Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 16, 1924, Page 8

ot one RS snes sere se ‘ PAGE EIGHT Che Casper Dailp Crivune Casper (Wyoming) postefiies as second vember 22, 191%. Tribune issued every evening bune every Sunday, at ation offices: Tribune Build, yer Daily ---- 15 and 16 phone Exchange Connecting All Departments By J. E. HANWAY AND E. E. HANWAY MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The As ated Press is exclusivety entitled to the use for publication of all news credited in this paper lished herein. and also the local news p Member of Andit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.) Advertising Kepresentatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg., Ul, 286 Fifth Ave., New York C Globe 404 Sharon B Cal. Copies of the w York, Chi . and visitors are . 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A few years ago LaFollette’s political machine absolutely dominated by him, nominated for state trei ry of Wisconsin a man who dur- e publican party, dominating its state -conyen- tion in Wisconsin. Is there anything fair or sguare about that? Should those who employ such methods complain when the law in some state actually requires them to fly the red flag they are actually fighting under? “ Tariff Helps Labor The American Federation of Labor realized the need of tariff protection for the Wage-earners in 1917 and ‘demanded its restoration in no uncer- n terms. At that time the Democratic’ Under- wood tariff had been in operation for three years and the hardship and suffering it had brought to the workers during the period preceding the World War was still fresh in their minds. Accordingly the federation, in convention as- sembled, passed a resolution that “this conven- tion go on record in favor of a policy of indus- trial preparedness and the enactment of laws by congress that will adequately protect loss of employment through any inyasion of the prod- ucts of any other nation.” This resolution was passed in spite of the fact that unemployment had practically ceaged as a result of the artificial stimulation of industry by the war. The opintan of the working people, as expressed through the A. F. of L was that the good times which they then enjoyed should be stabilized and made permanent, Almost automat- rally they turned to the protective tariff. Have they forgotten so quickly the lessons of 1914 and 1 The inconsistency of the A. F. of L. in indorsing LaFollette, who in the plat. form of the third party condemns the Repub- lican tariff policy, must be apparent to the most thoughtless workingman. It is inconceivable that labor would gamble with the greatest prosperity it ever enjoyed by supporting the low tariff policy of LaFollette. Not bared Power Alexander Hamilton writing in the Federalist and urging New York to approve the proposed fundamental laws, said it would be the duty of the federal courts to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the constitution void. James Wilson, one of the signers of the con- stitution, told the Pennsylvania convention which lwas then disenssing ratification that: Tf a law should be made inconsistent with those powers by this instrument (the pro- posed federal constitution) vested in congress the judges * * * will declare such law null and yoid. * * * Anything, therefore, that shall be enacted by congress contrary thereto will not have the force of law. To the Maryland and to the Virginia conven- tion and perhaps to others this same argume was made. The states were adopting the new constitution with their eyes open, conferring a ing the c: n was € das a thief, where- upon he committed su t for the exposure by political foes this man would have become state treasurer. Does the selection of such a for such an office prove that LaFollette honest? Does it indicate that he can now guarantee the absolute purity of all his follow- ers and that no dishonest man would be appoint- ed to off should he rome president? The LaFollette-Socialist candidate for president is unde’ on the charg of selling his official influence to a crooked oil company engaged in pushing fraudulent claims in the government land offi Wheeler admits that he took the attorneyship for this company at $10,000 a year subsequent to his election as a senator at a time when this company was public- ly charged with using the mails to defraud and of having fraudulent government claims. Wheel- er’s clients are now under indictment for using tle mails to defraud innocent investors out of scores of thousands of dollars at a time when he was their attorney. Does this look as if I Follette, who chose Wheeler for the vice presi- dential; nomination, or Wheeler himself, are such pure idealists as they pretend to be? A Contrast Senator Irvine L. Lenroot, of Wisconsin, one of the sane statesmen of that radical state says thi I hope that I shall never live to see the da when congress shall have the power to deny to any man the right to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience; to deny to any man the right to hold an office because he is a a Jew or a Protestant. The radicals favor giving congress the power to abolish every parochial school in the nation. The radicals :pro- pose to amend the constitution’ so that if the su- preme court decides an act of congress is to be unconstitutional and congress again passes the act it shall be valid and the law of the land. The radicals, in effect, say that they are willing that the rights of religious freedom, of free speech of trial by jury aud all other rights guaranteed by the constitution shall be placed in the hands ofas Ned Wall Street congress, with power to destroy