The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-07-22
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MORE GOOD BUSINESS
The present state administration is
adopting the wise policy of disposing
of state lands as they can be Sold
thus opening vast areas for settlement
and the making of homes. Idaho is
clamoring for its share of soldier
settlements and the reclamation and
improvement of lands for returned
soldiers. The only way this land can
be obtained is for the state to slet CO.
of some of it's vast holdings.
The state owns millions of acres of
heavily timbered land that is bringing
in no income and is liability rather
than an asset as it now stands, with
danger of being destroyed by fire
and enormous sums spent for fire
fighters to protect it. If the state
can sell lot of this land to men or
firms who will cut the timber and
open the land for homes every one
will be benefited. The buyers, if
they do not pay cash, will pay interest
on the time payments and the state
will be getting something from the
lands rather than being at an expense
for protecting the timber. If the buy
ers pay cash the money can be used
to retire state debts or bonds and thus
Yave interest to the state.
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be in allowing this timber to be re-
moved and the lands thrown open to
settlement. They can be made pro-
ductive and furnish food for families
and feed for stock. The Star Mirror
believes that Governor Davis policy
of selling state lands and permitting
them to be improved is a sound, bust
ness policy. In southern Idaho tens
of thousands of acres of semi-arid
land is to be sold and it will be IL
rigated and made to support vast
ing jack rabbits and sage hens. We
prefer men and women and children
and homes, to these denizens of the
desert, which pay no taxes and pro-
duce nothing of value.
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THE MEXICAN SITUATION (
Never do today what can be post !
poned until tomorrow seems to have I
been the policy of this government /
for many years, in the matter of
dealing with Mexico. During several /
democratic and re-
publican, our southern border has
been repeatedly crossed by marauding
bands of Mexican outlaws and lives
and property destroyed and yet we sit
idly by and take no steps to put a
permanent stop to the depredations.
The American ambassador to Mexi-
% today announces that within the
past three years so Americans have
,een murdered in Mexico and not a
Iingle Mexican has been brought to
rial for any of the crimes. Fletcher
'ays that the withdrawal of recogni-
ion of the Carranza government by
he United States would only make
matters worse and that there is not
revolutionary leader in Mexico cap
BILE of restoring or maintaining
rider were he to succeed Carranza as
resident.
Patience has about ceased to be
irtue. Texas calls attention to the
vet that border depredations have
cen practiced periodically since 1875,
period of Al years and the depreda-
ons continue. How long will the
nited States stand for this? Some
~ we will have to take control of
[exico as we took control of Cuba. |
Thy postpone the inevitable? "Do
now" is slogan we preach to the
,ung. Let us practice it as nation,
this important matter
MUST PUNISH EX-KAISER.
IF war is to be abolished it must
treated, not as an honorable game
tia the prospect of personal glory, II
It as a crime. That is why we de-
led that the author of this war
ould be tried"
The above statements by Premier
Dyd George, Of Great Britain, in his
dress to parliment yesterday, are
le and to the point If the brute
% started the worlds greatest war
the vain hope that he would become
greatest Of ali rulers and the Ger