l'LATTsiMOtJTil WEEKLY 1IEUAL1), TlltntSDAV, MAY i), 1Ss7.
l9iqlsmot l People lcVo io Fcxpeiaeiieed scl i Clolinir Seisq(ioi foi' Aqny Ycqi's, es Pi'odiicGd
:by Tirm xitTTiR-oiDTTCT'ioiisr op
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VT THE ZKT" OLLOWIUG 1ULICES:
G. A. It. Suits, complete outfit, $9; Blue Flannel suits, $0 and upwardf; Corkscrew AVorsted suits, 8 to $15; Boys' suits, .'5 to $15; Children's suits $l.t5 and upwards.
rTTliis SlauL'hter Sale will continue for the next Tlii rty Days. All goods Bold and guaranteed to be as represented o r A r-TAUtl r -it r i ' ,
oyrefunded This is our style of doing business. b 1 O. 0 O. A'lAYl'clj, OpGl'q lrOllSG C LO liei'S.
or money
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Publishers & Proprietors.
T II. KT OTTS, Editor.
A. 1!. KNOTTS, liusincss Manager.
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Is publislieJ everv Thursday moiiiinti. Olllce,
.inner of Vine ami Fifth streets.
WEICKL.Y, by mall.
fine ooi.y ono year
One copy o:ie year (in advance) 1
lteulstered at the l'o.it Office. riatttinouth, as
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accoud ol;ui matter.
Good streets and good morals are two
advantages of which any town may well
feel proud.
When people learn to rely more upon
double-barreled shot guns and less on the
police there will be fewer burglaries in
this community.
A few thousand dollars expended in
paving Main street will do more towards
frivinrF the town a boom than holding
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public meetings or incorporating com
panies which do nothing else than incor
porate. It is the throwing of dirt that
counts.
TnE gas prospecting scheme is pro
gressing satiafactorily and the gentlemen
associated with that movement are enti
tled to credit for their public-spiritedness
and energy. '
Plattsmoutii people are not very ex
citable. Talk about nail factories and
Armour's Industry and other institutions
does not disturb the average citizen.
"When these industries begin to put up
fliir lillilil infra nntl show people that
their enterprise is not altogether on pa
per, they will taka some stock in the "re
ports," but not until then.
The train robbery in Texas last week
that the work of the robders
i
was both well planned and executed.
None of the passengers were molested,
the express car being their object. The
express messenger refused to open the car
and was knocked down and the sate
broken into and robbed. The sum ob
tained is estimated from $25,000 to $50,
000. The Herald desires to mention to the
young men of Platsmouth the necesity of
being cautious obout this speculation fe
ver. They should be careful not to loose
their heads. The speculative fever is a
dangerous disease. Gambling in real
estate is as dangerous as any omer kiuu
of gambling. It is proper to make pru-
ilent investmens upon a rising market'
but it is not wise to break up one's indus-1
trious habits and educate one's self out
of man must be through plod
ding. Therefore The Heralds ad-
vice is stick to your legitimate
business, giving to it your hrst thought,
Opportunities to buy and sell will con-
tinuc long after you have gone from this
world. There is a sort of contagion in
the atniosphers which ought not be pcr
niited to get into the blood.
Our Public Improvements.
The city council has done well to se
cure the services of Messrs. Rosewater &
Christie for the purpose of making an es
timate of the probable cost of grading,
paving and sewerage. It begins to look
as if Plattsmoutii meant business, though
there is little in what has been done to
convince strangers of our sincerity in
pushing this work. It is true that public
meetings have been held and important
questions discussed, but the real work of
throwing dirt has not yet commenced,
A month or two ago it was announced
that a street car company had its coat off,
so to speak, and was ready to commence
track-laying as soon as a franchise were
voted them. That franchise has been
voted but the street car company are still
holding off. for one pretext or another,
while strangers are asking us what we
have to show for all this bluster. The
fact of the matter is that a little work
upon our streets will do more to strength-
en public opinion and advertise the town
than the holding of a half-dozen public
meetings or the incorporation of public
improvement concerns that do little else
than secure a franchise. The sentiment
unions Plattsmouth tax-payers is almost
unanimous in favor of anything in the
line of public improvement which the
.
mavor and council may accept or suggest,
nnrl while 'this sentiment is so largely
v. .wS-rona mnpi'iillr wB surest
mini m l ij v liviuu, vv f i
that now is the time to inaugurate the
work by voting bonds" for the purpose.-
favor?f .voting $50,000, and
! ,,(!f bi. Jftahy s--
Son) e are m
others IOO.OOO. Those in favor of vot-
IIIJ CIUJJ p-JV, VUU, llimol kllUb JL umv
amount makes a good showing thi;re will
le no trouble in securing another $00,
000, while if it docs not make a good
showing then the amount was sufficiently
large. We have no doubt however, that
when once the work of grading and pav
ing our streets is commenced the result
will be so favorable to both public and
private interests that substantial aid will
not be withheld.
