Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1924, Page 6

See tA ae) Se lee. is m2 S c n t 3 ‘ 1 n le I < a : « N 2 a N lev tee mtn PAGE SIX Che Caspet Daily Cribune MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the se for p tion of all news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening ané The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- per, Wyoming. Publ.cation offices: Tribune Building, opposite postoffice. Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as sd@ond class matter, November 22, 1916. Business Telephones -_-----------------.-15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments. By J. E. HANWAY and E. E. HANWAY Advertising Representatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg., Chi- ., 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bidg.. Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont- gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. 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Exploitation and Horse Play « Why should a tax reduction program be a political matter? i Why should officials who offer nothing bet- ter, fight a business-like plan for saving tax ex penditures : y What will the public gain if political agita- tion against the Mellon plan prevents a reduc- tion of $320,000,000 in this year’s tax bill? Would differences in political opinion of stockholders in a private- corporation stand in the way if the treasurer of Such corporation could reduce expenses? Then why should partisan politics attempt to block a x reduction program which would save the taxpayers of the nat over three hun- dred million dollars annually? If this horse-play ia continued and if the tax- payers of this nation through various methods which are now being exposed, are to be subjected to perpetuated extravagances of public officials we will in the next few years, witness an uphea- val that will result in entirely new political methods. The time is here for a thorough housecleaning and the people are growing restless to get the nasty joh off their hands, and inaugurate a new policy of honesty, efficiency and consideration for those who pay the bills, in all public affairs. Something for Nothing The desire of the human race is to get some- thing for nothing, to get rich quick, to win a place among the elect who do not have to work, by some sjleight-of-hand applied to finance. This human longing may explain to some ex- tent the five hundred million dollar gold brick the gullible portion of the public purchased for itself during 1923 and the motive back of the weakness Yor fake investments in a manner that ought to assist some potential victims to escape the fate they have been approaching. Different persons seek to do the thing in dif- ferent ways. Some pick pockets, some rob banks, second stories and railroads; some lie back and dream in the fashion of the story teller who in- vented the Arabi: Nights; some print fake stock and sell it; some buy this fake stock in the hope of fabulous returns. Probably very few of the shorn sheep who have lost their savings in some such way would care to be classed along with bank robbers and fake promoters. They do not deserve to be called criminals, They may not even be funda- mentally lazy. Bui certainly they have permitted themselves to be led astray by false reasoning. . Helping Themselves It is found that more than two billion dollars’ worth of business was done last year by organ- izations of American farmers. It has long been said that the agriculturist is primarily a business man, but it is only of late that he has compelled recognition in this cap-| acity by adopting the most up-to-date methods of business men in other lines, Collectively he is the greatest of capitalists, also the greatest of producers. His weak point has been distribution. When he learns to distri- bute his products as manufacturers do, he will have his business built upon a rock. Through co-operation and the employment of skilled ex- ecutives to handle his goods, he may do for him- ait more than the government can ever do for im. No Reason Why What will happen when the railroad and inter- urban lines begin to cancel short haul passenger runs and substitute motor buses on public high- ways? At present the railroads maintain ‘their right of way and pay heavy taxes on it. They can un- doubiedly eliminate a great deal of maintenance expense and saye much taxation on equipment if they operate buses over highways paid for by the taxpayers. As long as large bus companies, or small ones for that matter, are allowed to use the public roads for private gain there is no good reason why the railrdads should not avail themselves of these highways, especially in places where bus competition is making the operation of local trains unprofitable. The Only Policy Is Honesty The nation has been shocked by the sensa- tional disclosures and allegations that have been made in connection with the leasing of pub- lie oil lands. Government operation of properties in ques- tion would not have prevented a gimélar situa- tion from developing