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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1906)
The Plottsmouth Journal WlIKV t'lC re ;.c it. it will S.i'.a:; t" tv.rn S t'rier.vN the tariiT be ir.t. 11 I.I.!.-1IH rt KI.V AT V LAITS V. OUT1I . NET H ASK A. II. A. l'.ATl.S. l'l 1.I.1MUK. .,1 ill tin-1 it l'.Mrii-.itli. Nf l.rNt. H'H lr ii.u'.ti r. T:r: Ku: :r.c::t::v '. 1'. I.. II..'.'. : Tr.' if It. i l.' a ; th.rifji! t f the ix-,v ( v. j;.-citv 1 M-Ivttul the t:vl:vt. If th:s were ittf.e it wot:'.'! W itmtc'.y K-ttcr tli.tn allotting two or three railroad ,'.vr t:.v a:: ! i. .ilt-r.-.ou'.h r.:er :.:.'c the co!u:::: .:-t lorrg w:'.'. h v.t the count;. ;. ilvid or.e. a:; ". J .-fi le cf th'. .:: '. t :T orders t -ir. Chicago. w. Vah- !un allotting two or three railroad nto::. w.io never lu.u a ..e, ecu.,. iom-i tu select thetiektt, as the , cov.-.e Lack to earth ar-.d step into republicans have always done in : the I". S. senate and hear the word this state. The republicans have "liar" bandied about by these no.'.- I l-en led around by the nose so long em cay senators ne wouia mar.N by the railroads that it con-.es with j his stars he lived before the days of roor crace tor them to talk of ' the Great American Trusts. t - rt The Vaics s! Dex3:n:j. I're-ident Kootve'.t. first and Iat. .i' stolen a ood deal of democratic :h l:e i'i e not kr-.ow iv to n-c. but re; ubli who inn.inc that the e no issues left will f.f.cecv.ve i: t..ev w:.I listen, a l.ttle to the voice cf tlcr.iocracv now e V.. 'crnts hr.' resoumlir.g even through t.:e coun ties of Nebraska. The notes of democratic doctrine sound strong and clear and the texts from the JefTersonian gosjel are : given out for preachment in every precinct letween now and November. In reaffirming the principles of Jeffersoniaa democracy the demo crats of Nebraska do not need to expand their resolutions with mul titude of words. The simple men tion of Jefferson's name in connec- bosses. I'm okti NAT! l.Y for l'resideut Roosevelt, many of the so-called wild assertions of Senator Tillman ;ire supported by men of well known standing in the republican I'arty. It is said the board of public lands and building will not inves tigate the alleged rottenness of the Norfolk asylum management for fear that the disclosures may effect the campaign- Sl'.NATt K Gr.oKCK L. SlIKI.IH.N of Nthawka, candidate for the nomination for governor, will 1 the principal speakers at the old settlers' picnic at Palmyra, Otoe county, June 14. Tin: Lincoln Journal says that Charles IJryau presented Jioo to Governor Mickey yesterday as a do nation from his brother, W. J. Uryan, for the San Francisco sufferers, making a total of $200 contributed by Mr. Bryan. AnofT twenty democratic editors met in Lincoln yesterday to talk over the political conditions in Ne braska. In the evening they en joyed a banquet at the Windsor, which was attended by a numWr of prospective candidates. Tin: Washington Star reports an alliance Ik tween President Roose velt and Senator I'rimrose to defeat the insurgents in 1'ciinsvlvania and This s a 1' " th(-' ri-ht Kive the corrupt machine there an- Erection. The merchants of this ether lease of i.mvr. The ma-1 could emulate the the merchats Now that the senate committet has followed the recommendations of the majority of the engineer ex perts to build the Panama on the sea level plan, there should be no more delay in pushing the work. There is no doubt that in view of the danger to locks and dams from earthquakes, the sea level type is the only safe one. It may cost a little more and take a little longer to build, and those who talked so much alout making the "dirt fly" may be disgruntled, but making haste slowly in a work of this mag nitude is the only safe policy. Tin: merchants of Trenton, Mo., have taken a practical step in the direction of road improvement. They have purchased steel enough to make four hundred drags, and this material is given out to the farmers who will work the road, free of charge, upon the order of the rural free delivery carriers Where there is a bad piece of road the carrier endeavors to interest the people in the community to fix it What active anti-railroad men Governor Mickey and State Treas urer Mortensen are, just now, as they are about to step down and out. They seem to think now that the railroads are fearfully under assessed, which never occurred tojtionwith that of our own William them in 1903, 19'4 and 1905 when Jennings Bryan, expresses hostility they were making the assessment to most of the things that the re- and were candidates for re-election . publican party has done, is doing or j wants to do. At a meeting recently of repub-, Reform of the robber Dingley licaus in Grand Island, ex-Speaker j tariff is a purpose on which Nebras- Rouse was endorsed for governor j ka democracy is unanimous and de- and a committee of one hundred termined. Republicans who claim leading republicans was selected to boost the gentleman. One of this committee named was KditorBuech- ler of the Independent, but he de clines to serve and puts up a very strong argument against being drafted for this kind of work. The chief objection Mr. Buechler has against ex-Speaker Rouse is that Rouse is notoriously a Burlington machine man. chine will need more than ten ad ministrations to save it from the wrath of the outraged people. RtHtHAT.i.T is not the only phenomenon that can talk in op posite directions at the same time. The