The Plattsmouth Journal
riTHMSM KI WKKKLV AT
PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA.
Abk Ruef says, "I plead guilty,
hut I am innocent." Sonnds like
the stage comedian who says, 1
know. I did it, but I deny it."
IL A. 1JATK.S, 1'risLisiiKit.
V. ilrl at tin- postolli'; .it ruttsmouth. Ne
lr:isl.:i. :ih s''iii1:1uss m:ittT.
Tin; burning question of the day :
Will the "busting" of the ice trust
reduce the price of ice, or will the
trusts raise the price in order to
make the public pay the amount of
the fines?
Tin: renonstrancc filed against
issuing a saloon license to William
Ilinrichsen, is signed by three res
idents whose combined taxes are
less than SfO. What do you think
of that?
Tin; Portland Oregonian truth
fully says: "We shall have less
stealing at the bottom of society
when we have less at the top of it.
A grafter is nothing but a thief,
rich or poor."
Now that Plattsmouth is to have
one week's carnival in June, some
of our merchants think it is too
much of a good thing to have a 4th
of July celebration. We cannot
understand why one should conflict
with other, and nearly a month
apart.
Tin-: Journal wants to give Don
Despain credit for one thing. lie
had sense enough to know when to
quit. The best thing that he has
done since acting wall-flour around
the capital, and drawing salary for
'doing nothing.
Tin-: late spring and the green
bug have made fortunes for those
who backed their convictions as to
dollar wheat with their cash. " 'Tis
an ill wind, that blows nobody
good."
Ahky Kelt and Abey Hummel
will reach penitentiaries about the
same time, though the institutions
in which they will spend some long,
tiresome years are as far apart as
New York and California.
It was Abe Ruef who, at the last
national republican convention,
had more Roosevelt tags upon his
manly and honest bosom than any
other unbought delegate. One by
one the roses fall.
President Diaz proposes one
republic to be formed by the amal
gamation of all the Central Ameri
can countries into one government
under a man with enough strength
of character and honest, common
sense to govern them. Yes, but
where to
Mexico?
find such a man? In
Tiiev are having a hard time
getting a jury in the Haywood trial
at Boise, Idaho. Kvidently the men
drawn on the panel think they
found a verdict of guilty and they
prefer to use every possible means
to escape jury service than run the
risk of being "removed" by Hay
wood's friends.
A strike of steam shovelers on
the alleged work on the alleged
Panama canal temporarily retards
rough riding correspondents from
carrying on the enterprise ot polit
ically digging a waterway from the
Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.
Those shovelers demand 5150 per j
mouth instead of the SI 05 they are
now getting.
President Roosevelt com
plains because the private letter in
which he assumed that Mover and
Haywood were guilty, before they
had been tried, was published with
out his consent. What difference
does that make. Why should he
be afraid for the public to know
where he stands in regard to the
laboring man?
Tin-: Journal has been successful
in securing the services of Mr. M.
S. IJriggs as local reporter, and we
feel fortunate in thus doing, as Mr.
IJrigjzs is a very competent person
for the position. lie has lived in
Plattsmouth many years and is well
known not only in the city, but
throughout the county, also. He
is a hustler for the news, and when
he approaches you tell him all you
know.
The German press is strongly
opposed to the Kaiser's fifth son
making a tour of America, saying
that "only evil can come to him in
that land of dollars and machines."
Can it be that the prowess of our
automobiles has extended to the
Fatherland?
The Chicago Record-Herald re
lieves what is otherwise a painful
situation: About the only crop
which hasn't been damaged this
spring is the crop of stories con
cerning other queer springs that
are remembered bv the oldest in
habitants."
The stand now taken by Foraker
the activity of the Fairbanks boom
ers, the ominous silence of Cannon
and the open resentment of Hughes
all indicate the brewing of a storm
which will tax all the strength o
the president to weather. The dif
ferences between the two factions
of the republican party are as wide
as the nation, and they are irrecon
concilable.
One consignment of game from
Nebraska received in Chicago a few
years ago contained 18 barrels o
prairie chickens from a locality
where they are now very scarce. A
rough estimate of the number
of these birds killed in Nebras
ka that year was placed at
5,000,000, of which all but 1,000,
000 were for shipment out of the
state. It will be several years be
fore any more shipments, large or
small, are made from this state.
The Beatrice Sun truthfully re
marks that during the past ten
3'ears the cost of living has ad
vanced 35 percent. During the past
five years the cost has advanced 27
per cent. Farm products have ad
vanced 9 to 41 per cent. Food is
from 2 to IS per cent, higher.
Clothing is 22 per cent, higher.
Fuel has advanced 18 to 73 per
cent. Lumber and building ma
terials have advanced from 11 to 43
per cent. Labor has made a great
er advance than any other commod
ity, and to this is largely due the
advance in all other things. It
costs 50 per cent more to print a
newspaper now than it did ten
years ago, and man3' of the papers
throughout the country are making
a corresponding advance in sub
scription price. It is simply lessen
ing the value of money as compar
ed with commodities.
