Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1924, Page 6

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IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR TRIBUNE. if you don't find your Tribune after looking care- fully tor it, call 15 of 16 and it will be delivered to you by special messenger. Register complaints before $ o'clock. Got Stung Senator Walsh of Montana, is very much dis- -» appointed at the action of his colleague Senator Wheeler, in deserting the Democratic party and going over to LaFollette’s party, lured by the bait of the vice presidential nomination. Let us see, Mr. Wheeler was a protege of Mr. Walsh, who also sponsored the former for polit- ies ment in Montana. Mr. Walsh foisted Wheeler upon their party at a time wher other members of the party were crying for his dis- from the federal district attorneys and charging him with disloyalty to his country. Mr. Walsh then thought that the only way to save liis party was to throw in with the farmer labor-bolshevistic-anarchistic contingent in Mon- tana through the instrumentality of Mr. Wheel- enator Myers, then the colleague of S Ish would have ne of the vile mess, and like the patriotic citizen he is, urged right think- ing Democrats and publicans to combine to defeat the wnholy combination encouraged by Walsh and Wheeler. Senator Walsh nursed an asp in his bosom and it has stung him. Who cares?’ Economic Freedom The orator who delivered the opening address at the confere for progressive political action at Cleveland here no econgmic free- dom no equality of economic opportunity in the United States today for any great group of its cuinmon people.” On the contrary no ccuntry on earth offers such rare and marvelous opportunities for “eco- nomic freedom” as the United States. “Economic freedom” is the right to use what talents one possesses, the right to acquire property, the right to have it protected, the right to have a good education, the right to be thrifty, the right to save, the right to attend church, the right to attend ures and concerts often free of charge, the right to live peacably and worthily as an American citizen. The only things any citfzen must furnish are brains, common sense and e ergy. No political party, no government, can = supply these. Changing Fundamentals This generation is witnessing a fundamental change in the character of American government and that change is typified by the proposed child labor amendment. Local government is gradualy surrendering its authority to the centralized government. The rule of the people is being replaced by the rule of boards and bureaus. Our roads, schools and other affairs are vir- e~ tually slipping from thé control of those who m= are directly and most vitally interested, and arg f CRLECOCUGRSOPEEREECERT A SENS TEES, turned over to governmental agents who are in- terested first, last and all the time in perpetuat- ing the jobs they hold. Government is becoming a great eleemosynary institution in which those in office fondly con- ceive of themselves as the allwise guardians of those who are out of office. Congress clamors for more duties to perform, while defaulting in the duties it already has. Incompetent to protect, it grinds out elaborate legislation. concerning chickens and pigs. One or the other of the old parties or both of them must take a stand against the growing practices and demands or we shortly will have === surrendered the last vestige of our local power. POOCEESERELES CSUPTOEETSTODEREGETLESTSESSERE TEED Pete eees Tey ccm oerninent, such as we have set up for ourselve: Centralization is the wrong conception of goy- We had better get back to the original prin- ciples. If not we had better accept the other thing frankly and stop our kicking, and get rid of our delusions that it is proper for our candidates to call themselves Republicans and Democrats while they are running for office and then yote like Socialists or Communists when they get into offi ; Platform Inconsistencies Our Democratic free trade friends appear to be somewhat inconsistent in their economic the- ories and proposed remedies. Under the stbhead “tariff and taxation” they assert that the Repub- lican tariff has prevented foreign countries from buying our surplus agricultural and manufac- tured products: Under the head of “agriculture” they assert that the protective tariff of 1922 prohibits for- eigners from selling us more goods. They propose to lower the tariff duties in or- der to increase importations of foreign com- petitive merchandis It is inconsistent to char can policy of protection regu at the same time regulates imports. A tariff has nothing to do with foreign markets, it has to do will ynestic markets solely No tariff ever devised can increase that the Republi- es exports and Americ ales abroad, either of agricultural or mannf, tured goods. The Democrats are simply fooling the farmers when they claim that lower import duties will sell more products of the farm in foreign mar- kets. the farms and at the same time reduce the cost of living