The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-01-16
WASHINGTON IN LINE.

WASHINGTON IN LINE
Our sister state of Washington has
fallen into line and has passed the
criminal synidcalism law over the
veto of Governor Lister. The bill was
passed by the last legislature but
Lister vetoed it. 1t came up at the
present session and easily had the
necessary majority to pass it over the
veto of the governor and will become
a law. 1t is framed after the Idaho
law which put the crimp" in the |.
W. w. and drove them from this state
Washington is to be congratulated
The state needed such a law. Every
state needs it. The I. w. W. is a
criminal organization pure and sim
pie. Parading under the false name
of workers" it is an idler's organiza-
non, founded on the same principles
sheviki, which regards every one who
has accumulated enough for three
meals in advance as an enemy to man
kind who should be put to death. The
/. w. W. and Bolsheviki want to oe-
stroy all property and all persons who
have accumulated property.
Russia is a fair sample of the pol
icies of these insects put into effect.
All industry has been destroyed and
people are starving by the thousands
and are begging the Bolsheviki SOL
supplies, to shoot them and save them
from slow death by starvation.
The criminal syndicalism law is not
strong enough 1t does not provide
sufficient punishment. A few years
in the penitentiary is not enough. Cap
ita1 punishment should be the penalty
for men who poison livestock, burn
buildings and would, if they dared,
murder every one who works and
prospers. Unless some such drastic
punishment is melted out to these
men they will continue to advocate
and practice the crimes they have
been advocating. When the three
men were sent 10 the penitentiary
from Moscow under this law they an
nounced that when they are released
they expect to take up the work
where they left off and carry it on
with renewed vigor.
The disgraceful part is that organic
ed labor has taken up the fight against |
this law and kept lobby at Olympia
working hard to prevent the passage
of the law. They evidently frighten-
ed Governor Lister two years ago in
to vetoing the bill but they could not
brighten the legislature in session
there now from passing it over the
taken long stride forward by the
passing of this bill which will rid the
state of an element worse than in
fluenza.
70 ~ ~
MOSCOW MUST DO HER PART
Moscow has a golden opportunity to
do an excellent work in helping to
construct the new Genesee highway,
the district for which is to be formed
hv election on February g. This is
an important thing for Moscow. The
people of Genesee, always wide
awake, enterprising and thrifty, have
taken the lead and, with the aid of
the farmers, purpose to bring the road
to Moscow's very gates" The pro-
moters offer to build the road over
Paradise hill when they might have +,
stopped at the foot of the hill and left
that part of the road for Moscow to
build
Genesee and the farmers have met ,
us more than half way" and we
indeed, be ungrateful and near :
sighted if we did not grasp this oppor- ,
tunity to secure this splendid highway ,
Moscow with Lewiston and {
Genesee by one of the best roads in
he northwest.
Moscow business men should get
0usy We are asked to build or help {
,uild, four miles of this road. It will t
)e built within four miles of Moscow c
f it is allowed to stop there it will be G
detriment instead Of benefit to us. t
t will take trade from close to Mos
ow and send it to Genesee. The aver e
ge man would rather travel Is miles C
yer good macadam road than to 0