Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 17, 1924, Page 8

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Locking Ahead We are perfectly willing to agree with the kickers and fault finders that we have not at- tained that degree of perfection where we can cease the struggle ¢ it all perfect, We could further concur, and with the same, frank- ness, that there is much in our polity governmen tal, economic and human, that is unquestionably out of plumb. ‘ “But at do not agree. and never shall that it is not in our people and the spirit of this nation, to repair and replace whatever may be needed in the way of betterment and improvement to make the old mathine operate, as smoothly and efficiently ag! was intended “by the original builders. 3 ‘All we need to do is to glance back and view what has already been done, to be assured that we can and will do as much more as is neces- sdry. It has required but a brief span of a hundred and forty-eight years to make us the greatest, richest, most influential and highest honored nation of the present age and of all time. This position has not been attained in a day no more than Rome was built in that short time, and it is liuman experience that things done slowly are Dest done. If there is a nation uywn the earth today that has earned the right to look to the future with greater confidenie than the United States of America, tell us which one it is. So long us we retain a measure of the same confidence that inspired the founders and pur- sue the course they in their great wisdom, mark- ed out for us, and avoid the snares and pitfalls of radical experimentation, we need have no fears. We know what we have done, and by that experience we know what we can do. We ought to realize that we are the masters of our own destiny. Happening Everywhere Down in Pennsylvania there is some pertur- bation in the Democratic camp, and the’ state committee of the p: could be truthfully de- scribed as throwi its. The occasion of this unusual disquietude grows out of the fact that Hon. Frank (. Musser, present mayor of caster, and Democratic nominee for congr the Lancaster district has openly and widely announced that if his life is spared to election day in November of this year it is his firm and unalterable intention of casting his yote for Messrs. Coolidge and Dawes for president and vice president respectively. Mr, Musser is a gen- tleman of considerable prominence and influence in that section of the Keystone state where Demo- crats are none too numerous. A young storm was created when the mayor made his announcement, but the pressure brought to bear on him to change or “tone down” his attitude, failed to make any impression on him. “Perhaps he can reconcile it with his conscience but I can’t,” grieved State Chairman Bigelow of the Democratic party. But that apparently is not worrying the candidate to any extent, That a single Democratic nominee for an im- portant office should signify his /intention of voting for the Republican presidential ticket would not of itself be of special importance, es- pecially when the insurgent # a resident of an uncompromising Republican state like Pennsyl- vania. y But the fact is that candidate Musser is one of many thousands of Democrats all over the coun- try who have reached a similar determination. The majority of them are not candidates for high office and not all of them haye stated their intentions in a manner as public, but there are a lot of them and in some states ordinarily re- garded as Democratic, they exist in sufficient numbers to renger these states doubtful. Theswidespread popularity of and confidence in President Coolidge in all parts of the country, west as well as east, south as well as north, is the most distinctive feature of the present polit- ical situation. Not since the Civil War at least, has the country seen anything like it. The president, needed no props to support his candidacy, but even at that, the nomination of General Dawes has proved a great source of strength and without doubt has turned many yoters ordinarily Democratic who were. unde- cided what they would do, to the Republican nominees. ale There is now an appearance throughout the country that the Democratic party would have saved a whole lot of time and and a great deal of money if it had remained away from New York and permitted the country to make the elec- tion of Coolidge and Dawes unanimous. Motor Car Cuts In There is no use of evading the situation the trolley lines and the steam railroads are unhappy over the competition of the motor vehicles, T’ passenger car and the bus have made it uncom- fortable for the former and the truck and the bus, together with the passenger car, have af- fected the business of the steam roads. In more than one community the local trolley has been ebandoned because ®f the universal— or quite general use of automobiles. Within our own state, at Sheridan and Cheyenne, the only in two points at which trolleys have ever operated have practically abandoned their city lines. This means that the man who does not own a motor car is compelled to walk—and naurally he does not think so badly of the trolley as he once did. In some parts of the country foolish people are demanding trolley service by force, but bank- rupt companies simply