davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-06-30

f. r. Harper, former lieutenant
governor, is now Governor Shoup's
private secretary, succeeding Joseph
Moorhead on June l. Mr.. Harper is
a genial gentleman and has a large
acquaintance all over the state. He
ought to keep the kickers off of the
governors neck.-And Of course the
item is of interest to the many Gun
nison friends of Ex-Governor Harper
who first arrived in Colorado politics
thru Craftsmanship of the Republican
central committee in our county.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25

Congressman Riddicks rs a farmer.
nixed the haneful effect or salI
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25
FINANCIAL and BUSINESS survey

The period of relative inactivity
that characterized the investment
bond market during the late summer
afforded investors an opportunity to
scrutinize carefully the fundamentals
underlying the general advance in
the market and especially the partic-
ular elements influencing or likely to
influence the soundness of specific
bonds offered for investment, accord
ing to a review of the bond market
Survey, published by the Guaranty
Trust Company of New York. This
opportunity for analysis of conditions
was particularly op%portune, the Sur
vey says, because it preceded what
is at least a temporary resumption
of the borrowing movement and be-
cause of the uncertainty in many
minds as to the probable future trend
Of the market.
The main factor operating toward
rapid and continuous advance in Sc
curity prices has been, of course, the
steady decline in interest rates, foi
movements in the bond market are
largely determined by the cost OF
money. This is particularly true OF
bonds of the first grade, which II
the case of soundly managed corpora,
tions are largely free from the influ
ence of such other factors as earning
power and property equity.
The obligations of corporation:
with a definitely established earning
power over a period of years anC
with a record of having successfully
weathered the upward and downward
swings of the busintss cycle, exhibi
only the minimum of speculativ
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25

fluctuations, and, like United States
government securities, tend to vary
in price with, and serve as an indi-
cation of, the cost of investment
funds. Purchasers of these bonds are
therefore, and should be, judged on
a basis of available knowledge as to
the probable trend of interest rates
and from the point of view of matur-
ity, marketability and taxation, as
we'll, so that the needs of the individ-
ual investor may be met.
While the large volume of is
sues in the past year and a half Of
fered the discerning investor wide
possibilities of satisfying his most
exacting wants, the very magnitude
of the offerings, the rapidity with
which they were made at times, and
the range which they covered, often
obscured the good points in some is
sues and the weak points in others.
Now, as a result, when money rates
are at a level which makes it posi-
bic for previous borrowers to refund
old issues on more favorable terms,
owners of callable bonds find them
selves face to face with the necessity
of ~reinvesting their funds.
In many cases where interest rates
have not sufficiently declined since
the flotation of ~redeemable issues to
allow profitable refunding operations
holders of these bonds have time tt
examine the new issues and to re.
place old holdings with well secured
new bonds of long maturity and in.
herent soundness. Yet the fac
should not be overlooked that where
J short-term funds are desired, many
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25

system Of bipartisan machine govern
ment in Montana. If he can carry
out his plan to completion, all of the
people of the state will benefit.
The interlocking press opposes the
governor and the legislative csndi-
dates who are for the reforms emu
merated, and they fight the peoples
interests all the time by attacking
Dixon and his program. The Helena
Independent, in the following excerpt
from one of its editorials, all of which
are published in behalf Of the great
corporate interests, shows why Dixon
and the tax program Is unsatisfac-
toxy to the corporation press:
Joseph M. Dix0n was elected by
the right-thinking men and womex
of Montana to ave them from radi-
cahsm as advocated by the Non
partisan and Labor Leaguers. No
sooner had he entered the office thar
he began 70 advocate the very thing
he waa pledged TO oppose. he Ia
100 par eenS Nonpa1aan Laagneg q
(Cssakinned on paee Twelvs)
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25

