Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 14, 1922, Page 2

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Kick if You Don’t Get Your Tribune. 115 or 16 any time between 6:30 and 8 o'clock p. m Tribune. A paper will be de messenger. Make it your duty to w when your carrier misses you. aS The Crime of Owning Property HE CONSTITUTION of the Russian bolshevists provides that no one ‘who owns or has interests in industries, land, who is engaged in business, who has money in the bank, in short, no one who owns property of any id is permitted to hold office, legislate or have aught to do with the government. : who owns The bolshevists organized in each community what is known as the “poor peasant” party. From this party is drawn those who have any voice in the government. The members of this “poor peas- ant” organization are those who never had any- thing, who never saved anything, the shiftless, the ne’er-do-wells, the vodka drinkers, the criminal classes, the vagabonds, demagogues and agitators. The world is witnessing each the result of a government by such a class of people. A resolution has been introduced by Senator Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas, to ascertain if any senator voting for the tariff on wool owned any sheep. It is on a par with the bolshevistic idea of government. It would deprive any man who had property from participating in making laws upon the theory that by doing he might afford some measure of protection to his property, some sta-| bility to his interests and thereby would profit. Senator Carnaway’s resolution raises the issue a. to whether it is a crime for a man who sits in leg! Jative halls to be possessed of property. Does the fact that he has by industry, thrift and application to business accumulated something disqualifying him from participating in an official way in the con duct of his government? Are those who sit in legislative halls to be con- fined to “jackleg” lawyers and political shysters who seek to hold their public office by appealing to the hatred and prejudices of the shiftless, the ignorant and ‘the vicious? Is a man who votes for a law that protects his property and renders his investment secure, and thereby protects ali property and renders all invest- ments secure, to be branded as a crook and whipped from public life? Are only those to be permitted to remain in pub- lie office whose chief possession is a loose tongue and a constant desire to impugn the integrity and besmirch the reputation’ of men who have accumu- lated something more substantial? The resolution raises the issue as to whether those who legislate are to be men who can be en- trusted to legislate constructively in the interest of thrif¥ and industry, or those who legislate destruc- tively in the interest of the shiftless and thriftless. It is begging the question to attempt any other interpretation of the resolution. If it is a violation either of ethics or the law for a United States sena- tor to vote upon a tariff schedule because the busi- ness in which he has invested may be benefitted thereby, it is wrong for him to yete upon any matter of legislation which benefits any business in which he may be interested. For example, senators with an income could not vote upon a revenue law which had an income tax clause in it. The list of exam- ples might be continued indefinitely. There is not a constructive piece of legislation enacted that does not benefit business and industry and thereby profit those senators who have invest- ments in business and industry. In the Caraway resolution the head of bolshevism is raised in the United States senate, threatening all property rights and all investments in America. Considered strictly from the standpoint of the tariff, it is equally as demag and destructive. No one denies that many senators have investments that would be enhanced by a protective tariff be- cause a protective tariff enhances investments in ‘American industries and business enterprises de- pendent upon American industries. ~ Everyone knows and no one denies that there is another cliss in this country who would be profited immensely by the defeat of a protective tariff. These are the interests which are growing enormously wealthy by importing pauper-made goods and selling them to the American public at fabulous profits ranging into the thousands of per cent. If Sena- tor Caraway and his Democratic associates were sincere they would insist upon an investigation of all such beneficiaries of free trade. Senator Cara way’s resolution, if sustained, would make it a crime for any member of the congress to vote for any law which protected American industries but a rtue for him to vote for any law in the interest of foreigners und in the interest of that handful of profiteers in this country who are muleting the ‘American consumer because he is able to act as the’ merchandiser of foreign producers. Labor Urges Tariff Ey INTERNATIONAL and over three hundred ~ individual labor unions in all sections of the T nited States from California to Connecticut have petitioned congress to speed the enactment of the ots 15 acd 18}mittee and closely in touch with labor sentiment necting All DepsrtmeAlt |hecause of the vast and varied industriel interests pending American protective tariff bill. This fact was made public by Seuator Grorce P. Mac Lean,} of Connecticut, a member of the senate finance com- in the state of Connecticut. In this connection it is recalled that Senator Krs Democrat, of Utah, in criticizing the American protective tariff system} from a Democratic standpoint recently admitted | the vast industrial wealth of the state of Connecti- cut was due to the fact that-her industries had prospered under years of protective tariff. In announcing an emforsememt of the pending tariff bill by so many labor organizations, Senator