Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 9, 1924, Page 22

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IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR TRIBUNE n't find your Tribune after looking care- * 16 and it will be delivered to you Register complaints beforo 8 The Situation Changes Mr. Coolidge ‘as the nominee of the Republican nd appealing to the conservative ele the voters, would doubtless have his| majority in the fall elections materially in-| creased if Mr. McAdoo were to be the candidate of the Democrats. The latter would gather to him the votes of lack the support of the old school Democrats who can intelligently appraise the sound policies of the Coolidge administration. But the disclo- sures of the senate oil investigation appear to liave seriously impaired McAdoo’s chance for the radical element, but would | carrying sa | will ine. | Our national policy should include the protec- ion of American interests in oil fields developed in other nations, at least to .the extent of guar- anteeing the right to purchase naval supplies at fair prices. | Our national oil policy should anticipate our needs from ten to fifty years for domestic and | government uses. We should never abandon the American prin- eguard the country against an oil fam- capital in the development of the oil industry. We need the full force of American enter- i lay of individual initiative in 1 others. World War this sound Amer- rs the American people the cheap- est supply of fuel oil and all kinds of oil pro- ductions of any country in the world. We had practically unrestricted use of oil, one of the greatest blessings of modern times. ican polic A Million a Day While it is important that public attention should be directed to the developments of the oil investigation, there concern which it will be folly to neglect. Among these is the necessity of adopting some sort of plan which will insure the permanent mainten- ace of a merchant marine. We have reached an agreement with the principal nations of the earth as to the relative strength of our fighting navy. That agreement provides that we shall be on an equality with Great Britain, but ex- perience has shown t we cannot wage a war without ‘merchant ships. If the war is at home we need the ships to bring in supplies from abroad; if the war is to be fought in other lands we need the ships to carry our armies abroad and to keep them supplied with food and muni tions. Nevertheless, under the present trehd of steadily losing our merchant ma- events We are rine, Recently compiled statistics show that we are only 40 per cent of foreign commerce, and, if the oil tank ships be eliminated, we are carrying only 31 per cent. No one proposes that we shall carry 100 per cent of our ocean commerce. The most that any- one has asked is that we should carry not less the nomination. With him out of the field, the| than 50 ver cent. No American should be satis- situation must be sized up anew, Of course there are other more or less radical candida | around whom much of the McAdoo strength will gather, but some of the more conservative aspi rants may also expect some of the McAdoo sup port. A candidate like Senator Underwood would attract support of a different sort than that commanded by McAdoo, leaving the lower str of intelligence in the Democratic ranks to 3 »out somebody who mighte be named by the} ‘armer-Laborites or some other third party. Conservative Democrats n look with relish upon the practical elimination of Mr. McAdoo. > can those who want to see a third party en- tered in the presidential ra So, also, can the Republicans, who are bound to gain whether their opponents stand solidly behind a man of the McAdoo stripe or whether they split into two camps, each with its respective leader. The Shinbone Market As a general thing, the United States imports Taw material and exports the manufactured But this process is being reversed in of the mah jong sets that enter this country. It seems they have their origin in the Ohicago abattoirs. The other day three carloads of selected shin bones from cows were exported to Japan, whence they will be sent to China to be manufactured into “east wind: vest winds,” “four seasons,” etc. and then brought back to this country for the entertainment of American faddists. Here is an apparent need for a higher rate in our tariff law. There is no reason in the world why our own workmen should not make the games with which they and the rest of our peo- ple find enjoyment, especially when the material that enters into their construction is obtained in this country. But of course our wage earners cannot compete with Chinamen working under their native standards of living, even after ocean freight rates to and from China are added to the cost of their product. The evolution of the mah jong sets offers a striking