them.” What contrast in wisdom, loyalty and plain American sense in comparison with the disloyal mouthings, vicious vaporings, visionary vaunt ings and nauseating nostrums poured forth by the impossible LaFollette. Sense of Smell John W. Da ays his issue is honesty in pol- itics. To demonstrate more clearly what his idea of honesty in polities really is, he effusively xreets as his supporter one Wil m G. McAdoo, who three months ago was declaring that the ndidacy of John W. Davis represented a con: spiracy of predatory wealth to get a strangle hold on government and who was disclosed as paid lobbyist of Doheny after he retired from the setretaryship of the treasury to represent oil nl other interests before departmenta of his father-in-law's administration, including the one he had recently headed and which with his own appointees. Mr. Davis 1 keen nose for scandal in a Republi Iministration, but is totally without the sense of smell when it comgs to officials of his own political persua sion. Under His Own Banner LaFollette complains loudly because under the election laws of California he i compelled to run for president under the emblem of the only political party which has nominated him. He thinks it an out that the inicalities of a complicated election law require that he fight under his own colors in one state of the union. LaFollette dictated election and primary laws in his own state which prohibited actual Republi cans from presenting th publican use to the people of Wisconson. He is responsible for pri mary laws which permit people hostile to the principles of a given political party to dishon- estly participate in and cont its proceedings. Under this farcical system of his own the coun- try has witnessed recently the spectacle of po- liticians now busily engaged in fighting the Re: power on the courts ‘then and since recognized sound and essential to the preservation of our partic form of government. If the-people of the United States wish to de priye the federal courf of this power they may do so, though we believe it would be a very uny Ik of the courts’ “usurped” power, how. heer ignorance ever, Protection and Poverty Government reports from Washington, just is- sued, tell us there gre today fewer paupers in almshouses in the United States than there have been in the last twenty years, in spite of our great increase in population and in proportion to population the number is smaller than it has ever been in the history of the country. The rec- ords show*that the number of paupers is now less than 79,000, compared with 85,000 ten years ago. We have but little real poverty, we have no soup kitchens, we haye’no distressing bread line: * This comes from our full employment and be- cause of wages that give, besides the necessaries of life, savings for the rainy day. It is only when we ha a free-trade tariff that pauperism increases. We always have hard times under a Democratic, free-trade tariff, because then it is hard to make ends meet. Then there are long periods of, idleness, millions are out of work for months and months. Still mouths must be fed and clothing and shelter must be pro- vided, till the savings are gone and poverty comes. We are prosperous now and can continue so by electing Coolidge and Dawes and a Republi- can congress. LaFollette cannot be elected, nor can Davis. The defeat of Coolidge means Bryan, free-trade and poverty. Government Ownership in Italy Here is the language of Mussolini in criti- cism of government ownership in Italy: “In justice to Italy all major owned and oper- ated public utilities of the state must be return- ed to private ownership. Users of public utility service are securing that seryjce at the cost of taxpayers who do not “use it. Farmers who do not use electrictiy are taxed to support the great hydro-electric companies owned by the state while people who, do not ride on trains or use them very heavily for freight must pay taxes to maintain roads used by heavy travelers and shippers. “Railroad workers practically own the state railroads and operate them for their own good. Numbers of employes and wages have increased out of all proportion. Service is poor, rates are three times as high as they were seyen years ago, and there are‘deficits where there were profits. If LaFollette Wins the super-hes Eyen am ed radicals, there are doubtl few who expect ator LaFollette to be elected. But it is interesting to speculate on what would happen, in the event of the sue cess of the “Progressive” movement. That movement is made up of the most di- verse elements imaginable. A dozen schools of po- litical and economic thought are reprasented in it. All would clamor for immediate recognition, and insist that. their particular’ nostrums be forthwith administered to the country with a government spoon. Not since Babel has there been anything like it would be. As a circus it would have everything, but the price of admission would break the taxpayers. vide up everything and otherwise hasten the millennium; red flag followers who want the modern Russ here; I. W. lamoring for one big union, opposed by the Gomper’s crowd of orgynized la- bor; follow of Henry George who want all taxes sessed against nd, aud farmers who would.not stand for that; the foes of the consti- tution, and minorities who feel safer under the be used in avy machine. } There would be Socialists who want to di- h system of government installed | protection of that bill of rights. There would be more nuts, cranks, wheels and bolts than could Qe VASNEL SAND. OETinune Warren of Wyoming “General Dawes went into Wyo- ming to aid the re-election of Francis E. Warren as United States