Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 14, 1923, Page 6

gi ee PAGE SIX Che Casper Daily Cribune MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is exclusive'y entitled to the news credited in this p-per news published herein. ocal and also the The Casper Dally Tribune issued every evening and Whe Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Casper, Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Building, oppo- site postoffice. Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916, Business Telephones _ Branch Tolepho! Connecting All Exchange Departments. EEE By J. BE. HANWAY Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 0-23 Steger Bids., Vom cago, DL, 286 Fifth Ave., New ; Globe Bi s. Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 56 New ome fomery St., San Franct s of the Daily Tribune are on file in the } Chicago, Boston and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State One Year, Daily and Sunday - One Year, Sunday Only _ Six Months, Daily and Sunday -. ‘Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Daily and Sunday -. yd Per Copy ---.--.-. : Z ty Mail Inside State $13 One Year, Dally and Sunda : One Year, Sunday Only -.— Six Month, Daily ané Sunday Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Daily and Sunday --—— All subscriptions must be pal ° Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subscri > tion becomes one month in arrears. Legal Tender and Constitution A writer in one ,of the mpd rhe scussing the supreme cow ys: Perera’ the Sagal Sender decision the court held that the currency authorized by congress, while good enough for the soldiers fighting the ag try's battles, was not good enough for the bank- ers, who were financing those battles at con- siderable profit to themselves.’ irst so-called “legal tender” decision Ae Noveniber 29, 1869. A majority court decided that the act of congress core the civil war period greenbacks legal tender for all private debts, was unconstitu- tional on the ground, first, that it impaired the obligation of contract, second, that it took pri- vate property without due process of law. In 1870 the case was reargued, and the issue of legal tender war-time greenbacks was held vonstitutional. A majority of the court said the greenbacks were issued and made legal ten- der “in the proper exercise of the power to bor- row money and maintain the army and navy in time of war.” The court said that congress can borrow money by issuing notes, and the right to make them lege) teaige is not prohibited federal constitution. Oy te supreme court did not say or intimate that “the currency authorized by congress, while good enough for the soldier fighting the country’s battles, was not good enough for the kers.” berms was the favorite pice of “soft money” men during the greenback days. When the civil war broke out, the federal government was compelled to borrow’ money. It borrowed in two ways, by issuing notes and by issuing bonds. It was difficult to sell the bonds, and the government was compelled to use paper money to keep going. | Greenbacks were paid to both soldier and banker in daily transactions; it was equally good to both classes, and both classes accepted it. meaeiomnle; and financial RUSE BART cd ctl; eaking, the supreme court was tech- Srihy eneeece * its first decision of 1869. The Teasoning of the court was sound. But to de- clare the issue of legal tender greenbacks un- constitutional and illegal would have utterly destroyed the only currency the country had at that time (except national bank notes,) made it worthless and precipitated business panic. It would hove amounted to government repudia- tion of millions of dollars in government notes issued in time of stress, due to Civil war. The second decision (1870) saved the nation from repudiation and its greenbacks or govern- ment notes from annihilation. This decision may not have been justified as a matter of strict constitutional law, nevertheless it was justified as a matter of national justice, equity and safety. Few decisions of the United States supreme court have caused more discussion and dispute than these so-called legal tender cases. The best that can be said of them now is that they were the products of a national emergency. It is still a disputed point among constitu- tional lawyers whether or not the federal goy- ernment has a right to issue government notes to circulate as money, except in time of war. A portion of the old greenbacks are retained in circulation, largely as a matter of sentiment connected with the civil war. In 1879 specie payments were resumed, and the greenback ex- changed for gold, dollar for dollar, whereas from 1865 to 1878 they were at a discount as compared with gold. From the close of the civil war to 1879 it was the one great purpose of the sound money party to restore all paper money to a par with gold. Its program was fought bitterly by the soft monéy party or greenback party that insisted paper money with the stamp of the government wag all the money the country needed—“good enough for the soldier and good enough for the} banker.” Yet the bankers and other sound money men alone made the greenbacks and all paper money as good as gold. After 1879 a five-dollar paper note or greenback of the poor man bought just as much as the five-dollar gold piece of the rich man. This would not have been possible had the United States supreme court in 1870 decided that the issue of legal tender green- backs would