces, @ separate record of its trade with “Despite these inherent differences, leaders of organ-| Ireland. Until a comparatively recent ized labor strive to make it appear that the farmers ‘ate the exports to Ireland were far view with growing favor the idea of an alliance be. freer (han. the imports, thutefrom, tween the two groups. The truth is that the farmers’ /ouiine (ne Gan ty ammediately | Dre- sympathies were never alienated from organized la-/trom equaled and often exceeded the bor to so great an extent as at the present time. exports thereto. In 1920, when the to- “How remote is the chance of a sympathetic com-|tal trade with Ireland was the big- bination between the farmers and organized labor was Trade with Ireland gest ever recorded, the imports there- *, altural conferences recent: |from were $38,206,000 and the exports shown etthe national sgricuibaral costerences tacently |. f=5 7’ 3,414 (000s aneciGone tae Ireland in 1920 included $20,000,000 worth of fabrics chiefly of flax, 2% million dollars worth of linen hand. held at the call of the president. Although the dele- gu’es included representatives of banking and indus-! try and organized labor and other interests, the gath- ering expressed with uncompromising vigor the deter- mination of the farming community to resist with equal force unjust exactions by capital and by labor. “The farmer has not relaxed his vigilance or his de- fensive measures against the power of capital; but he has come to regard organized labor as an additional force against which he must protect himself. During the years when the workers were struggling against the Republican plurality and while the vote was much lighter and plurality lower, our old opponents can de- rive no comfort from the figures. The election of 1920 represented an abnormal sit- uation and there was no occasion in this special elec- tion for a similar protest against democracy as existed two years ago. The reduction in Republican lead was naturally to be expected. Yet the Republican ecandi- date received 62 per cent of the total vote as com- pared with 66 per cent in the landslide year of 1920. In 1910 the Third congressional district of Maine was carried by the Democrats. Since that time the percentage of yotes by which the Republicans won were as follows: 1912____51 per cent 1914____51 percent 1916____54 per cent 1918____58 per cent 1920____66 per cent 1922____62 per cent Of course, the Democrats pursuing their usual pol- iey of manipulating figures to deceive the public, will call attention to the fact that the majority at the spe- cial election in 1922 is far smaller than the majority odds to establish their rights, the farmer gave them sympathy and support, because the two groups had a! common interest in curbing the oppressive power of capitalistic combination. But when hse perceived that) organized labor, wherever it acquired a dominating position, developed tendencies as arbitrary and arro- gant as those of capital, he came to regard the unions as a hostile element, “Never in the history of the agricultural industry were the farmers so well equipped as now to eafeguard their interests without the assistance of organized la- bor. It is admitted that they hold a dominating pesi- tion in congress, and will be able to put through most A of their program of legislation for the protection and fostering of agriculture. ‘Today they have no more| L02,Colds and Cou: need to sue for the legisiative influence of labor than for Help? Dr. for that of capital. While agriculture has suffered| King’s Pille “will bring rg losses greater than any other industry, the farmers! happiness of regular, are not aware of any movement on the part of labor| a2d liver i: Mild but ab to help them; on the contrary, they fee] that organ-| W237" teliable At Seeees 25. ized labor is using its power selfishly and to the hurt of the community as a whole. at the general election in 1920. They will ignore the fact that that the smaller majority was due to the! smaller total vote. In every state and every congres- sional district there is always a smaller vote in a spe- cial election than in a general election when the im- portance of the contest and the number of offices to be filled draws a larger number of voters to the polls. The only fair way of determining the trend of public cpinion is by a comparison of percentages. In this respect the showing is all to the credit of the Repub-| lican party. Some weeks ago it was the effort of the Democratic campaign managers to disseminate the idea that thege is widespread dissatisfaction with the Harding admin- istration, basing their claim on the attitude of Presi- cent Harding toward the league of nations and his refusal to fall in line with the internationalist dca that “Under ail these circumstances, a combination be- tween the farmers and organized labor seemu to ug about the remotest of possibilities. It is far more likely that if the railroad and miners’ unions continue to demand war wages, refusing to bear their share of the economic readjustment and keeping up the high costs of transportation and fuel and other commodi- ties, organized labor will get from the agricultural bioc a more drastic dose of legislation than it would ever have to fear from a congress controlled capital.” Is prepared to take care of by [all kinds of cabinet worx. Also job work of any de- scription. 402 S. 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