PLATTSMO (JTB. WEEKLY HEKALD, lllORSDAY, MAY S, 18S7.
GRAM) CELEBRATION AT PLATTSMOUTII OVER THE COMPLETION OF HER WATER WORKS SYSTEM
BUT THE GREATEST CELEBRATION OF IS AT
0 0 MAYERS' OPERA 0 HOUSE 0 CLOTHING 0 STORE 000
OVEK THE GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES OP CLOTHING AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. THESE PRICES TELL THE TALE;
Working suits,
ISusiness suits,
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(Corkscrew worsted, 8 B
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K.A.E. suits complete,
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KNOTTS IB IR. OS.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
II. KNOTT;
Editor.
A. It. KNOTTS, business Manager.
Til 11 PLATTSMOUTH HERALD
Is published every Thursday morning. Oillcc,
orner of Vine unit Filth streets.
WEEKLY, by mail.
8 no ooy one year 9 00
no copy o:ie year (in advance) 1 fiO
One copy 8lx montbs " 75
lteglstttred at the Post Office, Plattsmouth, aa
second olasa matter.
To hay is Plattsmouth's 4th of July.
Fikst, Plattbinouth needs a
park. Second, the park should
catcd within a mile from town.
public
be lo-
The value of Plattsmouth property
continues to climb steadily upwards and
the demand increases in proportion.
The United States, or rather the Stand
ard Oil Company, have found a rival in
Ruusia for the petrolium trade of the
world.
Outside of the effect upon commerce
and international trade which a foreign
war would bring about, America looks
upon the constant quibblings between
European nations with perfect compos
ure and indifference.
A local paper calls attention to the
fact that seven hundred head of cattle
are fed on the slops from the Nebraska
City Distillery. If that is intended as
satire it is from fair to middling but if it
is intended as an argument in favor of
distilleries it is very, very bad.
That man Bruce has been fired bodily
from his sit in the Niobrara land office at
last. A "West Point democrat gets the
job. If this thing keeps on the mug
wump in Nebraska will be out of a place
to lay his empty head by the beginning
of next winter. Lincoln Herald.
These is just as much necessity for a
city adopting business principles in the
management of municipal affairs as there
is for individuals in carrying on their
private concerns. Economy and pru
dence in the construction of public works
will give the benefits of the improvements
without piling up unnecessary taxes.
This clatter about Cleveland not want
ing a second term is all in your eye.
When you hear a Democrat talking about
not wanting to continue in an office of
any kind you can make up your mind
that it is because he is afraid he will not
get it and not from any sincere desire to
be relieved of the great responsibility
thrust upon him "unexpectedly and
without solicitation."
The Chicago Inter-Ocean quotes from
President Cleveland's recent letter the
following sentence: "I believe it would
be well if all Calhoun did and even all
he believed and taught and all his aspir
ations for the welfare and prosperity of
our republic were better known and un
derstood." The Inter-Ocean thsn adds:
" 4By the eternal,' that doesn't sound much
like Gen. Jackson, does it i"
Chicago is benefiting already from Re
publican municipal rule. Twenty-eight
low-class saloons, reported again and
again to Carter Harrison as the resort of
unArohifits nnrl Kl.irlclpcrs. hn.v-p. bppn rlnsj.
ed by Mayor Roche, and a score of oth-
er c,W Wh tli a PrWpnr W
conclusive, have received ultimata which
it will not pay them to disregard. The
new Mayor understands what his mission
is, and intends to justify the hopes of
those who elected him. St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
When you hear an editor berating the
business men of a community for not ad
vertising their goods, you are to under
stand merely that the editor is complain
ing because such advertising is not done
at his shop. And even if the business
men do not do any advertising at all, we
do not see the propriety of using the col
ums of a paper to rag and browbeat
them for transacting their own business as
they think best. Business men generally
know what they are about, and if they
don't the aver"? editors advice would not
help t"" " 7 want to advertise
f-s f'' r they will let
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Theiie is a touch of grim and timely
scorn in Mr. Conkling's suggestions to
the effect that it is specially pleasing to
see the memory of Grant honored by
''those who did not wait for the glorifi
cation of his death to show them his rug
ged grandeur, or the honesty of his pur
poses and his reverence for the rights of
every fellow crenture.'' The fame of
such a man is a national possession of
course, and all citizens have the right to
be proud of it; bi t that does not make it
appropriate and pleasing for men to pose
as his conspicuous eulogists who, during
his life, could find nothing too mean to
say about him. St. Louis Glohe-Dem.
