Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1924, Page 2

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Warning A warning to American believers in protec- tion comes from our neighbor on the north; and it should be heeded before it is too late. Cana- dian protectionists have been assuming that the policy in that country was well-established and in no danger, and hence have been inactive for a number of years. ‘Che consequences have been that Canadian voters like their American broth- ers have been negligent at elections, and have temporarily jost sight cf the benefits of pro- tection to the dominion as a whole and have elected so-called progressives to their parlia- isent. It is shown that the farmers on the other side of the boundary, in those sections where there are great manufacturing centers have been very much more prosperous than those in purely agri- cultural sections. The profits per acre which the farmers in the former sections have received are greatly in excess of those in the latter sections. The reason is plain. In the manufacturing cen- ters there more demand for farm products, for there are more people engaged in other lines of employment who therefore do not raise their own food products but depend for them upon the farmers. In the farming-communities the crops must be shipped abroad for their market. But the farming communities have failed to take this into account and hence have leaned toward free-trade, thus planning to kill the goose that Iays the golden egg.” Only recently the so- called Progressives of Canada have lowered the rates of duty on a great variety of products and threaten to lower them still more. This will per- mit a greater influx of foreign products, a de crease of production and employment in Can- ada and an injury to the home demand for farm products. cs i Unless protectionists in the United States are active in impressing the great benefits of protection to all American Jabor and industry this country will suffer the devastating effects of free trade, that Canada is at this moment suf- fering. An Economic Error The passage of the McNary-Haugen bill would be in the nature of an economic crime. We do not question the purpose of those who are push- ing the bill, nor do we maintain that the farm- ers of the nation are not. entitled to such re- lief as wise and proper legislative action may be able to afford. To pass this measure, how ever would simply be “doing evil that good may come. At its best it is nothing more than a leap in the dark. No one can predict its ultimate effect on the country. To pass it would be as foolish as for an aviator to leap from an airplane with- out a parachute and with no knowledge of where he was going to alight. Nothwithstanding the disclaimers of its pro- ponents it is a price-fixing measure, else it is absolutely without force and effect. Price-fix- ing, whether of farm products or any other prod- ucts is wholly without justification. But, if it is economically sound to fix the price of commod- ities by law, it is just as sound to fix the price of manufactures as of wheat or corn or hogs or cattle, If we start in with p: fixing, thus es- tablishing a precedent, we will never see the end of the e. If the McNary-Haugen bill shall pass and shal;l stand the test of the supreme court as to its constitutionality, it will be fastened upon the people of the United States for all time. It is with the provisions of the constitution, but by a bureaucracy. When the fathers “ordained and established this constitution for the United States of America,” they did not dream that this country would in so short a time become govern- ed by bureaus and commissions and other organ- trust that the reo will not be added to the already too long ist. 0 | corporation. true that it provides for a limit of five years, but there is likely to be even more need for such a measure then than there is now, By the end of five years normal conditions will be so up- set by the measure that the farmers will find it hard to readjust themselves to the change. The farmers have not fared so badly except in the case of whe: id their hardships in that re- spect » mostly due to the price-fixing by the government during the war. The price guaran- ty led the farmers to sow a gr er acreage than would otherwise have been the case. When the guaranty expired they found it difficult to re- adjust themselves to the chan but kept on planting a greater number acres than they should have done. They were not to blame fer that. No one could foresee what was going to happen as they cannot foresee what will hap pen if the MeNary-Haugen bill should pass, and then pass out according to its terms of lim- itation. One thing is certain to come to pass; the measure would lead to overproduction in. cer- tain important farm products. There would cer- tainly be an overproduction of wheat and the same would be true of hogs. Instead of helping the situation the measure would bring about the yery ills it is intended to remedy. Who can tell what the expense of operating the price-fixing corporation would be? Who can tell how many employes would beceme nee. y to carry it into successful operution? No| al can tell, but it would certainly cost more than all the supposed benefits to be derived from it would amount to. We have too many bureaus boards, commissions, councils ;nd corporations as it is and to add to them by establishing a fixing body would