Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-04-05
MOSCOW A TOUGH TOWN
The Journal Says So, and 1t Ought
to Know, and Says the Town
Is a HOt-Bed of Scandal.

The Moscow Journal ought to be
good authority on matters pertaining to
the moral and social side OF our sister
village, for surely it would not give
false evidence about its own city and
her peoi Lei; surely not misrepresent
conditions concerning its public schools
and the University OF Idaho. The !
outside world has right to presume
that what it sees in Moscow's daily
paper is reliable. But the Moscow
Journal says that Moscow is a town
made up of immoral, dishonest, back
biting, narrow-minded people, whose
principal occupation is that of scandal
monger and the chronic Office seeker.
Everybody, according to the Journal,
(and the publishers OF that paper are
honorable men, )is slandering his neigh
Dor, and even the women refuse to be
good. According to the Journal, and
it ought to know, the town does not
contain a dozen honest men.
According to the Journal, and we
cannot doubt it, Moscow is burdened
with postmaster who spends his time
meddling in politics and drawing pay
from Uncle Sam. And while the
Journal has not said so, one, after read
ing the Journal, would conclude that
the town, now boasting of our state
university, has a postofice that is
disgrace to the town and postal serv-
ice that is rank and rotten. And
should not the Moscow Journal know
what it is talking about?
According to the Journal Moscow's
boasted public schools are dream, or
rather a nightmare of discomfort and
an example of extravaganza and incom-
potency not yet equalled on the face
of the earth. Her teachers are the
creatures of the political machine that,
according to the Journal, dominates
the town, and her board of directors,
or most of them, thieves and scoun-
drels. In proof OF this the Journal
ci'es its readers to the records OF the
board and, upon its sacred honor,
guarantees the correctness of its
charges. Since the Journal is edited
by an honorable man can we doubt it?
According to the Journal Moscow
real estate is not considered much of
an asset, and taxes are clear out of
sight. The Journal says that taxes on
Moscow property are in the neighbor-
hood of seven and one-half per cent,
and conditions anything but inviting to
the investor. Should the stranger who
happens to peruse the Moscow daily
believe not that which mis- eyes see?
Has he not read ii in paper pub
lished in Moscow?
According to the Journal the Uni
versity of Idaho has student body
composed of toughs and faculty that
is incompetent and cruel. If the out
sides is really to believe all the Journal
says on this subject it is an easy matter
to conclude that the life Of the student
is extremely dangerous and full Of fear
and trembling. The Journal has said
SO and we cannot doubt such authority.
! According to the Journal, and it
ought to be good authority on Moscow,
that town is hot-bed of scandal that
stinks 10 high heaven with no hope of
relief in sight. Even the children
fight Ike cats, if we can believe Col.
Henry Z. Shaver, and we have his
word for il that he has been telling the
truth.
In view of all this The News sub
mits to the people of Latah county and
the state of Idaho the proposition that,
in view of the evidence furnished by
the Moscow Journal, a paper published
in Moscow, for Moscow, and by a lead
ing citizen Of Moscow, the University
Of Idaho be removed to some more
suitable location in some other portion
Of the state, where decent moral con
ditions do exist, and that for similar
reasons, and others, some of which
modesty forbids US to mention to a
mixed audience, the county seat be
removed to Troy, where the citizens
are not only reasonably decent, from a
moral standpoint, but are sufficiently
honest to make the town a safe place
for respectable citizen to live and
bring up family Our public schools
are also free from a suspicion OF graft
and our postmaster a gentleman.