Tne - Plattsmouth - Journal
fgblisho 5emWisei u Piittssioutli, Kebutoc I)
R. A. DATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoffice tt Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
matter.
fl.SO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
They have declared that Massa- quasi martyrdom which the outrage- the people gtand for Its lawlessness
chusetts is not wedded to high-pro- ous ruling of Justice Woods gave to and oppression!
tprtlnn Idols: that the orotected him. But he showed no gratitude :o:-
manufacturers
that the protected him. But he showed no gratitude
are not New Eng- for the condemnation of government
LOYALTY TO NEWSPAPEKS.
As an independent paper, the Lln-
toln Star about fills the bill. When
H says anything you can tell what
It meanB without any humming and
hawing about it.
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PoBslbly no tariff law was ever
passed in this country so utterly at
the dictation of the money power
as the one passed by the late extra
fesslon of congress. Friend (Neb.)
Telegram, (Rep)-
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It is not tco early for holiday ad
vertising. Don't put oft telling the
people what is In BtOre for the holi
day trade until after many have gone
to Omaha to make their purchases.
Advertise now and get the cream
of the trade. Many people are lay
ing In their supplies right now.
I V, I,. n Junvt Inlr i nnrnnrlaftntl 4
fund for business' insurance and
would as soon think of dispensing
with insurance against fire as to in
vite business disaster by lack of ad
vertising. :o:
land; that New England, though
favored in the tariff revision, as we
have remarked, more highly than
any other section, is not really in
favor of high protection graft not
even when she gets more than her
share of it. For the cutting down
of Governor Draper's majority from
60,000 to 8.000, while Fo6s, the low
tariff Republican, nominated by the
Democrats for lieutenant governor,
missed beating the popular young
Louis Frothingham o'nly by some
5.000, has all the moral effect of an
actual Democratic victory. The Dem-
by injunction uttered by the Demo
cratic national convention in 1896.
Yet the principle Involved in the
The degree of loyalty shown by the
average Nebraska newspaper to its
tyranny of the bench, which depriv-,home town u WQrtby of comment
ed the American citizens of his lib-1
erty, at the caprice of
As some areedy patients see it. ocrats made their fight squarely
the hookworm Is merely something against high protection, and Sena
to hartg mince pies on. tor Lodge called on his people to
:o: htand by the Payne-Aldrlch bill. The
It has Just about gotten so in this result was such a ratio of Democra
country that a man doesn't place tic gain and Republican loss as
'himself In the hands of his friends would turn over half the Republican
until he has sewn up his pockets. states in the union. Good for old
:o: Massachusetts! She has never done
The power of the courts is very better in her life. Harper's Week-
seinshly used as well as lawfully, anc ly
that Is one thing that is building
up anarchy throughout the land.
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The present cold snap will make
noma peoplo wonder what they done
with their lust summer's wages. This
thing of letting every day look af
ter itself might work in the summer
time, but it won't do In the winter
And no wise person will think so.
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In order to defeat the special pri
vllege grabbers it is necessary not
only to beat them, but keep on beat
lng them.
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Judging from the market reports
most of those people who are in
the habit of eating turkey on Thanks
I i --! f 1 1 1- l.n ! . . ft ,1 ...III.
Aldrlch did not find the west a B"'us Wl" "av lu ue uu w,lu
very congenial climate, and he has chicken this year,
retraced his stepB eastward, where :o
the climate la not so cold. . He To help the heathen of other lands
one man
wearing a judicial robe concerns
the rights guaranteed by the consti
tution of the United States to every
man in this country. Justice Woods
assumed the powers belonging to a
ury, and for this offense he ought
to have been Impeached and depri
ved of his ermine. ,
When haled before Justice Woods,
and confronted with the accusation
that he had disobeyed the order of
that judge issued to him, forbidding
him to do any act which obstructed
the carrying of the mall, Debs plead
ed not guilty, and followed the plea
by asserting that be had done all In
his power toward obedience of the
order of the court that he had, as
president of the American Railway
union, issued to the members of
that association an order command-
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The reason It is more profitable
to be a champion pugilist than
president of the United States Is be
cause the people are more willing to
pay to see the pugilist perform.
