l'LATTSMOHTll WEEKLY HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1887.
PlqttsiTioti 1 People ltVe io Kxpeideijced stcl q Clotlliilg SeiSciioq foi MIY Ycqi'S, l?iociqcc
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S. G. MAYE1TS PERFECT FITTIJSTQ TAILOR IVfAIOE SUITS
-A-T THE F OZjXiO WXUG- miOES:
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jJ5yTliisJ Slaughter Sale will continue for the next Thirty Days. All goods 6old and guaranteed to be as represented
or money refunded. This is our style of doing business.
S. C. M&YKl, Opci'q lonse Clolucis.
KNOTTS BROS.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
T. II. KNOTTS. Editor.
A. IJ. KNOTTS, Business Manager.
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Registered at the I'ost Office, Plattsuiouth, an
uecund olasB matter.
Lost The address of the Plattsinouth
Street Railway company.
Dkcouation clay was quite generally
observed throughout the country.
TiiE Harvard and Yale classes of '87
are parsing their final examinations in
base ball and rowing.
If the police force of Plattsmouth were
a little more vigalent we apprehend there
would be fewer tramps in the vicinity.
Judge Tuxkman positively declines to
permit the use of his name in connection
with the nomination of governor of Ohio.
Fremont claims to be the fourth city
in the state. It will now be in order for
Hastings and Grand Island to take anoth
er census.
Nebkaskk's most distinguished citizen
abroad is "Buffalo Bill" whose wild west
show in London has been honored with
the presence of the Queen and Gladstone
The Omaha Herald and Republican
continue to pat each other on the back in
their mutual effort to detract from Gov
Thayer's ability as chief executive of the
state. Their complaints are becoming
monotonous.
It is earnestly hoped that the city coun
cil will devise some method of raising
the funds necessary to prosecute the build
ing of public works, whether grading or
paving or sewerage be giyen the prefer
ence it makes little difference so that the
work is only commenced.
PiiATTSMOUTn needs another railroad,
and our citizens appreciating the advan
faces accruing from additional railroad
facilities, will cheerfully render any reas
onable aid to bring about such a result;
but as the town continues to grow and
the business interests of the community
continue to enlarge, there is a strong
probability that a new road will soon
compete for the local business, whether
the town yotea large or small bonds in
favor of the enterprise.
Secretary Bayard's failure to prop
erly protect the rights of American fisher
men, suggests the possibility that he has
formed a partnership with English na
bobs to crush out the protective policy in
this country. There was no difficulty we
suppose in the formation of such a coali
tion, for Bayard and English free traders
are practically unanimous in their oppo
sition to good wages; but when it comes
to the carrying out of their plan we im
agine they will experience some little
embarrassment. The country is not quite
ready for free trade.
The republican legislature of New
York has succeeded in passing a liquor
tax law, which answers the purpose of
high, license. Liquor tax and high license
laws may not be acceptable to third party
people, but their enactment in states
where low license and free rum have pre
viously held sway, is encouraging to all
friends of temperance, who note with
pleasure the gradual reform in public
sentiment upon this all important ques
tion. We trust that old New York state
will continue taxing the liquor business
till every grog shop in its borders will be
forcad to close its doors.
Hexky George still insists that no
man can acquire ownership to land. His
theory that it is no part of man's creation
and that as his labor creates no addition
al value it can not therefore be right
fully apppropriated by him, is well an
swered by the New York Tribune which
well and truly says: "The truth is that
the part of the value of land which is the
result of man's labor is infinitely the
t. .1 v.i. ,.!
from the value, if there ever was
ng m me .taau inuepenuennv
- i -tit
Name a tract of ground
found that is value
i building of roads,
tf reaehing it and
vim is, by the
clcaring.fcnciiig and other improvements
of that and adjacent landd, by the
gaowth of villages, towns and cities or
less near the land in question, by the
building of churches, railroads, canals or
turnpikes, and, in a word, by all the pro
gress of civilation from the earliest set
tlement of that region to this day. As a
rule the land itself has no value which is
not the result of human industry."
Southern Chivalry.
The fools arc not all dead yet. In the
military parade at Washington last week
two companies from the south refused to
march in the place assigned them for the
reason that a Virginia company of color
ed troops was given a place just ahead of
the chiyalrous southern gentlemen. Obed
ience to orders and confommity to mili
tary discipline were lost sight of midst
the darkness which suddenly clouded the
pathway of these patriots for "honor on
ly," but such a small calibered, pigeon
toed idea of honor is only to be found
among men who refuse to concede to the
negro those inalienable rights with which
freemen are endowed. Such exibitions of
contracted patriotism are well calculated
to dispel the sanguine hopes entertained
by advocates of the "New South" for
they betray their petty regrets that slavery
has no longer a home upon the soil of the
American Republic.
