Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1924, Page 8

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It would be absurd not to admit that there is a Jow tariff sentiment in the northwes but it»would be cowardly to forget that, despite such a sentiment, the northwest has repeatedly been won for protection- ist candidates. In all agricultural communities there are persons who are naturally inclined to free trade. They see the farms, they know that farming is hard work, they have a vague idea that congress ought to do something to better agricultural conditions. They do not see the t fac- tories, they do not see the army of wage- earners, they do not look on the cities in which their produce is sold and econ- sumed, hence they do not recognize the importance of the home market. Some of these persons do not meditate on the fact that the present-day farmer may have an organ in the house, an antomo- le at his service, a truck to market his crops; a-motor cycle for each of his sons —these are fruits of industrial develop- ment, but these are those who enjoy the fruits and forget the tree. There is notlring new in the report that there are low tariff men in the north west, for there always have been. In the first half of 1888 there were plenty of northwestern. Republicans who favored the Mills tariff bill. That asure re-| ceived Republican votes in congress. Knute Nelson.-one of the strongest Re- ublicans of That section was for years nelined to low duties. John A. Johnson, who came near being the Democratic nominee for 1908, could put as much vigor into a low tariff speech, as any of the in- surgents or LaFollettites of a later oy. All that is now said has been said be- fore and by men fully equal to any of the northwestern speakers of today. Every, man who has reached fifty re- members the phrase “rainbow chasing.” In 1888 there was talk of a great north- western sweep for Cleveland which would re-elect him, even if he lost New York. The farmers were to rise en masse and proclaim an everlasting divorce from the Republican party. It was said that their eyes had been opened to the delu- sions of protection, that they saw that the tariff was binding them in chains, and they were bursting their fetters. Calvin -8. Brice sent this propaganda all over the land. Some editors believed it, some printed it to save'time and addi- tional labor. Don Manuel Dickinson was gay and gleesome in his forecasts that the northwest would be in the Demo cratic column. These forecasters were called “rainbow chasers.” In a sense they found the end of the rainbow—that is, the rainbow ended on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. LaFollette is a man of considerable political experience, who can. talk all day and all night. Some like his talk and some are unutterably weary of him. It ‘would be foolish. to under-rate him. He may get enough votes to carry several states, although such a thing'is very re mote. And it is well to remember that his supporters today are no more noisily confident than the Cleveland boomers of 1858. A Nefarious Plot It was bound to come. It came in 1896, when the price of wheat rose day by day as the presidential election approached, and it was certain to come this year with an even more marked and sensational jump in the wheat market. Vigilant triends of the people detected the polit ical plot behind the movement of twenty. eight years.ago, and their eyes are be ginuing to be fastened upon it now, An indignant gentleman in Baltimo 28 serts, with the trifling proviso, “if this information is correct,” that a sinister | conspiracy between politicians and cap ° Che Casver Daily ECribune - _ italicts has been formed for the purpose| It is because he is a candidate for of- of artificially foreing up the price of | fice. Possibly down in his heart he has grain, in order to force down the “ui-| little or no sympathy with the man-hun- rest” in the wheat and corn growing] ters who went after Mr. Daugherty in states. It seems that the most skilled| the hope of making political capital for grain manipulators in the country have| themselves. Even those who did not ad- been employed in this nefarious work,| mire the former attorney general and and the cost of the whole is veraciously put at many millions. Great sums must have been expended by the plotters to advance the ‘price of wheat on the Chicago market seven cents a bushel. A logical infer- ence would be that emissaries have been sent io the Canadian wheat fields to prevent the rain from falling and the crop from reaching anywhere near the estimate. If there are shortages else- where in the world, it is plain that they must have been engineered by the un- scrupulous American schemers. It is not safe for them to make large con- tributions to other parties in order to bring about the defeat of the one pri- vately conducted by Senator La¥ollette, but by flinging millions into the grain market they may be able to embarrass the campaign of that Son of Thunder. He can be counted upon in due time to inform the puzzled farmers that ‘they are the victims of a plot, but the likeli- hood is that, now as in 1896, they will simply wish the plotters more power to their elbows. Whole Question Answered In 1892 the Populists got 1,000,000 votes at the polls and twenty-two votes in the presidential electoral college. In 1900 they