have been worth nothing. | There is no constitutional right of the fed-| eral government to issue paper notes as’ cur- rency. The government can borrow on its own credit, but.has no authority to “emit bills of credit” except in time of war as a great emer- gency. The phrase “emit bills of credit” was purposely left out of the constitution by its framers. Colonial and continental experience warned the framers of the constitution irredeemable paper money. The “legal tender” de of the civil war. against ions were products The best constitutional au thorities do not defend the decision of 1870 Must Suffer ee: Sins There seems to be no end to the endeavors|tom of teaching ones grandmother to suck eggs. | of European diplomats to entice foreign entanglements.” While Lloyd George, of Great Britain, d America into ex Premier yows com- ing here in any official capacity, it is apparent |that he came as an emissary of Europe, with |the very definite purpose of interesting Ameri- cans in some or all of the various proposals hay- ing to do with leagues of nations, world courts, reparations settlements and what not. From the view point of Europe, these offer her the only evident hope of salvation from her present desperate plight, and she has focussed thought jon America, as the agent for bringing them into realization. Mr. Lloyd George's whining appeal, “Don’t be too hard on Europe” is puerile and might be likened to counsel pleading for j@ criminal, who deserves just punishment. Why is this appeal made to America? Is America the forgiver of Europe’s sins? What is it that has brought Enrope to her present awful plight? What are Enurope’s sins? History records them. They include |& complete infraction of the entire Mosaic Dec- and for the indictment go back to St. Paul for the words of it: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasct- viousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, jemulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies jenvyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and jsuch like, and they which do such things shall not inherit the kindgom. Europe can neither jescape the penalty nor shift it to other shoul- ders. Europe. Whatever America might do for 5 would be useless—a waste of thought, time, and substance. We cannot enter into Europe's so- cial and political problems, or we will neces- sarily become partakers of her sins, and recip- ients of her plagues. She does not desire our American system and idealism, neither can she jcomprehend them. Her purpose is to drag us back to her plane of thinking and living, from which we have’ emerged. ‘We Americans are determined that our tra- ditional policy of separateness, which was es- tablished by the noble Washington and forti- fied and made perpetual by the far-seeing Mon- jroe shall be maintained. “We cannot take part in Europe’s problems and imbroglios. We came out of Europe to gét away from it all and it is therefore incongruous to expect us to go back and participate in that from which we have escaped. It is the acme of European sophistry for Mr. Lloyd George to say that in our parti- cipation in European affairs “Europe will be \the better for it and America will be the bet- ter for it’ Believe In All Amendments Substantially the same argument is offered by all those who believe in the eighteenth am- endment. They hold that intemperance is a moral and economic evil. They believe that, whatever the early difficulties of enforcement jthe law will prove itself a success. They hold |that, under prohibition, we will increase pro- duction and save money. At times it is said |jthat the percentage of factory accidents has |been lessened. Others say that hand in hand |go the increased deposits in the savings banks, and the decline in the number of sanitoriums for alcoholic patients. The real estate owner who does not want to see any saloons on his |property is a familiar sight. On one point they must all agree—they believe that many weak brethren are incapable of self control and that the law should guard them from the in dulgence of a dangerous appetite. |. Presumably every prohibitionist who voted |for Neal Dow and the old Maine law reasoned on these lines, So did the Mississippians who so quickls ratified the Eighteenth amendment and the Alabama voters who cheered Richmond P. Hobson. The average citizen who regards prohibition as beneficial to us does not think of it as a party question, nor is it; it is part of our Con- stitution. But the Republican who urges the enforcement of the Eighteenth -amendment be- longs to a party which sought to enforce the amendments of the Civil war period. The Democrat who upholds the Eighteenth amend- ment belongs to a party which wins seats in Congress and votes in the electoral college by violating the Fifteenth. In Georgia and Flor- ida, as well as in several other states, the Thir- teenth amendment has been practically defied. On the floor of congress the suppression of Republican votes had been admitted or men- tioned in terms of boasting. Since the dry and wet split the New York World and the Phila- delphia Record have denounced southern meth- jods as the Republicans of thirty years ago did A southern Democrat who delivers a speech for |prohibition is embarrassed when asked whether he is for the Constitution, or especially for one nineteenth of it. His speech may be a good one. He may be eloquent, well informed and |logical, that is, so long as he sticks to prohibi- |tion; but how can