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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1909)
The - Plattsmouth - Journal. Published Semi-Weekly it PJittsmoutb, Nebraska. " R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered t the i'ostoflice at I'lattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. f I. SO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE, road from birth to death The man at 50 years of age lias just arrived at a place where he can reallv begin to see and enjov tlie big things of life. His eyes are ojtened and they are supported by a mind that knows and appreciates. Let the man who is able to retire begin to do something worth while. A isrmer of advanced vears and mean ennui io more for himself bv building an ideal home on the farm. Here he would be truly at home. With his surplus means and rijK? knowledge of manage ment he could build up n model farm that would be remuner ative to himself, instructive to younger farmers and a satisfac tion in his old age that no city or town dwelling could give Here his faculties would be active in natural channels WHAT HIT KEARNEY? It now behoves those who have been most active in chang ing 'the conditions of this city to get busy without further delay am, he wouM iave enouKh exercise in looking after work and ami iiiuKu pnn iMuus 101 lUMiigruiu 01 oui vu wi wiv n .e operations to keep him in good normal health we believe it was a grave mistake for the republican leg.sla- ith a t)ii ri,nning at a clipping pact tare twentv-five vears ago to have made our public schools de pendent in any way upon saloon license money for any man ner of maintenence, it has been done, and the absence now of $j,(X)0 from the school treasury in this city must be provide! for. It is illogical for men to set out to alter and change the order of any public conditions without providing means that are equally as good, or better. These conditions have now been changed, and those who have brought about these changes must not shirk their responsibility, but come forward at once with a system by which our public schools are in no manner to be crippled and endangered. The new conditions must be met and mastered. Kearney Democrat. ( i ping pace under ms man agement, there would be enough excitement on the farm for good, healthy diversion. He would be able to move about and enjoy new and re freshing scenes behind a good team, or in the modern car riage drawn without horses and still be in his own refresh ing country atmosphere. I he farmer who retires and moves to town alter he lias attained success through years of experience is making a grave mistake and setting a had example. II is deserting the battle held lust as the victory is pos sible and the gates of the promised land have been opened for entrance thereto. sition. Mr. Tuft is without congressional experience. II. knows little or less of how things are done in the house. Hu whole thought is centered upon a tariff bill and its passage. Mr. Hoot and Mr. Knox told him that his one chance of tariff depended on the good of things-as-they-were. With the old rules, with Mr. Cannon speaker, he (Mr. Taft) should have his tariff, and have it at once. Without the rules and Mr. Can non he should gain nothing but defeat and tariff disappointment. To he sure nothing of either sort was true. But Mr. Taft n his splendid lack of experience, did not know that and be ievingly gulped down the Knox-Root assurances like spring water- And so he has come out for the ra? rules and stood forth as the champion of Mr. Cannon. It is, if not a good, at least a luminous beginning. Even the half trained eye may, by the light of it, see that the admin istration has already forsaken those paths of policy which the Roosevelt feet had worn. For one, while I'm not pleased. I'm not surprised. When Mr. Taft promised to follow out the Roosevelt policies and think and say and do what Mr. Roosevelt had thought and said and done, folks with knowledge of men knew that but promised me iununMun iiumi iienry ijewis in unieago Jxamiuer. THE WHEAT MARKET. Most likelv neither the Pittsburg banker nor James A. No Man can be a prohibitionist and remain a democrat, Pa Hon is entirely rirht. the one ascribing to the other the hich No man is, or can be, a democrat or any part of a democrat, price of wheat find the other denying that he has anything to who advocates sumptuary legislation and the confiscation of do with it. Mr. Patten says that he merelv foresaw the famine, property wunoui one process oi law. nenaneignoornooain and, Joseph-like, laid aside ten million bushels for the time of the country, or a precinct in a city wants to choose a saloon, neei 1. It happens that somebody, and "somebody" in the grain market always seems to mean Patten, has been holding about J(),0()0,0()0 bushels of wheat off