Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1924, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT Che Casper Daily Cribune MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fated Press is exclusively entitled to the of all news credited in this paper 1 news published herein. The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening an¢ | The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas per, Wyoming. Publ cation offices: Tribune Building, ever had anything to do with oil is a crook. The score simply extends the same ingenious theory to Democrats, with the result that the senator's party leads by the commanding score of 10 te 5. “At this rate of progress, of hitting two Demo- cratic heads for every one Republian, Senator Walsh ought to have no diffieulty in eliminat- ing every possible Democratic rival for the pres- opposite postoffice. | idency by convention time and the entire Demo- Too Far Gack’ - ——— . ,Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second) cratic party from office on election day. phe oie partis pig Te class matter, November 22. 1916. : x oe pee sy Business Telephones scone, “St | Confronting Walsh With History | s4oNew York World. i Drench) Teepe a Senator Walsh, of Montana, just now is se- ‘ee aa verely critical of the wisdom of public mare The ai 3 és y. NWAY who leased the operation of government o' S| atts or po nig: reed Se Sar ged J.B. HANWAY and EB. E. HA. to private individuals and tions.’ “Hel ine as whetticc she tere toot tie Advertising leapt omer enti Bidg.. cns-| has publicly challenged the legality of their pro-; when she cackles—West Plains Bes in aes Bate ee York ay: Globe Bidg.,| cedure and brought into question their honor. Journal. orton, Stans.” Suite 40f sharon Bldg. 95 New Mone) But he is a very recent convert to the view Yo, Ho, M'Lads ew York, Chicago, Boston, | ices and visitors are welcome. | nclsco off Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State One Year, Davy and Sunday - One Year, Sunday Only -. Six Months Daily and Sunday -. Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Dally and Sunday mgt 2. Pine ORE ties By Mail Inside State One Year, Dally and Sunday One Year, Sunday Only ---. Six Months Daily and Sunday Three Months, Daily and Sunday One Month, Dally and Yee Ji subscriptions must pal pally ‘Tribune wll not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becornes one month In arrears. KICK. IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR TRIBUNE. If you don’t find your Tribune after looking care- fully for it, call 15 or 16 and it will be delivered to you py special’ messenger. Register complaints beforo 8 o'clock = 2.38) -15} 05 | People Against Bonding Apparently, the people of Natrona county are not in favor of a half million dollar bonded in- debtedness for the purpose of erecting a new court how The vote taken yesterday very clearly disclosed the fact that the people took but little interest in the matter, but of those who did take the trouble to go to the polls their yote was decisive. The city voted over five to one against the proposition and from what can be learned of the outlying districts the _ Vote} will match up with the city’s vote in opposition. It is well to have a decision from the people, that will settle the matter for the time being and for some stretch in the future. And the only way was by referendum. It is in no sense a de- feat or a victory for anyone. The county commis- sioners had received appeals sufficient to de- mand action of some sort and they took the only | action possible—referred the questionto the} qualified voters. They were aware at the time| the proposal was certain of defeat. | The county will find it no great hardship to} do business in the present building for several years, until the proper arrangements can be} concluded for a proper building in a more suit- able location. When that time rolls around the people will likely have an entirely different view than at present held. The next proposal submitted should be more comprehensive, It should not only ask for a bond issue but for views ‘on a choice of loca- tion. . Governmental Overload Like Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who com. plained the other day of the growth of bureau cracy and unnecessary governmental machinery in this supposedly individualistic nation, for- mer Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana urges the younger men of the country to resist paternalistic overlegislation and overregulation of industry and commerce. “The country is smothered by statutes,” said Mr. Beveridge the other day in an address in St. Lonis. The expense of government has swollen to