The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-01-02
OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
A NEW POLITICAL POWER.

A NEW POLITICAL POWER.
Next year we will have a presidential
election and there will be injected into
that campaign a new power with which
the politicians must reckon. This is the
men who have served IN the army. There
are about four million of these, about
half of whom have seeh service in for
eign lands. These men will have "some-
thing hfe'common" that will bind them
together as no party ties can.
That such a vast number of men
united by ties stronger than those of
any party Organization will be a power
full factor in determining the manage
ment of things political cannot be doubt
ed. These men saved the country from
the Hun and they will want to say how
this country, which they saved. shall
be managed.
1t might be we'll right now for many
OF the old time politicians whose only
qualification for office has been that
they are democrats or republicans to be-
gin to seek some other employment than
a public office. The boys will see that
mere partizanship is not sufficient quail
i~ication for a public position under the
mate or federal government.
If these men, who have a common
cause, will vote together, regardless of
party lines they can control politics in
this country. That they will do this to
a large extent seems certain. The out
look for the professional politician aft
er the boys get hack" is anything but
encouraging. He may have been able
to fool the common people but he will
never be able to fool the boys who have
learned a lot since the last election.
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THE HEART OF THE WORLD.
Into the last dark corners the love
of the great heart OF the world is find
ing its. way, The light OF it has already
begun to pierce. the gloom of the skies
that lower over Russia and wherever
else the skies are dark 1t will dispel
fhe gloom no other light could dispel. i
1t will conquer where the guns could
Angeles Times.
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NIGHT BE SERIOUS. {
A man who has reached the 'send of i
his rope"-as is the case with the kaiser /
has a right to be anxious. as to where h
the other end is. If, for instance, it II
to be fastened aloft to a gal t,
Iows-tree, the finale is likely to be SER
ous.-Desert News.
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MONEY IN THE BANK. t,
Bill Hohenzollern still has four mil i,
ion dollars in the bank after they have tc
lad a lot of rainy days over there
some of these Belgian sufferers ought
o be garnisheeing his bank account 81
.os Angeles Times. Y
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Charles f. Hughes, late member of j
he supreme court and later republ, an
andidate for president. endeared him
elf to the American people when he w
to act as a member of a COM NJ
to receive the soldiers, when m
e learned that William r. Hearst was 1
member of the committee. Hughes
id not win the presidency but he still :.
etains his self respect and that would ~
revent him serving On a committee with
Iearst. who has been convicted in the -
Iinds of a majority of the American
eople Of being pro-Gernan ever after T.,
Iainst Germany. If other American o.
,pple would show the commendable
md for right and opposition to rec
such men as Hearst as Judge
ughes has shown, it would do much
show Hearst how he stands with the
merican people. Judge Hughes digni-
d but scathing announcement of +
rarst in refusing the invitation of New z
,rk's mayor to become "a member of
e committee, is really Refreshing NJ
How very differently the world feels j
lay from what it did one year ago. ste
that time Russia had collapsed and PEI
rmany was preparing, with bright he1
aspects of success, for a drive on the cor
stern front that would end the war lab
ore the United States could send a !
ge enough army to turn the scale. the
Lloyd George said less than a year me-