the market. This, in the present scarcity, has had something to do with the high prices, though not all or nearly all. The conditions, as a world well gifted in hind sight really sees now, have for two or three years favored high wheat prices at this time. Since 190G the world's wheat crop has not been average. The average yield of 3,380,000,000 bushels in 1905 and 1906 dropped to 3,1 57,000,000 bushels in the next two years. Meanwhile consumption was undiminished, with the result that the world s stock of wheat in the beginning of the present month was 7,000,000 below that of last April,which in turn had been below that of the two years before. Then add the tact that the recent government estimate ot the J'.MJ'J crop showed the poorest condition of winter wheat found at this season in the last five years, and a combination of circum stances found which could not help making dear bread. It is hard on the wage workers at a time when the already have trouble enough. The farmers may seem to gain at first in high prices what they have lost in small crops, but even the.v would he better off with larger crops even though thev made a little less money. This for the reason that the'misfortune of their customers must eventually react upon themselves. either can do it or has a perfect right to do it. That is local op tion. No democrat disputes it. Per contra, prohibition pro poses to confiscate millions of property and extinguish mil lions of taxes to substitute for the lawful sale of drink the un lawful sale of poison. The distance is a great as the distance between heaven and hell. Louisville-Couner-Journal. TRADE AT HOME. Under the above heading the Metcalf (111.) Journal prints the following editorial appeal. It would be a good item for other papers to copy: Just about now the mail order houses of our large cities. with an eye for the spring trade of the smaller cities or towns and of the fanner, and sending out bulky and illusive catalogs by the thousand. Experience proves that, taking all things in to account, to buy of such houses costs more and brings less satisfaction than to buy of the home merchants. Money sent out of town to these houses for what can be bought at home is .lust so much check to the growth and prosperity of the home town, and of the fanners and others who find in the town a ready market for their eggs, butter and other produce. THE NEW DIVORCE LAW. One of the excellent measures passed by the legislature largely through the lnlhience of Senator Miller, aims at cor recting an evil of long standing. Under the old laws anybody who couldn t get a divorce at home could stop for six months in Nebraska and under circumstances that practically amount Ones of the most beautiful tributees to the bird world is the following from the Technical World Magazine: High above the marshy wastes which border the Kla math Lakes, in Southern Oregon, a lone white heron winged its desolate flight a month ago, the sole survivor of a once numerous family. On broad pinions the survivor of a former legion floated in the east and then to the west, the farseeing eye searching vainly each stretch of lake, land of sedgy waste for a familiar patch ot white which would betoken the presence of father, mother, mate, chick or friend, but he saw none for President Roosevelt had been too late in setting aside the Klamath dis trict as a national bird reserve, and the delay had sealed the fate of the heron family. But one is left according to the officials of the United States land office and the national association of audubon so cieties just one white sample remaining of myriad thousands of one of the most beautiful of all native birds the decree of fashion having brought about such a butchery that biolog ical historians will in future works record the fact that in A. D. 1908 the white herron followed the great auk over the dismal trail that stretches backward to the ages that are gone. THE OUTROOD SEASON. The outdoor season is here. To thousands hpnd reds of thousands it means golf. To multitudes of others it means autoing, motor boating, fishing hunting, tennis, camping, gar dening, rambling in the woods and fields. To all these it means pure air and sunlight. To the majority of the devotees of out-of-doors it means redder blood, stronger muscles, clearer brains, stronger hearts and generally better health and a lengthening of the lease of life. Columbia (S- C.) State. GUESS OUR FRIEND T. R. IS A PAST TRACTION, TOO. Attorney General Wickersham, late of Wall street, has told the beef trust that he does not want to see them prose cuted for secret railroad rebating because there is no proof of criminal INTENT on their part. The fact that the "Big Four" Chicago beef companies have already been convicted of a similar offense does not im ply guilty knowledge this time. The tact that the beef