Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1924, Page 6

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This is especial irue of all conferences since the Napol eonic era, down to the peace conference in Paris in 1919. The record is as shameful as it is his- teric, nothing less than an-uninterrupt- ed exhibition of intrigue, national and international self-seeking, a ceaseless contention for the maintenance of the balance of power, so that the very ward diplomacy has become the synonym, the world o for subterfuge, evasion arid double ¢ ng. An impartial study of such earlier conferences ag that of Ber- lin in 1878, or such later conferences as those of Genca and Lausanne is amply sufficient to confirm this assertion. It is with this historic record in view that the recent London conference marks such a distinctive advance in the council of nations as to make it nothing: less than epochal. In a sense it is the first example in European history of a ‘diplo. matic conference convened, constituted sand conducted on the New Testament :principle of good will, where justifiable compromise, common concessions for the “general good and genuine international comity have prevailed. It is a real dip- lomatic reformation of the twentieth cen- tury, the most significant and hopeful and inspiring fact in contemporary his- tory, recalling the modern w6rld to some- thing li&ke Christian consciotisness and making it possible to inaugurate a new and happier era. For the first time representatives of the allied powers and the central pow- ers sat at the council table in the spirit of international brotherhood, -eager to minimize differences, to establish, com. mon ground and seek the good, of the world at large. Any nation who was a party to it and any man who was a par- ticipant in it deseryes unstinted praise “is a benefactor to the world. Never has America had any such occasion for nat- ional gratitude and righteous pride as that accruing to her in her unofficial nnd yet dispensible relation to this pact of peace. Here we have an anomaly 1s significant as it is historic, that it has been reserved for a strictly economic vonference, definitely convened as nom political, to achieve strictly polities sults not reached by any purely polit eouncil Herein credit to what may be called ex ial diplomacy that must make cor ses and parliaments pause. Business nity and common sense and honest dealing have shown the ay of Wisdom to mere statecraft and pla amodern world und lasting indebted. ness to men of affairs and masters of fi nance. Moreover, we are reminded that ut the basis of all genuine and lasting political adjustments there lies the for gotten fact of Christian principles. This is the principle which more than all else constitutes an ideal league of nations and is the necessary forerunner and her- ald of the political redemption of ‘the vorld . Is modern I ues and Klan Issue Two idential candidates, John W Davis and Robert M. LaFollette, haye recently sought to inject, the Ku Klux Klan into the campaign as a national political issue. Neither of these cand dates can fairly be blamed, from. the standpoint of expediency, for attempting “to substitute for the real issues of the eampaign an appeal to racial and: relig: ious controversy. Upon the issues hoth Their prospect of a strong showing at the polls depends’ upon the success of an effort. to take the minds of the peo- ple. off of the administrative record of the Coolidge administration and. from the real fundamental issues involyed in a campaign which has been clearly drifting toward a Coolidge and Dawes* landslide. s Some significant facts in connecetion with this newest campaign bogey readily suggest themselves. An attempt was made in both the Madison Square Gar- den and LaFollette Socialist conventions to force platform declarations on the Ku Klux Klan. The issue was sharply drawn in the Ney York convention be- cause it had become inyolved in the con- test among candidates for the presi- dential nomination. It is not recorded that the influence of. John W. Davis, known to be a candidate for the prési- dential nomination, was exercised in fa- vor of a party declaration on this “sub- ject. Mr. Davis became a candidate for president upon a platform in which the refusal to specifically name the Ku Klux Klan as an object of denunciation was conspicuous. Nor did Mr. Dayis unbosom himself on this subject until strong pressure had been brought to bear upon him by leaders of-one of the factions involved in the bitter conyention contro- versy on this matter. The belated effort of Candidate Davis to make the Klan an issue répresents an early repudiation of his party platform. Why should he demand that the Republican party make an issue of something his own party plat: form ignores as an issue? Senator LaFollette wrote the platform of his convention. In that platform ap. no declaration as to the Ku Klux n, nor does any reference to the sub. ject appear in the statement in which Mr, LaFollette accepted a presidential nomination from himself before he Had offered it to himself. The Socialist can- didate restrained his convictions on this issue” until a sagging campaign re- vealed the necessity of springing some thing that might attract yotes. In other words, it is clear to everybody that in this matter both the Democrati¢ and Socialist candidates are simply play- ing