Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1923, Page 8

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This is placing the cart before the horse with a ven- geance. Mr. Gerard is a man of international reputation, one of outstanding ability, one of wide experience in national and international affairs. On the other hand Mr. McAdoo was un- known in national affairs until his appointment as secretary of the treasury by President Wil- son. Mr. McAdoo is chiefly known for the faflures he has made. He has failed in every business which he has undertaken. His management of the “Hudson Tubes” and the interburban rail- way run in connection therewith was such that only his appointment as secretary of the treas- ury saved the company from bankruptcy. His appointment as secretary was really due to the intervention of certain financiers: who had be come involved in the financial problems of the company in question und who knew that Mr. McAdoo’s appointment to the cabinet position would enable the company to place its bonds to » good advantage and help it out of the “hole” it was in. A recitation of Mr. McAdoo’s financial failures 4s unnecessary, as they have become fairly well Jmown. As secretary of the treasury he was for Mr. McAdoo. That a man who could not success- fully manage his private financial ventures should be given the management of the fiscal af- fairs of the government was too serious a mat- ter to be called a “joke” however. Of course he could not wreck the United States govern ment, because it is too big a business affair to be wrecked by any one man, but he, ably assist- ed by certain other administrative officers of the government, ran the government deeply and to a great extent needlessly, into debt. To cap the climax, Mr. McAdoo, having been wmable to make a success of a railroad some- thing like twenty miles in length, was given control of the railroads of the country. As director of railroads he at once began his usual policy of mismanagement and it will be many a long day before the railroads of the country will recover from his gross mistakes. Mr. Mc- Adoo is responsible for the high railway freights of which the farmers complain, and how they can consistently vote for him for any govern- mental office is past understanding. While it js true that he could not wreck the United States treasury, he could and did suc- ceed, as director of railroads, in wrecking them. Mr. McAdoo is not charged with deliberately mismanaging government matters for he simply showed the same incompetence in them that he has always shown in his own private affairs. Of course he is now on easy street having been able to save something tidy out of his govern ment salaries and possibly war time specula- tions. The farmers of South Dakota have certainly distinguished themselves in endorsing “Farmer McAdoo” for the presidency. Long On Advice Our old English friend Sir Arthur Balfour, don’t you know! has taken a brief time from his very busy life to advise Americans how to conduct their own affairs. Being one of those know-it-all kind we have less patience with Sir Arthur than we might have with some other English cousin whom we believed had no sel- fish motive back of the proffered advice. So we are replying to Sir Arthur in our curtest form of diplomatic language, that it is none of his business what we Americans do and if he de- sired to remain in one piece and not be scattered all over the town plat to mind his own business and keer his advice to himself. That is plain speech but it is the only language most of the English, Frech and German folks can under- stand. More of it would be good for what ails them. This constant stream of wise guys com- ing across the deep to instruct this nation in everything is growing wearisome in the extreme. If they would remain at home and look after their own and get it in shape, they would not bave so much time to devote to affairs with which they have no concern. With the gravity only an nglishman of his type can invest an utterance Sir Arthur de elares “the British do not fear American com- petition because American production costs are too high.” This is conceded without argument. And it explains exactly, why we maintain an adequate protective tariff to enable us to pay the high labor costs and at the same time compete in our home markets with British products made by Sir Arthur and others. It may be recalled that there are other countries in the world whose pro duction costs are lower than those of the Brit- ish; and that fact may be the cause of the Brit, ish parliament passing the “Sefeguarding of Industries Act.” Pursnant to that act over six thousand articles are given the protection of thirty-three and a third per cent ad valorem, and the whole thing was done on the urgent recommendation of the Associated British Chambers of Commerce of which Sir Arthur Balfour is president. Sir Arthur's attention is called to the widely quoted “consistency thou art a jewel!” Sir Arthur says that we cannot compete in the world markets because of our high production costs. But we must remind him of the fact that, under protection, our exports have increased, instead of diminishing. It is also true—and this is the most important thing of all—that we in the United States do not need to be a great ex- porting nation in order to be a prosperous one. We now consume all but a small percentage of our products, and we could consume still more of them if we should impose a really “high” tar- iff on competitive products and shut out prac tically all of them. But Sir Arthur is obliged