The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-08-28

Most candidates for office in these
piping times of peace and strikes are
coming before the voters with the
statement that they are for lower tax
es, all OF which sounds good. Up in
Spokane, however, there is a tavpay-
ers' league and the candidate is
brought before the league and asked
just what specific plans he has for
lowering taxes. So far, according to
reports, there have been but few
really intelligent answers, due, prob
ably, not to lack of sincerity on the
part of the candidate, nor, perhaps,
to lack of a fairly comprehensive
knowledge Of the subject Of govern
ment and taxes, but due rather to the
fact that big bills have already been
created and must be paid and also to
the fact that the public will contin-
re to clamor for those things which
cost money. The candidate probably
e all right, but the promises lie
haR VI OAaSON taASo j VO1y W.
ably beyond his ability to flfill.
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The simple truth is that lockouts
and strikes are a form of warfare,
say the Railway Age. When nations
are at peace they have certain moral
claims upon one another. When they
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moral claims upon each other except
that in carrying IN warfare they
should not resort to inhuman meth
DDS. When their representatives sit
down after the struggle to make peace
they make it on the basis of the status
which has been created by the strug-
gle. The same thing must be recoe-
nized as true of lockouts and strikes.
They disrupt all moral obligations
which each party owed to the other
before the strike or lockout. If Meth
er party has won a decisive victory
the settlement is a compromise in
which each party comedies what it
chooses to or must. If either party
has won a decisive victory it dictates
the kind of settlement which it be-
lieves will best promote it's own inter :.
est in the long run. !,
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The statement that Henry Ford will 9
be forced to close down his factories !
because of the lack Of coal, due to r
the strikes, thus throwing more tnan .
one hundred thousand men out Of en- i
ployment, most of them men with h
families, shows just where a contin- Il
country. This is just the beginning q
and if the strike persists, the suffer !,
ing and crime of the coming winter q
will exceed anything that America has Z,
known. This, too, at a time when q
The nation is eager to get back to r
prosperity and when there is a de- r.
mand for the labor of every man and a
or the product which his hands t,
would help to urn out. W
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1t is argued before the North Da- =
rota supreme court, in the case If a
nan convicted in a lower court of
murder, that he is sub
ect to 'impulsive insanity" 1t is to "
e hoped that such argument will not :
ave any weight with the court. 1t
) dangerous argument. 1t would be
Inc, SO far as the criminal is con-
erned, to be able to convince the
arfous courts that he is subject to
impuIsive insanity" When a man
a fool Of himself, whether it
e to the extent that he can be
rought before the courts, or only TO
le extent that he makes an ass Of
in the eyes Of his fellow men,
as a rule, does it under impulse,
ore or less sudden. A man, to be
good citizen, must learn to control
S sudden impulses. The best and
e worst of us are subject to ;m-H
Uses.
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with millions Of people eager to
ave poverty and suffering existing
south and east Europe, and 10
me to the United States, which they
lieve is the land of milk and honey,
r three per cent postwar immigra-
n law is a boon which we are just
to appreciate. America is
y eager to aid suffering and dis
but If we were overrun with
,se people, who could not possibly
assimilated in the numbers which
uld come here with immigration
restricted, American ideals and in