The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-08-28
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are abroad
nj the land preaching the gospel of
discomfort and using all the wiles I'M
scrupulous minds can conceive to en-
trap the unsuspecting and the credu-
lous. Their name is legion and the
object of their well-feigned solocitude
is usually the poor" farmer. They
are jealous in their work but are sti-
mulated less by altruistic motives thar
by a desire to augment an already
fat salary by securing new members
of the nonpartisan league who con-
tribute so much per for the the good
of the cause.
Atthis particular juncture in North
Idaho, it is hard to find a farmer
whose crop is not a direct refutation
of the organizers distressful walls
about the lost condition of the tillers
of the soil. Meager yields of agri-
cultural crops can not be charged to
an iniquitous social or governmental
system in 1920. A beneficent Provi-
dence has made that stock argument
of no avail to the calamity bowler at
this time. But he is resourceful, for
the continuance of his salary depends
upon his herding the unwary into the
non-partizan fold at the regular rate
per head.
In the circumstances, this year, a
new scarecrow was devised to fright
en- the farmer into a belief that he is
opposed and impoverished. This new
creation of an imaginative ingenuity
was discovered in Latah county.
Whether it has been set up in any
other field is not yet known. The bug
aboo developed, seemingly, out of
empty air. 1t was sponsored by 'they
say" and 81 have heard but it was a
good scarecrow with which to stam-
pede farmers into the n-on-partizan
corral. From somewhere the summer
breezes brought to the ears of Latah
county farmers the whisper that their
abundant crops would be practically
valueless this year because bankers
and other plutocratic interests had
conspired to prevent farmers obtain
ing money on their grain in customary
ways to finance the handling of crops.
This nefarious scheme was insidiously
worked oven a wide territory. Sus-
picion and discomfort were e%ngender-
ed and the propagandists were jubil-
ant. |
Fortunately Professor H. B. Reed,
of the University of Idaho, discovered
the evil thing. Information regarding
it reached him from SO many sources
that he tried to find its origin. Vain
effort. The bogy was without sub
stance, without semblance of truth, a
floating cloud of falsehood Fantastic
and d~iphanous;" Professor Reeds dis
closure of this latest plot of un-Ameri-
can propagandists to bamboozle the
farmers of Idaho appeared in the Spo-
kane Spokesman Review of August
Thus another shell game intended
to victimize the credulous has been ex-
posed. 1t is not at all unlikely that
emissaries will hereafter
brand Professor Reed as a plant tool
of capitalism for what he did in the
cause of truth and honesty.-Kooskia
M~ountaineer.
IA Es -
Cox and Harding are both branded
rs "wet" by the prohibitionists, so
is no choice etwee the two
on that score. William Jen-
Bryan charged b a Cox violated
he laws of Ohio and assisted the vets
n every way to carry on their bust
less despite the fact that Ohio had
dry" He charged that Cox
"the smell Of the beer watts on
lis garments" And now comes fhel
nominee for president who
hows that Harding voted wet 81
ines and lodged roll calls and
uorum calls on wet votes, 1853
One gathers from these fig
res and statements that the prohib-
see no other way to ave the
dry law enforced than by electing
re prohibition candidates and, as that
i'll never be done, the country will
emain wet" The prohibitionfsts
but one idea, but fortunately that
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