endorsement of Republican policie: ly Bureaucracy Enemy of Labor According to recently published statements, Samuel Gompers, now and for more than forty years head of the American Federation of La- bor, recently sounded a warning against polit- ical control and manipulation of industry. “I greatly fear a political bureaucrac said. “The portent of such a great mac alarming. “Our government, which, as an institution, I regard as the best in the world, is thoroughly competent in the realm of political affairs and it is just as thoroughly incompefent outside of that realm. ny effort to reconcile the political machine with the varied industrial divisions and require- ments of the country can result only in hopeless complication and conflic “I have said repeated the overwhelming senti of the organi: Wage earners, that politi government is in competent to direct the world of industry “It is my belief that if the masses of our peo ple were fully bus of what is taking place lamor for government dom. ion of industry A Better Oil Policy There is necessity for a firmer national policy in dealing with the problems growing out of the | oil industry in this country. It is a well-known fact that production of erude oil was declining and the amount held in storage was declining under restrictive conser vation policies Then laws were enacted permitting leases of oil lands held in national reserves and under this stimulus production of crude oil began to inierease. | It is claimed upon good authority that thirty years will see the exhaustion of supplies in some of the largest oil fields in the country. Of course, it must be apparent that under fair 1d liberal conditions for production new fields may be discovered in the United States and its | possessions in the coming thirty y It may be possible at the end of tl production of have incr even beyond the vidly growing demands of the present. ' Conservation of the oil supply, prevention of waste and scientific advance in manufacturing t time the | sed | t | have risen from 100 to 300 pe: es: | and from 70 to 80 fied with a policy that provides for less than that proportion to be carried in ships bearing the American flag. It has been common knowledge for many re that foreign ships can conduct carrying le le cost than possible to American shipping paying American wages and maintain- ing American standards for ship employes Those who oppose the maintenance of an Ameri- can merchant marine make the very plausible comment, “Well, if other nations can carry our goods at less cost why not let them do it.” At first glance this will appear to many as a con- clusive argument but experience has shown that although foreign ships are able to carry our commerce at less cost than it can be carried in American ships, they actually carry at less cost only so Jong as necessary to drive our ships off the seas. When they have a monopoly of our carrying trade they raise their rates. An illustration of the methods pursued by our competitors was cited recently by a member of the Shipping Board who recalled the experience of American cement producers who, in 1915, se- cured what was considered a desirable contract in Br no American steamship line existing at the time to carry the cement, and European lines at once raised the rates for trans portation so high that the order was canceled. For similar reasons when American manufact- urers were the lowest bidders on fifty locomo- tives to be delivered in Argentina the freight rate was immediately raised to such an extent that the contract was lost and American work- men lost the wages they would have received if the work had been done in American mills, The fact is that foreign ships are willing to carry our commerce for less than our own ships can carry it, if they are compelled to do so in order to get the traffic. As soon as American ships are driven ott of “business, foreign ship lines will raise the rates ¢ high as possible. In round figures we are paying over a million dollars a day for the carrying of our ocean com- merce. At least half of that ought to be paid to American ships. Sixty-six per cent of Great Bi n’s trade with other nations is carried un- the British flag. Ninety-four per cent of her commerce with her colonies is carried in Eng- lish ships. We are not jealous of her success in these particulars, but we may very reasonably ask that at least fifty per cent of our own com- merce, export and import, shall be carried in American bottoms. Agriculture, Freight and Taxation The farmers are vy aking up to the fact that the taxgetherer is a greater enemy than the middle- man or the railroads, Offers to reduce freight rates and market his crops are made by the sume politicians who have piled up confiscatory taxes. The average taxes on farm lands in 1922 were a hundred and twenty-six per cent greater than in 1914—and