wireless telegraph ojvrator on the French steamer La Provence accomplished that feat on the 27th of April by talking to people on loth sides of the Atlantic at once. Great talkers mav exjn.'Ct imitators. AVh notice from an exchange that there is a painful lack of teachers in the schools of many counties of the state. This is a good sign. It indicates that the girls are getting tired of teaching, and are getting married. It shows that they are growing weary of working for wages and are now going to work for nothing, or just for the fun of the thing. It will le intesesting to notice, when the republican state plat forms are promulgated, how far the republican politicians will follow President Roosevelt in his proposi tion to confiscate the proierty of the very rich. Party organization must le preserved at all hazard and the party leader is entitled to full oliedience or the party machine will In; worthless. Ik you are a republican Ikss, look out for political squalls alwut No vember, is the way the prognosti cations in the jolitical almanac are warning the g. o. p. The advice to democrats is to get together on essentials and lay aside factional quarrels, The democrat that for selfish reasons is trying to disrupt the party at this time should le warned to desist and advised that only those who fight for the getter al welfare can expect consideration and reward hereafter. Ik one-half that has lieen said regarding the abuses in the insane asylum at Norfolk is true, there should le a general house-cleaning at that establishment. There is a tendency upon the part of a great many men who are in the employ of the state, to outgrow their jobs Men who are employed as attend ants too ofter rise iu their own opinion alwve their business, and instead of King kind and consid erate of those who are placed h of the Missouri town with profit We need good, roads, and to much cannot be said in this behalf. Tin: Roosevelt administration will soon come to be known as the great compromisers, for in addition to compromising on the railroad rate bill and trying to compromise on the statehood bill, it is now pro posed by Secretary Taft to compro mise w ith the senate on the Phillip pine tariff bill, by raising the rate of duties to 50 jer cent of the regular rates instead of 25 per cent. Can enyone give a fair reason why the people of the Philippines should le taxed 5 per cent and the Porto Ricans and Hawaiians have free trade with the United States, ex cept that the tobacco trust and the sugar trust and the rice trust say so? John N. Baldwin of the Union Pacific railroad says of the rate bill: "I Ulieve the bill as adopted with its amendments is going to give satisfaction to all concerned." Com ment is unnecessary. It is easy to draw our own conclusions of the bill if it satisfies the railroads And it surely does, for Mr. Bald w in is a railroad man and speaks by the card. But we have not yet heard whether the bill suits the other people concerned the ship pers and consumers. We do not believe Mr. Baldwin is authorized to speak for them, and we shall wait until we hear from both sides before we determine whether the bill gives satisfaction to "all con cerned." Thk local railroad attorneys have flooded the U. S. Senate with tele grams demanding that they be ex cepted from the anti-pass proviso of the railroad rate bill. These local railroad attorneys rarely have any legal business kfore the courts for the railroads; unless it is a "cow- case." They are political agents to see that "safe and sane" men are elected to the legislature am1 congress and are more detriinenta to the tropic's interest than anv other of the railroad officials. Cut ting off their railroad passes reduces their opjortunity of mischief and voters of all parties should watch the actions of their senators and representatives on this important matter, for it will indicate more than anything else if they are real- Tin: republicans of the Tenth Iowa congressional district, at their convention, endorsed Gov. Cum mins and his position on railroad rate legislation and tariff reform. This district being the home ot Sec retary Shaw it virtually knocks out that gentleman from controlling the state and probably will result i:: retiring him as a candidate for president. Standpatters in oth- r states should take notice and pre pare for the coming tariff reform cvclone. that the tariff should be revised by its "friends" are reminded that they have put it off too long, and that the democratic party is the only friend of the right kind of tariff. Hostility to trusts and monopo lies in restraint of trade, hostility to machine methods and boss rule in politics, loyalty to representative government freely exercised are ele mental parts of the JefTersonian democracy whose voice is heard all through Nebraska just now. State and national conventions may expand upon issues, but all the issues the democracy contends for in the opening campaign are cover ed by the single JefTersonsiau max im: "v;ua! rights to all, specia' privileges to none." their charge, they ticcotne tyrants, and unfit for their positiotft.. Sift j ly friend of the people or the cor the abuses and prosecute the guilty. ' porations. Republicans Won't Stand For It. The republican majority of the louse Committee on election of president, vice-president and mem- kts of congress, very naturally voted to drop, like a hot baked po tato, consideration of the bill for publicity of campaign contributions. They