Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1924, Page 2

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Suffering From Lacks Hiram Johnson’s campaign for the presiden- tial nomination is suffering from the lacks. The thing lacks money, lacks interest, lacks favor- able reports from anywhere, Jacks men willing to shove the cause along, even lacks a candidate that meets the approval of the people. When Hiram rages in these dull days no one pays any attention to him. They let him rage. It is sad. Inexpressibly sad. But what in thunder can we do about it? Hiram and his managers have shown a decided inclination to drive every other candidate from the field, which is not good sportsmanship. If Hiram’s great cause dies a bornin’ we can’t see that it concerns anybody but Hiram himself. Not Yet Audible Now come the friends of Robert M. LaFol- lette, who assays at least ninety per cent bull and has faithfully maintained that average for many years, and claim they hear a clarion call for Robert to approach the general direction of the White House. They confide in us the infor- mation that both old parties have been discred- ted, and the people will welcome an opportu: nity to vote for a man like LaFollette, running as a candidate for a new liberal party. It is very true that the oil chapter has been very unpleasant but not necessarily fatal. There are many clean and honorable men in both Re- publican and Democratic parties who do not bear the faintest trace or smell of oil, arid who could not be even tempted, much less influenced, by all the money there is, who can and will up- hold the honor of their respective organiza- tions. We fail to see that the two old parties have completely gone to pot, simply because a few members of each have fallen for the golden calf. We point with pride to Calvin Coolidge, the president of the United States, and certain to be our nominee as June is certain to come. ‘We are sure he is as free from blame as from the suspicion of blame. And he has been quick to see and to tell the nation that he saw the necessity for every act that will place onus where it belongs, punish the guilty and cancel mny contracts prejudicial to the interests of the people of the United States. While there are a good many sounds that echo and reecho about naval oil reserves and in the senate chamber, the voice of the people calling for help from LaFollette is not audible among em. The Pledge Has Been Kept An important and obvious fact often over looked by many intelligent people, is that re duction of taxation must be preceded by reduc- tion of expenditures, People who overlook this fact are easily deceived by the declaration, often made from Democratic sources that reduction of taxes was proposed by them while still in power in the national administration. The lead- ers of that party do not claim, and cannot claim however, that they brought about such a reduc- tion in expenditures as would permit a reduc- tion in taxes. It is true that on the eve of their retiring from power their party recommended a reduc- tion of taxes They knew they were turning over to an opposition administration the difficult task of pulling the country out of the financial hole, which their administration of public af- fairs had created. In an effort to set themselves right. before the country by clever deception they urged reduction of taxation at a time when the} knew that it would be difficult of accomplish- ment. They thought they were handing over an impossible task. The task would have been impossible if the new administration had approved the retiring administration’s estimates for expenditures. For the year beginning July 1, 1920 and ending June 30, 1921, estimates were made by the out- going administration although the Republicans had come into power both in the legislative and in the executive branches. These estimntes ag- gregated $6,265,000,000 but the new administra- tion appropriated only $4,780,000,000 a cut in the estimates of $1,485,000,000. The estimates for the year beginning July 1, 1921 and ending June 30, 1922, were also submitted by the outgoing Demo- cratic administration in December, 1920 but they went before a Republican congress. The esti- mates for that fiscal year aggregated $5,335,600,- 000 but only $4,065,000,000 was appropriated. his was a reduction in the estimates of $1,270,- 1,000. In addition to that reduction $300,000,- «| first year of the Harding administration, With - each succeeding year federal expenditures were y| public, says, “The United St 000 was saved by expending that much les§ than | Was appropriated. . | These reductions and the cttyenehment prac- ‘ticed all along the line made pos:4ble the tax revision and tax reduction that occurred in the reduced until in the past fiseal year a surplus | of approximately $300,000,000 was saved and it| has mude possible the further tax reduction which Secretary Mel;lon has recommended. All this splendid service in the interest of the people did not occur by accident. It is the result of co-operative action and concerted ef- fort on the part of the administration that fol- lowed the wasteful and extravagant one that preceded it. And in fulfillment of pledge made to he people that if given power the country would be saved from bankruptcy toward which jit was headed. By controlling with a purposeful jhand estimates, expenditures and appropria- \tions and centralizing responsibility the work has been accomplished. And no one can say it has not been well done. ~ The further reduction of direct taxes is on the program by the saving already made in the executive departments and still further in pub- lic expenditures are in prospect for the next fiscal year, if the people will give congress to understafd that it is their will. The British Program One of the suggested means for relieving un- employment in Great Britain is the building of mpre warships. Had the