dropsical bulk; there is today a gov- ernment employee for every eleven Americans over sixteen years of age; the bureacratic mech- anism is so cumbersome and intricate that no one understands it and many superflous laws are of a character to breed hypocricy and fur- tive nullification. Mr. Beveridge summed up the needs of the day in this neat epigram—‘Fewer laws better enforced, less government better administered; more liberty better ordered.” That is an excellent formula, but it should be supplemented, especially for the benefit of the younger citizens about to enter business, professional or public life, by a definite pro- gramme of repeal, economy and a simplification of Jaw and governmental machinery. The Score to Date The New York Tribune has been checking the politics of the gentlemen who failed to get through the senate’s net of suspicion in oil mat- ters, and are therefore candidates for the guillo- tine. To date, our friends the Democrats who hoped to smear us so thickly with crude that we would never be fit to appear in public, have themselves received the dose they intended for us. The Tribune says of the situation: “Senator Walsh has now wandered, so far} away from his quarry that one has to search! the memory to recall that he is supposed to be stalking wicked oil leases, not apples, peaches or cherries. He did take up Teapot Dome and} California for a while, but never to produce! any evidence as to the leases, whether they were| good or bad for the government. They are still excellent bargains for the nation, so far as the} record goes, “For weeks he has been conducting not an investigation but an oil-slinging contest. Not facts as to oil, or leases or conservation but! political reputations are his target. Ie grips handfuls of the oozing stuff and flings them! wherever he sees a Republican head. “It is a miry political game that the senator | of the le: |of its course. Natural w he has so, lately been expounding. The records show that until a few weeks ago he was one of ling advocates of the policy of leasing! public oil lands both on and off the naval re- serves. ‘The insincerity, demagoguery and partisan- ship of Walsh’s criticism of Secretary Denby, whose actions in connection with the naval oil reserves was taken under the provisions of the | leasing act of 1920 is exposed by the fact that Walsh was one of those who led the fight for the enactment of the leasing bill. This act was introduced in the senate and was 3] known as Senate bill No. 2775. It was debated throughout the latter half of the year 1919 and became a law Februhry 25, 1920. The senate de- bates from July, 1919, to February, 1920, upon this bill show Senator Walsh devoted pages to argument in support of the measure. The record also shows that not a Democratic vote was cast against the bill. In fact, there was no opposition to it. On its passage there was not even the for- mality of a roll call, Senator Walsh not only was a leader in de- bate on the senaate floor in support of this act, but in the course of that debate he took oc- casion to boast of the fact that he himself was the father of the idea of leasing the government oil lands to private parties for exploitation up- on, the royalty baris. On September 3, 1919, in enlleavoring to escape the charge of Senator La- Follette that he was inspired in some measure by friendship for Standard Oil interests, Sena- tor Walsh said: “The genesis of this bill goes back to a bill which was introduced in 1913 or 1914, it being in all essential particulars like this, although, of course, differing somewhat in detail. That bill was introduced by myself, having been prepared by a committee called together by Secretary Lane, consisting of the chairman of the com- mittees on Public Lands, the chairman of the committees on Mines and Mining and the chair men of the committees on Agriculture of the Sen- ate and House of Representatives.” Senator Walsh fathered another bill which he has seen fit to forget during the past few weeks. It was Senate bill No. 45, printed in the hearings before the Committee on Public Lands of the United States senate, Part I, on June 13, 1917. That bill, bearing Senator Walsh's name, introduced and fathered by him, gave ad- ministration of all oil deposits in the United States to the secretary of the interior, clothing him with the broadest possible discretionary powers as to the disposition and development of those deposits. Section 15 of that bill provided that such deposits “may be leased by the sec- retary of the interior through competitive bid- ding, or such other methods as he may adopt by general regulations * *-#,” So Senator Walsh, in 1917, was willing to let the secretary