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f 0- The Plattsmouth Journal I'LIW.IMIKI WKKKI.Y AT PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA. II. A. 15 AT KS, I'l HM.siiKK. KnWrfil at tin- tni'f at IMnttinioutli. Ne brit.ska. -:inlrI;ist iniitK-r. Ilovv ;i Iira'l f a tfovernment can Im; popular remains an unsolvaMe mys-t-ry to t he Czar f all tin; K uveitis. Ki.itKii Ikwik's etTurt t capitalize Zion City n a 7,0)0,m)0 basis brings liim into tin; "fn-nzu-d tinance" class. "I'LATTSMoiri ii's will" is stronger than -"I'luttsmouth's push." because 'when she will, she will, and you can depend on it." Til kick are ten bankers in the Ohio Ieriiteiitiary. The only regret their depositors have is that thvy did not Ket there sooner. Nk.i:i.y :,ooo,ooo worth of licorice is used in this country annually. And a irn-at deal more lhaii that is spent for "licor" without the "ice." Two Standard Oil oflicialshave been indicted in l.lioois. This is even more olTt-iiive than iu-stioniii the purity of Mr. IIookfel!er's contributions to church work. Ik UrovT Cleveland was the best re publican president the democrats ever had, why is not Teddy Koosevelt the best democratic president the repub licans ever han? Ciiaikman .1. II. Doroi.Ass of the First districtdemocratic congressional central coinmiltee has called the con irressional convention to meet in Lin coln, Thursday, June 1.1. Shows while you wait" would seem to apply to this country. There were 12,o:'J imigrants admitted in twelve hours, at the port of New York, one day last week. It certainly was thoughtless of Henry Clews not to include Tom Law son in his list of the twenty-two Amer ican citizens who lead in wealth. The things Lawson is likely to do to Clews be'ar description. F.u.NKvr 1'oi.i.aki can thank the Journal for the instructions from this county to the congressional conven tion. If this paper hail not exposed the 'secret ballot" scheme concocted by the 1'lallsmouth ringmaster, he would have Irh-ii downed in liiselloit. J r !!: IIolmk.-, who received the ii:lrucliun of the "Lancaster county delegation ktt Thursday to the Falls FalU City congressional convention, is not by any means a popular mau and is not very acceptable to g. o. p. man atfer In Lil.coln. The instructions were fciveu him after a very hot con test. ON the tirt ballot at the Louisville convention the vote stood, Pollard, Senator .Sheldon, ; Lyron Clark, SI. Then talk about the ringmaster and his dupes not trying to down Fol lard. They went up to Louisville to do this, but the rural fellows would not stand any monkey business from the rinnsters. I'ai'ju. Clakk yot a very black eye in his aspiration for conressiona honors. He was sure of the Lancas ter county delegation to the Falls City convention. Wonder if President Koosevelt's reiteration or his policy on the matter of railroad legislation didn't have some bearing upon the contest at Lincoln? The darks are not popular with the people. But as tools of the railroads they are a sue cess. Skckktaky Wilson has scored one in his controversy with the officials of the terminal railroads. They insisted that the law which required the un loading, for feeding and watering, of stock in transit once in each twenty eight hours apply only to through roads and while they were maintain ing the secretary was gathering evi dence with which he no proposes to institute upwards of four prosecu tions. The attorney general has ren dered an opinion upholding the cor rectness of the secretary's construc tion of the law and many of the rail roads are preparing to pay their tines without entering any defense. Tmk tribulations of the "stand pat ter" arc many and now Germany has added one more. The Treasury deficit was bad enough, the voraciousness of the trusts was worse, and now comes Germany and declares her intention of assessing a high discriminating duty on American products in retaliation for the Dingley tariff act. Of course most of Germany's importations from the United States consist of wheat, Hour and other agricultural products so that it is only the farmers and not the trusts that will sutler from the discrimination, but even the farmers may weary of continually contribut ing to the profits of the trusts. Even the worm has been known to turn. Thk war dogs In the Orient are con tenting themselves with walking around each other. For Admirals who profess to be about to fight, the Iiussi- in commanders and Togo and mani festing a peculiar disinclination for each other's society. They will have totjecome better friends before they can fight. K. M. Poi.i.AitiJ has selected Hie fol lowing delegates to the Falls City con vention: John Adams, T. H. Ilobbitt, W K. Hand, William I)eles Dernier. II. K. Neitzel, T. T. Young, F. K. Bricke, S. II. Olive, J. M. Tetgarden, I. N. Woodford, Charles Kichie, Stew art Hough, George L. Sheldon, L. C. Todd, J. A. Itoot, Ien Horning, II. H. Windham, Jesse Poot, C. A. Ilawls, J. A. ISeeson, A. L. Tidd, Charles Clapp, I. A. Lynch, A. N. Sullivan, II. A. Schneider, and I. M. M. Butler. Pkksidknt Koosevelt's Denver speech, in which he returned to his railroad-rates campaign with vigor, is accepted by the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce as a new chal lenge and a reopening of the contest between the president and the rail roads. The speech came at a time when the issue was waning, so far as the Senate commitnee w as concerned, and alter it had been accepted by all who have watched the present series of hearings that there was no hope in this committee of a bill giving rate tixing power to a Federal commission. The President's speech is accepted on all sides as an indication that he intends to push his campaign through the next session, and he will continue consultations on this subject through the summer here and at Oyster Hay. His specific mention o regulation of rates by Government commission means that he will not be satisfied with a bill which only aims to correct the private car and terminal abuses. It Depends on Whose Ox is Gored. Senator Elkinsand the other repub lican senators, with the possible ex ception of Senator Cullom, are getting anxious to close the hearings on railroad-rate control, now the railroads have got in their evidence. Just after the fourth of March Senator Elkins declared he was willing to sit all