he meet the constitutional test? There is warrant for keeping men from the saloon, but none for keeping them from the polls, The next speech of high grade on the postal lservice, or the coast survey, or on nation-wide hygiene, or on the postal savings banks may be made by a Republican or a Democrat. Ifa jcongressman can tell us something new about }the Panama canal, or the Philippines the public ‘does not care particularly to what party he belongs. But of all the Democrats who have declared the Eighteenth amendment a blessing not one has declared that the Fifteenth is more than a scrap of paper. ‘The Greatest Book There is perhaps no book whose style is more suggestive and more instructive, from which you learn more directly that sublime simplicity which never exaggerates, which re- counts the greatest event with solemnity, of course, but without sentimentality or affectation none of which you open with such confidence jand lay down with such reverence; there is no |book like the Bible. When you get into a con- troversy and want exactly the right answer, j When you are looking for an expression, what jis there that closes a dispute like a verse from |the Bible? What is it that sets up the right ple for you, which pleads for a policy. for so much as the right passage of Holy ?—Charles A. Dana. a ¢ | To The Sob Sisters the early seventies of the last century who. con- jtended that Prussia ought to be lenient with | France, in respect to reparations. We do, how- jever, remember that France did not plead pov- jer y or by other means seek to escape payment jot the penalty of defeat in war. | Teaching Mr. Coolidge a little politics is like nothing quite so much as like the ancient cus- |There are now and there were in the ancient day, solicitous gentlemen ready and willing to embark upon either enterprise, 7 ee. alogue, beginning with the First Commandment. | |. We cannot recall that there were any in fhe Casper Daily Cribune ‘Robbing An Unfortu- nate KAYCEE—J. R. Fish who drives one of the J-Bar-V dairy trucks to Salt Creek had the misfortune to slide off one of the fills with’ his the eighteen foot drop. He jumped in time to save himself from Injury. A number of containers were broken and cans crushed, but worst of all was, while Mr. Fish went for help, passersby took about one hun- dred pounds of butter, all the mili and cream that was available, and were sarting to take off the batteries and strip the car when Mr. Fish ap- peared and put a stop to the pro- ceedings. Fire In Falsework JACKSON.—The forms, which were tn shape for the last pouring of cemegt on the last of the two abutments for the new Flat Creek bridge, caught fire from oil stoves kept burning to prevent the first pouring of cement from freezing. The fire was discovered, however, before much damage was done. Forms were repaired and the cement was poured next day. More men and teams were trans- ferred from the government camp south of town to this brid site the first of the week. They were put to cutting a new channel and filling in the old one at this point as was the case at the site of the bridge put in lower down the stream, Awarded Damages BUFFALO.—In the district court with Judge Isley presiding an In- teresting case was presented by At- torney Griggs representing Ben Wil- son who charged that he‘ had been beaten and bruised by Roy B. Hall. Wilson had been employed by Hall to look after sheep and about a year ago the two men had an altercation which led up to a fistte bout in which it was claimed by Wilson he was severely bruised up and sought the courts for redress, ‘Wilson was awarded damages by the court to the extent of $170 for damages and $700 for money loaned. ————_—_ The New Buses BUFFALO.—One of the new busses recently put into operation in place of the street cars in Sheri- dan was driven to Buffalo during the past week. The bus carries the name of Sheridan-Buffalo Trans portation company on the side and it is intended when the work on the highway between the surfaced road to Buffalo 1s completed that there will be a regular schedule on which these new busses will operate. R. C. Tarrant is the promoter of the new buss line which is now operating in heridan and now covers the southeastern part of the city, Sunaberiae > usin eae Completing Pipe Line GUERNSEY—Work on the Sin- clair pipe line from Teapot to Kansas City has been pushed as rapidly as possible under the management of two contractors, the one to unload and distribute the cesing along the line and the other to place the piping under ground. The latter work is completed within the North Platte Valley, with the exception .of a stretch between Vaughan station in Goshen county, and Mitchell, Ni | | | | machine wrecking tt quite badly in| It Happened In Wyoming Matters and Things, of State-Wide Interest, Wired in, Telephoned in, Written, Grape-Vined and Some of It Purloined. braska. the work of laying the remainder of the pipe will require about thirty) days as the machine 1s moving east- ward at the rate of four thousand! feet each day. H It has been estimated that’ Work Resumed ' |_ GLENROCK—tThe piling for the |north Glenrock bridge arrived over the Burlington road and Contractor Cannon, of Douglas came to complete the job of replacing the parts of the | bridge that were so weakened by the recent flood as to render the struc- ture unsafe for travel. i | The piling came from the Burting- |ton’s yards at Sheridan and were in transit nearly a week longer than expected. Piling for the restoration of the Clayton bridge has been cut and is! |lying in the hills, awaiting more fav-| rable road conditions for hauling! jthem out. Many loads of material! jof the washed out bridge have been |recovered in good condition and will be used in the new bridge, consider- | ably lowering the cost of rep'ace- ment. —— Gassed In Tunnel EVANSTON — Engineer Victor Ewart and Fireman Gars{ were over- |come by gas when their locomotive stalled in Aspen tunnel, eighteen miles east of Evanston, but have re-/ covered and are able to be on duty again. They were unconscious when they | were brought to Evanston, but were} soon revived by medical treatment.