got 50,000 votes at the polls and not an electoral vote. What is to prevent a relative revival of agricultural pros- perity from doing to the LaFollette party what it did to the Populist party? Here seems to be an admission that there would be no LaFollette party in the present campaign were it not for discontent and unrest, the causes of which can be traced to nobody in par- ticular. For the last two or three years politicians have been deploring the con- |‘ dition of the farmer. Lack of prosperity on the farm was reflected in every nue of urban life. Such a situation, evi- dently, might, be seized upon by a_po- litical opportunist, ané the unrest eap- italized. But the farmer is now getting out of the rut; prosperity is greeting him again. It looks as if there would soon be an end Of the unrest in the ranks from which LaFollette seeks to draw ~ecruits. This looks like an answer to the whole question. A revival of agri- cultural prosperity is the worst thing! that could happen to LaFollette and Wheeler. Dawes on the Kluxezs The address of General Dawes in Maine on the Ku Klux Klan question was a masterpiece of sound thinking and honest expression. He says, with great good sense, that no such widespread organization ez come into existence without, some basic idea of at least good intention. Its members wished to correct if pos- sible, a growing tendency in public and private affairs to overlook and e con- done many evils that our chosen offi- cials, whose duty it is to enforce Jaw | nl order, seem powerless to combat suc- | cessfully. | This was and is a laudable endeavor on the part of every right-minded citi- zen, They saw no better way to bring the real question before the public and to settle it prop than to have some such secret org ion that would not only protect its own members but strike terror to the hearts of wrong-doers. Mr. Dawes points out clearly and fore ibly that no set of men, however much they may feel uggrieved can safely at- tempt to thus assume the reins of power without breaking down the very bul- warks of our United States government. Wheeler SoakéiDavis Wheeler the tail to the LaFollette So- cialistie kite has made a bitter attack upon John W. Davis. It is no more than might be expected from Wheeler, but it is painful reading to those Democratic statesmen and newspaper editors that so. strongly endorsed this foul bird when he was, besmearing Attorney General Daugherty. It will be recalled that Mr. Davis, in his speech of acceptance severe- ly criticised Mr. Daugherty for his shortcomings; but Wheeler wants to know why he was silent when “it was his duty to speak.” f ‘ The jazz artist from Montana, calls attention to the fact that Mr. Davis was solicitor general of the United States and should have been perfectly familiar with conditions in the depart- ment of justice. He says that. this, and the added fact that he was. president of the American Bar association, placed upon him “a responsibility which he did not discharge. Never a word from Mr. Davis. Not until he was named as. Mr. Coolidge’s adversary did he find tongue to oppose those who were complacent in the fact of corruption and praise those who had the conrage to oppose corrup- tion in high places.” Wheeler is now under indictment for they were many—will have less admira- tion for Mr. Davis and Senator Wheeler. But LaFollette’s running, mate las given thé Democratic orators, and news- papers something to think about. . Franklin T. Griffith, president of one of the Jargest and most successful light r companies of the northwest, which, by the way is largely speaking on? owned and publicly owned pub- lic utilities, has made some general ‘ob- servations valuable alike to the public and the private owners of utilities in fact to everybody concerned or” uncon- cerned in these public necessities. Among other things he said: “Industry is npt created by low rates. In a survey of 142,000 representative manufacturing enterprises throughout the United States the average cost of power was only 24 per cent of the cost of the manufactured article. “We meet ever, y the idea advanced by those who have some ulterior purpose to serve that if we have cheap energy, if we have it produced in great quantities, if somebody is damned fool eriough to put millions of dollars into the develop- without any certainty of getting any re- turn upon his investment, we are thereby going to open the doors to any and all sorts of industries to come and establish plants in our community and then all life will be happy forever after. We know that power alone will not do it, and yet, if that were true, here in the northwest the rates for energy compare very favor- ably with the lowest rates produced else- where in private ownership, and are below rates fixed by municipal own- hip plants. . here is no question in my mind that, ) the progress of the art, with the in- creasing efficiency of apparatus, with iter knowledge on the part of the mew ged in the business, the tendency will continue to be, as it has been from the inception of the industry, ever down- rard in cost to the ultimate consumer, Why is it that, we “toms the beVeve that which we 1 hearts to be absolutely no executive, no man tl with the duty of making rate dealing with the public in a com pacity! in any of r eitter duty, his or 1 mind always th financial structure of his , to