sum at Washington and continue to hear everyone who could throw any light on the control of railroad rates. Now we are told by the Washington Post that "seveial of the senators, among them Senator Elkins, the chairman of the committee, have reached the con clusion that there is little necessity for prolonging the hearing." This sudden change of front is due to the appearance of E. P. Bacon of Milwau kee, president of the shippers' nation al organization, before the eommittte and givintr evidence that completely destroyed the contention of the rail roads. Mr. Bacon's evidence produced on Senator Elkins and the other re publican members of the committee, that tired feeling that generally at tacks politicians when they have an uncomfortable tax to perform. In Washington they call it "political ma laria" and the remedy that has a good effect is a trip pass to Europe on one of the steamship trust steamers main ly controlled by the railroad trust. To stop in Washington, now the warm weather has commenced, and hear the arguments of the business men of the country for relief from rail road discrimination and overcharges would of course be disasterous to the health of these gentlemen, especially when the majority of the committee have made up their minds to favor the railroads and that their good health hinges on either sea air or a free trip to the mountains. People Right to Govern Themselves. A century and a quarter after the American people fought for and ob tained the right to govern themselves it seems somewhat odd to hear this right questioned. Yet this is the state of affairs at the present time. The right of self-government is laugh ed at in certain quarters. It is denied in others. The principles of the Dec laration of Independence have just been declared by a distinguished citi zen of Massachusetts to be obsolete. The democratic party should assert the right of popular self-government. In a republic this is the right preserv ative of all rights. If the people lose to monopoly or corruption or trust or oligarchy this right then the real re public dies, whatever forms remain. Here is the strength of the democratic party. In a failure to realize and act upon it is weakness. The platform of the democratic party is in the making. It will be written by the people or by certain well-defined, smooth-spoken gentlemen holding brjefs for special interests. We con fess to a belief in the right of the peo ple to govern themselves and as corol lary to this belief in the right of the members of a political party, the rank and file, to write their own platform. When this or that danger to the perpetuity of republican institutions is pointed out It is well to remember that a denial of the right of the peo people to govern themselves or an at tempt to defeat the exercise of this right is the worst of dangers. Public Opinion. The republicans are having a warm Lime in the first district going through the form of permitting certain corpor ations to name the candidate for Con gress. Crete Democrat. In this country we have more to fear from the black flag of corruption than we have from the red llag of anarchy. The beef trust , the coal trust, t he oil trust, and every private monopoly are greater enemies to the welfare and in tegrity of the republic than all the anarchists societies of the world put together. Auburn Herald. E. M. Pollard of Cass has the solid delegation of his county for the con gressional nomination. There is a great feeling over the district that Lancaster county should not have both the senator and congressman and Pol lard's chances for nomination may not be so slender as some would suppose. Lincoln Herald. The time has came to call a halt upon the practical selection of judges of all courts by the railroad magnates of the country. We want a square deal but we are not going to get it by al lowing this practice to continue. The News calls upon every man who be lieves with it upon this proposition to join hands with it in protesting vigor ously and loudlyagainst the promotion of Mr. Greene from the Burlington leual department to the judgeship of the federal court. Lincoln News. As a restraint upon the liquor traffic and its evils the Slocum law sutlers in comparison with a prohibitory law, for its restrictive features, one and all, are a howling farce. The attempts to enforce it in our cities have always been spasmodic and ineffectual, and as a rule bitterly opposed by the very ones who so loudly proclaim its vir tues. There is but one feature of the Slocum law that has any value, and that is the prohibitory section. The other so-called restrictive sections might as well be repealed. Central City (Neb) Record. The Lincoln Star quotes Governor Mickey in connection with the rumor that he will call a special session of the Nebraska legislature as follows; "The announcement is news to me, and no one has been authorized to state for me that a special session would be called. I am very busy con sidering the assessment of railroad properties and have not given the matter of a special session, a thought. I have received several requests to call a special session, but absolutely have not given the subject any con sideration." Representative Ernst of Johnson county hits the nail on the head when he says it would be no use to recall the present legislature togather to make a freight rate bill. He reasons that a body of men that once failed of their duty in this respect will fail again. He also says that when the commodity rate bill was discussed and finally defeated last winter he never heard that Governor Mickey was in favor of it. He believes that it will be just as well to wait until the next legislative session and then the people will instruct their repre sentatives in unmistakable terms up on this question. He thinks the last legislature had a.great deal of "gall" to call a congressman on the floor de manding to know if he would support the president in bis reform policy and then itself refuse to carry out the same policy when called upon to bo so. That is the trouble with many reformers. They are like the Irishman in favor of the law, but agin' the enforcement of it. Beatrice Sun. It ought not require an argument to prove that it is wrong for a judge to have a railroad pass. The mere state ment of the proposition that it is im proper for a