Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-10-06

HERMAN H. TAYOR,
President of the Senate. |
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The fact that the Democratic cam
paign managers have booked Secre-
tary Daniels for speech In Maine
seems to indicate that they have aban-
doned all hope of carrying the state
to the ticket In the September election.
Senator ]. Ham Lewis, a spokesman
for the administration, In attempting
to apologize for the presidents molly
coddle expression that we are "too
proud to fight" explains that 1t is an
old Latin quotation. But the people
already know that 1t Is out OF date and
the expression of decadent nation.
I'VE don't want to maintain politi-
cal almshouse," remarked Mr.. Hughes
to the North Dakota farmers, and O
nation applauds him Americans are
beginning to see a possibility In the
near future of regaining their self re
spect
This administration seems to have
sold everything 1t could. from the ma
TONS honor down to the smallest rural
postmastership.
Secretary Daniels says this is no
time for politics. And it's no time for
Secretary Daniels either.
Senator Lewis. defending the presi-
dent ON his too proud to fight ex-
preston intimates that 1t was due
solely to the ignorance of his audience
that the popular Interpretation that
has been put upon 1t was evolved, and
that anyway it didn't mean what II
appeared to mean. The latter state
ment can be taken with some degree
| of confidence, as 1t is quite a well
known fact that most Of the things the
president says do not mean what they
are supposed to mean.
Secretary Redfeld has presented
another of those living illustrations of
the old adage that fools rush In
where angels fear to tread" with one
important modification. The differ
ence In the Secretary's case is that he
walked right In and turned around
and was kicked right out again.
The Democratic contingent In the
Senate is all worked up over the fact
that the terms of the treaty for the
purchase of the Danish West Indies
leaked out" "Pitiless publicity" you
understand, has been consigned to the
scrap heap with large assortment Of
vadious other Democratic policies and
promises.
Housewives In need of pork recipes
should address the Wilson administra-
ton.
Mr.. Wilson has made no reply to
the charges of Mr.. Hughes. Is he still
too proud to fight?
BY the way his opponents are abus-
ing him, 1t is evident that Mr.. Hughes
has touched them on the raw.
No apology which the Wilson ad
ministration can make for its futile
and irritating Mexican policy will sap
lsfy the American people. 1t has
lacked conspicuously the two charac
teristics which Hughes PROMISES
friendly spirit and a firm hand
Pitiless publicity. says Mr.. Hughes
have heart. say the Democrats.
or Mr.. Wilson 1t may be said h'
meant we'll. but he now finds himself
, buried under the evidence Of inefh
, cheney that Mr.. Hughes has brough
forth.
= There are those who assert tina
Woodrow Wilson Is clever politician
But how do they account for his re
mark to a committee Of women, call
, ing upon him, to the effect that II the.
! made suffrage ''the paramount issu
' Of this campaign" he would "los
e all respect for them?" The womel
e of the enfranchised States assert tina
: this threat will cost Wilson the presl
dency.
{ Secretary Daniels. however. has tn
e distinction Of being one of the great
est arguments the Republicans hav
r ever had
4 The salary part of the rural credl
|, system has already begun