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

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Register complaints before 8 o'clock, ce 1 18. t * Our Service to Europe : lo he Washington Armaments conference bitty is :called a halt upon the waste of hundreds of mil- ia = lions of dollars annually among the leading ae tf of the earth in naval competition, and ma- a . terially relieved the tax burdens of this country and Europe, and the Dawes plan which nas tir, .. solved the fiy ear-old reparations controversies su.» were such stupendous ¢ ntributions by Go aked te ent Republican administration of the United 2 > States to the welfare of Europe that we are ont co? 'T to lose sight of other aids which have Auten ls be 1 attention only because they reached a limitec fr : the great famine in Russia occurred before — either the Armaments conference or the Dawes plan were conceived. The United States was turned to for relief by the starving Russians. “In the words of President Coolidge, “We re- lieved their pitiable destitution with au enor- Bet mous charity.” That charity took the form of an es appropriation of $20,000,000 by congress ,out of . - public funds with which to buy grain and ship es to Russia. Others millions were raised by pri- ~ yate contribution and enough funds were real- - ized to feed ten million people every day for a yo year, most of whom would probably have died iud it not been for the generous American char- re ably directed by Secretary of Commerce Hoover and his assistants. . We do not have to rely upon our own reports to Jearn of the tremendous work that was done in Russia. Sir Philip Gibbs who was knighted = _. for the quality of his war reporting, was on the * ground, and his story of what happened may be f ~ uecepted as the account of a competent and im- yartial judge who has no object in showing spe- tial see a Americans. Here is*what Sir Philip says: “Engines were oycrhauled, roads repaired, ~ freight cars rebuilt. Barges were launched on the rivers. The telegraph service was reyived. No less than 120,000 Russians, working directly un- der the American Relief Administration, were taught unfamiliar business methods and revital- ized with hopes and e > The intellectuals, evolution, starvi and de their hovels, r ived help, vol- vice. And th felief # istr » got things going in a coun- pe pa nana ple were actually short >of food, and where 15 million at least were ac . tually threatened by death from starvation, en- gineered the greatest scheme of charitable relief ever attempted in the history of the world—and - carried it through. For a year they fed more than ten million people every day, and when = one thinks of the immense organization required o ri to supply our armies in France, the vast labor %.~. involved, the transport required, it seems mirae- @ _ ulous that all the food could be conveyed from V5? (he United States and distributed through Rus nM -~ sia to the famine areas, with hardly ib - jsyen now it seems incredible though it mie ™ While that great charity was being adminis- le tered, the league of nations sat supinely: by, ot —terly impotent or unwilling to give ur aid to the suffering and dying Rus: 7 during all of that time, the people of the United States were listening to the pleas and threats M—— of the internationalists as they sought to make is the United States a member of the league. Those Des who preferred to maintain American -independ- "TS ence and to exert American world influence in their own way were branded as “isolationists.” ",, But the record that has been made under Ite- publicanism is plain and gives urance of fur- BY ther achievements toward bett understanding t among nations if the Republican administration 0 is continued in power. 4 a A Worth While People Candidates advocating public ownership of ba- “son sie lines of industry, are secking high publie of- r fice in state and national affairs. x It is difficult to understand why in a country is this we should have intelligent persons the freedom, initiative and vate American citizen, and it ostensibly in the name of the people, interest. of the commonwealth and for the betterment of living conditions. We only need’ to look oyer the world to realiz that America, under private development and » hea ive with a ¢ munent which encourages , lividual to his best ef for : outstripped # other nation where official control of in ¥ —dustry and the people has held them down al- a most to a cendition of servitude. : Why should we adopt policies which take away “ individual rights and liberty? S Why should we wait government ownership, 4 state ownership or municipal. ownership after we have seen its operat our pwn country dur with our railroads and ¢ var in conneeti ipping, in Canada, in “+, our great cities and in numerous undertakings tT 2 e+ where the expexditure of public funds has been i squander through the inefficiency of well- meaving Wut incompetent public officials? | Privatginitiative and individual ambition, not ublic ownership and governmental restriction, ee made this ooanies the richest nation in the world today with only six per cent of the world’s population. 