Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-09-21


his case it has resulted in a specie.
of glorified advertising most effective
for Borah. He calls it 'independ-
ence." Some of the best thinkers il
the country call it by another name
We in Idaho every once in a while
are treated to excerpts from the big
eastern sources of publicity-the big
dailies, magazines, etc. in which
Borah is lauded as a premier states
man and the man of the hour, his
undoubted powerful personality glori-
fled and exaggerated and he himself
hailed as the coming Savior of the
/ nation.' Seldom are we allowed to
see the reverse of the shield from
these same sources. AS illustrating
this point we are publishing below
an editorial from the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, one of the oldest news
papers in the United States and whose
corps of editorial writer's hold a very
high place in contemporaneous news
paper literature: -, ss<.sz
Before we went in and during the
war Senator Borah was not much
help. America was moving in unison
in 1917-1S. and it is the habit and
weakness of the senator to move in
unison with no thing and no one. !
In 1920 he was chief battle-axe
Borah and Bitter Ender" became syn |
onymous. He helped block America
out of the league, and his dagger was
one that stabbed treaty approval to
death.
Had America entered the league it
may be that Europe would not be in
the fix it is today. We would have
been working with the world to pre-
vent what has happened.
Because of Borah and his like we
are not in the league. Because of
his Battalion of Death" we cut our
selves off from any right to say what :
Europe should or should not do. He
and his comrades closed the straight
road we might have travelled to the
Did worlds help.
Note now the unchanging Borah
Ind his marvellous consistency! Iso-
alton has slipped from him as
,loak The erstwhile high priest of :
hands off''! wants us to intervene, =
lot In behalf of an ally but In behalf :
# Germany. He wants us to take
france by the throat and throw her
ut Of the Ruhr. Borah from Boise
8 all 1ather because German terri -
Dry is Invaded and military rule es- -
ablished by France In an effort to ~
ollect from an evasive and sulIen
ebtor.
I'VE cannot in honor keep silent
bout the Ruhr," intones the Idahoan.
lie pulls out the tremolo stops as he
escribes the four horsemen gaI1op- m
ig Ruhrward. The Idaho Heart Lii
lowed Down" has again hung his
arp on willow tree and his voice :.
rips sorrow for the Germans. We q,
Jade all manner of pledges to the Ii
ermans, he walls, causing them TO sc
lsarm; we rendered Germany help WI
IS. IN
But who was it repudiated these of
lodges and the man who made .he,, at
Tho was 1t dragged America nome M
attend strictly to her own business 70,
no but the Borah Battalion Of at.
eath?"
William Edgar Borah IS a picture
que sort, wide hated personality %
ith string tie dramatic u.h. su,
has made himself a source Of = the
riain kind OF news. nearly always Gee
q kind calculated 70 fisciose The ~
na'or IN the pose OF an Idaho Ajax FRO
lying somebody's lightnings This ing
DIS nourshmsnt and he knows how SIX
get n. pea
OF
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