But are the intelligently committed
crimes due to liquor forgery, swindling
and all confidence games of that kind
are they or can they be attributed to the
indulgence of liquor? Omaha Herald.
Yes, many of them. The man who en
gages in "forgery, swindling and all con
fidence games" may take care to avoid
liquor at the moment of the consumma
tion of the crime; but in many, very
many cases the ultimate cause or tuese
offenses are to be found in indulgence
in liquor. Ironi intemperance comes
loss of property, loss of nerve, losa of
character, loss of the stamnia which en
ables a man to stand up bravely and face
the ruin wrought by riotous living, and
then by easy degredation lie is qualified
for the crimes suggested by the Herald.
Experience proves it, and proves that
this class of crimes mav be attributed to
liquor, as to no other single
cause.
Sioux City Journal.
The resolution introduced into the
Nova Scotia Legislature looking for
separation of that province from the Do
minion, and its ultimate annexation to
the United States, is not likely to result
in any serious change in the relations of
the restless little State either with the
confederation or with this country. No
va Scotia has long been dissatisfied with
the Dominion Government, and would
like to cut loose from a connection which
it entered in about twenty years ago with
considerable misgivings. But neither
the Dominion nor the mother country
will, of course, consent to a separation
of any of the provinces. In the United
States the annexation scheme, even
though it should include all of Britis'
North America, and be favored by th
people of all that region as well as by the
Government of Great Britain, would find
much less support than it would have
done a quarter of a century ago. St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Manchester (England) Examiner
is generally regarded as one of the most
influential newspapers published in Great
Britain outside London, and its editor
is a leading Liberal politician whose san
ity has never been called in question.
But when he seriously advises English
holders of confederate bonds to hold on
to their "securities" in view of the "ris
ing power of the Democratic party in the
United States," he displays an ignorance
of American affairs scarcely equaled in
England or any other country. If he
knew anything about the Democratic
party he. would be aware, first, that so
far from being a "rising power," it was
in a moribund condition; and second,
that even if he ever dared to suggest a
national recognition of Confederate bonds
it would never do anything of the kind.
Repudiation, rathe than recognition, is
its Policy in reSard to obligations and
undertakings. ot. mollis uiouc-vtm.
Thf Des Moines Leader, in its issue
of the 29th ult., prints what purports to
be some figures from the advance sheets
of the report of the secretary of state re
garding the criminal returns of Iowa for
the year 1886-7. The Leader, having
reference te the alleged results of the
prohibitory law, undertakes to show that
the report "brings to light some startling
comparisons." lne inference wmcn it
seeks to inculcate is that prohibition has
saddled an enormous burden upon tax
payers, by reason of the prosecutions un
der the temperance laws. But the figures
in the Leader's own digest seem emphat
ically to rebut its own conclusion, or rath
er, perversion, it snows tnat tne total ex
penses on
tions,
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Another Haddock Case.
The Sioux City tragedy has been reenact-
ed at Haverhill, Ohio, where a Dr. North-
rup was brutally murdered by a saloon
keeper. The only reason assigned for the
cold blooded assasination wns Dr. North-
rup's attempt to secure local option. For
exercising only such rights there as are
guaranteed every man who rightfully
claimB protection under the American
flag, he was shot through and through
y a cowardly cur who will now have
the aff rootery to stand up before the mag
istrates of the law and demand a fair and
mpartial trial. Of course mob law is to
be deprecated but at this distance we are
somewhat inclined to the opinion that the
country would stand the shock if this
hellion were hung first and tried after
wards. But the responsibility for such
murderous assaults as those upon Rev.
Iaddock and Dr. Northrup rests upon
the shoulders of the rum power of this
nation. It is the whiskey element that
draws about itself the slums of society
and holds them in abiect obedience to its
commands. It respects neither law, order,
the rights of others nor the honor of our
country which depends so much upon the
character of the people; it builds its mon
uments of sorrow and writes its autograph
upon the forehead of fallen humanity; it
revels in fiendish delight at the commis
sion of ciimes which drape homes in
mourning; its only ambition is to throttle
the independence of our country and
transform the virtues of civilized com
munities into the' vice of gambling hells,
grog shops and houses of prostitution.