Mac Lean said: “Ten international labor unions and over three hundred individual labor unions from all parts of the United States have petitioned congress to speed the enactment of the pending tariff bill. This does not include the thousands of petitions which indi- vidual members of the senate have received from employes of factories and shop committees. These are almost entirely the voice of union labor. “Despite the statements made and constantly re- peated that there is no sentiment in this country for the passage of a tariff at this time, these peti-| tions of labor organizations prove to anyone who} wishes to be fair and face the facts that the ma. jority of workers in the United States, men and women producers, want this tariff bill. In a recent I¥tter to President Harprxc and mem- bers of the senate finance committee ten interna- tional brotherhoods said: “Representing thousands of skilled American wage-earners, a large percentage of whom served their country on the blood-stained fields 6f Europe and who on their return to their homes found it impossible to obtain employment, we again reiterate our desire for the enactment of laws by congress that will adequately protect all wage-earners against the loss of employment through any indus- trial invasion on the part of the products of any other nations. We believe that any fair-minded person will admit that thousands of our Ameri; workmen are idle today sole!y because of the in- crease in the importations of merchandise from for- eign countries.” This petition was signed by the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, American Flint Glass Workers’ Union, United Hatters of North America, United Textile Workers of America, American Wire Weavers’ Protective Association, International | Union of Stgim and Operating Engineers, Interna- tional Union of Leather Workers, National Print Cutters’ Association, Painters, Paper Hangers and Decorators, Steel and Copper Plate Engravers. In the list of 300 labor organizations petitioning congress. for the speedy enactment of the pending American protective tariff bill the following in- lustries are represented: flint glass workers, steel, iron and tin workers, sheet metal workers, electrical workers, meat cutters and butchers, lace operatives, bottle blowers, bricklayers, bridgeworkers, cigar makers, corset cutters, coppersmiths, novelty stamp- ers, carpenters and joiners, hatters, garment work- ers, shoe~ workers, bookbinders, textile workers,) wire weavers, m engineers, leather workers,| print cutters, steel and copper plate engravers, | wh mower workers, workers, pressmen, | interg and decorators, pattern mukers, lace and embroidery workers, lithographers, cooperage work- ers, lady garment workers, metal polishers, window glass workers, cement workers, photo engravers and reed and rattan workers. In addition to the spe- cifie industries, dozens of central labor councils and state federations of labor have petitioned congres: for the speedy enactment of the pending tariff bill. ste glove Hope in Conscientious Newspapers QeeaNe of the bitter opposition on the part of certain metropolitan newspapers to the pending tariff bill, Senator McCumper said in the senate: “When these newspapers began to see the light was when the importing interests of the country began to see that some of their enormous profits would have to be divided with the government—at lease a little portion of them. Then they saw the matter just as the advertisers saw it.” That ex- plains, in Senator McCumser’s opinion, one reason for the opposition. A newspaper which is favored with many thousands of dollars’ worth of adyer- tising from importing interests is apt to side with them when they start a campaign of publicity to de- feat a protective tariff bill. The editor of: that paper, or its owner, may be a staunch protection- ist at heart, but the prospect of withdrawal of ad- yertising on the part of these big importing houses brings forcibly before him the question as to whether he will continue his paper at a profit or at a loss, and human nature is human nature. How- ever, when the bill becomes a law the advertising will in all probability continue and the resulting prosperity of domestic concerns ‘will increase the de- mands for advertising space. But in the battle for the protective policy the country and small city newspapers are the most loyal and effective me- diums of tariff expression. They are not coerced by importing combinations. Eternal Vigilance A GRAVE DANGER to American institutions is *“ seen in the apathy shown by citizens toward voting, legislation and public affairs generally. If the citizen takes no interest, the politician and his henchmen never fail to take a hand. They are con- stantly evolving plans to separate taxpayers fror their money and the rates of increase in taxes and the growth of bonded indebtedness of cities, towns, counties and states indicate how successful they are. It should be sufficient warning to the average citizen to interest himself in the affairs that concern him as closely as his private affairs possibly could. 