The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-08-31
IDAHO'S SENIOR SENATOR

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The current issue of Judge has tn
following to say of Senator w.
Borah, Idaho's senior senator:
Senator Borah is undoubtedly tn
biggest man in the United States sen
ate today. This may not be consid
cred very high order of compliment
but it can be paid him with entir
safety.
1.-THE immediate inspiration fo.
these remarks is his reply to Balfou
on the subject of foreign debt can
collation.. Europe is in as great neet
of American assistance today as she
was in 1917 and of course her plight
is as important to US now as it was
then. But in the meantime America
has made a discovery, and that is that
in going to the rescue of Europe
whether in peace or war, she must
drive her bargain first This is Sena-
tor Borah's meaning when he says
that before we indulge in debt can
collation. there must be genuine signs
of disarmament among our debtors;
that before we extend the helping
hand again we must know it is to
some permanent purpose and not
merely to prolong the present ruin
GUS farce called peace.
"It sounds almost too simple, but
such is craftsmanship"
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A MESSAGE TO BE HEARKENED TO
Professor Brosnan, American his
tory teacher at the state university
and the author of Idaho's school his
tory, brought us the wine of refresh
ment upon the two occasions when,
atsthe "Kullyspell'' picnic and at the
high school cornerstone laying, he
brought home to US tho wonderful |
story of David Thompson and it's con- /
nection with our own country. He |
found ready and grateful response
when he spoke for the use as refer
ence books in our school library of
those volumes which have to do with
the early history of Lake Pend d.
Oreille
The scenes of Lewis and Clark and
of Thompson and Finan Mcdonald
nave lacked a Washington Irving and
the indelibly wrought literature which
for all time has preserved the story
of Astoria and the Astors The time
many not come when, in a more or
less effervescent and ephemeral lit
erature, painstaking artist will paint
on glowing canvas the great epic
which lies here at hand, but it is
worthy of somebody's efforts. It lay
long, this story of Thompson, in the
nouldy archives, to be but recently
brought to light by Coues and to be
given some slight tinge of romance
It least by Elliott and those who now
dispute with him the exact location
IN the lake where the great advent
urer built for his employers trading
ost which antedated Spokane House
nd Astoria.
Professor Brosnan's plea for the
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for the true and great in
terature over this fretful hour of
Main Street. and the problem nov
|" struck a sympathetic chord and
ton by those who, with the kindly
,irits of Scott and Cooper, Dickens,
awthorne, Poe, Prescott and Park
an had real induction into the
source of inspiration in
csc days, when of the making of
oks there is no end.'-Pend dOreille
view.
IN WHICH ALL CONCUR
Burton L. French and Addison T.
lith Idaho's representatives in the
yer branch of congress, were nom
tied in the state republican con-
ltion this week by a unanimous
e. No one expected anything diff
ent. No state in the Union has
2 ADLER representatives in either
nch of congress than the state of
no. This is saying a great deal,
we have no fear Of being chal-
yed or the statement contradictory
ewiston Banner.
n - -
is quite evident that the United
,es senate will follow the lead of II
house and pass the bonus bill It
be done, however, without any
lite plan for raising the money,
it may be sometime before the
ers will be able to reap any
fit A bonus bill, passed just for
sake of getting through bonus