The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-08-09
EUROPEAN SITUATION ALARMING

EUROPEAN SITUATION ALARMING
Alarming reports come from Eur
ope where the Bolsheviki are maxim,
fearful gains and the crushing O
Poland by the outlaws seems inevi
table. The Allies are confronted will
a desperate situation. The crazet
Russians, driven by Lenine, Away.
"queer" and Trotzky, an irresponsi
York paper after being banishet
from Russia, are sweeping westward
and threaten to overrun Europe. LIE
nine boasts that they will conquer
Europe in few months, or years, al
most, and will then combine against
England and the United States.
Germany is ripe for bolshevism
The German peasants, ruled for cen
turtles by dynasty of merciless des-
pots, cowardly at heart, but over
bearing and cruel when in power, are
ready for the drunkenness of bolshe-
vism and once the hordes of Trotzky
and Lenine get foothold in Germany
the condition of Europe becomes ex-
ceedingly menacing.
With such strong men as Premier
Lloyd George, of England, and Mill
Grand of France, and Marshal Foch,
the military genius working together
harmoniously, with the certainty that
Italy and other smaller countries will
join them it looks like the bolshevists
may be halted as they have no ships,
no credit and no means of obtaining
either. But the situation is enough
to cause one to pause and wonder
whittier are we drifting? ?" The spirit
of bolshevism is abroad in our own
land and breaks out in many places
spasmotically, but is generally prom
pity quelled. The news from Denver
where regular bolshevist move
ment was started by striking street
car men who tried to call out all other
unions, but were promptly suppress
ed by the military and today com
pletely surrender, shows that bolshe-
vism cannot control in the United
States, at least until there is mark
ed change of sentiment.
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Senator w. E. Borah will speak in
Moscow tomorrow (Tuesday) night
on the league of nations. Senator
Borah is a fluent, forceful and inter
esting speaker and there should be
good attendance to hear him. Few
towns will have the opportunity to
hear a man of Senator Borah's cali
bre in the presidential campaign here.
AS Mrs. Borah is almost a native"
of Moscow, where the greater part
of her girlhood was spent, the visit
of the distinguished senator has a
local interest in addition to his nat
ional or international reputation as
speaker.
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We are slowly, but surely getting
back to prewar prices, and the Pa
louise country will be among the first |
to feel it. But the trouble is that |
he reductions are coming first in the
,hings produced here, the crops and
livestock and wool and fruit produced
on the farms. If we could have re-
luctions in the cost Of clothing, GRO
,eries, sugar and farm machinery in
proportion to the reduction in the 1
price of farm products, it would seem
more equitable.
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That the pea crop of Latah county
S the best of any section of the north
vest, is the statement of grain men i
md others who have travelled extern
lively and noted crop conditions. This
5 partly duesto our superior soil and
argely due to the better farming
Methods near Moscow as one of the
plendid results of having the Uni
ersity of Idaho, with it's efficient
agricultural college, located here. i
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If the returns from the primary 7
lection of Tuesday are a criterion !
f sentiment in Latah county, the I
are either powerful weak"
$ the negro said, or not at all in 4
crested in political affairs. They {
asst less than one-fifth of the votes s
asst at the election in this county and =
even of the 81 precincts held no
primaries.
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