1t is incumbent upon all loyal citizens if they would attract industries and wealth to their states and cities to prevent them from becoming centers of freak legislation and communities of unnecessar- ily high taxes. The sound sense of the American public cannot be questioned, but our progress must depend to a large degree upon the awakening of public confi- dence, the arousing of the old American spirit, de- votion to duty as citizens and to the giving of com- plete force to expression of the will of the majority. Shelf-worn as the expression may seem to you who do not pause to consider its meaning, “Eternal vigilance is the price of enduring liberty.” Se, A preminent Democratic paper asserts that the! Republicans have not fulfilled a single campaign! pledge. Well, now, not to take up too much of your time, how about the promise to bring Liberty bends €be Casper Daily Cripune HIS MASTER’S VOICE—NEW VERSION Hay at Cody The Cody Enterprise in its account of John W. Hay’s visit to that city says: “They turned out strong, the vot- ers of this section, to see and hear John W. Hay and learn what manner he was they were being asked to yote for. : “A crowd which taxed the seating eapecity of Masonic temple, both floor and gallery, gathered last Friday to give the Republican candidate for gov- ernor the “once over.” “The peonle looked and lstened, and when they had finished apprais- ing him they placed on the man from Rock Springs the stamp of ap- proval, He left Cody properly O. K'd. yy the Republicans of this vicinity. Simplicity «nd sincerity are Mr. Hay's distinguishing characteristics. “ ‘Here I am—Just plain me!" This is what his manner says to his audi- ence. He ts not eloquent, but con- yincing, speaking as one man to an- other upon a subject in which both are keenly interested, “The people are tired of political foxes, politicians playing both ends against the center, and the audience ‘unconsciously evidenced the fact that they recognized in Mr. Hay a candi- date of a new species by the close, even eager attention which they. gave. to his utterances. : “The people present were aware that they were listening to a man who had consented to become a can didate only after long and persistent urging from every section of the state and that he was making a big per- sonal sacrifice in so doing. “The subject of taxes upon which Mr. Hay spoke was one of keen in terest to his audience, a large num ber of whom were ranchers who have found themselves annually bled white to pay the cost of government in Wyoming, and -with no alternative but to submit dumbly or lose the land upon which they have worked and sweated during the best years of their life to maké a living for themselves and families. “Mr. Hay reiterated his statements made elsewhere that something war ‘wrong when, as in certain sections, 25 per cent of the taxes were delinquent Yet at a time when merely to live is a struggle, the expenses of running the business affairs of the state was in creased in leaps and bounds, or from $1,125,00 in 1911 to $3,285,000 in 1921. “In no uncertain words or nner Mr. Hay made a definite promise to his audience. “If I am elected governor of Wyo- ming, you have my word that one-half of the bureaus and commissions now existing will be discontinued or cor solidated.’ “He made it clear that economy ‘was to be the keynote of his admin istration and that the state woul/d spend according to its means as did every wise and prudent individual. “Furthermore he said emphaticaily that every man appointed to office would do the work for which he was put there and if he spent his tim: running about the state or attending to private business there would be a vacancy without any argument. “In conversation afterward Mr. Hay asserted that in this sparsely settled state containing not more than. 200,- 000 inhabitants, there was an organi- zation large enough to run the govern: ments of Great Britain and Ireland which was a condition not only pre- erous but appalling. Tf the people make me thetr chicf executive,” he continued fn this con- nection, ‘and I reduce the number of bureaus and commissions as I pro- pose to do to keep the expense of government within our income, it may be that there will be fewer than there really should be, but it is the only so thing to do, the one way to get back|- to prosperity.’ “Both Mr. Hay’s public and private utterances left the strong impression that there would be no sinecures un- der his administration, and any office seeker looking for an easy berth would far better be making arrange- ments to go back and live with his wife's father.” ‘5 ——~»—. Classified ads in. the Tribune are back to par? Or do you consider it a breaeh of the pledge because the bonds have gene above par? ‘ win you a big prize, winners and possibly the keys we give with svery 50c paid at Stee an -12-tf A Western Pioneer ducted a chain Casper entertained for the past few days a real oldtimer. One dating back to the early military and bull-whack- ing days when argument with hostile Indians was the order of the day. Thomas T. Cornforth is the name of the oldttmer. He came to Denver in 1862 and although he pioneered al} over the northwest Denver been his home throughout all the years. He was a transportation contractor with the government in the years before the butlding of the Union Pacific, de- livering supplies to the posts through Wyoming, the Dakotas, Colorado western Nebraska, Utah and New Mexico. He was on ‘terms of inti- macy with Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Jib Baker, Beckwith and others of the valiant scouts of that day. In 1867 Mr. Cornforth operated the first mercantile establishment in what line. Mr. depended when chinery of the the property in tests of all the How reliable the Homestake years. Mr. Cornforth stands, Se TT hed. is now Cheyenne and owned and con- along the Union Pacific and was pres- ent at tho driving of the golden spike! of that live and enterprising county at Promintory Point which marked| could do no better for themselves und the completion of the transcontinental | Cornforth was the one man upon whose judgment George Hearst Lead, South Dakota, Mair. ment was is pruven by the fact that gold mine in the world afier all these} all the Indian engagements from the!reins, and here is the reason for the southern to the northern borders of| change, Wyoming and of those that occurred | over the ground where Casper now nd_the country MONDAY, AUCUST 14, 1922. the Republicens gained control, the fact that he would be up for reeles tion this fall, He has attached him. self to the coat-tails of thasé who