The Democrat from Wichita, Kansas • 1

1 DEMOCJEAr WICHITA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1922 Volume 39 No. 29 A Treacherous Undertow 0 SCRIPTURAL TO EARN BREAD SWEAT OF ONE'S FACE HAS BEEN DISCARDED BY PEOPLE SENATE SEEKS TO PERPETUATE BIG PROFITS TO MANUFACTURER'S TRUST; HOUSE QUITS TO HELP LAROR TRUST THUS THE PRESIDENT IS ALONE AND UNAIDED AT THE GREATEST CRISIS IN HIS ADMINISTRATION IF THIS IS NOT TRUE WHY THE ALMOST UNIVERSAL ATTEMPT TO SHARE PUBLIC REVENUES Note Number of Office Seekers, Add Ronus, Pension, Subsidy and General Relief Is That President Cannot Draft Workmen to Carrj the Mails Without Consent of Congress and That Hody Is Looking After the Political Fate of Its Members lanil iH'Kjxars, ano men mark me ureadlul Increase in Illicit Trade, Highway Robbery and liurglary. Have you noticed tho multiplicity "ibk KM HI 1 ff -i- K3 of candidates seeking public aid in the form of a salaried office Have you noted the many en deavors to increase taxation in order lhat more public jobs may be created Have you observed the tremendous pressure on congress for subsidies and high tariff benefits? Have you considered the over the labor trust, the trust will punish us at the primaries and even worse in November. NO WISE POLITICIAN WILL SACRIFICE HIMSELF FOR HIS COUNTRY." The only chance for the labor trust to rule the country, lies in the cowardice of our representatives. The absence of the representatives from Washington at this time, is the greatest encouragement that could have been given the strikers.

They are shrewd enough to realize it and to take advantage of it. The country is confronted by the most curious political situation ever presented within our recollection. THE SENATE IS IN SESSION WORKING UP A HIGH TARIFF TO PERPETUATE THE MANUFACTURERS TRUST WHILE THE LOWER HOUSE ADJOURNS TO PROTECT THE LABOR TRUST. We think the Devil is just boiling over with optimism. Never has the country been in a more critical state than at this time.

It is up to President Harding to see to it that transportation is not interrupted either by lack of fuel or lack of When congress voted itself a recess for thirty days, the President faced a terrible condition. Already the question of keeping the trains moving had reached a crisis. Should it become necessary the government must man the trains and suppress Many constitutional lawyers have raised question whether the President has power to draft labor in case volunteers are lacking. The consensus of opinion is that he cannot do so WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL ACTION. Aware of this condition, the lower house says, "Let's put Hording in a hole by going home and escaping this dilemma.

If we stay and, help him rescue the eouniry from whelming demand for bonus, pension raise teachers wages? all the good educators In Kansas will move to Minnesota if Kansas doesn't raise teachers wages? Have you remarked' the request of the Farm Bureau for another $3,000 appropriation to feed one more non producer? If you have studied these things can you conclude otherwise than that the American people are trying to make a living without work? Tiie scriptural injunction that man must earn his bread by the sweat cf his face has been discarded, and for it has been substituted the phrase by tho sweat of other men's faces. The Democrat can name twenty merchants and others in Wichita who are urging no reduction in the waged of labor in the big industries while at the same time they are urging the Board of Commerce to have freight rates cut in two. It is wolf eat wolf on every hand and selfishness is leading the.peoplo to destruction in industry and to anarchy in government. Havc you read about the many highway robberies and burglaries which mark the front pages of the newspapers today Have you heard of the desperate chalices the bootleggers are taking iiowdays to make a living without work Have you analyzed the demand of the Hoard of Commerce that a new jail ON A NEW SITE shall be erected by a bond issue? Have you heard the threats that THE MONEY? KANSAS TAKES THELKAD HOIiAH AND LA I'OLLETTE F( USE-SHADOW HEI'IUILICAN Dl EAT SAYS DIOGENES JR. paxsoss are those known as "the thrifty." They alo'ne aroj prepared for a succession of rainy days.

Of course, it was to be exnected that regressive Republican Senators like Any man who wants work in the ate of Kansas may do so without fear of his life. The railroads and the mines have been somewhat hampered in their operations because experienced railroaders and practiced miners have ceased to work, but the strikers have shown I'orah and LaKollette would speak their minds freely, us Senator Norris I heard three men bragging on the city manager form because it promises no increase in the. tax rate this year. Then they changed the subject and regretted that the eonrssioiiors refused to buy Oak Park, steps in the right direction and some stops in the wrong direction." "During the last campaign the Re. publicans pledged to the nation "Harding ancl Prosperity.

