Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1924, Page 2

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We are reasonably certain that it is not to institute vaudeville shows or to establish schools for scandal. We find nothing in the books setting forth their duties as representatives of the people, authorizing the senate as a whole, or any com- mittee or sub-committee made up of members to drag citizens before it and cast suspicion of wrong doing upon them, slur them, vent po- litical spleen upon them without reasonable sus- picion that they have been engaged in illegal ship. The senate oil inquiry has now dragged through many weeks of time. The case against the oil industry has been tried in the newspap- ers and the Congressional Record. It has de- generated from a dignified and proper inquiry respecting acts performed and done by govern- ment officials under authority of acts by con- gress, to a political examination of public of- ficials past and present and business men from many walks of life. It is no longer an inquiry. It is an iniquitous inquisition. The most that can be said for the whole per- formance is that it has developed more back evidence, and less real pay. dift in corruption than any congressional inquiry in the history of the country. : The country is heartily tired of the asstunp- tions, insinuations and innuendoes emanating from this pettifogging flannel-mouthed Walsh person. His methods are offensive, and insulting and productive of no benefit to the matter of inquiry, a better knowledge of the case, or to the ultimate result of the investigation. The record is cluttered up with half truths, matters and things entirely foreign to the pur- poses of the investigation, private affairs of people outside the oil business or the leasing of oi! lands, scraps of telegrams having abso- lutely no bearing upon any phase of the affairs of government or any of its departments. From start to finish nothing has been proved in the way of guilt against anybody. Secretary Fall borrowed a hundred thousand dollars from Doheny and signed a lease for naval oil reserves, Doheny and Sinclair each paid ont a lot of money in'the way of fees to past high officials and in settlement of claims anl leases of lands they desired for oil operations. If any of these people are criminally guilty upon any evidence submitted, why delay, why not take the necessary steps to arre#t and prose- cute them in the federal courts. The legal machinery is ready, the special prosecutors are engaged, the expenes provided for, and the country wants to know, whether the whole thing is bushwa or if it is real. Let’s have the courts bring out the facts, and hand out the punishment, if anybody is guilty of anything and let the senate committee aban- don its third degree tactics. There is no question that any man so far named in any suspicious manner, whatsoever, will readily come into court and answer for any act public or private connected with the leasing of oil reserves from the government, or with the general conduct of the oil industry, if the court so desires. The oil industry is a perfectly legitimate one, The men concerned in it are perfectly honorable and in great part high class citizens. The bus'- uess is highly organized and the profits from it are large. That is one reason why demagogues like La Follette, Walsh and others of their type, for political reasons and for appeal to the mob, would bring it under suspicion. The people of the nation have the right to de- mand of the senate committee, pay dirt in rot tenness, or a closing down of the side show, Both Are Necessary object of the business of slaugh- tering and packing meat foods in this country is to supply everybody in every part of the United States with the kind of meats he desires, in the quantity he desires and at reasonable cost, Therefore both local and national packers are necessary. These two important facts must be dealt with. Three-fourths of the marketable livestock is raised west of the Mississippi river And the most important meat consuming o ters are east of the Mississippi river. More than fifty millions of our people live a long way from the states where moat of our meat supplies are produced. National packers are therefore needed as the long link between the stock farm and the con- sumers’ market basket. Here are some of the things they do: They convert the surplus livestock of the far-| ‘available supply of meat foods to the country at large. The national packer has little choice about his purchases. He must take what comes at the time it comes and meet the competition of others in determining the price he will pay. They provide facilities for manufacturing meat products most economically, shipping them at the least expense, carrying over products from seasons of greatest roduction to seasons of lower production, thus helping to prevent wide fluctuations in prices both to the farmer and consumer and in the sup- ply of food. National service requires large investment in packing plants, scattered advantageously about and storage facilities for) “Plumed Knight” Perhaps the late President Roose- velt will be “Teddy” familiarly to jcoming generations, but such in- stances have not been numerous in American politics, Generally, our , Political heroes have passed into his- tory as dignified characters with- out nicknames indiscriminately bestowed. eee Doubtless President Andrew Jack- “ ” to his the country, in refrigerator cars, branch houses, | 80" Wal ihe: “ad Shouery: large capacity coolers for storage and many other things that go with the business. These are simply the visible and physical as- pects of a national