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PAGE SIX. Che Casvet Daily Cribune Che Casper Dailp Cribunce Issued ever n@ay at Casper, Natrona Trivune Building. evening except 5 Fya. Publication Ot A esoes--1S and 20 nnectiz.g All Departments ing). Postoffice as second class r, November 23, 1916. -weees President and Editor ARTON .. ‘Aaverttsing Representatives. Prvésen, King & Prusém age Steger ro gg or ts New Mont Heston, the Daily Chicago, Posto’ ‘wetcomne. ‘Fancisco and visiters arc SUBSCHIPTION RATES By Carrier or By Mail = 450 225 35 2 & ma the be paid in advance at MM not insure delivery after subscrip ne month fn arrears. tion becomes MBER THE ASSOCIATED PRE! 4 Preas is exclusively ¢! of all news credited in th Jed to the paper and Member of the Associated Press. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©) Get Your Tribune. and § o'clock p. m ‘A paper will be de ake it your duty to arrier misses you. Kick if Don't tween 63 Irrigetion project weet of Casper to be authorize? and completed at once. ‘ont A complete and scientific soning system for city of Casper. ve municipal and school recreation Juding swimming pools for the chil Gren of Casper. Completion of the established Scenlo Route boule vard as planned by the county commissioner to Gar ¢en Creek Falls and return. Better roads for trona county and more high ing. freight rates for shippe-e of the in region, and more frequent train serv toe for Casper Between the Two Millstones » EES to statistics the purchasing power |* of the farmer is now only two per cent above the 1921 level. That is to say what the farmer has to sell will buy only two per cent more than it would in 1921. The reason for this is plain—the prices of things the farmer must buy have not come made to work and I want to work in Houston.” Experience has demonstrated that there are a settle in Houston as quickly as they can. I vst | Neighborhood News. lot of disloyal citizens in the United States who go abroad to do their buying, if given an opportunity. The only practical method of discouraging that sort of trade is by imposing a tax on buying | abroad, i this ix known as a protective tariff. That protective tariff keeps the dollars working in America—passing from hand to hand, paring for | | goods and for services, and adding to the prosper ity of the nation. | The whole United States should express its grat le to the Houston Post for its impressive exhib: n of the home building effects of buying at home instead of pursuing the Democratic policy of buy ‘ing where you can buy the cheapest. We hope the ost will nm in the effort to have the American lollar spent for ocean transportation in American ships instead of for transportation in foreign ships which carry the dollar abroad to build up the in jdustries of other countrie: ————o | November Gives the Answer j NOVEMBE! t contributed its answer to the chant | ~" of the Democratic party and newspapers prior {to the passage of the Fordney tariff law that the law would paralize export trade. Free trade papers and a number of Democratic congressmen who were loading the Congressicaal Record for free cam. paign distribution, worked themselves int hysteria in condemning the tariff law and assur- mg the country that if it passed nothing could) me into the country, and as a consequence noth- jing could get out, for the nations of the world stop buying. October showed an export trade of $371,000,000, | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1922 been disbursed by the federal govern-| makes us believe that we can raise ment from Washington's time down/and equip men between the setting through Wilson's first sdministra and the rising of the sun? That tion. The resultant loss of life, as cribable by exerts to the same cause, | "ould have been jolted out of us = | the last great war. We could not, if n everlasting shame. we wanted, become jingoes, for wr Even this lesson the burden of bt chat we and our children must|had neither the ships nor the men for the modern wartare, although wo —By Fontaine Fox y do not arouse us. We have scen the [ttle army men whittling the | did get the money, wasted by the bil- army down beyond the frreducibie | lions because of ‘ack of knowledre of minimum set by men who have ma: 8 proper spending. a life study of our country’s actu’ “Every hobby-rider, every citizen needs. an@ we have afterwards heard! who wishes more federal expendi- them brag about it. tures for fussy bureaus to do work “No matter how many times the|that never should be entrusted to horse is stolen, Uncle Sam sieadily|state