Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 31, 1924, Page 8

4 a} u a ?AGE EIGHT. Che Casper Daily Cribune MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive'y titled to the use for publication of all n credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B.C) The Casper Dally Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Casper, Wyoming. Pu> lication offices: Tribune Building, opposite postoftice. Entered Casper (Wyoming) postoftice as second ¢ matter, November 22, 1916. Business Telephones - -. 15 and 16 z F hon’ hange Connecting All Departments J. B. HANWAY HANWAY Advertising Represen Prudden, King & Prudden, Steger Bldg., Chic I, 286 Fifth Ave, New York City; G Bldg., Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 55 New Montgomery St., San F isco, Cal. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the Now York, Chi- ca n and San Francisco offices and ire welcome. SUBSCRIPTION RATE! 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Meanwhile while all this activity the one direction is in progress, an epi demic of robbery and thievery has brok en out, in which peacable citizens have been called upon to hand er their money, jewels, and other articles f value to highway brigands and ordin » many farm products, especially wheat und corn, under the same protective tar- iff charged with the responsibility of de- pressing prices of farm products is a complete answer to the Democratic and free-trade claim. The protective tariff does not regulate prices. Joke on ‘Em. The joke is on the Democratic sena- tors who joined the senate pinks and yellows in whitewashing Senator Wheel- er. They supposed at the time that it was a smart party trick to ignore the facts in the case and vote the senate Javert a clean bill of health. They were too dumb to know that the plan of the conference for Progressive Political Action has for a year been to nominate’ Wheeler for vice president’ with LaFollette, unless McAdoo became the Democratic presi- dential nominee. The whining of some of these senators about Senator Wheeler having “betrayed” the Democratic party, now that he has turned upon the organi- zation which has kept him in office off and on for years, will not cause much tumultuous heaving of sympathetic bos- oms. Why New York Will Support Coolidge The Democratic national platform de- nounced the Fordney-McCumber tariff of 1s s “the most unjust, unscientific and dishonest tariff measure ever en- acted in our histoty.” This plank was adopted by the Demo- cratic party in national convention, in the largest city of the great state that I s all other states in manu and all other states in domestic as foreign commerce. According to the last federal census, y York state has 4 industrial or cturing establishments, = laried people and 1 wage earners; ng $1,9 ries and 16,000 S. very Democrats in I convention adopted-the above plank there were in New York ¢ i few miles of the room whe mittee on resolutions met and wrote the above plank, more than 33,000 manufae- turing establishments employing 825,000 men and women of whom 638,000 were wage-earners receiving $805,000,000 in es every year. The yalue of the prod produced by these institutions is nd the capital invested 000,000, New York state.every , York City alone The principal industries in New York cit state are: Women’s and nien’s clothing; millinery and es; fur goods and cigarettes goods; silk goods; pot- gla e and gloves. one of these American indus: New York City and state are ; that is, there is in the tariff im import duty on all of these Yy; leather glass and overy tries in holdups, upon the count hways and the city thoroughfares ». Countless instances havye,been recorded in the pub- lic press, but the trouble is that nothing is ever done about it. No evildoer is ever apprehended and required to answer for his bold misdeeds. Something is wrong in both the sher iff’s office and the police department Apparently the personnel of these two protective agen e specialists. They can sleuth an unimportant home brew artist with the*goods in his possession with neatness and ease; but when it comes to the matter of snaring, or even s tg Compel foreign manifacturers r articles to pay a certain sum United States treasury for the privilege of.selling in the American mar- kets, so that manufacturers in New York city and state {as well as other states) may pay American wages and still have a competitive chance in the American markets, _More than 1,500,000 people in New York state, and more than 825,000 in New York City alone, depend upon this same protective ta for reasonably steady employment and good wage seenting a buccaneer who has despoiled| And the Democrats in national con- a citizen of his substance, there is noth-|,vention in New York Cit knowing ing doing by either of the institutions | these facts, denounced protection and the which have the safety, peace and dignity | Protective tariff o; ! of city and county in their keeping In New York City alone, on the day There has been entirely too much rob-| the Democrats im national convention, bery and other similar practices put] denounced the protective tariff of 1922 over and remaining unpunished to suit the great majority of honest and law abiding citizens. They are inquiring one of another why something is not done to suppress these bold infractions of the laws. They express a desire for infor- mation respecting whether of not the city police department is off on a sum- mer vacation, or the sheriff's force gone fishing. It cannot be that these two executive forces are wholly inefficient, for with due regulari ome brewers and boot leggers are dragged to the halls of~jus- tice, but the complaint is, that while this is being done thieves and burglars are breaking through and stealing at will. The people want these latter practices abated. They are right in any demand they may make in this respect. If it can- not be accomplished by one set of offi- cers, get another set and see what can be done. Give the hooch sniffers a rest and bring on some real thief takers. The citizens of this town have a right to be safe from molestation in