Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1924, Page 16

PAGE SIX Che Casper Sunday Cribune The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening an¢ The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- per, Wyoming. Publ.cation offices: Tribune Building, opposite postoftice. Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second 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- cago, Ill, 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bidg.. Boston, Mass.. 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. ret Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) eee SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside State One Year, Dally and Sunday -. One Year, Senday Only ___. Six Months Daily and Sunday -——. Three Months, Daily and Sunday -—---— ie One Month, Daily and Sunday ay Per Copy -. vit All subscriptions must be paid in Dally Tribune will not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month fn arrears. KICK. IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR TRIBUNE. If you don't find your Tribune after looking care- fully for {t, call 15 or 16 and {t will be delivered to you by. social messenger. Register complaints before $ o'clock. The Soviet at Work Senator Brookhart of the Daugherty investi- gating committee has informed the -world that the inquiry is in no sense a trial of the attorney general. It is a “summary inves- tigation.” Apparently the committee proceedings closely resemble the work of a grand jury. Mr. ~ Daugherty is represented by counsel, but the rights of counsel are strictly limited. While the committee members summon any witnesses they choose and question them without restraint, Mr. Daugherty is denied similar rights, unless in each instance he can first obtain the commit- tee’s approval That form of procedure, coupled with the fact that most of the committee mem- bers are known advocates of Daugherty’s re- moval from the ¢abinet, indicates that the at- torney general 1 be severely handicapped in presenting his side of the cage. When the committee concludes the taking of testimony and submits its report, the public will do well to bear in mind the circumstaces sur- rounding the hearing and the mental attitude of the inquisitors. Despite the declaration of the committee chairman that the proceedings are not a “trial,” the people are apt to look upon them as such, unless they keep in mind the trend of recent senate events. Secretary Denby was forced from office without any real attempt to learn the truth regarding his oil leases. The same senate coalition that hounded Denby is now on the trail of Daugherty. The Welshing of Walsh If it were possible to make a certainty more sure, Senator Walsh has accomplished it. His course in giving to the press the Coolidge mes- sages, which had no relation whatever to oil, while he kept secret as long as possible his own letters to Doheny is enough to insure the re-elec- tion of Coolidge even if there had been any doubt about it before, which there was not..The Amer- ican people will not stand for the Walsh variety of guttersnipe politics. “ see A “Detective” Agency Mr. Vanderlip has found a new employment for his millions. He has organized a “Citizen's Federal Research Bureau.” The bureau will con- = duct a “vigorous, scientific investigation of the federal government.” What Mr. Bok sought to accomplish with our international relations, Mr, ~ Vanderlip will seek in our domestic affairs. Mr. Bok put up a fortune for his “peace plan” dem- onstration, and the recipients of his money were eager to please their benefactor. He got what he wanted, namely, another endorsement of the league of nations. Mr. Vanderlip is offering an- other fortune, those on his payroll well know- ing that what he wants to find is incompetence, ~ corruption and general inefficiency in the got- ernment. They will be found for him without a doubt—that is, rumors will be unearthed that all those things exist. That will@e sufficient for Mr. Vanderlip, who was perfectly convinced that President Harding’s sale of the Marion Star was filled with corruption, merely because some individual whispered it in his ear. The Vanderlip research bureau ought to fur- nish an interesting sideshow for the senate in- vestigating committees. While the latter are the rallying points for all the radicals in political life in Washington, the former will be the lode- stone that will attract all the parlor pinks and reds in New York and elsewhere. In fact, Mr. Vanderlip admits that a number of “very im- portant persons” have already associated them- selves with him. He will have no diffeulty what- ever in engaging a numerous staff and in pay- ing them salaries to find fault with the govern- ment. What an opportunity for the constitution- “We could afford to have a great deal more rd have and pay out lesa money. That | we can do by wasting than we now waste. | But there is nothing more