Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 11, 1925, Page 4

fay ( fay t D LAW imp. KL ton raver red mpl ore ‘om age lnte hil en on per PAGE FOUR The Casper DailyTritune By J. B. HANWAY AND E. B. HANWAY Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second cla: November 22 1916. matter, The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Mornt: Tribune every Sunday at Cusper, Wyoming. Publication offices: building, opposite postoftice. se Telephones Branch Telephone MEMBER TH ASSOCIATED PRESS xchange Connecting All Departments The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for publication ot paper and also the loca) news published herein, all news credited tn tt iy nber Jit Bureao of Circulation (A. B. ©.) Advertisin cepresentatives Prudden, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bldg., Chicago, UL, 286+8ifth Ave., New York C Globe ig., Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bidg.: New Mc &t. un Wrancisco, Cal. Copies of the Daily Tribune on and visitors are welcome, SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier and Outside Sta’ nd Sunday —.. y and Sunday .. ily and Sunday “By Mail tnside State Sunday Y a=--- nn nanan- ~~ = ------. 2 be paid in advance and the Daily Tribune will ure delivery after subscription\ becomes one month in arrears, KICK, If YOU DON'T GET, YOUR TRIBUNE if you don't Ond your Tribune a looking carefully for it call 15 or 16 and {t will be delivered to you by epectal messenger. Register complaints before 8 o'clock, a? a A Representative Republic How far haye we drifted, in our fundamental conceptions government, from the intent of the founders, and from the irit and letter of our federal constitution? Ours is a representative republic, which avoids the ex- tremes of potential tyranny implied in the words democracy 1nd autocracy, as politically applied—the tyranny of the in- dividual and the tyranny of the ma It is often’assumed that the adoption of the representa: system was due merely to the impracticability of. secur- direct action by the people in a country ing large area population, But a far more important consideration com- mends the representative system; it is not a substitute for direct rule, but a system of compelling merit in itself, None of us, a8 members of a crowd, feels the ‘same sense of responsibility, can be depended upon to act so much throu deliberate ison and so little from mere impulse, as if we had been chosen by that crowd to use our judgment in s. the interests of that mass. Nor could we be so much held to accoun y, or have reason to fear the consequences of our acts, if we commit a wrong or an unwise act merely as one member ¢ The rroup. representative in our form of vernment is there. fore more than a mere agent or deputy, charged with the- execution of the will, at all times, of those who choose him, The political federations which in Europe preceded our repub. lic were gues free cities or other political units, The delegates chosen to the governing bodies of these leagues or confederations were deputies—not representatives. They were the interests of the units which se- lected them. This system is better understood in Europe et the representative It is exemplified in the Ru soviet government, where delegates in the national legislature represent only the interests of certain classes, to the exclusion of the interests of others. It is misunderstood by our own sectional and bloc politician ry member of our national congress represents, not a et, a state, a section or a class, but the entire country. Our federal constitution declares as one of the purposes of its being a purpose to provide for the common defense and pro- mote the general welf This is st, made certain by the letter and spirit of our national charter, too often overlooked. The conscientious member of the house and senate will be in- fluenced by nion in his own district or state only in so far as his conscience and judgment tell him compliance will not be injurious to the welfare of the country as a whole. This was so well rec viz in the earlier days of the republic that the con- stitution of New drafted in 1 required eyery mem- ber of the state assembly to take an oath “not to assent to iny law, vote or procedure which shall appear to him in- jurious to the public welfare.” Within the past fifty years the theory has been quite gen erally proclaimed by political demagogues that a representa tive is only a deputy, a “hired hand,” as Colonel Bryan once put it, who should support any measure demanded at the time by what seems to be a majority of his own constituents, no matter what his own convictions or opinions as to the effect of the measure upon the national welfare might be.* This is a degrading doctrine, and under it the people might be well be represented in congr by so many inmates of idiot asylums, \ physician or lawyer who would Yield to the opinions of those who employ him regardless of his knowledge as to the effecty of such a course, would be pronounced unfit to practice his profession. The public man who boasts that he is only a phono- graph to record and give forth local or class opinion merely glories in his shame. Of course if he has committed himself to « given policy during a campaign, it is to be assumed that he of chosen to represent only system Jersey peaking his conyictions, and refusal to fulfill such 1 i betra of trust oY ho not do in his publie service that which right the light of his knowledge, her t the mere pe t thing, is not fit to be in public e. The ple x I heir representatives follow a vroader co consistent with the