judge to receive favor from litigants in his court is its own proof. But it can de proven to be wrong for another reason. It is this, suppose some citizen desired to test the ques tion whether a pass is lawful, or as to whether it is a violation of the consti tution, which we think it is, bow would he test the question? Why he would have to bring a legal proceed ing in some court. To what court would he go to? Where would he bring his action? Would he institute his proceedings before a judge who holds a pass? He would have to do so for there is scarcely any other kind. Or if per chance he found one without a pass, and his case was appealed to higher court, then he would have to submit to the adjudication of a pass holder. Now we submit, is it fair to the citizen to be compelled to submit his case to the dicision of one who is himself a law breaker? He might possibly do so, but he would be inclined to take the side of his own innocence. To say the least, it would be highly em barrassing to the judge, which forcibly illustrates that it is wrong for a judge to use a pass York Democrat Anything you want in the wall paper line at Gering & Co.'s at the right p rice. A Shield for Selfishness and Greed. In the protective tariff, selfishness has legalized stealing and holds itself up as patriotism. The trusts and monopolists, not content wih large profits, have so increased their rev enues that they aim tocontrol, and do in a great measure, the state and fed eral governments, and prevent any re vision of the system of legalized rob bery they have set up. Those subsi dized monopolists and special privlleg Jsts have the political lacking of the dominant party; they in a great meas ure furnish the sinews of war; a ma jority of the republican members of both houses of congress are recipients of their bounty either directly, or through the medium of political com mittees, or political managers and therefore are their willing tools. To revise such a system is a hercu lean task. It has fostered extrava gance for the very purpose of prevent ing its reformation, so that the cry of lack of revenne can be raised to prevent reduction of excessive rates in every tariff schedule. Even to exnalize the price of trust products here and the price the monopolists sell the same products to foreign countries for is opposed by the friends of pro tection and nothing but a political revolution will effect a change. The patriotic cry of protecting the Ameri can laborer from the pauper labor of Europe has been used to install a sys tem to rob the American consumer by charging them vastly higher prices for the same trust products than the same products are sold to the Euro pean paupers for. No defense is set up for this robbery of the American people. It has come to be looked upon by many honest peo ple as an American institution that they must endure and suffer under or disturb business. Aye! there is the rub, it would disturb the business of the trusts. To right the wrongs of the American people would disturb the monopolists. How long will the people submit to this fleecing? Will they elect in this congressional district, at the coming special election, a congressman who will continue the system? Will they elect another like his predecessor who will "stand pat" and grin with satis faction and virtually ask his constitu ents "what are you going to do about it?" Every additional monopolist vote in congress strengthens the more the hands of the trusts and corporations. Is it not about time for the voters of this district to show their independ ence and vote for their own interests? Taxation Must Be Equal. There are indications that some of the public service corporations are go ing to make trouble again with the city and county authorities over the matter of laxation, says the Lincoln News. An end ought to be soon put to this constant turmoil. The corporations ought to be w illing to be taxed on the same basis as in dividuals, and they ought to submit with the same calmness and restraint. It is growing tiresome every year to have to use a club upon some of them in order to make them do the right thing. The council and the county commis sioners ought to sti ffen thei r backbones materially this year and insist upon the corporations being put upon the same basis as other taxpayers. One measure ought to be employed, and one only. What is the property worth upon the open market? The value of trac tion company stock is pretty definitely fixed by recent transactions, and every dollar of its stock now practically rep resents a dollar of value. The telephone companies have expended large sums improving their plants, and the value of their plants ought to be easily de termined from a knowledge of what their securities bring in the market The gas company's bonds have been selling at around 70 cents lately, and the stock has brought as high as 20 cents. The assessors can easily ascer tain the outstanding issues of stocks and bonds and compute what the ac tual value of the property is. Inese results being obtained from the boards of equalization ought not to hesitate about what the assessment should be. Other property besides cor porate is put in at approximately mar ket values. If it is not, then corporate property ought to be scaled down in the same proportion. Our financial magnates ought to do this withoutany grumblingor juggling of figures. The value of most property is determined by its use, and where this is not the determining factor.cus tom and the law have established a method that is just and right. At any rate, let us have no more bickering and litigation over the mater. Saved by Dynamite. Sometimes a flaming city is saved by dynamiting a space that the fire can't cross. Sometimes a cough hangs on so long you feel as if nothing but dyna mite would cure it. Z. T. Gray of Cal houn, Ga., writes: "My wife had a very aggravated cough which kept her awake nights. Two physicians could not help her, so she took Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, which eased her cough, gave her sleep and finally cured her." Strictly scientific cure for bron chitis and la grippe. At F. G. Fricke & Co.'s drug store; price 50c and 11.00; guaranteed. Trial bottle free. DR. FENNEFTS "KMimey AND Backache Also ruiiiFira Tin: Uhoon. 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