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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1905)
The Plattsmouth Journal PUBLISHED WEKKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA. It. A. HATES, I'i'BLisiiKK. Kntered at the postofftre at Plattsmouth. Ne tirn.skii. a tuxoiKlclatut rnatwr. John V:i. Jonks was nt blown tip with dynamite, despite the many places in which his remains are re- Iortecl to Jk? buried. Thk pnspects of having their af fairs ventilated in empress has brought a irood manv railway "magnates' to the vere of nervous prostration. The president may not have liked to see Chicago "go democratic," but he certainly cannot consistently be Krudtfe success to a man who has thir teen children. Pkhiiaph Mr. Rockefeller would have been in better business if he had contributed that $100,000 to the nero and Indian missions after all. Charity begins at home. A Philadelphia teacher has piven one of his pupils a medal for bringing n. collection of insects to school. We did the same thinir once when wc were yountf. What followed is too painful to relate. Thk president has had to do some explaining with regard to his favorite term "a square deal," down in Texas. Down there they generally deal around beginning with the man on the left of the dealer. Thk republicans are mighty anxious to reform the tariff and lower those schedules which "foster monopoly," only they don't dare to. Where would the republican campaign funds come from if they did? The report that the shipbuilding trust is to be reorganized is another indication that reform has penetrated to corporations. Reform seems to be one of the results of consolidation and "community of interest." President Roosevelt has gone away to hunt big game. Judging by the Morocco incident. Emperor Wil liam went away to hunt trouble. It is far better for the plain people when a strenuous ruler, "blows off steam' in the mountains than in foreign cap itals. The postage on a four pound pack age from Chicago to Indianapolis is 64 cents. On a four pound package to London it i 49 cents. For an ex plan ation of the discrepancy apply to the president of the United States Ex press co npany, cure the United States senate (Jove :nm; Mickky has called a spe cial election for Tuesday, July It, to elect a success r to Congressman LJur kett, who wns elevated to the United States senate by the late defunct leg islature. The republican congression al committ e will meet in Lincoln next Monday to fix a date for their nomina ting convention. When will the dem ocratic committee meet? Let the funionists of the First dis trict nominate a good, clean candi date one who will challenge the re publican candidate for a joint debate of the issues before the people and he can be made ''look like thirty cents" before election day rolls around. Lin coln has already fixed the republican nomination, and all there is to do now is for the convention to ratify the same. With a good, strong man pitted against the republican nominee for congress the people will stand a good show of winning out. We have the material and we have the issue upon which to go before the people. They are just now in a mood for a change all round. The action of the late "de ceased" legislature has opened the eyes of the people and they are think ing thinklngbard. -.-a ifn u I rrels shoal d be (Xcted by the late le for their pro n fi now allowed to ,'iout molestation. ' l-,.it tha cnnlrrpls fiiave a blowout over assed by the legisla- railroads. They are o receive any benefits . ! -Vl-. A n M 1 S C (I lie legislature passed a Jght law, a law against km of the greatest import- state, a law making pipe (n carriers, and establish- 'refinerr to save the oil in- (m annihilation at the hands ' Th naa nr t hp Cpnt Ta r LS19. " Kansas. In Nebraska the killed the direct primary 'led every effort at rate reduc illed the bill asked by irrigation rs, killed the bulk scales bill, 1 other measures of public inter est as rapidly as the lobby pulled strings. There is a mighty con st In the spirit and work and re ts of the two legislatures. j Public Opinion. Most of the members of the twenty- ninth Nebraska legislature have suc ceeded in reaching their homes, but their clothes smell of railroad trans portation. Friend Telegraph. The Nebraska legislature is a thing of the past, but the names of the mem bers will live for a long while in the minds of the people, at least until the next election, when a whole lot of them will be turned down god and plenty if they have the nerve to bob up as can didates again. Shelton Clipper. , During the closing hours of the Ne braska legislature certain' member took occasion to roast the newspapers of the state. The newspapers, how ever, have two years in which to re view the acts of the members of the legislature and there is plenty of chance for justciticism. Emerson En terprise. Penny packer fashion the legislature did some tall ranting while in its death throes, against the press of the state for its pungent criticism of measures during the past session. It is true that they did come in for some rich roasts well done ana well deserved. Hut what is to be made, except fun, of a body of men who will cite before them a candidate for the senate, force him to pledge himself to the support of President Roosevelt's policy of railway rate regulation and then fail to pass any effective rate legislation for their own state? Madison Star-Mail. The republican party of Nebraska will lose its grip upon the state elec tions unless it looks a little more to its Interests than to place unqualified and incompetent oitice seekers upon its ticket for important offices by the rot ten ring caucus system and then try to elect them in spite of well grounded protests of members of their own par ty. Last fall a nomination by that party was equivalent to an election. everything in the shape of a tool for a caucus ring boss that asked for itgota place on the ticket. The time is pass ing swiftly by when dead beat office seekers, devoid