Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1924, Page 8

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Public opinion drove him from office because he was brought too near shady eae ions while he occupied high government place. Public opinion will seen bey mae’ he is despite whining he may indulge in. as ee pears at the moment is Senator Pepper’s address to the Maine Republicans, because the Pennsylvania senator referred to several appointments in the Harding Bret as errors of judgment on the part of Mr. ae ing. Not an unkind reference, but a simple truth, that the dead president, were he alive, would not resent but agree with, in the light ubsequent disclosures. * Mr, Danghertne unfitness for the cabinet is only emphasized by his passe squawking with reference to Senator Papper’s iene which was the cleanest, most straightforwar and soundest Republican doctrine preached since the scandalfest broke out in the Cenged Among other matters that concern Mr. Daugherty’s peace of mind is the fear that Senator Pepper's clean cut statements will in- jure the Republican party and encompass a defeat in November. In this respect he need not worry. ‘Telling the truth will not injure anybody nor will it injure the Republican party. It is condoning, excusing and defending the actions of such men as Dangherty, and his companionship with people of doubtful charac- ter, that will destroy the party and its useful- ness, quicker than anything else. Mr. Daugherty is a person of excuses, alibis and subterfuge. He is not clean cut and above board. The American public thinks these things of him and the public Ais very seldom wrong and not unjust in its estimates. It will make no great difference now what he was concerned in, when in office, or whether the stuff told about him is true or false. The fact remains that he was not the type of person for the high office he occupied. The world al- ready knows that it was out of pure friendship and gratitude on the part of the lamented Hard- ing that Daugherty was appointed in the first place, The world further knows that it was a mistake. Like with all other public men and presidents errorg in judgment are bound to occur. Mr. Harding was human and kind hearted and therefore not immune from error. In his life time he would be the first to admit his own limitations. defender in the person of Daugherty. It is safely enshrined in the hearts of the American people, and his honesty, good intentions, his pat- yiotism and his high quality of character justly appraised by them. Senator Pepper's lofty political ideals and ambitions for the Republican party will live, while the political chicanery and mysterious deviations of the Daughertys will repose in oblivion. The Voter Holds the Remedy There are two large classes of favorites in this country that are exempt from income tax, the holders of political places and the holders of public bonds. The bonds are exempt also from all other taxes. According to the Country Gentleman, one out of every twelve persons in the United States over 16 years old and gainfully employed is on the public payroll. That means not only tat the rest of us provide the salaries for the job holders, but that we also pay the income tax that they ought to pay on their salaries. Even notaries public are exempt from income tax in their fees. Colliers Weekly relates that the estate of Jacob Schiff, the banker, amounting to $35,000,- 000 was nearly all in tax free bonds”—Congress legislation making impossible taxation of in- come from such securities. The politician and the millionaire escape most of the tax burden. And the more politi- cal places wo create and the more tax-free bonds we issue, the heavier becomes the tax load on those who do not hold political jobs or publie bonds. Thee are matters to keep in mind when we are asked by urgent politicians to borrow mil- lions on the taxpayers’ credit for the purpose of investing in enterprises that will employ large numbers of tax-free politicians. We feel ghteous indignation when we read how kings of France, before the revolution, od cl ’s from taxation, but farther than any king of France That Bird Wheeler What music is this coming in over the wires from Great Falls, Montana? United States peator B. i, Wheeler, chief inquisitor and = si raw brow beater of the Daugherty melo- His memory needs no; drama performance, of the United States sen- ate assassination committee No. 2, indicted by a jeoncsa grand jury upon the charge of having a \eccepted money as a retainer after having as- sumed the office of United States senator from the State of Montana, to influence the granting of oil land permits. Here it is. Good and plain. As business is done in both Wheeler's and Walsh’s commit- tees, the scoundrel is guilty. Scandal com- mittee No. 1, presided over by Wheeler's col- league Walsh, had better assemble in extraor- dinary session and look into the activities of this man Wheeler. ‘It has long been suspected that the investigators ought to be investigated, but the demand has come sooner than antici- pated. The indictment of Wheeler in the very court in which he formerly served as district attorney and presided over by the same judge who lately