The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-15
WE WILL FEED GERMANY.

WE WILL FEED GERMANY.
The Allies have agreed to furnish
to Germany 100000 tons of foot
stuffs per month until that country
can again become self-supporting
The food is not to be given to Ger
many, but it is to be sold and paic
for in advance. Germany turns ove1
her merchant ships and government
owned securities to pay for this food
The agreement was closed at Brussels
today between the representatives OF
Germany and the allied commission
This means, of course, that the
United States will feed Germany. The
other allied countries cannot feed
themselves. We must feed them and
we must feed the neutral countries
and now we must feed our former
enemies. This places the United
States still further ahead of all other
nations of the world and gives us a
firmer grip upon the claim to being
the greatest nation on earth. Incl
dentally this smashes several "pre-
cedents."
This must be humiliating to the
German people. They made sport of
the United States, ridiculed us in ev-
cry way, declared we could not and
would not fight, sunk u ships and
murdered our citizens because they
had been misled by certain political
influences in congress and elsewhere
to believe the American people would
not unite in support of the admin
i~xtration, and they forced US into the
var. The United States brought the
war to a successful conclusion months
before any European country believed
1t could be done, and now the United
States steps in with a league of ma
tions proposal that has been accepted
by IA of the leading nations of the
world, and becomes the "big brother
to all of the nations of the earth that
will accept our friendship.
Germany, which tainted US with
our inability to fight, whipped to a
FRAGILE by American soldiers, gets
down on her knees and ~surrenders
her ships and her securities and begs
the United States to ave her from
starvation and from her own citizens.
This is the day of American triumph.
Small, indeed, is the patriotism and
the love of country and the self-re-
spect of a politician who, for the sake
of gaining notoriety or political adj
vantage for his party, will openly
declare at this time, that the United
States is not capable of taking care
of herself and that she Twill become
= vassal of England" as was said by
Senator Fall of New Mex
leo, yesterday. Americans are not
made of the kind of stuff that be-
comes vassals to any country and the
who would make such a state
ment is a mighty poor American.
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A BROAD MINDED VIEW.
The Los Angeles Times, founded
nd edited for many years by General
Harrison Grey Otis, is admittedly the
eading republican newspaper of the
coast and one Of the ablest {
,dited papers in the United States. 1t c
las always been republican in politics i
md has scored the democrats I'M S
nercifully when it thought they S
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minded and fair and, above all, it is b
atriotic. 1t places love of country b
love of right and justice, above n
arty. The Times say in a recent t.
,sue: Il
France has gained her detectives V
/ the present war; England has gain d
her detectives, as have Italy, Bel r,
and Japan. But America will a
OF have attained her objectives un- f;
/ a covenant has been established NJ
lat will define war as an interna- m
) international bandits and will in W
ire permanent peace. America M
ught for no territorial consideration h;
1T to establish throughout the world st
e spirit of amity, justice and equity
at animates the peoples of the soy
eign States comprising the Ameri- fl
republic. That spirit finds it's co
preston in the constitution of the co
ague of Nations. If the league be w.
t formed then America viii have ba