The Plattsmouth Journal
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This panic was born twelve months
to. siMn to lay the per
or of the democrats.
rentage at the
AltK you getting your share of the
wild rat money? It comes t. you inthe
w.iy of 'Vetified cashiers" checks. "
Thk "financial flurry is over," is the
way the metropolitan papers put it every
day regularly. Iiut the iow prices
of hogs, cattle and horses isn't over in
this community.
WnKNKVKR you begin to talk panic to
a partisan republican nowadays he irn-m.-diately
transfers the conversation to
the moon and the stars. He feels like
.etting off the earth.
Both fact ions of the democratic party
in Illinois have declared allegiance to
V. .1. Bryan. In fact democrats and
liberal minded republicans are falling in
A-ilh the I'.ryan wave everywhere. They
"see the hand-writing on the wall."
Talk about Postponer Taft he isn't
in it in comparison to this. One of our
changes, not many miles away, re
marks that "nwi;i(j to the over-crowded
condition of our columns, a number of
birth? have been unavoidaby postponed
this week. "
T 1 1 :: farmer who has a nice bunch of
hogs ready for the market is certainly
unfortunate atlhistime. It looks pret
ty tough to throw fifty cent corn into
h gs at this stage of the Ranie. It's
-.v rse than drawing to a bob-tail with
your last centinthe center.
We believe tiiat for stability and ab
solute soundness the Plattsmouth banks
will compare favorably with the banks
" any other city of the same size inthe
-a-est. There isn't one of that we would
.hesitate to deposit money in to any
iinoint. Our only regret is that we
Our only regret is that
i:iv to leave with them.
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Tv'. r.:M s-'ldiers r.f Iowa have started
a mo-. et.. r.t to have the McCumher
Pension 1-i .v amended at the present ses
sion of congress so as to give all old
-diers $2 per month af'er they have
r ;a hed t! age of 65 years, instead of
?" years, as at present, flood! Too
t.iuch cannot be done for the old soldier
i:i h: s der-'ening years.
Rricka, of the Weeping Wat . :'c
p ihlican, has not recovered fro:r h;s
alia.'; of "soar grapes" yet. Weli
it is h ;;.! to reiover from such a dele
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as he received on election di
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r.'al'y awful for a republican candidate:
to have lt." J majority against him star
ing him in t::; face, especially in a re
publican county. Don't indulge in any
more grapes, Brick a. T'.ey may give
yju the cramp colic, which is liable to
H to your head with dVastrous results.
Wn :n I'eiJant Cleveland ordered a
bond issue to secure money to replenish
the gold reserve, a storm of indignation
went up :.!1 over the country. Now a
iond iof-ue is deemed an act of patriot
ism. And yet there is a big difference
ii the-e bond issues. Cleveland didn't
need mmi-y to pay the ordinary expenses
of the government. He had plenty for
that purpose. It was the gold reserve,
established by a republican congress,
that va being depleted daily by drains
tr it by holders of redemption promises.
IJut that problem isn't confronting
Roosevelt, because of the fact that the
Jaw governing the gold reserve was
changed and the raids can no longer be
made. "We need the money," is the
excuse of the administration. Even
under Cleveland the treasury was not
subjected to the strain put on it by the
present panic.
Champ Cijvrk declares his intention
to make life miserable for the republi
cans who oppose the bill which he will
introduce in the house this week, pro
viding for the removal of the import
duty on wood pulp, white print paper
and white book paper. The bill is de
signed particularly to relieve the country
fiublisher, whose paper now costs double
what it did a few years age. "I was
once a country editor myself, "says Mr.
Clark, "and I know the close margin
on which country papers must be run to
make them realize a profit." The ed
itor of the Journal has known Champ
Clark for many years and in serving his
first term in the legislature, we heard
his ma'den speech to that body. We
have felt a pride in him ever since. He
has always been an advocate for the re
lief the masses, and his presentation of
such a bill in congress does not seem
-strange to us. It is simply his nature.
If he lives, he will succeed Major Will
iam Warner in the U. S. senate.
Are You Going?
Saturday evening, December 7 one
week from today the banquet to be
.given by the Dahlman democrats, occurs.
And from present indications a large
delegation from riattsmouth will attend.