gave Wheeler a glowing endorsement of good character and efficient service at the same time vouching for his loyalty to the government, is a bit of the irony of fate. And the judge’s attempt to establish Wheeler's good character either with or without adequate knowledge of the facts, is discredited in the public view. Slowly but surely the mills of the Gods have begun to grind, and when this Wheeler person is chucked into the hopper the outcome will be a fairly large grist. Here is the situation that Wheeler cannot avoid facing by the plea of immunity because of the office he holds. Here is a power asking his presence in court upon a- question touching his honor and his oath, both of which he has apparently violated. What ho! friends, grease up the guillotine! Coolidge the Leader Tt 1s said that the president is beginning to ‘tighten the lines of his leadership of the major- | ity Republicans in congress with a view to the} formulation of a Idgical and well-defined pro- gram, for the remainder of the session. The Radicals, of course, ate not to be handled, but a united and compact organization of the reg- ular Republicans will be able to accomplish much. Mr. Coolidge is now in a position where he can assume the leadership of his party without interference or embarrassment. of his party for another term and is the man who is to be depended upon to carry the party to victory in November, if it is to be victorious. Already three hundred delegates to the Cleveland convention have been chosen who are instructed or pledged to the present chief executive. Other delegations pledged to the president will be coming right along now. Within a compara- tively short time a majority of the 1109 dele- gates entitled to seats in the Cleveland conven- tion will have been chosen and definitely com- mitted to the nomination of Calvin Coolidge. But the biggest fact of all making the presi- dent the national Republican leader is that he is universally’ admitted to be stronger than his party. If this were not true the prospect of Republican success in November would not be surpassingly brilliant. The great middle western states, which now hold the balance of political power in the country, have confidence in the president and trust him. He will carry those States in November. _ It would be difficult to find another regular Republican of whom this could be said. The party must follow him jand it could not find a wiser, or more capable leader. In Strength or In Weakness There are two kinds of peace advocates in this country—those who desire a peace of pre- paredness and those who demand a peace of unpreparedness. - In the latter category are found the persons who propose to abolish war by disarming their own nation physically and morally. Many of-them are sincere, but most of them are dupes of clever propagandists serv- ing foreign paymasters. These disciples of subtle men and women who work under care- fully secret orders, having become fascinated by an idea, seem to have abandoned their reason- ing faculties when they pinned their faith upon a supposedly magic formula. “We will neither arm nor fight if war comes” many of them say. That is a direct invitation for war to come from any quarter. It is a notif ion to the world that so far as these particular Americans are concerned the nation is waiting to be plucked. American principles have been somewhat highly regarded by the world at large as well as by certain Americans of some renown—Washington and Franklin, Lincoln and Roosevelt, for example. The insidious poison at work in this country has been implanted by master hands at the bus- iness of destroying democracy. It,should be recognized for what it is. The many good peo- ple who are misled, or half misled by those who administer this poison, should recapture their reasoning powers and so shake off the influence of the poisoners. Highway Construction During each of the years 1921 and 1922 the total expenditures for all highway purposes, such as construction, maintenance, up-keep in- cluding interest on borrowed money and mis- cellaneons items for all our public roads located outside the limits of incorporated towns and citiés, according to government figures, amount- ed to approximately $1,000,000,000. Such data as are now available indicate that the expendi- tures for the year 1923 varied but little from this amount, and that in 1924 they will not vary materially from this sum. ‘The work directly controlled by the states will probably continue to increase as has been the case during recent years. The local work controlled by the coun- ties, townships and districts may decrease some- what due to the agitation against bonds and | highway taxes, but it is thought improbable |that the decrease will be large. 