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Show ty of crime or graft, that that party shall go to jail. And those outside . the official circle and who may therefore escape the law, and those oil kings who use their millions to corrupt public officials, should be branded by public opinion as enemies of the republic, just as much as . any German spy who operated in this country. There can be no. bribe taker without a giver and while the public is disposed to heap the blame on the bribe taker, because be-cause he has betrayed the people whose interests he was. sworn to serve and protect, yet under the correct moral code the one is as guilty as the other. The public is getting mighty tired of hearing hear-ing of shady deals at Washington, Washing-ton, with everyone getting away free, and the country will applaud ap-plaud the President if he uses his every endeavor in preventing the matter being whitewashed. EDITORIAL TEAPOT DOME CAUSES MORE INTEREST The Teapot Dome oil fields are in our adjoining state, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, and the Teapot dome scandal scan-dal has rocked the nation. No thoughtful citizen can read the sickening details of the dailies today without a shock that almost al-most shakes his confidence in the Government itself. The suspicion sus-picion that a cabinet officer was dishonest and mada dollars by selling oil leases from the Government Gov-ernment to private individuals ha3 stirred up the country to a white heat. There are those in this country who hate our form of government and who are trying try-ing to poison the public mind by casting reflections upon those in high official authority, who always al-ways contend that "capitalism" is the real power that runs Wash ington. With these shameful examples of corruption among men who hold and have held positions po-sitions of the higher honor, it becomes a difficult matter to combat those who would under- mine our government. No man however should be so small and shallow as to think cf these disclosures dis-closures from a party standpoint stand-point or attempt to use them for fy vantage. President Ooohdge has no use for dishonesty dishon-esty in any form. He has ordered order-ed a thorough investigation. He insists that if any has been guil- |