Baldwin government re- mained in power, it is said that an extensive naval program would have been undertaken, in- cluding the construction of no less than fifty- two cruisers. It is confidently predicted that the new labor ministry will follow the same pro gram, which contemplates the laying down im- mediately of eight ten-thousand ton ships, armed with eight inch guns, in conformity with the terms of the Washington armaments treaty. There can be no possible objection to the Brit- ish cruiser expansion, based on any existing’ treaty. But the fact remains that it means the complete destruction of the 5-5-3 ratio of naval strength which the Washington treaty is popu- larly supposed to have estabjished. As a matter of fact, that ratio applies only to capital ship strength, and ench of the five sagnatories to the pact is at ljiberty to build just as many ten thousand ton cruisers as it chooses. The question for the United States to decide is, what are we going to do about it? We have them all in commission, strength will far outweight our own, and when that submarines and aircraft have made big bat- navy in a few years will be several times the are we going to do about it? Imported Cotton Textiles Tariff rates on cotton textile imports are they were under the Payne law of 1909. Natur- ally they are higher than the rates carried in the Underwood law, which was admittedly draft- ed “without a line of protection” in it, The cot- ton textile schedule of the present law has been attacked more viciously, perhaps than any other schedule of the tariff, the charge being made that the rates are extortionately high and rep- resent protection run mad. The reverse is truce. The rates are reasonable. ¥ The tariff commission has recently published a survey of one hundred imported cotton cloths, showing cloth ‘particulars, invoice prices 1917 and 1920 and rates of duty applicable under acts of 1909, 1914 and 1922. The list begins with “do- met coffin lining,” and ends with “fancy swivel so-called because the ascertain the Re plied and in reads must be counted to rogressive rate of duty to be ap- the average tariff duties on the 90 countable cloths under the act of 1909 was 44.82 per cent; under the act of 4914, 21.92 per cent; under the present law, 33.3 per cent. Using the normal invoice prices of 1920 as a basis the average un- der the act of 1909 was 37.26 per cent; under the act of 1913, 21.92 per cent; under the present law, 29.34 per cent. Taking the 100 samples, which includes the special cloths, the averages on the two bases, respectively ran 45.76, 22.78 and 88.23 and 37.05, 22.78, and 82.98 per cent. These figures prove that the 100 cotton cloths selected are fairly representative of the range of imports in this line and that the contrast of tariff rates may be taken as a closely approxi- mate jndication of the relative height of the cot- ton cloth duties that will obtain under the act of 1922 as compared with those under the acts of 1909 and 1913. In short, the contention that | the rates on cloths under the present law, as/ compared with those under the law of 1909, are higher, is completely negatived. | imports of cotton cloths under the present law have been five-fold greater than they were un- der the law of 1909-15, in the matter of yard. | Ee very few years find an active de mand for thelr livestock for replen ishment herds of Europe is the opinion o former Congressman Sloan of Ne braska who trave'ed extensively ir x Europe last summer and gave his only ten such ships now built or building. With | attention chiefly to agricultural con the British cruiser|ditions rather than to national or {nernaional politics. a lawyer and farmer at Geneva Ne the new British program is under way the pre-|braska, and while a member i congress was the author of the ponderance will be overwhelming. We are told fapatured: which saseviien naaees operation between tleships obsolete. If that be true, the British|ernment and the the eradication of hog cholera and of tuberculosis im livestock gener- effective strength of our own. What, indeed, aly, which measures have been em: thently successful. Special interest in agricuitute. and livestock production he American consu's and also the ministers of agriculture in Hurope in an effort to ascertain all the facts of interest to Anferican farmprs considerably lower under the present law thanjrelative to agricultural conditions. Speaking of his observations Mr. Sloan says that, as in the case of all great wars from the beginning of history, the war in Europe re- sulted in the depletion of herds and focks, and, after the war, the peo- ple turned to the cerea’s as the easiest and quickest method for food. in. France have been plowed up in order that the soil might be sown to grain. been a great in tion of cereal: barley and wheat,’ but there is still & great tion, tinental Sweden, ludes ten special cloths such a8}cont of the cows of Germany are tracing cloth, cotton table damask, corduroy, etc. | tubercular, 4 Using the normal prices of 1913 as a basis,|of the dairy cows of Great Britain. The American Consul Paris informed him that measures age. The bulk of this competition comes from Great Britain. A review of the annual textile trade of Great Britain for 1923, recently made ates hasebeen an un- ully good customer particularly in the 160,- ,800 square yards against & 9,400 square yards in the corresponding period in 1922 and 45,102,100 square yards in 1921.” In the calendar year 1913 we imported about 30/00,000 square yards of cotton cloths from Great Britain, nine months of that year being under the law of 1909 The cuts made by the law of 1913 were not so! drastic with respect to coarse goods as with respect to the finer counts, on which more labor is expended. The former were made chiefly by southern mills, but according to the Ne ional \Association of Cotton Manufacturers, “from 1919 to 1921 there was a very