polities after the fashion ord ly employed by professional politicians and perennial 7 ers of the avid type. Is the Ku Blu Klan conceivably a na- tional political issue? It is not. The test is simple. It is idle to talk in a campaign about matters about which a polities party, placed in power, could do noth ing. What do Mr. Davis and Senator La wollette propose, if elected, to do about the Ku Klux Klan? What do they-pro pose to have congress do about it? What can congress do about it? Neither of these candidates could frame an answer to these questions. Going deeper still, what possible good can come to the country by injecting this and sintilar questions, eszen non-political, into national | politics? What nm wan come to the American fanning the fires of racial and s\ hatred? What, inevitably, would be the result of making such a yaestion a campaign issue? Upon the question of law and order and the maintenance of the national con- stitution’s. fundamental guarantees of civil and religious liberty, the only phases of this problem which can con- vivably become the subject of national islation, the position of the Republi- can party is made clear in its. platform and in its recoi@. The position of the Democratic. and Socialist: parties is by no means so clear. During the last ses sion ef congress Republican leadership advocated the enactment of an anti lynching bill—a measure which would have penalized any county which failed to suppress. acts of violence committed by-mobs. The states of the solid south, which constitute the backbone of the Democratic party, are the scene of near ly all of the lynchings which for years have disgraced the United States in the eyes of the world, and most of these lynchings represent a phase of the race problem, The Democratic members of congress from these states are the head And front of the opposition to anti-lynch i nutitmmob legislation. What has-Can- idate Davis to say of his party’s record on this proposition? He would not dare utter a word in behalf of anti-mob laws; that fact is well known to everybody Does his conscience reyolt : 5 litical and \industrial discriminations practiced against the negro in the states where his party is dominant? If it does, he would not dare say so. Would he dare to denounce the murder by a mob of twenty-two negro men and women in Mr. Bryan’s forward-looking state of Flor- ida following the election of 1924, be- cause a negro farmer, a qualified yoter under the laws of the state, had the temerity to.offer to vote in his precinct? Everyone knows he would not. Therefore ndidate Davis’ outery against rac iminatiofY is reduced to bunk. H ings on the subject of religious dis crimination may be no more sincere. As for Senator LaVollette, his plat form deliberately proposes to eliminate from the constitution of the United States judicial projection for the guar of civil and religious liberty alone stand between a transito: jority in congress and legal discrim- ination against any race or body of re- lous faith. This country is perhaps yenty-five per cent non-Catholic and non-Jewish. Until the right of the su- preme court to véto legislation diretted against any race or religion is over- thrown, as proposed in ‘the Socialist-La Follette platform, Jews and Catholics, Buddhists and Mohammedans are as free Protestant Christians. to worship od 4 ording to the dictates of their fe wn iencés, so long as their prac: tices are in accordance with the laws of the land. The LaFollette-Socialist plan of repealing the constitution by withdrawing the right of the judiciary to interpret it legally, rather than politi- cally, would make every guarantee of civil and religious liberty worthless as against the acts of u congress dominated by men without respect for constitution jy| pinion, arrived at after careful study al, guarantees and inhibitions. A few campaigns in which candidates for office raise the issue of racial and’ religious contention, might bring a congress cap- able of such action nearer than anyone might now believe possible. ‘ : “In- other words, both Davis and La Follette parties while rendering: Hips Y- ice to the cause of racial and’ religious ords and declarations to its complete un- doing. The outery of these minority par- ty candidates is therefore mere cam. paign clap trap. Fearing the judgment of the people upon real issues, they would conjure up imaginary ones. Fearing the reason of the people, they would appeal to the passions and prejudices of the people. Let us keep “down to brass tacks” in this campaign, as General Dawes sug- gests and cut out the flapdoodle. What McClure Thinks ~ Mr.’S. S. McClure the veteran publish- er and man of affairs speaking.casually on campaign matters says: “ “When Mr. Dayis was nominated for the presidency, I felt that a great thing had happened for the United; that .we would have a campaign fought on real ities and with dignity. In place of that, we have had the most absurd trifling issues brought forward, such as the Ku Klux Klan and the oil scandals. These have nothing to do with the problems that face the people of the United States. The most disgusting thing, however,.in connection with Mr. Davis, was the apol ogy that Senator Walsh made for his con- nection with great firms in New York City, é his is part of the campaign which Russia has tried in yain, to make the world safe for the moron. Russia has