decided it was loosely drawn, jut it was probably tight enough, if enacted into law, to have afford ed considerable inconvenience and perplexity to the chairman of the republican congressional commit tee, who will receive contributions this summer and fall, from sources he would not care to disclose When the sugar trust produces its sweet donation, and the steel trust disgourges some of its tariiT plund er, and the coal trust, through Brother Baer, or some of the other God entrusted coal barons, "conies down with the dust," it would bo awkward to publish these facts to the world. The reason for the re fusal of the republican majority in congress to revise the tariff that shelters trusts would be too plain for even the most rock rib!ed, but obtuse, republican voters to en dorse. Of course the intelligent voter has observed the evidence that has been published from au thentic sources, that the trusts and corporations have furnished mil lions to keep the standpatters in power and that even the funds that should have been sacred to the widows and orphans of life insur ance jolicy holders were illegally and feloniously diverted to the same corrupt purpose. It is true that President Roosevelt denied, in the closing days of the last nation al campaign, that the republican national committee had received such contributions, but neverthe less his victory at the polls is stil clouded by these tainted millions and no restitution has lecn made No wonder, than, that the re publican politicians unite in refus ing to consider a bill that make contributions from such tainted sources almost impossible. Future republican committees would In: at the starving point under such cir ctirastancc. A Trust Object Lesson. The Standard Oil clique appears to have made money out of the presidentV'Standard Oil message" for they had the advantage of ad vance copies of the message and the Garfield report from some unex plained source, probably from the newspapers they control. This en abled them to sell the market in advance and then when the message and report were sent to congress and other people took the bear side side of the market, the clique bought back at lower prices the Standard Oil specialties they had sold a few days previously. In stantly, says the New York Post, the entire stock market advanced. It was generally declared in Wall street that w hen the message should ''come out" the Standard Oil clique would give the administration an object lesson" that Standard Oil stocks were immune from any at tacks of President Roosevelt, or any one else. This leaking of government secrets for the benefit of the trust is a sample of the care less, if strenuous, methods of the Roosevelt administration. Gf.okok W. Bkrce is now an out and out candidate for governor. While the Journal is prepared to support any man the democrats may decide upon, we are candid in the opinion that under all existing cir cumstances Mr. Berge is the most available candidate. The coffin industry of this coun try is to have another term of ex ceptional prosperity by reason of an increased export trade w;.th the Philippines. The Palujanes trilie is all to be killed, to say nothing of our own soldiers who may fall in performing the ceremony. The coffin trust industry may yet reach the magnitude of the steel trust. Tom Ai.i.kn, chairman of the democratic state central committee, and who is a brother-in-law of W. J. Bryan, says that under no circum stances will Nebraska's favorite son be a candidate for senator. He says, also, that the race for this honor is between Hitchcock of the Omaha World-Herald and Thomp son of Grand Island. For the ben efit of the party and credit of the state let it be Hon. G. M. 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I LI ,i6..' ; ; ; i iTjir 'i h-i h-tttt- 1 I I II I I I I I I II I II II III B I I T JOHN BAUER, The Chicago editor who has been trying to identify the familiar hoop snake with the chasing rattler of the prairies ought to move further away from the Peoria distilleries. Kxpatkiatkd Kentuckiaiis need not be disturled on account of the denaturized spirits bill. It cannot possibly ko into effect lefore the Louisville home-coming jubilee. Thikty-tiikkk counties in Mis souri have formally endorsed Uryan for the nomination for president, and this in face of the fact that Gov. Folk of that state is said to K- a candidate. Dkm'h r ats should pay no atten tion to democratic candidates for governor brought to the front by the state house ring at Lincoln. The democrats are abundantly able to select their own candidates; be sides the republicans are not in the habit of mentioning popular dem ocrats for candidates. They en deavor to draw attention away from that fact. Thk Washington Post declares that the steel trust has promised to "sell structural iron in San Fran cisco as cheaply as it sells that pro duct abroad," and adds that "the bill to refund the tariff duty there fore been put to sleep." With all due deference to this exclusive in formation in the Post of the conde scension and concession of the steel trust, it is a safe bet that San Fran cico will be lucky if it can buy steel at top prices here. Why, to sell steel in San Francisco at the same price it is sold abroad, would defeat the republican candi dates for congress in every doubt ful district and put every stand patter on the defensive. The Post should know that the protectionists claim that trust products are not' sold choaper abroad than here.