7 Our standards of living are the key to the world politics of our time. We unlock the world war reparations puzzle w§th the Dawes rej port. This American six per cent consume one-half of the world’s lumber, and ten times as much plumbing as all Europe. We produce. half the world’s cotton but con- sume more than one-fourth of it; we six per cent consume over forty per cent of the wofld’s coal. In 1923 we produced more than two-thirds of the world’s steel and used most of it ourselves. We use two-thirds of all the aluminum. When Californ raised 4,000 carloads of cit- rus fruit we talked over-production. Last year we used 95,000 carloads. In all forms 17,000,000 homes now use electric current. for light, power and heat, and in 1923 we made and sold 2,002,000 yacuum cleaners, electric fans and tvashing machines. Our little six per cent own sixty-three per cent of all the telephones in the world, and use them 164 times a year per capita, to sixteen calls a year per person for the Britons. Conyeniences furnished the home owner by manufactured gas and rapid street railway and interurban transportation exceed all other na- tions, The six per cent Americans owned eighty-cight per cent of the automobiles in the world Jan- uary 1, 1924, and now own more. To supply gaso- line we produce 2,000,000 barrels of oil a day and import 100,000 barrels a year more. The American six per cent of all the people use more raw inaterials and put them through more complex and various processes than all the re- maining ninety-four per cent savage and ciyil- ized put together, Who Controls Gareliinehes When the contention is set up by the LaFol- lette-Socialist leaders that the American govern- ment is and has been for years under the domi- nation of corrupt special interests, they insult the intelligence and impugn the honor of the American electorate from which they are beg- ging votes. . For the American government is the crea- tion of the American people. Every four years the people by their votes constitute the execn- tive branch of their national government, and within six years a complete change in the per- sonnel of both branches of the legislative de- partinent is within their power. The La¥Follette-Socialist leaders must believe that the masses of the American people are eith er hopelessly stupid or yillainously yenal if these le deliberately go to the polls and put their ment in the hands of corrupt interests in- imical to the peoples’ welfare. Charges of stupidity and venality against the American masses can consistently come out. of Moscow, where hostility to the.American govern- ment is coupled with hostility to the Americay people because they refuse to take seriously a Scheme of government which ha: ade Russia an armed camp, a shambles and #land of mis- ery and starvation for millions, But there is tio excuse for an American, above all an American senator, to parrot these malig. nant imported phrases. We know that any Amer- ican hag the right to run for office, and that the American people have the right to choose or re- ject any candidate for office. In other words, we know that the power wielded at Washington is the specifically delegated power of one hun- dred million Americans. And that American peo- ple are not now and have not been in the past such an ignorant and deluded lot that they stu- pidly walk up td the polls every two years and do the biddivg of corrupt interests hostile to public welfase, ‘ The” American government is, indeed the world’s outstanding example of the ‘success of that system of popular control of government. Tt has been a tremendous Success, despite all the caterwaulings of demagogues who seek power for themselves under the pretense that it is absorb ing love of the people, rather than habitaual love of themselves, which inspires their outery against the best government ever istituted, under which there is the most widely diffused prosperity, the best conditions for the average man, ever attain- ed in all of hnmanity’s long struggle for a higher plane of civilization. This government has not attained perfection, it is true. Selfishness’ and greed and error of judgment has not “been completely eliminated from its operations, Perhaps they will not be until all these undesirable qualities have -been exorcised from all of the individuals who are responsible for this government. But’ everyone knows that the claim of these demagogues that if they are given office every man in office will be honest, every public measure udopted will be wise and effective and that the millennium will be superinduced, is dishonest on its face, The progress of the American government and of the status of the American people has ever been forward, Al ng with that progress secur- ity which is essential to all prograss, has been maintained. We have adyanced surely, but at all times safely. That progress has not been the result of the effort of time-serving dema rogues, promising to lead the people into a Jand f' lowing with milk and honey, but, of the step by step leadership of statesmen who know the neces- sity of holding fast to that which is good while reaching out for that which is better. We have only the word of the political dema- gogues that the programs they propose will im- prove the condition of the average man. We have no proof. It is not every quack who can rec: ognize a disease who can prescribe a remedy surer to cure than to kill. We do not appraise often enough the privileges and opportunities of which we as American citizens are already pos- sessed while listening to the Swampland pros- pectuses of the glib-tongued political promoters, But we will be wise to do se. The re-election of President Coolidge will put the American people on the threshold of the most promising era of prosperity this nation has ever known. ‘opean conditions are becoming stab- ilized, partly through