Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 4, 1923, Page 25

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1923. FINANCIER- that the government has wealth of its own to supply all’ the expenses in- cident thereto. Yealth Comes from Public Endeavor. Let us take the proper view of the situation, The government has no wealth of its own, and no means of creating wealth. It is merely an ad- ministrator of public affairs and must directly or indirectly obtain from the homes of its country every dollar of money that is expended. In short, the home must produce the wealth— the wealth that provides for the main- tenance of the home, as well as the wealth that provides for the mainte- nance of your government, from the municipality and state up to the fed- eral government itself. Then the +» home people should take a serious view of life and its requirements, If at the end of the year the people of the home can calculate the year's pro- éuction and value, and after abstract- ing therefrom the expenditures for the year, if there is a balance of profit you have healthy prosperity, which provides a surplus for the fu- ture. If, on the contrary, your ex- penses, subtracted from your produc- in, leaves a deficiency,’ then you fare breeding a mortgage upon your future, which, from year to year, so succeeding becomes a burden that ul- timately you cannot bear. If this is true of the home, it is equal!y true of the aggregation of homes that form our great and broad government. The wealth of the government is but the aggregate wealth of its people. The annual earnings throughout our en- tire country are but the aggregate ef- fort of the people of all homes com- bined. Let us then take stock of the conditions of our country as a whole, just as you might of the results of any one of your homes, for the cur- rent year, and from such calculations determine whether your hope for pros- perity has a chance to materialize, whether that hope is built upon a firm foundation, or upon the shift- ing sand. Suggestion for Serious Thought. In this connection how many of us have stopped to compute the aggre- gate production of the United States, as compared with the aggregate ex- penditures? Have you stopped to gealize that the four great crops of our country—Corn, Wheat, Tobacco and Cotton, in the grand total, at the prevailing market prices would not equal the sum of money to be appro- priated for the maintenance of our federal government for the current year? Indeed, whether upon the farm, in the workshop, or in any of the activities of Ife, these many years we have been led to proclaim Corn as king in this broad land of ours. But today that king must bow in hu- millation when he realizes that his gross value for the year 1921 would not pay one-quarter of the expendi- tures for the maintenance of our fed- eral government. But let us go into a more definite calculation; if we are to bulla a foundation for prosper- ity it can only be built upon such economics of both government in the nation, states and municipalities as to leave in the homes of those who earn this wealth sufficient to provide od and shelter, and leave a marg‘n, even though small, that we may close the year in better condition than we began it. Do you comprehend, in speaking of the principal crops of our country that you corn crop is estimated to be worth $1,400,000,000; your tobacco crop {s estimated to be worth $1,200,- 000,000; your wheat and your cotton crop may be worth $600,000,000, or a total of $4,000,000,000 for the four prinicipal crops of the United States, and if the tax collector or the national government took the entire amount produced by these four crops, it would not pay the expenditures authorized by congress. Nor would it pay the total amount of state antl municipal taxes throughout your country. Policies Need Revision. Is it then plainly apparent to you that you must revise your govern- mental’ policies, as well as revise your personal policies of life, iw or- der to make your annual production equal your annual expenditures? We Noor not time to go into detail, ex- ept to express the hope in behalf of merican prosperity that the presi- Cent of the United States may call before him the numerous heads of departments, whether it be patents, bureau of mines or numerous others, and warn them that they must elim! nate the gross volume of immaterial and useless expenditures in order to put the operations of this government upon a basis possible for the people to provide. ‘The government has gone recklessly and blindly into such extravagance in maintaining an en- ormous and unnecessary payroll that {t is useless to talk about reducing salaries and reducing wages when Building Bone We uidiny fash. "Foods that ‘assist Nature, fix lime in the bonesandteeth are essential. i Scott's Emulsion of pure vitamine bearing @ cod-liver oil contains, in abundance, ele- ments that energize the body and assist in the formation of the real demand is to entirely ellmi- nate countless items for salaries, ma- terial and general supplies. Let us express tho hope that in the interest of an overburdened citizenship that some member of our great national congress may rise in his p'acé and demand that before proceeding to fix government appropriations that he first present a resolution which might properly read as’ follows: ‘Resolved, that congress shall first declare that it will not levy taxes nor make appropriations exceeding prob- able market value of the two leading! crop products of our entire