laugh at them. There are any places, throughout the country, where good roads obtain, where trolley tracks are rusting through disuse. . Steam roads are also suffering from the com- petition set up by the gas engine. One import- ant road serving a thickly populated section re- cently withdrew local service on seyeral of its cause of lack of support from the tarious communities. The motor bus and the motor truck are making serious inroads upon the earnings of numerous railroads and eventually this will mil- itate against the communities which have trans- ferred their patronage from the one system of transportation to the other. During the past winter many communities would have been com- pletely shut in from the outside world had they A. division of traffic between motor driven ve- hicles and steam trains means that the latter must lose money because they. must have a full volume of business in order to make a showing of any profit at all. It is an old rule in rail- roading that the main line pays for the branch lines, where earnings are limited as by govern- mental wage fixing. This also explains another complaint of communities of curtailed service on branch lines. The question, as yet, has not been brought forward for serious legislative consideration, but it is the belief in informed circles that time will very shortly demonstrate the unwisdom of governmental management of one. freight and passenger carrying element, but not of others. And no one of fairness will contend that there is greater sense or reason for ernmental reg: ulation of steam roads than there is of moter- driven freight and passenger carriers. And at the same time no one of ordinar} sense and rea- son and justice will contend that governmental regulation of neither is desirable. Not only do the people but the interests involved, suffer from it. The motor,trucks use the roads for money- making purposes. They pay but a trifling sum in the form of a license fea for that privilege On the other hand, the steam and street railways are wompelled to maintain their own roudbe and in the case of street railways th re for ed to pay for a generous part of the ng of streets under the law. Besides they pay heayy taxes, The steam railroads pay into the public treasury each y more money in taxes than they give to their shareholders in the form of profits. Some understand the injustice of his discrim- ination in favor of the motor truck. They are wondering if a plan or policy is not possible whereby the truck can be compelled to bear its fair share of the burden of maintaining the road- bed which it uses for profit making at the ex pense of the people. Shall It Be Confiscatory? There is no issue of more vital importance to the American people that that of taxation— local, state and national. Governmental activi- ties have been extended in the name df reform until the people are carrying on their backs a huge army of office holders, engaged in non- productive pursuits, for which! the bill shoy up seriously, no patter what sort of laws we are living under, in every American family’s cost of living. xation statistics are not.so interesting.as luxuriant rhetoric about political schemes for xinishing sin, sorrow and suffering from the world by legislation, Practically every one of these schemes for reforming civilization by poli- ticalizing it carries a big addition to the public payroll. Whatever may be the unce' nty of the benefits to flow from the innovations pro- posed by demagogues and doctrinair the fat- tening of the public payroll, and therefore the increase of the tax burdens of the American peo is a rugged reality, What is it that the government does better than privy iative and enterprise can do it, which justifies the sublime faith professed by our political. apostles of the exaggerated state in their claim that; all you need to do to produce the millenium is to have the govern- ment go further in the process of putting its hand in every man’s pocket and its nose in every man’s business? What could we expect from political ownership or operation of 1; Iways, mines and other business enterprises? First of all, as our experience in railway operation dur- ing the war proved, a huge addition to the gov- ernment payroll and to the number of those who will exergise political influence to improve their own group welfare at the expense of other elements of citizenship; more taxation on the one hand and higher prices of everything af- fected by political operation on the other, More business in government inevitably means more corruption in government, more sel- fishness in government, more despotism in goy- ernment. It has already’ produced such re- sults. The pretenge of the advocates of politi- calization of industry that they are more honest than the present run of public officials and that under their administration no graft or selfishness will be known, is of course merely an exhibition of characteristic hypocrisy. The mere profession of superior personal honesty does not prove it; usually it proves its non-exist- ence, because honest men do not advertise their virtues, : . During the World war, under the administra- tion of forward lookers and government owner- ship advocates, we wasted more money than had been spent to maintain government in| the qharter century