The Plattsmouth Journal
I'L'KLIsIi ED WEEKLY AT
PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA.
It. A. HATES, Publish me.
K itcr.-U at the postolllce at IMattsmouth. Ne
braska, as sii::onlclasi matttr.
It's warm as summer down
where the earthquake happened,
but we prefer to le shaken by the
blizzard.
One spectator of the game of life
says nowadays we are thinking in
billions. Billions of what
thoughts of metal pawns?
At last Roosevelt has admitted
he was wrong in one thing.
Many mighty men have eaten the
same humble pie before becoming
wise.
Onk railroad president complains
that the roads are treated as out
laws. Similar treatment of individ
uals arises from the consequences
of their own actions.
What the world needs today is
men who are not afraid to stand in
the high places and proclaim the
phylosophy of him who said: "Love
thy neighbor as thyself."
. j. 1 1 n. i. announces that .1,100
women are shareholding benefic
iaries of his vast system. Perhaps
the usual success of that corporation
may be traced to home influences.
Tin: legislature is considering
the advisability of removing the
wolf bounty that has cost the state
S40.O00 a year for some time.
There are other wolves not yet
scalped that have also cost the state
considerable.
Hox. Geo. W. Berge has sold
the Nebraska Independent. The
cause of the sale was necessitated by
removal of his brother, who has
been business manager, to the east,
and Mr. Berge's time is so taken
up with his law practice that he is
unable to give it the proper atten
tion. Mostof the material, includ
ing a lineotype machine, was sold
to the State Journal company, but
the paper will continue publication
by other parties.
It seems the republicans are not
"Standing by Roosevelt" as much
as they were. The Missouri house
of representatives, over the protests
of the republican members, indors
ed the action of the president in
discharging the negro soldiers con
nected with the Brownsville riots,
the democrats voting for the reso
lution and the republicans solidly
against it. Wonder what the Ne
braska legislature would do with a
resolution of this character? Is
there a democratic member of the
house with sufficient nerve to in
troduce one, to see how many re
publican members are ' 'Standing by
Roosevelt" as steadfastly as they
did last fall?
The finishing touches to com
plete the election of Norris Brown
to the United States senate was
made today when both houses of
the legislature met and cast the
final vote. All this talk about the
wily Norris has been labor lost.
While there are a great many peo
ple who believe all that is charged
in the resolution; while there are a
great many who believe that the
visit that Brown made to Fremont
and the conference that he held
with Rube Schneider and the po
litical manager of the Northwestern
railroad resulted in securing the
support of that railroad and of the
elevator trust, of which Mr. Sch
neider is the head, had no effect
whatever upon the votes of the
members of the legislature who
were bound hand and foot by the
political machine? There is no
doubt in the minds of a great many
that the tie-up that Brown made
with the Lincoln Journal was in
the nature of a conspiracy to de
fraud the state out of $S5,00J, but
what did the members who are
bound to support Brown care for
that? The people elected members
to the legislature who are pledged
to the Brown machine interest,
and they did it with the full know
ledge of the facts.
Speaker Cannon' again declares
that the republican party will stand
pat on the tariff. Perhaps a con
vention with a few Cummins re
publicans in it won't be ruled In
die house gavel.
Pneumonia, typhoid fever, dip
theria and other kindred diseases
are prevailing in different parts of
Cass county. Parents should be
extremely watchful of their child
ren , and particularly those who send
them to school.
It seems to be very evident that
the machine in charge of the pres
ent legislature is going to endear
itself to" the people if it can do so
by a pretense at fulfillinglthe prom
ises made during the. last campaign.
In this connection, the fusionists,
if they are shrewd, will join in and
push every measure that the repub
licans introduce that is of a benefi
cial nature. The people want leg
islation, and they are not particular
what party gets the credit of the
bills. The machine sees the hand
writing on the wall, and it is to be
hoped that the fear of an uprising
will have a wholesome effect.
A hi i.i. has been introduced in
the Illinois legislature of an amend
ment to the statutc"regulating mar
riages in Ill:nois"which would pro
vide for the publication in news
papers and in churches of a con
templated marriage thirty days be
fore the ceremony is performed has
aroused interest among judges,
clergymen and social reform work
ers. It is claimed it will give more
dignity to the marriage ceremony.