Just what right these dude military
heroes have to designate themselves eith
er as gentlemen or soldiers we do not
konw for at this distance it looks decid
edly as if they had violated the trust im
posed upon them from a military stand
point, and, so far as committing a breach
of good manners is concerned, it is doubt
ful whether they had any. We suppose
if these same companies were called upon
to protect the honor of their country they
would first inquire whether or not there
were any colored troops in line; they are
very particular, these relics of south
ern chivalry. But it would be much bet
ter for the name and reputation of the
south if the people of that section would
accept the result of the war in a manly
and courteous sense and thus widen the
spirit of brotherly kindness which should
prevail throughout our entire country.
Education and Business.
The high school commencement exer
cises which hold forth at this season of
the year, not only show the pluck and
perseverance with which a chosen few-
have pursued their studies to a successful
completion, but they also show that a
large number of boys have fallen by the
wayside, while their sisters have outstrp
ped them in the race. The small number
of boys who complete highschool courses
is a matter of surprise and regret, no
matter whether their absence is due to
their own disinclination or the poverty of
their parents. It might be added how
ever that the number of children in this
western country which are unable to at
tend school because of the inability of
parents to purchase the necessary books
is indeed exceedingly small. The fact
that there are not more boys graduating
from our schools is due partly to their
own laziness, and partly to the. laziness of
their parents in not compelling their boys
to attend school instead of loafing round
street corners smoking two-for-a-nickel
cigars, and forming habits which not un
frequently make them fit candidates for
the penitentiary. We sometimes think
parents are more to blame for the non
graduation of the large majority of boys
than the boys themselves. It occurs to
us that with proper encouragement at
home the boys would cultivate a desire,
and ambition'to achieve a common school
education, whereas now their minds di
vert to the foolishness of idle pleasures
or to the charms of business life at an
age when they should be pursuing studies
in school. They soon come to think that
money making is the great end and aim
in life, and hence see little in the studies
of a high school grade that will better
enable them to reach the good of their
ambition. But admitting, for the sake
of argument, that everything in this life
is measured by a gold standard, even
then the boys in their rush .to get into
business overlook the fact that a few
years more of schooling would in the end
make them more capable of securing
higher wages, and better qualify them to
conduct larger business interests, whether
for themselves or others. In fact there
is a growing demand for educated men
and women in the merchantile trades, as
well as in the professions. Not that edu
cation: necessarially makes up for lack of
tact or that school learning insures suc
cessful merchants or lawyers, but there is
no question but what a school education
gives to its possessor an advantage over
his competitor who has neglected this
duty, and makes him better prepared to
grapple with the problems of every day
experience, than if his growth had been
spent on the 6trect or . behind the coun
ters. This is a practical age to be sure
when a man's knowlegeof a good bargain
stands him in better hand than his
knowlegc of the Greek language, but a
good commonjschool education is indis
pensible to the business man, for the time
has come when the solution of many
proplems heretofore assigned to poli
ticians must now be undertaken by mer
chant?, mechanics and laboring people
and the successful solution of these every
day problems is dependant upon the men
who are more or less versed in the learn
ing of practical truths as taught in the
excellent system of schools which has al
ready given our country a world wide
reputation.
Decoration Day.
The beautiful custom of decorating the
grayes of union soldiers on the thirtieth
day of "May grows in popularity with
each succeeding year. For it seems, and
not only seems but is the case, that as the
survivers of that memorable conflict grow
less, public attention is more strongly at
tached to the heroism of the nation's pa
triotic defenders and the living are with
each other in decking the graves of those
who are now enlisted in the army of the
dead. So universal has this custom be
come that not only comrades pay this
tribute to their fallen countrymen but
those generally who have lost relatives or
dear friends have caught the inspiration
of the occasion and improve it to show
their remembrance of those who have
gone on before. Simple is the custom
but withal so eloquent. Orators may
speak in silver tones of patriotism, the
highest of civic virtues, poets may sing
in immortal verse of the nation's illus
trious heroes but neither the eloquence of
orators nor the sweet songs of the bards
make the memories of the heart or show
the torch of loving kindness as does the
placing of a rose or the planting of a
lilly upon the silent grave. Monuments
can not be erected in memory of each
fallen hero but there has never yet been
erected the monument in either ancient or
modern times which portrays a kindlier
feeling of remembrance than the custom
of decorating the graves on memorial
day. This is the nation's monument in
honor ot those whose valor we applaud
and whose virtues we emulate just as the
nation itself is a monument to the sacri
fice that was made for its existence and
the perpetuity of its institutions. And
while we would not for one moment for
sret the cause in which our fathers fell we
can not but think this custom suggestive
of charity for all, that in the hereafter
we may have nothing but "Peace on earth
good will toward men." And how pleas
ant it is to know that graves that are
marked "unknown" are decked in flow
ers by kindly hands. Though we may
not know the last resting place of "father
or brother or lover of ours," we feel this
one day of every year there are angels to
"cover them over with beautiful flowers."