in the cities. The Wrong System Southern Democratic leaders pay the penalty for the maintenance of the one party system in the solid south by exclusion from consideration as presidential candidates men of their own party. No man has been nominated for president or vice president by either of the great political par- ties, since the birth of the Republican party who hails from a state in which there is not a vigor- ous party in opposition. Indeed, every pres dential nominee of both the great parties since 1856 has been from a state politically doubtful The solid south presents to the Dem party, without the necessity of making test, more than a hundred electoral vot national election. It is well $nown that no mat- ter what the issue or who ‘the candi s the Democratic party can depend upon these votes Why, then, go to one of these states for a pres dential candidate? It has not been done in sey- enty years, and the south will not have a major party presidential candidate until it permits the party of opposition to have at least a Chinu- man’s chance, until public questions are’ debated there upon their merits, until election and pri- mary laws intended to make the sucvess of an op- position party impossible reyardless of public opinion are repealed. In these states taken for granted by the nat- ional Democracy the one party system results in factional differences as a substitute for par controversies, of personalities for princip! With no opppsition party to hold the dominant party in check, public educational and institu- tional progress is ted and popular compr hension of-public questions is made unnec and therefore non-existent because only one s of any issue at stake is presented. As a result of this system the several southern Democrats who were proposed for the presidency made a negligible showing in the balloting. This condition will continue so long as the one party system continues in the south. Isn’t it about time for southern politicians who haye aspirations to national leadership to abandon the injurious policy responsible for this situation? at each Some Queer Delusions ~ If there is a forward looking man in the coun- try, one who can look farther and see les: nominate Mr. Oswald Villard as the prize ionist. Writing about Mr. LaFollette’s cony tion at Cleveland he said: “Here were no poli ical bo: Then later: “LaFollett conven- tion, it was of course, ready to ol his slightest wish. People said it was steam rollered, Yes, undoubtedly. It did not choke off debate alto. gether. True there was great dis: ppointment that the convention was not allowed to nomi- nate the vice president from the. floor.” No bosses? Just one boss, aute recting e moye from his home ton. Writing the platform to be read by his son ‘as a revelation from on high and as changeless as the laws of the Medes and Persians in that “convention.” “The steam roller was not used for ulterior » but to expedite business,” says Mr. further in his panegyric, People known to have views differing from those of LaFollette were excluded from the con- vention hall, even as spectators, although there was a great deal of unoccupied space. No “professional politician” had anything to do with it; LaFollette has been a professional politician for only a mere matter of forty years. The Republican conyention ratified the nomi- nation for president made by the Republican rank and file in the primaries. It was “boss-rid- den.” The Madison Squa garden convention turned down the candidate for president who alone got a big primary vote from the Demo- tie rank and file. In Mr. Villard’s opinion it 8 admirable for its independent spirit. The La- llette convention was made up of hand-picked “delegates,” chosen in no primary, representing only certain factions of a number of groups and elements with no attempt at geographical dis- tribution; it registered only the opinion of its autocratic master. Here is glorious, throbbing democracy, functioning one hundred per cent! The law of gravity pulls every object upward and the moon is made of green Wisconsin cheese. Russia ruled by a party comprising one-half of one per cent of Russia’s populatign, and killing, ling or banishing every one who di grees with the party in power, is the final flower of freedom, progress and enlightenment. You can prove all this, or almost anything else that isn’t so, by the forward looking Mr. Oswald Villard. Harrison’s Address An address so long and so abusive as that de- livered by Senator Harrison at the Democratic national convention is not likely to be preserved among the great orations of the twentieth c tury. But portions of it will last until Nove ber, and may be circulated quite as extensively Ss, we s- ly di- in Washing- Democrats are in a dilemma when they urge as the senator could desire. He is peeved because the present tariff brings in the revenue which free trade forecasters de- clared that it could not bring. This revenue he blames on foreign conditions. But his ire does not change the facts. It was said that the tariff of 1922 would deprive