The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-06-06
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BURLEsoN A BENEFACToR.

BURLESON A BENEFACTOR.
While Postmaster General Burlesol
is being scored numerically in tn
press and almost everywhere, he il
entitled to a great deal of credit TO
he has been a real benefactor to thu
American people. 1t is safe to sa.
that a majority of Americans were il
favor of government ownership or con
troll of public utilities, and especially
of the railroads and telegraph ant
telephone systems.
But, thanks to Mr.. Burleson'S mis-
management of the two latter utilities
the American people have been awak-
ened and are demanding that rail
roads, telephone and telegraphs be re-
turned to private ownership and con-
troll. Mr.. Burleson has done more in
a few short months to convert the
American people to the grave dangers
of political control of public utilities
of propaganda. In fact it is doubtful
if the public could have been con-
WINGED in any other way as it has been
convinced by Mr.. Burleson.
A,Iet us stop condemning him and
give him credit for having done the
American people great service, even
IL he did do it unwittingly.
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All honor to the loyal soldiers of
Canada who stood firmly for law and
order and demanded that the bolshey-
lists, anarchists and l. w. w. who
were trying to destroy the liberty for
which these soldiers fought, be arrest
ed and punished and that the undesir-
able aliens be deported. The Canad-
ian soldiers showed the true Ameri-
can spirit, the spirit so manifest in
the western hemisphere, the spirit
that will not stand for anarchy, boil
shevism and |. W. w. The cowardly
leaders who had been defying the mu-
nicipal and provincial government and
demanding anarchistic rule, begged
the government they had defied and
tried to destroy, for protection when
the soldiers declared themselves.
The charges made by Senators |
Lodge and Borah that copies of the |
treaty with Germany had been sup
pIied to financial institutions in New
York but had not been given to the
senate or made generally public, are
10 be investigated. If true, some one
ought to be severely punished. If
untrue, and made for political pur-
POSES, the men who made the charges
should be punished. These charges
ire too serious to be let pass without
/ thorough investigation. Let us have
he truth.
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We are promised that in 10 days we
hall know where the state highway
will run through Latah county. There {
re bound to be dissappointments for
Il sections cannot get the highway,
ut the fact that it runs through La
III county will benefit every section l
{ the county and the districts through
hitch it does not pass must arrange
,eir road systems SO that they will
,nnect with this great artery from t
orthern to southern Idaho. r
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Moscow has been honored by the Wis
of so many of the leading citizens OF
,rthern Idaho during the past three
,ys. tt is doubtful if there has been b
representative a meeting of citizens 0
this part of the state in years. $
here can be no doubt that much good "
III come of the melting of these lead =
s of the various industries from all W
ctions of northern Idaho. q
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The summer session of the Univer- nj
y of Idaho which opens here c
eek from next Monday will be an i'm b1
rtant one and ought to bring to- p'
Their many teachers and educators 80
I'M all parts of the Northwest, for it
Ii OIIef Inducements anu speciai
1rses that cannot be had at any
Ter school in the. Northwest. n
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from all over the Northwest come "
'orts of fine crop prospects and it st
ms certain that the Inland Empire oC
| have big crop of grain while the WI
ce is high. The farmers of the ne
-thwest have had two very bad 81