The Sun's Souvenir.
Wk received last week from the Balti-
inure Sun an odd and pretty design of
the first issue of that paper which was
printed, and of the issue of May 17th,
1SS7, its OUth anniversary. llic design
13 typical of days away back, an owl sits
on an empty barrel tearing a paper in
pieces, and in an instant its eyes are daz
zled by the burst of an orb whose rays of
light may never fade. The inclosure of
the Souvenir is an euvelope heavily em
bossed, with the sunburst, the owl, the
barrel and the clouds ornamenting the
upper lefthand corner.
No Mugwump Criticisms Wanted.
Republicans do not look with much
favor upon presidential criticisms com
ing from mugwump sources. That there
should be different factious within the
republican party is a matter of regret,but
the rank and file of that party hayc come
to regard the mugwump as a democrat
and as such he is not likely to meet with
much success in advising republicans as
to their presidential candidate. It is ad
mitted, of course, that in an election the
feelings of the envious or revengful
should give way to devotion to principle,
but the conviction is generally becoming
more and more settled in the minds of re
publicans that the New England reform
ers are allied with the democrats and for
that reason very little attention is paid to
their blathcrskitings about Blaine. They
intend to support Cleveland and we ini
aginc it will be a cold day for republi
cans when they make a nomination to
suit mugwumps or any body else outside
the party fold. Giye us a good straight
republican and a ringing platform that
means the same thing whether read up
or down and it we are tlien cleieatea we
can bear the humiliation with the good
grace which attends defeat in a good
cause.
If the disaffection which exists in the
east could be healed by the nomination
of some straight republican acceptable to
all, then it would be the part of policy to
make such a nomination, but the trouble
with those dude moralizers down east
is that their choice would be a mongrel
1S that their choice would be a
republican or a full fledged democrat,
nnd for our part we prefer defeat under
the old flag than an apparent victory un-
jcr the" leadership -of a candidate accept
able to democrats.
The "No Issue" Fraud.
When the democrats were out of office
they were familiar with many reasons
-vvhy republican rule was disastrous to the
best interests of the country, but now we
hear it remarked occasionally that there
is "no issue" between the parties and that
there is no need for any particular change
in the administration. Democratic pre
ception is very keen, to say the least, but
it is exceeded by the brazen audacity
which is exhibited in the pretention that
there is no good reason why democrats
should not continue to hold the fort at
"Washington.
In the nrst place, there never was a
good reason why the management of the
affairs of the nation should be handed
over to that party,- and in the second
place that party has not improved the
opportunity to show cause why it should
continue in power. But now that they
are in power, and would sooner die than
resign, they endeavor to influence well
known republicans, otherwise known as
mugwumps, by intimating that there is
really no issue between the old parties
and that as a matter of fact it is merely
a question ot men. nai an imposing
spectacle a democrat presents in advanc
wg such an idea: t or a party mat uas
constantly opposed every great measure
calculated to advance the commercial in-J
terests ot this country, ro siana up ana
insist with cnnstian meesness mai u is
not unlike another, party, whose history
is the history of this country during its
most progressive period is an exhibition
of gall of which democrats are only ca
pable.
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I The republican party, may not be en
tirely .harmonious upon certain pnnci-
plea, but as a party it ia jostly recognized
as the strong friend ot a protective poll-
Icy; it is the only party that ' Ls made an
honest effort to regulate referg ,nufacture
add sale of intoxicje 8caool7; it is the
. - 1 to those markL.
author of the leading statutes which have
stimulated trade, protected industrial
pursuits and given to the country honor
at home and fame abroad during the last
quarter of a century. While on the other
hand the democratic party has not only
opposed the legislation which brought
about the greatest era of prosperity the
nation ever saw, but it has come to be
recognized as the party of conflicting
theories. As a party, the democrats are
free traders, but a respectable minority
are as rabid protectionists as arc found in
congress. In Nebraska even they are not
harmonious upon the tariff, or, we might
add, upon any other question, not even
the offices.