Mavor Herincr. who has the matter in
harge, has secured aspecial over the !
Burlington, which will depart at 6:30,
returning after the banquet. The fact
that Hon. W. J. Bryan. Nebraska's fa
vorite son. anl that gifted M issourian.
Senator W. J. Stone, willle present to
address people, should repay all who at
tend. See Mayor Goring and make
arrangements to attend tnis grand af
fair. The fare for the lo ind'trip will
lu $1.71. which includes admission to
hainpet hall ur.d supper.
Indicted for Fraud.
Ti e United States Courts have indict
ed Sears. Roebuck & Co., the large mail
order house, for using the United States
mails for fraudulent purjtoses. They
must now answer in the court the same
ai any criminal. Un?le Sam is now
busy protecting the public from decep
tion and fraud through the advertising
of such concerns.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. have been in
dicted on three counts, but this does
not mean that they are not guilty in
many other instances. Much more evi
dence i.s already in the hands of the gov
ernment oflicials.
No doubt some of the farmers of Cass
county who have been patronizing this
firm, and in many articles purchased
badly "bitten," would rejoice at the
early downfall of these frauds, while
there are others who will keep on pat
ronizing them until finally they get their
sufficiency of buying inferior goods at
a price that better articles could be
purchased of lionu merchants, besides
living the freight and express charges
Keep i! Before the People.
Keep it continuously before the peo
ple, that under the single gold standard
and under the highest protective tariff
in the history of the United States, the
administration hsd to resort to "fiat"
money to save the commercial interests
of the country from complete disaster.
The issue of $50,000,000 in bonds and
$100,000,000 in treasury certificates jus
tifies every claim made by the peerless
William Jennings Bryan for the coinage
of silver.
The same guarantee would have been
behind the silver that there is behind the
treasury certificates. Air. Bryan urged
the qualitative theory of money in 181)6,
and the administration is now endorsing
it by enlarging the volume of money.
How wonderfully sentiment has chang
ed in the past 11 years is shown by the
adoption by the present administration
of the greater part of the great com
moner's principles. Mr. Bryan was just
ten years ahead of the times. What he
advocated then was academic, but time
has demonstrated his wisdom and todav
he stands before the people the most en
lighted statesman of modern times; and
no American was ever so shamefully
misrepresented, abused and maligned.
But his manhood was so exalted, his
j ideals so pure, his intellectuality so su-
perb, his temperament so even that he
withstood it ail in that sweet spirit
vnich said: "Forgive them; they know
not what they do." The people have
ka n-.-d much from Mr. Bryan's philos
ophy and the teachings of Time.
CeT.;:rr.t!c National Convention
The proo.-al to hold the democratic
natior.al com . e::tion in advance of the
republican gathering is in many ways
attractive. In advancing it the demo
cratic national com .litteemen who have
been visiting t ha rman Taggart at
French Lick S rings are eminently cor
rect in the view tl at the democratic
party will make a great fight for the
presidency and will nut v ait upon re
puMican iriit:r.tive.
The democratic arty vill mr.ke its
own national platform witl :t reference
to what the republicans may say in their
daclarations. There is reason why it
would be if it were made in advance of
the republican platform. The democ
racy knows its own mind and will ex
press it strongly for the Jefferson:an
principle of equal rights to all special
privileges for none. It will declare war
for a just and rational revision of the
tariff which shall reduce the overgrown
treasury surplus and curb the Dingley
monopolies without in any way harming
American industries.
The democratic party, in the coming
campaign, will resist with all its might
the encroachments of federal power
upon the rights and powers of the states.
It will wage war upon the republican
tendencies of President Roosevelt to
usurp judicial and legislative powers in
addition to his proper executive au
thority. The democratic party will insist that
th nresident not onlv sunnort the eon-
f j ri j
stitution of the United btates and en
force the laws made in accordance
therewith, but that he himself shall be
governed by them.
The democratic party will insist that
justice be done to the inland states by
adequate appropriations out of the over
full treasury for betterment of naviga
tion in their waterways.
The party knows its own mind so well
on all these things that it can write a
better platform before than after the
republicans have spoken. On the other
hand is the very interesting question
wheiher it would or would not be better
to let the republicans have their Kil
kenny cat fight undisturbed by knowlj
edge of what the democrats are going
to do.
