The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-05-16
WILL THEY LOSE INTEREST?

WILL THEY LOSE INTEREST?
The court of appeals has reversed
the findings of the loyer court which
convicted the Rev. Joseph F. Ruther
ford and seven other members of the
international Bible Students Associa-
ton for violation of the espionage act,
n has ordered a new trial of the
case. This will probably mean their
release from the federal prison to
which they had been sentenced for
long terms and no new trial will
probably be held, for the war is over
and these "bible students cannot
again help Germany in her efforts
to enslave the world.
Let US make a prediction. If these
men are released and restored to
their former status they will not
again engage in distributing the book
entitled "The Finished Mystery"
throughout the land as they did when
the United States was at war with
Germany, There will be two reasons
&r this. First is there will be no
incentive. Germany has lost the war
and the book, vlear1y a ~cleverly writ
ten piece of German propaganda UNI
der the guise of a religious work, can
be of no further service to Kaiser
Bill and his ex-war lords. ;.
But the other and most important
reason will be that there will be no
Derman gold to pay for the printing
I'd distribution of this book in the
.Shited States. German money will
bot pay for automobiles to go about
the country at night carrying German
propagandists who will leave this
book on the door steps of homes to be
discovered in the morning when the
occupants awake. These books were
distributed in this way, after having
md their distribution and sale having
been ordered stopped by the govern
ments of England, Canada and the
United States. Millions of copies were
printed and sold and when the sale
was stopped they were distributed
free OF charge
Watch the Rev. Joseph f. Ruther-
ford, and his "bible students" when
released from the p~enitentiary and
see how they have lost interest in
this great religious work of the late
Pastor RUSSELL
No legitimate religious %organiza-
ton takes these underhanded meth
DDS of distributing its literature. Ger
man propaganda was spread in many
ways and the guise of religion was
one of the favorite DISCUSSES of the
German propaganda. {
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DOCTRINE DEFENDED.
OF no little Importance is the not
explicit but cordial recogni-
ton of the Monroe doctrine by the 5
delegation to the peace con !,
1t is pointed out that the
doctrine proclaimed in 1928 was to
America from becoming a
for intrigues of European alb
solutism, and that since then it has
proved to be not an instrument of =
ambition but a guaranty of =
,eace: "At first a principle of Ameri-
ar foreign policy, it has become an
International understanding, and it is
lot illegitimate for the people of the
States to say that the coven-
mt should recognize that fact. In
is essence it is consistent with the
pirit of the covenant" Though
Britain has had it's tits with
Monroe doctrine, it also had a
hare in it's establishment, and in gen
raj has not di%sapproved. Though the
that was before France had :
the Napoleonic tradition; in
ar time opposition has come mainly
rom Germany, and the new Germany
unlikely to renew it. The declara-
by the representatives of Great
puts the seal on the Monroe
the security of which had al
lady been assured by the revision of L.
covenant.-Springield Repub- Z
can. a r.
Isn't it about time for some United II
.ates senator to stand up on his
nd legs and howl himself hoarse
,out the American airplanes "break-