or nation, will poin the paci- refuses to lock the stable. fist chorus in fighting the recommen- Our mobile force now is less. than| dations Secretary of War Weeks one soldier for every 2,000 perp’e. Yet | urged in his annua! report, and Gen- there are pacifists who talk of mill-|eral Pershing emphasized th such a tarisyp! This is only one-fifth the re'-| masterly manner in his St. Louis ative military strength wh'ch set Mr. | speech. Bryan and his shallow followers into SS @ crusade azali militarism in 1509. “Our slinshod methods have cost | The foundation stone for the first Post | Moslem mosque to be built in France ely mor <1 yell as b ee Dreparedness. | has just been laid in Paris with elab- : egotism that rate and impressive ceremony. “Im St our national Retains its fresh flavor in this moisture-proof, container. the greatest since March, 1921, when past-war buy-| ing was still going on. “But October included! n week of September, the bill becoming a Democrats who sought to belittle the fact. The pro- | tection’sts let it go at that. The November figures |however, give the opponents of protection some- thing to think about, for during thit ~sonth our {exports reached the comfortable total of $383,000, 000 That was at the rate of $12,800,000 daily, and jsince the figures wero announced we haven't heard a peep out of the free traders. The Democratic tariff law which went out of existence September 22 was enacted in October, j1913. During ‘that month we exported $272,000,000 worth of products, and the following month they jdropped to $245,000,000. But exports under pro tection restored showed a considerable increase over the last month under the Democratic policy. For example, the last full month under that policy August, we exported nearly $302,000,000 worth or 1,410,006 less than the first full month under the Republican laws. The reason is not hard to find. Our exporters know where they stand under the present law. They know the foreign competitor will not have the op- portunities under protection to appropriate the do- down from war prices in proportion to the decline | Mestic market while our exporters are building up in prices of what the farmer sells. It was the re- cent boast of Mr. Gompers that the wages paid to union labor had declined less than five per cent from war-time peaks. The farmer is getting many markets abroad. They know that a watchdog is on guard at every port of entry while Uncle Sam is clearing his export fields abroad. They know they can go ahead with commercial expansion and that times five per cent less for his labor thanche get| their share of the domestic market will be such during the war. Labor party can work out some plan to equalize the incomes of farmers and city laborers, the agri cultural community ought to be duly thankful. CaS 0. rat es New Tricks and Weapons If the leaders of the new Farm-|#% tO permit them to operate their factories and farms at capacity which means lower unit cast and a larger number of hands employed. In the near future we shall no doubt see what, to Democratic minds, would appear to be a paradox, namely lower prices under protection, for the im- porters, who have monopolized the market under the Democratic law, and soaked the buying public [ANYONE who believes that all the tricks of hold-|for all it would stand, will find themselves forced up men have been tried should change his ideas. There is always the remote possibility of almost to compete with the American manufacturer. The present tariff law is bravely facing down anything being tried. Robberies of such well-guard-| the atrocious libels uttered against it in the recent ed places as big banks and government mints are conclusive proof that there can be no relaxing in campaign, and it is vindicating the party which placed it on the statute books. keeping every money depositary as carefully guard-| By the ttime the next campaign has rolled around ed_as possible. j the people will have realized its virtues. Modern inventions and speedier methods of travel have complicated the problem. The automo bile offers a quick way of making a get-away after a crime has been committed. The men who held up the mint made an immediate escape by jumping into an automobile. Many bank robberies have been committed in the same way. Before the author- ities or guards have time to cope with the situation | effectively the robbers can be many miles away. The lesson to be drawn from such a case, is that every modern improvement must be used in coping With such possible crimes. Would it not be a good idea to use mounted