and removes from federal payrOlIs
thousands Of government employees,
sending them back to useful occupa-
tons.
Aims to Protect Farmers.
Congressman Mccormick voted for
the Farmers tariff, an act intended to
protect the American farmer against
cheap labor of foreign countries. He
also voted for the permanent tariff bill
intended to furnish protection for
American farmers and labOrers.
He has been deeply interested in
securing good roads and irrigation
benefits for Montana. he has been
faithful in committee work at the
sessions Of congress. and gives careful
attention to departmental work that
comes to him in constant daily re-
quests from citizens in western Mon
tana.
President Admires Him.
President Harding thinks well oil
Congressman Mccormick, is the Inn
preston Of those gained Of the rep
resentative Of the western part OF the
state who have followed his career att
the national capital. and ne has a high
standing with his colleagues.
Mrs. Mccormick also is popular in
Washington where she is considered
a charming and popular member Of the
younger congressional set, and has
been frequently complirnented for her
young womanly accomplishments.
Native of MissouIa.
Congressman Mccormick is a native
Of MissOula. He was born there on
January 4. 1884, and was only five
years old when his distinguished
father, who had been one Of the
founders and builders of that city, died.
He was given every advantage of good
home, environment and scholastic
training. He attended the public
schools Of Missoula and the state uni
versity of Montana, NOtre Dame uni
versity In Indiana. and was graduated
from Harvard university in 1907. BE
received his law degree from Columbia
University in 1910. was admitted t.
the New York bar and began practices
in Mlss0ula the same year. IN ter
years ne has more than justified tn.
confidence Of his friends and admirers
and has gained a Algh and influentia
place In the Montana bar. Nr. Me
C0rmlck was elected to the legisla
t, ture In the Sixteenth assembly from
Mlss0ula county, and Was elected q
congress fronn tne First district. Fl
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25
GOV. Dixon WORKING
FOR The TAXPAYER
miles City Daily Star.l

(Miles City Daily Starr
The people of the various counties
of the state, when they come to cast
their votes on election day for state
senators and representatives in the
Montana legislature, should be en-
couraged by the progress made by
Governor Dixon in removing the state
government from the clutches of the
special interests, and be determined
to help him continue the good work.
In order to aid him they must elect
to the legislature the candidates who
support the plan to ~equalize taxes;
to introduce economy in government;
to tax those property interests that
escape taxes; to introduce in Montana
a system of public expenditures rest
ing upon law.
The farmers and workers and bust
ness men and merchants and bank
ers of Montana-they pay the taxes
should realize that Governor Dix
on has struck a tremendous blow fo1
them in cutting down the old rotten
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25

and stockmen who have needed his as
s~istance. He has been actively inter
ested in securing two government loans
made directly to drouth stricken farna-
ers for their use in purchasing seed in
cases where their credit was en-
hausted. Through these measures,
thousands Of farmers have been able
to remain upon and retain their places
which they otherwise would have had
to abandon and lose. He was also
active in securing legislation tvso years
ago to cancel the notes given by esseu-
sands Of farmers vine had borrowed
money for seed and lost their erop by
q second drouth. Six thousand farm
ers Of Montana alone had their Notes
cancelled and handed hack q theuR Is
q direct result of having real friends
In congress actively I~nseresked In serv
Ing their practical needs and the larus
Interests Of tire country.
Mr. Riddick has a bin pending now
unanimously recommended by ths
house agriculture committee f0r pass
ags, again cancelllng the notes o
thns4 fnrH~~T rsfsa lest their rrnu
tContinued on page Twelve)
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25

of these callable issues may prove at
tractive.
The evidence Of a return to more
bringing to light some bonds Of the
first class whose inherent strength
had previously been underestimated,
although this factor has, in the main,
greater possibilities of market-wise
appreciation in the case of good sec
ond-grade bonds. The reason for
this is to be found in the slight spec
ulative character of the latter type of
security, dependent as it is both upon
the resumption Of strengthening of
the earning power of the issuing cor
poration and upon the course of
money rates.
Increased activity in a number OF
basic industries, particularly those
concerned with the production anC
marketing of raw commodities, which
suffered most severely from the bust
ness depression, have increased the
potential and actual earning power
and property equity behind many in
dustrial bonds.
The record Of those bonds which
have been on the market only during
the current year testifies to the cogni
zance that has already been taken o
the varying qualities of the issue
placed before investors. There ha
been c~ommendable discrimination i
the purchase of foreign government
and municipal bonds which have bee
offered in 1922. The maintenance o
a market in the United States for fO1
eign securities demands a careful POI
icy in regard to the flotation of thi
kind of obligation, which for year
the American investing public re
garded indifferently.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25
That the People May Know

