Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 10, 1924, Page 6

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The people of the island ap- proved the treaty by popular vote, The proposal | struck a snag in the senate when it came up for approval and approval was withheld. Sena- tor Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, and Hor- ace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, both national figures and leaders of Republican thought, opposed the Santo Domingo annexation and split with the president. In addition to this break there were other Republican leaders who had become estranged from the president over patronage matters. Other members of the party who had been Democrats previous to the Civil war believed the president was enforcing the reconstruction acts too vigorously in the south and were anxious to rebuild their party in the north. . The inception of the movement was in Mis- souri, where a fusion between certain Republi- cang and Democrats resulted in the formation of the so-called Liberal Republican movement. In May of 1872 a national convention of the Lib- eral Republican movement was held at Cincin- nati. It had by this time developed into “any- thing to beat Grant. Most of the Liberals who had come from the Democratic party favored free trade, but the convention platform straddled the question in order to attract votes. It recited other minor grievances, but it had no outstand- ing issue. The Democratic convention of that year met at Baltimore in July endorsed the Cincinnati Liberal platform without change and accepted the Liberal candidates, Horace Greeley of New York and B. Gratz Brown of Missouri for presi- dent and vice president respectively. U. 8. Grant was renominated for president by the regular Republicans and: Henry Wilson of Massachus- etts for vice president. The campaign against Grant broke down weeks before the election and Grant and Wilson were elected by a popu- lar vote of six hundred thousand. The congress was Kepublican in each branch by more than according to the latest figures the. agricultural department has for this year, is 95.8 cents a bushel and of corn 78.2.cents a bushel. With wheat 50 per cent higher than it was in 1892 and with corn more th: twice as high as it was then, is there enought actual distress and dis- content among the farmers to cause more sup- port of a protest candidate than was fegistered then? Our prediction is that the movement of dis- content in the interest of LaFollette, engineered mainly by himself, will not avail and_ will ‘fall rather flat. There is too much prospe: country for calamity howlers to gain much head- way; and too much promise of real things un- der Coolidge for either such a moyement. or even a Democratic movement or the two combined to endanger the success of Coolidge and the Re- publican party in this year of grace. The Convention The Republican national convention came in- to session this forenoon at Cleveland, It is a pe- |’ culiar convention in that there are but compara- tively few contests and practically all of the delegations are instructed for Mr. Coolidge for president. The platform is the only matter that is likely to atouse any dissention and with Cool- idge supporters in control of the entire machin- ery even this is not likely to cause serious dis- agreement. It is the general opinion that the conyention will conclude its labors and adjourn Thursday. Tuesday and Wednesday will be fully occupied in organization and committee reports and Thursday with speech making and acclamation nominations. The only open question, aside from platform, is the vice presidential nominee, and if the con- vention is sensible, has an eye to political suc- cess, it will select General Dawes, and bid him turn on the red fire, and away we go. Nothing could defeat a ticket composed of Cal- vin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes, She Tells a Story Rebecca West, an English novelist, has return- ed home after a six months’ visit to the United States. She spoke the other day to a London au- dience on “How America Strikes Me.” What struck her hardest is contained in the story she told: je “I think with pity about that judge T met in the middle west who danced the tango with a passion rarely exhibited in public places—and afterward gave me a wonderful cocktail, made of a brand of white fire, out of a silver flask the size of the Ascot cup. 2 “Pll tell the world he was stepping out, or, to use a richer idiom, he was stepping high, wide and handsome. Beaming beneficently, he invited me to go down the next day to see the courts. And I did. I sat there while a highly respectable negress, seventy-five years of age, was fined fifty dollars for having in her possession a pint bottle of moonshine whisky. “She had been on a party, like the judge.” Miss West thinks her story presents a situa- tion full of danger. She is absoltiely right. Cost of