be “adding Insult to in * SVe are no longer governed in accordance izations not responsible to the people. Congress nowadays passes laws and provides for a com- mission to carry them into effect and then thinks its duty to the sd has been performed. We ‘Nary-Haugen price fixing bu- Business in its different lines is not always prosperous. There is “fat years” and “lean” ones, Just now the cotton manufacturing industry» suffering from a “lean” spell. How would it to extend the provisions of the McNary- Haugen bill to take in the cotton manufacturers as well as the farmers? Of course the proposition will be scoffed at, and rightly. It is no new thing for the important corporations controlling some cer- tain industry to fail to declare dividends on ac- count of poor business, but the preceding year was prosperous and the succeeding one may be. Would it not be a crazy scheme to organize a corporation on the plan proposed in the McNary- Haugen bill for the purpose of stabilizing prices and guaranteeing these corporations a profit? The farmers have prospered in the past and they will prosper in the future, but they will not prosper if they are wet-nursed by a price-fixing. Agriculture is the basic industry. It is of prime importance to the country and every prop- er safeguard should be thrown around it, but to treat it as is proposed in the McNary-Haugen bill is to both insult and injure it. Agriculture should not be treated as a“hot house plant; it is too sturdy for that. When a hothouse plant is taken from its envoronment and subjected to the chill blasts and storms of the outside air it fares badly with the plants grown in the open. Agriculture needs no different treatment from that afforded to other lines of business. They all need protection from the inroads of foreign industries, but they should share and share alike among each other. If agriculture is entitled to any different treat- ment than other industries it is because of the injury done to it by government price-fixing dur- ing the war, but the way to right a wrong is not to repeat that wrong. Business Blames Politics The fog surrounding the general business out- look for the future has failed to clear, as hoped, in the past ten days. For one thing, prospects appeared less favorable upon the passage of the bonus bill over the president's veto, largely be- cause business men believed that the action pre- cluded the hoped for cut in taxes. The compro- mise tax bill has in it some elements that busi- ness men construe favorably, but in the main they feel that it will not have a helpful effect on the general situation. As a whole business is now more interested in politics than ever before and as a result some at- tention will be paid to the quality of men sent to Washington as representatives in congress. A more widespread alarm exists for the future than has existed since the 1896 campaign when Bryan and-free silver threatened, and American industry and manufactures were depressed by lack of tariff protection against the output of Europe and its cheap labor and other low pro- duction costs. This feature of business interest in politics was illustrated at the annual convention of manufacturers recently held in New York. This association is rather the spokesman for indus- trialists generally. Much of the discussion at the convention revolved around politics, with pleas by association officials and some of the speakers from without the organization to the manufac- turers urging them to register their opinions forcibly at the polls next November. The whole tenor of the convention indicated that the manu- facturers felt that much of the backward drag on business recently has been the result of a polit- ical moves in Washington, particularly on the tax question. While hope is held out that a general eco- nomic improvement will follow the adoption of the Dawes report in Europe, that development is still far enough away not to influence trade here to any great extent. A general stiffening of prices in Europe recently has had more effect on our foreign trade. It has resulted in whe sale cancellations of orders placed by Americans particularly in France, and also has encouraged our exporters to go after business in Europe and South America more strongly. There are evi- dences that the opportunities for American trade in South America are improving steadily with the general uplift of European prices, which makes American goods in the foreign miarket look cheap from the price standpoint. The long- distance outlook on foreign trade, however, even with the adoption of the Dawes report, is not altogether without its dark side. With Germany rehabilitated industrially through the medium of a loan, competition will be keener than eyer be- fore. Turning to the domestic situation at present, it is evident from reports of production in var- ious industries that there has been a material slowing down in the pace of trade activity and that the direction of this trend is still un- changed. The adjustment between consumption (in the trade sense) and production has not yet been completed in many lines particularly tex- tiles, the overproduction of early this year has driven prices below current production costs, and so there is little incentive for manufactur- ers to plan increased production under present conditions. Mr. Marshall's Philosophy Former Vice President Marshall has a faculty of driving home some very plain truths