of the interior have power to lease oil reserves without competitive bidding, a pol- icy which Senator Walsh in 1924 denounces in vituperative language. Senator Walsh, in supporting the leasing act of 1920, advanced two reasons why it was not only wise but necessary for the protection of the government oil reserves that they be leased on a royalty basis: (1) That it was impossible for the government to develop these lands it- self; (2) that wells being driven by private com- panies immediately outside but adjacent to, gov- ernment reserves were draining the oil from un- der the government reserves and therefore it was necestary as a iaatter of self defense for the government to open up its reserves and pro- tect its own oil. His first argument he advanced tedly in debate during the six months the bill was under discussion in the senate, Probably his most con- cise statement of this position is found: in his remarks of August 25, 1919. On that occasion he said: “Here are altogether 40,000,000 acres of land out west that may contain oil. Nobody knows. The government of the United States is not go- ing to take any chances upon drilling over this 40,000,000 acres for the purpose of discovering oil. The government of the United States can not afford to go into the oil prospecting busi- ness. It would be an awful abuse; it would be an imposition upon the taxpayers of this country to take money out of the treasury and utilize it in prospecting for oil every where recognized as so hazardous a business that a trustee would be subject to criminal prosecution if he put the trust funds entrusted to his care in an enter. prise of that character; and accordingly by this measure we invite anybody who desires to take the hazard, who is willing to take the chance. to go out on this 40,000,000 acres of land, tak. ing a prospectin; ermit covering 2.5 and take Wie chance Sema 2 0 =e ee National Disgrace Mr. Speaker, what is national what stuff is it composed? Is a nation disgraced because its flag is insulted—because its seamen are impressed—because its course upon the high- way of the ocean is obstructed? No sir. Ab. stractly considered, all this is no°disgrace. Ty cause all this may happen to a nation so yw as not to be able to maintain the dignity of flag or the freedom of its citizens or the disgrace? Of its r the safety reakness is never dis- from Montana is playing. But it has its lighter side. Not the least amusing point is that the mire which Senator Walsh has been slinging has played no favorites and has descended upon Democrats and Republicans alike — especially Democrats with presidential ambitions. Witness the following score to date “Demoe i—Doheny, Zevely, McAdoo, rri- wn, Lane, Gregory, Creel, McLean, Palmer and ncis McAdoo. Republicans, Fall, velt, and Daugherty. “There are some ommissions from both sides Obviously each column includes men of complete integrity and honor. These are assailed only up: on Senator Walsh's theory that indiscriminate abuse is evidence and that any Republican who Sinclair, Denby, Roose- grace. But, sir, this is disgrace, } mit to insult and to injur | power to prevent or redress. stituents are want of sense ; When a nation with ample | fense is so thick in the brain | into’a suitable state of pr. | with sufficient muscular fore, spirit as to seek safety not in when we sub- which we have thu - Its essential con. or want of spirit. means for its de- not to put them ation: or when, it is so tame in nantly efforts but | in retirement, then a nation is disgraced; then it jshrinks from its high and sovereign character jinto that of the tribe of Issachar, crouching down between two burdens—-the French burden on the one side and the British on the other- | so dull, so lifeless, so stupid that, were it cor | for its braying. it could not from the clod of the valley January 25, 1812. be distinguished Josiah Quincy, Jy | rt The appointment of Governor Dix- on of the good old seafaring State of Montana as Secreta: of the Navy would be fine if an able as- sistant could be secured from Kan- sas or Arizona.—New York World. Bedlam Located The people out in the states are calm enough. The excitement is all in Washingtou.. Moreover, the congressional interpretation of the public mind ts not regarded as en- tirely accurate by those who are looking on.—Houston Post. Minds Congressman Cole, Eighth Ohio district, in a message to his con- stituents, says that the ordinary citizen contributes almost nothing to the Federal taxes. It must have taken a primary to get that bright mind into congress.