The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-08-30

special dispatches herein are also re-
served.
THE HUNGER STRIKE
The press of the world is giving
much space to the hunger strike" of
the lord mayor of Cork, Ireland, who
was arrested for treason and placed
IN an English prison. He refused to
eat, and for. many days, has been
near deaths door, from starvation.
Premier Lloyd George is being i'm
portuned to release the prisoner for
fear he may die as a result of his
self-imposed fast. The premier, who
met and defeated the shrewdest di-
Plomats of Europe, refuses to open
the prison doors BECAUSE THE lord
mayor refuses to eat the food given
him.
Who is there, among the law-abid-
ing and law-respecting people who
will say that Lloyd George is not
right? Why should the doors of the
prison be opened because a prisoner
refuses to eat? Let that prisoner be
the lord mayor of Cork or Weary
Willie" of the United States, or an
ordinary criminal, refusal to eat
should not be grounds for releasing
him from Jail.
The hunger strike" was inaugu-
rated by Mrs. Pankhurst and other
woman ~suffragists of England, who
violated all laws, committed many
crimes, and when arrested refused to
eat. Maudlin sympathy demanded
their release and made of the law a.
farce. Let hunger strikes" become
successful in opening the doors of
jails to criminals and we had as well
tear down u jails and wipe the
code off our law books. Our
~penitentiaries will be useless. Crime
will increase and dominate the civil
lied world. All a, person need do,
when arrested for crime is refuse to
eat and he or she will be released.
Would not that be a pretty state of
Yet that is what will come
to pass if the hunger strike" be-
comes successful in opening Jail doors |
to the strikers.
All strikes are wrong. They are
not justified. They are the last re-
sort of a cause not backed by law.
Without going into the merits of the
arrest of Lord Mayor MacSweeney,
OF Cork, Ireland, We would say that to
release him because he refuses to eat
would be to make a farce of the
law. It would be settling a
dangerous precedent.
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WHITMAN COUNTY LOSES
An interesting story is that in con-
lection with the census of Whitman
ounty, which was raised from the
ninth to the seventh class by abso-
utely illegal methods 10 years ago,
now may have to go back to it's
Did rating In order to secure in
,reased salaries Whitman county of
'icers declared the county had 3 $4,000
Inhabitants and was entitled to be
in the seventh class, although
he census reports showed that the
ounty had but 1920. The trick was
urned over the protest of the far
and taxpayers and for 10 years
Whitman county has occupied a false
osition in the state and her officers
ave collected salaries to which they
yere not entitled.
But, as we used to say when boys
cheatin' comes to provin'' and an
ther federal census shows that the
ounty not only did not have $4,000
1910, but lacks even more. of hay-
lg that number now. There can be
0 possible excuse. except a SALARY
rab" for retaining the county in the
class and we may look to see
le county returned to the class in
hich it has been for 40, these many
IA IA IA
Fifty-nine bushels of wheat per
sold at $2.35 per bushels, means
1855 per acre for a single crop of
heat. That is the record of a La
h county field for 81 acres. Can
u beat it. Is such land worth $500
r acre?
County Records
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