10 ever increasing number of motor yvehi- cles is constantly demanding more and better roads as well as better maintenance of existing roads. The motor vehicle is also directly and indirectly supplying more and more funds for highway work. The normal expectancy in re- gard to expenditures for our public roads would therefore seem to be that they will in- crease from year to year at least until the high- way systdms become sufficiently developed to fully meet the needs of this traffic, |some deliberation before Che aia Daily ener The End of the Trail | PORTLAND OREGONIAN Early in the autumn of 1943 var-|woman, “It was elther Blackie him- ious members of the investigating committee began to show signs of fatigue. Attentive reporters observ- ed that here and there a head dropped over the polished tables, piled high with documents. They jotted down this note: “Sena- tor Smithers nodding.” If mattered Uttle how interesting the testimony was, how superabundantly spiced, Wearled nature was demanding her! toi. And small wonder. Special warehouses had long since been com- pleted and filled with the vast trans- cript of the proceedings, and the personnel of the committee itself had changed a number of times—in the natural course of political events and the way of all flesh. Anyway, the ernoon Was some- what sultry, as© Washington after- Noons often are at, that time of year. Only the members of the inquisitor- fal body, seven cub reporters, a bevy of aged witnesses, and a frank ly slumbering page, were present in the historic chamber. Something of the old fire, the vigorous purpose, of earlier years was still discernible in the voice and gesture of the noted Senator Goofus, who as dean of the committee led in the interrogation of witnesses, Yet it was evident that his close attention to the inquiry so complex and confusing in its innum- erable phases, cost the gallant states- man an effort. His eyes roved to the interminably ticking clock. He sighed, shook himself, and launched the question. “You say,” he asked the blase young woman tn the witness chair “that Blackie Daw told your grand- mother, whose death—according to the record—occurred in 1931, of a $68,000,000,000 deal to permit the Peruvian Government to acquire the Patagonian prune ranches? You ad- mit that, do you?” The witness lighted a small, beau: tifully inlaid briar, and puffed with she ans- wered. “You said it,” she agreed. “Hah!” exclalmed the senator. The reporters put that down. It appear- ed to have secret significance. “This was the same Blackie Daw,” pursued Senator Goofus, ‘who in Not only is i928 was identified with the celebrat. he the president, but he is the assured nominee | ed Roquefort cheese smuggling scan- dal, was it no! “Search m replied the young At the Republican state conven- tion in Maine, held at Portland, Senator George Wharton Pepper, of | Pennsylvania discussed Republican |family matters with frankness and fairness and it is the exact charac- ter of statements that can not be | too widely discussed by the members jof the party everywhere. More Re- Publican statesmen should adopt the same line of discussion, In part Senator Pepper said: “I am here today, to affirm my beltef jthat the Democratic party has re- cently forfelted whatever claim to public confidence {t may have pos- sessed. I am here to register my conviction that upon us, who call ourselves the followers of Lincoln, rests the weighty responsibility of strengthening and safeguarding the republic. “Republicans of Maine th{s ts the task to which I summon you—a task which should stimulate the enthusiasm of every man and wo- man who holds the Republican tra- dition and is ready to go forward to victory under the leadership of Calvin Coolidge. “But at this point an effort is cer- tain to be made by somebody to dis- tract attention from the great prob- lems which await judgment by giv- ing to the names of three officers in the great Republican army an importance not in the least just!- fied by the facts. “When sensible people are wailt- ing to be told about President Cool- idge's position on public questions and what the party is attempting to accomplish for good government, somebody {8 sure to shout, ‘How about Forbes?” “How about Fall?" and “How about Daugherty?” Thereupon we find ourselves shower- ed with threats and accusations in which a modicum of truth 1s ob- scured by a mass of fiction. “The appointment of Forbes as head of the Veterans’ Bureau and of Fall as Secretary of the Interior have proved to be terrible mistakes, while the selection of Mr, Daugherty as Attorney General seems to mo to have been @ grave error of judg- ment. “When I say this I am speaking of the mistakes not of the living but of the dead; of the mistakes of a beloved leader whose virtues wero many and whone lapses were few— of a leader who left behind him a long catalogue of notable achieve ments and who gave life for you and me as truly de any soldier who ever died in battle, When any man for campaign purposes or to gain @ partisan advantage under. takes to disturb the repose of that leader, I brand him as a political ghoul and declare him to be unfit for the society of decent people. “During the progress of theas ao- called investigations many good cit- jzena and wiso editors have been exhorting Republican senators to show the fighting spirit. Since we have lacked actual legislative con- trol, this advice has amounted to nothing more than appeal for brave talk, And brave talk with: out power to make it effective 1s the sure sign of a shallow mind. The time for talk that is really —_ ask tor Horlick’s The ORIGINAL Malted Milk ANZ - Milk For Infants WY The Aged Rich Milk; Malted Grain ext. in powder form,makes The Food-Drinkfor All Digestible—No Coo! }» Alight Lunck always at hand. Also in Tablet form. Ask for “‘Horlick’s,”’ at all Fountains. 