In Connecticut, democracy mcan3 civil
service reform, while in Indiana it means
"to the victors belong the spoils;" in
New York democracy means free whisky,
while in Georgia, Texas and a few other
places it means prohibition. But as a
party the democrats are practically unan
imous in favor of whisky, especially if
made in Kentucky. So it appears that
instead of there being "no issue" between
the two great parties, there is scarcely a
great question before the country upon
which these parties agree. The highest
ambition of the one party was good gov
ernment; the highest ambition of the
other was the offices, and it is not surpris
ing therefore that the more blunders the
democrats make the more they wish to
impress people with the bogus idea that
they are not unlike republicans. But it
won't work. The differences between the
two parties are so plain that in the elec
tion of 1888 we confidently believe the
republicans will elect Mr. Cleveland's
successor.
The Crimes Act Unlawful.
The English Bastile of Ireland, Kil-
lnainham jail, has been made to disgorge
to release an Irish patriot, Father Keller,
from its confining walls. The law enter-
vened to release him from the outrageous
imprisonment to which a wrongful inter
pretation of the law consigned him
There is more in the release of the rever
end father than the return of a patriot to
active service in behalf of Ireland
TT was incarcerated for advocating "the
plan of campaign." His imprisonment
haviner been declared illegal by the
highest court of resort, his release is
vindication of "the plan of campaign
Father Kellar's restoration to liberty
is
equivalent to a declaration that the Irisl
have the right to combine to resist as they
have, in "the plan of campaign." the ex
tortions and exactions of rapaciour land
lords.
Furthermore, the order that opened the
gates of Kiluiainham jail was as much a
legal protest and decision against the ille
gality of the proposed coercion, or crimes
act, as it was a mandate giving Father
Keller freedom. The pnrpose of the
crimes act is to empower the government
with authority to proceed against all in
terested in conducting and advocating
"the plan of campaign." and taking ad
vantage of its operations; but now the
highest court of the land has intervened
to declare that there is nothing illegal in
'the plan of campaign," and that its ad
vocates or beneficiaries are not outlaws.
nor amenable to criminal prosecution, or
the usual consequence of British prose
cution of an Irishman imprisonment
In other words, the Salisbury government
is put, by the release of Father Kellar, in
the position of seeking authority to com
bat, prosecute and persecute an associa
tion which the courts declared is author
ized to exist and act as it has done anc
as it proposes doing. Omalia Herald,
The Railroad Assessment
The state board of equalization has
once more gone through the farce of
making an equalized assessment of th
property of railroad and telegraph com
panies in Nebraska. To call their work
a farce does not, however, do them jus
tice. It was worse than a farce. Its so
called equalization of the railroad assess
ment is in reality downright discrimina
tion in favor of certain railroads as a
gainst others, and reckless partiality at
the expense of the tax payere. :
Let us examine the figures. The main
line of the Burlington road from Platts
mouth to Hastings is assessed at $12,500
per mile This is the highest rate at whieh
any of the roads are assessed,the Union
Pacific main line being rated at $11,155
and all other railways considerably low
er. The Omaha & Southwestern, which
is as much the main line as any part of
the B. &,M. system, is appraised at $9,150,
I aua the republican v alley extension
ot
I the main line of the B, &, M, at f 5,850.
I or less than one-half of the assessment a
mouth and Hastings. There are I
miles of the Republican Valley extension
paid only 101 of the main line. If the
main line is worth $12,50) a mile, the
xtension of the main line west of llast-
ngs is worth fullyjt wo-thirds us much.
The Sioux City & Pacific railroad,
which only returns twenty-six miles for
axatiou is apprised at $5,(550 a mile,
while the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri
Valley railroad, which extends GIJS miles
through the state, is assessed at only
$4,450 a mil;'. "Was there ever a more
are-faccd imposition attempted upon
lie taxpayers of the state? The Fremont,
Elkhorn it Missouri Valley road is no
onger a branch line confined to traffic
jetween two or three villages, but in
cality an extension of the Chicago fc
Northwestern railroad. It is as much a
trunk line as the B. & M. railroad. It
sustains precisely the same relations to
the Chicago & Northwestern as the 15. &
M. in Nebiaska doses to the Chicago Bur-
ington & Quiney road. Why should
such a road, doing about one-third of the
trainc oi me state, ue Classen as a stuo
roatl, ami assessed at one-third ot the
valuation placed upon the main lines of
the B. & M. or Union Pacific?