us of revenue. cry was raised against the protective from Fordney | to Fillmore, or from ¥ ley back to Madison. We are seeing. today past generations saw. The general purcha power of the country is greater under protecti than under so-called revenue tariff. Larger re- ceipts are reported by the treasury. Senator He rison can easily find proof that this has hap- pened before but it suits him better to d the tariff because it has not failed. The w of the senator matters little—the point is that he has to acknowledge that the tariff is a rey- enue ri what riff comfort him, That f did not do anything like the harm it might have done. War conditions neutralized half, or two-thirds or three fourths of the low tariff eyil. Si tor Harrison rather amusingly boasts of the large bala of trade in our fayor, and ju- diciously refrains from saying that the Under- wood tariff was avowedly passed for the pur- pose of iner ng importation. It would have been more prudent for him to have said less on this subject. The crowd in Madison Square Garden hoped that the oratorwould reach his conclusion. Many there remembered the nervous anxiety ‘of the Democ ie leaders lest the tariff should wreck the boat. We were told that no ultra cheap for. eign goods would be permitted to land. in official so pledged them no dresses save the American m pleaded with us to save money by e: nd ssels. All this had been eur long ago, but it would have been ator Harrison to revive such and he has this t Women to wear reulars ng dog: pnt talk wwise for unpleasant lve: lower tariff rates to raise the price of food on | memories, . Che Casper Daily Cribune It would not have done to quote the reports of the tariff commission or to ask why the tariff act of 1913 was not followed by other measures of a similar character. Any student of economics can remember the joyous predictions that the Underwood measure was only a beginning—that cut was to follow cut, until we were to see tariff reform in all its glory. But all this stopped short and, like grand father’s clock, stopped never to go again. One tariff law was enough. From Sen ator Underwood down to the last ‘of his follow- ers there was no desire to make a further .trial. Protectionists and free traders are made of the same clay. Both enjoy success and dislike failure, But their recorded histories Peopuoliesey When protectionists call a new industry into) being, whey a second. and a thitd follows they { + encouraged to add to the list. When free traders see what their work really means they hesitate, they draw back. The Underwood mea- re ¥ bad enough. Had a supplementary cut en made in 1914 or 1915 there would have been Republican landslide ig: 1916, Senator Haryi- » need not be reminded that in 1920 Mr. © oe was pleading that he had voted for protection when necessary. But after all, what cause is there to hurl at Senator Harrison the invectives he so freely hurls at others. He had a bad cause and per- haps he did as well as any other speaker could have done, A Republican Shipping Bill One of the few acts of congress favorable to American shipping, and the only one passed during the session recently closed was house res- olution 2, which provides that section ll, of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 shall he so amended as to make available a fund of $25,000,- 000, which, during the period of five years, may be loaned by the United States Shipping Board for the purpose of substituting Diesel engines for steam engines on board American ships. No loan is to be made for longer than 15 years. It shall be payable in not ¥ss than two-year in- stallments, and, shall bear interest at not less than 514 per cent until repaid. No loan shall be for a greater sum than one-half the cost of the equipment,gexcept where sufficient security is furnished, Tn which case the loan may be made for two-thirds the cost of the equipment. The act also amends section 12 of the Mer- chant Marine act of 1920, so as to make the fund available in an amount not to exceed $25,000,000, It is announced that it is likely that several hundred shipping, board ships will be fitted with Diesel engines before the end of the five period of years during which the fund will be avyail- The economy in the of Diesel over n engines is fixed as high as 50 per cent and higher, with the result that many steam- ehips that cannot now be operated at a profit will be operated profitably on present earnings if Diesel engines replace existing steam engines. In the case of shipping board ships it is fro- vided that no part of the loan fund shall be ex- pended-upon the reconditioning of any vessel un- less the board shall have first ntide a binding contract for a satisfactory sale of’ such vessel in accordance with the terms of the act, or for the charter of the yessel for a period of not less than five years, The bill met with almost unanimous approval in each branch of congress and was approved by President Coolidge on June 6, 1924. Just Between Friends John Smith was middle class. He owned a house at the edge