if government employes were inclined to well oil produced by the govern- ment in the same manner as it is alleged they leased lands belonging to the government. Questionable operating policies under govern- ment ownership of industries would cost the taxpayers ten times or a hundred times as much | as would questionable action of officials under a leasing system of public lands. ~ It is a most regrettable fact that the present | situation should have arisef at a time when the | development of natural resources on government land by private industry is so necessary and ! means so much to the west. | Regardless of the outcome of the present cases | it is to be hoped that the principle involved in the leasing policy of the government, which it took so many ta formulate and which even- | tually opened up vast resources for development, | will not be lost sight of as a result of this un- | fortunate circumstance. Honesty in public. office | | depends upon the moral stamina of men, just as! Its Own Family History Conditions prevafling in the Am- erican farming industry have ma- terially improved during the last two years. More legislation in- tened to help the farmer has been enacted during the past four years than dur‘ng any preceding fi{ty vests im our national history. But the farming utiustion is still so des per as to constitute a nation: emergency calling in the genéral fonal interest for emergency ieg- ivtation which wit! put American agriculture on {is feet. ‘lhe present depressed status, of agriculture .« ue in consiilerable measure to goveenmental interfer- ence during and since the World | it does in private business. | wear. During the war wheat prices were limited by law while general production costs were hoisted through excessive government ¢x- Fenditures, cost plus contracts, wage fixing, currency Inflation and There is a tremendous difference, when YOU} \.1¢r devices for price boosting. attempt to speak your piecé without knowing t, na when £m do know it. This is illustrated in the case of the Charleston, South Carolina, | News and Courier, which upon the eve of the oil | disclosureg took its Democratic contemporary, the New York Times, to task, along with other metropolitan newspapers, for missing the sig- nificance of the big things in the news of the day. The News and Courier thus opens a brief comment on the situation: “The big mttropolitan newspapers often miss by a million miles what the people of the coun- try are thinking. Thus the New York Times says:.“The disclosures concerning ex-Secretary Fall can have but one effect upon righ-thinking Americans. Their feeling will be that of shar- | ing in a national disgrace. Any thought of (ex: tracting partisan advantage out. of the humiliat- ing affair will be abhorrent to them.’ | Continuing in the strain to be expected of so} bitter a part publication as the News and | Courier it 1 at the door of the Republican party the guilt of the whole disreputable dis- closeures, which followed before the ink on the News and Courier had scarcely dried. The News and Courier proceeds without knowing its piece: “We don't believe that the people of the coun- try will feel that they are sharers in a national most thoughts in their mind will be a determina- tion to throw out of office the Republican re- actionaries who have proved that they cannot be trusttd and return to office the Democratic | party, which in the face of tlie severest possible test—the test of the great war has demon- strated that it is worthy of public trust. The difference between the Democratic and Republican parties of which the publie should} be acutely sensible just now is this: The Demo- } | cratic party is not tied up with oil magnates of vast wealth, multimillionaires, able and willing to issue bribes of hundreds of thousands of dol- lars, huge corporations whose profits are large- ly dependent on special legislation; the Repub- lican party, on the other hand, is tied up with these wealthy magnates and interests, is deeply indebted to them, and is therefore,~ likely, through the crookedness or weakness of Repub- lican office holders or Republican rings, to be- come their tool. “That is the really important practical lesson of the Fall disclosures with all their far-reach- disgrace. We hope and trust that one of the nina | ietributive ax industry The national government is still fixing transportation ‘rates and wages. Tt has encouraged man- ufactures by curtailing tho entry of cheap labor importattors from abroad. It has carried through a policy of deflation which has hit the farming industry hard. Well nigh confiscatory local and state taxes, due to the prevalent craze for more government, have added enormously to .the burdens of the farmer, who is also paying, indirectly if not directly, his full share of federal taxes, loaded in- «vitably upon the cost of whatever he has to buy, There is no more sininc delusion or sophistry in American politics than that the sum total of internal taxes is not assessed upon the sum total of liv ing costs, and that by “soaking the rich” in taxes