country. and with such declaration they then apportion that limit as far as it will} g0 to paying the cost of indispensablo| features and then quit, stop short and ‘ay aside all of these non-essential, theoretical drewms that crysh the Dleeding tollers of our land.” If the state anc municipal govern- ment can then limit their expendl- tures to the other two great crops of the country there at least would be a ray of sunshine in the hope that the minor production of the field and dairy could be retained as a measure of home comfort and home prosperity. I do not feel that democracy of itself means all that ts good in our land. I feel that our citizenship of the class most dependable for the sup- port of good government may be found in ail political parties. We re- member the simple, democratic life and teachings of Thomas Jefferson, which have been a guiding star in our country for more than a century, and jn modern times, but yesterday we had among us one of the great- est Americans of all time, equal. in simple life, candor and defense of the people's government, in the person of Theodore Roosevelt. Vigorous in con- troversy whenever convinced of error or injustice done. And you ask why I advocate first in the hope for dawn- ing prosperity the laying of a foun- dation upon which prosperity may be strong bones and sound teeth Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N.J. 22-26 SELL CSP 6) GETTY OE | built. I ask it for the simple rea- son that I know of no way in which two dollars earned can be made to offset three dollars expended, and if that cannot be done by one indivi@ual it cannot be dono by the combined citizenship of our entire country. I do not believe in pursuit of theories not seasoned by experience and prac- tice, realizing that we have grown away from our original plan of gov- ernment. bred of economy and simple life, and wherein the national ‘pride centered in the comfort of the home. rather than in the magnificence of public structures. In the beginning it was contemplated that the central government of the United States should not be called upon to admin- ister local affars. And I am great- ly encouraged in my hope for a r turn to simple democratic life an¢ home government by the letter which our president, Mr, Harding, a few days ago, wrote to the president of the School of Public Welfare of the University of North Carolina, where- in he sald: “My attention has been called to the regional conference on local gov- ernment which you are about to hold for broad consideration of the social industrial and technical problems of local government. It is a pleasure to record my hearty endorsement of the efforts you are making and to empha- size the need which I believe exists that different climatic _conditons would breed and rear people of such different desires and necessities of If that provision of our constitution were to be respected and enforced then a tax in the aggregate that cails for $12,000,000,000 from a. total pro- duction of spendable $9,000,000,000 {4 not only recklessly extravagant, but grossly confiscatory, Divorce State and Federal Duties. T would not alone stop by reducing the government payroll and material and supply account at Washington and in the states and in the municl- palities but I would earnestly hope | that the efforts so apparent at Wash- ington to usurp all and broaden and extend federal gov- ernment Wetivity to the point of large- ly or completely displacing local ad- ministrative functions should cease. There is not a district in this broad land of ours where today you will fall to witness the activities of the United States“marshals and deputy marshals an@ federal court officers crossing purposes w:th state sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and state courts im the scramble for enforcement of laws which should be left to federal au- thority, if we are a monarchy, or to} state authorities, if we are a republic. ‘This dual system must all be main: tained by the same taxpayers, elther by direct or indirect taxation, and by) reason of the dual system you have a| maximum of public expense with a/ minimum of efficient work. Our fed- eral constitution never contemplated that state authority should be dupli- cated and put in competition with federal authority. One is sufficient.| One would do the work, an¢ one is| enough to pay for. When the peop‘e} have fixed the limit of cost of gov- ernment in the aggregate, national, state and municipal, so as to reduce} the, amount of taxation to a sum well within the yalue of annual production you will have laid the best part of the} firm foundation indispensable to the| return of prosperity, You can safely| contemplate that this is indispens- able to our future welfare and the comfort of our home. Hungry men, hungry women and hungry children can never constitute the units indis- pensable to the support of loyal and efficient government. Constitutional Government Lacking. We have s‘ept for years on the rights of our people to have consti- tutional government, constitutionally conducted, and year by year the in- creasing density ,of our population ané greater needs of our people call our attention to the best thing that we can do, First, read the const! tution of the United States. Having done so, demand its strict observance, A learned writer. on constitutional law says: “Government in the United States has. been distinguished by the care that has been exercised in com- mitting the legislative, executive, and Judicial functions to separate