The - Plattsmouth - Journal
erm Published Seml-Weeklf it Plattsaouth, Msbraska CD
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
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THERE are foods for
all purposes but
The consumer la entitled to 6onie testimony of interested persons. Even
consideration In the adjustment of .after It was well settled that a new
prices of things to be consumed. The bill would be framed In 1909, the
Aldrlch tariff law Is conspicuous be-1 protectionist party in congress refus
cause it cares only for manufacturing ed to authorize a scientific investl
interests and the trusts. jgation of the facts in the case. Even
:o: 1 ! now the country is without authori
Aeeording to a statement given:
out by Congressman Champ Clark,
the average of the Payne-AUrlch ference ln cost f Production at
tariff law will show an increase overjhonie and abroad' ll have JIr
the average of the Dinglew law. ofj0'8 nient on one side and Mr.
27 per cent. This is what some Carneigle's on the other, or a glove
Republican newspapers style a i manufacturer', allegations and the
"downward revision." i contradictory allegations of a glove
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Only a few more cays till the great
Merchunts' Carnival. Are we ready
for it? There will be many strangers
here who were never here before.
Let every business house be suitably
decorated for the event. And by all
means let each individual cut the
weeds about his premises, and let
thfi city employ parties to cut the
weeds nlong the streets. Some farm
ears in town Saturday say that the
weeds are higher here in town than '
they are on the roadsides in the!
country. This should not be, and
we all know it.
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Senator McCutnber complains that
Washington is fast becoming a city
of official families. He points out
that promotions and appointments in
the census bureau go largely to the
wives and daughters or sons or neph-
ens of nieces or coukIus or wards ,
or half brothers of department of- j
flcluls. While the fact would indl-!
(ate a laxity in the enforcement of
the Civil Sen Ice laws ir proves a
certain amount of thrift and Industry
in the nalary drawing line on the
part of the said departmental of
ficials. And all this during the
period when Theodore Roosevelt, the
foBler parent of Civil Service, sat, orj'be ready-made clothing bought by
rather moved about, In the White j women, all get raised ln price. That
house!
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When shortly before his death,
John C. Cnlhoun suggested, as a de
fense for the south, that the Union
be divided into a southern and
northern section, each to have a
president, and each president to have
nn absolute veto on all legislation
by congress which would be adverse
to his section, the country saw that
this scheme wa wildly absurd.
Thomas E. Watson of Ceorglu, a
Populist chieftain when the Populist
party whs here, goes Calhoun two
belter, lie want tho country cut up
into four pails, a north, a south, nn
east tuid a west. Apparently, too, he
favors making each section entirely
independent of the others. Under
tho Watson schema there would bo
four little nations in place of the
one big ono which is here now. We
would dislike to sec anything of this
kind occur. Hut the people uest,
north and south are getting pretty
weary of tbo manner In which they
have to pny tribute to the east
through tho Pnyne-Aldrlch tariff
law. Something must be done to
rid the country of the trusts, to
whom tho common people havo to
pay tribute, or something will hap
pen in tho next ten years.
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(ilESSIXO AT THE TARIFF.
(Saturday Evening Tost.)
"The true prlnclplo of protection,"
says the Republican platform, "Is
best maintained by the Imposition of
such duties as will equal the differ
ence between cost of production at
home and abroad." That has long
been the cardinal theory of 'protec
tlon. So It would seem that, In fram
ing a tariff bill on truo protective
principles, tho first step would be to
ascertain the difference between cost
of production at home and abroad.
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Bin u BV,.p uas ever yet . been
taken. All the tariff bills have been
paged substantially upon the ex parte
tative Information ax to the relation
J between a given duty and the dif-
Importer; but there Is no Impartial,
determinative finding to which it can
turn.
A revision of the tariff is a fear
some thing; but one revision will be
followed by agitation for another un
til the country knows the truth.
Until we have the report of an im
partial, scientific! commission, this
I subject of Import duties will continue
an open and lively one.
a call i oit leadership.
(Nebraska State Cepltal, Rep.)
The new Aldrlch tariff bill i3 one
of the greatest frauds ever perpe
trated on the American people.
It is in no way what the Republl
can party promised In the last cam
paign. It Is a raise In tariff rates
above those of the Dingley tariff,
of more than 3 per cent. Yet a
swarm of congressmen and senators,
l,art (f them crooks and part of them
blockheads, voted for the bill, and
('Ht word home to their constltu-
ents that Is wus a "nearly perfect
hill" and a "great improvement."
The ready-amed clothing of men
and boys gets a raise of $123,000,
000 a year. That Is about $4 apiece
extra. That la one "Improvement."