that for the whole United State: ailroad rates are not much higher than in 1914, and the middleman is not more exacting or vicious than he was eight years ago. * In South Dakota tax on farm lands has jump- ed in cight years from 27 cents an acre to 80 cents an ae In Towa from 69 cents to $1.49. In Idaho from 59 cents to $1.40, ce Im Kansas, North Dakota, Montana, W; ton and Minnesota the burdens of state Ma 10 r cent in ten years. __' cost two million dollars to run the Wise sin government in 1900 and in 1999 it cost § 000,000. In 1910 firat ¢1 nilroads paid 000,000 taxes, and in 19 34,000,000. he last thirty the railroads were Paying at the r; of a million dollars a day, per cent of this went to defray ate governments. b the expense of st In his annual report for 1 Ag i ulture Wallace sq id that chiefly western, farmers h: of their incomes to tax col Secretary of in some states, ad paid out one-third lectors. ‘retary, “the squander in- while lues decrease, and the tax- “8 friends of the farmers, still call for t of government tod: al, is nearly > State and feder- Mishe cts pita; and it is going up townships cities, towns, counties and Are er nce a Fs willing ‘ Anpsba atal patriotic citizens in runniz adie waste and combine the spendthrifts? ramseans. 02 hor cia at: Adoo’s Triends assert that he is going ta ick. They will find, in that event, that his oi] utation will do the same thing. re » See ciple of fair treatment to those who invest their are other matters of public! the ocean-bound | wrecked the Mellon tax plan. Heav-|immigrants. But it can not permit en help us if the financing of the} itself to be made a dumping ground. country falls into the hands of the/—Fort Wayne Sentinel. Democrats.—Los Angeles Times. “I profess, Sir, in my career, to have kept steadily in view the pros- Perity and honor of the whole coun- tty." If only those memorable words, uttered more than ninety- four years ago, by perhaps the greatest of all senators in perhaps the greatest of all senatorial speech- could only be repeated truly by every member of both houses of congress, there would be no -oc- casion for the grave admonition im- Plied in Mr. Wison's words, and the Nation would not suffer from the manifold evils which are inflicted upon it through the prevalence of the state of affairs which he de- scribed. It is for every senator and representative to get himself into Webster's frame of mind, to realize that he is not merely a senator from Massachusetts or a representative from such or such a district of Oklahoma, but a member of the con. gress of the United States, and that his paramount duty ts to have re- gard for the welfare of the United States, the whole United States, and nothing but the United States, *- Lities And Angles BY TED OSBORNE the United States” One sallent passage in Mr. Davidjot Lawrence's fourth ‘article about Woodrow Wilson, is earnestly to be commended to every mem- ber of the congress of the United States, for most careful considera- tion. Mr. Lawrence related that Mr. Wilson, when President of Prince- ton, early in the administration of President Taft, repeatedly said to his pupils in government: Nobody in congress represents the national will, Every member of the House of Representatives or Senate represents his district or his state— |nis section. ‘The «um total of thelr | desires 1s not the national will. Only one man—the Chief Executive—is | responsible to all the people. | Precisely the same thoughts were expressed by Mr. Wilson in one of | his volumes, on the government of {the United States. They are on the face of them quite true, with per- ; haps a single exception. We are not |sure that the statement that “the sum total of thelr desires is not the national will,” {s altogether logical. | Granted that {t is true that they rep- resent nothing but their sections— States or districts—might it not be “A Congress of — Coolidge may well be silent most, he com- Mr. McAdoo that he was|of the time. He stocks u promised a million by Doheny on|missary with a month's food for certain conditions. It is now nec-|thought when he does speak.—New essary to add the loss of the million | York Tribune. ‘© the loss of the nomination.—Bos- 5 Casper Mirror ton Transcript. We are to take cave explanation McAdoo of the $150,000 he received does not prevent the committee from of any 5) order. Framing and Resilvering desiring to hear all about the $900,- 000 he narrowly missed.