Turnover Too frequent hiring and firing constitutes one of greatest losses of modern business, says Floyd W. Parsons in the Saturday Evening Post. In many instances labor turnover, forms ‘a greater expense than replacement of machinery. One recent survey showed that groups of rep- resentative concerns in fifteen different indus- tries have an average turnover of one hundred and twenty-five per cent for skilled and two hundred and sixty-five per cent for unskilled workers. Average cost of turnover runs from $84 to $2,000 a man and losses to large compan- ies sometimes run as high as $150,000 a year. It is not difficult to believe that it costs 435,- two to one, The blowup in 1912 was a real one. High tar- iff advocates were displeased with the Payne law of 1909, the patronage question became a factor, party government another item, the fail- ure of Taft to carry out the Roosevelt pol i and numerofs other items of great less im- portance all figured in the pre-cony ion cam paign. To add fuel to the fire the friends of Roosevelt and Taft had stirred up strife between them which ended in a personal quarrel and con- tributed more or less bitterness to campaign and conyention proceedings. The Republican conven- tion nominated William H. Taft for president and James 8. Sherman for vice president. The latter died before the campaign was concluded and Nicholas Murray Butler of New York was selected to fill the vacancy by the national com- mittee. 4 Democrats nominated Woodrow Wil- son for president and Thomas R. Marshall for vice president. In August of 1912 the Progressive Republicans or followers of Roosevelt who had seceded from the regular Republican convention met at Chi- cago and nominated Roosevelt for president and Hiram Johnson for vice president. The split in the Republican party assured the election of Wilson and Marshall, from the open: ing of the campaign. V Marshall were elected but the two R ions polled ® million th nd-more yotes than the suce ndidates. Now comes the threat’ of another attempt to prey Upon the party in power. Mr. LaFollette and his radical followers are not content unless they are cond ng the government, Heayen only knows just w changes they desite, unless it is to overturn existing government and sub- stitute the Russian Soviet form in its stead. LaFollette and his group have called a nation al convent for July 4, at Cleveland. The ob- ject is of course to split the Republican party, They cannot stomach Calvin Coolidge because he is conservative fe and adheres to the constitution which LaFollette and his radicals would scrap. in the turnover. There is nothing to base a vin Coolidge upon ‘ollette urges him on ibility end as the Lib t ended in 18) and to try. It will in all p eral Republican moyeme not <8 the Progressive movement of 1912 ended. For Coolidge hus the confidence of the country and the p will not be willing to trade a safe and + ep president for a wild radical like 4aFollette, nor will the movement draw enough yotes from the Republican purty to permit the | Democratic candidates, whoever they may be, to slip in by a minority popular vote as was the case 1 112 I in the Populist days of 1892 it may be d that James B »r, polled a million t them from both ly twenty-two 4S were very similar to those 000,000 a year for American manufacturers to exchange employes with each other. What Would Happen? About $18,000,000,000 is invested in the pri- vately-owned gas, electric, street railway and telephone properties of this country, As nearly as can be estimated, about the same amount of capital is invested in tax-free secur- ities. The utilities pay some $230,000,000 annually in federal and states taxes. What would happen if the utilities were taken over by the states and nation, and government bonds issued to carry on their work were tax-ex- empt? Encourage Pioneering With prospective consumption’ this summer running 2,500,000 barrels of crude oil a day, the problem of the oil industry is becoming more ap- parently, one of getting the oil. Production is legs than a year ago. In the last twelve months production in this country totaled 741,000,000 barrels and imports 82,000,000, a total supply of 823,000,000 barrels. Of that huge amount, only 000,000 barrels were stored. In the face of these conditions, it is more ap- parent than ever before, that if the people of the country ‘are to be supplied with gasoline and petroleum~products at the expected low prices, passage -of legislation tending to dia courage pioneering by large companies, and per- iodical investigations, must be curbed. Pe Ra Seas The Farming Situation Though the situation of the farmers is far from ideal, the average condition of the Ameri- can farmer has improved nearly ten per cent during the past year, revised estimates of the department of ulture show that 1923 crops had a total ue of about ten billions of dollars, an increase more than a billion in one year, tal. value of exports of. principal agricul- ti products from the United States for cight months ended February 29, 1924, was #1,308,338,. 