Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1924, Page 2

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 199) ment on a question remote from } tionalists that Inventions of our study or experience. It is In|} on Amertea’s part whh effect o repeal of the wise systern | entangle us In the-wfalr of our republic which vests In the nent which covid ‘mat | cntet executive of the nation and In | through existing machine | our senate the duty of acting, « would, ts @ mischievous m, | study and mature deliberation, in| with our own welfare, and } this difficult field of statecraft. even the papeanisee of pro Finally, in our opinion, the refer-| practical" resu for pen endum. however well fi tentloned, | Europe. If a sound instinct @eserves condemnatiqn as an effort} tice and self-preservation d: under cover of a pul defeat this meddling, the res be a weakening of this nation ¢ , | the preservation of {ts own peas! and security, and even a compr, ing of our influence to further pes in the world, Che Casper Dailp Cridune s ACY TWO P. Che Casper Daily Cribune an York World one of the three leading Democratic | MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS pers of the United States, editorially says: The Associated Press is exclusive'y entitled to the} “But Mr. Garner’s attempt—with the express- us use for publication of all néws credited in. this psper/ed approval of the Democratic national commit- and also the local news published herein. tee—to diseredit the motives and authority of ‘The Casper Dai every evening ana|Secretary Mellon is as stupid and mischievous seen waaay, Berube? treo atery Sunday, at Cuapet to the best interests of the nation as his claim Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune Building, oppo-|tha’ he can write a better and more sweeping site postoffice. tax-reduction aa Phi. am foolish. His “33 “Dacasea at Guaper (Wyodiing) postoffice as secs /sertions as’ to his -writing powers may an Binceict Se ee bananas : accepted as the mere rhetoric of a political oc- ~ —_—— casion; but his attack on Mr. Mellon and the Business Telephones _ -------15 and 1€/ treasury program as a conspi in behalf of Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All the rich, sponsored by their deliberate repre: | Departments. sentative in the government, cannot be so ex-| By cused. The country will dismiss it as ridiculous | J. B. HANWAT and political; bat it will dismiss at the same! Lavertising Representatives time as. incurable demagogues those whq sup- Prudden, King & Prudéen, 1720-38 Steger Bidg., Chi-| port it. cago, TU, 236 Bifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bids! The Baltimore Sun, which with the New York Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sbaron Bldg., 55 New Mont-!Times and World constitutes the trio of the most | gomery St, San Francisco, Cal. Copies of eg ee ood influential Democratic newspapers in the Unit- Tribupe are on file in the New iivted ee a ™/ed States in commenting upon the conference of ang San Francisco offices and visitors 2 —.|the Democratic leaders says: pro rtie tank ee 2 eed Sette cescli honey aetna ht a Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©) “The Mellon plan for tax reduction was the| oie ofa ters of Democrats Sec taide State igton yesterday. Chairman Cordell a (me Year, Dally and Et ee eter cated it was discussed from a tical point of One Year, Sunday Only .-----——------—---—- 2-58 view. It would be highly gra’ if some of Six Months, Daily and Sunday ——-. an the paebere of congress pve Bocoe mek = mea ae ter fi 6 taxpayer's point of view, but that One Month, Daily and Sunday -———————-——_-78] 10), eitich to expecty? ? Se Now Just What Is This Thing Stuffed With? 7 support not onl: wut for the movement polfical ties with Europe. to reverse b: plausible device the wise im- of the American people to And this is done, as we have said. in an atmosphere of altruistic sen ment to which we all naturally r act, but which makes seem to many passionate advocates of altruism in foreign policy, and likewise to the uninformed, willfully cynical, and obstructive. The Tribune believes that the Bok project, culminating in a referendum, is mischievous in [ts assumptions and in its effect upon ts to join the steadily increasing jy! of savings bank depositors. }; put in the savings account ‘5 ori. “lect alone" whereas that (nt, checking account comes out ea It {s not @ good idea to rescivy 1, save any definite amount—but my. ing the account will help, ev. Per Copy 22. a on wns a mn By Mail Inside State One Year, Daily and Sundar One Year, Sunday Only ~. Six Month, Daily ané sw: Three Months, Daily and Sunday « One Month, Bally and Sunday -—-. All subscriptions must be pald in advance Daf'y Tribune will not insure delivery after tion becomes one month in arrears. IF YOU DON’T GET YO! TRIBUNE ere ts don’t find your SER Sa eit tete looking curefully