The Plattsmouth Journal
I-L'HMSIIKI WKKKM AT
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
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Klitercd at ! In) p .s!. .(!!. it I'lal lsinouM. .Ne
braska, as "ii't-. ul'lcl ass ni.illir.
'I'm. nntioiKil iMlniiiiistralion's
caiilals record jrows l:iy by la ,
and with it the jeojle'sre scntnunt.
I A WOULD-BE SYNDICATE.
j It is reported a nevsj)ajer syndi
cate is forming in Nebraska, which
; it is hoj.ed will number 2 or more
country weeklies, the sole object
and purpose of which is to fiht
and oppose
I. Krvnn
in any
Thi
Japan isn't Koiiitf to take a sum
mer vacation from the war busi
ness, but keeps on taking territory
just to remind Russia that it is a
serious business.
Tin-: yellow fever epidemic be
gins to wear a more menacing look.
Kfforts of sanitarians to check it
may have had some results in min
imizing its ravages; but the failure
to stamp it out seems to mean that
the fever must run its course until
frost.
low A is a.itatiiitf the pasae
of a law re. Hiring the railroad com
panies to pu1lih the names of all
who apply to them for passes. If
s'.k ii a law were in effect ill Xe- j
braska it niijjit account for some;
political contortions that have been j
i.uevplainable. I'airburv News. I
thine he uiav undertake. 1 Ins is
attaching more importance to Mr.
Uryan than a jrcat many eople
ever believed that he possessed.
However, the "syndicate" will
prove nothing short of a failure,
except to the promoters." and Mr.
IJryan will prove the lxriieficiary.
Any business enterprise, particu
larly a newspaper, that has for its
sole object the traductiiitf or tear
ing down of any fellow mortal will
have failure stamped on its frontis
piece from the start. It is said the
"syndicate" designs capturing the
David City Press, one of Mr. Bry
an's staunchest friends, among the
first on the list.
The Herald has no concern in
the matter, personally or otherwise,
and it has no inclination to put a
bar in the way of anybody's pros
perity or advancement, but it has
! no hesitancy in predicting that the
I new "syndicate" will die a bornin'.
Lincoln Herald.
AT LAST.
The proceedings instituted yes
terday in the Nebraska surprcme
court by Attorney General Norris
lirown against the Nebraska Grain
would have
if thev h.al
Tin: populist state committee
met in Lincoln yesterday and fixed
upen the same date as that of the
democratic state convention Sep
tember -N for their convention.
The basis of representation was
fixed at one delegate for each KM)
vcte cast for George V. Merge for
governor at the last general election.
Tkn per cent is the increase in
valuation of Richardson county
horses, so placed by the state board. 1
The s tine board reduced the Bur-!
iiugion .Missouri valuation to ai
sum satisfactory to that corporation.
DISTINCTLY DISAPPOINTING.
The standpatters are infinitely
pleased at the attitude of Mr.
Roosevelt toward the Chicago con
vention for the furtherance of recip
procal trade relations between this
and other governments. Mr. Roose
velt politely refuses to take any no
tice of the great trade gathering,
and it is given out by the gleeful
standpatters that he has even inti
mated that he doesn't want to be
bothered with an invitation which
he would be under the necessitv of
declining.
Mr. Roosevelt is a good deal of a
i trimmer but, unhappilv, not a
tariff trimmer. To have heard the
politician talk tariff reform some
sup-
I'ile the burdens noon the common
., ... . yi, ,t i i months ago von might have
taxnavers. that is the wriv thev &
. i" , , ., ..." , -" ; posed that bv this time he would
nt:'il .-lllil i cutli- tIii-- li'-fl it i
Falls Citv News.
Tin- state loard has ordered the
tolowing of an assessment on the
reserve of the Woodmen of the
World, a fraternal organization
with headquarters in Omaha, esti
mated at a million and a half. This
was opposed by Secretary of State
aGlusha, an officer of the grand
lodge of Workmen, but favored by
all other members of the board.