packing business. Back of them there must be an organization of men high ly trained in a business filled with difficulties. ” Each community must be assured of a steady supply of the particular kind of meat which are most favored locally. The machinery must so operate that the farm- er shall get cash for his livestock, although sales of meat products are made to retailers on credit. It is obvious that the local packer cannot as- sume such a national task. In his own territory however, he makes a local market for livestock o| which would otherwise have to be shipped to more distant markets. In short, both local and national packers, per- form useful service, each in his own field, and -| neither could give so well the special service performed by the other. At all stages, from buying live animals to selling the meat, every national packer encoun- ters active competition from both local and oth- er national packers, To meet such competition the national packer is forced to do a large valume of business, on a small margin of profit per unit of product. He must utilize the by-products of the industry to the utmost extent, and market his products where and when they are in greatest demand. Tke competition thus engendered is both heal- thy and advantageous to all interests concerned. Inquiring of Mr. McAdoo “If the law practice and the private business of candidates for the presidency, Republicans and Democrats alike, are to be the issue in the forthcoming campaign, instead of principles and policies which concern the welfare and future of the American people, then I suggest that all candidates for the presidency be asked to appear before an investigating committee of the senate or the house and give the intimate details of their professional and private affairs,” Thus declares Mr. William G. McAdoo. And then the Worcester Telegram plunks a few ques- tions at him that will require some time for him to amxwer satisfactorily to the public: “Those who criticize Mr. McAdoo do not want to make his law practice and his private busi- ness the issue in the coming campaign. That is one reason why they don’t want him nominated. They know that if he should be nominated the people would be talking about his law practice instead of national principles and policies. They would be talking about this because Mr. McAdoo would’ be talking about the oil scandal. One of the chief features in thei] ‘scandal is. Mr. Do- heny, who fo’ erly employed Mr. McAdoo. As soon as Mr. Doheny told the senate investigators that Mr. McAdoo was one of his lawyers, Mr. McAdoo promptly severed the. connection. Mr. McAdoo keeps saying this connection was per- fectly proper and that it had ‘nothing to do with the ofl scandal.’ The public has taken him at his word. But if his Doheny connection was per- factly preper, why did he sever it as soon as the public found out about it? Did Mr. McAdoo formerly believe that Mr. Doheny was crooked when dealing with oil fields in the United States but that he was perfectly upright McAdoo not stick by to do some more perfectly proper in connection with his Mexican oil business? If it was proper for Mr, McAdoo to do Mexi- can work for Mr. Doheny before the senate be-|! why is it not proper]! for Mr. McAdoo to do Mexican work for ‘Mr. f Does Mr. McAdoo now believe |/ that Mr. Doheny is not a proper person for Mr. |/ gan its oil investigation, Doheny now? McAdoo to work for under any circumstances? If so when did Mr, McAdoo reach this conclu- sion? Was it before Mr, Doheny told the senate investigators about Mr. McAdoo’s work for him? Then why didn’t Mr, McAdoo sever the connec- tion before Mr. Doheny gave his testimony? Or didn’t Mr. McAdoo discover that Mr. Doheny was not a proper person to work for until the day Mr, Doheny spilled the beans, February 1, 1924? If so, where was Mr. McAdoo between October 22, 1923, when the senate public lands committee began its inquiry and February 1, 1924? Didn’t he know that an oil lease investiga- tion was on? Was he 30 busy lining up delegates for the Democratic national convention that he didn’t notice the newspapers? Or did he forget about his Doheny connection until Mr. Doheny’ told the public about it? “Does Mr. McAdoo, after all, believe that Mr, Doheny is a perfectly proper person to work for? Did Mr. McAdoo sever his Doheny connec- tion. simply because he feared the public would distrust him if he continued in Mr. Doheny’s employ, simply as a matter of political expedi- ency? If so, why blame Democrats who suggest it would be politically expedient for their party to nominate a man who has never worked for Mr. Doheny or any other oil man? To put it another way, if the public could not be trusted to put entire faith in Mr. McAdoo as a present and future employe of Mr. Doheny, how can the public be trusted to put entire faith in Mr. Me- Adoo as 2 past employe of Mr, Doheny? Don’t Omit Anything The country will be very well satisfied to see! an honest, ,orderly and ‘conscientious investi: | gation of the Veterans’ bureau the Shipping Board, the Air Craft Board and the work of the Alien Property Custodian. But why, when all these other matters are being loc into, is the record of the railroad administ ion being verlooked? That cost the country several hun. ed millions of dollars in cold cash, beside put ting the transportation facilities of the country so distinctly to the bad that they have only just recovered from the shock. Why neglect the rail road administration when everything else is be- ing touched up? McAdoo saya that invol ng lim in the oil scandal is purely political. If he will take the trouble to think the matter over, he will ch away producing sections into meat foods for the millions of people in non-produciny sections. They provide a national (and international) ash markets for the farmers, und a constantly 1 the conclusion that it was for the very same re son Mr. Doheny hired-him in the first place. He was of no yalue as a lawyer, when dealing| } with oil fields in Mexico? If 80, why does Mr.