guards who could take up im- anediate pursuit? If the robbers are going to take advantage of modern developments, these new aveapons must be turned aganst them as well. The mint employes certainly showed unusual valor in sioing what they did to try to frustrate the rob- be The Traveling Dolla: [HE HOUSTON Post has been conducting u ~~ “spend it at home” campaign which should be juitiated in our national busimess policies. Recent- dy the editor of the Post haying received a dollar bill as part of his weekly salary, attached a piece ef blank paper to the bill, wrote his name on the Diank and then spent the dollar at a local depart- gnent store for some handkerchiefs. He asked that the recipient of the bill write his name on the blank sheet of paper and spend the money in Hou- ston so that it would be used to build up Hou- ston trade, and also requested that each person who received the bill write his name on the sheet at- tached thereto. In two days that dollar bill had passed throngh the hands of twenty-four merchants an Houston. Nouunhatly, the editor of the Post is a Democrat, but at neart he is manifestly a good Republican. The Dem atic theory is to “buy where you can » buy the cheapest.” The Republican principle is to} buy at hoy Abraham Lincoln illustrated the Re- publican principle many years ago when, in dis- cussing the tariff question he said that if we buy some foreign goods, the foreigner has the money »and we have the goods, but if we buy goods made Tat home, we have both the goods and the money. “fhe editor of the Houston Post has been giving his =home people a practical demonstration of the work- Sing of the Republican principle. Starting his story of the travels of the dollar “hill, the editor declares that “if every dollar earn- ed in Houston were spent in Houston this would be the most prosperous city in the country. Money would be instantly available for every civic need and every request would be immediately satisfied.” Of course the editor knows, as everyone else does, ‘that Houston does not produce all its needs, and for climatic reasons, can not do so. But, so far as practicable, observance of the doctrine laid down Syould produce the results he describes. The same fhing may be said of the nation. If every dollar © ed in America were spent in America, this : Iways continue to be, as it is today, the ihost prosperous country in the world. After the Houston dollar bill had passed through the hands of 24 people, it returned to the editor Presumably in part payment of a subscription and this is what the bill said to the editor: “I hope that I won't fall into the hands of some disloya sitizen who will send me a y from Houston for 2 like it hers aud I want wany of my brothers to licit Tax Them Equally NE SIXTH of the income of the United States is taken away from the people in taxes. Instead of recommending new taxation to make up the def- which government revenues face, Secretary Mellon advocates the lowering of surtax rates on ‘large incomes from the present fifty per cent to twenty-five per cent, contending this action would result in capital being drawn from its hiding places and put to productive work, thus creating new tax sources naturally, Great wealth, Mr. Mellon pointed out, now sinks itself in tax-exempt securities and other tax free investment fields and yields the government noth- ing: If this money is released, he pointed out, it will multiply tax sources, “The surtaxes are gradually defeating their own purpose,” his report said. igh rates are becom- ing ineffective because of the steady disappearance of taxable incomes they are intended to reach.” In ‘he face of such conditions our laws still stand without change permitting the continued issuance of tax-exempt securities by cities, states and na- tion. It is estimated that $2,000,000,000 of new se- curities of this character will be issued in 1922 bringing the total of such bonds up around the $30,- 400,000,000 mark—the income from which escapes taxation. False Pretenses pe DESTRUCTIVE type of extreme radicals arrogate to themselves the right to appropriate the name “Progressive.” That group by that preda- tory act provokes the ire of the real constructively progressive element. Only sanity in legislation can cemmand approval and support. Real “Progressives” are as strongsly opposed to | Tadicalism on the one hand as they are to the dry rot of reactionism on the other. Theirs is that sane common ground on which the great mass of Amer- icans have always shown inclination to stand un- der valiant leadership. The term “Progressive” has