The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-10-31

may be built. He may not know,
even If his leaders do, that Pro-
lesser Hodges of the University Of
Pennsylvania in his book on in
PREVENTION, takes it for granted
that this principle will be perman-
ent and that Professor Hull, an
opponent of the idea says that,
nevertheless it did more to secure
respect and confidence for this
country from South America than
any other recent event A man
who gets his information on in
ternational law from the States
man, may be pardoned for not
knowing these things
Mr.. Davis may not know that it was
no discredit to either Moses Alexander
or his son Nathan that the latter was
unable to pass the physical examina-
ton necessary to enter the national
guard. This fact was evidently in his
opinion subject for flippant jest and
there is nothing like having a keen and
well-bred sense of humor.
Mr.. Davis may not know that in no
army in the world will an individual
be permitted to cross the line to get"
a man accused of crime without or
ders from a superior officer. In Eu-
rope the penalty for such offense
would be shooting. But Mr.. Davis is
somewhat "wooly around the edges in
his reasoning in military and interna-
tional affairs" This is shown by the
fact that he declared that we were
feeding and supplying Europe during
the war and that the nations there
could not afford to go to war with us.
How many bushels of wheat, oats, po-
tatoes and beans went to Germany and
how much we supplied that country,
he did not say. How her supplies
would have been crimped by war
with us he did not explain Perhaps
he never thought of it, when he ridi-
culed the idea that Wilson's diplomacy
kept us out of war.
In denouncing Democratic extravag-
! ance, Mr.. Davis forgot how much pre-
paredness costs. Maybe he never heard
of preparedness. Perhaps, when he
suggested that 1t was unwise to refuse
to spend money where needed, he for
! got that what lis sauce for the goose
was sauce for the gander," and that il
:, 1t were wise for Republican to spend
. money to combat the alfalfa weevil
= when no effective means for doing sc
= was known, it might be advisable tc
spend money for battleships Anyhow
. all the Republicans said it was anc
: most of them wanted a great dea
:. more spent, or said they did.
= Mr.. Davis and his companion, B. M
Holt, may have been too busy to no
= tice the vigorous denial made by Sec
rotary of War Baker in regard to tn,
statement falsely attributed to him t,
the effect that he placed Washington
soldiers and Carranza's on the sam,
plane. He may have overlooked tn
real point in the assertions of tn
Capital News with reference to hi
campaign expenses and hence failed t
answer them. When on the Salmon
tract he may have unintentionall
overlooked some things that woul
make his general statements NOR
plain. All this is possible, for he sal
that he always regretted at the end c
a speech that he had forgotten to sa
some things that he intended. II
may not know that the Congressional
Record show that on January IL, last
Senator Borah said in substance in tn
senate, that the present administra
tive policy with reference to the treat
ment of raids, began in March, 191.
under Taft, with a raid in Arizona /
which eight Americans were killed an
seventeen wounded. He may not kno-
that twenty thousand troops wer
w modified on the border on March
liz 1911, by Taft, and that while thes
HI troops were there. on April 10, 1911
y three Americans were killed and fly
n wounded in Douglas by shots frol
v across the line; that four days late
"a seven more Americans were wounde
40 with shots fired across the line; tn;
a May II, 1911, five Americans were xii
~, ed and seventeen wounded by sho
81 from across the line, fired during Il
cd storming of Juarez, and that on Il
no same day Secretary Knox denied run
70 ors of Intervention; that on Decemb
A, 1912, President Taft praised his DC
To- icy of Patient non-intervention' in
40 message to congress; that former Al
al bassador Henry Lane Wilson In b
~ famous United Press interview, on b
- return, said that during Medaro's a
~ ministration when Taft was presideI
49, eighty-four Americans were murder
&C. in Mexico and nobody punished; fl
On ally that Taft did not act, either
,ro send troops across the border or
ra- recognize Huerta as president of Me
~, ico These things he evidently h
never heard of when denouncing t
,o+ "cowardly" policy of President Wills
20, ,at as contrasted with firm Republic
i methods.
it'll Ignorance on his part in the
TT above matters is perhaps pardon
tic able, wise as he is. But when in
for the face of the facts outlined by
H. Rev. c. L. Bent in this issue he
int seeks to discredit the honesty OF
is Governor Alexander's work for
I'VE prohibition, he is absolutely mex
cusable. Even if all that he said
about the previous record of Alex
ander were true, his implication
t that the governor did nothing for
: prohibition but sign a bill which
> he feared to Veto would have been
as false as 1t was contemplate
and, being, on his own statement
l actively engaged in prohibition