senator,’ says the Denver News, “and it was a worthy mission taken on behalf of a notable citizen of the west. A bond of fellowship must exist between the older and the younger men, for Senator Warren was a Medal-of-Honor man of the Civil war. His interest in military affairs in the senate has been jnti- mate and full of understanding from one of wide experience and sym- pathy with the American army. Senator Warren, too, is in line with Dawes on the budgetary system and economy in appropriations. “Colorado is interested in the re- election of Senator Warren, who has been a friend to the State in its need more than once, when, politi- cally speaking, Colorado was off the United States reservation. The well wishes of citizens of this State are with Senator Warren in his cam- paign, this, too, as a matter of reciprocity. “An outstanding figure in the senate, mentally as well as physical- iy, Senator’ Warren‘s re-clection is required of A¥yoming ‘as a duty to the natefi. This is stated without partisanship. He las been a tower of strength on and in important senate committees and as a coun- cilor of his party for many years. He has been !n the senate thirty There is no ‘one to take his place {n Wyoming; no one in_ the ate quite able to fill his nator Warren's election is t local to Wyoming; it has wider and Wyoming electors k at it.’ ifieance wil so lo Clearing His Name A United Press “Wheeler Special, o Billings, Montana October 1, says: “Back to his home people, Senator Wheeler comes today to clear his name find plead the cause of pro- cs vism. > Wheeler an- nounced he would reveal in speeches \t Billings, Butte and“Missoula evi- denice tg convince his friends and foes that the indictment returned against him was a ‘frame-up.” Metropolitan newspaper telegraph- services, including the Unft- failed to tell the country spatch from the hile “enroute under date of last month that Senator Wheeler, through his attorney, rejected the »pportunity to “clear his name” by avoiding trial on the indictment he “framed up,” by making motions in the federal court ‘alts, Mont. When Senator Wheeler was Indict- ed Inst spring, he first gave out to the press associations a statement declaring that he would at once go to Montana and demand trial on his indictment. A half hour later he withdrew this statement, then with- v the second statement and gave \t a third statement declaring that he would ask for “trial” under sen storial courtesy in the United States nate. says ——_ In his senatorial “trial” evidence |of fact, mako things much worse Was adduced to proye*the “frame- up” he was talking about so persist- ently. Seven or elght witnesses were brought to Washington to sup- port this charge, but after they had been interviewed by members of the senate committee, they were sent ,home, for the reason that it was found that thir testimony would not bear out the accusation. ‘ If Senator Wheeler did not have a-sense of guilt, he surely would have gone to trial when his case was called last month in Great Falls. There would have been the chance to “clear his name” and confound his accusers by getting the acquittal that would inevitably have come’ if he were innocent. But Wheeler dodged his trial. He prefers to “vin- dicate” himself by stump speeches, which sympathetic press associa- tions that suppress the news that he dodged trial, are ready to ‘broadcast. He dodged his trial despite the fact that one of the chief . witnesses against him had been killed between the date of his senate hearing and the date of his legal trial. And this dodger of trial has been the chief mud-slinger of the social- ist campaign. He is the man who goes about in behalf of the socialist cause talking about the honesty of himself and his associates and the corruption of the opposition, finding the metropolitan , press ready to prominently prin@his charges with- out being willing to give the public the news as to his unwillingness to meet the charges against him, The Dog and the Bone One of Thomas B, Reed's favorite campaign stories was that of the dog, crossing a bridge, with a piece of meat in his mouth, He looked Into the water and saw a reflection which looked bigger and jucier than the morsel he carried. Yielding to « natural inclination he dropped the meat carried and jumped into the stream after the meat he thought he saw. The result was that he lost both, and, as Speaker Reed was wont to say, “came up the bank a dirty and bedraggled, but a wiser dog." In measuring the promises of the political blue-sky artists, the voter should keep this experience of the dog in mind. It is a common trait of human nature to take all one has for granted, and assume that in going after something said to be better he may keep what he has. It 1s very true that gévernment and personal conditions are not ideal for every citizen. They’ never have been, and it is safe to say they never will be. One must take it for grant- ed that under any- government, any administration, any purty, there will be things to complain about. Most of us fall somewhat short of the ideal, and so do all governments. The pretense that any political party can make everybody well off and happy is on its face insincere. What we need quietly and ¢carefully to think about is whether those who promise the voter that they can de- liver the good, and whether they liver a world without sorrow or sin van really deliver the goods and whether they may not, as a matter roads, century traffic. The High Cost of Postponing Permanent Highway Building agriculture, waste huge sums annually in high maintenance costs, and greatly , There is not a state, not a county, not a community, that isn’t paying a heavy price for having too few permanent There are still many sections of the country — even whole states — that are trying to operate twentieth century traffic over nineteenth century roads. This is costing millions of dollarsevery year, and will keep on costing millions until we have well developed permanent highway systems everywhere. — Even what we often call the more progressive communities are far behind the demands of modern highway traffic with its 16,000,000 motor vehicles. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Canada to Mexico, we need more Concrete roads—the roads for twentieth Your highway officials want to be of the greatest possible service to you. Get , behind them with ways and means that will provide more Concrete roads ard + streets. Such an investment will pay you big dividends year after year. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Ideal Buildin, DENVER, COLO. A National Organization to Improve and Extend the Uses of Concrete OFFICES IN 29 CITIES toads area good investment —not an expense than they are. In 1894 and in 1914 the people of the United States had renson to re- gret mistakes made at the polls two Years before. They had brought into-power a political leadership which inveiged loudly against the abuses and burdens of the existing order, and promised more economy and efficiency in government and more prosperity for the average man, .The actual outcome is that the economy failed to show up, but huge armies of the unemployed, bread lines and soup Kitchens did. American labor is today better em- ployed at better wages than haye ever before been known in ‘this or any other country in time of peace. American business is gradually get- ting on fts feet after the disorganiz- ing conditions incident to and fol- lowing the world war. The Amert- can farmer, after a period of adver- sity, a reaction from the war infla- tion, is on his way to reeovery. American business is headed in the right direction. To disturb all this is to take a great risk, a risk not greater for the man of large affairs than for the man in the stréet. Intelligent and unprejudiced ob- servers regard the-election of the democratic national ticket as an im- possibility. It is doubtful if the managers of the Davis campaign en- tertain such an expectation. Their sole hope and the hope of the La- Follette-Socialists, is to throw the four months of uncertainty as to the future, coupled with fear of a radi- cal change in the very basis of gov- ernment. It is inevitable that such a situation should cause nm ~pro- nounced business depression, with no one knowing what would be the end of it. $ Whatever grievance one may have against the administration or party in power, he should weigh very care- fully the question of whether in vot- ing to satisfy a grudge he may not be doing vastly mére harm to -him- self and to the country than to the tign or the Republican party. It is not a wise man who ‘bites off his nose to spite his face.” Moreover, the larger interests of the general national welfare should be the prompting motive of every ballog The voting booth is no place in which to air one’s personal grudges and. disappointmen The worth while yoter will take to the polis his patriotism and not his grouch, Selected Paragraphs The LaFollette campaign commit- tee says it is out of funds. And there are indications that the pub- lic on which it {s inflicting its pub- i is nearly out of phtience.— Philadelphia North American. The farmer ot the northwest has no desire to put the railroads into the hands of the government. He election into the house. This means —_— ver ote aa, Z “Marketing a complete line of U service and the for chan; Accepte Use Continental Coupon Books. They save waiting and time and trouble in many other ways. at all Continental service stations and by dealers generally. PO! GARGOYLE MOBILOILS | A Golorado Corporation) ss Ce luets in Coloradk i lew Mexico, Utah, Tdaho Rad ontana E. J. “Gene” SULLIVAN GOVERNOR For.er Governor “Bob” Carey Will Also Speak IRIS THEATER FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, AT 7:30 Your First Opportunity To ‘Welcome Natrona County’s Candidate NATRONA y ; BO Sis OUReoeaS .GoUN TY CENTRAL COMMITTEE SEFUL lessons, taught by many years of marketing gasoline and motor oils in the-Mountain. States, reflect themselves,,to the benefit of 3 patrons, in the high character of the s superior quality of eae the products sold at all Continental <« service stations. i LARINE ‘The Perfe& Motor Oil 7 oy s é 5 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1924. $ can clearly foresee, higher wages, shorter hours. and more employe’, the payment of which will come out ‘of his pocket.—Minneapolis Tribune, } SS Governor Bryan, tt is said, is not making speeches because the Demo- gratic national apmmittee will not furnish a. spétial train, Who will now say that the Democratic na- tional committee is lacking :n stratesy?—Boston ‘Transcript. —— The downtrodden masses, concern- ing whom~ Senator LaFollette is making such a fuss, do not seem td be so terribly downtrodden when you go out on a walk and take a look at them.—Clarksburg (W. Va.) Telegram. Mr. Wheeler is so inclined to think that just about everybody Is crooked that we are bound to won- der if at times he doesn't fee] in- clined to suspect himself.—Marion Star. The American people agree with ; Davis—about “common hon- esty”. That's why they're so stron; for Presitent Coolidge.—Fort Wayne Sentinel, - ‘ « Calvin Coolidge can make more impression -with his silence than some men can make by using a megaphone from the top of the hills, —Los Angeles Y : y { i Phones 2058—2821 a