Certain malicious fasehoeds about the morality and sObriety
of James Smith, Republican candidate for sheriff, have been DELHI
eraeIy circulated about Bozemsn and the rest of the county 1t
has been stated that Mr.. Smith sent moonshine whiskey to thresking
crews with his compliments, hoping thus to secure votes In the
November election A more malicious lie is to the effect that for
seven years, while living In Bozeman, he was nore or less continually
intoxicated.
That there may be no misunderstanding of the attitude Of James
Smith ON the question of prohibidon-and it is a plain wet and dry
fight for the sheriffs ef6ce in the coming election-he makes the
following authorized statement Of his stand o. the enforcement of
the pr0hibztion laws:
Il have been asked to make . plain statement of nay stand On
the question of prohibition. I believe in a dry town and county. Il
believe in enforcing the laws OF the state, not a 3hey might be
interpreted. bat a they are written If elected to the office Of
sheriff I win us every effort Ia nay power TO suppress &he m~on-
Shining AID boo<aeggfmg that may DC g0xng On in CaEaxin eounky,
JAMES smETu~
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25

agriculture OF the Democratic tariff
law, and early worked for the passage
of the Emergency or Farmers tariff.
The Farmers Protective tariff meas
urc passed congress soon after his first
election. but President Wilson vetoed
il. as he also vetoed the budget bill,
but both were later passed again by
the Republican congress and signed by
President Harding, and both have di-
rectIy helped the farmer, n by in
creasing prices of his products and the
other by reducing government expense.
The agriculture committee, of which
| MIR. Riddick is q member, spent months
| hearing testimony and recommends
tions relative to the packer and stock
| yards interests, and finally wrote a
measure which was adopted by both
houses, substantially as written by the
house committee. Mr.. Riddick spent
months in listening to this testimony
and helped to write and pass this legis-
lation which is proving beneficial and
helpful to all stock raisers.
Aid Farm Marketing.
In the same way, months Of time
were spent by Mr.. Riddick with other
members Of the agriculture committee
studying how to insure grain growers
the best market facilities, and at the
same time prevent unnecessary specu-
latiOn and harmful manipulation Of
the markets and other practices against
the best interests OF the producers.
For a generation, there have been at
tempts to secure this legislation, but
they came to naught until this con-
gresS finally acted. Like the packer
law, this legislation is by no means
perfect. but both are long steps in the
right direction TO protect the farmers
against large and powerful organized
interests, and further steps will be
taken as found desirable and possible.
Mr.. Riddick earnestly supported the
Legislation authorizing farmers to form
associations for the marketing and SELL
ing of their products without being
subject to the penalties of the anti.
trust laws Of the nation.
Advocate Practical Plans.
Congressman Riddick has also been
an earnest advocate Of a credit system
adaptable to farming and stock rails
l ing, and is helping TO work Oul plan:
> that will be practical and acceptable,
' to the country and to congress. II,
warmly supported the recent amend
1 ment to the farm loan act providing
increased capital so the Farm LOAF
bank may better meet the tremenGnu!
. demands made upon it for twenty
7, year loans at low interest rates. MT
I Riddick has. at every Opp0rtunity
. worked and voted To reduce govern
Q ment expenses and to reduce taxes
u He voted 10 ~reOrganiZe departments :
y as to do away with thousands of need
Z less government employees, to reduc
y the size OF the army and navy. and L
q reduce eXhOrbitant salaries wherevc
. they occur.
Not only in legislation, but befor
the several departments. Mr.. Riddle
e has at all times beer an ardent an
e ! Jealous worker for Montana farmer
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25
MCCORMICK MAKES
GOOC At CAPITAL
Young Western Montana
Congressman is Setting
Fine Record at Washing
ton.