000, a8 compared with $1,233,716,000 for the same period during the preceding year, an increase of six per cent, kn a recent statement, the department of agri. culture says: “The gen agricultural outlook for 1924 indicates that farmers are undertaking a normal production program. Tt is apparent, however, that ag: ‘enitural production this year will still be attended by difficulties arising frim high wages and other costs, “Domestic demand for agricultural products is at a high level. Foreign markets, on the w hole. seem likely to maintain about the present level of demand.” Time to Take Thought Well may this nation take thought of its fu. ture when its destines are assumed to be direct: Which are said to exist this year, but were worse. | The western state re suffering from ag tural depression. The average farm price wheat was G17 cents a bushel and of corn ba bushel. The ayerage farm price of wheat how, ed by men like LaFollette, Wheeler, Shipstead and Brookhart, well may it turn to the days When Jefferson and Madison, Hgmilton, Mar. verity in the | ¥ rig x x dol- duriiig the year, thus saying thousands of al Jars annually for American business-men by E eliminating the charge of $10 for each visa. The| © : neste Belen Sale the reane of bank | — give them relief with Kellogg’s Bran deposits of an American concern ie $ er ‘ . bank, been ered. A. tion se- Constipation dulls the youthful mind cal regular, healthy, sures ee vast | cured tis eete pit acpea age bein ‘=makes children backwarg in their] For it works as nature shall and Webster constructively created and confirmed the validity of democracy as. outlined and ordained’ in the constitution of the republic.” It is not now conceivable that the blood and sacrifices of Hier loners of human Mberty should have been vainly wasted, and that demagogues and doctrinaires should now become’ an estab- makes bright children dull— : Tn ’ : tion of re- them . lished institution. 3 Pea rangunds Drove HSetis epageletiny ‘one |Jead to serious discases, Constipation Bae balers rcled ye” Busine Revival secured a reduction in the duties on packing for | 4s 2 dangerous ‘ord to take chances] cases, with every meal. Bat it with; ge : usiness C wet American. automobiles, still another secured} You cannot aff ¥ ot afford| milk or cream. Sprinkle it over other - 1A) business revival in the latter half of thia ‘payment to a 1 company’ of $3,000,000 for | in getting relief. You cannot tins | mix i Cook it with hot cereals. ‘Try ear has been forecatt by an unusually large | Merchandise it had delivered, A. 2 COS ene lied permanent relief| {¢ in tho wonderful recipc> cn every, aembes of industrial leaders, bankers and econ- | toms classification secured by one embassy, re-| 7 enian recularly, in tho most} package, ! Even sulted in the reduction of the duty on Americay | h,onice cases of constipation it is crisp, furniture from the.basis of $1.50 to 30 cents. guaranteed to bring results. If it fails,| 1)’ avor that. delights the taste, As for tle consular. branch, an American con-| your grocer will return your Different by far from ordinary, brans, sul in Japan interested parties in the. purchase cooked and krum-| \nich are unpalatable. . of 53 gasoline engines on the basis of a mini-| pled, has brought relicf to thot Begin serving Kollogg’a Bran, bi on ’ + bee ‘They do not regard the present slowing down process a5 serious, but rather as a pausing nes which followed naturally the expansion of dustry during the spring. = By some it has been called a breathing spell, anticipating increasing business. The excellent condit.on of the country’s banks and public utilities will be an important fac- tor in business reyiyal. 4 ” Ambition ~ | Throughout the ages sages, poets and pietists have decried ambition—by which “sin and an- gels fell”— and rhapsodizing over the virtue of contentment. It was ambition which caused the fall of Lucifer, we are told, the assassination of Caesar, the banishment of Napoleon, the col- lapse and exile of the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs, and there are.a thousand other in- stances of the “ambition which o’erleaps itself.” Ambition has brought countless woes upon the world and to those who are imbued with it, for the really ambitious man, who, as Milton says, would rather eselen in. Hell than serve in Heaven,” is never happy even when he does not actually come to grief, because the really am- bitious man is never satisfied. There is always a further ambition to be satisfied, unless like Alexander, he conquers the whole world, and then he weeps because he has no more worlds to conquer, And yet within proper limits ambition is one of the worthiest and most useful traits in hu- man nature. Without ambition humanity would still be in the caveman era. Without