TV. a nmKoKilil v tVct thorn will b more
bickering and factional bitterness in the ,
the republican convention if it is held first
is the only consideration which should
cause the democratic national commit
', tee to hesitate to dsclare off-hand and
! unanimously for holding their conven
. tion in advance of the date set by the
republicans.
Unnecessary Taxation.
j There is no reason to look for much
i in the way of legislation at the regular
session of congress that will affect the
existing situation. This panic, if that
is what the inconvenience and harass
ment the public are now suffering should
be called, will have passed away before
the cumbersome machinery of this body
can be brought to the point of definite
action.
Yet congress can, if it will, do much
to prevent a renewal of our present
troubles in the future, since they are in
large part the product of blundering
legislation. The policy and methods of
the federal government are largely, if
not solely, responsible for the existing
distrust that has stopped that free flow
of currency which is necessary to the
convenient conduct of business. It is
the natural outcome of a policy of tax
ation which gathers a greater revenue
than the requirements of government
economically administered demand, and
of methods which pile up the money
thus squeezed from the pockets of the
people in depositories where it cannot
j meet the real need of the country.
I Ti c obvious remedy called for is to
put an end to overtaxation and to force
wiser methods of handling the money
taken in so that it will be put bade into
circulation more promptly and go where
it is really needed. We need to get rid
of the system which puts upon one man
the person who happens to be secretary
of the treasury at the time the respon
sibility of distributing hundreds of mil
lions of treasury surplus among such
banking institutions as his fallible judg
ment may select to be the recipients of
governmental favor.
Something like six months ago several
of the leading journals of the west gave
warning of the increasing menace in the
enormous and steadily growing treasury
surplus. It was evident then that the
surplus would grow to at least $'300,
0)0,000 by the end of the current fiscal
year, and no great measure of financial
wisdom was needed to forecast coming
trouble as the certain result. So great
a sum of money cannot be hoarded in
the treasury vaults with safety. On
the other hand, no greater safety is to
be looked for if the secretary of the
treasury is to lend this vast accumula
tion, without interest, at such times, in
such ways and to such institutions as he
may deem advisable.
If thsre is any doubt of the absolute
idiocy of the course we are following,
consider what it would mean if the
treasury surplus should be doubled or
quadrupled. Imagine the federal gov
ernment drawing three hundred millions
more, or three times three hundred mil
lions, out of the pockets of the people,
and the secretary of the treasury strug
gling day by day to find a way to get
the money back into the channels of
trade by placing it as a non-interest-bearing
deposit in the banks. Is there
any man so wise and discreet that it
would be prudent to intrust him with
unrestrained control of twelve hundred
millions of money?
It is unnecessary to indulge appre
hension as to the honest conduct of the
public official instrusted with this tre
mendous responsibility. Bad judgment
and indiscretion can work just as much
harm in the administration of this great
power as downright dishonesty in its
exercise. The secretary, whose horizon
in the west is bounded by the Alleghany
mountains, can hurt the great and grow
ing region beyond just as surely as one
who would deliberately aim to throttle
its prosperity.
No schemes for providing elastic cur
rency, no plans for shackling the indi
vidual states by national charters for
corporations, will avail to remedy our
troubles. Nothing will effectively serve
except putting an end to overtaxation.
The government must stop drawing a
needless revenue through the customs
and internal tax collectors. When that
is done it will not be necessary to re
sort to complicated ways of getting the
treasury's unneeded money back into
circulation.
What the Present Panic Has Done.
It has smashed the claim that pros
perity is possible under the gold-stanc
ard and a high tariff. I
It has placed on the back shelf the as-
sertion that panics come only under
democratic administrations and low j
tariffs.
It has caused the administration lo j
resort to "fiat" money. I
It has caused a bond issue in the fare j
of boasted prosperity. j
It has caused banks to refuse to pay
depositors their money. i
It has caused false bottoms to be j
placed one-third of the way up the "full j
dinner pail."
It has dropped thousands of names j
from the pay-rolls of corporations.
It has increased the capacity of soup :
houses in the lanrer cities. i
It has caused the issuance of "pay
checks" in commercial centers instead
of cash.