Washington Jay Mccormick Of Mis-
sOula, congressman the last two years
for the First district in Montana, which
district comprises the western section
Of the state, and Republican nominee
for reelection, during the two years he
has been in congress, has taken a pro-
nOunced stand for all legislation in
favor Of labor men and farmers. If
he is reelected he has declared that
he will continue to advocate and sup
port the policies which he inaugurated
with his advent in congress, and will
continue to promote the welfare OF
the west in general and his home state
in Darticular.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25
Favors Economy.

Congressman Mccormick, in the two
years he has been in Washington, has
voted for economy at every oppOrtun-
ity, he has voted for the soldier bonus
bill, and has voted for the administra-
ton tax laws which reduced the fed
eraI taxes which the people have to
pay during 1922 more than SS00,0O0.-
600. He also voted for the budget bill
that %reorganized the governmental de-
partments in Washington, which dis
penses with a duplication Of efforts
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-25

and removes from federal payrOlls
thousands of government employees,
sending them back to useful occupa-
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-05-21
With Other Editors
CASTING THE NEGRO
IOVERBOARD.

So far as our information goes the
negro and his grievances caused the
formation of the Republican party.
He brought it into being.
For long time it was known as
the abolition party" the "Black Re-
publican party" etc, and it grew in
strength and power by exaggerated
stories of the brutal treatment of the
negroes by their cruel southern mas
ters.
The feeling grew to such intensity
that it led to the separation of some
of our big Christian churches and
finally to the separation of the Sec
tons and fierce and bloody war be-
tween the states. 10y. ~
But these facts are so well known
that historical narration is unnec-
essary.
Suffice it to say that the negro
was emancipated and clothed with all
the rights and privileges of an Amer
lean citizen by the party which his
imaginary grievances created.
Now, when he ceases to be polit-
zeal factor in the South, what do we
seek
The Florida Post-the Republican
daily newspaper recently established
at Orlando Winter Park, in a double
column article entitled: "Let Us Get
lit Right among rother things says:
"The trouble in Florida has not
been the negro, he has been amiable
enough, he has never endeavored to
usurp any powers, nor has he ever
taken any particular great interest
in politics, nor sought any office un-
less-some low down white man has
first put him up to devilment.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-05-21

l"The negro if left alone would not
care fig for all the politics in the
world neither would he ever assume
to an office of any kind, he is content
to go about in his happy go lucky
way, carefree and unmolested if he is
but left alone.
"When the trouble starts, is when
some downright scoundrel of a white
man (white skinned) starts to use
the negro to do his dirty work for
him, when he sits around in parlors
with him, meets in his churches with
him, meets in council with him and
pats him on the back and tells him
he is just as good as the white man,
that he gets the idea in his head that
what that man is telling him is true
and when he has heard it so often it
is just like any other lie, he COM
mences to believe it. himself and be-
lieving he insists on the same privi-
lege and eventually these privileges
include some office, as held by Joe
Lee when Collector of Internal Reve-
nue.. "
Last fall when the Republicans of
! Virinia put out a state ticket and an
nounced that they favored a white
party delegation of negroes went to
Washington to see what about their
rights and where they got off at"
I 1t. is common gossip in Washington
that when they called on Secretary
Weeks and demanded their rights,
Weeks asked them what rights they
had. "Why you have been nothing
but liability. to the party ever since
it's founding" Secretary Weeks is re-
ported to have said, and when he said
that he said a mouthful. 81
HAS the negro ever contributed
one cent to the party finances. No.
Though there have been times when
| the negro preachers have gone out to
collect some funds, but what little
passed into the party treasury was
that little that didn't stick to their
| fingers"
The first article in the declaration
of principles" sent out over the state
is the following:
First: That we are unalterably
opposed to the election, or selection
of any person to public office, or po-
sition of public trust, in the state Of
Florida, who is not white American
! citizen Ocala Banner.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-05-21

for the protection of religious mi
lnorities.
This plan was announced here to-
day to the General Assembly OF the
Presbyterian church in the United
State of America in the report OF the
Presbyterian Friendship Through the
Churches. The report was signed by
Arthur J. Brown, chairman.
The report, which pointed out the
American Committee on the Rights
of Religious Mfnorities includes
eight members of the executive COM
mittee of the World Alliance for In
ternational Friedship Through the
Churches, quoted Lord Bryce as say
ing that the continuation of the work
of the American Committee was OF
large importance to the religious mi
norities in Europe.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-05-21
CHARACTER ASSASSINS.