for it, call 15 or 16 and it will be delivered to you by special messenger. Register complaints before 8 o’clock. Smashing the Deadlock We have yery little in common with LaFol- lette and his band of hope in the senate. In fact we have no faith in LaFollette except as a pure hellraiser, and only such faith in his cohorts as a person can have with men willing to be led by a madman. latter’ the dncurable wrong-head and infallible Yet in spite of this we cannot withhold endorse- ment of their action in breaking the senate dead- lock of a month’s duration by the election of Senator Ellison D. Smith, Democrat of South Carolina as chairman of the inter-state com- merce committee over Senator A. B. Cummins, Republican of Iowa. Senator Cummins holds the important. office of president pro tem of the senate, and since the elevation of Vice President Coolidge to the pres- idency during the congressional recess, Senator Cummins is the parliamentary head of that great body. He desired to remain also chairman of the powerful inter-state commerce committee. This is too great power for one man. The coun- try at large thought so, and why the Republican majority in the senate insisted upon such a pro- gram can never be made plain to the members of the Republican party anywhere. Where these old senatorial birds get any such idea as they seem to have, that the country can- not survive without them, that they are of such importance in the conduct of the nation’s af- fairs, that they must pick and choose what they will, must hog the platter, without the slightest modesty or consideration for the rights or the wishes of others, or the political expediency or welfare of the party ,we give it up. It is not our habit to unkindly cfiticise 2 faithful public servant, no difference to which political ps he bears allegiance, neither is it our habit to criticise a member of the op- position party who perfornis his proper duties to his party, merely because he is a member of the opposition party. But, be they Republicans or be they Demo- crats, who pull any such show as the late sen- ate deadlock, based wholly upon a selfish and unreasonable personal .ambition for power and place, such things exhaust all patience an or- dinary citizen possesses. The outcome of the deadlock is in the nature of poetic justice. And while we can take no_pride in the instrumentality by which the deadlock was broken, we can and do take pride in its final accomplishment. A decent Democratic chairman is much to be preferred to a Repub- lican who seeks to hog all the persimmons. If this be treason, coming from a Republican newspaper, which loves the party, believes in its great Punines and adheres io its. policies, but which can not endorse the acts and methods of some of the leaders, then make the most of it. When a leader or a group of Republican party members grow so big and important that they own the party or must control it against the welfare of the people or the party, or the will of the party itself, then it is high time that such leaders and groups be set in their proper lace. While the insurgents possibly had other mo- tives in the matter they have rendered a dis- tinct service to the Republican party in smash- ing the disgraceful deadlock and permitting the senate to proceed with the country’s business. Repudiated by Their Own Party A split in the Democratic party over the Mel- Jon tax plan as wide and as impossible to bridge xs that which occurred in 1896 over free silver is imminent. The trouble started over a recent statement Issued by the Democratic national committee, charging that the support of the Mellon tax plan “is the result . « a huge organized conspiracy on the part of pi.datory interests constituting spe- cial privilege.” This statement was issued by the Democratic national committee following a con- ference of Democratic leaders in the house call- ed by Representative Cordell Hull, also chair- man of the Democratic national committee; Rep- resentative Garner of Texas, ranking Demo- cratic member of the Wars and Means commit- tee; Representative Garret, of Tennessee, minor- ity floor leader. The charge, if true would convict practically every Democratic newspaper of any consequence of being a part of the conspiracy. It would con- vict thousands of Democr business men, prominent ix# their communities, of being a part of a conspiracy to deceive the American people. There is not the least doubt that this action of the Democratic national committee under the Jeadership of Chairman Hull cratic leaders in the house will precipitate a bit ter fight for the reorganization of the Demo cratic national committee which will jeopardize the very existence of the Democratic party as such. In commenting upon the statement which was issned by the Democratic national committee in the «sine of Representative Garuer, the New wane ++ senees-==$7-8?