found that when the world is so ar: ranged that the moron has full power, he, poor fellow, loses whatever he had. Any man familiar with the business of the country at large, knows the vital. izing influence (and 99 9-10 per cent are for good), of the bankers of America, whether of the great centers or of the small places. “Mr. Davis is doing a great injury to the country by the attitude of mind that he has assumed, by the policy he is’ pur- suing. “1 speak 2 man who is a non-par- tisan — whose interests in the dignity ud welfare of the U: d States are far above his interest in party.” Head of Bryan Ticket “How much sincerity can be attached to the statement of a great corporation lawyer that the Mellon plan for tax re- ijustment ‘favors those at the top as “ainst those at the bottom’ and that ly unjust?” states the New nld Tribune Is such a man expressing his honest and intelligent analysis ?Or is he mere- i through prove that there was, after all, a rea- son for coupling his name with that of the brothers Bryan? “The Mellon plan, as any man with the brilliant mind’ John W. Davis has must understand, was, and continues to be, the best solution of the tax readjust- ment problem yet presented to the Amer- ican people. It is a comprehensive -plan, not favor those at the top as against th at the bottoms It favors beth well as dll those in between the top and the bottom, and if if had been enacted .it would have had a-tremend- ously stimulating effect on business all over the country, thereby enhancing the income possibilities of those for whom Mr. Davis has developed such sublime solicitude, Mr. Davis knows this. If, by any chance, he has forgotten it, ten minutes’ discussion with his legal associates or his former clients would refresh ‘his mind. And his Jegal associates and for- nts would not have to bias his her; they simply would haye to inconceivable that Mr..\Davis y such mental refteshment. In his saner moments surely he knows nll about it. But Attorney Dayis is pleading the cause of a party which opposed the Mellon plan for gne or all of these rea- sons: (a) the plan was the product. of a Republican mind; ergo, it was wicked; (b) the erudite statesmen of the opposi- tion did not understand the plan; (c) they thought their constituencies did ‘not understand it.” Crimnals and Prosecutors Candidate Davis says that if fifty per cent of the charges made by George Re- mus, the rich bootlegger, against the government department which sent him to the penitentiary aro true, the Cool- idge administration is honeycombed with corruption. If fifty per cent of all the things d by convicted criminals gen- erally against the officials who sent them to jail are true, then the whole ad- ministration of justice everywhere is honeycombed with corruption. A. candi- date who depends for his charges against his political opponents upon a 50 per cent rating of the veracity of witnesses mmoned from the jails to testify inst those who put them in jail, seems to be rather hard up for seandal-mon- ring material. The record shows that Remus was able to get Democratic sena- tors to bring pressure to bear upon the administration to let up on his prose- cution, but his money could not saye him from vigorous prosecution and a penitentiary sentence, A Real Red According to an announcement from Cleveland, Ohio, the district manager for LaFollet adventure into oblivion is Albert F. Coyle, editor of the Brother- hood of Locomotive In view of LaFollette’s repudiation of the Foster-Ruthenberg group of Communists and the-senator’s occasional denial that he is o “radical,” the Socialist presi- dential candidate ought to be a little morercareful in his choice of campaign 5 Che Casver Daily Cridune managers. Here is Mr. Coyle, an ultra- liberality, are committed by their ree-|1 .| cial» representative’ of Moscow in. the THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1924. subject that there was no dqubt as| ject,” Senator Wheeler said. He to where he stood and the “country | himself, he added, stood for no or. was still waiting for President Cool-| ganization which proposed to en. rel OF A. FALL) OPENED AGAIN J. L. Havice, Cheyenne; One of First Wit- nesses Called. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—A (fur- ther grand jury investigation into the affairs of Albert B. Fall, was be- gun here at the direction of the gov- ernment’s special oll counsel, Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts. The nature of the proceedings ‘was unexplained bu the subpoenas in the case were issued under the heading “United States vs. Albert B. Fall.” The first two witnesses summoned were J. L. Havice of Cheyenne, Wyoming and R. W. Melivaine, of Independence, Kan., said to have been connected with the Mexia Oil. company’s operations in, Mexico. “At the outset, Mr. Pomerene and Mr. Roberts made preliminary statement to the gran jury. nor,” saying he was eideavoring to ‘make > the Loeomotive Engineers’ Journal “a real voice of the producing classes, in- terpreting to them the big social, ‘polit- ical and economic movements of the day.”