true character of a repub lican representative—b th rule with appropriate intelli Irancis Lieber, one of the greatest of the last century’s ommentarians on our titution, says that representative government is an institution “haying its own fully distinct and independent character, the excellence of which is not to be measured by the indirect standard of in how far it may ap proach to something beyond it, which would be the best we could have which for sor ason or other we must needs resolye to give up forever. The represntative system seems to me to be one of the very political institutions which udorn the p s of the h y of civilization, for through it ulone can be attained real civil liberty, broad, extensive, nat ional liberty founded upon equal, extensive political concep tions, developing not narrow local communities, but national ined ciel One State With Nerve Colorado } repealed her direct primary law. It was found tt this ut reform re ry, and productive of political corruption, easy 4 hine nation, minority rule und the destruction of party authority and responsibility through interference in party primaries by elements profess ing no allegiance to the parties they have been helping to control, A properly safeguarded s the representative delegate system would be an infinite im provement the direct primary tem. The Colorado ex ample will be followed in other states as soon as people gen erally awake to the necessity of this forward step in the in terests of good government. ‘Tremendous Heat The weather bureau accounted for the torrid weather in the east and central west in an “air blockade” over the Atlantic an, Whatever the scientific explanation may be it was suf jent to cause the death of from four to five hundred people tem of nominating through over fi and tremendous suffering by others over a wide area of country, A new weather r 1 has been stablished for the first summer month for extreme heat. The mereury rose above the hundred mark in unexpected places and general business was prostrated while the people sought artificial Pal ers ‘ t a Tribune anne nenwnnnne-15 and 168 New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francieco offices wonecencece $7, 8U 3.90 2.26 5 2.50 not Outlawing Russia We are hearing constantly a great dea! about outlawing war, a large and desirable undertaking if it can be actompilshed, requiring much time, patience and skill, but there is a first and long step toward it which can be taken with little de- ei he United States has practically already outlawed soviet Russia by refusing to recognize the band of murderers and robbers who control it and wKo, knowing they cannot maintain thelr abominable system alone much longer, are making des- perate efforts in many countries by lavish expenditure of money and cunning propaganda to foment dis- content and revolt among the ig- norant and criminal classes, hoping to bring on revolutions which will drag the whole world down to thelr own level of crass socialism and atheism where lies prostrate un happy Russia. Now, {f Great Britain, France and Germany will withdraw the recogni- tion they have unwisely extended to the soviets chiefly for economic and trade considerations, the soviet government will very shortly fall to pieces. Is not this an opportune moment for them to take such action? The time seems ripe for it and each one of them has ample reasons for mak- ing such a change. The soviet gov- ernment led in the most brazen fa- shion to the MacDonald government of Great Britain, denying the pro- paganda they were carrying on, and now the irritation then engendered has been so increased by a repett tion of the same offense that the Baldwin government has been forced to give them a sharp rebuke and warning. They have stirred up the same bad feeling in France by the same tactics there, and Hindenburg is known to be hostile to them in Germany. With such conditions existing, it 1g not prob je that if our govern- ment would approach those of Great Britain, France and Germany with the suggestion that they withdravy their recognition and stand with us in open condemnation and reproba- tion of Bolshevism and all its works, is {t not certain that the rotten fa- bric they have raised must fall to pieces? No government in Europe can long maintain itself if these great powerg without striking a blow should join the United States in the attitude it has taken toward the Bolsheviks. There haye been many prophecies of thelr impending dow 1, but nothing has come of them, Would not the course suggested be entirely feasible? Put into effect, there is every reason to believe that the civilized world, without blood- shed and without prolonged sus- pense, will be relieved from the me and incubus which has so long hung over it, and which will make anything like universal peace impossible as long as they continue. Is there anything more important in the world situation than the elifni tion of Bolshevism, and is there « other way of bringing it about short of war? A Bookless Home By MAUD FRAZER JACKSON. poet once made affirmation. ‘twould be a dreadful deprivation If cooks should be no more; He said that every saint and sinner, When it came time to eat his dinner, Their absence would deplore. All knowledge tends to melancholy He said, and books are form of folly, We'd live without the books: Though art and poetry be wanting, No longing need our hearts be haunt- ing If we possess good cooks. Strange, strange ideas for a poet! Ah, surely, surely he should kno it, That life is more than meat; It is not life but mere existing, I¢ thought is all of food consisting, | Such