ambition mag becomes little more than the beastsof the field. Without ambition the world would be with- out learning, or luxury or intelligence—without even the hope oi a Heayen. The seeming paradox is simply one of degree. It is the excess of ‘ambition, not the trait it- self, which leads to sorrow and disaster. A rea- sonable ambition which pays due regard to the rights of others is as commendable as the other is to be condemned. Life holds few joys greater than the fruition of a laudable ambition. The danger always is that the ¢reditable ambition may o’erleap itself and became contemptible. i Remember, mum -of 500 engines yearly thereafter. One in | because it is ALL bran. ked and krumbled, to your children, Manchuria ausinten in securing not only the con-| only ALL a Kalloge'e (Canta Ss days Fat it-yourself,. The leading tract for the building of railways, but also’ the | effective. idee pbs dt ang 4 sweeps,| hotels and clubs serve it. Made in contract for the erection of an electric power | is Fecommended by doctors. At eweohis) ity, Crock. 1b 4a old by all grocers, $a cleans purifies the plant. A consul in Germany intervened to secure Lend _ a permit for rt by American firms aggre- gating some $2,000,000, A consul in China aided in ‘ing a contract for an American engi- neering firm involving an diture of $425,- 000, The consul general at Melbourne arranged for the sale of 80 American motorcycles in on: month. The counsel general at Paris secured an agreement to eliminate the French duty on per- sonal effects. A consul in Spain assisted in ob- taining an order for an American electrical com- P of $500,000, These are all recent activities, ed the list could be extended until it became tiresome to read. As an example of other consular activities, during 1923 our consuls handled over 75,000 pro- tection and welfare cases, over 1,000 estates of Americans dying abroad; issued, 8,300 disinfec- tion: certificates, made over 15, sanitary re- ports and 27,000. trade reports; handled 807,000 consular invoices, received 905,000 letters, and sent 1.007,000; and collected nearly $7,000,000 in fees, or more than the cost of upkeep of the en- tire diplomatic and consular establishments. Today we maintain diplomatic missions in 51 countries, the personnel, including ambassadors, ministers, secretaries.and clerks being 629; and consular offices in 410 cities of 57. countries, the personnel, including consuls general, consuls, vice consuls, clerks, being’ 2,818. About 600 man the state department proper,’ so that roughly 4,000 carry on the foreign affairs of the United States, a wonderful work, exceptionally well per- formed at an expense ridiculously small all things conside: You Control a Slumbering Giant Electricitv doesn’t exist until you create it yourself. Unlike water, it doesn’t stand in pipe and faucet ready to flow. For it cannot be stored in quantity. But the instant you want it to serve you, a touch quickens it to activity. It will be a mighty dark horse that captures the New York convention nomination, if he has not yet been announced. Frankly, now—is there any other way in which you are more efficiently served? Sometimes we are almost led. to believe that some things about the present administration do not entirely suit the Democrats. Unaccountable Walter F.. Brown, the president’s representa- tive on the congressional committee for the reor- ganization of the executive departments, makes the amazing statement to Mr. Coolidge that as the committee has finished its work he will short- ly close his office and resign. 4 After a diligent search of-the records” all this morning we have failed to find any preced- ent for such radical action as closing a govern- ment office. If it has ever been done before, it has escaped our attention. The case is all the more remarkable in that Mr. Brown comes from Ohio, the home of perennial jobholding. ¢ Congratulations are due Mr. Brown for mak- ing himself famous by a single stroke of genius —assuming ~that he carries out his promise. Some day perhaps monunients will be erected to him as the only man who ever closed a govern- ment office. The suggestion that the appropri- ation niay have been exhausted is an unworthy one, for he had but to hold on and seek expense money in the next deficiency bill. We also tender our congratuldtions to the president for finding a man, especially an Ohio- an, willing to relinquish a job, and lastly and penetinlly, to the people of the United States. nder the spur of Mr. Brown’s example per- haps another jobholder or two may resign in the future. “Nullification of Secession!” By ELDEN SMALL Se Sa America has faced numerous critical situa tions in her national life. One of these was in the earlier days of our country’s expansion, when the political battle cry of “Nullification” came near to rending the nation asunder, and did in fact presage the effort at actual secession a few years later. _ Tariff laws gave birth to this crisis. The south really dominw®ta the government through con- Com an gress, and the enactment of modest protective p Vv tariff laws aroused bitter opposition there. The first bill, in 1816 had been amended in 1824, 1828 and 1832, each time increasing the tariff figures. This final action brought a hot defi from South Carolina, which called a state con- vention to declare the federal tariff law “null and void,” and forbid the payment of its duties. John C. Cathoun, vice president’ of the United States, advised this step and talked of the state's secession from the union if its action were overturned. THE NICOLAYSEN LUMBER CO. Everything in Building Material RIG TIMBERS A SPECIALTY FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS Distributors of KONSET Three-Day Cementing Process for Oil Weils. Phone 2300 and 62 Casper, Wyo. Office and Yard—First and Center Sts.” . JOIN THE AMERICAN LEGION NOW But President Andrew Jackson immediately proclaimed that the whole force of the federal government would be used to enforce the law, and a threatened sectional war was only averted by a compromise “revenue only” tariff bill spon- sored by Henry Clay. Lines and Angles yy TED OSBORNE ‘The corporal was instructing his squad on the care of their rifles. “Your rifle is your best friend,” he told them. “Treat it as you would your wife, rub it thor. oughly every day with an oily rag.” MUCH WORSE. “It is.hard,” said the philospher, “to ask for bread and get a stone.” “But it's a lot harder,” answered a material- istic friend, “to ask for a stone and get paste.” Question of Relationship This new star which has swung into our po- litical ken, the Hon. Gilbert O. Nations, presi- dential candidate of the American party, is not famous, merely because he is a close relative of the league of nations, He is famous primarly, be- cause he is the author of a literary masterpiece, imown es the “Protestant Who's Who.” Before that creative effort sprang full-formcd from his teeming brain ‘he had produced another effort. This effort was devoted to the task of proving that those in favor of making “The Star Spang- led Banner” the national anthem were engaged in a Papist plot. The subtlety of Mr. Nations’ mind is so great that we ordinary mortals cannot entirely fol- low its powerful reasoning, but his argument in the case’ against “The Star Spangled Banner” was to the general effect that’“The Star Spang- led Banner” was anti-British and therefore pro- Trish. Being pro-Irish, it must be a part of the Papist plot. Therefore, the. attempt to make it the national anthem was fundamentally a part of the vast scheme to make the White House esyed the Washington headquarters of the Pa- pal see. Mr. Nations’ platform differs in some re- spects, it will be seen, from that of: the eminent Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, who opposed “The Star Spangled Banner” on the ground that: it was sung to the tune of a diinking song. But the dif- ference, we are sure, is in form only. Mr. Nations and Mrs. Stetson, for all their surface variations can only be brother and sister under the skin, Work of Foreign Service The Democratic representative in congress who declared American diplomatic officers were an aggregation of “pink tea.fighters” did that sery- ive a grave injustice, added nothing to his scant reputation’ as a wit, and ignored the good work done by these faithful public servants under the Democratic administration. Our foreign service officers (as both diplomatic and consular offi. cers are now called, since the passage of the Rogers Bill) are extremely useful agents in fur- thering American interests of every nature abroad. To cite just a few examples, one of our lega- tions secured the exemption of about $17,000,000 of funds belonging to American citizens from the consequences of a forced loan, where said funds were about to be sequestered. One of the embassies assisted in arranging that certain mail between North and South America should be carried by American vessels from the eastern coast of the United States’ through the Carib: bean Sea and the canal, and down the west coast of South America. Another legation se- cured an important concession in arranging that one visa on a passport be considered valid for any number of trips to and from that country CUT OUT THIS COUPON This Coupon Is Good for 10 POINTS 10 POINTS In the Tribune Carriers Competitive Race If Washington only had California’s supply of ans, it would be the pork and bean center of the world. VERY FREE VERSE. “What is the poetry of motion? “It is the poetry that keeps going from one edi- tor to another.” I hereby cast 10 points for: Carriers'name 5. 3 2SLba tn Route No.-_-___ A LOVE LYRIO Sing me a song that will lull me to sleep, Sing me Love's Lullaby. Into my heart let your voice softly creep, Let drowsiness come to my eye. 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