|; Mr. Doheny ‘and be ready |! work for him]; admirers for many years to come, because the nickname {s recalled in the yearly “Jackson dinners” of our | Democratic clubs. But few people jtoday would think of Henry Clay as Harry.” of Stephen A. Douglas as he little giant,” or of “Frank” | Pierce. In the latter years of James G. Blaine’s public life he was admir. | ingly referred to as “the plumed knight,” from an eloquent phrase in By ELDEN SMALL. and “Black Jack” & speech by Col. Robert G. Inger- soll, naming the Maine statesman for president tn the Cincinnati con- vention. In the 1888 campaign his running mate, Gen. John A. Logan, was called “Black Jack,” a nick- name fondly bestowed by his sol- diers in the Civil war because of his swarthy complexion. In the torch- light parades of this campaign the Republican marchers wore shiny ‘eather capes and helmets with white plumes. : eee Allen G. Thurman, Democratic candidate for vice president that year, was known as “the Old Ro- man,” and Democratic marching clubs made spectacular use of big red-and-white bandana handker- chiefs, presumed to typify his sim- plicity (and hence honesty) of char- acter. (Copyright.) Lines-And Angles BY TED OSBORNE A Catas When Tom cats fight Almost all night, For the hand of tabby so small; When the strongest has won And the other has run Clear off of the top of the wall; When the winning cat howls And snarls and yowls, And his soul mate answers -his call, And they sit and spoon In the light of the moon, And they sing of love on the wall; Then I fire a shoo And a curse or two, And heartily pray one -will fall. It isn't that I object to a cat, For I don’t. I object to the waul. Gave Him Away. “What makes you think I've got @ sense of humor,” “Your self-appreciation.” Quite a Surprise. “I can't understand how you have the presumption to think I would permit my daughter to become your wife,” said the rich but disagree- able old ma: “It does seem rather surprising.” sald the young man who had asked the question the old man haf just answered. “But cheer up. ou're not half as badly upset as I was when sho suggested it te‘ me.” , The Biter Mit. Gunman—“Ha, haf I fooled you, all right. This flere gun ain't loaded.” “Don't mention it, old fellow. That roll I gave you was stage money.” Uncle Hook Says. “I don't object ter a man tellin’ all he knows ef he sure enough knows and honestly knows all he tells."” ; ‘ CHEESE IS DEAD Feb. 19th, 1924: “Cheese is Dead.’) ‘What, what, what? Cooks and Cood Housekeepers calize the superiority of Baker’s Chocolate (Premlum No. 1) for making cakes, pies, puddings, fudges, ices, etc, Be sure that you get the genuine, in the blue wrapper and yellow. label with the trade- mark of the Choc- olate Girl on the back. Made only by Walter Baker & Co.Lra. Established 1780 Mills at Dorchester, Mass. and Montreal, Canada BOOKLET OF CHOICE RECIPES SENT FREE INCOME TAX SERVICE C. H. REIMERTH Certified Public Accountant 400—401 O-S Bldg. Phone 767 Quick Service on Packing and Crating Phone 948 and 949 Natrona Transfer Storage & Fuel Co, Gebo Coal ‘Report from the produce market, What's this news I've read? Sad news, Bad news, Comes o'er the burning wire, Bringing me tidings dire, Making me near expire, Nervous and overwrought. ‘What is this news? It's dead! Mr. Vanderlip contended that his purpose was to give publicity to certain rumors so that they might be the more successfully refuted. The Marion Star, in its action against Mr. Vanderlip, seems to be willing to assist him in the realiza- tion of that purpose.—Troy Times. So far as the political fortunes of McAdoo are concerned, the sudden announcement, at the most tense moment in the ofl scandal, that he was on the Doheny payroll was cer- tainly sot conducive to the health of hie candidacy for public office.— New. York Herald. Vanderlip was president, not so long ago, of one of Random Newspaper Opinion NOW LOCATED IN OUR OWN BUILDING McKINLEY AND YELLOWSTONE use and the waste of words—Los Angeles Times. “Stop, thief!" Of course, ‘There is so much strife, ‘woe, outery in Washington that it is not eS = = strange that people would want to take a look at those who are doing the yelling.—Houston Post. But all this news ts left unread When we hear tha: cheese is dead. Hearts are with anguish torn, Heads are bowed. while Left here sad and forlorn: Cheese is dead! It came as a great surprise. ‘We never dreamed That we would witness tts demise; So strong it seemed. ‘Yet, what is strength? A power “much greater ‘Will come for all of us sooner or later. And now Its soul fs in the skies It sees the world with brighter eyes. For it has gained the heav‘nly rize Pi It had no gold or other pelf, But it was holiness itself. And now from the eath it has fled— Cheese is dead. People come from far and near, From all degrees, > To slowly pass around the bier And cheese. Memories of days gone by Put a tear In every eye— A wistful tear they shed. The cheese has heard the message stern, In the creamatory it shall burn. It came from a mould—to mold re- turn, Cheese is dead. banks in the world. Recently he said he quit that honorable post “in order to gain a chance to think.” It is more than plain that he has failed to attain his stated purpose. —St. Louls Times. 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