depart- ments, and in forbidding any en- croachment by one department on an- | local authority Casper Sunday Worning Tribune ized that, with’ the broad and exten-| tainly no independence there, since sive opportunity that those publica-| the president, head of the executivée tions have to reach the peop:e and} department, most cértainly will nomi- inspire them to good ends is such| nate those harmonizing with him in fe as to make it impractical to have| view on public questions, practically in many respects and for many rea-| surd it is to term the Judiciary an sons the same local and regulatory| independent branch of our govern- laws throughout the land. The very| ment. entirely free from the execu-! climatic conditions suggest that what| tive and legislative departments, and would suit the people of Maine, with} from such dictation or control, though| its cold, bleak winters, would not be] depending on the executive for their agreeable, or best for the people of| nomination anc upon the legislative! Louisiana, where twelve months’ sun-| department for thelr confirmation. If} shine create different human necessi-| the executive department can be) tes. Not only that, but in other res-| elected by the people, pray tell me! pects local seif-government is the} why the department can be elected! right of the people under our constl-] by the people, and if the legislative! -- THE STORY OF OKLAHOMA'S FIRST EXECUTIVE tution. Suggests Remembering Reckless Taxation, Have we ever observed how easy it seems to be for public officials, in- tent upon carrying out what they be- eve to be good policies, to forgot the firm provisions and regulations of our constitution? Yet they certain- ly Go forget on the question of reck- less taxation; and taxes are! taxes, whether they be direct or indirect; they come from the wealth created by the producer, and it serves little to gratify the producer that part of his taxation is direct and part Indirect— it all bleeds from the same wound, and yet our constitution contemplates that taxes shall not be confiscatory. that we may hope for the samo suc- | cess that was recently achieved in the demand for the election of United States senators, and this election of judges 1s to be hoped for by those who want the full letter, spirt, plan and policy of our federal constitution carried into effect. I know that there are many who will refuse to concece merit in the Hearst recom- mendations. You defend against a good thought. by remembering some other point wherein you did not con- But we are narrow, indecd, if we do not recognize the multitude of good things that the publications have successfully advocated, or cloud them in our remembrance of a minimum of things proposed with which we did not agree. Let us be generous and say that all humanity is prone to err. We have no right to expect perfection from any ‘human being, but we do owe it to every element and to every instrument tencing to pub‘ic welfare to give credit to the things well done and forget uninten- tional errors of thought or act. And why do I say that we need to put the Judiciary department of the United States government on tho in dependent basis that our Constitution declared it shoulc be? Is the Judi- ciary of the United States, our su- preme court, as the head thereof, an independent branch of our govern- ment so long as the men who com- pose the sudreme court must depend upon the executive branch of our gov- ernment for the!r nomination ad up- cur. department in both branches elected! by vote of the people, pray tel me why the Judicial department cannot be so elected. It is a mere question of detail to provide for election of su preme court judges. Under the spirit of our constitution they geographical- ly should come from different parts! of our entire country. they should come, one from each cir- cult, and wh: In practice,} Because in their conclusions upon assuring judicial opinion to be subor dinate to and necessarily in harmony } with executive opinion, The supreme | court of the United States {s indis- pensable to the welfare of our popu- lar form of government. It is equa ly as essential as either of the two co- ordinate branches, and yet how ab- public policies and public questions their juCgment is final and supreme and formulatey in large part our} policy of government. It is intended| that their judgment of public policy! should be important in the conduct | of our government. You then ask) defined, it is simply the practice and | desire of the people that constitutes public policy, and for the judges of the supreme court to be qualified to} arrive at public policy they must} know, not a part of the United) States, not a part of its people and their habits and their customs, but must know in general those condi- tions throughout the whole country. In early days it was contemplatec that in each circuit; of the United States a judge of the supreme court should sit in reviewing court each year. The demands of business have practically made this practice a thing of the past, but will you not concede ‘that the state or states forming each of the nine circuits of the United | States today could just as easily, at stated periods, e’ect its member of the supreme court of the United States if the same area can elect sen- ators, governors and the like, and if ‘the people are competent to elect pres- idents, senators or governors are they not competent to elect judges of the supreme court? Is there a circult in our entire country,that woulc not put forth the best