The - Plattsmouth - Journal.
r 1 PiiSiijiii Seml-Wuklj it Pu:tss:s1. Irinski.
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Posto.Tice at PUttsmouih, Nebraska, u tecorki-ciais
matter.
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The dirty oM republican machine is preparing to fight the
Ponahoe to make the election of judges and regents as
near non-partisan as po-ible, ly jtlaeing the names of all can
didates for such offices on the ticket without artv designa
tion. We presume the courts will knock it out to keep up an
unhroken record.
The great mouthpiece of the republican party in the sen
ate Aldrich the Standard Oil man from Rhode Island has
been telling the senators what the new tarriff bill will do for
the country as a revenue getter, lie says lie does not include
the Panama expenditures because the policy of the senate is
to pay them out of money obtained from sale of bonds, more
bonds to keep the republic in debt and its bonds in the hands
of combines . They are convenient means of OM-ape from all
taxes. The suckers will sav it's all right.
"Was anyone led to vote the party ticket last fall from party
promise to "revise" the tariff? If they were we wonder what
they think about it y this time. With Joe Cannon, the stand-patti.-t,
in the I oiw, and Aldrich, the son-in -law of Standard
Oil and the special friend of about .'.!l the exiting monopolies in
the senate, to look after the interest of the dear people, what
sort of progicss can be expected in revising the tariff down
ward? When it is all over, we will see a lowering of duties
which won't hurt a single protected interest nor help the peo
ple, and an actual rai-ing of many duties on the plea that the
government must have more revenue. That is the present
program of the leaders in congress, and there is scarcely a
doubt that they will carry it through.
There always have besn soda crackers;
there always will be soda crackers
But
There never were and never will be
any other Soda Crackers to equal
More towns die for want of confidence on the part of busi
ness men and lack of public spirit than any other cause, nays
a floating editorial. When a man in search of a home business:
location goes into a town and finds everything brim full of
1 ope and enthusiasm for the prospect of the place and all
earnestly at work to build it up he soon becomes imbued with
the same spirit, and, as a result, he drives down stakes and gets
to work with the same interest. When, however he goes to a
town where everyone expresses doubt and apprehension for
the future prospeiity of the place, moping about and indulg
ing in mournful complaints, he naturally feels that it is no
plav for him, and he f t once shakes the dust from his feet
while he pulls out with all possible speed for some other place.
Consequently, try to make a live town out of the town in which
iu live, When yon are working for your town, you are ac
complishing all the more for yourself.
The Probers of Civilization.
The news di.sprtel.es tell of the downfall of Al did Ilamid, the
"unspeakable Turk" who has presided over the destinies of
the Ottoman empire for many years. lie was known as the
"sick man (if Europe" ami in that capacity he had kept the
courts of the old world in turmoil during all the time of his
reign, lie became a victim to the ever advancing idea of
civilization and falls before n people just commencing to learn
their own greatness. The Turks are a people with a his
tory behind them filled with great deeds. They are a race
naturally nergetie and forceful, and when they commence to
appreciate that they are people and have lights they will
make themself felt in the annals of the world. The dis
appearance of Abdul Humid is merely a bubble on the sea
of human lifts the big wave is the rise of the Ottoman peo
ple to their own and the tremendous progress they are mak
ing toward civilization. The constitution is the goal of the
rebels and they already have it in their hand. Truly civiliza
tion advances.
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but what is the use of misrepresenting thinsrs. We voted not like either tho inemno m- thn i;,.;.i.i rn.,. . i
against the bill and Bielts voted for the measure, but we can see for the most part are republicans. They contribute "onerously
mi lea.-.oaioi me genueman irom derrick misrepresenting mat-' to the campaign funds pud look to the republican party to
ters, unless he is trying to make himself popular with his tern-' protect their interests. Therefore thev should not be com
perance constituents, as he was mostly engaged in trying to polled to pav a tax which thov roirnrd n nnm-m intnaA
do with-the ladv cmnlovos about the c.-initol nt I
" ' " ' r "- m-uii ivn.-i.inn wr.u ciuiiioi i iiKi oui exacuv now
hoolts did not j.rove himself very much of a legislator, but much thev pav and are less disposed in mnL- trm,i.u'i.rt
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ovciy niemoer 01 me nouse win agree with us wlien we say, lit.
