Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 21, 1924, Page 8

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The Re ubli- can party is frankly friendly to all legitiinate business, little and big, in every case where it is conducted on a basis of common honesty and reasonable regard for general welfare. It does not inculcate hatred of either rich, moderately well off or poor people, as such, and advocates no policy of confiscation or expro- priation, very well knowing that permanent classes of either rich or poor do not exist and that transposition from one position in Jife to the other is a common experience thin the} reach of every man of energy, ab A thrift) und courage. The Republican party understands that great business enterprises cannot be un- dertaken or carried on without large accumu-! lations of capital; it does not therefore seek to} destroy these accumulations, or the encourage-| ment for investment in proluctive enterprise, | by demagogical assaults upon property. | It does not wish to bring to the American} people the destructive experience to all elements} of the population, most of all to those depend- ent upon employment for a living, involved in} preventing or discouraging investment in pro-| ductive enterprises. It understands that all} taxes are ultimately paid by all the people in} costs of production, and does not resort to the dishonest expedient of trying to make t masses believe that the rich can be “soaked” | without the rest of the people taking a part of} the blow.’ It believes in individual initiative and personal or corporate enterprise and that the politician or party that strikes at either aims a blow at the welfare of all the American people. It does not want the American people to| have to take another lesson in the hard school of éxperience as the result of. being deluded by demagagues and theorists into thinking that attacks upgn honest industry, no matter how big or little, represent a contribution to public good. The Republican party does not believe in increasing the exactions and interferences of government, already carried to a point where} the government's hands are constantly in every} man’s pocket and its nose in every man’s bus-| iness. It warns the American people that the approach toward despotic political control and) operation of business is fraught with danger, and may result, if persisted in, in the collapse) of industry,—a result actually desired by ma of the demagogues now-assailing industry in the belief that the overthrow of the capitalist system would pave the way for the introduction of European state socialism and a state whose sitizens will be slaves of the politicians who} control the machinery of government. The Republican party should boldly proclaim its belief in legitimate American business en- terprise, and its purpose to defend and foster, rather than to discourage or destroy invest- ment in productive enterprise which furnishes employment, supplies the needs, and adds to the ) protection. _ in foreign trade. , At once we began to lose our | shipping, our people finding themselves unable to compete under free trade with foreign ships, and so our shipping in foreign trade all but | vanished before the beginning of the world war. Forced by the exigencies of war the United States suddenly built a vast number of ocean-_ going freight ships. With the war's cessation we found this large fleet not a national asset, | as we at first supposed, but a national liability, it has since become, because of the tremendous and‘almost unprecedented drop in the movement | of ocean freights.. There are at this time many | more merchant ships in the world than there is use for, and as long as that continues freight | rates will be low. . The government wants to sell its ships to Private citizens to avoid the losses™ inc through their operation. But private citizens will not buy these ships merely to suffer the! loss of their investment, becauge such loss would be inevitable so long as our ships are unprotect- ed. ‘The need of protection for our ships in foreign trade is just as necessary now as it was at any time in our history; but the government seems unable to settle upon a practical policy of Protection through discrimination —through tariff—so successful in earlier years, when we had a large and prosperous merchant marine, is no longer applicable the state depart- ment says, because we agreed, by treaty, not again to resort to that method. The state department does not deny - that when discriminatory protection was in force, in pre-Civil War days, we had a prosperous mer- chant marine. And. yet, although in entering into these treaties we carefully reserved the right to withdraw from them, the state depart- ment in effect tells us that it would be dishon- orable for us to attempt, again, to do what we agreed, with limitations, not to do. Congress has, by law, declared that it desires to be free of the restraint imposed by these ter- minable trade treaties. ZBut the state depart- ment seeks to make new treaties, irrevocable for ten years, that would still restrain us from ap- plying discriminatory protection—protection through the tariff—to our ships. Happily for the United States the senate, whose consent by a two-thirds vote is necessary for the ratifica- tion of treaties, has shown a more patriotic and commendable unwillingness to adopt new trade treaties that would restrain the United States from discriminatory protection of its shipping, that is to say, protection of our shipping through tariff provisions, precisely as was done in the earlier years with a success so marked and so prolonged that for over sixty years over eighty per cent of our entire foreign commerce was carried in American ships. We do not wonder that foreign governments desire -to prevent us from. reapplying that early successful poli but we cannot understand the singular desire the state department manifests to protect foreign ships by preventing protection 40 Amer- ican ships. The Wheeler Case The oil company with which Senator Wheeler identified himself as “attorney,” after he had been elected to the senate was a crooked oil company bared on fraudulent government claims. This was known to Senator Wheeler, because the only important