The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-04-02

BY Democrats or RepuDncanS, ana LOT
whatever purpose made, whether eco
nomic, partisan or personal It is
not opposed to having the whole
truth told about war conduct, but it
does oppose the insidious circulation |
of half truths or whole falsehoods |
such as have been put forth editor
tally or in congress and will expose |
them in the future as in the past, |
regardless of how much such expos
ure may run counter to prejudice.
Take one instance in dozens: The
European nations have long called for
the sending Of men to the front as
rapidly as possible in order that they
might finish cover there" Many
unfair critics, little and big, editorial
and congressional, howled because we
did not fully supply them and drill
them before sending them. The war
department gave out a statement
showing that the allies had request
ed the men to be hurried over This
Neto A1hOA NA ~ liAC oaib hAlAQ VI NlAl-
les. At last, after a conference with
Secretary Baker Lloyd Gorge en-
phasized this with a message to the
American people asking the hurrying
over of men, evidently by understand
ing with the secretary Did this dis
concert the critics? Not at all They
promptly said that we should have
been hurrying the men over all the
time and that the premier simply des-
paired of getting results from the
administration In other words, they
calmly reversed their positions and
abused the war department for doing
the things which they had themselves
censured it for alleged failure to do.
True the Republican national COM
mittee as recognized has logged in
partisanship. But the national COM
mittee is not the Republican party
Party politics were brought in the
New York campaign by Republican
candidates, to their sorrow, and this
has produced reprisals by Democrats
few weeks ago, three Republican
weekly papers appeared at this office
simultaneously with daily. The daily
contained several columns of false
differences and of misstatements re-
garding the administration and all
three weeklies advocated making the
campaign in Idaho on the alleged
failure of the administration in the
war
While certain critics reversed them
selves regarding the sending of troops
other critics, who at all times wanted
men sent over, have been dissatis-
fled, even when twice as many AS
they at first thought possible, were
sent over within a given time. in
one way or other a miasmatic mist
OF criticism, deceiving some good men
has been raised. The TIMES hates 70
be compelled to pay attention to these
things, when it would like to devote
all its energies to getting the people
together for the war, but when peo-
pie are tempted o go astray, by
"will-o-the-wisp" and "jack-o-lantern"
lights, it feels that it is necessary to
call attention to the straight and safe
path of union and harmony It hopes
that the mist will instantly forever
lift. 1t has entered the matter with
reluctance and would gladly assume
more congenial duties exclusively.
But it believes that party politics
will be eliminated from the campaign
to great extent this year and a pol
icy like that advanced by the Journal
OF Commerce adopted. If not it will
be the fault of those who exaggerate
for economic or other reasons all the
sporadic and inevitable faults of war
conduct and invent imaginary short
comings
The TIMES will continue, in the
future as in the past. to follow the
patriotic course of denouncing those
men and things worthy of denuncia-
ton and giving credit to men and
things worthy of credit, regardless Of
party It makes the above statement,
so that its new subscribers will un-
derstand its editorial policy. Old
ones already know that it is as above
stated.
The TIMES has the same concepeitn
OF -partisanship that the New
Yok Journal of Commerce has. But
If there are those who think that non
craftsmanship on war conduct consists
IN accepting, without administering re-
proof in return, Misrepresentation or
misapprehensions of war conduct.
which tend to weaken without cause
the confidence which the head of the
army and navy of the United States
| has justly earned, and thus create dis