ending with 1900. The interest on our public debt today is greater than was the total cost of maintaining the national gov- ernment before the World war. States and municipalities have caught the Spending con- tagion from the Washington example and dur- ing tho three years 1921, 1922 and 192% the in- crease in bond issues by states and municipali- ties was $8,750,000,000. The funded indebted- ness of the states aggregate more than $1,125,- 000,000, of which nearly half has been created since 1917. The interest on the national debt in 1923 was $1,100,000,000; for the same period tke interest on state and municipal bonds aggregated at 1 t a half billion dollars. It has be esti- mated that it requires the wages of a million men steadily working at $80 a week to pay our public tax bill. The present tendency at Wash- ington ig away from this sort of thing. The public debt has been reduced $5,000,000,000 by the Coolidge-Harding administration. | There has been a ‘huge cut in government expendi- tures as compared with the Wilson post-war period and a big reduction in federal taxes asa result. Do the people of this country want to aban- don this tendency and substitute for it further NR tape mn ree em relied entirely upon the new competitors. ‘a Che Casper Daily Cribune ‘ventures in government activity, with an addi- tion by “politicians of millions of men to the public payroll? How soon will it be under such a program before the wages and earnings of practically all the people engaged in actual pro- duction are required to pay an army of gov- ernment job holders, sufficieys in number to dominate elections and make the government an instrument of tyranny operated for the benefit of officialism at such cost to people engaged in actual production that ‘private enterprise will be extirpated? The pocketbook is not a very poetic subject for discussion but it is high time that the peo- ple who pay the cost of government should give consideration to getting their money’s worth before the extension of political power and rolls destroys the citizen’s chance’ to make ring. We are approaching a time when the cost of goyernment will exceed the total earn- ing power of the American people, if the ad- vocates of politicalized industry are given fur- there opportunity to swell the people’s tax bills. Means, The Martyr. The country has heard much from and much about Gaston Means, the star. witness in the Wheeler-Brookhart senatorial school for irre- sponsible jnformation; but’ nothing like ‘this resume of Gaston’s life and activities from the New York Times: Mr. Gaston B. Means, long one of our most noted criminologists, has been found guilty, with one of his aides, of conspiracy to violate the ‘prohibition law. In the course of his un- selfish and passionate pursuit of crime, the malice of the wicked hag brought indictments a1inst him for various peccadilloes from mur- der down, Humorous as well as scientific in- vestigator, he has described his occupation as “being indicted;” but until now he has broken through ull the nets of spite. This is his first conviction. “Mr. Means was, the great white pole star of Truth to the Brookhart committee. Among ‘the living and dead and in a twilight world of mys- ous figures known only to his ‘clear eye, his long memory roamed. His active intelligence was the continual prompter of Senator Wheeler in the examination of witnesses and the opening of new “lines,” the tracking of new “clues.” Out of some silly piety to the dead, or a pre- .judiced estimate of Mr, Means’ studies in crim- nology there was a disposition among too many to discredit his testimony; but when" his case came up in a federal court here, the lovers of fact and of Means looked forward to a vindi- cation of both. He repeated the testimony which so impressed the impartial minds of Mr. Wheel- er'and his atsociate John Marshalls. As our neighbor, The World, said with a fine fervor: “This is no political hearing no packed in- vestigation by senators, no prosecution of the aggrieved Diugherty: It is a judicial proceeding, regularly conducted and presided over by a Unit- ed States district judge, its proceedings a record for the jury of all the people’ “What must be the surprise and pain of the «tevotees of the truth as it is in Means to find a jury of twelve men disbelieving that incom- parable witness, holding false the statements so. precious to the cold exact and scrupulous intelligence of the Brookhart bench! It is an ungracious task to commeft upon proceedings in a court of justice, but surely the admirers of Mr. Means and his: mathematical evideace will note, with indignation that the case for the goy- ernment was in the hands of Mr. Hiram C. Todd, special assistant attorney general. Mr. Todd is the man who excited The wrath of Mr. Brookhart and his fellow -justiciaries by denouncing their stainless paragon as a ‘crook’ and by refusing to produce the eyidence laid against him before the grand ju Mr. Brookhart said that Mr. Tedd was ‘unfit’ for his post and ought tobe remoyed. Mr. Wheeler accused Mr. Todd of try- ing to ‘prejudice the public against’ the prize ness. Mr, Ashurst talked to the slander of on the good like a Duteh uncle. ou have announced here that Mr. Means is a crook. You have condemned him in advance. You have usurped the functions