of town, drove a six-cylinder car that he couldn't afford, possessed ten friends who were very dear to him, played golf and con- ducted a wholesale grocery business that paid him a profit of about $10,000 the year. The income of his friends was neither much greater nor much less than his own. John desired wealth. In an effort to acquire it quickly he began to speculate in futures. Within six months his business, house and car were gone and he was flat broke. He moyed to a neigh- borhood where rents were low, and got a job with a railroad company, John’s friends loved him and were determined not to drop him. True, he no longer had time to play golf with them and he could no longer en- tertain them as he had in the days of his pros- perity but they looked him up at frequent inter- vals and did their best to remain on intimate terms with him. Their efforts were unfruitful. John had his share of pride and he would not accept favors he could not return. Moreover, the evidence of their continued prosperity made him | more keenly conscious of his poverty, and he watched them narrowly for signs of pity. As an inevitable result his friends began to be ill at} ease in his presence and John being morbidly sensitive, became morose and ungracious, so that at last his friends avoided him and left him to his fate. John was not content in poverty, however. He labored long and planned shrewdly, and the big fe lows in the lway company began to notice Within a year he was a division superin- ent. Then, with his self-respect. restored he looked up his old friends and began to enjoy them again. They welcomed him heartily. : On arted up hill, John developed rapidly and began to be an important factor in the busi- ness of railroading. He became one of the vice presidents, and a short time later president of the railway system with a salary of $50,000 a year. He bought a fine house, o: with twelve cylinder: the pleasure of enter and oft His effor fruitless, however, their shells and w. f course, and a car and he promised himself ng his friends royally in this direction were His friends withdrew into atched him narrowly for evi- dence of swellhead. This scrutiny made him self. con and stiff, and this stiffne: de his friends ill at ei ? grag eee: “John was a fine chap,” to one another, “before head.” ’ the friends would say success went to his Concerning Whiskers In a certain land a sect developed. This sect believed in the sancity of whiskers. Its members argued, qnite resonably, that. God willed whis- kers to grow and that to fell the young whisker with a razor blade and thus expose the male face in all its nakedness is to offend Heaven. It argued, further, that since the whisker is a liv- ing portion of man, to slay it is to offend in some degree against the law: concerning suicide; and that the money expended for shaves might pended for hair oil. more righteously be ex The oppos n contended that whiskers are unbeantiful; that they are in opposition to the that they interfere doctrine of open covenants: with a kiss and intensify the hazard of eating soup. There was, of course, most everybody joined great row, in which al- md had a good time. Three citizens met at a summer camp and be- gan to discuss the issue. The first, who was emo- tional and addict ed to joining things, spoke as am in favor of more and better follows: “This is but another effort of the yokels to ex- whiskers. They are a natural product. Adam had ’em. Our fathers prized them. The unadora- ed face seems brazen, For my part, I shall grow a beard and join the forces that are laboring for a law to hang barbers.” The second citizen, who was a cynic and ad- dicted to the habit of scorning everything a foot high, ‘sneered his mest convincing sneer and said: “Whiskers are iar to the rabble and the hick. No civilized man would wear them. press their envy by annoying their betters. For my part, I shall labor to place the members of this sect in av asylum for the feeble-minded.” The third citizen, who was a philosopher, be- gan with unhurried fingers to refill his pipe and expressed his opinion thus: “So much zeal in this kind of weather! How do you manage it? I can understand the arguments of both sides, but I can’t get excited about the matter. What earthly difference can whiskers make? Do they affect vital statistics or the price of butter? For my part, I shall do as I darned please, without the advice or censent of the senate; and others, for all of me, may do the same.” . +) “West Florida By ELDEN SMALL Two short months was the span of*life allotted to “the Free and Independent State of West Florida,” which just about sets a record inside the limits of the United States. But for that period, brief as it was, “West Florida” was a real independent state with its own governor, constitution, military establishment, legislative assembly, local officials and everything. In the early history of this nation, in the ex- treme southeastern section, English, French and |} Spanish regimes chased each other in sugh a puz- zling, helter-skelter fashion