Talk about the whiskey clement asking
no other privilege than to be let alone !
Why, that's nil the deyil ever asked and
his hired men have made no improvement
over his Satanic Magisty's original de
mand. But it is not at all probable that it will
be let alone. In fact such dastardly deeds
as have already stained the hands of the
rum power with innocent blood will on
ly tend to give new life and renewed vig
or to the warfare against intemperence
till from every hill -top throughout the
land the cry shall be "the saloon must
go."
Plattsmouth Celebrates.
In commemoration of the completion
of a system of water works Plattsmouth
puts on her gay attire'and makes of this
a holiday. It is fitting that the occasion
should be generally observed by all citi
zens interested in the building of public
works, not more for the completion of
those we commorate than that this move
ment inaugurates a spirit of progressive
ness which will carry other improvements
of public importance to a successful ter
mination. We rejoice not only in the pos
session of water works but in the awaken
ing of a public spiritedness which has al
ready set cn foot other enterprises of im
portance calculated to carry on the good
work of building up the city, enlarging
its industrial facilities and adding in
creased wealth and population. It has
been noticed by those conversant with
the growth of public improvements in
cities generally that the construction of
water works maiks the beginning of a
new era and Plattsmouth only establishes
another precedent for so good a rule.
With water works comes grading, pav
ing and sewerage, and today while pub
lic sentiment is so appreciative of a good
beginning it is well to renew our resolu
tions of going ahead with the work so
well begun. Already a company has
been incorporated for the purpose of con
structing a street railway and arrange
ments hare been made to commence the
work within sixty days. Gas works are
in successful operation and an electric
light company are surveying the grounds
with a view of putting in a plant at this
point. Several loan and improvement
associations have been organized with
sufficient capital and wide awake officers
to insure their active participation in new
investments that will give permanency to
the building boon which has opened un
der such auspicious circumstances. And
best of all is the prospect of additional
railroad facilities. . It is no longer a se
cret that the J2" r- -&
South westr
into Plattsm
done; much t
other :
The "Unveiling" Process.
The recent unveiling of the Calhoun,
and other statues, has afforded southern
democrats and their northern sympathiz
ers the opportunity of "unveiling" their
attachment for the "lost cause." As a
matter of justice however, to the impulses
of humanity which throb as well in the
hearts of ex-confederates as in the bosom
of union men it is fitting to concede that
a lingering attachment for the leaders of
the war against this government natural
ly excites in the minds of those who be
lieved the "war a failure."
With feelings we have nothing to do
but only question the propriety of eulo
gizing so extensively the men whose
treason brought on one of the greatest
civil wars in the history of any country
and it is not so much the fulsome flattery
of their good deeds that we object, as to
the repeated efforts of the orators of these
occasions to show that these "heroes of
theirs" fought in a good cause.
This olive branch business is very well
in its place but when the nullification
doctrine of Calhoun is still applauded in
South Carolina we think it time to call
things by their right names.
Calhoun aid more to sow seeds ot re
bellion than all the privates who enlisted
in the rebel army from his native 6tate
and while it is but natural that his
friends should speak in praise of his
many virtues we think the less said about
his nullification ideas the better, not only
for the memorv of their chosen son but
also for the general good of the people.
It is true that the large majority of the
southern people have become reconciled
to their defeat but such a result is not
due by any means to the orators and two
penny statesman who have sought to
gain political preferment by appealing to
the war spirit of their constituents but
rather is it due to commercial activity
and a growing common cense which have
diverted the minds of the people from
recollections of remorse to the avenues of
trade. And that is why we think it bad
taste to improve these unveiling ceremo
nies by explanations, apologies and more
of times tributes to the leaders of the con
federacy for their devotion to "home and
native land."