the efforts of the present nationxl administration. The foundations of our industrial und economic structure are sound, With the assurance of four years more of sound national administration, business will bound for- ard. It is an answer to this to argue that by reason of this some men may accumulate wealth. Tt is only when some men_,ure accumulating wealth, or trying to do so, that other men can necumulate a competency or earn wages or sal srics. The stake of the wage earner, the small owner, the minor investor, is greater than that of the plutocrats against whom the dema gogues inveigh, in the maintenance of conditions that are good for enterprise and employment. The chance of disturbing or destroying the basis of’ general prosperity is too great for the aver ‘ge man to take, merely on the assurance of the political magicians that they have something in their bag of tricks that will’ work miracles, hom Che Casper Daily Cribune Results of LaFollettism The public eye is very much upon Wisconsin iH reach taxation methods in that state disclose amazing results. Many. persons are won- these days., New dering whether the same taxation system which | ‘This is- based has been adopted in that state under the manage- ment of LaFollette and his friends would be car- ried out in the nation if success should attend his present ambition. . A. condition exists in Wisconsin taxation, understood ‘by the peoplesof that state, and which should be noted by the peo- which is not really ple of other states. . Recently in a report made by the National In- dustrial Conference Board of the tax situation in several states of the Mississippi valley, it was disclosed that the tax per head of population in Wisconsin is $30.31. This is 9.7 per cent higher than Illinois, 11.4 per cent higher than Indiana, 11.6 per cent higher than Ohio, and 13.8 per cent higher than Minnesota. Also, the average amount of tax per family in Wisconsin is given as $134.76 which is 24 per cent higher than Indiana, 21 per cent higher than Ohio and 14 per cent higher than Illinois. What is of chief concern in Wisconsin taxa- vogue in that state of ex- tax moneys, bonds, mort- gages and other securities and substituting there- for an income tax on the holders of such rev- compared with taxes paid by the farmers on their lands and personal property and on; the small homes of working tion is the system i empting from direc! enue producing securities, men. It should be remembered that LaFollette and his supporters have for more than twenty years controlled the tax legislation of Wisconsin. They have established a system of taxation under which a $6,000 income from mortgages, etc, with many $70 a year, whereas 3 per cent and only assessed at the same total tax of $150, The home of the laboring man or small mer- assessed at fifty per cent basis, pays about tax paid on the income bonds and mortagages, such income being approximately $6,000 a year. chant valued at $3,000 and cent of value on a three per #45 or more than half the from $100,000 worth of exemptions, pays a tax of about as personal property valued at $3,000 on a farm, with the average tax rate of 50 per eent valuation, and the farm land and buildings ¥alued at $7,000, proportionate rate, pays a In addition to these taxes paid b: mer and home owner, they are income taxes, mortgages and bonds, ing a tax on incomes if they have taxable incomes. Efforts are being made in many states to se- cure proper taxation of what is known as “tax exempt securities,” but the Wisconsin plan of exempting moneys, credits, ete, which includes from taxation and impos- therefrom, to the advantage. of the capitalist as compared with thé farmer.and small home $100,000 of bonds and mortgages the farm and laboring man’s home are taxed, cent on $50,000 or a with $70 which now is the rate would be three per tax of $1,500 as compared actually paid. Primary the Bunk! Mr. John F, Heagney of this city recently wrote the Rawlins Repub- lican on the subject of the primary election system and compared it wita the convention system. ‘The subject was brought to mind by reading in the Republican “News of Thirty-four Years Ago,” which int cluded a st of party nominees in the state and county. Mr. Heagney's letter follows: “I cannot refrain from comment- ing on the way that officers were nominated then and now and_ for the benefit of those who were not residents of Wyoming until after the primary law went into. effect .it light be well to explain here and now how officers were chosen or nominated. “For instance the Republicans of h voting precinct would hold a cus and choose one or more (ac- cording to the number of votes cast in that precirict) delegates to at- tend a convention at the caunty seat to nominate county officers and at this county. convention delegates were elected to attend a state con vention to, nominate state officers and also presidential electors if a presidential election year. The time and place set by the conyention. This was all done. without any ex- pense to county or state, as cach delegate paid his own expenses, etc., and for hall rentals, decorations and other exponges. Each candidate after being nominated donated h small amount to a central commit tee chosen for the purpose of con- lucting the campaign along party lines and who expended ’this money for the purpose of furthering the interests of their party candidates us a whole and electing each and every one to the office for which he was nominated. Each party was tho same on this