The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-02-09

were wrecked by split in the Social
list party. and for time the republi
itself was actually imperilled T.
meet the crisis President Masaryk an
| pointed cabinet of experts, most O.
| lthe men being experienced function
aries In various departments of tn,
state. 1t worked so well that at tlfe
end of the year the republic was EN-
tirely peaceful, and 1T was deemed
safe to- form new group composed OF
representatives of the voting popuIa-
ton.
This is the kind of government the
people waut-the only kind; in their
opinion, that is democratic-on that
can be held responsible by the voters.
The citizens of this republic do NOT
vote for their president He is elect
the more desirable to contrc} the
house Of deputies and a cabinet Of
deputies; for they alone are elected by
popular suffrage. No citizen under
twenty-six can vote for senator's.
Equal suffrage obtains in Czecho-
slovakia and there is no uncertainty
about the wonaan vote Voting is COM
pulsory,. only extreme old age. sick,
ness or other disability excusing citi-
zens from going to the polls. A pc.
litical Stacker in this republic is puns
ished as is a repeater i'll the United !
States-when they catch the re-
peater.
Like Fusion Election.
Everybody being. in politics the in
terest shown in the formation of 4
the first responsible government |
Appropriated to that of a fusion |
election in New York city. The des-
TIMES Of the Czechosloyak people were
very closely concerned, for the poIiti-
cal situation, while much improved, Isl
by no means, tranquil. The Czechs
have almost completely solved the,
once difficult problem of Slovhk,s
which speaks. less and less of autOn--
omy and more of satisfaction in the
republic, but there remains the stub
born German problem and the NOSE.
than stubborn Magyar problem.
Both of these racial minorities ap-
pear to be irreconcilable. From, the
first they have demanded autonomous
states, small foreign islands scattered
the republic, and they ex
ist in parliament as purely obstruc-
tive groups. For eight months after
the first parliament met in Prague the
Germans held a parliament of their
own in Vienna, making constitution
and passing a whole volume of laws.
Needless to say the laws proclaimed +
the Germans, wherever they lived, en-
Iirely independent of the majority OF
The population the Czechoslovaks-
Finding their parliamentary aetlyl-
les entirely ignored, the Germans de-
,ided to elect deputies to the Prague
They were Hospitality re-
,eived, but it cannot be said that they
nave shown themselves grateful.
With the Magyars they have done ev-
erything possible to embarrass the
government, raising rough house only
to scenes described Dy
Mark TwaU bin the old Austrian cham
Der. More than once the German del
SSdlcS nave CduSCO SUSPENSION ~ -
sitting by continued singing OF
'Deutschsland uber Allies" Late in the
summer session a particularly noisy
and unmannerly group was suspend
ed for five days, whereupon the entire
German delegation walked out for the
remainder Of the session.
Press Indorses Benes.
The German Magyar and Commu-
mist groups naturally have few good
words to say of the new cabinet. The
rest Of the country appears to be en-
Eirelv satisfied with its personnel.