Most of them were nothing more or
less than rebels in I860 and time has not
lessened the reproach which should be
heaped upon treason, no matter how sin
cere the transgressors may after
wards become in affirming their al
legiance to the central government. We
do not believe in forgetting such crises
in the history of our country and they
should be recalled not for the purpose of
stirring up sectional strife or eulogizing
the traitors but for the purpose of point
ing out the mistakes of the war that
succeeding generations may avoid the
rocks and shoals upon which our ship of
state came so near being wrecked. It is
true that the war is over but if the time
is at hand when confederate generals are
to be commended to posterity for their
patriotism and when democratic editors
of the North feel called upon to apolo
gize for being in the Union Army then
we feel impelled to remark that patriot
ism has about touched low-water mark
If the war was a mistake on the part of
the South that mistake can not be right
ed by "explanations" or apologies, nor
can the lapse of time hide from view
the treacherv and base treason which
brought it about.
The Independent Vote.
The controlling influence in the elec
tions of this country is held by the Inde
pendent voters. No matter what may be
said of their arrogance in assuming to
themselves more of political discernment
and a higher appreciation of the purity
.of the ballot, they nevertheless hold the
balance of power. That Rhode Island
should go democratic, and Chicago re
publican by thirty thousand majority.
only shows that this factor in politics is
of sufficient strength to upset the plans
and concoctions of rings and cliques
without proving in the least that the
relative position of the parties has chang-
" the least. As this influence grows
.
r partv afiuiations crow weaker.1
"-ill not be long till partip-
y assume something
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their allegience to party than because
they conscientiously believe the measures
there advocated were for the best inter
ests of their constituents. In this respect
the democrats have manifested u more
tenacious hold upon their paity pregu
dices than have the members of any other
political organization and it is not un-
frequently observed that no matter how
a democrat talks or prays he invariably
votes the straight ticket. This predilec
tion on the part of democrats is forcibly
illustrated in states where Republicans
have long held the supremacy and it nat
urally follows that the growth of the in
dependent vote is largely confined to the
party in power whose rule becomes, soon
er or later, obnoxious to a respectable
minority who are thus favorably situated
for asserting their opposition and mak
ing their vote felt in the election. The
independent voter may seek to work a
reform either in the methods adopted by
the party in nominating canidates or in
the measures incorporated in his party
platform. When wire pulling and pack
ing of conventions are resorted to in the
interest of a particular candidate there is
likely to follow a revolt which some
times brings defeat and always brings
more or less of demoralization which
weakens the party and lessons the
strength of political ties.
The political parties themselves are in
a measure responsible for the revolts
which follow a too rigid adherence to the
rule or ruin policy of their managers
though we are also of the opinion that
the average independent voter is fre
quently impelled to desert his party for
no other reason than because he thinks it
is smart to repudiate the policy of the
party to which he was allied.
As to the first reason for the develop-
mn of this independence of political
action, namely, the imprudence of the
parties themselves. We sometimes ob
serve the strange anomaly of conyentions
adopting platforms pledging the support
of the party to certain principles and then
proceeding to nominate candidates who
not only refuse to recognize the voice of
their party as expressed in the platform
but who entirely repudiate certain planks
and refuse to be bound thereby
Such candidates are at a disadvantage
in criticising the others for bolting the
ticket when they themselves have forfeit
ed all rights to party support by bolting
the party platform. To avoid such em
barrassments the democrats in their
National platforms have adopted the
unique method of inserting planks of a
reversible character, but such actions on
the part of any party will ultimately
bring about a revolt serious in its imme
diate consequences but we trust beneficial
in teaching lessons of political honesty.
As for the second reason of the growth
of the independent vote, namely, the ego
tism of some people which prompts them
to disagree with their old-time associa-
tions because they flatter themseves that
such disagreement shows an independent
spirit which they sometimes mistake for
poetical wisdom, we have only to say
that the false pride which makes some
people independent in politcs would
make them infidels in religion. A refus
al to coincide with the great majority of
citizens is interpreted as an exhibition of
martness entirely monopolized by the
independents though a charitable criti
cism would give them credit for honesty
believing themselves better than their
neighbors, and posessed cf a mission to
purify politics. But -whatever reasons
may be adduced to show the causes of
the growth of this element, the indepen
dent vote is a strong influence in this
country and threatens to imperil the suc
cess of the old parties, not so much by
building up a party of their own as by
holding the balance of power.
The dead-lock over the senatorship in
Florida promises to be as protracted as it
was in the senatorial contests in Indiana
and new Jersey. The country, however,
feels but a languid interest in it. None
of the contestants are known very far be
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