The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-11-11
CAUSE FOR REJOICING

-. CAUSE FOR REJOICING -,
There is double cause for rejoicing
today. One year ago Germany sur
rendered to an outraged world which
she had tried to conquer and the
greatest, most wicked and most I'm.
called for and inexcusable war the
world had ever known, was ended il
a victory for right.
Today an %autocratic organization
of laborers, SO per cent of them for.
eigners, a large per cent of these be-
ing unable to read or write or speak
our language intellingently surrend-
cred to right and justice and peace as
represented by 100,0 00, 900 American
people and what meant practically
civil warfare was averted.
The demands and ambitions of Will
liam, the kaiser Of Germany, were not
one whit more unreasonable, unjust,
or excusable than the demands and
ambitions of the coal miners, who de-
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week and go per cent increase in
wages. Refusal to grant their de-
mands was to be penalized with star
walton, suffering with cold and hunger
the stoppage of all industry and an
archy in the United States.
The two cases are very similar.
The Germans, when refused permits
sion to go through Belgium, destroyed
that country, numbering women and
and children, burning homes, destroy
ing factories, annihilating idustry
in factories, annihilating industry and
showing no mercy to any one who OPP
posed them. That was to be the
program of the coal miers. Germany
accomplished a part of her purpose
before being whipped into subsection.
The coal miners were defeated before
they got started.
Surely there is cause for rejoicing
in the United States today. The con-
stitution, the laws, the courts and the
people are still supreme and anarchy
has received a low from which it will
take long to recover.
The danger that threatened the
United States, had the coal miners
strike been carried to it's intended
extent, was really greater than that
which threatened us in the great
world war. The plan back of the
two great strikes recently called and
both of which have failed, is outlined
nj the propaganda of the bolshevists
elsewhere in this issue, and
would mean the end of prosperity,
property ownership, free homes and
The plan which brought
about these two strikes would have
meant the confiscation by the mob of
every bit of property in the United
States. Your home and mine would
have belonged as much to the tramp
that came along the road as to you
your family or me and my family.
No one would have owned anything
and every one would own everything.
Can you conceive of such a state of
Yet this is the class of out
avs who ask the farmers to join
With them in lone big union" to
dominate the world and as soon as the
one big union" would be formed and
n working order, every farm would
taken from its owner, the records
howing the ownership would be de-
troyed and that farm and that prop
rty accumulated by long years of
ard work (not six hours a day and
i've days a week, but IL to 16 hours
day and seven days a week. would
the joint property of the rab-
lie
We believe it is a good thing for
he United States that the coal min
RS made their demands so strong
aat the people rebelled. They have
.ne more harm to union labor than
that has happened in the
asst 20 years and have caused the
to unite as they have never
lifted before. The I. w. w. has been
for solidarity" 1t has
Gated that very thing, but it is the
lidarity Of the American people who n
II fight unjust demands of alleged
DOR ca ~agitators and anarchists.
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AHO'S EXCELLENT GOVERNOR
The words "His Excellency" usual |.