The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-09-19


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The mine owners have not strength
ened their position with the public
by raising the price of coal from S1.25
to $3.50 per ton on the strength OF
the strike, which was recently set
tied. The miners are now working
for the same wage scale as before the
strike, but the public is paying a good
stiff advance over what was high
price before the strike, showing that
mine owners are simply taking advan-
tage of the opportunity to fitch so
much evtra money from millions of
people, many of whom can scarcely
afford to buy fuel. While there
seemed to be no reason for the min
ers to strike when they did, and public
sentiment was strongly in opposition
to the strike, public sentiment is now
just as strongly opposed to the hold
up methods of the mine owners, who
awaited only an opportunity to tight
en- the screws on the public.
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A boss, political or otherwise, isn't
worth durn after he is boosted out of
the saddle. Over in Washington it
has been the custom of Ed Sims, an
~astute politician of Port Townsend,
to have the lower house in the Wash
ington legislature run according TO
his own carefully prepared specifica-
tions. He has already made plans
for manipulating the next legislature,
it being generally conceded that he
would again be nominate dand elected.
His astuteness, however, has not made
him a good judge of public senti
ment, and when the primary vote
was counted he was elected 10 stay
at home, by a considerable majority.
AS result some one else will have
to run the Washington legislature, or
1t will have to run itself, all Of which
will be fairly satisfactory to the peo-
pie of the state as whole.
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WHAT MR. FORD SAYS
Henry Ford says mines, railroads
and organized labor are run by
twenty sharks in Wall Street. Speak
mig Of laboor unions, Ford says:
These simple, honset men believe |
they have been organized for their |
own good by their own kind OF men, |
but 1 tell you they have been orga- |
nized by the agents of Wall Street |
and nobody else. Wall Street cannot |
handle hundreds of thousands of sep
arate, different thinking individuals.
20 it went out and had them orga-
nfzed into unions"
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OREGON ELKs AND THE CHURCH
Concerned as they are with broad
principles OF fraternity and sound
morality, the Oregon Elks are con-
aistent in endorsing the movement
for "go-to-church-day," which has
as its purpose the extension of q
practice fundamentally desirable from
the viewpoint OF community interest.
The statement OF the resolution that
there is no force In the world today
as potent as the various churches in
the United States for furthering all
endeavors that make for the better
of the state and nation does
not err on the side OF over-empha-
sis. 1t is quite capable of proof, and
It is conceded by all but a negligent
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the great need of the people is more
religion in their daily lives Un-
the hope accompanies the
plea for church attendance on at least
,ne day Of the year that this will grow
nto the habit Of attendance on the
,ther days also. Such indeed is the
genius OF the various days" and
weeks that we are called on from
ime to time to observe.-Oregonian.
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BRAVE IN COMBATING DEATH
That was a pitiful and courageous
fort that the AZ miners, entombed in
he Argonaut mines, made to save their
ives by bulkheading against the
eath-dealing gas which filled the
nine. The men were shown to be
and brave, but it was be-
ond anything they could have done
) save, or even prolong their lives.
he great comfort their relatives and
-iends have is that their sufferings
ere of short duration. While the
,ss of life has been small, compared
18th that in many catastrophies, there
ave been few cases which have held
lie public attention as this has, due
the fact that hope was maintained