in a very plain way. Mr. Marshall says he is for every pro- position for preventing war, but he is not a pac- ifist. “If the pacifists had their way during and »rior to the civil war, the negro would still be in slavery.” “I want peace, but I want America to be in a position to preserve her institutions, homes, civ ilization and rights. The destruction of *battle- ships and the disbanding of regiments are to be deplored.” “One trouble with America today is that there are too many preachers legislating and too few legislators praying. “The model citizen today is the man who can successfully evade the laws. We didn’t have as many laws when he started the government. I'd like to operate on the body politic and remove several hundred thousand laws and leave only the ten commandments and the golden rule that we started with. “You send fools to Washington and keep wis men at home to whatwash the fence, “Old fashioned homes are giving way to flats and flivvers, But the young people of today are 4o worse than we were in our youth. It’s just » different kind of fun. If you have any fault | to find with them, blame yourself, you brought Che Caspet Dailp Cribune Come Out Of the Clouds Editor Tribune: I see by a recentyand make it able to support 100,000 issue of a local paper that someone| people and keep them contemted? predicts that “Casper will have a] The real ‘estate game and the im-|esty and. capacity ‘to select honest progress for the nation until con- fidence and faith in each other and in the representatives we send to Washington have been re-establish- ed. ee, Faith then in the character of our people and in their individual hon- population of a hundred thousand] provement game js being pushed|/men and enforce honest people in the next five years,” and | faster than there is industry to back] ment stands forth as the pre-emin- that “there is a great future in store | them up. As.it is now, there are} ate issue of the-day. - I! Now, | a lot of people trying to sell out for/» national issue and only. those men outtit! who in their lves and who by their ith and hon- for this progressive city." while optimism is a constructive|a tin Lizzie o1 h Jong: quality, without which we would get | and the rest of us that have some-|actions typify such nowhere in any venture; yet why] thing to sel] have to compete with/esty in public affairs will: receive not volplane for a brief while down] this $200 down $10 a month stuff./the endorsement of the American} out of the heights of fantastic non-|I contehd there should be no slump] people in November. —STANLE! sense, and consider what, if any-|in real estate values for aay of us, bring . this condition] and there would be none if the real thing, will about. will they do? they are wealthy. resort. The Alcova irrigation project may help to some extent, but I fail to pie ep acsceitaaaren Bl ‘ iss politicians. nowadays habitually at- will break! tWelr necks ti tribute ideals or altruism in public] such an idea into your head? Of an acre for raw land under an irrigation ditch, unless again these people are wealthy, and if they are this project won't appeal to them What are ‘our real] , estate men doing to foster a spirit|t'on, either economic or very strongly. if there are 25,000 people here now there will have 15,000 a year for five years to reach the goal of 100,000, Ths next logical question is, what will cause 15,009 people to come into this city every year for five years? They will have to have profitable employment unless Real estate su! divisions can be laid out in every direction, but no ong is going to pick this place out for a summer estate men took as much interest trying to sell other people's prop- erty as they do their own sub- divisions. We would have a city of 100,000 people a lot sooner if a lot of this hot alr could be run through a cooling process. to be added ‘What A TAXPAYER. Faith In the State Once {in a ‘generation. there | two’ boiled lobst emerges a great ethical and moral isue in a campaign. So material} “Mama, is has -become our~- modern Jife - that | 80 to heaven?” have you waiter?” Day $130) cfrairs to. ulterior motives rather] course he isn’ than principles involving the funda- — mental factors on which enduring] My. children, nations have been builded. Consider the Tt ls obvious that no material ac-| Ways of the political,} Chafing Dish. people | Can take place prior to some con- It started Spars OF cris pe eeeetiae ception in hyman thought, and it pie as a . tract after tract of land on the mar-}™ust be equally clear that the ay he Pan : ket. They have thelr Junglewooa|S0undness or fallacy in human re athe was ‘ Heights, their Sagebrush acres,|Teasoning depends on moral and} Amvitlons their Lopsided Terraces, etc., at|SPiritual conceptions. The most po- ni rae almost nothing down, and almost epee of a, uinoe the ne ae wean vor at e rst enunciated as a philosophy o Phe’ mame 4: ADD ake sere life nearly two thousand years ago} Society. man will talk to you and his face will shine with the sweet innocence of a cherub as he tells you of the wonderful investment you are mak- ing if you buy his stuff; but try to talk to him and interest him in real estate that you, as an individual, want to sell and see how quick he He will at once put on a record about the “slump in real estate” and try to make you believe you are crazy to get your money invested out of property after you have paid for a lot of improvements