Then it was that Grover Cleveland, then president, performed a service that won him the commendation of right thinking people everywhere, when he ordered United States troops to Chicago and stamped out the treason.
In the present instance, the officials of Spokane are standing on thin and slippery legal technicalities. They seem to forget that this nation is now in a desperate war; that a distemper that could be passed over as a nuisance in ordinary times is now rank treason to the nation.
It is the weakness of the ordinary city government that it develops political "wobblies" who seem to know nothing but to cater for votes and jobs; who are as shifty as the sands when moral courage is demanded; and who add fuel to the flames of disloyalty and criminality by their truckling and their cowardice.
SEND A BUNCH OF BANANAS ALONG
For some time past The Star-Mirror has been receiving marked copies of the New York Evening Mail, an exceptionally interesting newspaper, by the way. The editorials marked for our special attention relate to the banana as an article of food. Of course, this is all part of the international propaganda in behalf of the banana trust. It would be much more effective if the trust would send along a bunch of bananas with each dead head editorial it wishes reproduced. 