It will also furnish much material
for an organization of gossipers.
Two years ago the reform gov
ernor of Nebraska, who was then a
member of the state senate, intro
duced and had passed a bill provid
ing that the senate might employ
fifty employes. The present reform
senate has already exceeded that
number by three and the committee
says that there are a few more to be
added. In explanation the com
mittee says that some of the persons
employed are incompetent, and that
iK. tret the work done. It seems
thafrsthe committee that has select
ed the employes, has simply paid off
the political debts of the members
in clerkships without regard to fit
ness of appointees.
Arkansas's successful war upon
legislative corruption is an encour
aging lesson for other states. It
proves that it is possible to detect
and punish corrupt lobbying and
bribery. The Arkansas legislature
expelled Senator Reuben R. Adams
for refusing to resign. The senat
or loses his place in the Arkansas
legislature for a paltry SI 00, which
his conscience did not permit him
to keep. In the session of two
years ago he sold his vote on the
corrupt bill relating to the building
of the new state capital, but after
wards returned the money to Sena
tor Butt, who has been tried and
convicted for his corrupt practices
on that measure. Arkansas can
give the Nebraska members of the
legislature "cards and spades"
when it come to the prosecution of
corrupt members.
It seems that the State Journal
has been caught in another of its
tricks. The Washington corres
pondent of that paper denies hav
ing sent to the State Journal the
famous General Mosby interview,
in which he attacks ex-Senator
Dietrich. Mr. Dietrich wrote to
the president about it; the presi
dent referred to the department of
justice, and the department of jus
tice sought General Mosby, and
General Mosby had the State Jour
nal correspondent looked up and
that gentleman says he did not
write it or send it. Now, where
did the State Journal get it? Did
this saintly reform outfit manufac
ture the dispatch in its own editor
ial rooms and then print it, and
send it out to the associate press as
a legitimate piece of news? Mr.
Dietrich refuses to be "dispatched"
in this wav and bv such "reform
ers."
A bill has been introduced into
the Missouri legislature to tax bach
elors and provides a fine?and im
prisonment for failure to pay the
tax. It is evident that the fool
killer hasn't worn his club out yet.
Knockers never built up a town.
But they have destroyed a great
many good prospects here in Platts
mouth by "buttinglin" when it
would have been better for them to
have "butted out."
A bill has been introduced in
the legislature to double the pay of
members. It is ice-making weath
er when the honorable legislator
does not place a higher value upon
his services than it is quoted at the
market.
It is hard enough to have a con
gressional seat and then be forced
to give it up against one's will.
But having to vote" an increased
salary to one's successful compet
itor isn't that filling the cup a lit
tle too full?
It is proposed to make a levy to
make good the shortage created in
the school fund by the defalcation
of Joe Hartley. If all the money
that the taxpayers have been com
pelled to make good the shortage
of defaulting public servants had
been differently applied, they would
have wiped out a big slice of the
state debt.
Tin- first term Porter was secre
tary of state, from 1897 to 1899, he
cut down the Journal's graft from
$59,000 to $9,000, as the records
will show. Is it any wonder the
old reformer wants to get its hooks
in again? Watch how it will be
under the present administration.
Lincoln Herald.
By the way the cat is jumping,
Senator Warner of Missouri looms
so large upon the Washington hor
izon that the Aldrich faction of the
republican happy family begin to
wonder where they " are at . " Both
factions are seeking the strange bed
fellows that are found most fre
quently in po litics.
Some republican statesmen and a
few newspapers of that faith are ex
pressing fear that prosperity may
end soon. If prosperity is due to
legislation, as asserted by republi
cans generally, why will not the
laws now in force continue pros
perity? Destroy natural conditions
and all the laws in the land will fail
to bring prosperity.
The legislature is considering the
advisability of removing the wolf
bounty that has cost the state $40,
000 a year for some time. There
are other wolves not yet scalped
that have also cost the state consid
erable. Plattsmouth Journal. To
which the Lincoln Herald adds:
From present indications, they are
going to transfer the bounty to the
Lincoln Journal gang of reform-
ers.