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Fogarty Did Vote "No."
More or less capital lias bon made out of the vote
of Fogarty, of (Jrecly county, on the daylight saloon
bill, it being alleged that that gentleman voted against
the bill and was recorded as voting for it. In a con
versation the Keeord editor had with Hon. J. (1 Boelts
the other day, Mr. Boelts stated positively that Fo
garty voted for the bill, as he heard him distinctly,
as did dozens of others. Furthermore, Fogarty 's name
was read by the clerk at the close of the vote as vot
ing in the affirmative, and the gentleman from (Ireeley
made no protest, and, indeed, said nothing about being
counted wrong until the bill was sent to the senate
and was out of the jurisdiction of the house. As the
same precluded all chance of a legal contest over the
bill by expunging any reference to Mr. Fogarty 'h
protest from the records, it makes but little difference
so far as the law goes how he voted, but we give the
facts of the case to show that no hocus pocus attended
the passage of the bill. The gentleman from (Ireeley
simply got "cold feet" after the bill became a law,
and sought to justify himself with his constituents.
Central City Keeord.
Now, in the name of common sense, what is the use of such
men as Boelts making a statement like the above? Boelts
was not as near to Fogarty as the writer of this article sat
when the vote was taken. I kept a tally of the vote, as a
dozen others did and heard Fogarty vote "No," and recorded
him as voting that way. Boelts was perhaps posing to the
ladies in the gallery nt the time (as he usually did on such
exciting occasions) and was paying no attention to the indi
vidual voting, and simply heard the full vote declared by the
clerk. The matter is at rest as far us the law is concerned,
as a "poser" to the ladies in the gallery, he was a grand sue
cess.
There is no longer any danger of overproduction of the
bread-stuffs and meat and dairy products in this country. Ex
tension of the nrea of cultivation approaches the limit more
und more, and it does not keep pace with the increase of
population. The demands of the domestic market for con
sumption advance out of proportion to the production and
the surplus for export is relatively diminishing, while the
world's requirements increase. The export of farm products
is still our mainstay for paying for imported merchandise and
will continue so while the cost of manufacture is artificially
kept up, for exports necessarily come into competition with
foreign products of the same kind. We not only need to ex
improve methods of cultivation for the staple crops, but to
improve methods of cultivation an dreduce cost of produc
tion so far as practicable. New York Journal of Commerce.
Tax Wealth Not Poverty.
From the New York World.
The republican majority in congress is indeed driven
to a direful extremity when Senator Aldrich passoniately as
serts that economy in expenditure would be preferable either
to nn income tax oi a tax on corporation earnings. "What
riiall we do," he asked in his speech on the tariff bill yes
'erday. ' If the revenues actually reviewed are less than those
1 have anticipated and large deficiencies are threatened t I
answer with emphasis that it would then be the imperative
duty of congress to reduce expenditures and make them con
form to actual revenue conditions, and not to impose new
md onerous taxes.
But why not have both economy and an income tax, as
Senator Bailey suggested? Is extravagant government to be
tolerated only when the burden is sustained by poverty? Or
would the fact that sufficient revenue could be produced by an
unjust tax sweep away all argument for just taxation!
The chairman of ihe finance committee describes income
and corporationdividend taxes as "new and onerous." They
are certainly not new. and when did a tax on wealth become
more onerous that a tax on projcrtyf
What Senator Aldrich really means is that people with
'urge incomes and people who own dividend paying stocks do
This is what the York Times has to say about it. The
York Times is usually the last to give credit to anything
democratic:
There is some man over near the Platte some
place, possibly at Columbus, possessed of a chronic
gloom and a doleful grumble and grouch. The writer
has heard from him off and on for twenty years
back and never yet heard of him being pleased with
anything or anybody except himself; and the indica
tions are that between grouches he cusses himself.
He is now engaged in bidding sarcastic goodby's to
the legislature, dismissing it with some of his dismal
groans as a corporation-ridden squad of cormorants.
The same legislature has been the most progressive
and freeest from corporation rule, passed the most
wholesome laws and advanced further in the line of
reform movements of every description of any which
ever met in this state. This true history will record
and the record will stand long after Edgar Howard
has groaned and growled himself to death.
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