The cotton and woolen cloths, and
Is another "Improvement."
There were over 4,000 items in
the tariff bill. President Taft asked
for changes in eight of them. He
gained his point In five, and signed
this "almost perfect" bill.
On the face of the bill the in
crease ln revenue Is $1,1 88,4 SO. Hut
there nre Important reductions along
the line. If any of you common peo
ple in Nebraska want to buy steel
rails, or arsenic, or Iron ore, or some
rawhides for chemical and mechanic
al purposes, you come in for the
benefit of the lower tariff. If you are
building and want some flooring
rough on both sides, or some celling
unpinned nnd without grooves, you
can get some of the "benefits."
Hut when you go to your stores
and buy the common necessities of
life, you will have tho pleasure of
paying higher prices on all along the
ilne. In this the merchants are
helpless. They have already received
notice from the Jobbers and manu
facturers of the higher prices.
The average reduction in tho su
gar schedules Is one-fiftieth of 1 per
cent. Remember that when you buy
sugar, and pay whatever price the
trust dictates.
If you want the official figures,
showing the exact rate on every item
of the new tariff, and Its comparison
with the Dlngley law, ask your sena
tor or your congressman to get for
you Senate Documents 155 and 156.
Don't take the word of any cheap
politician, or any hungry office-hunter,
or any sneaklug whiffet of an
Omaha editor, but get the official
figures, and get them quick.
Then, while you are digging down
into your pockets for the iacrensod
price of the things you must pay,
remember that a state convention
Instructed tho . Nebraska delegation
to vote for whatever tariff was put
up to them by a president who had
given it but a casual examination.
Remember that a gang of blockheads
in that convention thought more of
catching trains for home than they
did of the welfare of the people of
Nebraska whom they pretended to
represent. ,
What the Republicans of Nebraska
need Is honest, able and courageous
leadership. What we need Is a solid
delegation ln Washington pledged to
wipe out Cannonism and Aldrlchism,
and pledged to restore actual repre
sentative government to the people.
There are good and able men in
Nebraska as good and as able as ln
any other state In the union. Lot
them be called forth to serve. Let
us have open war now against the
Interests that are combined to choke
the life out of the country.
Give us some real men.
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The ticket nominated by
tne
Democrats of Cas3 county last week
is one of the best ever placed before
the voters.
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Many Republicans In Cass county
boldly express their determination
to vote for Ed. Tutt for sheriff, be
cause they believe two terms ought
to satisfy most anyone.
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Every farmer in Cass county should
arrange to attend the stock show
Wednesday, September 1. There Is
already a large number of horses
and cattle registered for entry, ond
some fine hogs.
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Only one more week till the car
nival. Have you arranged to proper
ly decorate your place of business?
The people will be here in vast num
bers, and we want to show them
that we have the proper spirit of
"git up and get there."
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These Aldrlch-Payne Republicans
who voted for revision upward and
then go about peddling the miserable
apology that tho tariff bill Ib "the
best that could be Becured under the
circumstances," really rate them
selves a little bit lower if possible
than they are-rated by the people.
Kansas City Star (Rep.).
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Judge Archer deserves the sup
port of every pioneer resident of
Cass county. He Is honest, well
qualified for the position and every
body having business ln that court
will receive fair treatment. He will
not let political prejudices Influence
him to do otherwise. And then
another thing, he knows the law.
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Judge Sedgwick "run like a
For the brainenergy
business men need; the
muscle-energy workmen
need; the nerveenergy
housewives need ; the all
round energy school chiU
dren need.
A soda cracker in ap
pearance more than a
soda cracker in goodness,
freshness, crispness.
Moisture proof packages.
skeered wolf," as the saying goes.
Now they are blaming the railroads
for his nomination, and it is pos
sible they did have something to do
with it. We know of one railroad
attorney who had workers out for
him an election day.
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As an endorser of the national
congress, no matter what it would
do, the Omaha nee is a howling suc
cess. In Its endorsement of the
Payne-AIdrlch tariff bill, it knows
that it only expresses the sentiment
of a few hide-bound leaders of the
Republican party, who get their
bread and butter by standing in with
the east as against the west.
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And Snyder, the Democratic can-
dldates for register of deeds, is a
farmer, but a gentleman eminently
well fitted for the position. He 13 a
young man, and one very popular
with all who know him. Quiet, un
assuming in his deportment, but pos
sesses all the necessary essentials to
make an official upon whom the peo
ple, of Cass county can look with
pride. Ho wa3 reared in the county.
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There seems to be considerable
squirming In the Republican papers
on account of the recent primary.
A Republican legislature enacted
the first primary law, and It was all
right with them, until a Democratic
legislature changed the form to an
open ballot, and now It is all wrong.