or at least should be. “Now as regards the oid way of nominating as set forth aboye. It muy not be the best way but 1 honestly believe that it was. very far ahead of our present primary law for this reason. When delegates from each pre- cinct In the’ county In convention assembled nominated a certain man (or woman) a8 the case may be for a certain office on elther party Ucket a person who is casting their ‘rst vote in Wyoming could be sure that the nominee for the office had the full support of the party con vention that nominated him and was known personally to at least some of tho delegates‘and was also knewn to be a man or woman who if elected could fill the orfice with honor to himself and party, and was not nominated through or for money or charity. Take for in- stance, the city of Casper and I ‘be- eve Rawlins is now in the same class as regards the growing propo- sition, We have so many new resi- Gents that when it comes to a pri- mary election such as the late one there 1s not one person in ten that can cast what you would call an Intelligent yote. Anyone whether he be qualified or not can have his or her’ name placed on a ticket for mort any office and whether resl- dent or non-resident. Citizen or for- igner stands just as much show to be nominated as the best man iy the community und I contend that this would be done away with if nominations were made in the old way, and T am very sure that we would have some as good or better officers fer some things’ than we have now, for each party always tries to pick their best men when they have that chance. “There {s no chance with the pri- ein a ET YE ah Ta EEE ET a 2 a al ET Sa hE A a a coh SS LaFollette is sea_on his war finally reaches undoubtedly and which as follows: bonds, don. But. it “is the small far. have absorbed, Iso subjected to worth the It would be plainly works owner. If the Were taxed as command.” mary or maybe it is chances.’ “We have seen all the newspapers in the stute come out With articles urging all the people to get out and vote at these primaries and poll a fall vote and when it comes to the day to’ vote you will hear men say: “What's the use of me voting. 1 don't know any of them,’ or they will ask ‘who is the best one to vote for, you should know, you're an old timer here’, But the old timer does not know any more than the other fellow. But he does Know that if a man or woman was nominated in the old way they were at least known in the community and were entitled to his support. and, when election day yolled around he could meander to the polling place and cast a ‘what you call heem’ intelll- gent ballot. : “Ido not know your ideas on this primary taw but I believe at least two ‘thirds of the people of our great state of Wyoming will join me In saying it is “The ‘Bunk’.* JOHN F. HEAGNEY. Stephens By Elden Small, One of the most influential men at Washington for years was Alexan- der H. Stephens of Georgi, con- sressman gnd-senator.. He refused cabinet positions, the speakership and the Democratic nomination for the presidency, opposed secession by the South, refused to serve as presi. dent of the Confederacy and was made its vice-president. His first speech in congress was made in op- position to his own right to a seatin the House, to which he had just been elected. ‘to many eee When Stephens was first elected, the plan of selecting representatives by districts was being put into effect. Georgia had not yet done this, and Stephens was elected under the old Plan, by the state at large. When he-was sworn in the question of such an election was raised and Stephens at once, in a powerful speech, de- clared his own election was unconsti- tutional and that he was not entitled to his: seat. But*congress did not agree with him, and he remained. eee After the Civil war, and just after Stephens had ben released from prison where he had heen confined because of his official “connection with the Confederacy, he was imme- diately elected once more to the United States senate, first represent- ative of the Southern states under “reconstruction.” This was before his parole had ben formally signed. Leaders in the North were satisfied, for he was recognized as having opposed disunion, but the squabble between President Johnson and the hostile congress upset the “recon: struction” movement for the time. ——____ Press Opinion Since the Versailles treaty the two great steps taken have been the Washington conference and the Dawes plan. This has come to be the considered opinion,~ not of America alone, but of the world. In assailing these actions John W. Davis is writing himself down either as a bemussed partisan or as being no more then an amateur in both statesmanship and practical diplo- macy.