The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-02-15
POLITICAL AND lNALIENARLE
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RIGHTS.
The republican newspaper of Sal.
non in justification of it's repeated
assaults upon the president in his
conduct Of the war says:
Nobody can blame republicans
for hIndeTsng the administration.
When two years ago tire nro-Ger.
mans In this country were bent upon
driving the United States into
b war with Mexico. the Salmon repub.
lean organ Of opinion criticised the
president. as we remember, for not
opening hostllltlsa upon our neighbor
10 the south forthwith. Just what the
kaiser wanted US TO do--what he had
been scheming for year or more
10 have us do. The president then
knew the critical nature OF the sltua.
ION and kept IN out OF that war.
knowing all the time that we should
need every resource to meet the inev.
table assault Of the German autoc.
racy upon us.
Our esteemed contemporary was
then exercising It's inalienable right
TO shoot on fits mouth, Just as Il has
done with respect to the presidents
mastery handling Of delicate world
world affairs ever since.
The kaiser has always been able
70 command hpokesmen in this coun-
Try. even senators In the capitol at
washington. who are the privileged
class 20 play reasonable roles. just
aa are some newspapers we always
have with us induced 10 play the
roles OF partisanship. These latter
we would not discredit further than
10 say that at times they let their
zeal for their party carry them com.
pietely on their mental balance.
Thus II was they accepted and retail.
I'D the iibelous statements OF sena.
TORS like Chamberlain In their as
paulte upon the secretary OF war. In
the same way the Salmon newspaper
organ revamped two.year.Old polit.
icai cartoon the other day and in.
vested II with disgusting vulEarIty,
all Intended 10 cast odium on the
head of the country's armed forces
now taking the field against German
aegression.
Such newspapers have no right to
hinder the administration" in the
way they have undertaken 10 hinder
Hut II Ia pertinent to ask. why
hOuld they feel called upon to look
tar away from home for the mote
unpreparedneaa that II found in
MeiF brothers eye and behold not
the beam In their own party's eye
here In Lemhi county where their
agents are bent upon lawlesanesA and
waste N the administrative office OF
the hoard OF county commissioners?
Secretary OF War Baker has been
= the special object af republican at.
. tack. And vet the president says of
him that ne Ii the most efficient OF
All the heads OF governmental depart.
inents The average man will be In.
eilned to take the presidents meas
IRE 81 the war secretary rather than
the republican estimate pat upon
him.
And 10 Il il tnat pretty much ev.
erybody does blame the republicans
for hinderlng the administrator"
now As 4 matter Of fact very few
republicans are so unpatriotie as to
permit their party zeal 70 lead them
50 far wrong on the contrary the
really great men Of that party who
are aiso good Americans are not
shindering the administration" at
all but helping Il In every manner
possible aud not barking az les heels
like little fist dog.
To say that republicans have a
fright 10 hinder the administration
il 70 say also that the I. w. VS.
have the same riglt and that any
other party acting as the agent OF
Germany can do the same
OF real Importance In the world Is
the maa OF affairs who sees the right
and bends all effort TO pursue the
right Such man was the immortal
Abraham Lincoln who saw the neees.
aity of saving the democratic Union
Of states 1T the time of the great at.
tack upon H. There we're partisans
% his day who thought he wasn't
pursuing the right and they tried
their best 10 bend him away from
his supreme purpose II was the pet
scheme of the AholitiOnista 60 have
tho president free the slaves nj once,
The great Emancipator told them he
would or would not free the slaves,
whichever would best serve his pur.
pose OF saving the union
President Wilson Is now confront.
"a with the UNNECESSARILY larger
task OF making the word safe for de-
rocracy u Is the supreme effort OF
his life and he needs the prayers and
earnest help OF all his countrymen
IN the work before him