The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-13
WAS IT FoCH OR WILSON?

WAS 1T FOCH OR WILSON?
In its continued efforts to discredit
President Wilson at the time when
he needs the support of the American
people, The Spokesman-Re in a
long editorial, charges that President
Wilson wrote the terms of the armis-
tice'' and that president Wilson staid
the hand of Marshal Foch on the mo-
ment of delivery of a crushing mill
tary victory
Is not this going "a bit too far"
as the Englishman would say? Is
not the Spokane daily giving Presi-
dent Wilson too much credit? 1t is,
no doubt, true that President Wilson
wrote the terms of the armistice and
the whole world was surprised at their
severity when they were first pup
ished. But did President Wilson
stop Marshal Foch from annihilating
the German army? Let US see what
the authorities say on this.
Marshal Foch, probably knows
political writer 5000 miles from
the scene. Let us have Marshal Foch's
statement on this important subject
In an interview given to the Associat-
ed Press Marshal Foch said:
eve could have crushed the Ger
mans within 10 days of continued
fighting. We had them at our mercy.
Some generals would have chosen to
take this great military victory. But |
1 knew it could not be done without |
British, Belgian and American sol
diers and | would rather spare these
lives than to have had the honor of
annihilating the German armies"
This statement was widely pub
lished and as widely commented upon
and commended. From one end of
the civilized world to the other Maj .
shall Foch was praised for his hu-
manity in not crushing the German
army (much as it deserved to be
crushed) because he thought more of
the lives of his soldiers than he did
of the great honor that would have
come to him had he annihilated the
Germans
Surely Marshal Foch can never be
accused of seeking notoriety or self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. He is said to be "a
shining example of a man who has
risen to fame without a press agent"
and he would hardly claim to have
stopped the fighting in order to save
ais men when a great victory was in
light, if President Wilson had stopped
he fighting
We prefer to accept Marshal Foch's
statement that he, and not President
Wilson, decided to accept the terms of i
he armistice when signed by the Ger
mans. Unconsciously and uninten-
ionally the Spokane paper makes
PRESIDENT Wilson appear a bigger and
nore powerful man than he really IS.
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DEPORTING THE ALIENS.
The prompt action of the United
tates immigration department in de-
VI Wig tiS lOlSlSi iSlodtOlo wiz diS
ausing strikes and unrest in the la
or world, is meeting with general
The laboring men will be
ar better off without these agitators
ere. 1t seems strange that Ameri-
ans, men and women born and rear
under the stars and stripes will
ermit themselves to be led, infIu- /
need and degraded by the refugees
Europe. Yet such is the case. Take
| list of names of the leaders in evil
y strike movement and see how few
them are American names. At
ute, where the big mining strike
as started by the l. W. W., every'
rson arrested for intimidating the
orkmen and keeping them or trying
keep them from work, is for
yner.
Where is the American spirit, the
pirit of TO- and the spirit of 1912,
1865; and the spirit that con-
cred the Hun when he had the world
most PROSTATE at his feet? Isn'tlt
a disgusting spectacle that a bunch
Firms (the Firms are leading the
ike at Butte) can turn back Ameri-
J citizens and keep them from
rking in American mines? Isn't
about time that these aliens were -