of the jury. Now, a gentleman, when he announces that another man is a crook, especially when that gentleman is the prosecutor of that man when he sounds the doom of that man in advance, he is always willing to give the evidence whith caused him to say the man is guilty. “Instead, the perverse Mr. Todd gave the evi- dence to the jury, with what melancholy result we now know. He must’ have done his-hest to *prejudice’ the petty jury as he had done his best to ‘prejudice’ the jury of the public. Mr. Means’ counsel protested in vain. He wanted Mr. Todd disqualified as ‘biased and unfair’ Surely, it is the duty of the prosecutor, at least when the defendant is a known champion of yerity, to as- sume that defendant’s innocence. “Mr. Todd even permitted himself in the trial, to speak of Mr. Means as a ‘great fictionist’ So is the law. There is a feeling among our best Gastonians that only a change of venue to Con- cord, N. C,, could give Mr. Means the full pro- tection to which his innocence is entitled; yet Mr. Brookhart’s is the proper court of cassa- tio in this case. It must be able to investigate this trial, as it ‘investigated the indictment of Mr. Wheeler. It does not comport with the dig- nity of the senate committee that the testimony which is regarded as proofs of Holy Writ should be held by a jury and a court where the dull and narrow formalities of the law are observed as a monument of Munchausenisin.” A Force for Peace “The chaplains are vindicating the churches,” lares the Washington Post. “That is the grat- ifying ‘impression produced \by current reports of the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the United States army. We are told that nearly a thousand ministers of the gospel of various churches have accepted commissions under the national defense act, dnd that their number is steadily increas- ing. And now there has been organized a chap- lains’ correspondence course, for authoritatively instructing them in those duties of army life and discipline and the laws of war which are not sorapyset in the currieula of theological semin- aries, ‘ “We call this a vindication of the churches, b&eause it counteracts the unfortunate impres- sion which was produced by the pacifist utter- ances at some recent ecclesiastical conventions. Some of the speeches made and resolutions pro- posed—and even adopted—would almost have persuaded the public that ministers of the gospel were “peace at any price” slackers ready to with- hold all support from the government and betray their country in a supreme emergency. We could never believe that the pacifist propagandists rep- resented the majority and that they did not is proved by this splendid rallying of the chap- lains to the colors, . “These chaplains of the Reserve Corps are, as a rule, the efficient pastors of active, growing. influential churches. They are net the kind of ministers that preach to empty pews and feebly ‘| into second place who seems to be a vote-getter lament the popular lack of interest in the church. Carrying into the training camps, as many of them are doing at this moment, the vital apos- tolic spirit which makes their ministry suceess- ful at home, they will help to make the army as spiritual as they make the chureh militant, and thus each, at once ‘Padre’ and ‘Buddy’ will be a greater force for peace than the whole horde of pacificts propagandizing against human na- ture? ; . White House Short-Cuts BY ELDEN SMALL. This country originally made the second high- est candidate for president automatically the selection for vice president. The fact that this frequently put men into the two highest offices who were from opposing parties’ or personally enemies led to a change, and now the candidate for second place is named for that specific posi- tion. There is some ground to question the im- provement. rt Having chosen the ticket’s head and the plat- form the convention now merely jabs any man in a pivotal state or section. Still, half a dozen of these men have been made president by the death of the executive, gnd it is mere goed luck that has proved most of them to have been com- petent. Occasionally a man defeated by a nar. row margin for presidential honors and offer- ed the vice presidential nomination as a “con- solation prize” has refused it scornfully—io learn later that he would have become president by act of fate. Senator Hiram Johnson did that four years ago. As far back as 1864, President Lincoln, plan- ning his campaign for re-election, sought a war Democrat to go on the ticket with him. His representative visited Gen. Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts and tendered the place, but it was promptly rejected. Senator Andrew Joln- son, a southern war Democrat was finally pick- ed—and became president. Later Butler ran as the “People’s Party” candidate for president in 1884, a union of the Greenback and Anti-Mon- opoly groups. ; Telling the World It may be alright ‘for men to run for office and tell the world about their candidacy, but we can see on contribution to the beauty of the country- side to nail upon every available post and barn door cards telling the virtues of the candidate, nor to paint in brilliant colors, his name and the office for which he is running, upon fences, briges, bill boards and other available spaces. Advertising is not objected to when reasonably and decently employed, but the style referred to offends the view and destroys whatever natural beauty the country affords. It leayes a bad taste in the mouth and excites wonder as to the truth of the statements made. The inevitable conclusion | reached by almost, everybody who gazes upon the | names and legends is that a person requiring | that amount and style of advertising is ‘trying to. cover up something in connection with his candidacy besides space. | There are many other and less offensive ways | by which candidates can inform the voters of} their itch for office. . Random Newspaper Opinion God made the country, but ,the car in fron! makes you eat it—Sagiimw Sfar. : They say that Calvin has never played a mu- sical instrument but you just ought to see his band Teen aOR Nae News. The reason life is quiet and pedceful in rural sections is because country doctors don’t tell all they know.—Flint Journal. In England they never show comedies on Sat- urday night. They are afraid they will start | laughing in the churches.—Colorado Dodo. | The Republican ticket is the choice of the party, The gonyention’s duties were merely min- | isterial and the delegates dared not do otherwise than they did. They were bossed—by the people. | The other ticket has a good man in it by ‘acci- dent and compromise after bitter fighting over spoils, not principles. Davis was evolved by a condition in the conventién. Coolidge was evolved | by a demand from the yoters—Kingston( N. Y.) j Freeman. ¢ | The opinion appears to prevail that, hapdi- capped by the spectacle and the feuds and bitter- ness engendered at the convention, as well as by the criticisms voiced by members of his party, Mr. Davis will be a very badly defeated candi- date. Democrats. freely expressed the opinion in the last moments of the convention that the nom- ination would be worthless, whoever received it. } —Doylestown (Pa.) Intelligencer. President Coolidge in his: budget speech the other day served notice upon government heads that he proposes to protect the integrity of the budget. He declared he was for economy and after that he was for more economy, That is the kind of talk the taxpayers like to hear.—Bristol Her- ald-Courier, ‘ The American commen sense that President Coolidge expressed in his Fourth of July speech holds more truth than all the theories of the doubters. No wonder the voters turn to Mr. Cool- idge with relief and admiration and trust—New York Herald-Tribune, Tf Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson should return to life and meet some of the gentle- men now parading around as Jeffersonian and acksonian Democrats, they’d organize a third party—Columbia Record. When the delegates get back home they will tell the home papers all about it, and then for the first time, New York will know what a mess it made of things.—Baltimore Sun. ‘The masses of Americans like the democracy of a Coolidge who lived in a $35 a month half of a New England double house, and is one of the folks.—Beaver (Pa.) Times. Under government control the railroad sys- tem would be run by politicians, and it is a sure thing that they would run it into the ground.— Lynchburg News. John W. Davis was nominated for president only afte® the delegates discovered that they couldn't nominate somebody else.—Torrington, (Conn.) Register. The Democratic convention has furnished a splendid jllustration of how not to do it.—Provi- dence Journal. Trade balance favors U. S, A. $692,000,000 for _ THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1924. 3 ° Ts ‘3s crop in I owa’: s Corn ; ; Liners fi js ap caccatee to tin ig weekly crop report, issued by the agricultural .department here. Weather conditions of the past Crop Backward | \' consisone ot, tne past, fitted corn and a%l other crops, the < report states, and under continued . 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The Casper Gas Appliance Co, Ine “Merchandise That Merits Confidence” Phone 1500 115-119 East First ne et FOR SHERIFF Alexander McPherson The many friends of Alexander McPherson have presented his name before the Primary election on Aucust 19 for nomination as a candidate for thé office of Sheriff of Natrona county on the Democratic ticket. These friends recommend Mr. McPher- son to the voters as a man of the highest integrity and thor- oughly qualified. They present him as a soldier of the World War Who ‘served two years and returned to this‘country with the rank of First Lieutenant. He has been in the sheep busi- ness in Wyoming for ten years. His friends promise that if Mr. McPherson ¥s no rset: at Sona set the atin co CHABteR yy and Seer icion of graft or failure of duty wi! vi ‘his administration. " Tee, fe eaeee nasinae * The support of all Democrats is solicted, HIS FRIENDS, (@Polttical Advertisement.) past ten months. Bad year for Democrats.—St. Louis Times, Was it a stampede for Davis or a stampede for home?—Boston Transcript. DEMOCRATIC “What sort of a fellow is Jackson?” “Very democratic.” “In what way?”. “Why, he doesn’t give a hang who he borrows money from.” ’ UP-TO-DATE “Did. you_ get anything new this spring?” “Yes, neuralgia, neurastheniajand pneumonia.” TRAIN SCHEDULES Ohh: Ni $eeibouika ace & Northwestern No. 603 -.. No. - 613