They have fulfilled only the first half of the pledge they gave us Harding. Their pledge has ben translated into 'Harding and Hard Times." "A large majority of the people voted for a change and got it. They exchanged eight years of Democrat it! prosperity for four years of Republican adversity. The humorous philo Nebraska already has done. In his speech opposing cloture Senator llo- their Kansas training and have re Cynicus Jr.

says that it looks to him as if congress playing the role of Nt'i-o fiddling while Rome is burning. Next Ihriftiness is that of pro. vidence which foresees wet weather and buys an umbrella and rubbers. The Democrat is in sympathy 100 per cent with the United States government in its efforts to protect willing workers from thugs. We concede the light of William Al'en White an The Eagle to ba in sympathy with the' strikers but NOT WITH THE THUGS.

There is one other point in this and other strike questions which the ordinary citizen does not consider. Let us take any twenty in Wichita and give tlie.ni this questionnaire: "Are you in favor of granting higher pay to the employes of the Street Car Company?" Prob- ably 15 or will at once respond j. "Most certainly I am." Second questionnaire. "Are you in favor of giving the Street Car Company an increase in car fares to 7 cents?" All twenty will quickly re rah denauiK red the "exorbitant and unconscionable government expenditures," which "are not being diminished to any appreciable extent," and A. W.

Wise of Cjearwater is a candidate fcr he legislature en the He-publican ticket. Mr. Wise is so persistent an economist and so loyal to spited the rights of o.her.i. At this time Kansas stands alone among the states, in the acceptance by strikers of the rights of others They even recogni that men who take the places of strikers because they need vnrk to support their families are within their rights and deserve eommenda ion rather than crit HOME, SWEET HOME THE LEVY TELLS THE STORY Reports from Topeka slate that a budget of the state's financial requirement submitted to the stuie' tax commission by Slate Auditor N. A.

Tinner est' mated that Kansas will have to arise Sfli.HuO.OOi) in dole taxes this year or less iliaii last year. Last year on III), there remained in the county treasuries, undrawn, of alato tax thin year there is or ver -re than last year Auditor Tin tier's re-por. rays. Alt.h.i the slat-" will have to roise less stale taxes than last year, it is pparent there wil lnni. he a proportionate reduction in the slate tax levy localise a bisr si tip in pr.ipery valuation unMcipated.

Sedgwick County's slump Is about COO 000 in valuation. This county possesses 1-25 of the state valua The Republican party is "now in power, Others nuiv vole with the par Here is a definition of the taxpayers that I fear he cannot be nominated. The boosters of the fifth ward fear Mr. Wise, if elected will cut down the tax rate. ty lo lay on these taxes and burdens, but the responsibility is fix- may nit suit the modern farti-Jily equipped with a garage, or addicted oinl ine.

eapablej it is with par sopher, Abe Martinwell expressed it when ho said: Tell lirinkley, who voted for a change, was let out at the Haw-mill the other Millions of Tell Urinkleys have been let out under the Republican administration." 'Normalcy seems to be having ser iouw tiie trouble." "There has been reduction in revenue as natural result of a deduction in incumi.i under Republican mis- to cial siunts and the movies, but ty whom has hen intrusted the rc ins icism. I Iu times past in Kansas, before wo set the pace, any man who took the 'place of a striker, whether hired tem of authority. For the sake of our com mon country, for the sake of peace and iimong the millions 'who musi, bear the awful load, 'In can not pass it on, wil not the old party rule." of so many noble victories rise to meet Since writing the above I notice lhat which will appeal strongly to the il'-Mr. Wise is among those asking tor In toiks who have leSmed the wean-more salaies and a larger apprjpria- of wandering and the clisnmi Lion for the farm Alter all, I fort 'of other places 'where they am I fear candidates are all alike 'subject to ihe ways of other house-eager for higher Jaxes along the lines hi-lds. ihcy boost.