to the pros- perity of the country than putting heavy taxes on those who seem to have more money than they need. “High taxes on the rich do not take burdéng off the poor. They put burdens on the poor, As far as our company is concerned, we can go on about as we are now, whether the surtax is twenty-five or fifty per cent. We can make some improvements, but we cannot do great things we should do had we more ° “From a purely selfish standpoint it does not make the least difference to me whether the gov- ernment taxes me one per cent or ninety-nine per cent. I do not know exactly, but I imagine I could live just as I now live on one per cent of my income. I am not in business to make money, but to do many things which I believe are of public benefit, and I believe I can put my money to better public use than the govern- ment can. “Take the Ford car as an illustration. With the high surtaxes advocated as a benefit to the poor man or the man of moderate means, I doubt if ever we should have reached a point where we could have produced a car under $1,500, and that only by paying very low wages. “The men who tell the country that the high incomes must be cut down are not working for the benefit of the masses. What they are really saying is something like this: “You workmen and farmers have got all you ought to have. Let us stop right now. From now on this country must be run for the benefit of politicians. “I am interested in seeing everybody getting a better living with less effort. I am against anything which stops the country where it is. “One of the great troubles with Europe ta that the people exist for the government. Taxes take up what surplus ought to be used for bettering conditions.” Hammering the Table The positions occupied by Charles G. Dawes and O. D. Young as members of the American committee of the reparations commission, work- ing out a plan to rehabilitate German finances, are unique in the world’s history. The American members of this committee are paying their own expenses in Europe, are not obligated to any foreign power and are not ham- pered through fear of over-stepping some point of diplomatic etiquette. The neutrality ‘and in- dependence of both men has made them out- standing figures in this work for world rehabil- itation. Unconcerned with political expectations and anxieties of the various European govern- ments, they have been able to play a dominent part in shaping the course of the experts’ work. Dawes puffing his pipe and occasionally ham- mering the table, makes his points efficiently and keeps the committee seeking a purely busi ness solutica. Young coolly handles the matters as though he were dealing with an ordinary business problem in the board room of a corpor- ation. The keen directness of the men has in- spired_ confidence and also admiration. Five years of political jealousies and intrigue have almost wrecked Europe. A few weeks of business consideration of its problems by com- petent men will eyolve a business-like solution of the questions at issue, which European kings, presidents or premiers will not dare disregard. The activities of Dawes and Young are hav- ing a greater effect on Europe today than the work of any American since Woodrow Wilson. Overplaying the Game Another investigation of gasoline prices is to take place. It has been customary in Washington to per- iodically demand an investigation of the oil in- dustry. Past investigations have found that the price of gasoline has followed pretty much the rise and fall of crude oil prices. One result of these investigations is to intim- idate the oil prospector, thus causing reduced oil production which automatically causes. 2 shortage of petroleum products with increased prices to consumers, What a wonderful thing it would be for the taxpayers if an honest-to-goodness business in- vestigation, free from the hampering strings of polites could be carried on in every department of the government. It is probable that such an investigation, if the investigators had the power to hire and fire as occasion demanded, would result in annual savings to the taxpayers far in excess of any savings that may be hoped for as a result of investigating private business which is subjeet to private competition and which sink or swim on efficiency in manage- ment. It is alltogether probable that the present investigation “has been forced merely for polit- ical effect and not because anyone has the slightest idea that it will change conditions which by force of necessity and the law of sup- ply and demand govern the production and mar- keting of oil products. The Senate's Scavenger Would it not be well, as we pass within ear- shot of the latest Democratic investigation of €be Casper Sunday E€ridune ~ The Department of Inquisition A careful study of the federal Constitution reveals no authority in congress to set up courts of in- quisition except in cases where the rights or reputations of