If it is not quite up to the standard of
those roads, w hy should it be appraised
at fifty per cent of the valuation of the
Omaha & Southwestern and way below
other roads that are not doing one-half
of its traffic? Why is it assessed $2,000
per mile less than the Missouri Pacific,
which does not carry half as much traffic
as the Elkhorn Valley line?
Years ago, when the Elkhorn Valley
road was only extended to Norfolk, there
might have been some excuse for its low
classification, but with a line 638 miles
long, traversing a region in wich it has
the monopoly of traffic, it can no longer
be classed as a poor little stub road, and
should be made to bear its due propor
tion of railroad taxes.
lhese unequal assessments will very
seriously affect the taxpayers in the coun
ties through which these roads pass,
Many of the counties traversed by the B
& M. extension and the Elkhorn Valley
line have bonded themselves to aid in
the construction of these railroads, and
now they will receive only a very small
proportion of the taxes which the rail
roads, properly assessed, should have
paid. If the last legislature had done its
duty and passed the laws recommended
by Governor Thayer in his inaugral, the
would
present board of equalization
have been wiped out, and a new board
created more familiar with the relative
value of railroads in Nebraska. A state
board made up of at least one member
of every organized county would have
made an assessment based on the known
valuation of the different roads.
The present method of equalization by
three state officers is unsatisfactory and
liable to grave abuses. Instead of a board
of equalization, it always has been, and
always will be, a board of discrimination.
Owaha liee.
To Whom Passes are Civen
A newspaper correspodent in the east
with a pocket filled with annual passes.
writing in defence of the inter-state law,
among his other logical propositions,
says: Uut it it shall turn out that the
majority of the free passes have been is-
sued by traffic managers to shippers, and
by cutting off the passes less money will
be receive from freight."
He might as Well have said that if it
turned out that free passes have been is-
sued alone to ministers, the companies
nnw stand a nooror show for salvation.
It is notoriously known that nine-tenths
of the thousands of passes on whieh
dead-head9, dead-beats and sore-eyed
politicians rode over Nebraska were giv-
en alone for political influence. Legis-
lators were corrupted; newspapers were
hushed; politicans were captured, and
the entire band of "favored" mendicants
worked industriously for all railway
measures.
To-day in the state of Nebraska there
are. uundrecis oi one-uorse politicians,
fledgling lawyers and disreputable bum
mers being carried within the state free
of charge on every line of railroad doing
business in Nebraska. They come under
the head of employes, The interstate
law says it is unlawful "to make or give
any undue or unreasonable preference or
ad vantage to any particular person in
nnv rpsnprt whatever, or to subiect anv
particular person to any undue or unreas-
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onable prejudice or disadyantage in any
respect whatever." In another section
the law permits railways to give free car-
riage to "their own officers and em-
ploves. "and exchange "passes or tickets
with other railroad companies for their
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officers and employe?."
it may oe that no passes nave been is
sued to the alleged employes, good on
line;
'de of Nebraska, but if
the "employe," was considered "valuable"
enough, he no doubt could secure trans
portation, in all of the states where the
B. & 31., the M. P. or U. P. own or con
trol leased lines.
The railroad companies wearied of an
nually carrying exhaused strkers, and ac
cordingly took advantage of the inter
state law to cut off the gratuities and
when the next legislature meets, unless
there is a radical chaugc in public opin
ion, such strikers as Cams. Palmer.
Humphrey, Lee, Greene, Walters, and
in fact the entire troupe of railrogue
blatherskites will have at their disposal
books of blank passes, and every man
who cares to serve the corporate bosses
will become an "employe", during the
session. The issuance of free passes is a
corrupting evil, but the railroads, if it
will scrye their interests, desire corrup
tion. Omaha liee.
The Springfield (Mass.) Htpublican
publishes the following quibble about
the tariff:
Let nobody be deceived by any idea
that some part of this tax is paid by for
eigners. This is a favorite protectionist
superstition, which has not a leg to stand
on. The American people, and no other,
bear the burden of their own Govern
ment. The goods which pay duty do not
pay it until they are bought abroad in
the market of the world and arrive on
American soil. Nobody pays our taxes
but we ourselves.