'Home is the place where a man has deposited his affections and the "Ceine in out of the is a bulk of his earthly possessions; possible invitation Uncle Sain may whence he will not depart it notainj, extend to the striking minors ami calls him away; from which when he lailroaders. has departed he seems to be a wan- derer, and tc which when he has ro the 'casi and slop once and fr all I his orgy of etrxavagance, this sa- tion. If 1-25 shrinks $10,000,000 the "Reactionary Republicanism is not a cure for uny ill that my afflict Jh body politic iu fact, it is a malady itself." of expendi until the peo rmtirc idirnknge in the sta at like i alio would be $250,000,000. As the valuation of the state is something ple can redeenour country from discontent and strife and bring IT back to prosperity and iwer?" Senator LaFolletto minced no word like $3,800,000,000, the shrinkage (iLIMPSKS OF PRESIDENT HARD- IV' AMU 'I'll 1 IMVIW LMtftf would be about fl per cent Teaving say SH.noO.OnoooO. One mill tax on that -he never does.

He said: "BEHIND THE MIRRORS" ll you haven't registered you can- turned, he cease to wander." not vote fcr him August first and Now where do you suppose this 1L-your negligence now may mean that tie gem can be found? would yield $3,000,000. Two mills "It would seem, that tho men re sponsible for this Republican ad would yield $7,000,000. The above port calls for ministration, in the of this his- by tax, and that should mean a levy you vote for him in November. The loss of your vote may defeat him at the i'1'imary. etory, would, with the return of Parsons in his great law text book on Contracts quotes the itoniiin law (It finition of home, (Lareni rerunnjue ac for.unarium suarum surnmam eoiisti- Republican pary to 'power, frame 'tariff bill with at least some show of porarily as a strikebreaker, or apparency in good faith for a permanent job, has been the victim of both sides to the quarrel.

When peace came, he lost his job and the strikers weie reinstated and the intermedia1')' worker was treated by bith sides as a strikebreaker and the community held him in low esteem. But today the railroad striken- in Kansas has lost his seniority right; and the workman who has succeeded him has found permanent employment, because to enourage strikers in Kansas by overt acts is unlawful. The striker cannot be blacklisted and denied employment unless he has commit ed some crime which- unfits him for service. If the railroad can blacklist a striker, refusing him employment en the same terms as other applicants, then the Kansas law would be a farce. Any striker who applies for work on like teims as her citizens, union or non-union, should be accepted provided there is a vacancy.

To outlaw him because he quit work and did no vio lence, vvoukl he as unjust as to dismiss a competent workman who gave his services when needed. Kf.mas is the nearest to a Republic of any cf the atei where the strike and railroad strike are reported. And the sooner the laborer learn- The glimpses of our great men which the author of "The Miorrors Vashinglon" gives us in his new book "Behind tho Mirrors," ujj quite as interesting and in some cases quite ao enlightening as those in the first named work. From "Behind the Mirrors" take a peek at President Harding and his cnbitS't. President Harding than Milk may be higher in Wichita thai.

'tuit.) He asserts that it cannot be decent regard for meeting the un. Isewhcre but for our extra money adequately translated loubtcd will and desire, of the vast ma of 1.05 mills. The levy last August for state purposes was 2.235 If the Topeka informal! is 'reliable the state levy should not exceed 1.8 mills. When we learn the state lax levy we can know how much of the reduction reported is in money and how much in wind. into English, The Democrat we get an ordinance and the gratitude but offers the above jority of the people, But it seems if the welfare league which has no is satisfied that this ideal home of hat the same interests which listed chlidien to feed.

the Dingley tariff end the even worse the Romans has not been improved since its original definition, nor can a better picture of the real home be Taf Rayne-Aldrich tariff upon a long-suffering public are strong enough to The Beaecn is tickled to death be PRE-ELECTION PIE write into the statutes of this coun Secretary of State Hughes' mind is distinctly inferior to Mr. Harding's, which is one reason try the far worse tariff previa! ins con cause the city hall has saved money, i painted. out it points out to the commissioners several ways in which the savings may Kansas Democras have no complaint oe spent. It wants. The Eagle's swim- coining because Missouri Republicans pool, it3 own comfy stations and 'are trying to defeat Senator Reed in RiviTf.ide Park pavilion will be the why he never became President and tained in the pending bill.