President Roosevelt is finding
out that writing "confidential" let
ters won't work. He should re
member the Blaine incident of some
thirty years ago when that distin
guished gentleman wrote a letter to
which he appended these words:
"Burn this letter." But the re
ceiver forgot to burn the letter and
disgrace followed. Teddy's letter
to insurance departments asking
that the exorbitant salaries paid to
presidents of the big insurance com
panies be not disturbed is a piece
of monumental gall that puts to
shame all of his former follies.
In his message to the legislature
of Missouri, Governor Folk said:
"I believe the time will soon come
when the state can obtain all the
revenue necessary for the needs of
economic government by taxation
on railroads, express companies,
telegraph and telephone companies,
license tax on corporations, dram
shops and other privileges, thus
leaving the real and personal prop
erty in the counties free from state
taxes." The governor of Missouri
must have in mind some law that
will compel the railroads to pay
their taxes. If he has, he might
give the Nebraska law-makers a tip.
Corporation Reform.
Judge Grosscup has in The Out
look of Saturday, January 1J, a no
table article in which he elaborates
the view that well-regulated cor
porations corporations managed in
the interest of all the stockholders,
under laws which protect the pub
lic are in the future of this coun
try to be the alternative of far
reaching experiments in state and
national ownership of public utili
ties and in other fields of politico
economic science, hitherto unex
plored in the United States.
The code of American corpora
tion laws has been so crude and in
adequate that the corporation, the
one instrumentality in which the
new industrial life has embodied
itself, "though state-created, has
thus far been left a shell, under
whose roof and behind whose walls
every form of treachery and nearly
every form of theft were given free
rein."
These are strong words to come
from a justice of the United States
circuit court of appeals. They are
not to be taken as meaning that
corporations are houses of treach
ery and theft, or that individuals
do not commit similar offenses
when doing business in their own
name or as partnerships, but only
that the crude corporation laws of
most of the states open wide the
door for such practices.
The remedy? Judge Grosscup
finds it tentatively in the German
system under which a corporation,
before it can be organized, must
prove, as in court proceeding, its
rightful title to a corporate exist
ence. It must establish the character
and amount of the capitalization it
is allowed to put out.
When property is turned in its
value must be judicially ascertain
ed. Such a law, it may be added,
is even now in force in Massachu
setts. Upon officers and directors is
not conferred supreme power; the
shareholders' meeting is the coun
terpart of the New England town
meeting a genuine assembly, in
tended to do something more than
to pass resolutions of approval.
"And," adds Judge Grosscup,
"every violation of trust, not mere
ly to the public but to the share
holder as well, is quickly punished
with punishment that smarts.
' 'There is in the German corpora
tion no room .for one to do with
impunity in his capacity as a cor
poration officer or promoter what,
if done individually, would land
him in the penitentiary."
The corporation laws of Nebraska
are not better than the average of
those which Judge Grosscup con
demns. They may be vastly im
proved by requiring a sworn inven
tory of assetts to accompany every
application for incorporation, with
full personal responsibility of officers
and agents to the laws of the state.
The bill of Senator Root making
a lighter penalty for adultery and
defining the crime to consist of a
single offense instead of continuous
offense, has passed the senate.
Twenty-eight senators voted for it,
and it was declared passed with the
emergency clause. McKesson, of
Lancaster, voted in the negative.
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ALL DRUGGISTS:
The Crime of Lobbying.
It will be fortunate if out of the
scores of measures proposed in va
rious state legislatures this winter
to suppress corrupt lobbying a law
can be framed that will accomplish
the purpose.
The vote of a member on the floor
of cither house belongs to his con
stituents. He has no more right to
use it for his personal ends or to
sell it than he has to appropriate
money intrusted by them to his
keeping.
The professional lobbyist is, as
Governor I'olksays in his message,
the enemy of popular representa
tive government. Kvery vote cast
in a legislative body upon any other
consideration than the good of the
state at large and the welfare of the
district represented marks, to that
extent, the failureof government of
the people, by the people and for
the people.