/upon the Democrats to join hands “with the lead. ---------- 2.5) ers of the dominant faction of the Republican and tte subseri»jial to the attitude of the Democratic the Demo. | In a subsequent iswus, the Baltimore Sun calls party” to accomplish federal tax reform, which is “what the country longs for and expecis.” The New York Times devotes a leading editor. leaders mentioning Cordell Hull and the Democratic national committee in particular, and warning them they are on the way to a fall. It then says: “Mr. Mellon proposes to reduce taxation to feed and vitalize business, to lower the cost of Hiving which pays the taxes in the end. Wise Democratic leaders see the value of the plan, the popular response to it, the folly of any par-j tisan juggling with it or sophistication of it or attempt to defeat it by complicity by congress- men who are neither Democrats nor Republicans whatever they call themselves. It rests with the Democrats either to co-operate in policies of nat- ional advantage, neither Democratic nor Repub- lican, or else to help the enemy to heel meekly loser, Mr. Bryan.” The Louisville Courier-Journal, easily the! leading Democratic paper of the Ohio valley, characterizes the litical leaders engaged in the campaign against the tax reduction as “crazy horses,” and adds that “it is unbeliey- able that a majority of Democrats in congress can be stampeded into any such folly.” The Brooklyn Eagle and the Cleveland Plain Deal- er and the Atlanta Constitution, the leading Democratic paper of the south, warn the Demo- erats that they can do no better work than to co-operate in the enactment of the Mellon tax plan. There is not the least doubt that the dema- gogic action of the Democratic leaders of the house will result in a challenge of their right to continue in leadership of the Democratic party. If it is decided, after a contest, that they are in the majority, there is not much doubt that the conservative Democrats will refuse longer to associate with the party as it is now organ- ized and controlled. Mr. Edward Bok’s amiable project for bestowing $100,000 on the in- ventor of “the best practicable plan by which the United States may co-operate with other nations look- ing toward the prevention of war" has been widely advertised. Plans have been submitted. The jury of award has mado its award. It is now proposed to submit the win- ning plan to a popular referendum, and The Tribune is invited to assist by printing a form of ballot for the use of its readers. It will not do so. We are quite aware the refusal will not only seem ungracious:but be subject to misconstruction. Any refusal to fall in with a proposal that has an {dealistic motive and object is certain of misconstruction by ardent proponents. There is no fallacy more general than that re- 2 5 fusal to swallow an {dealistic Our British Business project is evidence of want of ssm- i pathy with the object sought. Ths According to department of commerce figures| most familiar specimen of this the total foreign trade of the United States in| logic is the assumption by virtually 1913 was $1,277,000,000 of which $1,692,000,000, or | all pacifists that those who do not practically 40 per cent was with the British em-|ccept their theories and nostrums pire. In 1922 American foreign trade had in-| °° lovers of war. creased to $6,944,000,000, and the British share], But the prospect of misconstruc: i tion ought not to prevent the per- had fallen to approximately 39 per-cent or $ formance of duty, and in the case 693,000,000, but a gain of one billion over 1913.) o¢ the proposed referendum we In the first ten months of 1923 American total] have no doubt of The Tribune's trade was $6,554,000,000, wHich would be at the| auty. So far as the competition rate of about $7,865,000,000 for the entire year | itself is concerned, it is conceivable the British share still remaining at 39 per cent.| that among the proposais submitted The most significant change during 1923 was| by the better instructed and more the la ine in imports ro _| practical minded contestants a use- th 4 rge increase in imports from other coun ful suggestion z0ey-be found. The ei = @ cf i jury of awati fa of . distinguished The United Kingdom is the chief foreign mar- | membership. Maying as its chairman ket for American products. Our exports to the | Mr. Elihu Rt, a statesman of ripe United Kingdom in 1913 totaled $591,000,000. On | experience «11 achievement in for- me Basins 6 the. first ten months of last year sien etairan Hee er. Dia they total $789,000,000. Canadian exports rose SCOR ORR oh “4 ah during the decade from. $103,000,000 to $673,000, | school, Mr. F. 3. House, and Mr. 000. Australian and New Zealand from $59,000,-| Ynose. jungment’ deserves respect to $120,000,000. ful considvration, We may assume, American imports increased from $1,793,000,-| therefore, that the plan they have 000 in 1913 to about $3,800,000,000 in 1923 or 112] approved