of truth, can be elect ed to office. The experience the vot ers of Nebraska have gained through the unsatisfactory conduct of the re cent legislature will go a great ways to ward purifying politics. If a man is not fit for an office be should not be elected, and it makes no difference what party he belongs to, it don't help his party to elect him. Beaver Cross ing Independent-Examiner. A paper up the country, in its kind ness of heart, says that the legislature is entitled to more credit for the in famous bills that were killed, than for the good measures that were passed Now, who introduced those infamous measures, for which the legislature is to receive credit for killing? Why should it be necessary to waste time and money, sending men to Lincoln to protect the people from the acts of the men whom they elect. Simply because the men who are elected are largely the tools of corporations. They are selected because they are willing to do the oidding of their masters, They introduce bills which are pre pared and presented to them, such as the elevator trust bill, and bend their energies to pass measures, which if they become laws, would rob the far mer of one-half the product of his la bor. It may be charity to give these men credit for doing no worse. The man who is held up on the highway and robbed of his coat, should feel tnankful that the robber did not take his shirt also. What's the use of talking about the party of Jefferson or of any other patriot who has been dead a long time? The progre ssive party of the present. a party of, for and by the living, is what the country wants, and so far the republican party comes nearer nil ing the bill than any other. Lincoln Journal. Bah! Isn't it more in keeping with the Interests of the common people to advocate simon-pure Jeffersonian de mocracy, than it is to advocate Ham lltonian autocracy? Jefferson always favored free government, while Hamil ton favored a centralization of power In the bands of the few. One is the democracy while the other isrepubli can ism of today. If that preached by Jefferson is ancient so must that be preached by Hamilton. Both were in public life about the same time, Mu. Bryan's appeal for a pledge which appears in this issue, meets with the Journal's hearty approval. This is a step in the right direction and no man who believes in "a government of the people and by the people" should hesitate to sign the same. If every voter in Cass county will cut this pledge out, sign it and send it to the Jour nal, we will forward them to the Com moner in a bulk. Let's see how many will sign in Cass county. What say you? Certain physicians say that the vermiform appendix can be made use ful by being readjusted. The phycJ- clan still wants the people to beliirs that he is indispensable. Thk chairman of the dmctnil: congressional committee ctcU c2 them together as soon as pcsl t:a. Rings Throughout the Land. Well, the Democracy of Chicago has soundeJ a bugle note, and unfurled an economic banner which will ring and wave throughout the country. Nothing more important and noth ing more significant than this Chi- cago election hasstirred municipal and economic politics in the generation in which we live, ll official! 7 sets in mo tion a force which will clamor at the American ballot box until it has a de finite and satisfactory answer. The second city and the real metro polis of the greater part of theRepub lie has, by an overwhelming majority, committed itself to a trial of the mighty principle of municipal owner ship. The Incident is worthy of the vital interest and attention of every American who thinks and votes. There was never an issue moreclear- ly made. The selfish capitalists owning the franchises of the Chicago street railway system have for forty years abused the confidence and liberality of the people. Graft, greed and wat ered stock at enormous profits have swallowed up all consideration of pub lic service and the corporations enjoy ing the public franchise have compell ed the great city of Chicago to submit to the most execrable street railway service in American The selfishness and greed of the corporations have been the iustruments of their own undoing, and the outraged sense of the people thundered in the ballots of the 4th of April. A majority of about 25,000 citizens emphatically declared: First, against granting any more franchises to the corporation, and, second, in favor of the immediate establishment by legal means of municipal ownership of the great street railway system of Chicago. There has been much squirming by republican and corporation organs over the result, and some rather frenzied haste in proffering expla nation of this remarkable vote out side of the great issue upon which it was cast. With due regard to these partisan protests, and with the trivial and inconsequential swept away, sev eral great central facts loom definite and clear. First Chicago went republican in the last national election by nearly 116,- 000 majority. Second Carter Harrison, personally the most popular democrat that Chic ago has known in twenty years, car ried the last municipal election against a comparatively weak republican com petitor by only 7,600 votes. Third That in this campaign the republican party had in John Maynard Harlan the most picturesque, popular and powerful municipal candidate that it has presented in this gener ation; and. Fourth That, in the face of these conditions the democratic party, after a thoroughly discussed and delib erate campaign, has just carried the city of Chicago distinctly and purely upon the issue of municipal ownership by a sweeping majority of 2.,000 votes! There can be but one explanation of this result under these conditions, and that the is people, speaking int he maj esty and might of majorities, are de termined to give the great principle of public ownership of utilities a free, fair and practical trial. And the democracy of Chicago have scored a great and far-reaching tri umph in making this issue and in carrying it to the