trusts high priced lawyers made that WHAT A WIDE-AWAKE STATE LEGISLATURE CAN DO. From the Chicago Record-Herald (Hep.). while the II mois egislature has been accomplishing next to nothing, the Nebraska legislature, which has just adjourned, ed to secrecy secure the coveted decree. Under the new law I very defense of "lack of intent" and carried it to the United has been hard at work. It has enacted many measures winch two years' residence is required, where the cause ot action low a strong progressive spirit, and a number of its laws will arose without the state, and two years will put a stop to the interest by other states to see what their quick trip divorce business- In addition three months' eltort in locating the detendant tor personal service is required. Another evil was that under the old law a man or woman is be watched with success will he. Among the measures concerning political machinery one for a wide-open primary, by which all parties will hold their could be divorced here in the morning, and with a newly elected primaries on the same day and a voter will be given a ballot mate could take a train to Council Bluffs and be married again with all the party tickets 'upon it, so he can vote for whatever the same day. The old law sought in a blundering sort of way list he pleases. Another law takes judges, regents of the state to hold a club over the divorcee by a provision that the other university an dthe county and state superintendents of schools party had six months in which to appeal. In 999 cases out of a entirely off the party tickets, providing that they shall be thousand the other party was glad to be rid of the spouse, and nominated by petition and voted for on election day, with no but rarely was this provision invoked to make trouble for the party designation connected with their names, The Oregon one who hurriedly married again. plan for the election of United States Senators was adopted, and a law was passcdtrequiring the publication of campaign contributions fifteen days prior to election day. The bank deposit guarantee law attracted as much at tention as any other. It can be said for it at least that it was passed in a careful and conservative form. Whether such a system can be successful or not, the Nebraska legislature has The new law provides that a divorce shall not issue until six months after the case has been heard. If a man or woman marry within that time they have contracted a void marriage, whereas under the old law is was simply a voidable marriage. Women will hesitate to listen to the whisper of the other man to run off somewhere else and marry when they know that they are not contracting a lawful marriage, a union which the other can sever at will without fear of the wife desertion law or the done its best to give it a trial under good conditions Although the former governor was defeated by the pres- command to furnish alimony. Lincoln News (Rep.) ent governor partly on a liquor issue, the brewers' influence being for the new man, a bill has been passed and signed es tablishing daylight saloons all over the state, the open hours being from 7 in the morning to 8 in the evening. A number of acts strengthening the pure food law were passed, one of them bringing plants under the law and re quiring the labels to describe accurately the constituents. There is a Fourth of July law forbidding the use or sale of giant fire crackers or dynamite caps in the state; another law putting stock issues under the control of the state railway commission jind forbidding watered stock; a law establishing a state school of citizenship with the stnte university, n law prohibiting high FORSAKING "MY POLICIES." It is, Truth is oak; the false is alder and breaks under you therefore, well to know the truth. Mr. Taft has been captured and carried into captivity by Mr. Koosevelt 's enemies. Or, if not that, then he has vol untarily enrolled himself upon their side. Col. Cooper, now on trial in Nashville, once told how on the evening before General Forrest's first clash with the Yan kees he cnlled upon that chieftain to inquire out his rtlans "Have you formed a scheme of battle, General!" asked 6tates supreme court does not imply any knowledge as to the second offense. The legal axiom that even in first offenses "ignorance of the law excuses no man" is well enough for pickpockets, but not for members of Chicago's millionaire society set. "Anyhow, says Wickersham, no public service would be rendered by making a TEST CASE of PAST transactions." Bless his heart, he couldn't make a test case if he wanted to. These same people have been pinched for the same thing, tried, convicted, appealed up and up to the United States su preme court, found guilty in deed and in intent, and fined and the fine paid. What fort For beating the public by means of rebates. No, indeed, there