—Public- Ledger. Ono cannot read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitu: tion of ths United States without realizing that the nation's founders did not separate “human rights" is practically no doubt that Coolidge His War Record said to believe he will get the vote of most of those of German descent. On the other hand this might stir a great many who, while agreeing with some of the “principles,” condone his war acts. pose to dash in to the fight and conduct a smashing aggressive cam- paign. But his war record is co and more an issue, and he may find when he duct defensive operations. , “Hark! From the Tombs” Calamity howling has become a major opera- tion of the Democratic political strategy. The national headquarters of that a statement to show the which makes comparisons will not stand analysis by experts winds up in the old familiar style “While the general industrial situation has thus been suffering a steadily growing depres- sion, not only haye the work-weeks of labor been reduced, ‘while living costs have remained at or above the high level at which the Republican administration promised to begin a reduction.” Scientific’ Salesmanship It is said there is likely to be a deficit at the British Empire exhibition at Wembley near Lon- have already visited the exposition, with two months more to go, and the information that they the Yast resources df the empire will be well cost to those ‘worth a substantial appropriation if a similiar exhibition of our’ own resources could be arranged in this country, have a Conception of the almost riety of products that come from tory. While not so extensive as to quantity, they probably equal in number British Empire Lightning Change W. J. Bryan, July 9—“Dayis is impossible.” W. J. Bryan to Davis, York's Forty-Five ‘Teceive the forty-five electoral between the devil ‘and the deep record. By accentuating it he is “are too patriotic to It was the senator’s pur- political fray Ixte in the to be more Protection! IRE, burglary and health protection, repre= sented in a telephone instrument, costs but. a few cents a day. area ame <ot In the dead of night you may discover your home on fire. You must call for help quickly. A telephone summons brings the department em the run. That’s protection, spans», the stump he will have to con- party has issued “lack of prosperity,” and gives figures that a | Police can be called quickly and quietly if you have a telephone. That’s protection, too. And euppose the baby suddenly falls ill. A doctor is needed NOW. The telephone saves priceless minutes. That's the best protection of all. reported that 10,000,000 people Think how much safer your wife feels when there is a telephone in the house while you are away. and will transmit to others, of who backed the project. Few peopl H] : atten ee Bell System American terri- the products of the System Tuly 10—T am at your The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. ; from “property rights," as the Red || demagogue3 of the present are seek- ing to’ do.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. q General Dawes told his old neigh- bors at Lincoln that the Republican party could not promise any miracles. Others are not so conser- vative: The Democrats and the vel demo Promise miracles of . all inds—even to turning water {nto wine.—Los Angeles Times. HeatingEfficiency Indicated by this Simple Experiment The Democrats had hoped to ad- vocate radicalism in the west and conservatism in the east to play both ends agaipst the middle, and now General Dawes exposes their hand, and no Democrat knows haw to’ answer him.—Burlington”(N. J.) Enterprise. Xx u, Nd; ‘a MAX) OXON x) SOX) It is said that the particular task assigned Gezeral Dawes in this campaign js to eliminate the bunk. That's a job for which. the general is qualified. 231s whole record shows hew much he despises sham and laeficiency.—Jacksonville (IIl.) Jour. SGX ox OS NANA \/, OX Wi nal. “) x WO, ITH a Bryant Gas Boiler, operating at full capacity, you can place your hand on the flue pipe without discomfort. This proves that the heat, you pay for, goes where it belongs—into the circula. - ting water or into steam—not up the flue. 2 The : 3 BRYANT Gs BOILER has been proven, by certified tests, made by university authorities, to be 844% efficient. Its operation assures uniform heat, without attention, with economy of fuel, with the utrhost cleanliness, and with a measure of Satisfaction that is entirely BRYANT. Consult Your Architect THE DALY COMP. Direct Factory Representatives 1425 Sixteenth Street. Phono Main 5067 DENVER. COLORADO It was of Senator LaFollette that Colonel Roosevelt said in 1917: “He| is acting. in such fashion as to make him one of. the most ‘potent enemies of this country and a sinister enemy of “democracy.”—Philadelphia North American. Senator Wheeler now claims that one of his star witnesses isa Mar. Tt generally turns out that way when several patriots conspire to- gether to bunco the public for their personal advantage.—Dubuque Times-Journal. xy) POXDUXXONX v Xap » The farmer needs from the gov- ernment none of the quack remedies which half-baked, vote seeking poli- “cians advocate. What he needs is Just simplified, economical govern- ment.—Somerset County (Pa.) Star. All the vociferation of the oposi- tion falls to drown out the noise of the wood sawing being done down in| Washington by one Calvin Coolidge—Omaha Bee. Dawes is himself a personification of a campaign of “brass tacks" as opposed to “bombast’’.— Buffalo Commercial. aX) OX a No nation can gain by buying abroad and closing down its own production !n the process.—Albany Journal. We will be pleased to supply any information relative to the Bryant Boiler and furnish-you with the names of representative Casper owners. The Casper Gas Appliance Co, Inc. Phone 1500 115-119 E. First “Merchandise That Merits Confidence” Republican economy made possible the treasury surplus and tax re- duction.—Wilmington Journal, > ____ Cali the Tribune for highway tn. formation. $5.00 Reward Five dollars reward will be paid to the party furnishing the Casper Daily “fribune information leading to the capture of the person who fa fraudulently colfecting subscriptions from Tribune subscribers. 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