were doing ‘something im the senate, ana when the accomplishment was effect 4, claimed (in- Wyoming) all creai: for.it. He has cultivated men like LaFollette, Kenyon, Gooding and Car. away, fishing for commendation he can use out In Wyoming — with fair success as far as words go—by sup. porting at one time or another chi mercial measures which at. no time have been considered by the stnate. Kendrick has made it phiin to the southern Democratic leaders that he will gain by riding along pretty much with the Republicans, deceiving Wyo ming Republicans into believing he is sincere in his activity’ for Repub- lean measures. Realizing his votes in the senate with the Republicans can do no harm, he has obtained permis. sion from his Democratic leaders to play the game to a frazzle, His votes for the tariff are not needed; his advice or suggestion has never been sought—and {t makes not one particle of difference how he votes. A safe Republican majority responsible for the legislation,* wil! take care of the duties as finally tm posed. ‘The only legislation Senator Ken érick has in any way been connected with or was responsible for during his tenure in office is the bill that at taches a small strip of land to a Ne tional Forest reserve. ‘Turning Mondell out and putting Senator Kendrick in 1s about the last thing the thinking people of Wyomin, will do in this year, A. D. 1 Kemmerer Republican. ‘A Chinese Lie “There's no chop suey In China,” states One who has passed through Chinese gates Of the ancient Chinese wall. And we who abide on the nearer side Of even the ocean (admitted wide) Are wondering at it all, Hoe was one of the original stocksold- ers of the Miners Delight mine, in the Lander country, having obtained his interest by paying the-freight on the first machinery he hauled in for the company in 1869. He has just con- cluded a-viglt to the old mine and to the Lander. vicinity which was the scene of sone of his early operations in WYonrting. Safe, Sane and Saving “I see my old and esteemed “friend Gedrge B. McClellan of Washakie county is a candidate for the legisia- ture on the Republican ticket this year,” said Hon. Patrick Sullivan this morning. “I hope the people of that county ap- preciate a good thing when they can have it and not allow trivalities and personalities of anything else inter- fere with seeuring the services ofBear eorge.” While he may come from, Washakle county. he is an institution of the state of Wyoming and belong te the whole people. That ts the view Washakie county ought to take of the matter. “I had the pleasure of serving two terms in the Wyoming senate with George McClellan and I want to testl- fy not only to the high charavter of the man and to his ability as a leg islator, his impeachable honesty, but to his well-known services as a “watch dog of the treasury.” No appropri- ation measure ever came into commit: tee In the senate body without: recetv ng the closest scrutiny on the part of enator McClellan. If it passed the sen- sorsbip of McClellan it could be de- pended upon to be not only a -proper appropriation and necessary; but to be only in amount what good business judgment would approve. “T have talked recently with Senator McClellan and he holds the same views today that he held when we served to- gether, and frequently spoke about in those days. He has always favored the abolition of a number of the state commissions and useless boards and employments, and if he is electef he may be depended upon to fight for economy and retrenchment in state government. If Washakie county, desires faith- ful, intelligent representation at Chey: enne In the coming session the people le The romantic dreams of our yesteryear Have flown like a sparrow winged with fear 'Til] it's lost in the eastern blue, And the hope that at sometime we would eat Chinese chop suey in a Chinese street Have quickly vanished too. of stores at points for the state than to send George Mc- Clellan to Cheyenne. He is safe, sane and saving. How He Does It Looking over the Ifst of senators voting on tariff and other beneficial Hpublican measures, Senator Ken- ¥ ldrick on the “off-side” of the senate, 's still the greatest/bobs up voting high tariff on” vari ous commodities right along with the Republicans. ‘This was not the sen- ator’s policy when Woodrow held the But, oh, the cruelty of the lie Which led us to think that if we'd try We could eat what the Chinese did. How often we've emptied the doubt- ful dish ‘That made us sick—with the frequent wis! he ordered the ma- Homestake mine at and took over the face of the pro- experts of that day. jornforth's judg-| ih : That we knew the mystery hid. Perhaps ‘twas the chopped up tails of + cate . 5 Mixed with the whirring wings of bats; Perhaps ‘twas a rattler’s meat; Perhaps there was garlic in it too; If we'd only known what the Chink cook knew ~ ‘We might not have thought it swéet. —GENE MARTIN,’ was a participant in | ‘Those who have followed Kendrick closely realize that he has kept upper- most in his mind, particularly since rrounding. one very troly OO CAeset President: All along the streets. of “Where you see the BLUE Diamond Walk in asper _ NE thing you'll notice right away you bee gin to talk to the dealer who shows the Blue Diamond. ! You'll hear a note of assurance in all he says about shaving. No “ifs,” “buts,” or signs of mental reservation. He has the instrumerit to demonstrate everything he says—-the New Improved Gillette. A.razor and shaving service far in advance of anys thing you have ever known. * * * Now—a suggestion: Bring your old razor with you when you visit the Blue Diamond Store. These points of superiority about the New Improved Gillette are best appreciated by comparison. You will know then why the dealer with service ideals is glad of the opportunity to show the Blue Diamond in his window. ee tenet ee ee