It has reduced the price of hogs near
ly one-half.
It has closed the markets for horses
NEBRASKA!
In the famous BIul Grass State Kentucky, at the noted Pot
ter College, located at Bowling Green, on Thanksgiving day, the
students were asked to write something as a toast setting forth
the good points of the respective states from which they came.
The city of Plattsmouth was honored by one of its daughters. Miss
Emma Falter being chosen as Nebraska's representative. We can
well be proud of Miss Emma and her production. With thirty-six
states represented in the college, none have touched the subject as
did this Nebraka maiden, seiting fourth the good qualities of her
native state, and the industry of her citizens. Miss Falter, with
an eye prophetic, sees her state's favored son, elected president in
1908 :J
Here's to the good state of Nebraska,
With her rolling prairies wide,
Crowing such a bounteous harvest,'
She could feed the world, beside.
Not alone her crops and cattle
Cause with pride our hearts to swell,
But in schools and education
She ranks first in these as well.
Her emblem is the anvil.
With a shock of golden wheat.
Fitting symbol of the manhood
That has toiled thro' cold and heat.
'Till those vast prairies blossom
Like the rose, ami are as sweet.
On her splendid scroll of honor
One great name this state adorns.
He, whose name was first made famous.
With cross of gold and crown of thorns.
And. though twice his wins have failed him.
They have grown quite string of late.
And the presidential victor
Will be Bryan in nineteen eight.
and mules.
It has reduced the price of cattle.
It has stopped railroad construction
work, thus throwing thousands of men
out of employment.
And last, but not least, it has wiped
from the slate the names of General
Confidence and General Prosperity.
Some of the western papers are still
discussing the removal of the capital
from Lincoln, and in doing so favor
Grand Island as the proper place, be
cause of its geographical center. It is
true, too, that Grand Island is not
clamoring for the capital, so far as we
know, and no matter, it would not be
out of the order for her to do so. Lin
coln is beautiful and all right, but it is
away off for people who live "out in
the state." There is no real reason
why the capital should be located in
the extreme eastern part of the state
that we can see.
Henri Watterson in his backward
glance at the defeat of democracy in
Kentucky, places the blame upon a
system that has been building for ten
years andfchat has for its aim the one
man power, such as ruled Pennsyl
vania under the Camerons and later
under the Quays. And yet Col. Watter
son see more good in the defeat of the
democratic party after its abandon
ment of the democratic principles than
would have followed the success of men
devoid of principles. What Col. Watter -
son sees in Kentucky may by observed
in other places. There is today grow
ing in Nebraska a political dynasty
destined to rule the state regardless of
the rights of the people. They have
succeeded so far in deceiving the peo
ple and have made a gain that must be
temporary. The people will right
things in their own good time, and
then the politicians who are now swim- '
ming on the crest of the wave will
float along as driftwood.
The inimitable Doc Tanner, editor of
the South Omaha Democrat, pours out
some hot shot through his paper that
takes hair, hide and all wherever it
strikes an administration republican and ! crushing out competition; he would pre
worshipperof the "GreatI Am." Here j vent inflation of capital; he would net
is a sample dose: "Of course the repub-! allow any corporation to hold stock in
lican knockers now say: 'I told you so. ' l any other corportion without government
They are so much wiser than a corn crib i consent; he wants the real owners of a
rat that there is no comparison. They j corporation to do business under their
all knew that Bryan would accept the i their own names; he wants the law
nomination for president if it is tender
ed to him. There is a bunch of them,
however, that haven't been telling the
people that Roosevelt is making the most
desperate chase to be nominated that
any man ever made in the history of
America. And yet he says, 'I don't
want another term.' Roosevelt may
monkey around waiting for the people j
to tease him to take the job until some I
live one cuts in and beats him to it. If j
Roosevelt ever did anything except to
grandstand and gouge the corporations,
who in return have soaked the people to ; ers liable for injuries to workmen, irre
get even, and then wound up by pulling spective of negligence; he wants the
off a financial panic, it is not on record.
But he has a string of suckers on his
staff that reaches from one ocean to the
other, and more than likely he will be
the nominee. One thing is a dead cinch,
and that is he is dead crazy to get it.