I do not sir, how men charge mecca to which will come hundreds of spond, "Not by a dam sight." WHENCE THE MONEY TO PAY THE HIGHER WAGES? Thousands of very good citizens in Wichita are in sympathy with the striking coal miners. Ask the twenty subpoenaed above, "Are ycu in favor of the. claims of the coal miners?" They will mostly reply "Certainly I am." "Are you willing that coal shall be sold at a dollar a ton above pes-ent prices?" "Great God, no. We cannot stand the added cost. Fuel is far too dear now." WHENCE THE FUNDS FOR LABOR? Hundreds are expressing their sympathy with the.

railroad strikers and want them to have a living wage. Our twenty witnesses reply, "We sere do want the men to retain present- wages at least." Will you stand foil higher freight rates?" "No siree. Thje railroad hogs are getting too much and they should be cut in two." WHENCE THE MONEY FOR THE STRIKERS? The school teachers want a pension system. "Do you want the system put in. "Yes," says every teacher.

"Are you willing to be taxed a part of your salary if the state will stipp'y the balance?" "Why, no. I fjnnot satire a dollar cf it." WHENCE THE MOITSY? Our twenty witnesses shriek, "Let ui buy Oak Park." At tax time they howl their heads off because taxes are so high. The wants swimming pools, comfy stations and more parks. The Beacon decries the action of the assessor in raising the valuation of The Beacon building. Again we ask, WHENCE THE MONEY? This industrial war, ever waging in this country, is the result of universal greed.

We, everyone, want twice cur product is worth, while we insist that we shall buy the product of others at half its worth. The country today is eager to raise wages, but they punish the men who must pay those wages by denying them the means. Mr. Harding did." Secretary of the Treasury Mellon with the duty of upholding and pre serving the principles of the Republi "The shyest and most awkward man can parly, evert if t'ney felt no re- who ever rose to power." V.ifi Democratic primaries. The Democrat cannot rii'rain from pointing io a Republican Wfiintoiial contest in Kansas between Long and lirktow, several new parks.

Congressman Dick Bird is at home "ecciving compliments because the snonsibility lo the pe iple who elected Secretary of War Weeks "Naerer akain mentally to the President than them, each deliberately force through legislation which they must know lower house has taken a recess and when Democrats enough any other mqmber cf the Cabinet but voted for To para- jan do r.o more harm until after Aug-'Biis tew to defeat Long means the defeat, if nc'. the utter rum, with more industry and more capacity for details than his chief." that his allegiance is due his state ust 15. grrnse ihn J. Ingalls, "Honor at a political piimary is an iridescent that party. If the elections of and 1011 and HMO mean nothing to Secretary of the Navy Denby ami its laws, rather than hi3 union, the quicker industrial peace will be established.

The cniy advantage I can see in drerm." them, then let them look to the Ro- "Has a big heart and more enthusi men, wrmen and children (f the Democratic faith today. Abiut 2 o'clock the social func ion will start. The speaking will begin at 4:110. Ex-Congressman Dudley Doolittle will make the principal address. The, three candidates for Governor have signified their purpose to be present.

The picnic rupper wil lbe served. at Ct ii VI ick. Each family wil Iprovidc the sandwiches and other Bubslantials, but the Lady's Democratic Club promises to supply the ice cream, coffee and lemonade. This ii not an invited affair, be-cause every person is welcome who will enj'y a little Democratic pie and other deserts. Delegations from the townships are expected in force.

dancing in school is that it takes ult asm than he has self-command, judg ptiblican primaries held in Indiana, in such time as cannot be used in ath fowa. in North Dakota, and oilier ment and intollirence." It would ba easier to establish tn open sabon in Wichita than to turn the republic into a tyranny which could Secretary of "interior Fall letics. It saves the children from having to le Vn reading, writing and lHr. is urging a general strike with a view to testing the slrength if the as' Compared with the i of the povcmmeiit. Debs Stalls wiUiin the last few months.