can be no test case at this time. Let's see how this rule would work in police court: Prosecutor So you beat your wife while you were drunk today, did you; , Prisoner Yes, sir, but I didn't mean to hurt her, and besides, I didn't know it was against the law. Prosecutor Oh, so you did not intend to break the law! Prisoner Certainly not. Officer But he was arrested last week for the same of fense and gave the judge the same talk, and it didn't go, and he was fined for the same thing- Prosecutor But he says he didn't intend to break the law. I think no public service would bo rendered by making a test of this case. , Prisoner Thank you kindly. I'm going right home and and tell my wife. I know she'll be pleased. school fraternities, and a law making decrees of divorce ellec- Lionel cooper, - or lam out any course you mean 10 pursuer' five only after one yenr- "Well, no," returned Genernl Forrest, "I ain't made no One need not sav that these laws are all good, or even that plan in particular. I sort o' allowed we'd tackle 'em, and if if they are good for Nebrnska thev would be good elsewhere, to we can't lick 'em we'd jino 'em." recognize that thev form a husky, vigorous brood. If Mr. The Forrest tragedy finds its mate apparently in the White Brvnn is to be tested bv the work of this strongly democratic House strategy of Mr. Taft. The Roosevelt foes were and are a formidable litter. Despair came in advance of an en gagement, and, confessing defeat without a skirmish, Mr. Taft has go'ie over to them, horse, boat and guns. Also, I do say that Mr. Taft in so doing has shown himself to be either right or wrong, black or white, crooked or straight, true or false. I only register a fact that today is as obvious as the cnpitol dome to every eye in Washington. And all upon the principle announced in the beginning that no one is safe who does not know the truth. Mr. Cannon has been for vears a Roosevelt ill-wisher, No man in any business attains to his highest efficiency sleepless, inveterate, opposing the Roosevelt policies by every unl ill he hi' passed his fiftieth vcar mark open or covert method in his power. His scorn for Mr. Roosc- Up to Ibis time of life it is all experience and after fifty velt was ever upon his lip. He never mentioned the Roosevelt j 1 it ill l i I 1 1 1 A M it A he is rem v lo tio something tnai win couni name wunoui uniting u wun cpiinci Abandoning work is not good for nnv man. And now, when Mr. Cannon, because of his tyrannies and Activity mentis life, growth nnd the full enjoyment of the house despotism, stands in peril of defeat for the speakership, things about us. when the criminal rules by which he has held the house in Just ns soon as a person sits down he begins to go down chains nnd robbed it of the purpose ot its creation, it is Mr. hill and there is no valid reason, except through some severe Taft with all the power of his new presidency, who comes legislature under his influence he need not be ashamed of the judgment that will bo passed upon him. THE RETIRED FARMER OFTEN MAKES GRAVE MISTAKES. Under this head the Journal of Agriculture snvs: A great many farmers, when they have attained success ami begin to grow a little old, quit farming and move to town, or give the running of n farm to a son or some other man. accident, why nnv man should go back in life. It ought to be and can be an upward nnd ever broadening I to the Cannon rescue nnd declares for those rules' support Mr. Root and Mr. Knox manhandled Mr. Taft into this io "And." says Wickersham, "It's no use fussing about past transactions." Sure! If the beef trust has had rebates and has the monev in the name, wnnrs me use oi iuhmuk public has been 'frisked " by rebates, but it's a past transac tion. the cop Let's see how that would work in police court: Judge you are charged with pocketpicking. Prisoner Yes, sir, but it was all done when pinched me. ,)U(lge here is, the purse you iooki Prisoner in mv own pocket. Judge Well, then, that's an end of it. This transaction is closed. Officer you may drop in nnd tell the man who used to own this purse to be more careful in the future. We do not punish past transactions in his court, and here are n few rules for you to follow: . i "Don't arrest a man for drunkenness when lie is drunk; ar rest him while he is sober, so the jag won't be a past transac tion. . "Don't nrrest anybody who has done anything, for things that have been done are past transactions. We must only pun Mi for crimes that have not been committed or nre not quite finished. I trust 1 make myself clear?" Officer The trust is clear, your honor. I confine my arrests to teething babies in the future, sir And thus nre the policies of T. R. ''carried out." Not just ns T. R. would do it perhaps. "Not with such flamboyant beat ing of tom-toms," as we are told. Omaha News.