With the lesson of this day let us learn to
be more appreciative of those who are
left to us as we also grow more thought
ful of those whose sacrifice we honor and
whose names we this day revere. Cheers
for the living tears for the dead.
American Trade Abroad.
Much is being said now-a-days about
the failure of American merchantile
houses to build up trade with South
American countries. England and other
European nations are pointed out as
worthy examples of what enterprise will
do in working up business away from
home. That the business men of this
country have not improved the opportun
ity ot extending national commerce to
foreign ports may in a mehsure be ac
counted for in the vast extent of terri
tory which remained to be occupied at
home. Capitalists and manufacturers
have been too busy building up their in
terssts in the United States to pay much
attention to extending their trade into
South American countries. It has been
only a few years since the Missouri river
valley was designated as a desert and to
day there remains more unoccupied terri
tory in the wild west than all Great Brit
ain put together. Witli so much to do
in the deveiopemcnt of our resources at
home, and it might be added that much
of the great prosperity which this coun
try has enjoyed during the last few yean
is due to the merchantile men, it is not
surprising that foreign trade should be
lost sight of. The building up'of such
enterprising communities as Chicago,
Mineapolis and St. Louis is a fitting trib
ute to the pushing qualities of the Amer
ican merchant and there yet remain vast
fields open to his energy and offering
flatrering inducements to the investment
of capital. On the other hand it must be
remembered that England though crowd
ed with thirty millions of people is not
ho large as the state of Nebraska. With
every available field within the kingdom
occupied it is not aurprisingthat English
men are forced from the very nature of
things to engage in trafic with foreigners.
More than this they have been engaged
in extending their commerce over the
known world for centuries and in com
parison with the United States certainly
enjoy the advantage of whatever prece
dence their long years of experience en
titles them to. Some very astute critics
have endeavored to make it appear that
the reason we have not already monopo
lized the trade with ever other country
in the western hemisphere is because of
our laws which are reputed to bo un-
friedly to the extention of American
trade abroad.
However much or little there may be
in this free trade criticism the fact re
mains that the principal reason consists
in Ameaican merchants improving the
opportunity of extending their trade at
home before going abroad. But howev
er this may be we look forward to the
day when a closer relationship will exist
between the republics of the new world
and we believt a more general exchange
of commodities and the extention f
American trade to the South American
countries will mark the merchantile tri
umph of the immediate future.
Evils of Monopoly.
Erom the San Francisco Chronicle
The tendency of the age is constantly
toward great aggregations of capital
Not many years ago a business of any
kind representing a capital of $100,000,
was considered an enormous affair, but
today scarcely any new enterprise is un
dertaken without being backed by mil
lions of bollars in place of thousands. In
one sense and from one standpoint this is
good economy. The same superinten
dence, the same number of clerks and
about the same number of employes can
manage the affairs of a concern wTith a
capital of $5,000,000 just as efficently as
if the capital were but $500,000, and in
consequence the returns upon the invest
ment will be so much greater, as a dollar
saved in expense is a dollar earned.
There are certain lines of business in
which such combinations of capital are
entirely legitimate and work no hardship
to the consumer. Wherever the product
is a luxury it really makes no difference
wether its production is controlled by a
monopolly or not. If a person does not
choose to pay the price asked, he not buy.
For instance, if all the artificial flowers in
the United States were made by one firm
or one corporation nobody Avould be ma
terially affected by it.
But when it comes to the actual neces
sities of life, there is an argument against
these monopolistic methods which is irre
futable, and that is, that there is no mora
right and should be no legal right to spec
ulate upon the needs of humanity. The
question of food supply should be left
to regulate itself, and not be made subject
to the domination of a dozen or twenty
men, whose combined capital can hold a
nation at its control.
These remarks suggested by a recent
dispatch in reference to the formation of
a gigantic corporation, with a capital of
$25,000,000, to secure the mastery of the
great cattle interests of the United States.
The nominal object of this combination
is to increase, develope and encourage
the raising and handling of cattle, the
slaughtering of them by first hands, and
the placing of their products in the differ
ent markets of the world. It is claimed
that this will be of great advantage to
all raisers of cattle; but this scheme
leaves out of sight the most important
matter of all the effect upon the con
sumer. It is easy to see that such a plan
might readily benefit the producer and
the middleman, but how about the man
who ultimately foots all the bills the
consumer?