a definite signifi- cance and meaning expressive of that type of Amer- icanism which reverses organic law. They insist that American law is fundamentally intended to serve the people and that respect for law depends on the sincerity and the integrity of that service. Prograssivism means that the pro- cesses and methods of government, when and where they fail to serve men and women, must be changed and made to function for human welfare and hap- piness. That is where it parts woe eee alike from blind and unintelligent reaction and the dragnet of | untried experiments. | _ When radicals meet and appropriate the designa- | tion “Progressive” the group is attaching to itself |a label to which it is not entitled and is bidding |for popular support under false pretenses. | Our Own First PEL aR is no evidence that Clemenceau’s pleas in the United States brought any change in the public attitude toward Europe. He did the best he could and we should have nothing but admiration jor his intense French patriotism, but a natural Gesire to grant his request must not dim our con cern for America. on the 22nd of that month,” explained the! lback in the east,” | Sones RECEIVED A VERY IMPORTANT LONG— DISTANCE WAS AT ITS H | HAPPENED To BE Guinevere’s Discovery. | The lamp is lighted; Guinevere Has taken out her book. And you and I are watching her With furtive, grown-up look. She seems to sail to foreign lands Across a magic sea, Although she sits so very still, Entranced by Malory. Before her dark blue, dreamy eyes, Rise visions, strange and fair, Of Arthur and of Galahad And all the courtiers there. Then suddenly she breaks the spell And cries in childish gles. “Why, mother, look! King Arthur's queen Was named right after me!” Violet Alteyn Storey. ———— Slaves to the Clock. “he only intell'gent pecple in. the world to whom time means nothing | are the Orientals,” said the mucli traveled man, as he leaned back in his chair, “and every time I hear an| alarm clock go off I wish I were! A bit Bitterly he| added: “Probably that is the only time I ever do wish it, at that.” “The busy, antlike white races are! slaves to clocks and to time,” he| went on. For instance, the poor must | rise at the appointed hour to go to dally tofl and the man of wealth must} be about at a certain hour in o,der to get to your offices, some hotel or some | other man’s office ‘n season for some | stupid appointmenr. You don't seem able to wait until your chance to meet | this man in your club or in the ba- zar or on the street. No; you must rush madly to a fixed appointment. “East of Suez no one would think of trying to consummate a Gea! of any importance in less than a week at| least if the game on either side were to be at all legitimate. In a hurried transaction in the Orient there is bound to be an enormous profit on one side or the other. “You forget about clocks in the Orient, but I really believe that thi two happiest sets of people in t world are those who do not even take time Into’ considerable in their daily lives—children and savages. “Your true savage—child of nature —knows nothing about a clock. Ho rises when it grows light and the natural daylight noises of the earth— the antmals, insects and changes in winds and temperature—interfere with his sleep. He goes to bed whes! the supper fire has died out, when! darkness has blocked his activities, chill has made the couch coverings appeal to him, “This man eats at no Dlare of a dinner horn or clanging of a ship steward’s gong. He eats when he is hungry—if there be food and starves| when there is none. The African] negro would have uttered the plaint of the Southern darky as the noon whistle blew—“Dinnertime for some| folks, but just 12 o'clock for me.’ He} would have gone home when he felt! hungry, kicked his wife in the ribs, blown on his fire and @ined along about 4 in the afternoon or 0 in the moring on whatever the gods pro-| vided i “Next to these savages, I think chil-! dren are really the happiest in this| disregard for time. A friend of mine! has an alarm clock in his young son's | CALL WHEN “THE CHILOREN'S PARTY EIGHT BUT LUCKILY “THE PHONE LocATeD RIGHT NEAR A Window. should be aroused gently—at least for{even a foundation of preparedness the first four or five times. He should Notwithstanding the belated prea be allowed to eat his buckwheat cakes ment of President Wilson, after he and syrup in his pajamas and then had critic'sed ‘timorous people’ in his dress at his le sure in the corner of , message of December, 1914, no actual the living room by the radiator or preparation was made. the