give his sery in great- aud at least cost to the ulti- suiner. That is the primary pur- for which we engage: in the busi- hess, to get our service into the hands of as iauy people as we cun, to ehcourage ent to use just as much as\we can of it and to make the cost. so low that they will be happy and prosperous in using our sery That is the spirit you gain from private operation,” Are Not Members lerance the anti-K. K. K. publica- tion issued from ( igo evidently has a lot of bum correspondents over the coun- try who send in lists of alleged members of the Klan from the various towns and cities. The lists appearing from Casper have contained the 1 s of colored citi- zens, deyout Catholi id others equal- ly as foreign to membership in such an organization. It is safe to say that fully half the names alleged to be on the local Klan roster as published in Tolerance are erroneously there as declared by the owners of the names. é One of the latest sufferers is Mr. F. B. Capen of the Texas’ Refining com- pany who has written an open letter to Tolerance vigorously denying member- ship and asking correction. Mr. Capen’s letter follows : “The August 24th issue of ‘Tolerance’ published my name as’ being’ on the roll of the Ku Klux Klan. IT wish to pub- licly state that this is false assertion. [ am not now and never have been,a mem- ber of the Ku Klux Klan and have never been connected in any way with tle or- ganization, Furthermore, I have never been asked to become a member. “Tt will be necessary for you to correct this statement in the columns of “Toler- ance’ as I resent the publication of my name in this connection, “F. B. CAPEN, 519 Milton St:, “Casper, Wyoming.” Another well-known citizen of Cas- per misrepresented in the same manner is Mr. Roy H. Bullack of the law firm of Bullack and Lacy, who has also writ- ten an open letter to ‘Tolerance’ in which he says: “T herewith deny, and brand the pub- lication of my name as a member of the herein above mentioned organization; as my name stands published in Toler- ance, under date of August 23, A, D., 1924, as an entirely false and untrue statement. indulging in practices which are sup- posed to be repugnant to the ethics of the bar. The merits of the charges which have been made against him still remain “I am not now, nor have I ever been a ‘member of the organization called the Ku Klux Klan, by that or any other name, and T here, and now offer to -do- ment without any prospect of selling it, |’ to be determined by a court of justice.| nate § charitable institution He is entitled to the benefit of the doubt. | seclected by you within the bounds of the In the same connection it may be said] city of Casper, if you will produce legal that Mr. Daugherty was also enttled to} proof that I am now, or ever - have been the benefit of the doubt, but it wag not}a member of such organization. Regard- given to him by Wheeler. The kind of | less of whether or not, the publication of witnesses that were dragged from every| my name was maliciously done on your part of the country in order to make a} part, it certainly done without that case against Mr. Daugherty would not have the slightest standing in any re. ole court. That, however, is neither p nor there. Mr, Daugherty. is no longer connected with the administra tion, and he is not a candidate for of- degree of investigation which any rea- sonable and prudent person would have given to an allegation of that character before heralding it to the world. “The slightest investigation here would have disclosed the fact to be that I have fice. never been a member of the Klan, and But there is much food for thought in] it would have removed the cause of the the accusation which Wheeler makes | unmerited notoriety I have received from against Mr. Davis. Why was he silent| the publication, of which T complain. hen Attorney neral Daugherty was | You openly admit that you have been in m trial and why is he vocal at the pres-| error in regard to others, I know you ent time? Tho answer is simple enough. have made a mistake in the unwarranted injustice done me, and unless you change your policy by making some investiga- tion of the lists of membership names You claim to possess, you will unques- tionably do great injury to others. You should not give credence to, much less publish any list of names. charging any one with being a member of that organi- zation, unless you have used every rea- sonable precaution to determine ‘the truth, or falsity of the namngs you have in your possession, and then Only after you are convinced, by ‘such proof, that they are true. . 