Tin: latest turn that sanctimon
ious John Rockefeller has made
was to invest eight millions in a
corner on linseed oil, out of which
he cleared up a profit of twenty
millions. An advance in linseed
oil may now le expected, as John
prays louder, and contributes more
of his ill-gotten wealth to the ad
vancement of the christian religion.
T. S. Ai.i.kn, chairman, has is
sued a call for the democratic state
convention to meet in Lincoln on i an
Wednesday, Septemler 50th, at 2 I thing formerly dear to his heart if
j manifest some activity with the
shears on the Dingley schedules;
but the scissors have leen busy in
another direction. Kvery move
and utterance of the President since
his election has been thoroughly
satisfactory to the political frieiub
of the trusts which profit by "protection."
Can it be that the President
pledged himself to the politicians
before election to a standpat pro
gramme, and that he has been atall
times deliberatelv insincere in his
popular attitude of a reformer who
was only biding his time to compel
the party to revise the iniquitous
schedules?
At the present moment he is as
steadfast a standpatter himself as
could be possibly imagined, and
the nation which elected him on
the implied promise that he would
do what he could is put off by a
figurative wave of the hand.
Mr. Roosevelt doesn't even take
interest in the reciprocitv a
Dealer's association
been more convincin
come earner.
It is generally known that the
grain trust has already been weak
ened in consequence of the suit
brought against it by Tom Worral
It is known that several of its strong
est and most active members have
withdrawn from membership. It
is said that the organization lias al-
i
reauv ceased to do business as a
trust.
And now, with the trust already
put out of commission, comes Attorney-General
Brown with an injunc
tion suit to compel it to stop doing
what, according to report, it has
already stopped doing.
Why did AttorneyGeneral Brown
wait until action brought by a pri
vate citizen had already driven the
trust to cover?
Why did he not begin proceed -
ceeding to enforce the law aeainst
it while it was strong, instead of
waiting until it should be weak?
These are some 91 the questions
that will naturally be suggested by
I the injunction proceedings.
It is, however, better for a public
official to do his duty late than never
to do it all. It is better for him to
do his duty w hen driven thereto by
public sentiment than to refuse to
do it in spite of that sentiment.
Whatever his motives, Attorney
General Brown has made a good
start. He can easily prove, if he
he will, that he is seriously in earn
est, and that he is not merely mak
ing a "grandstand play" after the
fight is over by demanding the en
forcement of the law regulating
railroad rates and against the lum
ber trust; by proceeding against
wrongs that are robust and active
as well as against the grain trust
thatis sickly anil descrepit. Oma
ha World-Herald.
o'clock p. m. for the purpose of
nominating one candidate forjudge
of surpreme court and two regents of
the state university. Cass county
is entitled to 20 delegates. The
convention will 1e composed of
991 delegates.
Tin-: suit against the Imputable
brought by the State of New York
for a complete accounting of the
company's affairs coultl be made
more interesting by transferring it
to some western state and conduct
ing it tinder the auspices of the
Secretary of State. He would
throw it into the hands of a
receiver so quick that it would
make the Honorable Chauncey De-pe-w"s
head swim.
his words counted for anything.
The least he could do, consistently,
would le to recognize the repre
sentative character of the great
business, manufacturing and agri
cultural assemblage about to con
vene at Chicago. It will speak for
reciprocity with the voice of the
nation's commerce collectively
only excluding the dear privileged
interests which have bought party
favor with campaign contributions
in the past. Mr. Roosevelt is dis
tinctly disappointing.
A cki.mk is a crime, whether
committed by woman or man, and
it is the duty of officials, to prose
cute the criminal in either case.
Many kind-hearted officials are too
easily persuaded to keep down the
prosecution on account of the stand
ing of the criminal's family in the
commuliity. An offense against
the criminal law of the state has
been committed in this city, which,
if it was the first of the same nature
committed by the same person, a
sympathetic community might be
induced to overlook it, but when it
comes to the second it becomes un
bearable to the most charitable citi
zens many of whom are very out
spoken in condemning officials for
not doing their dutv.
