The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-12

HS uVSo Ioc hasS W pay ohdc p N
for suit of clothes. He can bea
that price in Moscow One can ge
a pretty fair pair of shoes for from
SIS up as high as one wants to go. o.
course one can pay $25 for pair 0.
shoes and $75 for suit of clothes
but laboring men do not need that
kind.
Taken as a whole we believe tbs
! laboring class were never getting as
good wages as now and that. by using
care in buying one can lay aside some
money at the wages now paid, despite
the high cost of living, which is adj
mittedly too high and is bound to
come down. But so will wages.
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THE BOGEY SURVIVES
The following questions are asked
of The Oregonian today by Mr.. S. B.
Huston:
If the league shall be. adopted, as
it now reads, and japan shall insist
upon the right of her people to i'm
migrate here on equal terms with any
other nation cannot Japan force the
league of nations to consider the mat
ter? And if the league of nations
shall decide against us, are we not
bound to abide by the decision, or
place ourselves in the position of
treating a treaty as scrap of pa
peru / can see no escape from this
if a majority of the council shall de-
eide in favor of Japan. do not think
it probable that any such decision
would be made, but should we take
any chances of facing such a decision,
In event of the circumstances sug-
gested by Mr.. Huston this country
would rely upon paragraph of Ar
ticle XIV of the league covenant which
provides;
If the dispute between the parties
is claimed by one of them, and is
found by the council to arise out of
a matter which by international law
is solely within the domestic jurisdic-
ton of that party. the council shall so
report, and shall make no recon-
nendation as to its settlement.
While we cannot conceive that |
Great Britain and some of the other
on the council would |
IN their own interests ever yield the |
tight to a council of nations to make |
their own immigration laws, it has
been suggested, and wisely we think,
n order to prevent Misunderstanding
hat interpretations be made by this |
country which would specifically in
sure domestic control of immigration,
he tariff and one or two other mat
,ers.
But does Mr. Huston believe that |
We should be in a better status should i
IN immigration dispute threatening /
rupture between the United States |
and Japan arise, in the absence of the
eague covenant even as it now
stands? We should have the choice |
between yielding, going to war and
Japan willing arbitrating.
If we agreed to arbitrate we would |
De as morally bound to accept the
award of the specially selected trib-
NAL as if it were the league council.
f we yielded there might be the revo-
ution Mr.. Huston suggests in his let
er, which is published in full in an
'thel. column. If we did neither we
hould be compelled to resort to arms.
You don't kill the DOGGY by killing
he league. In fact it is more fearful
n aspect without the league, for an
intent of the league covenant is to
rotect it's members in the enjoyment
f domestic rights, rather than to
ause a surrender of them. The ma
ion that made war over an exercise
f domestic jurisdiction by another
alton would put itself beyond the
ale of the league and the attacked
alton would have the support of the
est of the world.-Portland Oregon {
IN.
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