memhers of congress are directly involved. The supreme court has decided that no such authority exists. With’ the beginning of every national campaign, however, we have a flood of such inquisitions, conducted at great cost to taxpayers and with incidental loss of time and thought from the duties congress is elected to perform. These courts of in- quisition inevitably degenerate into agencies for the manufacture of campaign material, with whatever good purpose they may originally enter upon their work. Their pur- pose is not to ferret out crime,—a function devolving upon the judicial branch of government. The at- tempt is, by dragging in witnesses, to find out something that can be turned to politica] advantage. In these courts witnesses are deprived of rights other than those given by sufferance. The suggestion that counsel should be allowed to persons haled into such inquisitions was in- dignantly rejected in the senate the other day. Such-counsel may be granted by the court of inquisition but only as a matter of favor. Wit- nesses are not protected by rules of evidence, and testimony irrelevant to the object of inquiry may be in- troduced. The court is prosecutor, judge and jury. Of course, anyone possessing the rudiments of knowledge of the prin- ciples underlying our system of jurisprudence, placed there for the purpose of protecting individual rights as the result of centuries of struggle against tyranny, under- stands that such procedure {s viola- tive of both the spirit and the letter of our Constitution and form of government. These courta of in- quisition may suggest in’ their methods the Russian Cheka, but |they are as far from similarity to |anything fundamentally American as they well could be. Of course, if congressional courts of inquisition -were necessary to ferret out and punish crime, their jplace in our form of government would be recognized. But we have codes of law in this country, and peace officers and tribunals of jus- tice to enforce them. ‘e have grand juries, which the framers of our government wisely surrounded {with secrecy, that reputations, more }valuable than life and property, |might not bé harmed by publicity antecedent to revelation of guilt. In jour courts the accused, however | poor and humble, is entitled to the jadvice of counsel, to know what jcharges have been preferred against |him, to confront the witnesses jagainst him and to question them, to summon witnesses in his own behalf, and he is protected against the introduction of irrelevant preju- dicial matter. These are very necessary safeguards of liberty and justice, and are the most essential part of any system of free govern- ment. | The Question In the last twenty years the United States has imported nearly $422,000,000 worth of raw sisal for the nfaking of binder twine. This is) customs valuation, and it represents an average import of $21,000,000 worth every ‘year since 1904. About 72 per cent of the world’s production is in Mexico—Yucatan, and openly organized combinations to control the Mexican production have been ex- tant since 1915. The tonnage of the sisal thus imported since 1904 is about 2,674,000 and the price per ton has ranged from $103 In 1922 to $362 in 1918, or an avergae for the 20- year period of about $155. . According to the Department of Commerce, which has been invest!- gating the sisal question, on Janu- ary 8, 1915, the congress of the state of Yucatan passed the first legisla- tion contemplating a control of the sisal market. This act fixed a pro- wreckers, the government-owenrshippers, the Russian recognizers and all the other political and economic heretics that dot our citizenship! Yes, Mr. Vanderlip will find plenty of persons to help him spend his money. Ford's Tax Views = Henry Ford is the world’s greatest manufac- turer and largest individual employer of work- men. He has been alternately criticised and praised for his expression of opinion on many public questions, but he has never subjected himself to the imputation of being a poor busi- ness man. He is the living example of a work- « man, who by his own efforts has risen from the ranks to great riches. His wealth is so great * that it can be assumed he would not stoop to support a tax measure merely to add a trifle to his personal income. Therefore what Mr. Ford thinks and says on the tax question, is of deep * interest to the American public. barnyard refuse, and witness the assiduous forking of the Supreme, King of Scavengers, Wheeler, at work at his most fitting occupation to invite his attention to a few matters touch- ing his own previous deportment in public mat- ters, and have him answer upon his honor, if he has any, what éxcuse he can show for assailing the character of any citizen on earth, be it ever so putrid? Hither upon the theory that the com- plainant must come into court with clean hands, or that the pot has justification in twitting the skillet with being