—Washing- Contractors Please Take Notice 327 Industrial Ave PHONE 1233 states, owing allegiance and duty to their respective states nd to them alone, and not ‘to the Nation as a whole. But John C. That was one reason for making that “perpetual covenant” in the Constitution, that no state shall ever, without its consent, be depriv- ed of its equal representation in the senate. But they are chosen and commissioned not to be mere diplo- matic bargainers, getting as many favors and advantages as possible for their respective states, but to be the “Elder Statesmen” of the whole Nation, consulting together and act- ing primarily and supremely for the general good of the whole. ton Star. — To the extent that it can absorb them, this country should receive HOTEL MARSEILLES - Broadway at 103d St. . (Subway Express Station at Door) argued that, just as all the sections SLITS GSE ee, NEW.YORK CITY taken together compose the whole When’er I kiss her on the lps, Landlady—“I'm sorry to say, Mr. z ‘ ; United States, the aggregated wills She shuts her eyes so true, Jones, that the coffee is exhausted. Near Riverside Drive’ | of the representatives of all the sec-} And every time I think of this,} Boarder—“Well, I'm not sur- Central Park, Theatres | tions composes or is equivalent to I wish her ma would too. prised. It has been awfully wealt and Shopping Sections |the will of the whole Nation? As- for some time.’ suredly such should be the case. Fe Uncle Hook Says. r the real lesson of Mr. Wil Single room, He—“I am a man of the old ah a bet the “Et seems ter me thet people} coi» soa maanes son's words, rea: ween the lines,! ought ter wait until a couple hez : Single room | ‘3 | Congreas, ‘thoughs. clovensirest Bee poet maarried ©. yearcer ‘ap before [i one, Walle ¥ Alauilaged ome, clan Double room, bath $5 per day Prestce wires ough chosen from sec- they starts in t’ offer congratula- “ tions and representing those sec-} tions. P, Handsome suites of 2, 3rooms |tions, compose not a congress of 2 in ‘Say, may I borrow your Dinner de Luxe $1.85 served |section, or of states as individual necktie? it | States, but—as the Constitution calls Our Daily Song Hit. Repeat—“What for?" : os Bite Boom ond Gri jit — a congress of the United States,| “He Fell Into a Whisky Barrel,| Pete—“I'm going to a hard times Exceptional Orchestra @ congress of the Nation as a whole,| %4 Died in the Best of Spirits.” They represent thelr districts, but they do so not for the purpose of making laws for those districts or Promoting their interests specially, but for the purpose of making laws for and promoting the interests of the whole United States. Far too often do we hear people say that they are in favor of elect- ing such or such a man to congress from thelr district, because he is familiar with {ts reeds and can be trusted to look out for its interests at Washington, and too often do we dance.” M. P. MURTHA, Mgr. Random Newspaper Comment America welcomes all desirable] in the period from February 22, 1732, aliens who intend to become citizens,|and- December 14, 1799, tho late but hag little use for those who come|George Washington was’ mentioned solely to take advantage of the un-|rather kindly in the nation’s capl- varaileled opportunities offered for|tal on February 22.—Houston Pi making money, accumulating a com- yetency and returning to the native sountries.—Troy Times. FOR SALE Must Sell My STUTZ LITTLE SIX 4-Passenger Sport Driven Only 9,000 Miles If congress will pass the Mellon tax reduction bill and call it a ses. hear a representative praised be- big business, little business, the hard 2 | ‘The impression is growing that if » 5 triet,” i ascuring latices sertain people in Europe go to work|*'0"'S work, {t will endear itself to > beset taxpayer and all the remain- der of its constituents.—St. Louis Times. and quit their whining there would re fewer calls upon Uncle Sam's well-known bounty—Omaha Bee. for public buildings or river and harbor improvements, or, conversely condemned as a poor representative, [because he “didn’t get a dollar of | public money for his district.” Such criteria are false and mischievous. Doubtless it is proper for a rep- resentative to look out for the local needs of his district . That is one reason why representatives are elected from districts, But he errs greatly if he considers that his first or his chief duty, or if at any time or In even the smallest detail he prefers the local interests of his district to the general welfare of the Nation. He is elected by his di trict, but he is elected by it to make laws for the whole United States, and to have first. and chief regard for the welfare of the entire Ni tion. The same principle applies to blocs and other combinations; whether regional or’ occupational. Men are not members of a congress of New England or the Northwest, or of agriculture or organized labor, but they are members of a congress of the United States. Unless. their dominant and steadfast purpose is to legislate for the whole United States, they are false to their of- ficial obligations. The same is true of senators. They are senators of the United States. The contrary view was once, we know, widely entertained. John C. 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