The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-08-30
/. KNOX REMOVES HIS MASK.


Charging that the, Germans have
been abused by the "hard and cruel
terms of the peace treaty." Senator
Knox, of Pennsylvania, one of the
republican leaders in the opposition
to the peace treaty and the league of
nations, removes his mask and stands
revealed as a German sympathizer.
He has bitterly opposed the peace
treaty, the league of nations covenant
and the conduct of the war. This was
thought by many to be because of his
partizan bias and his hatred of
President Wilson. Now it is shown
that mis- sympathies are with Germ
any.
1t takes lot of nerve for an Ameri-
can citizen to stand up in the United
States senate and say to the world
that the terms of the peace treaty
are "hard and cruel to Germany. 1t
takes a lot of nerve to denounce the
actions of Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd
George, Orlando, and the great men
of 81 nations, as "cruel and hard" and
to ask for sympathy for the country
and the people who outraged Belgium,
violated and laid waste Serbia, and
portions of France and Belgium,
formed an alliance with the Turk and
assisted him in massacreing hundreds
of thousands of Armenians, sunk the
Lusitania and murdered Edith Cavell.
1t takes lot of nerve, but shows
poor judgment, to say the terms that
require Germany, whose territory
was uninvaded, whose homes, cities,
factories and farms were untouched,
to pay for small portion of the
damage she did, are ''hard and cruel"
Germany will be out of debt, if she |
pays every cent of the indemnity re-
qufred of her, long before Great
Britain, France, Belgium and Serbia
have paid off their war debts and
recovered from the injury Germany
did to them If the German eople
play fair and pay the indemnity they
have agreed to pay within the time
specified, they will, when that indem-
nifty has been paid, be in better finan-
cial condition than any of the other
countries mentioned.
Belgium, France, Serbia, Italy and 4
England are victims of Germany's
lust for power territory and trade
They did not bring on the war; No
sane man in the United States or !
Europe doubts that Germany planned !
and willed and started the war which ;
has resulted so disasterously to the
world
Knox's statement that the peace /
,erms are "hard and cruel' to Ger a
many brands him with a brand that q
:annot be easily removed as German c
and as such he has no
,lace in the United States senate. Il
No terms that the human mind could .
Iame, would be too hard or too cruel h
o inflict upon the German people h
Who willed the war and gave all that f.
hey had to give and gave it willingly, +,
o matter how terrible the atrocities !,
ommitted, as long as Germany was o
inning. Now let them pay all that q
hey can pay for what they willed
nd what they did.
IA - - g
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME. y.
1t is an old saying, true today, n,
lat charity begins, OF at least ought =
, begin, at home. The whole world
fighting the high cost of living,
ct people are needlessly extravagant
nd, to use the words of the president in
the packers trust, are spending ST
oney like drunken sailors" We want an
wing cost reduced and SO does the wi
borer and then he strikes and re- -
aims idle for a week or a month or
veral weeks or months, in order to
rec his employer to give him higher
ages which adds to the cost of his 10y
ing and that of others. We want Pc
w improvements, better roads and ca
any things that add to the cost of
vernment and then we kick because Tn
xes are higher But good roads are
necessity and not luxury They jel
e demanded by business and not by
ntiment. lor