Here is just the vice of all these vast
aggregations of capital, whether they be
for purposes of transportation or for fur
nishing food or water or light or any
necessary of life, they have no regard for
the rights of the consumer; it is right
here that socialism, even in its worse
sense, appeals to so many. When a poor
man, working hard every day for a bare
living, finds the price of meat and flour
and sugar and other articles of food ris
ing higher and higher, although the sup
ply is all the time increasing, it is hard to
make him contented with the maxims of
political economy, or to persuade him
that all such matters are regulated by
supply and demand. He cannot see and
why should he? why the more wheat is
produced in California the higher should
the price of flour, or why, when the herds
of cattle in Colorado and Texas and
Nevada ate constantly growing larger,
the price of his dinner should be more.
There can be but one conclusion to nil
this modern style of combining capital,
which is that in time it will become so
unendurable, that the people, who after
all arc in the majority, will forbid by law
the formation of such, or, possibly, any
corporations, and compel the possessors
of wealth to stand on the same footing
with the possessors of intelligence and
industry that of individuality. No
genuine socialism seeks to deprive any
individual of his money any more than
of his brains, but it is not impossible that
the interest of society may make it nec
essary to prohibit the pooling of money
and to require each to stand or fall for
himself. Then the industrious and
thrifty will not be permitted to carry
along the wrcak and shiftless, as they do
now in many cases, and the survival of
the fittest will result in a strong, individ
ualized well-ordered people.
Much Too Big.
The tyranny of the newspaper is the
way a friend puts it. Ostensibly the dis
tributor of news the sheet is, in too many
instances, over-burdened with political
preaching and padded with miscellane
ous reading which is not the function of
the journalist to furnish. The conse
quence is that the average paper is too
big, and the publisher is proud who piles
up a larger number of sheets in each issue
than his competitor. This tendency, we
submit, is unfair to advertisers, whose
contributions to the exchequer of the of
fice received no better recognition than
the appearance of their ads. in separate
sheets which are thrown away by the
purchaser. A paper is large enough that
gives all the available news, prints its
opinions in the form of short, crisp edi
torials, and leaves entertaining reading
for the magazine. We regard the review
of new books and magazines, and of
theatrical performances, and so forth, as
subjects of news. The days of the bulky,
overgrown newspaper are numbered
Boiled-down news is the heaviest cost to
the publisher, and the public are finding
it out. If we mistake not, a reaction
has already begun. There i3 certainly
encouragement to the intelligent use of
the newspaper, both by publishers and
the public, in the fact that among the
most successful sheets are some which
depend more on quality than quantity.
The Publishers Bulletin.
"The Route of the Wild Irishman" is
the singular title of an interesting article
by W. H. Itideing in Harper's Magazine
for June. Trayellers from London to
Dublin and Queenstown by way of Holy
head will recognize the "Wild Irishman"
as the fast train along that route which
carries the American mails, and is a fa
vorite mode of conveyance with Ameri
cans because of its speed, Mr. Rideing
dwells on the picturesque phases of this
section, particularly the journey through
North Wales, passing Gladstone's resi
dence at Hawarden, Flint castle, built by
Edward L and figuring in Shakespeare's
"Richard IL," Conway Fortress, one of
the three great castles by which Edward
I. maintained his conquest of the Welch,
Mona, the last refuge of the English
Druids, Anglesey, the home of the foun
der of the Tudors, and Holyhead, the
point from which all the Channel steam
ers are signalled. Henry Sandham con
tributes five striking illustrations.
The legislature of poor old Missonri
gets worso and worse every year, and this
one has capped the climax of imbecility
by refusing the annual appropriations
for the support of the volunteer militia
organizations of the state, so that they
are being disbanded. Of cour this ia to
cater to the fellows who tried to destroy
the railroads in the state a year or so ago,
and were held in check by the militia of
St. Louis and other points. The poor
old state will wake up one of these days
to the realization of her idiocy, when a
city has been sacked and her honnor for
ever impaird by a gang of anarchists and
ruffians. Some object lesson of this sort
may be furnished the country before
another twelve months have rolled around,
and the appearances are very encourag
ing that Missouri will gener ouslly furnish
the lesson at her own cost. Lincoln
Journal
"Politics ia at sea," exclaims George
William Curtis. The noble red man was
found wandering in the depth of the for
est with his brow corrugated and his
clothes torn was asked if he was
lost. "No," said the Indian, "me
no lost me here wigwam lost." Is it
politics or Mr. Curtis that is at sea I N.
T. Tribune.
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Our Seventh Public Sale of Thoroughbred
Short-Horn cattle will be held at Red Oak,
Iowa, on THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1887. and will
comprise twenty block y Bulls and forty choice
Cows and Heifers. All females of proper age
will hae calves by sides, or be bred to either
Imp. Cruickshank bull Trince of Orange (5191C),
or the Bates bull 13th Duke of Woodford CUKJ9.
Sale will be held under ehelter, rain or sblue.
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