The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-16
THIS PAPER is INDEPENDENT

THIS PAPER is INDEPENDENT
A prominent republican citizen of Mos
cratic because he said 1T opposes
Roosevelt and supports Wilson" We
plead mot guilty" to the first charge
and guilty to the last We support Will
United States and is engaged in the
most important work ever undertaken by
an American president and we believe
that at this, of all times, he should have
American citizen, just as our soldiers
should have had this support when they
were leading the fight against German
arms. We support President Wilson for
lean soldiers, not because of partizanship
but because he and they are AMERI-
CANS and are representing the United
States, not any party, faction or sec
ton.
We are not fighting Colonel Roose-
welt, but we do not agree with his policy
of fault finding He is today the great
est scold in America and were he liv-
ing in colonial days would probably
spend large portion of his time on
the ducking stool used for professional
and incurable scolds." He has never
said anything worse against President
Wilson and the democratic party than
he said against President Taft and the
republican party when they were in
power and Roosevelt was not
But there was a vast difference in con-
ditions when Taft was president and
during Wilson's present term During
the past Is months the United States has
been engaged i'll the greatest war the
world has known Upon the success
of the United States in this war de-
pended the success of democracy and
freedom of the world We had one COM
mon enemy, the central powers, of which
Germany was the dominating power
Woodrow Wilson, president of the Uni
ed States, was and is, conmander-in-
chief of the army and navy. He is the
head of both branches of our fighting
forces. We do not believe it is good pol
tics, good citizenship or good Amer
canism to berate and bclittle the pres
dent and try to hold him up to rid
Guile or to do anything that would re-
luce his influence while he is in Eu-
Al, Ill
re made through small" spirit of {
and not for the good of the
United States or the world and we do
OF approve of it.
IF Colonel Roosevelt or Mr.. Taft were i
resident and Mr. Wilson were to as t
all them during this critical period we h
ould not approve of his action any a
lore than we approve Of those who try t
make President Wilson's task more t
ifficult or his influence less. n
AS between the attitudes of the two s.
1ing expresident. Roosevelt and Taft
e approve that of Mr. Taft. who en- "
,rses Wilson's trip to Europe and SAYS .sr-
!. believes great good will come of it'll
+. Taft is not jealous of Wilson When
e president made his great blunder,
h1ch this paper condemned at the time.
calling upon the American people to
,ct democrats to congress, Mr. Taft l.
nounced the presidents action and we n
lieve it deserves denunciation, but we z
not believe that, in order to be 4
publican one must devote the greater n
TT of every day to hurting invectves
the president and try to make our LIZ
YES and every one who will listen to-
believe the president is wrong all
. time
This paper is independent and reserves
. right to endorse or condemn the
of any public servant, regardless of r.
fy if it be1ives his actions as an Of
.r deserve approval or condemnation f.!
SHOULD RAISE BETS HERE.
;ome time ago the Latah County
.ss, published at Deary, advocated
sing sugar ~beets in Latah county andsl
paper endorsed the suggestion edi-
ally. The editorial has been repub-d
ed in a number of other papers and
ors have taken kindly to it. We sug-
ted that sugar beets could be grown
: profitably as a "side-1ine" to farm
and stock raising. There is no beet
n factory nearer than Yakima,