The business of the professional
lobbyist being to influence the votes
of members in favor of special in
terests, he would not be too severe
ly punished by a "law making it a
crime for anyone for compensation
to lobby with the members of the
legislature."
The great trouble is that it is
hard to get proof that would con
vict the lobbyist of influencing or
attempting to influence corruptly a
member; but the fact that such acts
are criminal offenses under the
laws of the state, with the possibil
ity, if not the probability, of
punishment always present, would
have a wholesome influence.
The rights of citizens to appear
before legislative committees or to
file printed documents with mem
bers should not be curtailed, but all
that is done in this way should be
made subject to public inspection
by filing copies with the secretary
of state or other suitable officer at
the state capital.
The secret and corrupt lobbyist
must be suppressed if there is a way
to suppress him. He is the pest of
anj' legislative body.
We shall see if human nature in
the United States senate is strong
enough to resist the seductive in
sistence of the house upon an in
crease of 50 per cent in the pay of
members. If the senate were the
"millionaires' club" which some
of its maligners say it is, members
might be indifferent whether the
pay incidental to their honors is
$5,000 or $7,500. But the senate
is not a millionaires' club and the
expenses of living in Washington
have increased since the salary grab
act of 1873 was reversed and re
pealed because the increase includ
ed back pay for a session that was
in its last hours when President
Grant signed the bill.
The member of the legislature
who will make a vigorous effort to
have the past and present grafts of j
the State Journal investigated, and I
stick to the text until a full investi
gation has been made, will make
himself immortal in the eyes of all
honest people in Nebraska. The
people have a right to clamor for an
investigation cf a concern that has
had a grip upon the state treasury
for lo, these many years.
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MILLER DIED OF PNEUMONIA
Autopsy of Dr. Lanander Practically Dis
pels Theory of Murder or Suicide.
In speaking further of the sud ier.
death of John Miller of SmuI.Ii hm'iha.
who was nvcntly ma i Tied to Mi.-s
.Jessie Lane, a former I'htt turnout!,
girl, tin; Omaha Daily News of last
evening sa s.
"An autopsy held l.v Ir. Lavender
ontliebofJyof.Jol.n Miller who was
found dead under a b::ggy in a carriage
house at :;').",! Siiiith Twenty-eik'htt.
avenue Saturday niirht, revealed the
fact that Miller's death was caused
from an acute attack of pneumonia,
no trace of poison being found.
"This practically dispels the suicide
or murder theory which was advanced
by Miller's relatives, who received let
ters purporting to liave been wriiten
by persons who declared they had
murdered him.
"Dr. Lavender found the lesser vital
organs to be in an unhealthycondition
and there were traces of pleurisy. lie
is of the opinion that Miller became
delirious Friday night or Saturday
and crawled into the carriage house,
wliere he died a natuaal death.
"Tlie liver, spleen and kidneysof the
dead man have been preserved by Ir.
Lavender and if Miller's relatives wish
it, be will make a chemical examina
tion of them for traces of poison.
"There was a pathetic scene at the
coroner's oJIice Sunday morning when
Mrs. Miller, a bride of but a few days,
called to view the remains of her bus
band. "For nearly an hour she remained in
a kneeling position by the body and
wept convulsively, finally being led
away by friends and relatives.
"An inquest will be held just as soon
as Coroner IJrailey hears from Miller's
mother, probably Tuesday.
Aoain we beg to remark that the
only way to build up a town is to
build manufacturing enterprises.
Factories in Plattsmouth can be
made to pay as big dividend as in
any other town. There is more
money in the stock of a good fac
fnctory than in farm land or mort
gages. The idle money in this
community would boost several
great enterprises and be earning
big returns for the owners.
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b5 keeping It in a safe place such a
The BanH of Cass County
Capital .Stock S.aJ.OOO, Surplus 115,000
orni.tK" :
Clias. C. I'arn-.ele. Pres.. Jaoob Tritvrh. V-P
T. M. I'.-ttttrvjn. Cusli.
You can give a check for any part cf
it at any time and so have a receipt
for payment without asking for one.
When you have a bank account vou
will be anxious to add to it rather than
spend from it. Don't you want to
know more about it.