to admit that the British are losing a very substantial part of their export trade, so that great manufacturers, like Sir Arthur, who is a manufacturer of steel toois and cutlery, have been trying to discover the cause. The one proposed by him is the same that the Brittish resorted to when they threw over protection and adopted free trade—cutting the wages of the British workmen. We, in this country, have a different remedy, and that is an adequate protective tariff. Under it we have increased our export trade, given work to some six million people who were idle under the free- trade Underwood tariff, and have increased all our productive activities .On the contrary, Great Britain has an army of “between one and two million” idle workmen who are receiving gov- ernment doles, Mr. Balfour admits that the British government paid out last year in these doles “about 350,000,000 pounds * * * and all but a negligible portion was raised by taxes.” That is about $1,500,000,000 in our money. Does any American want to increase our taxation by a billion and a half dollars per annum, and at the same time cut wages to the British level? We hardly think so. We are prefectly willing to concede to Sir Arthur all the reputat: he has established on the other side of th®sea, as a great man, but we must remind our own people, and the world as well, that he is talking for the bene- fit of Britain, not that of the United States, and he is also talking for the benefit of his own man- ufacturing establishments, not for the benefit of the rank and file of British men and women, Five Thousand Tons Recently there arrived in New York a ship on board of which were five thousand tons of Ger- man toys. It is evident that the tariff on toys is not prohibitive, at least on German toys. Our free trade friends ought to feel gratified over this large shipment of toys, which has de- prived American toy-makers of the opportunity of manufactufing their equivalent. Prior to the late war with Germany the largest part of the toys in use here came from that country, be cause we could not compete with their prices. During the war, however, manufacturers were forced into the business in order to supply the demand, so that American children should not be deprived of the playthings so dear to the heart of childhood. Of course, these manufac- turers expected to continue in business after the close of the war and thought that they would be given adequate protection so that they might do so. We believe that it was the intent of congress to give this protection in the tariff act of 19: but it is quite evident that the rate of duty im- posed was not high enough. The trouble has been that no one imagined the havoc which would be wrought on account of the unparalleled depreciation of the German mark. It is this depreciation which has proven so disastrous to American business and which has upset the plans of congress and of the American producers. It must be borne in mind that the five thousand tons of German toys form only a small portion of the toys which have been imported from Germany, although the shipment is probably the largest which has come in at any one time. The holiday season is responsible for the immensity of the shipment. What is going to be done about it? German- made toys are good, and they are much cheaper than American-made toys. The latter are for most part, we believe, more substantial and en- during and Well worth the difference in price. Domestic toy makers are certainly entitled to patronage, if for nothing else than for the en- terprise which they showed in coming forward and supplying the demand during the war. But there are other and even more important con- siderations. The American people owe it to them- selves to patronize home industry, for, by so do- ing, they LeIp to create opportunities for em- ployment for themselves and neighbors. The American toy industry has not had time for development as yet. Whereas the German toy industry has been established for many years, the American industry is yet in its infancy. With sufficient patronage the American industry will continue to grow and improve and, with the la- bor-saving machinery which will soon be de- vised, if there is sufficient patronage, the prices of American toys will soon be very much lower, so low, perhaps, that American toys can com- pete with German toys on an equality. The best advice that can be offered to Ameri- can purchasers is to see that the toys they buy are made in the United States of America. The Money Trust Americans added $1,041,583,000 to their savings in banking institutions of all kinds during the year ending June 30, 1923, according to the annual report of the savings bank division of the American Banking association. Total sav- ings in all banks and trust companies June 30, 1923, amounted to $18,373,062,000. This huge to- tal amounts to 52 per cent of all bank deposits in the United States. Is there a money trust? If so, it belongs to the millions of depositors in the banks and trust companies of the coun- try. Facts —No Bouquets An evidence of the progress of women polit- ically is the fact. that they are no longer satis- fied with compliments in lieu of arguments in political speeches. They want the issues and party policies and meaty news of the field when they are addressed. Speakers are realizing this and the old-time spell-binding speech, lauding the flag and “lovely ~veman” is almost a thing of the past. en ,thousands of them in this city. Neither is it a laughing matter to Why don’t the farmers catch on?