The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-08-14
A GOOD MESSAGE FROM THE
PRESIDENT.

FhESlDENI.
The presidents address on the higl
cost of living is an able utterance
1t sets forth facts and conditions
with clarity and accuracy, draws gen
orally many sound conclusions, ant
proposes remedies that seem practi
cable Certainly they call for the re-
spectful consideration of congress.
The presidents survey of economic
conditions and his statement of eco
nOmic laws are admirably concise and
comprehensive. For this occasion he
departs from the usual Wilsonian
generalization. Yet the address is not
lacking in inspirational appeal.
In the following paragraph the
president reads needed rebuke to
those men who would inflame the
public mind, mislead labor, give vent
to foolish exaggeration, and buster
around in threatening spirit:
Passion and a disregard for the
rights of others have no place in the
counsels of a free people. We need
light, not heat, in these solemn times
OF self-examination and saving action.
There must be no threats. Let there
be only intelligent counsel and let the
best reasons win, not the strongest
brute force. The world has just de-
stroyed the arbitrary force of mil
ltary junta. 1t will live under no
afhpr II fhnt ic arbitrarxy apd ooc,c
i've is in the discard. Those who seek
to employ it only prepare their own
destruction"
The address is so admirable in all
other particulars that it is pity
the president yielded to the tempta-
ton to insert an appeal for hasty
action on the peace treaties and the
league covenant. To all practical eff
feet, commercial relationship has
been reestablished between this coun-
try and Europe, and trade conditions |
would not be visibly altered if the |
peace treaties were rushed to ratifi- |
cation tomprrow. We are sending
food and other commodities across
the Atlantic in great and unprece
denied volume. An immediate en-
iHrgement of that flow would, in fact,
still further increase prices, for it
would draw still more heavily upon
our scanty supplies of many neces-
saries.
But that aside, it is a good mes
FOR, a, md
helpful, and uttered in a pleasing /
spirit-Spokes man-Review. II
Americans boast of their patriotism !
,ut some of those who boast the loud !
sst are doing all in their power to in !
ure the United States by demanding
increased wages and shorter hours of 4
abOr. Italian labor unions have set +
IN example in patriotism that might +
ne followed by American labor unions. =
The Italian union laborers have vol y
to increase their hours of
abOr each day in order to promote h
nd increase production for the half {
tarved people of Italy. American
Rborers would resent the insinuation y
hat "DagOes" are more patriotic, =
uman and honest than they, but there
re the facts
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The victory of the bolshevists over 2
Dlchak was won not so much in q
assia as in western Europe and 9
merica, where red propaganda fright a
ned the governments not to help the 0
,rces of democracy and civilization m
yainst the red terror. Democracy h!
lay yet pay dearly for having shirked Fl
war by having to fight a war equal Us
that which has just ended.-Port ul
nd Oregonian 6t
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1T the treaty with Germany, already S
gned by American representatives 81
ID accepted by Germany, France, rs
eat Britain, Italy, Belgium, Japan lE
ID Spain, is not accepted and ratified ia
: the United States SENATE, what ~
nd of treaty will we get when we ~
to Germany with proposition for ia
treaty? Will not the Ger 81
ans laugh at us? Can the Uni lE6'
States, standing alone, expect to uE
as good terms as she would ger by u
aling with Germany in conccrt.v.;L f@Yg
} other great nations Of the earth? 5l
ese are questions we would like TO l1
INbon he road If c10o1 an aero for f.!C