8@F Avoid Imitations — Substitutes self or Billy the Kid. I don't know. Towards the end grandma used to forget which was which.” . At that dynamic moment the great doors creaked back and a thin little chap In a last year’s suit, with 2 brown derby shoved back on his head, entered the chamber. Ho made @ purposeful way to the in- quisitorial table, neglecting re. to move his hat, thrust the sleeping page from his chair and sat firmly down. “My name,” he announced, “is of no consequence. My mission is. I represent the citizens and taxpayers of We Con- necticut. I am inquire, what in tunket this is all about any- way.” Senator Smithers jerked to atten- tion. He looked searchingly at Sena- tor Goofus. The senator looked like- wise at him. Each shook his head. Topether they ‘awakened their colleagues'and repeated the question. They shook thelr heads. The page rubbed his eyes and shook his head. ‘The witness shook hers, Seven re porters scribbled busily. “Sir,” replied Senator Goofus, “candor compels me to inform you that none of us knows.” An Educated Horse “Where Young Dude—“Is-ah-this horse] I wonder.” very-ah-er—intelligent?” Groom—"Yes, he sure is, Look out he don’t kick you.” Defined Teacher—“What is @ knight er- rant?” Small Boy—"My paw was sick last night, an’ maw, she sent me out for a doctor.” Teacher—“What has that to do with the question?” Small Boy—“Well, that was a night errant.” - A friend in need generally needs too much. An Unsolved Problem “Mama, why did you marry Papa?” “So you've begun to wonder about that too?" Absense Makes the Heart, Etc. “I hear that Miss Squawker is | Aare abroad to finish her singing lessons.”” Practical Politics A circular letter which ta going the rounds contains this paragraph: “Write your representative in eT Pepper Talks to Maine Republicans brave is when you have a Position to defend which {s fundamentally sound though at the moment unpop- ular. When party mistakes have been made it is best to admit them and to limit your talk to the long Ust of Requblican achievements in the past and of Republican plans for the future which are the real basis of our appeal for public con- fidence. Turning aside from what he ée- nominated as “scandal Senator Pepper charged that the Democrats. making the most of their strategic advantage in Congress for partisan political reasons have “created a sit- uation, in which constructive legis- lation Js difficult, if not impossibl: “AS a result,” he continued “the administration forces have been able to do lttle more than nfake a be- ginning of translating into law the Program laid down by President Coolidge in his first annual message to Congress. “During the residue of this ses- sion,” he said, “we shall do what We can to move forward in the right diection and rely upon the great ‘opular indorsement which we expect to receive next November to give us the momentum necessary to com- plete our program.” Random Newspaper Observations Lines And Angles BY TED OSBORNE __. did she raise the money, “All of the neighbors chipped in.” “Lu is mite ck th’ thing in th’ world Caeaak ‘es th’ other fellow success- ul.” 2 —. As a general thing Poetry doesn't Affect me very much, But last night I cried for ‘Two hours, After I read a “Sonnet To Spring.” I wept because I couldn't gpt at The author. If the Price of Meat Keeps on Raising, © Hash ‘Will be More of a Mystery Than ever, Washington to give you the name of the treasurer of the party to which you belong, or he belongs, and then advise them both that there will be no contributions for the campaign of 1924 unless there is @ square deal for you as a tax- payer at the present session of con- gress. This is the only kind of Practical politics which some of our thick-skinned representatives will understand.” The suggestion has value. A Party that blocks the tax reduction program presented in the Méllon plan certainly has no claim on the pocketbooks of campaign con- tributors, because it is a party that ought to be made as small in in- fluence as possible. A senator or representative who falls to do his very best to secure a scientific tax readjustment law for the country ts a poor legislator and a betrayer of the people who elected him to office. He deserves no support of any sort.—Detroit Free Press. aio ers aha mt Fitted for the Job People are coming to know Cool- idge. He still Is “Silent Cal,” just as Grant was “The Silent Man,” but even his silence is eloquent in these times, when lesser men and those most obdurate in their partisanship. are so stormy in their utterances. It is fine to have a man in the White House who will not descend to bandying words and phrases with a group who seek his undoing by such means as have been adopted. He more than ever resembles the tall cliff Goldsmith wrote about, for he rises_above the clouds and into the There is a Correct “When you decide to fight Be sure to get color and product for the jot, the exact effect desired, High-grade, neat ployment to a live work. 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