Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1922, Page 9

PRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1922. t 4 4 Phones 945 ands2 REPUBLICAN C ENTRAL COMMITTEE | Oil Exchange Bldg. ST ee LE Ee a ee a Your own financial condition at the close of the W:lson administration with: 6,000,000 idle men; wool at 15 cents per pound, and no demand; lambs at $3. 00; cattle at $20.00 a head; factories closed; live stock growers and farmers bankrupt; annual expenditures around thirteen billion a year; tax burden unbearable; dangerous foreign entanglements with the liability of being drawn again into Europe’s wars, and general and utter demoralization and stagnation of busi- ness under Democratic misrule and criminal waste of the taxpayers’ money. YOU KNOW: The~- Republican administration in some eighteen months: Has reduced our expenditures from thirteen billions te three and a half billions: Has protected our American laborers, stock growers, farmers and industries against the product of pauperized labor of war-ridden Europe; Has reduced our army of idle men from 6,000,000 un- til today there is a shortage of labor; Has created a market for American goods which has put into full operation our factories and industries and made prosperous stock growers and farmers; Has lifted the income tax bie to the extent of al- most a billion dollars; Has refused to allow America to be trates into Wil- son’s “League of Nations”; Has made it possible for your loved cnes to be here with you today instead of in Europe fighting the Turks; Has brought order out of chaos and again placed our government affairs on a sound business basis. How you were “kidded” in your seeming security in 1916 by “He kept us out of war’ and voted for Wilson. YOU KNOW: That j ust 32 days after Wilson was inaugurated he de- clared war. ; YOU: KNOW: That Wilson admitted in:a speech in Philadelphia that ne knew before the 1916 campaign that war was inevita- ble. YOU KNOW: That during Gerard’s four years in Germany, as am- bassador under the Wilson administration, developments showed conclusively that Wilson knew even:at that early date that war was inevitable. YOU KNOW: Wilson kept this information from the American pub- lic until after he was elected the second time. PLEASE REMEMBER: Your ever increasing tax burden for national defense. at the close of the Wilson administration. PLEASE REMEMBER: The critical international relations of ths leading na- tions and liability for further wars at the close of the Wil- son administration. YOU KNOW: The Republican administration immediately called conference of the leading nations and proposed a limita- tion of navies which resulted in an enormous decrease in taxes and brought nearer the day of universal peace. be Casper Daily Cribune saat - Please Remember | PLEASE REMEMBER ~Under the Democratic administration: The Ordnance Department spent $3,991,000,000 and obtained 72 cannon. The sum of $116,194,000 was spent en nitrate plants which produced no nitrates. The sum of $20,000,000 was spent on coke-ovens which produced no coke. The suth of $35,000,000 was spent on picric acid plants which produced no acid. The sum of $116,000,000 was spent for poison gas and no poison gas was obtained, The sum of $127,661,000 was spent for terminals and docks at which no ship was ever tied up. The sum of $1,051,511,000 was spent for airplanes ee no fighting machines were ever delivered in France. The sum of $200,000,000 was spent on powder plants which produced no powder. YOU KNOW: None of this vast expenditure helped win the war be- cause it produced nothing that was used during the war. Nevertheless, the billions thus expended were added to the tax bill of the American peel. You are paying for it now! It was not necessary, in order to win the war, to con- tract for 41,000,000 pairs of shoes for 3,500,000 men. It was not necessary, in order to win the war, to buy 1,637,000 horse brushes, or over four for each four-footed animal owned by the a It was not necessary, it? order to win the war, to buy 945,000 saddles for only 86,000 cavalry horses. ft was-not necessary, in order to win the*war, to buy 2,850,853 halters, or more than seven for each four-footed animal owned by the government. It was not necessary, in order to win the war, to pur- chase 2,033,204 nose-bags, or mere than five for each four- footed animal owned by the government. It was not necessary, in order to win the war, to pur- chase 1,148,364 horse covers, or three for each four-footed animal owned by the government. It was not necessary, in “order to win the war, to buy 712,510 complete sets of spur-straps, or 36 sets apiece for each officer entitled to use them. It was not necessary, in order to win the war, to buy 149,456,611 bread-cans for 3,500,000 men. It was not necessary, in order to win the war, to pur- chase $21,000,000 worth pf ambulance harness when our ambulance service was all motorized. YOU KNOW: J | This waste of hundreds of millions of dollars is includ- ed in the debt which the Democratic party left as a legacy to the Republican administration and to the taxpayers of this generation. You are paying for it now! PLEASE REMEMBER: That you have had all you want of Democratic misrule, Democratic stagnation of business, Democratic incompe- tence, Democratic criminal waste of your money and Democratic foreign entanglements. YOU KNOW: You want a solid-business administration of govern- ment affairs. You want employment at good wages. You want your tax burden reduced. You want prosperity for your community and yourself. You want your loved ones at home—not fighting battles for foreign nations. The Republican party stands for PROGRESS, PROS- PERITY and SAFETY; the things vital to your success and happiness. VOTE THE STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN TICKET PAGE NINE.