The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-06

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herein.
All rights Of republication of
1esiAl dispatches herein are alss re-
served.
ing the legislature in special session
II ratify the suffrage amendment to
the constitution. Idaho was one of
the first states in the union to give
votes to women and it should not be
the last to ratify the amendment
giving the women the right to vote
anywhere in the United States. Idaho
has always been a leader in progress
siv poliics and it is sustaining it's
reputation by this progressive ac-
tion. The governor is also right in
agreeing to allow the legislators
actual expenses for this special ses-
Sion. They could not afford to go
to Boise and pay their own expenses.
It is bad enough to ask them to
donate their time, but they are will
ing to do this. To demand, as was
suggested, hat they donate both
time and expenses, would be a rank
injustice. If these legislators are
public spirited and unselfish enough
To donate their time the tax payers
ought to be more than willing to
donate the expenses of he extra SEES
sion.
Oregon has started a campaign
70 use Oregon made goods. The
slogan is "Buy Oregon Products"
This "buy at home" campaign should
Be carried into every community.
Moscow should preach and practice
It. We have products made in Mos
cow, by Moscow labor, the raw ma
terial coming from farms near Mos
cow, that are as good as can be
found anywhere. This applies to
Hour, made in our great mill here;
pork, beef and mutton products of
the Hagan & Gushing packing plant,
excelled nowhere, and the products
of the Idaho National Harvester
company, which can make anything
that is made of metal, as good and
as cheaply as it can be made else
where. BY %patronizing these and
other home industries we would
build up a payroll that would keep
Moscow to the front, increase the
population and make the town more
substantial than it is now. Helping
these industries now here would
bring others to Moscow and make of
this a manufacturing as we'll as a
trading center.
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The farmers are unalterably Op-
posed to strikes and for that reason.
IT no other, there can never be a
union of farmers and organized la
Dor. The grange, one of the greatest
Farm organizations in the world, has
just gone on record, in a referendum
vote, as favoring the provision of the
railroad bill f~orbidding
of railroad employees. This is
provision that the railroad men
announced would mean an i'm
mediate strike and the tying up of
all railroads if the bill becomes a
aw- The farmers have endorsed
what union labor all over the United
states is condeming in the strong
st terms. This shows how impos-
'ibie it will be to ever get the farm
rs, who are employers of labor, to
tie up" with the labor organization !
md kills all hope of the zone big
lnion" of which /. w. w. and other {
'g1tators have been boasting so
much of late. :
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Consumers of gasoline, coal oil
fuel oil are paying the $1OO, OOO,-
90 donation that John d. Rockefel-
er gave to charity on Christmas. The 2
of crude oil has been advanced :
and announcement is made to- !,
ny that the price of gasoline and
Oal oil have been advanced a cent Ii
gallon both for home markets and e
or exports. Even the people of D
will be made to contribute to =
charities Of the great oil magnate /"
tho has taken from the common
eople more money than any man 81
as taken from them in the history o
{ the world. d
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The great Krupp gun works are "
usily engaged in making agricul- !
Iral implements for Germany's