With the turning up of the light
of publicity graft appears in virtu
ally every subdiviseon of the De
partment of Agriculture; yet, with
witnesses declining to answer even
the slightest questions upon the
ground of their constitutional
rights, the chances of establishing
a working basis of indictment and
of later securing convictions are
not very bright. Out of these
considerations has come a proposal
that Congress "investigate" But
will it?
Tin: opposition to republicanism j
in Nebraska is too easilydishearteii
ed. The idea that the big majori
ty cannot be overcome in the fall
elections is all losh. With a good
ticket lefore the people many re
publicans who have become tired of
the republican manner of doing
things in this state will vote with
the democrats. Let us put on a
bold front, nominate a good candi
cate for supreme judge, and the
honest yeomenry will le with us in
accomplishing the balance.
Bt'T one representative from
this city attended this Pollard re
ception at Nehawka recently. Why j
were not those who manicsted such
great cuthuisiasm on election day
in this city there? Kcho answers
-Win?
Ayefs
Rkai.i.v, this mosquito question
deserves a great deal more attention
than it is getting. It is quite poss
ible, if States would combine, to
clean out breeding spots. liven in
places where the mosquito is not
dangerous, but merely a pest, the
war against the insect ought to be
carried to the point of extermin
ation. With the disappearance of
swamps and foul places the general
health would le letter and life
made pleasanter.
Don't try cheap cough medi
cines. Get the best, Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral. What a
record it has, sixty years of
Cherry
1
cures! Ask your doctor if
he doesn t use it for coughs,
colds, bronchitis, and all
throat and lung troubles.
" I have found that Ayer' Cherry Pectoral
is the het medicine I can prescribe for bron
chitis, influenza, o.utrhs. ami hard colds."
M. Luuksias, M.D., Ithaca. X. T.
Me.. 50c., PI 00. 3. C. ATSH CO..
All 1mririn. t T.owell. Mn.
IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.
1 resident Roosevelt declines to
pick up the hot potatoc. He will
not visit the big re-ciprocity conven
tion which is soon to meet in Chi
cago with tlie suspect'..d intention
of stirring deeper into questions of
(lovernment revenue tariff tax
ation. lie will not be repivsnted
by any member of his official fami
iv. Jie even intimates mat lie
hopes not to he embarrassed by the
necessity of declining an invitation
to have anything whatever to do
with it.
And yet the platform on which
Mr. Roosevelt was last fall electeel
to the Prsidency by a popular plur
ality of 2,500,000, a popular major
ity of 1,700,000 and an electoral
majority of more than two-thirds
declares in favor of reciprocity.
There is, of course, a protection
string tied to the declaration, but,
equally of course, everybody knows
that there is no necessary quarrel
between Dingleyism and reciprocity
bargains. This plank of the Re
publican platform of 194 is worth
a moment's attention nt this time.
I Iere it is:
"We have extended widely our
foreign markets, and we believe in
the adoption of all practicable
methods for their further extension.
including commercial reciprocity
wherever reciprocal arrangements
can be effected consistent with the
principles of protection, and with
out injury to American agriculture,
American labor of any American
industry."
lixtension of markets is just the
thing that is needed by our manu
facturing as well as by our agricul
tural interests, for our productive
possibilities have already become so
fruitful as to overflow the home
market. lixchange of products is
the essence of trade. People as a
rule prefer to buy in the markets
where they sell. Countries which
the Dingley tariff forbids to sell to
us cannot to the best advantage buy
from us. Why, then, in the face
of its party declaration, does the
republican administsation balk at
the Chicago meeting which has be
hind it strong sentiment and large
producing interests.