| The men were in charge of engine! 5067 on a awestbound freight. The safety appliances at the tun nel, employed to avert such acci- dents, are reported to have been in good working condition. Several such accidents have occurred there the past year. tania EE SS Let PENNY ANTE . By E. D. F. | (Copyright, 1923, by The Press Feat-; ures Service.) Watching the Wires Along in the shank of the evening, | when the twilight shadows lie, I love to gaze at the telephone wires and watch the words go by. Words that! te'l of business, detaining men down | town, and tender messages of love, intended to clear a frown; words that are sharp and angry, words that are soft and low, over the net- work of wires up thers steadily come and go. Whispers of traffic illicit, | secrets that bloom in the night; | agreements that seem to be worded | in code, shrouded in caution and) fright. The frank, open words of| the honest pass by without thought of me, but the words that are whis-| pered in secret glance over their shoulders and flee. The wires hum soft in the twilight with the hurry-| ing footsteps of words hastening | hither a1.d thither, faster than fleet- est of birds. False?.oo@ and truth; pass together, traveling side by Side, and two by two come joy and grief, humility and pride. ‘These and a hundred others—aye, a thou- sand more forsooth—pass as I sit there gazing, and I wonder if the truth—and by that I mean the honest words, the words that are really meant—will average more at the very best than a half of one per cent, eee “Six Hundred Bills Die as Legis- lature Adjourns"—headline. O, that our garage bill had been among them at the moment! cee The man who wrote “Blest be the longer than plain toast! Ask your grocer for Q thin and partly cooked ‘2 KINDS OF QU. cooks in 3 to 5 minutes A rich, flavory oat breakfast in half the time of coffee! Quicker than eggs—no And enjoy a new delight. Same plump oats as regutar Quaker Oats. But cut before flaking, rolled very that cook faster, that’s the only difference. All that rare Quaker flavor. All the joy of hot breakfasts—quick. tle that binds,” never tried to slip one through a collar when he was in a hurry. ae ee A Dallas piano mover complains to the police that during a little! party he was thrown from a second story windcw. Now he knows how @ piano feels on moving day. eee A narrow-minded bigot is a man who disagrees with you about some- thing on which you are calmly but firmly determined, like a mu'e. a Considerable Qualifications Wanted—Experienced ranch hrad capable of caring for dairy cows; must also have several hands for work in hayfield—Cheyenne (Wyo.) Leader. eee To the Postmaster General I didn’t get my letter; I searched the whole mail through I couldn't guess where it had gone —But Harry New. I asked at the postoffice; I asked the postman, too; He couldn't tell me but he said ‘That Harry New. At last I wired to Washington {A nervy thing, it e) And asked them where my letter was —And Harry New. cee Henry Ford's friends want him to open his cutout so they can tell whether or not he’s running. Assault Made on U. S. Officer by Bootlegger Gang BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 13.—Deputy United States Marshall Charles Kel- sey is in bed as a result of an at- tack upon him by an alleged gang of bootleggers on a street of the lower busin section last night. Ellis Drakos, proprietor of a soft drink parlor, upon whom Kelsey served a warrant on a liquor charge recently, is in jail. Kelsey identified him as one of the men who was kicking him in the face as he re- covered consciousness after a blow from behind had felled him as he passed a dark alley. Kelsey says he was on his way uptown after serving warrants in the south side of the city when the sudden attack came. His overcoat, sult coat and revolver were torn fro mhim. He was beaten uncon- scious and kicked In the face while a crowd of thirty or more men stood by. Kelsey is a world war veteran with a wound stripe. He had not been considered an undue persecutor of liquor law violators, with whom he has had to deal. He thinks he may have been taken for a federal ary agent. -—~ “Ask for HOrlick’s The ORIGINAL ‘ Malted Milk The Original Food-Drink for All Ages. Quick Lunch at Home, Office& Fountains. RichMilk, Malted Grain Extractin Pow- der& Tabletforms. Nourishing-~Nocooking "&" Avoid Imitations and Snhstitnte: UICK QUAKER, — smaller flakes AKER OATS Now at Grocers Quick Quaker and Regular Quaker Oats. Get whichever you prefer. “Wants to See You” WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1923 “It Keeps Me Awake Nights” — is the familiar confession of the tea and coffee drinker. The reason is that both tea and coffee contain caffeine— a drug which is the foe of night-time sleep and day-time energy. 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