baseburner, as the case may be. ‘we expended Curing the brief perio! “As far as the wrist watch is con-/of that war more money than had cerned, that is a constant call to h'm to come home. With that on—guar- anteed to keep correct time—he loses the fond excuse about the town clo: that has notoriously stopped and the one in the barbershop that is half an hour slow. He has to come home to supper just when the moon is I ght ing up the slide on the hill and the fire at the foot is crackling its bright est and the roast potatoes are just bursting their skins. “It's a shame—time ts. Nowadays you can't even dodge it on the sea because they send it to you by wire- less.” | The much traveled man glanced) hastily at his watch and = skurried away to heep an appointment. fons Dhabi Your Financial Center Pershing’s Argument “No more persuasive argument for greater attention to the training of Americans in military matters, with incidental gains of incalculable value | to the individuals trained and the} general body of citizenship, has been | made than that by General Persh- ing,” says the St. Louis Times. “Wat weight it will have, however fs another matter. General Pershing Pictured our habitual indifference tn peace time, It has been eo always. Behind business stand the banks—counseling— cautioning— supplying credits that make business possible. Throughout this region the Banks of Omaha extend their constructive influ- ence-building for a greater western ex- pi Omaha is eighteenth banking city in America. Washington had untrained. unfittec | | pcheriReserre and Federal Pores loam men in the Revolution. His letters Banks, nine building and loan associ- ations. Eat Us Tell You Mors. Write Chamber of Commerce, Omaha Ask for Booklet “Omaha—Financial Center” about them, !n appeals to the Contin ental congress, show how badly han-| dicapped he was. Nothing but Provi dence enabled the colonists to win| their independence. “Never has a ‘ar found us with “Ask for Horlick’s The ORIGIN Remington Has added still another feature Quietness E. J. GROW, ‘Resident Salesman 147 West J—Phone 2031-J TONSILS Are organs as well as your stomach or lungs. No or- gan, once it is removed, can ever be replaced. Quinsy and Tonsilitis Respond to Spinal Adjustments. ROBERT N. GROVE CHIROPRACTOR (Palmer School Graduate) Over White’s Grocery Phone 2220 Building Materials room. He is going to give him a ra- dlum wrist watch for Christmas. I) think it is not only an outrage dut a} tragedy. No boy should be awakened by the strident call of an alarm. He} The Hopewell Hos: Lillian L. Nelson, Si Thermopolis, Wyo. A general hospital, situated in the Hot Springn district of Ther- mopolis, to which visiting physl- clans.are welcome. Rates moderate; only graduate nurses; for further information ad- dress the Superintendent. pital it Weare equipped with the stock to supply your wants in high grade lumber and build- ers’ supplies. Rig timbers a specialty. KEITH LUMBER CO. As a result, | Coffee Making” Revolutionized remained for the roasters of Nash’s Delicious Coffee to select, blend and roast coffee to give a cniformly delicious flavor and wonderful Aroma, whether you use hard or soft water. —" "Being alr- Aes Bes tk tha toe Oaks in pacetseally roowa Retains that “hot roasted” freshness. Sold in one and three containers, Your Grocer Carries It ELICIOUS 9 THE NICOLAYSEN LUMBER CO. Everything in Building Material RIG TIMBERS A SPEG&ALTY FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS Office and Yard—First and Center Phone 62 and Electricity Public utilities must pay higher interest rates on their bonds because of competition with tax-exempt bonds. Consumers pay this extra cost in gas rates, in street car rates, in electric light and power rates, in telephone and water rates, so that it comes right back to the fact that ecenomical- ly you have transferred the burden from. the man of large means thinking that you are get- ting cheap money for public expenditures, but the fellow who pays for that is the man who goes back and forth twice a day to the fac- tory to work and rides on the street car. He pays 7 cents instead of 6, or he pays $1.25 for his gas instead of $1.23. It all comes out in the washing and it is paid for by the public and is reflected eventually, it must be, in util- ity rates and in increased taxes on the ma- jority of people who must make the amounts lost to the government through failure to re- ceive any taxes from the income received by the wealthy holder of “tax-exempt” bonds. a Ss

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