—Minneapolis Journal. Chaperone Needed A “virgin oil field has been dis. covered in Alaska that has as great Possibilities as Teapot Dome,” says Alfred H. Brooks, chief of the Geological Survey. In that case we have grave fears for the young thing's future character.—New Or- leans Times Picayune. Alice Still At It . Miss Alice Robertson, former con- gresswoman from Oklahoma, | is happy again, Having been dis- missed as welfare ‘director of the Oklahoma Soldiers’ Memorial hospi- tal, at Muskogee, for making politi- cal speeches, she is standing the Sooner State on its head by her ac- tivities as president of the Wo- men's Coolidge-for-President club in Oklahoma City.—St. Paul Pioneer Pre: Riding For A Fail The most interesting question of the moment—excluding all that r late to Mr. Dougherty—is whethes or not the coalition of Demoer: and_ insurgents who still ttur. themselves us Republicans can at tain that degree of wisdom which involves inewing when and where to stop. It looks as if they couldn't, but rather would ride for the ‘worst kind of a cropper by grossly over- speeding. Taxes on gifts and in- creased duties on cigarettes may Prove to be quite popular, the with reverse of even the _ blessed it is oll, But whatever develops, quite impossible for Senator Walsh himself or for the Senate as a whole to escape the fact that they advocat- ed and legislated the policy of oil leases that Secretary Denby pro- Posed and that Secretary Fall ex- ecuted. That makes no difference with the question of moral turpitude, what- ever it may have been, in connection with the matter but ft {ll behooves either side of the Senate to assume a position of honest surprise and dissent as to the A i E # fi : 5 : ii $i Hl i H a gr 5 E iy FA your going out nights. g Fa ARE Ht | How He Arranged It. You ‘wife no The flapper knows that she gen-|manage it?” erally plays a winning hand when Someone else holds it. She knows that elders who criticize her were themselves criticized by their elders, and therefore she takes thetr critic- proval as justly due,—Washington leasing policy.| Post. In considering the presidential campaigns in America in which-a distinctive and forceful political slogan has been coined by a parti- san group end sused effectively to influence the result of the election, perhaps place of highest importance must be given to the battle-cry of the Democratic Party in the Polk- Clay contest of 1844. To the en- thusiasm it aroused in the country| is general conceded a larger part of responsibility for the election of the former. i The meaning of the slogan was that the Democratic Party, if suc- cessful, intended to demand of Great Britain admission of this country’s legal right to the territory| treaty with great Britain by whose, between the Rocky Mountains and terms the boundary line was per- the Lake of the Woods as far north as the line of 54 degrees 40 minutes; north latitude. BY TED OSBORNE Heroism. ~ you get “How aia that war ism, ma’am: a guy twice my size.” I took it off The other day { I went to a Wedding - And as T Cast my. eyes Over a stack of ‘5 Gifts and things The thought Struck me that The beginning of the Wedding ceremony Should be changed. ou Know thedolksWho live here drink Butter Nut Pow gree rcsivs shipments of Butter-Nut Sips flavor will be | | d 0 Lage lest. life are Coffee. . 54-40 OR FIGHT?’ By ELDEN SMALL Under a previous ar-| « And all along the avenue pick them---these homes of good taste where the better things of fi jated Women know there is nothing that cont: butes so much to the ep- Preciation of a good meal as the exquisite flavor of Butter - Nut Inthese homes of good taste Butter- rangement Great British claimed the country as far south as the 42d degree and for some time there had been a plan whereby the final settle- ment of the line had ben held in abeyance, both countries occupying the dtsputed territory together. By “Easily. ‘ aE if I began smoking In the sue longer objects to How do you ‘Wifte—“I wish to goodness that you would learn to keep your temper, John.” ty Hubby—"All right, dear. to keep mine if you'll try to lose yours.”” TH try 1844, however, there had been a’~ great Influx of American settle- ment there, and many statesmen saw need of final adjudication of the question. Although the campaign cry of! “54-40 of Fight” swept the popular fancy and the country, the success- ful Polk administration shortly afterward framed a compromise manently fixed at 49 degrees north latitude. (Copyrighted.) Lines And Angles It ought to start: “Know all men By these . Presents. Kind-hearted Woman—"S0 you have been out of work for three mcnths, You poor man, that is Pitiable. And what sort of work did you do then?” Weary -Willie—"I posted a letter for a gent.” i Practically Strangers. 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