efforts of its people to place thelr member upon the supreme court in the person of a man in whom on the legislative branch of our gov- ernment for their confirmation? Cer- they would take pride and of whose high standing and efficiency they other in exercise of the authority so delegatec, It was declared essential to civil liberty and it was written into the constitution of the new American states, where it was first precticaily applied.” This basis for our government had its purpose and was an essential pro- vision in any government of the peo- ple and by the people. But how do for an earnest and continuing pre-| We account for the fact that, after sentation of these subject to the peo-| laying such a foundation to live ple throughout the country, The] throughout the age as the foundation problems are manifold and Cifficult,| rock whereon was bu'lt the govern accentuated by the complexity of con- ditions which have ar'sen during and following the war. There has been an Inevitable tendency, because of the overwhelming important work which confronted the national government, to rely unduly upon it for perform- ance of many functions which can] were advocating the direct election of only be discharged properly by local} Unite@ States senators by popular administrative entitles.”* vote, and Ok’ahoma, with others, In other words, President Harding believes in the old-time doctrine, of state rights. Not only the right of the state to provide and concuct its own local self-government, but the necessity and duty of the state so to do. And that Mr. Harding is a Re- publican and I am a Democrat, does not for a moment suggest to me that we should be lack!ng in appreciation of his broad and what he believes to be proper views of government of the people, by the people and for the people. It was wise in our forefath- ers inqplanning the government, to so contemplate local self-government to the greatest extent that it could be administered. This broad land of ours, with its varying climate, suggests NEURALGIA... —melt and inhale the vapors Yisks Over 17 Million Jars Used Yearly And You Will Sell Them! Be sure you tell them in the big Industrial num- berofthe Tribune. Make your advertising reserva- tions now. ment of the land of Mberty, the de tails for maintaining these several departments were not in harmony with the basic declarations them- selves, Federal Judges Should be Elected. Years ago when in Oklahoma we through its legislative department ap- pealed to congress to do this, and then also we were appealing for the additional provision which we still ad- vocate, making the judicial’ depart: ment of our government equal and in- dependent, and now a short time ago we were gratified to notice in the Hearst publications the broad head- lines declaring for the principle “Let the judges of our feCeral courts be elected by the people.” I say we were * such would be proud. By so doing you would entirely eliminate what has happened in the past and what may happen in the future, when a major- ity of all the members of this court were drawn from an area less than one-tenth of the area of our entire country. We assume that they were good men, but their lack of familiar ity with all parts of the country must certainly have made it difficult for them to be satisfied with their infor- mation on public affairs with which they weer dealing in a way so im- portant to our whole country. Like- wise, with the inferior federal courts. It goes without saying the eastern Cistrict of Oklahoma could elect a district federal judge just as they } could elect members of congress, and by all means a fixed term of office, let it be whatever the details provide as to time, whether it be four years, or ten years tenure of office for any judge, supreme or subordinate. A definite term is a policy of popu- lar government, a life tenure of of- fice has no part in our form of gov- ernment. | Silence in Congress Wl Not Avail. But you are not going to secure any of thesa things—the reduction from the pinnacle of wild extrava- gance in national or local taxation, nor in judicial independence unless you find somebody to represent you in the house anc senate of the United States congress who will refuse to re- ma‘n silent until these demands have been recognized. In speaking of the courts I deny that their general pol- ley, has given just cause for extended criticism. In the history of our coun- try they constitute a branch of our what is the pubtic policy? Properly | government entitled to the pride and admiration of our peop‘e, and I have no part or sympathy with anyone who would subject the decision of this great court to recall, or attempt to Umit the wise judgment of the mem- bers of this court by threatened re- call from their official position in any way other than as now provided. I simply want to give this court the greater liberty which the constitution of our country intenced it should en- joy by having the judges thereof de- rive thelr commission from the peo- ple, instead of depending for their commission upon the other depart- ments of the government of which it is pretended they shall be independ- ent, and of which they shall be equal If our judges hvae a reasonabe num. Alfalfa, Na‘ » Wheat Gra: want. 313 MIDWEST AVE. =} AYE BAYER not getting the genuine B gratified to see this, because we real “ABS OL-U-TE-L-Y O” That would be your answer if someone told you to turn against & lifelong friend just because he became ill. 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