Any conspiracy on the part of
the republican party to keep Okla
homa out of the union till after the
next presidential election will sure
ly react upon that party. Okla
homa is ready for and deserving of
statehood. She has been admitted
to the union of states by congress,
and there can be no justification
for any delay dictated by political
exigency. The millions of capital
that have been invested in the twin
territies since statehood was assur
ed, the thousands who have taken
up their residence there with the
understanding statehood should
immediately follow the adoption of
a proper constitution , will not meek
ly submit to such an injustice as
has been proposed by politicians
having the president's ear. If state
hood is not proclaimed without un
reasonable delay, the administra
tion will find that it has made one
of its most serious mistakes. Okla
homa cannot will not be denied her
rights under the constitution of the
United States.
Diaz indignantly denies the re
port that he had declared a confed
eration of all Central American
states to be the only way to bring
permanent peace to those turbulent
nations. Too bad. This sugges
tion of Diaz's which he didn't
make was more generally approv
ed throughout the United States
than anything he ever did.
Judge Evans, chairman of the
democratic state committee, an
nounces that so soon as th legisla
ture adjourns a systematic effort
will be made to boom Governor
Folk for president. It's no use,
Judge, the state democracy, in con
vention, has already spoken the
sentiment of the rank and file of
the Missouri democracy, and the
democracy of the nation have al
ready tentatively nominated Mr.
Bryan and that's the whole story.
Kahoka (Mo.) Gazette-Herald.
The Beatrice Sun thus very time
ly remarks, which hits all towns
alike: "Give us the name of one
boy in this town who has been in
jured on account of overwork, and
we will point out ten who have
been ruined by idleneess and the
vices that can be traced directly to
it. If you want to have a fine crim
inal in the family, teach your boy
that his daddy can earn a living for
him until such time as he, the boy,
can find some easy lucrative snap.
Tell him that you want him to fill
some dignified position, and while
he is waiting for someone to come
along and hang a medal on him he
must strictly refrain from work and
its degrading influences. Tell him
it's his parents' duty to provide for
him until he has reached his major
ity, and that trades are for the sons
of poor people who can hope for no
career in the world. Ifyoufailto
make a bum out of the ordinary
boy with this kind of teaching, it
will be because he . has inherited
some good qualities from some re
mote ancestors of the time before
the tribe degenerated."
Has Roosevelt become ashamed
of the antics and mouthings of his
fool friends who committed him to
the rejection of the Oklahoma con
stitution. lhe reports touav are
that he will obey the law and pro
claim the adoption of that instru
ment in case the election so decides.
Kven his enimies thought that he
was exceeding the limit of freakish
audacity and contempt for law by a
determination to save that coming
state to the republicans by outrage
ous usurpation.
An experienced teacher says that
pupils who have access to news
papers at home, when compared
with those who do not, are better
readers, better spellers, better
grammarians, better punctuators,
and read more understandingly and
obtain a practical knowledge of
geography in almost half the time
it requires others. The newspaper
is decidedly an important factor in
modern life. This will not be
disputed by any one who has taken
the trouble to investigate the mat
ter for himself. Now is the time
to subscribe for the Journal.
The Pass Question.
The railway commissioners on
Tuesday issued the following order
in reference to passes, the first of
importance since the department
was created by constitutional amend
ment and clothed with power by
the legislature:
"It is hereby ordered and direc
ted that all common carriers doing
business in the state of Nebraska
shall file in the office of the Nebras
ka state railroad commission, at
Lincoln, Nebraska, on or before
May 23. 1907, a statement showing
the following facts:
"l. The names and addresses,
and the relation they bear to the
common carrier, of all employes to
whom they have issued, or con
tracted to issue, passes, mileage, or
other transportation for the passage
of persons, good within the state of
Nebraska, now in force, for which
the full published rates have not
been paid in cash, or agreed to be
paid in cash.
"2. If issued under a written
contract, a copy of the contract.
If issued under a verbal agreement,
a statement of the terms.
"3. The names, addresses, and
the relation the recipient may bear
to the common carrier, of all per
sons other than employes to whom
the common carrier has issued, or
contracted to issue, passes, mileage,
or other transportation for passage
of persons, good within the state of
Nebraska, now in force, for which
the full published rates have not
been paid in cash or agreed to be
paid in cash.
'4. If issued under a written
contract, a copy of the contract. If
issued under a verbal agreement, a
statement of the terms.
'It is further directed that a copy
of this order be served upon each
and every steam railroad company
doing business within the state of
Nebraska."
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On With the Fight.