. Robert. Minor is a member of the central executive ,committee of the communist party-and, as such, is a direct and_offi- Mr. Average Citizen is the sturdy but much-used crutch upon which state or city busi- ness leans. United ates: He is, the’ beg ae ee communists’ official organ,’ the~ rae tor, a monthly published in Chicago. Lines and Angles » ‘By TED OSBORNE : The other day ~ Gwendolyn’ and T Had a quarrel » Aud she cried ‘So, I-asked her Tf. she didn’t want We depend upon Mr. Average Citizen for our income, too. But it is substantially refunded To make up CHUM Wea Bépt. | oa in the shape of taxes that bene= And she said L. Havice, mentioned os a witness fit him She couldn’t in connection with a new grand jury * Because she had Forgotten to bring Her compact. investigation in Washington of Al- bert B, Fall, former secretary of the interior, has been out of Chey- enne for nearly six weeks, and offi- But for the taxes we pay, Mr. pyran * “Wititer, ‘this water is’ very dirty.” eee earn no ae Average CCitizen’s burden sim sorry, sit, but we can't be ‘ex-| executive, sald they did not know would be much heavier than it pected to wash the water.” ‘when Havice would be back in the is : city. ¥ DISCOVERED “Sh! I think there are sore robbers in the house!” RE “Hist! What? In the house?” “Sh! Yes, I think so.” “Hist!.So0 do I. I think there’s some-in the senate, too.” Havice, it was learned at his home, has been {n tbe east on com- pany business, but Sunday wired home and advised his family he was leaving for Washington, He Bave no details and did not say when he expected to return. —— Wheeler Drive Is Speeded Up PORTLAND, Ma., Sept. 4.—Se ator Wheeler, vice presidential can- didate on the third ticket, left Port- and Wednesday, NATRONA POWER COMPANY “Alas!” sighed the shade of Wagner, as he listened to the opening number of a modern musical comedy, “I believe they have stolen a march on me.” CERTAINLY “Gracious little boy, you’re not going to kill the dear little birds, are you?” “Naw, lady; I'm goin’ to fire a few salutes in dere honor. Dat’s all.” EFFICIENCY Grace—Mr. Stibbs proposed to me on u post card.” Gracia—“I. suppose you accepted him in the same way?” Grace—“L certainly did not. I: sent him a typewritten slip announcing that none but sealed proposals would be con- sidered.” Mass., and Matchester, N. H. Rain disturbed and delayed his Tuesday. efforts but did not halt him entire- ly, and in his night address at Port- land before such an audience as de- fied weather and delay, he again criticized the Democratic and Re- publican parties and introduced the topic of the Ku Klux Klan. Senatpr La Follette was the first national contestant, Senator Wheel- er said, to declare plainly that the Ku Klux Klan was an organization adverse to American principles. John W. Davis, the emocratic nominee, had hesitated long before doing so, he continued General Dawes, the Re- publican vie presidential candidate, had _used in Maine such words on the TRAIN SCHEDULES Chleaze Westbound No. 603 UNCLE: HOOK SAYS: “When y’ get v thinkin thet th’ world wuz made jest fer yer own pleasures, remember—thet’s what th’ ‘mosquito thinks, too.” Small Boy—*Your little brother has no hair.” “Smaller One—“No the doctor’ that brought him was bald.” There’ is one serious objection’ to .es- tablishing communications ~ with Mars. It will inevitably bring on another ser- ies of dialect stories. UNFORGIVABLE Nubby—“Bridget told the neighbors l was a hen-pecked fool. Shall I dis- charge her?” Wifie—“‘At once. She has no. right to tell our family secrets to the neighbors.” OUR DAILY SONG. HIT “It’s Better To Have Loved and Lost, Than to Marry.and Be, Bossed.”. : i SHE KNEW Customer—“I would like to pick ou five of your nicest ducks.” i 1 Butcher—“Yes, ma’am. Shall. I’ send them up?” Customer—‘No, my husband will, call for them late. this’ afternoon. He has gone duck hunting today.” OUR: DAILY ‘SONG. ‘HIT, “It May Take a’ Hundred Years, But Cigarettes Will Kill You Sure.” $ ——. The situation in Huyti doesn’t me it “to stay situated. would Uke. Pp sbescpeipansis thes oper _ --To have can procure, maintained in per- Confids eee 2 ee Ta ie oecnint fect condition, under the supervision But not of skilled and experienced attend- rust. ants, assures prompt, efficient and pleasing service to all who call at Continental service stations. PATKIOTISM “What we want todo is to take money out of politics,” stated the loyal citizen, “Well, I’ve done best,” replied the old senator. “I’ye taken ‘neatly half a million dollars out of it-up to:the pres- » ent time.” Use Continental Coupon Books. They save waiting for paenpe and time and trouble in many other ways. Accepted at all Continental service stations and i dealers generally. A writer says: “The ears on a well- formed headshould. be so placed as not to be higher than the eyebrow nor lower than’ the tip of the nose.” People who are dressing for'a party should not for- get this. ~ AN IMPORTANT .THING First Golfer—‘Gee, but, that was a good round of golf. Can’ you play again next Tuesday?” : Second Golfer—“Well, I’m supposed to get married next Tuesday, but of course that éan be postponed.” CONOCO POLARINE The Balanced Gasoline The Perfett Motor Oi! GARGOYLE MOBILOILS THE CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY (A Colorado Corporation) R Marketing a complete linesof high-grade peeoleum produce | in Colorado we ning lew Mexico, Utah, Idaho and Montana THE FASHIONABLE PACE “Say, old fellow, I haven’t seen or heard anything of my wife.for two or three weeks, You haven’t seen her lately haye' you?” ¢ “No; maybe she’s at home. Haye you looked" there?” E “No, by Jove.'I never thought: of that,”