any por- tion of its corporate limits at any hour of the day or night. The peace officers of the city and county are the guaranty of these things. The one point is, why in blazes don’t they function? We feel sure that neither the mayor of the city nor the sheriff of the county desire that a lot of promiscuous rob- bery and thievery occur in the commu nity, either in the city or in the county, and ‘they being the highest authority to which appeal can be made, they are respectfuly asked how much longer the people must endure present conditions? Does Not Regulate Prices One of the stock arguments of the free traders and enemies of protection, an ar. gument caluculated to curry favor with the farmers of the west and northwest against the Republican party, the parts of protection, is that the protective tar iff of 1 used a decline in the fo demand of farm oducts, and quent drop in prices, and at the same time raised prices of manufactured ar ticles which the farmers were compelled to buy. The protectionists replied that the tariff has little to do with prices of domestic articles, whether of the farm or shop. The recent rise in prices of were scores of savings banks with 11,583,000 in deposits and resources belonging to 2,921,358 depositors besides many national banks with more than $4,000,000,000 in deposits belonging to more than a million depositors! _More than seven billion dollars in New York City banks alone belonging to more than four million depositors! In all probability more than 8,500,000 of these depositors were men and women of moderate means, Wage-earners many of them. 3 When this Democratic convention of 1 denounced protection, the farm property in New York state was valued at more than $2,000,000,000; and the farm crops were valued at more than $420,000,- 000. Dairy products alone were valued at $760,000,000; live stock $230,000,000; milk alone $160,000,000; butter $11,000,000. What made New York state so rich in dairy and other farm products? The protection afforded by the protective tariff that compels the products of Can- adian dairy and other farm products, and foreign producers of butter and cheese, to pay an import duty into the United States treasury for the privilege of selling in ‘the American markets, _ Yet the Democrats in national conyen- tion denounced the protective tariff as “unjust and dishonest!” Amports and exports through the port of New York City amount approximately to $3,000,000,000 annually; but the com- merce between places in New York state and other parts of the union is more than $6,000,000,000 every year! b Why is the domestic commerce of New York state far greater than its forei commerce? Because the protective tariff tends to reserve the American markets for American producers and American manufacturers, These are powerful: reasons why the voters of New York state should repudi- ate the declaration of the Democr: national convention, and upport © r nd Dawes, who believe the the i great oss of the empire state is due largely to the policy of protection; and desire to see it-continued A vote for the Democratic candidates or the Democratic ticket this fall, means opening the doors to excessive competi tion from abroad in the American mar- kets. fhe Casper Daily Cribune In Case of Tie or Deadlock In case it happens, when the house and senate meets, on February 11 next, to open the electoral vote of the several states that no one of the three leading candidates for president has the required 266 votes, which elect, the lower house of congress will proceed to ballot among the three candidates Coolidge, Davis and LaFollette. In this balloting by the house the mem- bers vote, not us individuals, but as, state units. That is to say, New York, although it has forty-three members, will have but one yote while Wyoming, with but one member will also have one vote. The consequence is that we must now look at the political complexion of the congressional delegations from each state, Pennsylvania, for example, has thirty Republican congressmen and six Democratic. It would therefore cast one yote for Coolidge. South Carolina, on the other hand has seven Democratic congressmen. It therefore would cast one vote for Davis. In the house, twenty-three of the state delegations are prevailing Republican and would ordinarily be expected to cast twenty-three votes for Coolidge. This however, is subject to an important qual- ification, to» be mentioned in a moment. Twenty of the state delegations are pre- yailingly Democratic and presumably would yote for Davis. Five of the state delegations are tied—are evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, namely New Jersey, Maryland, Ne- braska, New Hampshire and Minnesota. If each state delegation should vote according to whether it had a majority ublican or Democratic members ter would be simple. There would nty-three votes for Coolidge and votes for Davis with the five divided states presumably not ig. But the important qualification is that some of the states whose delegations in congress are nominally Republican are only nominally so, For example eleven essmen from V ynsin, ten are Re- n. But this Wisconsin delegation public as is well known is only nominally Re- publican. It by no means follows that the Wisconsin delegation would cast its vote for Coolidge. On the contrary it is quite certain the Wisconsin delegation would cast its vote for LaFollette, The Wisconsin d on throughout all the present cong followed LaFollette quite regularly, and ignored the fact that it is nominally Republican. To a less extent this is true of two or three oth states. So it is quite within possi- bility that in the election in the house there might be twenty states voting for Ige, twenty for 1 und three for ‘oliette, thus creating a deadlock. If this deadlock arises in the house, the constitutional provision which then applies reads as follows. “If the house oi repr F shall not choose a presi- dent * ** before the fourth day of March » * * thenthe vice president shall act as lent, as in the case of the death or constitutional disability of the president.” The question thus arises: Will there be a vice president? This takes us to the senate. While the house is at work trying to elect u president, the senate is at work ng to elect a vice president. The amendment of the constitution, overs this point, reads: “The per- son having the greatest number of votes as vice president (in the electoral count) shall be the vice president if such num- ber be a majority of the whole number of electors; and if no person have*a ma- jority; then from the two highest * * * on the list the senate shall choose the vice president.’ In the coming situation, if it arises, there is much importance in the fact that as respects the vice presidency, the ute chooses one of the two highest; while as respects the presidency, the house votes among the three highest. Be- cause the senate confines its ballotirig to the two highest, the assumption is that no deadlock will arise in the senate on the matter of the vice presidency. The assumption is that the two highest would be Dawes, Republican and Bryan, Demo- crat, with Wheeler, third and therefore eliminated from consideration. it would ordinarily be expetted that the present senate, being Republican, would promptly cast a majority of its votes in favor of the Republican candi- date for vice president Dawes, In the senate the voting is not by states but by individuals. The present “political com- plexion of the senate is fifty-one Repub- licans, forty three Democrats and two Farmer-Labor. This would seem, super- ficially, to give a natrow but yet safe majority to the Republicans. But here again it might be possible for some of those fifty-one nominally Republican senators to depart from their party and yote in such a way as to bring about a deadlock on the vice presidency also. Among the fifty-one nominally Republi- can senators there are ‘several, such as La¥ollette himself, Brookhart and some others who hold their party ties very lightly. Decatur By ELDEN SMALL. Other nations recount often the valor- ous deeds of their military and naval heroes, but Americans seem to forget easily, especially in the matter of opr nayal history. One stirring incident that deserves remembrance featured the war visit of Commodore Preble and a squadron of ‘battleships to Morrocco’ After the emperor of that country had made his peace with. Preble the fleet sailed for Tripoli. There the frigate “Philadelphia” struck a rock, was cap- tured .by the Tripolitans, her officers made prisoners and the crew, taken off to slavery. Planning to destroy the frigate before er captors could make her ready for 1, a young lieutenant, Stephen A, Decatur with 24 yoluifteers, sailed into the harbor of ‘Tripoli in a small boat, pretending to be in distress, and moor- ed alongside the “Philadelphia.” De- catur and his men who had been con-, cealed in the lower part of the; little craft, suddenly sprang out of ‘the hatches and clambered upon the deck of the frigate. Before the “astounded officers or crew could act they were engaged in hand-to- hand fighting, and those not killed were driven into the sea. The “Philadelphia” was set afire, and the victors escaped in their boat, under fire from the castle, | ships in the harbor and shore batteries, without loss of a man. “Why. Not? Republican leaders generally regard West Virginia,one of the battlegrounds. Hughes carried the state by about 3,000 against Wilson in 1916, and Harding had a plurality of about 60,000 votes over Cox four years ago. \ John W Davis is highly regarded by West Virginians, but the great ma- jority of-these people are Republicans and do not permit a little matter of friendship to interfere with their politics. They know John W. Davis does not represent their political prin- ciples and they see no good reason for yoting against their own interests. Just as the Republicans of Nebraska view the Democratic candidate for vice president. Nebraska is a Republican state and the fact that Charles W. Bryan is the present governor does not mean that the state and the Republican yoters have gone over soul, body and | breeches to the Democratic faith. Both West Virginia and Nebraska are regular Republicam states, their people are regular and why shouldn’t they roll up the usual majority for the regular Republican ticket. . Fruits of Bolshevism To be saved from utter ruin Lenin- grad—formerly Petrograd and before that time St. Petersburg, the city found- ed by Peter the Great to be the brilliant capital of all the $13,000,000 a very modest sum, But now Leningrad is entirely without funds and is unable to raise any. If its ruined buildings are to be restored its empty houses preserved, its broken streets made passable and its half filled canals reconstructed the soviet government must agree to pay the bill. The soviet state planning commission regards all t { ! } | i | } | | Russias—requires _ is work in Leningrad as | of imperative importance, but the pro- | posal must first be approved by the commissariat of finance and later by the council of people’s commissars. It is regarded as virtually certain there- ‘ore, that if Leningrad gets any of the $15,000,000 it will be only a small part. Such blessings of communism are. to) be found in all parts of Belsheyist Rus- sia. A correspondent, who recently completed a journey from, Moscow to Vladivostok and back to Moscow, found all along the way dilapidated cities, ruined rz tries and disheartened people. Yet the Russians when left to them- selves haye a genius for co-operation. Bad government is their bane. Lines and Angles By TED OSBORNE Just because A girl who has Beautiful teeth Smiles at Your joke Is no sign The joke is Really amusing. RESPONSIBLE MAN NEEDED “Ww T want is a man in whose hon esty, skill discretion, and obedience I can place implicit reliance.” “TI suppose you want a confidential sec- retary?” “No, I want a man to plant potatoes.” WELL KEPT. “How does Gladys manage to presesve her complexion so well” “She keeps it in air-tight jars.” A LITERARY DIGEST “This,” said the goat as he‘munched on a newspaper, “is food for thought.” “Paw, what is inertia?” “Tf I have it, it is pure laziness. 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