honest test of ex periment. Now, if this experiment of munici pal ownership is successful in this great city of Chicago if, after intelli gent application and a reasonable probation, it works well to the better ment of the public service, and to the comfort, convenience and economy of the people it is simply a matter of common sense to see mat me move ment inaugurated by. the Chicago democracy and to be credited as a democratic movement will sweep the country and solve the problem that in volves both cities and states in scan dal and injustice. That this experiment will be suc cessful no man of reasonable intelli gence will permit himself to doubt. It has been splendidly successful in some of the greater cities of Europe where conditions are exactly similar. Tie principle is sound, practical and found ed upon fundamental principles of popular government. Public ownership removes the motive for misuse of public utilities, as when the motive goes the evil will go. As long as seinsnness ana greea get the chance to gratify themselves at the public expense just so long will they do it. And nowhere on earth has there ever been a strike when the principle of government ownership was in operation. Public ownership will do for the railroads what it does for the post office, the police depart ment and the fire department. The republican and corporate an tagonists of this movement are already sounding the false alarm that it will cost Chicago $100,000,000 to buy the Chicago street railways and $50,000,000 to re-equip them. Judge Dunne put tat stetementto rest the morning af ter his election by showing that uaist L3 clrinkage in the quoted stctVi, r "rr. the necessity cf bejlzs C-'j C3 1 rbs properties, tea est ill cc3 to n :rs tnsa CC3,CCO,CC0 to Moreover, it may be set down that Judge Dunne, the new democratic municipal ownership Mayor of Chicago is a man of iron will, great civic cour age, balanced judgment and a long and ample experience in great affairs. He will summon to counsel and construc tion the irreat experts of Glasgow, Scotland, in which this great principle was born, and where for twenty years it has been in nobly successful oper ation, and he will consecrate to the experiment all the brains industry, purpose and determination of a man who feels that he is living and acting for the leading and enlightenment and benefit of millions of his fellow countrymen, living or yet unborn. He lives in an age of great achievement among a people of world-famous and resistless energy, and his friends and the thousands of bis followers do not permit themselves to doubt for a moment that municipal ownership of public utilities will be as conspicuous and beneficent a success in Chicago as it has long been in the world's model city of Glasgow. The people the great body of the people are to be congratulated upon the inauguration of an experiment in which their interests are so vital, and they are invited now to see it succeed and to help it to national application along wise, firm and yet definite lines. The people's case has received a mighty and an irresistible impetus from the democracy of Chicago. One other thing in this momentous campaign is significant and worthy of note as an index to the spirit and tem per of the people toward the economic problems o the time. Scared into comprehension by the clear presentation of democratic pub licistsand by the resolute attitude of the people toward the issue, and stung by the insolent indifference of the street car magnates, the republicans of Chicago, eager for success and pan derlng to the popular wave, were forced to adopt some fort of platform favorable to the municipal reform. But they did it so half-heartedly, so uncertainly, so unsatisfactorily, and with such evident insincerity, that the voters of Chicago laughed them to scorn. They were not going to take any chances with any half hearted ad vocacy of the principle in which they had come to believe. They were not going to trust the execution of a vital reform to milk-and-water enthusiasts or to timid conservatives who were likely to kill it with temporizing and delay. They took the party that was definite and positive. They followed the organization that knew what it wanted and promised to go right after it. John Maynard Harlan and his re publican organization were for muni cipal' ownership day after tomorrow or next week. Edward F. Dunne and the Chicago democracy were for municipal owner ship tomorrow! And the people followed the definite rather than the indefinite, the certain rather than the hesitating. And so will the people always follow definite men and certain policies in preference to shifting leaders and am biguous platforms. If democracy means to win and wants to in 1908 it must be clear as the day this time in the ringing enunciation of its creeds, and as definite as honesty in the presentation of its candidates. Clear principles, short sentences and a leader whose views are known of all men is the demand of the people. I have been preaching incessantly in these letters the necessity for in dividual thought and activity by indi vidual democrats, as the supreme ne cessity for every democrat to attend every mass meeting and primary and to make known there without hesita tion by voice and by ballot bis views of the issues on which the party must go to the country. I notice that in the last Commoner Mr. Bryan has adopted this idea and is preaching the gospel of activity in the primaries. In my next letter J will have something to say in the dis cussion of the plan which he proposes. The people must make the next platform ana cnoose tne next candi dates. Johit Temple Graves. Don't Take 'Em Off. A word, O fellow citizen, . Don't take 'em off! The storm king may return again Don't take 'em off! The morning may be glad and bright, And tho' it seems that spring's in sight You can't tell what may come tonight, Don't take 'em off! Perhaps they scratch, stick and burn Don't take 'em off! 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