The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-02-06
BRIGHTNESS AND BLESSINGS.

BRIGHTNESS AND BLESSINGS.
1t cost the farmers Of North Dakota
SIC per head to join the Non-partisan
League. A. c. Townley, grand sachem
of the league, promised them bright
ness and blessings, the strangulation
of big Biz" and taxation with 100 pei
cent farmer representation. Now
Townley has delivered both represent
alton and taxation, with the emphasis
on taxation Last year the farmers of
North Dakota paid $1,6SS,355 in taxes
This year they will pay $4,540,S26 in
cent Minnesota is invited to follow
North Dakota's lead and establish a
Townley Soviet government. 1t will
cost only SIG a membership to listen
to the big noise and then have your
taxes jabbed up 269 per cent. "Big
Biz" in its most rapacious days could
not have contrived a gaudier gold
brick to bounce on the skull of guilt
BILE public.-The Country Gentleman.
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Director General Hines, of the rail-
road administration has served notice
on the striking electricians of the Mil
waukee road, which is still under gov
eminent control, that unless they get
back to work today their places will
be filled tomorrow morning and they
will be out of jobs. That kind of talk
will do more to settle a strike and set
tie it in the right way than months
Of dilly-dallying with commissions Sc
1ected by politicians. Governor Cool
idge, of Massachusetts, settled the
Boston policemen's strike without any
delay or frills. "You re fired" he
told the policemen and began at one,
filling their places with ex-service men
who were glad to take the jobs an(
were given the positions made vacant
by the strikers without any civil serv-
ice or other examination. The people
upheld the action of Governor Coolidg,
by giving him the biggest majority ev-
er given candidate for governor in
Massachusetts.
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Moscows highway commissioner;
have been doing good work and are
planning to continue it. They have
no ri Of ho n
ing ahead to do the best thing posi-
BILE. OF course there will be some |
kicking and complaints, that is to be !
expected in all public Improvements
but the people want good roads and |
they voted the bonds to provide the
money to build them and recommend
ed good men for commissioners tc /
see that the money is carefully ex-
pended. 1t is up to the people of
Moscow district to support the COM
missiOners in their work They will
welcome friendly suggestions but
carping citicism will not help in any
way. 49, --i@e~s-t@
4sA~J p IA "a
international law, as interpreted by
some English authorities, will require
Holland, ii she wishes to give asylum
TO the former German kaiser, to re-
move him from close proximity to the
German border and place him on an
Island, la Napoleon. In case the
Dutch decide to do this the former
kaiser will be able to resemble Ma
poleon" in one respect, at least. No
matter whether Holland decides to
surrender him for trial or isolate Kim
On an island it looks like that pur-
chase of the House of Doom as
home for the former kaiser, will be
bad investment and the house will
probably be for rent
NJ ~ ~
Germany says she cannot surrender
the murderers asked for by the Allies
and that the government will resign
rather than to attempt it. If any one
believed the Germans had reformed"
md are repentaYt for the dastardly
crimes they committed against men,
wunien, children, cities, towns and
lam1ets, it is surely time to wake upl
md realizze that "once German, al
w1ys German applies now as it has
llways applied. The leopard cannot
shAnge its spots