Turn him loose. Bryan will skin any of
them, and some people would rather see
Teddy get the dose than any other re-
publican on earth."
The Old Story.
The Nebraska City Tribune is no more.
Its owners, the Mortons, have finally
grown tired of putting up money for its
maintenance, and have taken it out be
hind the barn and knocked it in the
head. Its editor, who was once a
lively factor in politics but was soured
because he didn't get reappointed to
the postoffice, has turned to other fields
i
of activity.
Its finale was really written when it
was started. It had its origin in a de
sire of the once dominant head of Otoe
county democracy. J. Sterling Morton,
to revenge himself upon the proprietors
of the Nebraska City News. Morton
started the Conservative after he got
Out of Cleveland's cabinet for the
special purpose of scolding Bryanism
and deriding Bryan. That paper failed
of making any impression, and mean
while the News, which had always been
a stalwart democratic organ, had fallen
in line with the prevailing sentiment of
the party in the state. To have the
democratic paper in his own town fol
low Bryan's lead was too much for
Morton, and he started the Tribune
with the purpose, as is generally un
derstood, of hamstringing the News.
All during its career the Tribune has
been snapping and snarling at the News.
Nothing the latter did or said suited
the Tribune. Its editors and owners
were pictured as greedy political bosses,
: slate makers;
as selfishlv mrtrinir in
j t J o r '
every enterprise with which their names
i were connected; as unworthy citizens
generally.
The News was not seriously affected
by the competition of the Tribune, and
' although effort and money were expend-
ed on the latter it failed to make its
I way. The Tribune is dead and the
' News still lives. It is the old story
' over again, a story that proves the
! people can't be humbugged by pious
pretensions. Lincoln News.
The Message in a Nutshell.
The most important feature of the
president's message is extension of fed
eral control. He advocates a national
corporation, chartering or licensing all
interstate corporations to do business
only under certain conditions; he would
forbid all combinations that plan to se-
: cure a monopoly of the necessaries of
; life; he advocates compulsory publication
; of accounts and government inspection
of books and papers; he would prohibit
j competition at a loss for the purpose of
amended so that trust offenders may te
sent to jail instead of fining the corpor
ation only; he wants complete publicity
and protection to investors corporate se
curities; he advocates a law to .control
trast companies as banksjare controlled.
The president also advocates govern
ment control in other respects, as fol-
follows: He wants
inheritance tax; he
an income and an
advises a govern-
ment commission to inspect interstate
railways as a means of preventing
wrecks; he wants a law making employ -
government to limit the use of injunc
tions; he advocates a compulsory inve:
tigation of industrial disputes by the
government to prevent strikes; he wants
the government to stop child ard woman
labor; he would have the government
do everything possible to make a gen- ;
eral eight-hour labor day; he would have !
the government in control of improving
1 inland waterways; he recommends that
all public lands, forests, coal, oil and
! gas lands be held by the government
' and given to only actual homeseekers or
leased; he recommends that congress
makes appropriation for campaign ex
penses for the great national parties to
prevent corruption funds. It can read
ily be seen that the president's wants
are greater than his expectations. The
message, as a whole, would indicate
that Roosevelt wants a third term more
than anything else.
MF:;iii!;'j;r;Tti,
THE KETTLE SINGS
it's a sitni f coil sal k'hci " Want
to hear t'ie mi 'c in v ur klu-lienr
Easv order -o;ii f-otn tl is Mice and
yard. The outi'H toe Trenton
mine-the fu I we t .and'i 'i-is no su
perior anywh'ie, qnal in few
places
J. V. EGENBERGER,
p h o h e ;;: :, r Nn
PLATTSMOUTH, - - - f.ESRASKA'
USUI
Rob Your I'cuse cr Cpcfj Ycur Safe
of the ordinary kind with ridiculous
ease. Ti.ey will not tackle burglar
proof vaults with an eii.-ctrir alarm,
like those of the Bank of Cass Coun
ty. Th wise man therefore- will
open an account there and thus put
his money where it i ; beyond the
rea-h of 1 urylars. The less you
hae the !. -s vou can afford to lose it.
THE BANK OF CASS COUNTY
PLATTSMOUTH. NEB.
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