you can relieve the general public from their ultimate ment. The emergency tariff law passed during the first few months of the Harding administration saved Amer- ican agriculture from utter ruin. Other helpful legislation has been enacted. But the farmer, with organized, distributive agencies organized and labor organized, remains the one Lig factor in American economic life which is compelled to both éell and buy in a market controlled by combination or cooperation on the part of others., Reduction of tariff on the things he buys would not help the farmer or any other con- samer. Distributive processes are |so complicatedyand highly organized that if every article bought in the American market were in ‘the free list the saving involved in pur- chase abroad would not reach the ultimate consumer, but be absorbed by the importer. and the distributor while on the other hand the result- ant depression In American produc- tive industry would impair the home market for farm products. The propensity of American ag- riculture lies at the basis of gener- al national prosperity. The prob- lem of the farmer is the problem of every American citizen. What will help the farmer will help all ing ramifications and corollaries. It will be strange if the voters in the next national elec- tion fail to take that lesson to heart.” As a matter of course a newspaper so blinded by its partisanship could not be expected to realize the bribery, corruption, graft and plain stealage permitted under the government when s Democratic party was ruining things any more than it could imagine that its own people other ciements in our industrial system. No progress will be made by tel!Ing the farmer that he has expanded too much, and that he has ovveloped, along with the rest of She American people, extrava- fant habits: The-serious fact con- fronting the country is that 25 per cent of che farmers of the country have lost their property during the could be involved in the oil scandal and be the biggest grafters in the ring and the most open and notorious violators of public trust and con- fidence. The News and Courier spoke before it had committeed its piece to memory, so it was, along with other rank partisan papers of its kind, given a severe jolt almost at once. A jolt that | made them all appear ridiculous, and all the fine words directed as a bommering at the Re- publican party returned to them in the ratio ut least six to one, past few years. Hundreds of thou sands of farmers, despite hard work, have been compelled to bor- row money to meet losses in oper: ation. High labor costs make the employment of help almost impos sible. High freight rates, high prices of commodities the farmer conaurfies, and an excessive spread betweer. what the farmer receives and what the consumer pays, have piaced the farmer, at a serious and specia! disadvantage. In the midst The News and Courier held up Mr. Fall as the horrible example. We approve of that*much of the job. He ought to be held up very high so that all could see him. We repudiate any man in the Republican party, who does as he has done. He-is out now, down and out. Hé has prob- ably a little money out of the*transaction that will never do him much good, for his character and reputation have been destroyed in the opin- ion of his fellow countrymen. But the attention of the News and Courier is directed to Messrs. | William G. McAdoo, Franklin K. Lane, Lindley W. Garrison and Thomas W. Gregory all cab- inet members under the preceding administra- tion, all Democrats, all more deeply enmeshed in the oil disgrace than Fall ever was. It was purely a difference in the style of graft. In the one case it was rather brutal and frank, in the other it was refined by employment at stupen- Gcus salaries that inno case could be honestly dous salaries that in no case could be honestly This is not saying any thing about Mr. Do- heny, himself, who did some considerable man- ipulating and hiring of these worthy Democrats, and who stood well enough with the Democratic party to be placed in nomination at the 1920 con- vention for vice president, and to later contrib- ute a large sum to the campaign war chest. Neither does it include George Creel, the lurid liar of war days, chosen as the Democratic ad- ministration’s publicity agent. here are six Democratic sinners, reekin with oil, to match up with our lone boob, Fall, who fell along with the rest, to the seductive velvet of oil lucre. The News and Courier did not know its piece when it spoke so glibly and handed the blame for all the official sins to the Republican party. It should have waited just long enough to know if it had any victims of its own in the upheaval. It should have known more about its own party family history. Z British Agreement Safe The labor government of Great Britain has let | | it be officially known that no attempt will be | made to alter the terms under which the Brit-| ish debf to the United States will be paid. Ap- parently all classes of the British people are! united in the determination to uphold their} country’s credit. Of course