marked tendency to weave cloth from higher count yarns.” Pro- duction of goods over 12 inches width( 70 to 75 per cent of the total) in the cotton states totaled ea ath riba worth $422,842,000; in the New England states, 2,830,000,000 yards. " $44,436,000. Thi hints at the reason wpb south is wellnight as insistent as the north for protection to our cotton textile factories, us Mr. Sloan found, a’so, European countrie thetic and effective work has been and lappet (one color), of the countab! Gone for tuberculosis: and | erhdloe ppet ( ?, able cloths, The only exceptions in Con- Phone 2309 and 62 Casper Daily Crifune | The Improving Prospect for Farmers That American farmers will in a, ‘or the eradication of tuberculosis n France were so depleting the ailk herds that the efforts had to The cattle of the ‘ontinental countries visited were the latter .ot only used for producing ca'ves of the depleted flocks and] © discontinued. argely oxen and cows, nd milk but also as burden Mr, Sloan i he tourist trade. ure scarce sounries visited, Germany of ‘&0- @ Federal gov- veral states in| Mr. Sloan expressed the Because of he visited markets. He believes falr return. production of of supplying their needs Many of the vineyards] ‘to supply the demands. market in Burope, As a fesult, there has and, cregse in the produc- particularly rye, shortage in livestock. that in wympa- witnessed, ltue for consumption Poses, —_———__—_. countries are Holland and} Los Angeles Tim: He found that 27° per as also are 50 per cent is, and the extent of the may be gauged by telephone directory. General at THE NICOLAYSEN LUMBER CO. Everything in Building Material RIG TIMBERS A SPECIALTY FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS Uistributors of KONSET Three-Day. Cementing Process for Oil Wells. Office and Yard—First and Center Sts. JOIN THE AMERICAN LEGION NOW LEAVE CASPER—ARKEON BUILDING Westbound SALT CREEK BUSSES 3 Busses a Day Each Way Baggage and 8 a. m Called for and Delivered 8 a. m. 9 a. m Salt Creek Transportation 2p. m 2:80 p. m. Company Tel. 144 8 p. m TRAIN SCHEDULES Chicago & Northwestera 3 Arrives Di Oi 008 ks is hank SEAN Pp. m. ae p. to. De fhe calves are belng slaughtered n order to furnish veal at hotels ind cafes to supply the demands of Young cattle in all the Continental ing to have more of this class than any other Continental country. hat for the next two or three gears whéat, which-can be raised in every legree of latitude and longitude in either temperate zone from cheap ands, can not be produced in Amer- ca to compete for European wheat that farmers of America, studying and carefully estimating the home sup- ply, should produce the quantity which, fortified by a protective tar- ff, will give our wheat raisers a Thelr chief energies, however, shou’d, in his opinion, be turned to the raising of livestock or feeds for livestock, so that when European affairs are somewhat set- tled and Europe turns to the task of replenishing the herds and flocks, the American farmer will be ready looking over the Casper, Wyo. Leave Salt Creek The Noisy Lodger Checks Out befrers. appear- opinion the With American herds cleansed of tuberculosis there will be a good in Mr. S'oan's opinion, this will open the widest avenue for agricultural pros- perity that this country has ever Europe with her muiti- plied millions must have our meats and also healthy animals for breeding pur- our Demo- e8s—The crats claim that there,is a powerful “lobby” behind the passage of the Mellon tax reduction bill. So there “lobby” ideas when 01 and vocabulary are as clear and adequate as Calvin Coolidge’s, Detroit long time. Houston Post (Dem.)}—The Demo- cratic leaders in congress are dis- posed to play politics with the issue of tax reduction, and in that they are making a fatal mistake. Troy Times—Mr. McAdoo wanted of explaining. A man ve to explain is a long way from a presidential nomination. the privile; who ask Indianapolis News—The Mellon tax bill is being vigorously debated The Pith of Press Opinion Portland (Ore.) Telegram—It is re- markable how few words are neces- sary for thorough expression of Free Mellon has brought more trouble on the politicians and more joy to the average citizen than any public of- ficial the country has known in a Teacher—Johnny, can you give me an example of King Willlam's lack of horse sense?" Johnny—"He failed to organize a stable government.” aren't looking.” She plays only on The black keys I would say ‘That it is Going Far, musicale. The thoughts that keep us oom- | Composer. pany are like the people with whom we daily associate, in that they in- fluence us in numerous secret and unnoticed ways. her. Uncle Hook Says. “Some thoughts are like hothouse vegetables—they are pretty to look at, but they are tasteless.” A newspaper gives an account of a woman who saved her life by singing all night when attacked by a lion in the Sierra mountains. The Automobil by the Ireland. in congress, but the people have consulted their pocketbooks and long since passed beyond tho debate stage. litt mental processes lett? Philadelphia North Amertcan— |‘ Some of the Democrats seem to have been among those people who never learn if you start a fire with oil it spreads. % Press — Secretary BEDS “Again.” Providence Journal—A reduction of taxation means an increase of prosperity. country, New York Herald—Neither grass nor candidacies will grow where oil splashes. New Orleans States—Previous to the revolution the French nobility was exempt from taxation. The nobility of this country has never enjoyed such a privilege but it man- ages to get along very nicely by investing its money in tax-exempt securities. climb. Also Loses His _—=—=———* == | Now is an exceptional o price. History of Natrona Co) possibility that the pri exhausted in numbers. Warning ON MARCH 1ST The Cost Per Volume of Mr. A, J. 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