The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-24
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WILSON is RIGHT AGAIN

WILSON is RIGHT AGAIN
President Wilson is right again.
His demand that the warships sur
rendered by Germany be not sunk, is
based on sound sense and business
Judgment. 1t would be little short
of a crime to sink those magnificent
ships and then spend many millions
of dollars to build others like them.
1t. would be actual criminality to do
this
England and the United States and
France and Italy will begin the build
ing of more warships as soon as pos
sible after the final peace treaties are
signed. That program has been def
nitely mapped out for the United
States. This nation will have navy
second to none in the world. Great
Britain plans to strengthen her navy.
Her very existence depends upon her
navy and she knows it better than
any one else.
There are some of the finest fight
ing ships in the world lying in the
harbor of the Firth of Fourth, in
Scotland. They have been surrend-
cred by Germany to the victorious
allies. The terms of surrender re-
quired that every ship should be in
first class condition and experts saw
to it that they were in that condition.
If any one can show any sane
reason for sinking these ships and
then spending hundreds of millions
of dollars to replace them, we want
to hear that reason. Divide the ships
among the allied nations and let them
be put into service as were the great
ocean liners and merchant ships which
the United States and other countries
took from Germany. 1t is right and
1t is good business.
:. re -
SOLDIERS VS.. SOCIALISTS.
There is going to be some awful
rough shedding for the socialists, who
are really Bolshevists, believing in
and advocating the same things as
their brethren in Russia, when the
soldiers get home. The little episode
in Spokane Sunday night is just a
sample of the way the soldiers feel
toward these people who are against
the government for which these men
fought and for which $4,000 of them
aid down their lives on European bat
lie fields.
New York and Spokane have had
aste of what the soldiers will do to
.hese people who advocate doctrines
hat have brought misery, murder,
very crime known to man, and suf-
ering, starvation and death to hun ;
|reds of thousands in Russia. The
oldiers who fought the Germans in
rider to maintain liberty, freedom
nd prosperity here will not stand
or the advocacy of such crimes in
he United States.
The socialists, l. WV, anarchists
nd others who oppose freedom and
he present form of government ought z
} take warning now, before 100000 =
lore soldiers return from France and
100000 are released from canton
rents in the United States. If the :.
,cialists and l. w. w. agitators con- v
nue. their attitude and persist in
olding NEE 5ings and trying to arouse "
,ntiment against our government,
lere are going to be lynchings in
e United States and they will not
be of negroes in the south. A
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MOSCOW LATE, AS USUAL.
Moscow, as usual, brings up the F,
mr. in the war savings stamp drive.
e have ceased to try to fathom the e
vstery of Moscow's slowness in all
oh matters. She always comes un- F.
r the wire in time, but it takes so
AIMED much time it is discouraging.
Genesee, despite terrible epidemic y,
influenza raging at this time, is
err the top with her quota and
cd lot to spare. Juliaetta, small ,,,
t enterprising town, was the first
the county to raise her quota.
airy, which has been first in sew
Il drives, is making good record
i so is Bovill, despite the fact that
ii towns are in the timber belt and
large part of the working popu- Gu
ion left several months ago when
embargo on eastern shipments of
,ber was announced. Potlatch has