2 3 “I know that no such precaution was taken by you ,before permitting publi- cation of my name. I demand that you give the same publicity to this denial as you gave to the article in which you mentioned by name as a member. Fail- ing to do this I will feel it my duty to take such steps, as I may be advised, to vindicate myself in the premises, for the injustice of your act. “ROY H. BULLACK,” Man Versus Issue By ELDEN SMALL War issues have ben prominent and decisive factors in several of our nation- al elections. In that of 1816, the sole issue was a war that had~been fought and was already over, the peace treaty having been signed. It was the socalled War of 1812, against Great Britain, which had been at the outset and during its whole course opposed by a large ele- ment of the citizenry. In the Republican party’s congression- al caucus that yeat, James Monroe was nominated for the presidency by the Madison or pro-war majority. Most of the opposition to the war was centered in the Federalist party, which, while having had two presidents, was tottering toward its end. In this campaign it held no convention nor caucus and made no nomination whatever. Its members how- eyer, held together by the still bitter feeling oyer the past war question, in- formally settled upon Senator Rufus King as their choice for the chief majis- tracy. He had opposed the war in the beginning, but once we were into it he had urged its vigorous prosecution to a successful conclusion. Monroe received 221, electoral votes, carrying sixteen states; King*had 3 electoral votes, contributed by three states carried. bs TT Lines ‘and Angles } By TED OSBORNE Truth Crushed To earth 4 Will rise After the Campaign Is ove PAST TENSE. Tom—“It’s too bad Johnnie Goodfellow went. broke. He had lots of friends.” Dick (reflectiyely)—“Yes, he had.” ..._ OUR DAILY SONG HIT “Tf I Were a Frog, I'd Croak For You.” PERFECT HARMONY “T suppose you and your wife agree perfectly.” “Oh yes indeed, we do on some points. | Why, only this morning I remarked that it was very hot and Henrietta said that she thought so too.” “Maw!” “Yes, dear.” “What kind of an animal was hash when it was alive?” MODERN GRAMMAR Teacher—“Tominy, give me a sentence and we will change it to the imperative.” Tommy—“The man is driving the auto- mobile.” Teacher—“Now put it into the impera- tive. Tommy—“Step on the gas.” THRIFTY Judge—“How does it happen that you were begging when you had twenty-five dollars in your’ pocket?” Beggar—“Yer honor, ’'m_not exactly industrious, but I ain’t no spendthrift neither,” LUCKY “Who hit you, Sam?” “Ah dunno who done it. I wuz in a crowd.” “You is lucky, now y’ don’t have t’ get licked tryin’ t’ lick de man what hit you.” Hubby—“What’s the book you are read- ing?” Wifie—“It’s the story of the only man the author ever loved.” Hubby—“Written by a woman, eh?” Wifie—“No, by a man. It’s his auto- biography.” UNCLE HOOK SAYS “Love is like a canoe on a river; ef et is light et @n go faster, but ef et is strong an’ heavy et c’n withstand rocks an’ rough water.” . PLAYING SAFE ‘Tramp—‘Madam, have you an axe?” Lady—‘No, I) haven't.” Tramp—“Have you a saw?” Lady—“No, I haven’t a saw either.” Tramp—“Then give me a little some- thing to seat, please.” The petrified leg of a giant has been unearthed in central Ohio, It was prob- ably pulled off in some prehistoric po- litical campaign. OUR DAILY SONG HIT “The Love You G Only Love You Kee Is the WiLLING TO PLEASE ~- Traveler—“Can we get beds here?” Obliging Landlady—*“Oh, yes, sir.” Traveler—“*Have you—er—any—er— insects in the house?” Obliging Landlady—“No, sir. But if you are used to them, we can get you some,” | h’stery. a DEMIESGHARGE| INTAILCISE) GREAT FALLS, Aug. 29.—United States District Attorney” John L. Slattery, issued the following state- ment to the Assoclated-Press answer- ing the interview with Manager Nelson of Chicago, LaFollette and Wheeler manager, concerning the Wheeler trial set for hearing at this place. “f observe the Associated Press dispatch of Thursday, in which Con- gressman John M. Nelson, national manager of the LaFollette-Wheeler, campaign, says that my_action in are raigning Senator Wheeler. on Sep- tember first 1s a clear indication that’ the department of justice is to/be used as an adjunct of the Republi- can national committee in this cam: pagn,” and that the Republezn party now seeks to._prevent Senator Wheel- er from cayryng the facts developed in Daugherty invitation “to the people of the country by bringing him to trial in the midst of this campaig: “There is absolutely no foundation for Mr. Nelson's statement. In the first place, there can be no aspect of Senator .Wheeler’s arraignment which would require -his personal Presence here on the first of Septem- ber, at the arraignment, his counsel may move to quash the indictment, or denfur to it, before even entering the contemplated plea of not, guilty: Issues of law raised by a motion to quash or demurer must first be dis- posed of before the case is set down for trial. “Cases, in which defendants have not been arraigned, are placed by the clerk of the court upon: the calendar without ayy’ direction or instruction of mine. ; “Politics has in no way entered into this case from the government's side, Sluice Senator Wheeler's man- ager claims that the case {s to bé brought to trial in the midst of the present campaign for political -pur- poses, I will now state with a view of making it clear that politics has not entered into the case at ull so far as the government is concerned, that I am perfectly willing that hoth the arraignment and the trial sf Senator Wheeler shall go over until the next terta of court here, which will not. be until after, the November election has passed into Thet certainly ought to ute Congressman Nelson's state that any action of mine in stion with the case has been political purposes and should preclude any suggestion of interfer- ence with Senator Wheeler's cam- paign plans. ——— In England an agitation has been started for smoking compartments on trains for the exclusive use of women. 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