Powerful, indeed, must be the influences' which can bludgein through "He has the frontiersman's impati prevent any honest man from working lanywhere his desires and capacity ence. From his kind, lynch law springs." this legislation when the political lead- found employment. Attorney General Daugherty "mi ers responsible lor li Know mat '''has had r-eve ral contests with the Our Kansas school molto is mil- end be able t) lions for athletics and calisthenics! something its standing with but not one cent for dancing. the American people. physique, burly, thick-neckecf, his eyea means the defeat of their party ami the end of the political livps of most arc unsteady, his face alternately val and minatory I should say he bluffed effectively rough in personality.

if the leaders responsible for this bill." The latest political gossip is that "lam says Orx-suis Jr, "but I do not see how I can make or save a dollar by voting." The city hall is making up its fcr next year. Now is the time JV.UC.K DAVIS POLITICAL to warn the commisioiiern aguinit FACTS IN LTICKAMS i Tti' LVacori will iMpousi. the cause of Zickcfoose for the Republican nomination for Hheriff, because The Eagle is opposing him. It is a question i whether The Beacon's support will The Democrat heard that the city will buy the block on South Main between" William and Engli.su" and between Main and Water and present it to the federal government for a site for the new posteffice. It is a cinch that until Europe pays its debts to us Uncle Sam cannot afford to buy that site.

In fact Wichita is the only government that is rich enough to buy that lanil, take it off the tax roll and give it to the nation. His view of the world being highly personal, his instinctive idea of office is that it, too, is personal, something to be use'i, always within the law, to aid friends and to pnunish enemies." favors ti others and to threaten tbvn if un-v not appro The Fourth of July speech made by priate a few thousands for your ideas Cynicus Jr. started for the city hall last night to register and ran up against a dog fight. He was hoard to mutter, "This is just as good a fight to see as the primary can pos-sib'y be. Me for THIS fight." hurl Ziekef'iose more than The Eagle's pposition wil lhelp him Se-cretary of Commerce Hoover of good govt rninent.

Representative Kwin L. Davis of Tennessee, in New York City, bristled with sparkling epigrams which makes "Tne practical utility of his mind, is conditioned upon the minds of Mr. Harding, Mr. Weeks and Mrs. Daugh it one of the most effective speeches made in celebration of our national Tho campaign is approaching a condition which will the Pharisee and make happy that portion of the feminine, contingent that is happiest when the most slander in to be erty." holiday.

The following extracts are If the strike f-o disirderly as to require military remedies, there will be heard no talk ef neutrality. The labor unions arrayed against the federal union will not leave any choice for a patriot. Secretary of Labor Davis "A professional glad-hand man." Eince the educational board has decided lhat dances must not be held in cur school houses, it becomes the more necessary that we buy and erect community houses in every ward. We could have a commission appointed with power to levy all the taxes needed for these absolute necessities. taken therefrom: "With HJ8 majority in the House "With the clergy encouraging the strikers and The Kagle blaming the government for it, it lo iki as if escape from hell is hopeless," says Cynicus Jr.

If anybody thinks Kansas is not the most favored place on earth to LVe and bring up children, compare it with the three mile mit off shore where Uncle Sam conducts gilded saloons. In Kansas we won't let married people dance in our school houses. and 21 majority in the Senate the G. We hope the Cold water ofifcial realize iheir guilt in not having built a Bwimming pol for that young woman wh was drowned in a pond. A po.itdb'e renvdy for divorce where the man is plaintiff, might lie in increasing the alimony.

Some men would rather keep a disagreeable wife than to part with agreeable cash. Howl all you pb-ase, history will The latest explanation of the abundance of Kansas coal in the market is that Kansas coal is not fit to burn. If that is true, I intend to keep on good terms with the natural gas people. Dlam tht Dentlit The gums more frequently lo their strength and become feeble from lock of enre, but sometimes a poof dentist does much to bring about UlgKS' disease. Ill-fitting crown and bridges are a great menace to th gums and often result In the formation of pu, ah do stumps of teeth and lialf-ileenyed roots which are attempted to be saved liy crowning or are per mltted to remain In the mouth.

0. P. has been unable to function. It seems to have- a lot of control but "Both of these bills (Tariff and Ship Subsidy) are for the benefit of special interests. They (the Republicans) are trying to pay their campaign contributions going and coming." "The results of the Disarmament Conference constitute merelyq some Discussing the situation from a partisan standpoint, if Harding dig, coal nd saves the country from freezing ihIs yinter, he will inherit Ivor's hatred.

If he doesn't he will have the dying curses of these who are freezing. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." The latest argument offered in favor of higher levies is that if owners of property are so weak that they cannot stand the tax, they can be separated from their property and it will fall into the hands of men who can stand the tax. In St. Louis they are charging a man with murder just because he killed an umpire who decided against his team. An umpire who decides agains'.

us is a scab who deserves death. accord to Kansas the origin of the federal plan to dig ceal when the The only persons who will escape positive suffering before the winter miners won't..