and the prop- registers gloom. erty is worth more. real estate man talk your real estate values down instead of up? because it doesn't belong to him. But what kind of boosting is that? Casper isn't the “hub of the uni- Casper has no edge on the world through any special dispensa- tion of providence, there are a lot of people here, and in any other city whose circumstances compel them to move to some other place. When one has to move out of a city and can't get his money invested—out of his property, what kind of an opinion does hg have of that city? I have a piece of property for sale since the first of the year but seU- ing it Is just like selling refrigeraters to the Esquimaux, and all the im- provements are in but paving and that will be done this summer. All these improvements are supposed to make your property so much more they ought to if assessments mean anything, and I am not the only one. Casper 1& like an infant crying for the moon... It wants to be a helluva big city all It seems to think that to have numberless. subdivisions of|our public officials, and real estate is a sure way to become great even though the people have Why not put the rakes on some of this stuff and to keep values up for everyone verse. valuable, well in a minute. nothing ‘to do. try con ned? community from improvements. invite new industries The stability of any) government for transitory political the investors | values, standpoint is that conditions which enables him to .get his money in- vested out of. that community at any time as the years go by plus a fair profit for his time, work and What alleged 15,000 people that will come in next year. what will the next 15,000 do and so on for five years. sonable to suppose the Standard, Texas and. White Eagle. refineries will take care of them. has been Faith. Civilization took its genesis from Falth, and has eb- bed and flowed in the direct ratio that’ Faith in spiritual life and ideal- ism has advanced or receded in the minds of men, The birth of this Union was dedi- cated to Faith in the principle that “all men were created free and equal.” The Revolutionary war was not won by material effort nor was the victory due to widespread sagrifices on the part of the Ameri- can people. During the most critical years of this struggle there were about a handful of men practically unsupported by the country as a whole, harassed and obstructed by a Continental congress whose vision and calibre sunk almost to the level of our modern legislative body in Washington. But because a few score thousand men had faith in Washington and Washington had faith in God and in the principles tor avh{ch the war was fought—the Revolution was won. In 1864 party lines had broken down and there emerged as an is- sue—Faith in Lincoln—because he typified the idealism and the moral calibre of the nation. From the beginning of recorded history nations have decayed and fallen when the individual has lost ith in the state, its traditions, and the character of its people. The campaign of 1924 is in- augurated at a time when constant investigations at Washington sur- rounded by a nebulous cloud of in- nuendo, and suspicion have tended steadily toward breaking down in the minds of the people faith in our Constitution, in the honesty of belief in the efficiency of democracy... It is clear that there are many men in public life who are willing to, trade the priceless asset of confidence of the nation in the integrity of our jood Cause he calls?” Trying It Out years, and was rather for wanting Why does a Just ce These men are a menace to the state and an enemy to our. in- stitution. Since 1896 when the fallacy of free and unlimited coinage of silver was broken down there has not been are these/a campaign presenting so many going to do|questions of economic moment to Then] the United States and to the world, but before one should even discuss these subjects, important though they be, every effort should be made to make the nation realize Why not|that we shall have no state nor can into the citylwe expect _a_ permanent future or Ae It isn't rea- 121 E. First St. about shaving it off due to the fact that he was afraid he would not like it. ed up courage and shaved half of] asked the boy. it off. look at it. “What do you he asked her. “If you think it looks all right, I'll shave the other side too.” i Contagious “Is insomnia catching?” | “Only when the baby has it.” terials for baked beans, but Bos- ¥ WASHBURN. | ton gets all of the credit. Eaward—"They say that people| Chaucer dictated his writings to a with opposite characteristics make | 8tenographer. the “happiest marriages.’ /} Edwin—"I quite agree. why I am looking for a girl who has lots of money.” Complimentary _ for his new baby.” Dine? Gn restaurant with young lady}—"‘You haven't forgotten ‘Waiter—"Oh, no sir. You are the pa going to die and “Why, Tommy, what ever put G Her Father—'*What's the reason that young man stays so late when His Daughter—“I am, papa.” The absentminded college profes- sor had worn a beard for many ————_@___—_ Dopee BROTHERS Four Passenger Coupe ————_ &—_- ELECTRIC WASHER FREE at the CASPER ELECTRIC CO. Phone 1993J them up,” SPECIAL SUMMER TERM BEGINS JUNE 2 Office Open AH Day Saturday, May 31 for Enrollment Call In Person or Phone 1325 for Information About Our Attractive Summer Rate DAY AND NIGHT CLASSES Casper Business College, Inc. 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