Ain't that funny? So the voters are
satisfied, that is all that is necessnry.
"The revision of the tariff on wool
was substantially settled at Chicago
on October 15, 1908, three weeks be
fore election, at a Becret meeting be
tween representatives of the worsted
Interests and of the growers of heavy
shrinking wool In the four states of
the far west." (Extract from the
letter of Robert Bleakle of Hyde
Park, one of the most prominent
New England carded woolen manu
facturers, In reply to Colonel Albert
Clarke of the Home Market club.)
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The G. A. R. reunion began at
Weeping Water today. The City band
of Plattsmouth will furnish the
music. On Thursday a base ball
game takes place between tho Platts
mouth and Weeping Water teams,
and this will be the big day of all.
A special will be run over the Mis
souri Pacific In the morning and re
turning will leave Weeping Water
aT"9 o'clock In the evening. Make
attend this
FX ACTED PROSPERITY.
As another step in the process of
enacting prosperity by statute the
Republican party will next under
take a revision of the currency sys
tem. This revision will be in charge
of the same eminent leaders of the
party who controlled the revision of
the tariff, to-wit, Senator Aldrlch
and Speaker Cannon.
The nature of the revision to be
expected is indicated by the action of
Speaker Cannon ln deposing Con
gressman Fowler of New York as
chairman of the banking and cur
rency committee and naming as his
successor Congressman Vreeland of
New York. Fowler is perhaps the
greatest authority on the currency
question now In public life. Vree
land, as the Indianapolis News
truthfully describes him, is a man
"who Is quite unable to see any
thing west of Wall street." To
gether with Aldrlch he was the
author of the present makeshift
"emergency" currency law, which,
has been wholly Inoperative, and
whoso sole object was to furnish a
half million dollars more of bond
secured currency for the uses of the
Wall street gamblers.
New England, New York and Can
non made a new tariff law, the pur
pose of which Is to "promote pros
perity" by enabling the trusts to
charge higher prices for their out
put, and to earn larger dividends on
their watered stocks.
New England, New York and Can
non will next make a new currency
law, the purpose of which will also
be to "promote prosperity" by pro
viding for a bond-secured currency.
The bonds to be used as a basis for
the legal tender money of the coun
try are to be the securities of the
railroads and the great Industrial
trusts. This, of course, is expected
to help speculators, speculative
banks, exploiters, -stock-thlmblerlg
gers, by creating a market for new
securities and conferring added
value on those already afloat.
In a sense, all this will make for
"prosperity." But It is a Dead Sea
prosperity, the fruit of which will
quickly turn to ashes in the mouths
of the people. High prices and big
profits for the trusts means a pros
perity for plutocracy, ln which, for
a time, and to a very limited ex -
leni, me laoor mat plutocracy em -
your arrangements
one day, anyhow.
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NATIONAL
BISCUIT
COMPANY
ploys will share. A bond-secured
currency, inflated and deflated at the
will of the stock gamblers, adding
fiictitious value to water-logged se
curities, will promote speculation,
make more made and maddening
the gambling saturnalia, and result
ln a kind of fevered "prosperity"
drunkenness such as brought on the
last collapse.
Through it all, in fair weather and
in storm the same, the cold-blooded,
clear-headed, calculating and merci
less pirate of high finance will be
adding, day by ,.... to their riches.
Tariff laws, currency laws, will con
spire to favor them to make their
work easier, their rewards even
larger than before. Into' their hop
per, at last, will come a large share
of the wealth production of the
country. Through the tariff laws
they will wring added extortion from
the consumer. Through their con
trol of the currency, and their currency-inflated
stocks, they will rake
in greater winnings from investors,
speculators and small business men.
But poverty will persist. It will
grow deeper and broader. Just a3
those at the top grow fatter will
these at the bottom grow thinner.
And they who are In the middle, op
pressed by the growing weight above
them, will be forced nearer and near
er to the bottom.
A prosperity made for their priv
ileged classes a prosperity which
those on top grind out remorselessly
from the sweat and groans of those
beneath a nrnanprity whlch looks
only on Captain Kldd and the crew
among whom he distributes a 6hare
of his blood-money, and loses sight
and memory of the victims who must
walk the plank this is the kind of
prosperity Aldrlch and Cannon and
Vreeland ln the name of the Repub
lican party, are enacting Into being.
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M. O. KIme, the popular and well
known Democrat of Neha vka, came
up Saturday to attend the meettn
of the county central committee and
10 visit with friends. Mike is lustlv
popultfr here with all the people.
who know him. and in
jhawka's best ond most enterprising
citizens.