The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-10
TAKING THE RIGHT STEP.

The greatest blow ever delivered tc
bolshevism and I. W. Wism in the
United States was that handed the
anarchists by the government when it
began deporting them. Fifty-four
were sent by special train under
heavy guard to an Atlantic port
where they will be deported to their
native countries and they will never
again be permitted to return to Am
erica.
This is taking the right step. De-
port the alien agitators who have
been getting better wages and enjoy
ing more freedom than they could
ever have had in their native coun-
tries. Send them back to the coun-
tries they deserted to come to Am
erica because they knew this to be
better country than their own.
The bulk of the agitators and
trouble makers are foreign born who
cannot speak or understand the En-
glish language intelligently, and
should never have been permitted to
go as far as they have gone. The
writer was in Seattle a few weeks
ago and watched the men who are
now on strike coming out of the ship
yards and frequently rode on street
cars with them. 1t is safe to say that
a large majority are foreign born. !
Many of them carried on conversa-
lions on the street cars in foreign
languages. They were getting from
$4.16 for common laborers to $3.50
for mechanics and $40 for helpers.
1t is certain that none of these ever
got half that much before coming to
the United States, yet they attempt
to overthrow our form of govern
ment and establish bolshevist reign
of terror. The safest thing for the
to do is to round up every |
one of these alien agitators and send
him back to his native land If they {
have been naturalized and continue t
to oppose this government their nat c
papers should be cancel /
led and they should be sent back. De- S
portation of few thousand will do i
more to stop these agitators who t
would ruin our country and make of
t waste like Russia, than any meas
ire that can be adopted, j,
Every ihterned enemy alien in the @
United States should be sent back to s
lis native country as soon as the il
'eace treaty is signed. Our deten- a
ion camps, penitentiaries and jails II
re full of them. They number tens Il
# thousands. They should be sent to a.
he country from which they came Y;
nd be compelled to assist that coun-
ry in paying for the war it started
nd for the damage done to the United g,
tates, England, France, Belgium (,
tally, Serbia, Rumania and other k,
ountries. Il,
Herbert Hoover, federal food adj :
Illustrator during the warts defend =
lg the meat packers and is quoted
S saying that it is small matter if
vere so many things of much greater
Importance that it can be overlooked y
low it is charged that the food ad- =
helped the five big pack 4
lg firms to get monopoly of the y
leat business, not only in the United y
tates but in South America 1t is y
OF hard to believe this after the food y
deal on wheat and n
our and the arrangement made by n
to give the flour substitutors a "
lance to do some wonderful profit /.
ring. The food administration has ~
zen "in bad' with the farmers and ~
e consumers for a long time and ~
lded developments do not improve ~
e opinion the people generally have ~
it. ~
Clifford Pinchot was kept out of ~
e United States senate by the voters ~
Pennsylvania, but the voters can ~
t keep him out of print Clifford ~
ways had lot of hobbies and his ~
esent one is writing "open letters ~
Senator Boise Penrose, who de- ~
ated him for United States senator ~
to the republican members of the ~
late. He sends these "open letters" ~
adcast to the newspapers of the ~