a few individuals are} found who are ready to denounce the Baldwin debt agreements, but their statements nierely serve to emphasize the prevulling sentiment throughout the country, of nutionsl prosperity he i in hard luc Naturaily the most conser- vi clemen: if cur citizenship, he is turning radical, and lending a willing ear to the outcry of dema- goges with quack remedies far wotse than the disease they are supposed to cure. It is up to the constructive ele- ments in American ‘politics to pro- vide relief. Emergency condi- tions require emergency legislation. ‘We did not hesitate to leave the beaten track of precedent and even of sound economics during the emer- gency of war to protect certain elements in industry from disaster. Temporary means of relief must now be developed to meet the farm- ing situation. Congress and the sountry must be prepared to go as far 4s may be necessary in tempo- rary expedients to meet temporary and emergency conditions. . Ordinarily the thought of the government buying surplus farm products at seasons when they are dumped on the market to be sold at the lowest competitive prices only to have them steadily increase in price before they reach the con- sumer, would seem to be a depar- But today the necessity of some such plan seems reasonably apparent. The American farmer must not be asked to market his 1924 crop at a loss. Hope must be held out to him of an opportunity to meet his obligations and put his business on a sound, profitable basis. In the nature of things the far- mer cannot organize his marketing activities as labor and manufactur- ers have done. As his financial resources diminish an increasingly large proportion of each crop is thrown upon the market when hai | 365 -|- 1 = 366 Your? The First Time in Four Years ture from sound economic practice. | surplus even to give it to the starv- ing millions of Europe than for to adopt many of the other means of helping foreign countries that seriously proposed. It is not sary however, to market the plus at a heavy loss, if there Joss at all. to owe more but to own more. He must be given a chance to get on his feet and work out his own sal- vation. The present conditions are in large part the creation of governmental interference. There should be enough more interference to help the farmer out of the hole. Congress would do well to turn its attention to this serlous prob- lem, far more important than any amount of scandal that could ema- nate from Capito! hill. There is time to pass legislation ensuring a sound basis for agricultural indus- try before the adjournment of the present Congress. Failure to do this would constitute a serious neglect of duty and be followed by the most disastrous national consequences. now be in the throes of a panic, with a tremendous army of the un- crease in the tariff on some farm products, notably wheat. A higher wheat tariff will not mean that a single American consumer will pay a cent more for a loaf of bread. Give necessary ald to the Amert!- can farmer, not merely because he is a farmer and a voter, but be- cause when one big element in American economic life ts helped. all others are helped. ‘This is a truth overlooked by the foes of the protective policy. It is overlooked by many commentarians on the farming situation. When the far- mer of the Northwést is helped, the manufacturer of the East and the miner of the West is helped. “It is a condition.” as President Cleveland once said, “and not a theory that confronts us." . Help the farmer now and thus help everybody. Piracy I wonder, I wonder about Genghis Kahn, When he'd razed some town to the ground, And tortured and murdered helpless men And women and children he found Did he go home with a_ satisfied smile On his face and much joy in his heart, Because he had given a few of the treasures To some museum of art? the I wonder, I wonder about Captain Kidd, When he sailed the Spanish Main. What did he do with the gold he took From the bodies of men he had slain? What did he do for the wives of « those He had buried beneath the foam? Did he open his heart and his pocketbook And found an Old Ladies’ Home? And Morgan! Morgan the pirate king! When he'd finished burning a village And had gathered together aboard his ship A huge store of loot and pillage, Did he think of the people he'd plundered and robbed And left with their dead to bury? I wonder if he turned philanthro- pist, And*built them a new Mbrary. Ouch. “What_are_you thinking about?” | expen: ‘Lines And Angles BY TED OSBORNE “Just nothing.” “You always were an egotist.” Dad—“What is Katherine doing tonight? Mother—"She is making a lobster salad.” Dad—“But aren’t lobsters out of season now?” Mother—Yes, they are. _Iymeant that one ts calling to see her_to- night.” One swallow doesn’t make a sum- mer, but it does make a law-breaker. Correct “How do you pronounce ‘de luxe'?”” “Just rhyme it with ‘looks’ and ‘crooks'“and you'll be near enough.” Headline—“Surgeon makes jaw: bone out of a rib.” Shades of Adam! What's new about that? 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