If we are to accept the clandestine
whisperings, so insistent now that
no one can ignore them, there is an
epidemic of slanderous gossiping
raging locally. Other communities,
according to the public press, are
suffering the i'll effects of this blight.
We recall many years ago a similar
condition in a south Florida city
where we We're then residing, which
suggests that such periods of clat-
tering tongues comes in cycles. The
editor of this paper believes now, as
he believed then, that the scandal
monger and character assassin is in
finitely more contemplate than his
or her subject. So we feel it not
amiss to reproduce an expression
we made then as applicable to pres
ent condition here:
Ouida. in one of her clever novels,
charges that more lives have been
saddened and more regulations
blighted by "they say" than can be
charged to the murderer. 1t is de-
plorable, but true, that there are in
every community persons whose
minds, in restless convolutions, re-
fleet and magnify the faults of 9th
ers. They draw conclusions from
their own vicious thoughts and acts,
and hide their own shortcomings be-
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-05-21
POURING 1T INTO BEVERIDGE.

The defeat Of Senator New, the
Presidents buddy, in the Indiana
primaries, has left some sore spots.
per, takes some pleasure in quoting
The Vincennes Sun, a Democratic pa
what the Vincennes Commercial had
to say about Beverage before he was
nominated. The Commercial is a
leading Republican organ of Will H.
Hays neigihborhood and under his
influence. Its editor charged Bev-
eridge with being a "demagogue.
traitor, theist, Stacker, and mischief
making agitator." He declared that
that Beveridge was the only man he
knew who had not answered the
country's call during the war, and
that President Wilson did not have
his support. Incidentally it appears
that Chairman Hays would not, in
1918, allow a Republican campaign
speaker to mention President Will
sons name in his speeches. The
Commercial had a rich field to eX-
plore, going so far as to tell how
Beveridge's book on the Kaiser twas
used as German propaganda" until
the government threw it out of the
mails. The editor did not tell, how
ever, of the time when Beveridge
nagged Senator Joe Bailey to such a
point of irritation that the Texan
slapped his face and pulled his col
lar off. Washingtonians were much
amused at the idignation of Bev-
eridge's friends at what they called
a BRUTAL attack" while Beveridge
excused his non-resistance by claim
ing that Bailey "never touched me-"
Those familiar with the case thought
Beveridge produced very weak alibi
and would have thought better of
him had he used his knuckles as free
ly as he had always used his vocal
cords.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-05-21
hind the monstrous characters they
paint of their fellow man.


In every community is to be found
this coterie of character assassins.
They draw no distinctions. Every
one who is worth discussing at all
is placed upon the operating table of
opinion and X-rayed by exploiting
tongues. "They say" permits the
widest range of conjectures, which
grow with repetition and soon assume
definite authorship as they travel.
That person in the community who
might have had some secret sorrow
which she or he could not avert, is
always an available subject, The as
sassin applies the anaesthetic of pity,
proceeds wit hthe diagnosis and finds
that it was all his or her fault. 1t is
easy to construct a plausible reason
for conditions. They fortify their
conjectures with trite epigrams and
never apply the rule of reason.
Can that person who has never
been tempted stand in just judg-
ment over his weaker brother? Is
it just tina THOSE whose colorless
souls know nothing but the routine
should sit in judgment of those to
whom has been given that restless
temperament which makes for action
some often misdirected?
"Would you, that spangle Of exis,
tence, spend
About the secret-quick about it
Friend!
A hair perhaps divides the False
and True;
And upon what, prithee, does life
depend?"
Without exception, the scanda
monger and character assassin ha:
more than one skeleton in his or hel
own closet. They rattle the bones o:
others to drown the clatter of thei1
own.