life is incomplete. Let Jane her wrathful morn take We can exist on fruit and cornflake We dread no cookless home; But oh, they live but as a cow doe Have pleasure that a sheep or hors: does Who dwell in bookless home, © Mother, cut out frills and smock A way some ings And go if need be sans silk stock ings; conomize, O Dad | That while your boys an growing. knowing | Tr okless home is sad. The be Legitimate Business | A United States senatpr has found | | fault with the tariff commission, He | deplores its friendliness toward our great productive interests, and sym: | athizes with those who regard it as | hostile to legitimate business. Reader, art thou old enough to re member the close of 1887 and the consular reports of 1888? Men in the service the United States were permitted or rather encouraged to write reports which were pure and simple free-trade propaganda, Samuel J. Randall rose in congres to call attention to the advertising circulars received from Jnglish and Belgian cerns. Americans who contemplated extensive purchases of tron were advised to wait because | there was an excellent chance of a reduction in the tariff, and then old world iron could be bought at a low Of course Mr. Randall was abused for taking the stand he did, | but the circulars were just what he said they were. Now we do not blame the foreign iron master for sending trade cir culars over the ocean, But why men paid by the American people should have attacked the home producer and urged on us the purchase of foreign goods is another story. This was done, and it did not stop until a Republican president was elected. Six years afterwards William L, Wilson rose at an English banqeut to be cheered for seeking to open our mar- ket to English competition. Every man who supports Ameri. can capital and labor against the in- roads of fgreign goods must look for & certain Amount of abuses, It Is not dishonorable to the recipents—it ts hardly patriotic on the part of the givers, g Che Casper Daily houses, that pays out gigantic sums in wages, that purchases native ma- terialo, that looks after the building association payments, that meets the lodge dues that covers medical and burial expenses illegitimate? Is the foreign business that comes in to close our establishments legitimate business? If #0 let that be sald. A house of representatives must be.elected next year. Let the issue of legitimate or illegitimate business be clearly drawn. Freedom of the Sea When this nation came into real being, in 1789, under the existing constitution, its statesmen found that protection was the vogue the world over—Great Britain was mili- tantly protective, nowhere more so than {n respect to her ships on the seas, a protection that praised by such eminent freetraders as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, the first in 1776 and the second in 1845. American statesmen sought to induce other maritime nations. particularly Great Britain, to repeal thelr protective navigation laws, 80 that, American ships might better succeed upon the sea, But John Bull belleved that if British laws were so changed and American ships were benefitted, correspondingly British ships would be injured, and our overtures were disregarded. And x0, protection was established in the United States. Some of our statesmen thought that {f we adopt- ed protection—some who believed in free-trade—soon we would force other nations to adopt free-trade. We were a small youngster in those days, just out of our swaddling clothes; but What wo lacked in big- ness we made up in courage. Pro- tection proved so good to this coun try—protection through the tariff— that it has been continued to this day, never more effectively than now, although there are some defects in our present protective tariff. Never would we consent to free trade—on the land, or with regard to our land industries, Ag a result of protection, we diversified our in ibune our percentage of carrying our own goods, except for the increase due to the expenditure of between three and four billion dollars by our gov- ernment to bulld milliéns of tons of merchant ships—not to restore to them a greater share of our foreign carrying, but to help the entente al Hes in the ¥ Miserably we have | struggled along, since We have had} such « vast fleet of merchant ships, and miserably we are falling—failing —falling! The tariff protection once we enjoyed, if courageously restored and determinedly maintained, would restore prosperity to our ships. We made a truly terrible mistake in adopting free-trade upon the sea. while maintaining protection on the land. Magnificently we have suc ceeded on the land, where we have tariff protection, as magnificently we succeedéd on the sea when we had tariff protection, and where just as pitifully we have failed under free-trade. Our place upon the sea {s waiting for us—when we restore tariff pro- tection to our ships! James B. Duke Gives Two More | Millions to U. DURHAM, N. C., June 11.