The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-10
lfEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS

served.
LET THERE BE PEACE ON
EARTH.
Today notifications of the treaty of
peace with Germany, signed by 13 ma
lions, were exchanged and the war
is actually ended. so far as those ma
lions are concerned. The United
States, the leading nation of the
world, is still technically at war with
Germany, because of petty partizan
politics controlling selfish men in
both parties in Washington.
But the war which Germany thrust
upon an unwilling world; the war that
eclipsed all other wars in suffering
and loss; the war that was utterly
without an excuse, is ended. Ger
many, burdened with debt, with no
navy, a small army, her boastful
kaiser an outcast and an outlaw, wait
ing for trial for grave crimes has re-
ally suffered less than some other
countries, but she has suffered much.
That the Germans have not yet learn
ed the lesson they should have learned
from the wal they started and lost, is
evident, but they have, undoubtedly,
learned that the kaiser was not in
partnership with God and that Ger
many was not invincible and that Ger
many's boosted deficiency was large
ly a myth.
But peace, the greatest blessing to
the world, is really here and there is
cause for rejoicing. European coun-
tries have signed the peace terms and
the United States will eventually
adopt some kind of ratification of the
peace treaty. 1t is unthinkable that
this country will reject the treaty and
try to make a new peace treaty with
Germany. All German sym%pathizers
in the United States hope for this, but
it is a forlorn hope. There are too
many loyal Americans to permit Ger
many's wishes and the wishes of Ger
man sympathizers here, to govern.
It has peer almost five and a half
years since the war was started, but
it is technically, actually and effect
ually ended today.
SOCIALISTS DENIED SEATS.
Victor Berger was denied a seat in
the house of representatives at Wash
linton today by a vote of 1928 to 6. This
is the second time the house has de-
MED a seat to this socialist criminal
who is under sentence of 20 years in
the penitentiary for disloyalty and
helping the enemy while the United
States was at war. He is a German,
but is a naturalized citizen and halls
from Milwaukee, one of the most no.
toriously pro-German districts in the
United States. The house did right
in rejecting him both times and it is
not to the credit of republican ex-
floor Leader Mann of Illinois that he
voted for this notorious criminal to
have a seat in the house that makes
the avs that Berger and his party de-
clare should not be obeyed.
The New York Legislature also de- t
MED seats to five socialists who were :
to that body. 1t was shown q
oath to the socialist party and
the platform of that party which they
endorsed, binds them to obey the man
dates of the party leaders when these
mandates come in conflict with the
of state or nation. Such men :
nave no right to a seat in the law
making bodies of state or nation. The
man who places party welfare above
to his country should never
be given a seat in any legislative or
ganization that makes laws to govern
people, but this is more especially
true of a party that has announced
its desire and intention to overthrow
the present form of government n
is made up largely of criminals and !
1t was shown at Albany, New York,
hat Ludwig AK. Martens, who claims
o represent the bolshevists of Rus
liza in the United States and is now
arrest for deportation to Rus
ia, helped to draft the platform up /
which the New York socialist ]ug- {
slators were elected and is one of .
leaders of that party, who will 1