black. = whatever unbecoming a high officer in the goy- ernment, he should be judged and punished by his superiors not his inferiors in moral and of- ficial conduct. And this should be done upon sworn testimony from reputable citizens, not up- on hearsay testimony by denizens of back alleys. Treason to your country, while occupying a federal office, is no recommendation for a prose- cutor of a reputable official for misconduct in PIVtLereyyy ~ “Ryery cent the government spends, just as} office. =... every cent we as citizens spend, has to come] | Association with and protection through fed- from somewhere. Any administration or any set} eral position, of enemies of your country in time ” of legislators that advocate high taxes ought to be run out of office, because what they are real- s ly of war, does not fit in with inquiry into the loy- alty of any citizen to his government. dvocating is the high cost of living. | The use of federal office to punish and destroy We have to pay some taxes, but the greater | citizens of high repute, because of political dif- part of what we pay ought to go for productive} ferences, does not qualify any inquisitor to be- purposes—for good roads, for schools, for bet-| smirch the good name of any man under inyes- ter health and all those things which make} tigation. life easier. But we ought to pay as we goand| Wheeler may assume the purity of a saint in = not attempt to have things we cannot afford to! Washington but there are many in Montana who == have, ido not concede it to be real, If Daugherty has been guilty of any conduct! duction tax on henequen or sisal produced in Yucatan, and under it the governor was inted large pow- ers in the creation and administra- tion of a purchasing commission, the so-called Reguladora, with authority to borrow money secured by a lien upon the commodity. It does not ap- pear, however, that any very active steps were taken in the matter until the fall of that year, when, through the activities of an American bank- ing group there was incorporated under the laws of New York what was known as the Pan American Commission Corporation, with of- fices in New York and New Orleans, for the purpose of financing the Re- guladora under an exclusive sales contract. In consequence of this contract, Governor Alvarado, of Yucatan, !s- sued a decree on November 11, 1915, which placed in the hands of the Reguladora the exclusive right to purchase sisal from the producers, the managing of the market abroad, and the financing of the Reguladora as provided under the contract with the Pan American Commission. In 1916 prices were advanced from 6% cents per pound c. 1. f. New York to as high as 14 cents. These prices Cron 1, Senator Wheeler, then U. 8. district attorner for Montana, is tried by the Montana State Council of Defense during the World war for close affillation with I. W. W. and other seditious elements in the state of Montana, and for refusal to prosecute them for acts of vio- lence, and after a five-day hearing by a council composed of both Democrats and Republicans, is unanimously found guilty and recommended to President Wilson for dismissal. 2. Wheeler becomes a candidate for governor of Montana on the Non- Partisan League-Democratic ticket and is defeated. 3. Wheeler becomes a candidate for United States senator, and after a heavily financed campaign, with If partisan exigencies and the srowth of support for the Russian system of justice demand the estab- lishment of inquisitorial courts, this new idea in American jurisprudence should be given the dignity of a separate and independent depart- ment of government. We have the legislative, the executive and the Judicial departments. To this should be added the Department of In- quisition. It is only fair that con- gress itself should come within the Jurisdiction of such independent courts, not controlled by congress, for {t is as important for the people to know what connections members. of congress have, what letters they write, what telegrams they send, what clients they serve, what in- vestments they make, and to initiate inquiries to this end, as that con- Sressmen should know this about people in private life or in other departments of government. The head court of inquisition In Washington, with power to sum- mon anyone concerning whom curi- osity has been aroused, or about whom an anonymous letter has been received, and to ask for h> Uooks and papers, should have branches in every state and in every county seat. There is a rich field for investigation in every com- munity, Such a court of inquisition could Within a very few days de- velop a flood of scandal that would submerge every other interest in Mfe. How Smith got his automobile, or how Jones’ wife is able to dress so well on so small an income, who owes the butcher, the baker and the banker, what is on the postal cards in the postoffice and on the dispatches in the telegraph office,— how exciting