The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-03-26

10 the Editor. UnueT lne cdptloH,
"Why Men and Parties Fail" p. A.
Baker, National Superintendent OF the
Anti Saloon League contributes
strong and timely article on Senator
La Toilette and the republican party,
| in the March number of THE American
Issue" The facts he quotes from Gov
ernor Osbornes Lansing speech, the
credit he gives La Toilette and the re-
publican party and their failures
which he so clearly points out with re-
gard to the great and over mastering
issue of the liquor t<affic deserves the
strong commentator of every enemy
of the terrible evils arising from this
traffic and our governments attitude
toward it, | read it with intense in
terest to the bottom of the page and
eagerly turned the leaf to find his
remedy. But he gave none. This TAIL
ure created within me an intense de-
sire to say something to the men and
women who had read Mr.. Bakers ar
ticle. knowing it would be useless to
try to get a hearing through the Am
erican Issue" as to the remedy which
Mr.. Baker fails to give, | venture an
attempt to reach a part OF them
through the Star-Mirror. | have been
a great admirer of Senator La Toilette
for many years and constant reader
of his magazine since his Moscow lee
ture; and consider him far ahead of
any other republican statesman in
his persistent and consistent fight
against the particular kind of political
corruption and trust domination ne is
combating but, with Governor Os-
borne and Mr.. Baker, if he has ever
uttered a word or written a line that
gives evidence that he knows there
is such a thing as political corruption
and trust domination by the whiskey
and brewery interests it has never
come to my notice. The same might
be truthfully said of Theodore Roose-
Welt and William Howard Taft since
they came into national prominence,
and, so far as | know, of Woodrow
Wilson, Champ Clark or Governor
Harmon or any other republican or
democratic presidential possibility,
save and except William Jennings
Bryan He should be given the de-
served credit of striking the liquor |
evil some telling blows in local way
He also deserves credit for acknowl-
edging that what he characterized in
his ST. Paul speech of March 8, as
1.-THE most important effort in one
hundred years toward the restoration
of the rights of the people, namely;
The election of United States senator's
by popular vote, was advocated by the
prohibition party ~ years prior to
any other. He did not know this till
a few months ago when a prohibition
list handed him an old prohibition par
ty platform containing the plank. The
report says the auditorium theatre
was packed to the ceiling and hun
dreds standing and this tribute to the
party was greeted with mighty roar
of applause" Many others besides
Mr.. Bryan count this a very live is
sue at the present time, and so we
see that the old parties of today camp
where the prohibition party blazed the
way some 40 years ago. But will the
Did parties be camping in 40 years
more where the prohibition party has
,een for years land is today blazing L
he way relative to this larger issue
If liquor domination in our govern
nent and its almost unnamable kind.
ed evils? We see no hope for it, else
ye, whose eyes have been so long open
o these things could be more patient
With Mr.. Baker and thousands OF 9TH
rs like him, whose very caption as
veil as the Logic of his arguments
POINTS toward another political road
han that they seem blindly following | |
they see the evils of the liquor trif I
c as we'll as we do and deplore them 6
My in less degree. They fight |