litigation of the company in which he appeared was in answer to charges by a member of the gompany that it was using the mails to defraud and held fraudulent oil permits—facts which are now admitted. Despite his appgarance in this case involving. the fraudulent permits, Senator Wheeler denied on the witness stand that he knew anything about these permits. Four men were present at the clandestine conference at which Wheeler's agreement to “fix”. the company’s fraudulent permits was discussed. These were Wheeler and Campbell, both now under indictment; Rhea, field superin- tendent of the company, and Glosser, secretary to Campbell. Both Glosser and Rhea, disin- terested witnesses, testified that at this meeting Wheeler agreed as a part of his service to fix the challenged permits at Washington. Both would have testified, if permitted to do so, of conversations with Campbell on the nature of Wheeler's employment, and that Campbell had | a brain storm in his office when he discovered | that Wheeler was going to Moscow leaving his cases unsettle This was competent testimony in impeachment of Campbell, but was ruled out by theysenate committee investigating the court for indicting Wheeler. Senator Wheeler denied before the Senate that he had ever appeared in behalf of Camp- bell’s claim. The solicitor and commissioner of the genral land office testified that he had conferred with them ubout these claims, a let- comfort of the Ameritan millions, while build-| tet from the solicitor of the land office jointly ing up the sum total of diffused national wealth, | t9 Wheeler's law firm and to the title lawyer of E | Campbell wags produced, with a number of Iet- | ters and telegrams from Wheeler asking for in- Through Discrimination | formation about the permits and stating that | he was pressing them before the land office. , What is protection but discrimination? Our| The $10,000 annual retainer to be paid Wheel- protective tariff places a duty on competing) er was entirely out of proportion to the legal foreign products not merely to raise revenue but! service it was possible for him as an absent sen- to force competing products to enter our mar-| ator to perform in the Montana courts. The kets a cost equivalent to the costs of similar) claim persistently made that Wheeler appeared American products. Surely this is a plain, open) for Campbell in the permit matter “as he would and undeniable discrimination against foreign| for any other constjtuent” is completely de- products and in favor of American products.) stroyed by the fact, never brought out in tho Call it whatever yon like, when analyzed, it| Senate committe hearing, that Campbell was not means protection through discrimination. It} nu constituent of Wheeler at all, but a resident preserves the home market for the home pro-! of Seattle, Washington. ducts, to the extent that the protection is suffi-| The witnesses in Wheeler’s behalf were his cient. | close political and professio It used to be said that our tariff discrimina-) their Reatintony sahly pettadictod Tor tie tees tion would surely lead to retaliation on the part| mentary evidence introduced. of our fo: rivals, Protectionists were sol-| The permits being fraudulent, having admit- emnly war that etalintlon would surely | tedly been taken by Campbell after he had se- follow and so offset our discriminatory protec-| cured his full legal allotment, through dummies tion against competing foreign products in fa-| and assigned to him, the effort to put through vor of home products. — Protectionists, how-) the claims constituted a conspiracy to defraud yer, pers d, They defied those who predic | the government, and correspondence introduced ed retaliation And our protective tariffs} that in one instance Campbell tendered a bribe have prevailed without noticeable retaliation! to a government official. to that form of discrimination. The fears that The indictment of Wheeler has been pro- would have prevented the timid from discrim-| nounced fully justifiable by a competent and inating in favor of our home products proved! conscientious district attorney, b¥ an assistant in actual practice to be utterly unfounded. | attorney general who went to Montana to ex- In earlier years we protected American ships| amine the evidence before the case was presented in Paes seine way, through tariff dlacrimination, | by a federal grand jury, and by the present at- ly, eho imports in foreign vessels! torney general of the United States in a formal ‘hat such discriminations | statement to the representatives of the morning Lg retaliation, But our) telegraphic press associations. rly days persisted and in a Nevertheless it is sought to commit the Sen were surely leading great patriots of ¢ discriminatory wa Some one thought ts certainly moving the people when state after state turns from voluble pretenders and stiff-necked moral a1 and says by enormous majorities: “We want Coolldge.” For the pres-t dent {s not the kind of man for whom people become enthusdastic, for whom they form a sort of mass affection, to whom they ascribe per- sonal magnetism. He is a square, straightforward, hardworking, clear- thinking careful, but courageous cit- izen that thinks out what he ought to do, then does it without any out- burst of oratory, without denuncia- tion of those with whom he happens to disagree. The direct primary vote in Ohio, Massachusetts, “Mfissou! following that in North Dakota. lnols, Michigan, Nebraska shows that republicans are ready to follow that kind of man. The people are weary of the other type of man that agitates the air with oratory to the general effect that the men who are running the government run it all wrong, that many of them are scoundrels and that the rest are incompetent, who investigate without Umit and who turn the government upsife down in efforts to establish a basis-of fact for their speeches, but who do. noth- ing when given opportunity to im- prove on what they condemn. The peopte have been go surfeited with words, the output of which has steadily increased in each of the last dozen years, that they welcome to power a man of action who does no more talking than {s necessary to tell what he does and why he does it, or to tell what he would ¢o but for the milling host of