and improving this would all be. To carry the scheme into its full Washington effectiv: ness, there should be, in addition, a space roped off in the court ‘house yard in which anybody can say any- thing about anyone else without being held to account. Here gossip, rumor and scandal could be given tongue on the greund that the revelation of evil always leads to ultimate good. Anyone can understand just how this system would be helpful in a local as well as national application. It would contribute to the cultiva- ton of long noses and limber tongues. The newspapers would have to buy bigger type for head- lines, and could undoubtedly help along the excitement by printing anything that the court of inquisi- éion and the free scandal mill might overlook, This would make bus!- ness good, would provide the people with innocent amusement and un- doubtedly would heighten the moral and mental tone of every com- munity. Only one thing could interfere ‘ith the success of this plan. Within a few weeks the people, their own interests affected and the situation brought home to them, would rise up and rend the inquisi- ters and the scandal mongers limb from limb. of Sisal Fiber but is refused by Attorney General Daugherty on the ground that it would endanger the lives of in- formants. . 6. Following 2 barrage of attack mand the resignation of the attor- ney general, who, supported by the president and the Republican na- tional chairman, declines to resign under fire and welcomes the inves- tigation. 7. M. Zinoviev, chairman of the executive committee of the Third Internationale, announces (press dispatches of February 28) through the Pravda, official organ of the soviet government, that special propaganda will be undertaken in the Unite? States, that bolshevism has the full right “to expect wel- come surprises from the American labor «moyement,” and that the headquarters of the communist in- Probably ternationale will __ultimately be! Chorus Girl—"Yes, I was born in] promise, or a confession? industrial 8. SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1924 some country with [the attorney general's office, and population that] selects as head of the committee Senator Brookhart, of Iowa, another ‘The senate passes the Wheeler | recent guest and eulogist of the resolution for an investigation of | Russian soviet government. Lines And Angles I know a gentle farmer Who ts so lazy that In seven years of farming, He only raised his hat. “Would you marry. him were me?” “I'd marry any man who asked me, if I were you.” if you Cork, Ireland. Have you ever been to Cork?” Coarse Girl—“No, but I have seen lows of drawings of it.” Texas—“That man you shot last week is out of danger.” Arizona—"So? How is he?” Texas—“He died last night.” “What Is party loyalty?” “Hope of a good job.” A philanthropist is a man who employs a girl at $8.00 per week, and then draws a front page story every time he gives $10,000 to aid the work of flora} research in Venezuela. Uncle Hook Says “There's allus a jot o’ fellers who are puffec'ly willin’ t’ do their duty, as soon as they see they can’t get out of it,” Daugherty says he fs in the fight to a finish. Is this a prophesy, a Better answer “The Call of the Canyon” and come along to the West- ern thrill-land. Where a son of toil teaches a daughter of jazz the a-b-c of living and loving. invoked much indignation in the United States, and a Senate inquiry extending from February to April, 1916, took about 2,000 pages of evi- dence, establishing the existence of ® complaintin equity filed January correction. ‘The activities of the Pan Ameri- can Commission were attacked by the Department of Justice through a complaint in esuity filed January 80, 1917, in the southern district of Mew York. The case was dismissed in September, 1918. The Demo- cratic administration, which {is for- ever boasting of its solicitude. for the farmer, did not push the matter further. The war demand for fiber, plus the Reguladora, boosted the price to 23 cents in 1917, and after much negotiation the Food Administration succeeded in getting a price of 19% cents, while limitation of profits on the twine manufacturers held the price of twine to 23% cents, com- pared with 33 cents in 1917. A cam- paign for the substitution of other fibers resulted in greatly reducing the consumption of sisal as a result of which the Reguladora was caught with 540,000 bales on its hands in 1920, upon which large financial a ‘vances had ben made, so the organ! zation went smash. It is said large sums were diverted from the pro- ducers to the Government of Mexico, in the form of taxes. Later a new control agency was established known as the Exportadora, with the Sisal Sales Corporation playing the role of the Pan-Ameriean Commis- sion, but in a spirit of fair play, the prices maintained under the new re- gime averaging from 6 to 6% cents a pound. 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