The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-07-10
Midsummer Sadness


President Harding left the torrid
heat OF Washington to seek the COM
forts OF Alaska's summer weather He
has sprinkled optimistic notes where
ever he has made speeches. One prom
inent newspaper writer who accom-
panies him finds fault and says he has
been declaring himself about too
many public questions. The spirit OF
fault finding with the president since
he left Washington has been carried
TO the point where il is troublesome
TO the majority. Some OF them main
tain that in late years the people have
not been showing proper amount OF
respect for the chief executive OF their
nation.
The political gloom has been murk-
ily thick these days. The Democrats
cannot find a leader to put forward
for the presidential nomination. and
the Republican malcontents cannot
see any way of stopping President
Harding. Administration supporters
are "holding tight" The Democratic
National Committee has issued many
bucolic statements. The Republican
National Committee had a narrow es-
cape from strangling its usefulness to
President Harding when IT found
fault with the proposed entry OF the
United States into the world court.
After eating considerable humble pie
the Republican chairman regained his
equilibrium.
Formerly IT was the custom OF the
lesser lights to stand on the side lines
and let the two great committees
fight ont the political problems and
create the issues. But all that is now
changing. Nobody seems disturbed
any more BY a committee statement.
and rarely a day passes when a SEN
ator. a representative or an "independ-
ent leader" OF a political. social, in
dustrial. or financial group does not
show up with a Statement These
personal explosions--for such many
OF them are-frequently attract more
attention than the official bulletins
from headquarters.
The Minnesota senatorial race is of
great interest to all the political or
CARNATIONS. and the independent
groups. and with congress recessing
the men who ordinarily work as
Statesmen" have turned their atten-
ton to the affairs OF that state. APP
parently the srife is free for all. and
midsummer madness is tearing its po-
litical hair in selecting successor
to the lamen;ed knute Nelson.
Would Store Wheat
The American Farm Bureau FEEDER
alton has proposed to the Federal
Government that a minimum of 200
million bushels OF wheat be with /
drawn from American farmers and /
placed in warehouses and carried for
ward to augment next years crop at
harvest time 1t is urged by advo-
Gates of the plan that il would allow
cooperative and orderly marketing and
lift wheat from Is to 80 cents. the
present price. to Sl50 or Sls0."
There isn't any likelihood that the
will be treated very seri-
ously. Everybody in the national gov
eminent feels that the L. :. made
good deal OF a mess OF things when it
fixed prices on foodstuffs during the
war. II is true that wheat reached
a price that satisfied its producers, and
il might be that the withdrawal OF
great stores OF cereal would react to
the benefit OF the farmers. While
hat is an aim that is being sought by
government officials still there are
ione high in authority who would at
empt to bring such thing about by
,ither fixing prices or manipulating
he law OF supply and demand as has
been suggested.
Prosecuting Combinations.
Official reports are filled with state