| Merchants and trades people. Prohibit Wheat Look how the liquor men Increased} Christmas ts just around the cor- thelr prices by having the drys pass|ner, and, though “Do Your Christ- the prohibition law!—Cincinnati En-|mas Shopping Ear'y” has become a quirer. trite phrase and often is expressed facetiously, it contains a suggestion Wonderful Nature that is replete with economic and Nature {s pretty intelligent, after humanitarian values. If the Christmas trade could be In- all, Prohfbition having cut off the/telligently spread out through the American market, there is a de-jpresent days instead of being crease in the French wine crop.—| bunched, as so often is the case, Buffalo Express. within the few immediate preceding days before the great annual fest!- val, there would be many more hap- py people in the world. Stocks now are new and fresh; ed and Democratic Warning For the Democrats to defeat Secre- tary Mellon's program -would be ¢re long they will to sacrifice the country’s in-| mussed over. Salesf tereets for the sake of political revenge—and a shortsighted move, at that, for the voters wou'd correct- ly construe it.—Galveston News. The Xmas Problem Have you made up your mind yet whether to get a radio set or a mah jongg outfit? If the craze continues to grow, we expect to see some peo- ple mortgaging thelr automobiles in order to have both.—Lowell Courier. Chance For Denouncers ‘The clergymen, who make prohibt- tion the great test shou'd lose no time in denouncing Dr. Stewart Pa- ton of Princeton university, who, in an artic’e In the New York Times urging {nd'vidual self-control and rational thinking, savs. ‘“Prohibi- tion to my mind proves my point. It is the greatest confession that man can make, for when we pass such a law we admit that we have lost our self-control.” — Springfield Union. Bonus For All ‘What the people want, and will demand, is a bonus for in the shape of relief from high and in- dustry-cripp'Ing taxes. The best and surest way to make votes !s to deserve them, as has occasiona’ly been demonstrated—by such men as Grover Cleveland, for example, a man who,. according to the polit! cans of his day, committed enough political “mistakes” to ruin him. The people have not lost their love for frankness, s'ncerlty and courage, —Indianapolis News, Why Not? Sound pubife and political ethics condemn the presence tn congress of blocs dedicated to any special in- terest and devoted to any class or imited purpose. But there could be no protest to a bloc openly and un- shrinkingly committed to the great: est good to the greatest numbers. If such groupings are to be tolerated {n congress, why not a “tax reduc- tion bloc?” The subject is greater than any partisan alignment, broad- er than any class appeal. It inter- ests and affects every man, woman and child in the country. A con- gressman may belong to any party, or none, represent any section. or stand for any political creed and still ally himse'f with a group de- termined to lighten the tax burden which the whole nation feels. A tax reduction bloc is the only one we can !magine that will not be a tar. get of attack by majority opinion — St. Paul Pioneer Press. Get Busy Don't laugh, please—what we are about to say fs no laughing matter to millions of married men and wom- A RESOLUTION Be It Therefore Resolved, That we, the members of the New First Coneregational church In first official! meeting assembled extend our unanimous thanks to editors above papers for their timely and extensive eid In making our campaign for charter members a notable success. (Signed for the church): FRED D. GORRAM, Clerk Pro. ROBT. ALLINGHAM, Pastor. Some friends of Presiden: Ccolidge tne coming national Republican con- vention. Put why worry? If President Coolidge ts nominated next June it will be because, in the now are not opinion of the de’ cons-deration, and *° during will be most of the time. Why Worry ? what he went after. are said to be worried becauss the ». tho first time. President doesn't seem to be hust! —$——<$—— ing for delegates to vote for him at 7 wat What It Means convention, it_mean: tees assemble: Wa. Urea a) e Choicest Coffee from Many Lands are more efficient than he has made good—because they be-) Dakota two weeks from the| lieve him to be the strongest candi- exercise a little judg-|date they can name. The Conlidze “manufactured” during the next six months during which Congress will be in sessicn Calvin Coolidge never has hustled for aelegetes during his lorg politi- -|cal career. But he uniformly an- -| nounced hig candidacy for this or that office and gave his reasons therefor in earnest, homely lan- guage, right In sight of everybody. Backroom conferences with back- room deale never were in his line. Uniformly he never failed to get He may fail this time but {t will Berkshire Eagle. What does the South Dakota re- sult mean? For one thing, judging from the speeches at the proposal hat the South ?AGE EIGHT. ehe Casper Dally Cridune THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1923 regarded Republicans Mr. Colidge as a man more of the people than the eloquent Hiram. The Presi- dent was described as “a fermer boy who had done everything in his power for the farmer.” The brother- hood of the soil is powerful. But there are broader reasons for the Coolidge victory; reasons which may become more and more evident as the 1924 contest grows older. The right and acts right—New York Herald. ‘The offices of Drs. C. H. Carpen- ter, T. J. Riach and Mrs. Edna Thomas naye peen moved from the Golden Rule Bldg to 310 O. S. 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