The practical answer is that the
republican party is already seeth
ing with an ill-suppressed and ulti
mately irrepressible conflict be
tween what its votaries believe to
be the same principles of moderate
and reasonable protection and the
wild excesses of the Dingley pro
hibitive schedules. Whenever and
wherever these opposing views are
allowed to come into clash the par
ty is split. Republican leaders are
wise in trying to steer their boat
awav from the rock of tariff discus
sion. Two years ago Iowa republi
cans declared against the monopoly-fostering
features of the Dingley
tariff; David B, Henderson rebelled
and the pathetic fate of Henderson
is not lost upon other leaders.
It is not easy so see how the re
publicans are to avoid the tariff in
the extra session of congress that
is meet in November or in the long
regular session that will follow.
The government's income is run
ning behind. Something must be
done to restore the balance. Secretary-
Shaw, whose sand is run
ning low in the treasury hour-glass,
thinks it would be a good plan to
pile on a little more internal reve
nue taxes; but except as a war
measure that form of taxation has
; already been odious to the Ameri
j can people when it has gone beyond
j spirits, beer and tobacco.
! Speaker Canon wants to put the
'economy brake down hard, and
Mr. Speaker is next to all-powerful
over republican action: but he
! does not yet know the temper of
m
The Man in Charge!
m
hi:
a remem-
Bronchitis
the new house. L
ber Ilentlerson.
The republican party may expect
: to encounter rough weather in the
fifty-ninth congress and in the elec
: tions which will decide the r.iem-
i bership of the sixtieth.
Correct any tendency to constipa
tion with small doses of Ayer's Pills.
Tin-: republicans arc justly proud
of Nebraska. It is one of the few
states where the farmer can lje fool
ed, robbed and skinned year after
and still have a little left for him
self. Bancroft News.
FOIYSHONEFHCAR
Cures Coldsi Prevents Pneumonia
Tin re is h p ! tlcr way Id make the California trip than
to join tin; Miirliiit'toir.s M-iMin.illy i-onilui led 'J lirouuli Tour
ist Sleeper Kxriirsmiis, which Irase Plat t.sinoiit h every Thurs
day and Friday at .'J::'. p. in. The" Conductor, who is In per
sonal charge, is an employe of t lie Burlinyton Road. He meets
you at tlie station, cares for you your liaiace. looks atler
transportation in fact, his sole duty is the care of passengers.
The route is through Denver, hy fhivlik'bt through scenic
( Colorado and Salt Lake City, tlieiiee San Francisco and the
Coast Line1 to Los Liitfi'lcs.
See that your return tiiket from from California reads
over the I!ui liriL'ton, that you may likewise he booked in our
east-bound excursions; and if you return via Portland and the
Ptitfet Sound country and you should do so hy all means.
There are Burlington ticket agents at Portland, Tecoma ami
Seattle who will make all your arrangements for tlie home
ward trip.
All classes of tickets are honored in these through tourist
sleepers; tlie c.st per birth Is but "j T".
Daily through standard sleepers (imalia to San Francisco
and scenic Colorado.
RATES Fnusually low rates for the round trip on fre
quent dates during the summer to the coast and back.
Apply for Portland Imposition fold
ers. California excursion folders,
berths, in format ion. etc. I escribe your
proprosed trip and let me advise you
the most desirable way to make it at
the lowest cost.
L. W. WAKELEY, G. P. A.,
1004 Farnum Street, Omaha, Neb.
J. M.Greene, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Can be reached by 'phone ni.'ht or day
Manley, Nebraska.
R. B. WINDHAM
A TT I ! X K V-A T- I. A W.
I'iatt srimiilli : : Nebraska.
Probate, Commercial Law, Real
Estate Litigation
Anil Foreclosure of Mortices a Specialty
V Absroccts of Tillc
thoma'walLing
OI TICK AiiIk um r-ltush Mock.
JOHN M. LEY DA,
ATTORNEY-ATLAW
ABSTRACTER OF LAND IT LES.
Preparing abst racts of title, convi yaiicInK
anil examining lil ies to real estate a special
ty. Work properly done ami charges reason
able, otllce: Itoorns i ami T. John Ourid
Buiidliii.-. near Court Mouse. I'lattsrnoutli,
Nebraska.
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