One of the questions asked each
juror called into the box in the
Haywood trial is: ' 'What are your
politics?" Another is: "Did you
read the prrsident's 'undesirable-
citizen speech.' " From this we
are to conclude that the president
is to be made partof the prosecution.
It is assumed that if a witness is a
republican admirer of the president
and read his speech condemning
the men on trial as "undesirable
citizens," that they will be influenc
ed thereby. It is unfortunate that
the president made himself the tar
get of criticism.
In the council procedings pub
lished elsewhere in this issue of the
Journal, the three parties who sign
ed the remonstrance against issuing
saloon license to Win. Hinrichsen,
is given. If the temperance people
are conscientious in the work of per
secution, why do they not secure
the names of a few of the largest
taxpayers of the city to such docu
ments. The combined taxes of
these three signers does not amount
to ten dollars even. Two of them
have resided here but three years,
and the third is an employe of the
Burlington shops. As we under
stand it, the Burlington people are
not paying their employes to sign
papers that keep out a business
that lessens their city taxes. If
you will remonstrate, get responsi
ble citizens to do the work, and
don't hide from doing it yourself
Show your hand.
While for the present the prob
ability of a pitched battle between
the Taft and the Foraker-Dick fac
tions in Ohio has been avoided by
the action of the chairman of the
State Republican Executive Com
mittee in withdrawing the call for a
meeting of the leading men of the
party in that state, the fight is by
no means at an end. Secretary
Taft is more than ever determined
to smoke out the leading officehold
ers of the state and compel them to
plainly show on which side of the
ence they are. Secretary Taft has
openly intimated that the fight be
tween himself and the senior Sena
tor from the Buckeye state is one to
the finish, and that he will not stop
until either he or Foraker is elimin
ated from politics. Meanwhile, the
democrats of the state are carefully
preparing their way for victory at
the coming state election, and, be
cause of the defection in the ranks
of the enemy, hope to elect one of
their own men to the seat now held
by Foraker.
The very latest political news
item to be flashed across the country
is that Mr. Bryan will decline the
democratic nomination next year
and throw his powerful influence to
Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia.
The item says that Smith would be
strong with the 6,500,000 democrats
who voted for Bryan. That may
be true, but the people demand
that the great Nebaskan shall make
the race, and while he may not de
sire to run for president again, the
voice of the people is growing loud
er and louder each day for "the no
blest Roman-of them all," that by
next year no other candidate will
be dreamed of.
According to figures compiled
by the census bureau at Washington
a divorce suit is filed every two min
utes during working hours of court
officials, and a divorce granted eve
ry three minutes in the United
States. This has been the average
for the last twenty years. These
figures are very startling. Again
the question arises: "Is marriage
a failure?"
Secretary Taft says: "Wom
an must not think that to benefit
mankind she must necessarily be
come a wife and mother. ' ' A little
more talk like that and Roosevelt
won't be for him.
While republican editors are
hanging out storm signal warnings
against feuds within their party
they might as well extend the line
of danger stations far bevond the
i limits of Ohio and Tennessee.
It is true that in these two states
the hope of reconciliation between
the factions in most desperate, but
there are others in which it seems
already, in the words of Falstaff,
"past paying for."
With ex-Congressman Wadsworth
calling Roosevelt a "faker" in New
York, and Governor Hughes re
minding the president that men
have been known to make fortunes
b3 attending to their own business,
there seems to be a lack of the Da
mon and Pythias feeling among the
republicans of the president's own
state which is not suggestive of love
feasts.
In Missouri the simultaneous
mention of leaders of opposing fac
tions is suggestive of the knife,
while in Pennsylvania Penrose is
still in an ugly temper, though
he has promised to be good. And
all is not exactly serene among the
faithful in our state of Nebraska.
In Illinois Uncle Joseph G. Can
non has done nothing besides saw
wood; but it is rumored that he has
been heard to mutter in his sleep
that lingers in his mouth ever since
he was forced by the Big Stick to
reverse his record of years by giv
ing right of way in the House to
the president's pet scheme for ship
subsidy.
If there is any possibility for
harmony between the Rooseveltian
standpatters on the tariff and the
Iowa Idea on which Governor A.
B. Cummins won his famous vic
tory last year, nothing short of a
miracle can materialize it, while in
Massachusetts one-half of the re
publican party is as cold to Ding
leyism as Cummins himself is.
If there be danger in division, the
republican party is surely in a per
ilous state. If the third-termers
will only keep busy, the danger
will be turned into disaster.
It has not been officially given
out, but the Journal violates no
confidence when it says that the
Hon. Abe Ruef of Sr.n Francisco
will not head the next staudpat
delegation to the republican nation
al convention as he did three years
ago. He was then so covered with
Roosevelt badges and emblems that
lie looked like a specimen board of
a hardware store. But he finally
concluded to stand pat ::o longer
and has made a full confession.
August Hesse, on Winterstepn hill
is reported sick with the measles.
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