It is easy enough to talk about ".-uper-
stition which has not a leg to stand on,"
but what a terribly weak case it must be
that requires bolstering up by such arrant
nonsense as this. Foreign manufacturers
who send their wares to America have to
fix their prices so as to compete with
home-made articles. It is utterly imma
terial whether the exporter pays the duty,
or whether the importer pays it and de
ducts it from his invoice. The tariff is
really paid out of the pocket of the for-
;n manufacturer and out of the wages
of the foreign workman. If the former
were not handicapped by the tariff, he
could flood the American market with
cheap articles produced by pauper labor,
and make home manufacturing at a profit
impossible, The statement that no part
of the tariff is paid by foreigners, and
that "the xVmerican people and no other"
' 3 a ree"race superstition, which,
verily, "has not a
leg to stand on."
Globe Democrat.
While recently investigating the title
to some New York surburban property be
longing to the estate of Gouverneur Mor
ris, the lawyers came across the will of
Lewis Morris, the grandfather of Gouv
erneur Morris, in which the following oc
curs: It is my desire that my son Gouver
neur may haye the best education that is
to be had in England or America, but my
express will and direction are that Le
never be sent for that purpose to the col
ony of Conneticut, least he should im
bibe in his youth that low craft and low
cunning so incident to the people of that
country, which is so interwoven in their
constitution that all their acts can not
disguise it from the world; though many
I of them, under the sanctified garb of re
ligion, have endeavored to impose them
I selves on the world as honest men. Ex.
The mugwumps are "turning backward
with averted gaze" from Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt for the evident puipose of
I forcing him to quit the field of politics;
and we can only say that their course is
entirely unjustifiable when he talks about
them in the following invidious and un
feeling manner
1 "I want to point out to you an invol
untary compliment that is paid us by our
more recentlv acquired antagonists. They
always claim, when they say that we have
done wron. that we have failed to live
0p to the old republican standard. When
the democrats do as tl.ev think: right, as
the highest praise they can give them,
they say they have gone contrary to all
the traditions of their party. "Globe Dem
ocrat.
The democrats of Kentucky are in
such a demoralized "condition that pre-
dictions are made' that the republicans
may carry the state this year. One of the
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sources of dissatisfaction is the 6tate debt
Twenty years ago, when the democrats
came into control, the state was free from
debt, and had a balance of $4,000,000 to
its credit. Now there is no surplus, and
a deficit of $1,500,000 exists. Then there
is the temperance issue and the labor
question, while John G. Carlisle, for
some reason, particularly in his own ' dis
trict, does not lighten the democratic
j load. Sioux City Journal.
Tim';crr
Absolutely Pure.
Tli is powder never varies. A marvel of par
ity, htniiic' h an J v iKilesoniciii'ss. .Morn e0
uomieal than tin; ordinary kinds. ami cannot ho
fold in cimipt'titioii with the multitude of low
tent, short weight jilnin or plittsphate powders.
Sold onlv in Cil.s. KnVAl, 15AKIM1 l'owDkH
Oo.,10Gv;ill St. New York. 3'..'U8
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SAKE
Our Seventh Public Sale of Thoroughbred '
Short-Horn cattle wilt be held at Ked Oak,"
Iowa, onTUL"KSL)AY,.IL:E9, 1S37. and will
comprise twenty biocky Balis and forty choice
Cows and Heifers. AH females of proper age
will have calves by sidee, or be brea to either
Imp. Cruiekshank bull Friuce of Orange (5191C),
tr the Bates bull 13th Duke ot Woodford 60539.
Sale will be held under thelter, rain or oiilue.
Terms, caeh ; or approved note due June
1888.-
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8-4 JOIJH IlAYKS. I
Ked Oak low f
Col. F. M. Woods, Auctioneer. J
Gov. Taylor, of TAinessee, poir.
with pride and gratitude to the fact tr
there is not a republican left in any
eral office in that state. That is ti
in Tennessee, "the mad chase after,,
tisian spoils" ha3 come to an end, 1
(very good reason that there are no
any spoils to be obtained. f-7 '
.'Grace Beunet Hnot a't. vnng the T
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