nas merit as a ‘contribu. per cent. Imports from the United’ Kingdom in-| tion to our thought on international creased from $272,000,000 in 1913 to $417,000,000 | co-operation. in 1923; from Canada $142,000,000 to $410,000,- ‘We are quite willing to assume 000; and from Australia and New Zealand $15,- haters te Wereer Bg eager | 500,000 to $47,000,000. The increase of imports pnts ge rag.) Tenteatiinn is a from individual parts of the Empire shows con- prodpot of the pacifism and inter: siderable va ions. Shipments from the United | national sentiment which work mis Kingdom increased 55 per cent; from Canada| chief, so far as they work at all, 190 per cent; from the British East Indies $115,-| upon the American mind. 000,000 to $316,000,000 or per cent; from Aus- But pass over this - important tralia and New Zealand, over 200 per cent; Brit-| spect of the Bok project and con: ish Africa $4,400,000 to $35,000,000 or 700 per | cede that valuablo and novel sug: cent; and Hong Kong, $3,500,000 to $20,000,000, | S¢stions_have been brought forth. or 470 per cent. In the three years 1920 to 1922 Great Britain took an average of $812,000,000 of American agri- culutral products ,including $146,000,000 of bread grains, $108,000,000 of meats and $116,000,000 of tobacco. In that year the British Empire took from us $47,000,000 of cotton manufactures, $113,- 000,000 of refined oils, $71,000,000 of steel prod- nets and $98,000,000 of agricultural implements. As an offset to these purchases of American products the United States imported from the empire the greater part of its raw wool, about 80 per cent of its crude rubber, and large quan- tities of jute, tea, hides and skins. From the j United Kingdom the bulk of our imports con- sist of manufactured goods. It is evident that the Fordney-McCumber tar- iff law has done nothing to curtail the trade be- tween the two great Anglo-Saxon nations. Ex- port trade is an incident to domestic trade in the United States; it is vital to Great Britain, hence the protective policy is essential to us, while it would impede British extension of her foreign | markets. But the Republican tariff law, by cre- ating a prosperous condition and a consequent- ly enhanved purchasing power, has increased the consumption in this country of British goods. MANY MEN’S BROTHERHOOD CLASS FIRST BAPTIOT. CHURCH The Old Reliable Gebo Coal Phone 948 and 949 Natrona Transfer Storage & Fuel Co. FOR RENT Store room 20x60 with full basement in Chandler building, 617 Eust Second street. Imperfection and Evil Shall we regard with indifference the great inheritance which cost our sires their blood |because we find in their gift an admixture of imperfection and evil? ‘Surely there is enough, in the contemplation of which every pat- riotic heart may say “Good -bless my own, my native land!°—James A. Garfield Inquire at A. E. Chandler Filling Station Against Mr. Bok’s Peace Plan CHICAGO TRIBUNE But why the popular referendum? The ballot reads as follows: you approve tho winning plan? Yes. No.” What a farce! proved by Elihu Root and his well known cojurors, the idealism and altruism which are so easy to approve in theory and without immediate sacrifice of any kind—one of those noble gestures of amity which give us a glow of optimism and self-esteem. Author- ity and noble motive buttress it. What man or woman will vote no? A few, formed opinions, and pondered on the subject of In- ternational relations. The over- whelming majority of us, who have done neither, and who are ready to approve absurd which {s ‘offered to us as a means of increasing international peace, will vote yes. The affirma- ‘away by the next New Year's 42; It fs worth trying —Florida Tims —————— All For Coolidge | Cal” fe an abbreviation for mighty oe ae California an conditions which rake it impossible | Cems, Anant that te ie onal to ar A ern oe = those two “Cals” are going nearest is. It one 0! the Ptincioal ‘proponenteand,eop:|Soleo eee Ane porters of international arbitration, and {ft in mill paying the price of intervention for the defeat of mill- tarist imperialism. ‘This it has done in {ts independ- ence, yet our pacifists and inter- nationalists would have us com- mit ourselves to engagements and alliances with governments and nations which have shown no such devotion to peace and which today enlarge their armaments and multl- ply their plans for mutual aggres- ston. Tho Tribune believes the assump- and interna. AT YOUR SERVICE Phone 1702 tive costs nothing at the moment. Why vote no? The result is foregone. It ts a hollow form. If we had forgot the| tion of our pac! THE NICOLAYSEN LUMBER C0, tions of pacifist mentality, we Everything in Building Material RIG TIMBERS A SPECIALTY FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS nor is he the man to take such a referendum seriously as an expres: sion of judgment. 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