that the, colonists } were dazed. Finally in 1810, a convention held in Baton Rouge, La., resulted in a formal re- volt and the establishment of the “free and in- dependent state” named above. It went into ac- tual existence September 23, that year, and elect- ed’ Fuller Skipwith governor. Next it sent com- missioners to Washington, and seemed about to be recognized by the United States. But meanwhile there was a change of admin- istration in Louisiana and the new governor de- clared the West Florida movement simply trea- son, sending troops against it. December 6, Gen- eral Philemon Thomas, the cpmmander hoisted the American flag at Franceville and the new state went out of existence. Random Newspaper Opinion Nowadays many a girl is as old as her mother looks.—London Opinion. 3 The easiest way to keep up with all the new books is to read Dumas in the first place.—Potts- ville Journal. Things even up. Europe has finer art galleries, but she can’t compare with us in the matter of billboards.—Medford Mail-Tribune. A scientist recently demonstrated in London how it was possible to hear through the elbow. The reverse process of becoming speechless through bending it was not shown.—The Humor- ist (London. . That “music hath charms to soothe the savage breast” is distinctly a prejazz utterance—Ar- kansas Gazette. Still bobbed hair is much more fair to the suit- or. He knows all of it is fastened at one end.— Birmingham Neéws. ‘ One of the strangest things in this world is how hot a ‘man gets on the front porch while his wife is broiling steaks in the kitchen —Dallas News. Se Europe has been faced with the problem of war widows ever since the close of hostilities. America has been overrun with war grass wid- ows.—Nashville Banner. It’s getting so that the average citizen when he picks up his morning newspaper turns first to see whom the prohibition officers have been shooting at now.—Roanoke (Va.) Times. Lines and Angles BY TED OSBORNE The other day I went to A funeral And while the Minister was Preaching the Sermon the Fire Alarm Rang. three times, And I started 5 Wondering if There was Any truth In signs. OUR DAILY SONG HIT “She Took Her Alimony and Bought Liberty Bonds.” Anyway, Prohibition Is just as Effective As a girl’s Don’t. EFFICIENT Him (sort of bashfully)—“I would like to have you help me spend all of. my savings.” Her (not so bashfully)—“I am helping you spend them now.” Him (even more bashfully)—“I mean forever and eyer.” 3 Her (less bashfully than ever)—“It won't take me that long.” CONVALESCENT “Don’t you think Mabel’s voice is improved?” “Yes, but not cured.” A FATAL ERROR Judge—“Madam, have you anything to say?” Prisoner’s Husband—“Good heavens, judge! Now you’ye done it.” A news item tells about some swallows nesting in a field of corn in Minnesota. We always thought that it was the corn that nested in the swallows. AT THE BEACH “You life savers have a good time, don’t you?” “Oh, yes. We go in for everything.” CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Corporal—“Hey, I told you to use a fine sight. Don’t you know what a fine sight is, you poor sap?” Raw Recruit—“Sure I know what a fine sight is. A boatload of corporals sinking.” HARROWING “T saw a harrowing sight today.” - “What was it?” 7 “A farmer was getting his land ready for 2 deh A alia wt nh! Pin TIMBER CUT IS AWARDED WASHINGTON, July 22.—The in- terior department has awarded the Ewauna Box company Klamat! Falls, Ore., a contract for cutting 385,000,000 feet of timber on 41,500 acres of unalloted land in the “Long Prairie’ unit of the Kalamath In- dian reservation. Prices to be paid are $6.67 a thousand feet for yellow and sugar pine, $4 for Douglas fire and Incense cedar and §1 for other species, the highest ever paid for this class of timber in Oregon. The re- ceipts will-go to the Indians. ——_——_ — SUMMER SCHOOL. STATE COLLEGE, Pa, (Ynited Préss).—Over 2,000 students en- rolled for the summer term of the Pennsylvania State college. These do not Include the students at_the BIG TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1924.’ branches established at Altoona and Erie, Pa, MEXICAN IS _— KILLED WHER HIT BY TRAIN FORT COLLINS, Colo., July 22.— Leon Carmona, a Mexican between 30 ‘and 35 years of age, about whom practically no information has yet been obtained by Coroner W. T. Hol- lowell, was instantly killed just after 9 o'clock Sunday when struck by the northbound Billings train on the Colorado and Southern at Black Hol- low crossing just north of Fort Col- lins. —E———EEe Tribune wantads bring results. REMEMBER Your Choice of High Class Jewelry $1.00 AYRES JEWELRY CO. 133 South Center Street Tar M. Babb Balcony, Hotel Henning Mimeographing Circular Letters Typing Depositions ‘ictation Phone 45. Bulletins Price-lists HAY—GRAIN CHiX FEEDS— SALT Casper Warehouse Lo. 268 INDUSTRIAL AVE TEL. 27 STORAGE FORWARVING For the best results in raising thickens use Victor Buttermilk Starter. For more eggs feed Victor Scratch Feed and Laying Mash. 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