The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-09
TOMORROW A SACRED DAY

TOMORROW A SAChED DAl
Tomorrow is designated by Pres1-
dent Coolidge as a day of mourning
for Warren G. Harding, late president
of the United States, and every Amerl-
can should pause, at least for a time,
during the day, and join in the proper
observance Well may we contemp-
late the qualities of the great and
good man who was so suddenly called
from his work, which was not
work for himself, but for others His
life was practically sacrificed for his
country. the inherent honesty of the
man and desire to be of service, MAX
ing it impossible for him to give any
thing but the last full measure OF
devotion to the country which had
called him to it's leadership. Tomor-
row, with bowed heads and saddened
hearts, his fellow citizens will take
their last farewell of Warren G. Hard
ing, whose name will go down in his
tory as one of the nations greatest
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UNAFFECTED BY BLUE SKY LAWS
If we had some rigorous blue sky
laws to apply to the business of the
politicians perhaps the annual invest
ment of the American people in the
securities of that class of promoters
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exchange.
But the politician is privileged. He
can go out and sell the public some
thing he hasn't got and be questioned
by no law He can promise dividends
to voters more alluring than any re-
turn guaranteed by fake oil COM
panies to their victims, and public
justice is not concerned.
The politicians themselves may not,
in their personal capacity, invite any
great confidence. They are likely to
be too we'll known in their communi-
ties. But no matter what their local
regulations may be they have only to
to promise in its name-and they are
believed. Hard-headed business men
who couldn't be made to stand min
ute to listen to the e1oQuence of
promoter who had a little proposition
guaranteeing return of 100 per cent
from gold mine not yet dug, will
cheer madly when politician, intro
duced by a brass band hired on |
credit, promises to make government |
return a 500 per cent profit on celery |
vote cast as he wants it cast
There is no more amazing spectacle |
than that of a community, wise in |
all business matters, sophisticated,
even cynical, turning out to follow
and acclaim wordy demagogues who
advertise that they have patent
process known to none but them
selves, by which they can make the
government repay all the losses of
business, restore prosperity, boost
prices to the producer and reduce
them to the consumer and at the same
time lift taxes from everybody.
1t doesn't matter that government
never yet has done these things
and that the promises of politicians
that it would do them have been a
thousand times unredeemed. They
have only to repeat them. The blue
sky promoter finds it necessary oc-
casionally to change the name of his
enterprise, to reprint his faded securi-
ties and stick some new and gaudier
seals on them, but the politicians
have to take no such pains. Their
old stuff goes as good as new; they
put up the same discredited candi- !
dates, make the same declaration of
repudiated principles, reaffirm their {
pledges, and the public buys.
Fl ~ -
Henry Ford thinks the time may
come when the government will be an ]
industrial rather than a political in
stitution. It looks that way We
be surprised. considering the
rapidity with which the payroll is ex- '
banding. if everybody would be work I
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