talkers thai blocks him. This is the contrast that impresses the people in favor of» Mr. Cool- idge. They have been hearing for years about progress from men who would have the nation make prog- ress in a dozen different directions at one time, but they see that atl th rea! progress that {s made is in the way of action by the president, who does things quietly, without fireworks and with few speeches. They notice that, when a fire-eat- ing reformer smashes a state pollt- ieal machine and gains complete control for himself, the result is a new machine, the enthronement of the reformer as its boss and an en- ormous Increase of taxation. To get relief they put in’ control of the state a calm, efficient man ‘of the Coolidge type and taxes visibly shrink. They find that the chief oe- cupation of the word-weaving re- formers is to raise hell and that the unrestricted flow of words is. al- Ways accompanied by an increase of taxes. They observe that the first thing Coolidge did after con- gress met was to propose a reduc- tion of ‘taxes and to offer a prac- ticable plan, but that congress is in a jam among several plans and that taxes are not reduced because con- “All right, I'll ask for a commit- tee to investigate why there are no WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1924 try, and his election was considered catain, A few days before the election he arrived In New York, The Great Rally to Coolidge: OREGONIAN. gress cannot .agree on any of its own plans and will not accept Mel- Jon's, Ci has been yammer- ing all winter about radical schemes to relieve farmers, but the only practical thing has been done by Coolidge—to stave off old debts and, to provice money for the farmer to turn to-crops on which he can money. 0 “with admirable consistency the people have turned down the men who set themselves up as rivals to unless he did it in thelr way, or] who refused to go right ddwn the ine for him dnd to consider no other man for president. Hiram Johnson has all but disappeared from the field. Senator Moses was for Cooli¢ge, but wanted freedom to vote for some other man. New Hampshire wanted delegates who were for Coolidge without a “but’’ and kept Moses at home. Governor Pinchot was put on the ‘Pennsyl- yania primary ballot for delegate through the insistence of Secretary: Mellon and of Senators Pepper and Reed, who smothered misgivings’ about his loyalty to the party and Coolidge, but he confirmed the ad- verre judgment of State Senator, Vare by inciting senate investiga- tors to hire Heney for an Investiga- tion’ of prohibition enforcement, ‘be- cause Coclidge did not yield to Pin-| chot's infallible judgment. Seeing that Pinchot was ¢is'oyal to Cool- fdge the people by a two to one vote told him to stay at home. All these incidents of the primar- les point t¢ one conclusion. The people are disgusted with men who get themselves elected as Republi- cans only to raise Cain with the Re- publican party, with men whose con- ception of progress is to din denun- ciation in the ears of the one man who makes progress, to block his path with investigators who long since ceased to seek useful infor- mation or actual corruption, and with men who will follow him only when he follows the narrow path marked by them. They have seen Coolidge take charge of the govern- ment under exceptional difficulties, keep his head cool amid aggrava- tions which would make a choleric man boil with just anger, and put forward and carry out, so faras the obstructionist would permit the only constructive. measures that have come to light. They have seen in him the character that Is most need- ed in these days when big placca are occupied by men whose chief qualifications are noise and politi- cal trickery. They have noticed that the self-styled champions of prog- ress can agree only on schemes that involve expenditures of more money therefore more taxes. They admire the man who keeps his head- and keeps straight on his course while thus harassed and they are indig- nant against those who hound him. NS G \ QM MO N AIT applied protection to our|‘ate of the United States to e ecede: 7 ships, without noticeable retaliation by our! trial by a committes domin ted oy santas foreign rivals. Under this policy our ship-| Wheler’s personal and partisan friends; as a ping flourished amazing! Tn quality and) substitute for legal trial by the courts, and an accomplishment it was unequalled. But in| attempt is being made by. such unprecedentot an evil day we suspended—we did not abandon—) procedure to break down and discredit the gov- this ships protection, and by terminable trade! ernment's case against a senator in advance of treaties bound ourselves to refrain from guch a judicial hearing. ; ; 4 REG.U.S.PAT.OFF. Inexpensive and Charming YWOOD-WAKEFIELD Reed and Fibre Furni- ture combines rare charm with economy, comfort and long wear because 98 years of experience have shown Heywood-Wakefield designers the requirements of the nation’s home builders. Better dealers are showing a wide variety of suites and. individual pieces in delightful colorings that harmonize with the newest thought in home decoration. This charming furniture is suitable for every room and is :priced within the reach of every purse. Heywood-Wakefield Baby Carriages have A Quality Seal on Every Wheel. 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He—"T haye been thinking It over, and have come to the conclu- sion that two can live as cheaply as one, and so—"* She—‘I have been doing some thinking myself, and have come to the conclusion that since,two can live as cheaply as one, we will con- tinue. to live as two instead of be- coming one.'* “There is.a silver lining to every cloud,” remarked the steel magnate as he watched the black smoke roll- stacks, SL A Perfect Alibi. “Why do you always put ‘dictated’ on your letters when you don’t keep a stenographer.” “Well, I've always been a per- fectly ‘atrocious speller.” Uncle Hook Says. “About th’ only thing that isn't paid on ‘th’ union scale nowadays is th’ wages o’ sin.” Easily Done. _ “Senator, you promised me a job if I helped elect. you." “There are no jobs.’* “But I need one and you said you'd give it to me.” ‘eo ehmm7 — = = — H-W in gold. 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