—An additional gift by James B. Duke, tobacco magnate to the amount of two million dollars for the building fund of Duke university was an- nounced yesterday, President R. H. Fuher at a gathering of the alumni at the annual luncheon. The ft increases the building fund previously created by Mr. Duke for the university from six to’ eight million dollar: League Outlaws dustries and availed of our own proddcts, our own labor, instead of foreign products and foreign labor— onthe land; and the more adequate our protection, the greater use of our own resources, in materia! and labor, the greater the diversifica- tion of our industries, the more general the well-being of our people so that now, as a result of protec- tion, we are, by far the greatest and Mightiest nation in the world, and the richest. But our forbears were sure that, if we could have “freedom upon the seas,” we would be better off. Pro- tection of our ships and their car- goes in foreign trade, during the first forty years, gave us 90 per cent of our own foreign carrying in our own ships—protection through the tariff did that for our ships. But we were persuaded to suspend the protection through the tariff that our ships enjoyed, with the re- t we gave our foreign rivals the 90 per cent of our carrying, con- tenting ourselves with but 10 per cent. We were too wary to adopt Free- Trade upon the land, and too-con- fident in adopting free-trade upon the sea. For 75 years we have en- joyed “the freedom of the sen,” and for 75 years we have steadily lost in GENEVA, June J1.—(By The Asso- ciated Press)—The international conference for the contro! of traf- fice in arms yesterday, outlawed pol- son gas warfare by adopting a proto- col submitted by the American dole- gation prohibiting use of chemicals and bacteria as weapons. G yA, June 11—(By The As- sociated Press)—One of the stormi- est 1 its history occurred jduring yester@ay’s meeting of the League of Nation's council, and caused Count Quinoaes De Leon of Spain, president of the council to ad- fourn the session hurriedly, The excitement arose over asser- tions made before the council that Lithunia is confiscating the lands of foreign residents who in the past fought against Lithunia and that im- prisonment has been threatened persons in the political minority in Lithunia if they send petitions to the League of Nations. Discussion of the problem of the League of Nations’ supervision of the demilitarized Rhineland zone ‘was. postponed until the September meeting of the council because of sessions | the prisoner stands, observed of all Poison Gas Use| Tourists Haled ‘ In Distinguished BY ©. T. HALLINAN (United Press Staff Correspondent) LONDON, June 1i—(United Press) —An American tourist who falls foul of the lav. {u London ends up as a rule in the Bow Street police court. If he only knew it, this is the distinguished police court in ngland for it was once presided over by the great novelist Fielding. | It has walls paneled in dark, dis- tinguished oak; it has a well-worn witness stand; it has a tiny cubicle where three English “press men” note proceedings; it has « row of seats for solicitors and a more hon- ored row for the barristers: and in the center facing the magistrate, is what few Americans have ever seen, “the dock.” This is a raised, conspicuous pla form surrounded by railings in which m observers. Only on rare occasions Is he or she allowed a seat. And practically nowhere in Europe is the prisoner allowed, as in the United States, to sit down in the well of the court alongside of his counsel. Those Americans who coms to grief in London, have in general, only two faflings. One is the de sire to “start an argument” in the midst of strangers, The other is a native reluctance to obey the allen regulations which require all for- eigners to register their whereabouts with the police. American tourists unite in their admiration for the British “bobby” but almost alone among the foreign- ers in England, they show the deep- est reluctance to register with lim. Nearly every week. throughout the year, Bow Street police court wit- nesses a scene like this: Magistrate: Who is the prisoner? Police Inspector: He {s an Amer!- can citizen named John Smith. He was found living at 12 Granby Gar- dens, ang was not registered with the police. Magistrate Dear, dear! (manifestly shocked); American. Now look here, your honor! I just want to explain, This is all tommy-rot. Court Usher (profoundly shocked) Order Qrder!! American: I never heard of these sill regulations. I thought, by gosh this was a free country. Why, in America you don’t have to register— Magistrate: There, now, you will have a chance to state your case, It it the police’s turn now. After a brief, informal hearing, the American is either discharged with aution or is fined anywhere from $5 to $100 depending upon the circumstances. The latter fine {s s y one of the few women in the United Old English Court|- HURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1925 — Miks Jeanette Stanbridge, a pretty dys Kuhn, secretary and . ue nerd prominent wholesale | girl of twenty-two, 1s London’s most co eed ‘any of Columbus, O., is|celebrated woman bookmaker, Last jal comp ear, according to report, Miss Stan- bridge handled more than two mil. Mon dollars in race commissions. ee an expert knowledge NOTICE Will the lady who broke the show case glass in my store Wednesday evening call and make adjustment to avoid be- ing sued for damages? Watson’s Radio Shop Ground Floor—O-S Building rare and js reserved for those con- sidered “undesirables.” It is safe to say that no American is arrested in London merely for “being drunk.” He has to be quar- relsome or pugnacious or disorderty before the tolerant “bobby” will run him In, There seems to be an un- pending negotiations regarding Germany’s proposal for a western European security pact. written law that great allowances are to be made for transatlantic vis- itors in a merry mood. “ OME kinds of boats may equal my performance, but no car-driver can ~ until he has the right answer to the gas- oline question. ‘“My old bus used to be as lazy, as full of splutters and as greedy for gas as tht next —But, boy! 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