The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-14
OIL LEASINGS
WERESTARTED
! BY DEMOCRATS
Former Secretary of Treasury
Shaw Says Coolidge Acts
as ct. r." Would Have
:-,XTOLS COP. PRINCIPLES
Party Responsibility Urged
Calls for Defeat of Elec-
tiOn Laws in State

President Calvin Coolidge is pro-
firm, legal and constitutional way,
tLeslie M. Shaw told an audience
which packed the Auditorium last
night to hear the speaker urge votes
for the President in next Tuesdays
primary election. In referring to
Senator Johnson's s statement that he
wished there was Roosevelt in the
White House in the present situation,
the speaker declared that Roosevelt
would have done as Coolidge has
done-proceed in legal, constitu-
tional manner in the courts, for
President Roosevelt never flouted
the orderly processes of redress, he
said.
The former Secretary of the Treas
ury and former Governor Of Iowa,
in his address, discussed the princi-
~,les Of the Republican party and ex-
plained the Teapot Dome situation.
.tfter f. B. Cox, local Coolidge chair
nan, opened the meeting and Attor-
ney-General George Shafer introduce
ID the speaker, Governor Nestos hav-
ng been ordered by a physician to
stay home because of cold, Mr..
haw launched into his speech dur
,ng which he discussed the time
lJonored principles of the Republican
lrty and it's course under which
ne nation has become the greatest
roducing nation on earth.
Urges Party Responsibility
Mr.. Shaw urged adherence to the
g inciple of party responsibility.
nerss must be two great parties, he
d the audience-one in power to
ie the burden of government, and
other to watch, criticize and check
a.. party in power. Government by
:. system of party responsibility is
}tn; only government that can en-
- 'e in free nation, he told his au-
ors. He condemned the policies
the Democratic party with refer
e to the economic laws of the
lntry. He delved deep into the
iff and the Republican doctrine
- fostering industry.
tracing the benefit Of the tariff,
Shaw cited an example from his
! ne state. 1t was found in Wash
ton, he said, that practically all
pearl buttons used in the United
ties were made abroad. Manufac-
-arers in this country said they could
20; compete against low foreign la
E"". A tariff on pearl buttons was
/, scted. Soon great industry grew
*. in this nation, he said, millions
dollars were paid out in wages in
ri button factories, which wages
ut into the channels of trade. He
showed that during the Democratic
- tariff just prior to the war the
c. sumption of wheat per capita fell
greatly in this country. After
"nsident Harding came in and the
publican tariff was enacted the
4 sumption of wheat per capita in
|ased. Tariff which protects and
to'ters industries creates bigger pay
dis, gives the people more money
IL spend for the farmers wheat and
O aer goods and has made this ma
r. N the greatest industrial nation
CT earth,, he said.
Hr. Shaw struck at the system of
-, blic ownership, Of business. He
,larea that the American system
l2as td foster industry but not to
~ her it. To invade the field of
vate industry, he said, was to in
y: le the inalienable rights of Amer
IN citizens. Happiness, he de-
red, consists in achievement in
/ siness or in any other line-for
i" government to take over industry
IS the individual of that chance for
j. opiness, he said.
Remarkable Speech
The speech of Mr.. Shaw was re-
I. ,rkable. Nearly rs years old, he.
oke for nearly three hours. Dur
:. his speech he stopped to ask the
/, Hence to sing America" and then
Led if he should 60 on. He was
:; led to do SO, discussing the Mel
plan, With reference to North
kota, he pointed out that compar-
.vely few pay income tax in the
,te. The Mellon plan, he said,
'uld exempt from the income tax
90 small taxpayers in the state.
reduce the high surtaxes, he said,
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