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Burkett dreads the Oregon method bought a cold wave with him, and to better their lives the general con
It has been with us ever since. Terence of the Metnodlst cnurcn nas
;o. voted 11,000,000. If the heathen
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Honnfor AMrlrh deelareq that A I Have a r.euae ui giauiuuB lue,
f electing a United States Benator.
We don't blame him, for it means
that "Slippery" Elmer will meet his
Waterloo at the primaries. The peo- rious problem confronts congress. to appreciate what clvlliza
Pie have an opportunity to retire him And the people agree with him, ex- "on 18 aoln5 I0 tnem-
ana It win be done In no uncertain ceP- 1081 n minus u is me cur
tone of voice.
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rency question and many of them
think it is Aldrich.
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The Republican party fears the
voice of the people, and that la the All advertising for the weekly edi
reason why they appose the selec- tlon of the Journal should, be in
tlon of United States senators at the the office by Wednesday noon of
ballot box. The people are not to next week, as we will print the
w trusted in the matter, if the Re- Thursday edition on Wednesday
publican party can help It. "The night, on account of Thanksgiving.
voice of the people Is the voice of
Cod" trusts o mo trusts.
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Are you thinking about that big
holiday advertisement? Remember
There is no htauncher Republican tnat the Journal is sent out daily to
rgan than the Altoona, Pa., Tri- nearly 800 readers and to over 1700
uuiie, ua even n Bees me injustice twice-a-weck. More circulation than
and fraud In the protective tariff js iH8ued from any other two offices
theory as the Republican party has hu Cass county.
worked It out. Says the Tribune:
'We do not forgei that Pennsyl
vania Is specially interested in the!
maintenance of the protective princi
ple nor do we quarrel with that prin
ciple. At the same time we are not
Mind to the growing sentiment among
the people that the protective system
is rather onesided and that the re-
rent revision waa upward instead of
downward. The protection of infant
Industries 1b all right: when they
lecome glanta they no longer need
more than a moderate degree of pro
tectlon. And the protection which
multiplies millionaires should throw
We may be thankful that we are
living this year, but that is about
all we can honestly be thankful.
While there seems to be plenty in
the land, everything is so high in
price that they are too high to reach
by -poor people, especially.
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The following is the official vote
of the state on supreme Judges, with
the exception of Morrill county
Dean, (Dem.) 90,438; Good, (Dem.)
90,065; Sullivan, (Dem.) 91,108;
Barnes, (Rep.) 93,502; Fawcett,
(Rep.) 92,681; Sedwlck, (Rep.)
92,891. This will be seen that notwith
standing the claim made by Billy
Hayward that the atate was safe for
from 15,000 to 25,000 the Repub-
Senator Bourne of Oregon, chair- hcan judges went through by the
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and congratulation, says the Fre
mont Herald. Hardly a day passes
in the examination of the newspa
pers, which come to this office, but
what there is shown an unswerving
loyalty to every interest of the town
John R. Dobbins Is being tried la
Omaha for having bilked a number
of "Mikes" out of their money by
fake foot races and horse races and
the like. The testimony shows that
there certainly are some easy mark
In the world and that they are n?t
confined to ignorant men by any
means. One man, a banker, let
loose of $30,000 on these races. We
guess he Is opposed to a bank guar
anty law, also.
The disbarment of I. J. Dunn
or city wherein the paper is pub- 8eem" to ha?e brought forth oplm
llshed. It does seem that if the peo- lons from manJr lasers t Omaha to
pie of those towns were fully as tne effect that the P''em
loyal to the newspaper, what a splen- exceeded Its authority in taking th
did competition this country would draBtlc 8teP8 lt d,d- Whether it ex-
see, and what remarkable progress ceeded authority or not, it can be
Nebraska's small cities would make. 8a'd the action is bound to be unpop-
That the people in many of the ular and doe8 not teni t0 ra,se
towns are not so loyal Is exceeding- authority of the courts. A little
ly apparent by the lack of support severe criticism of the courts ia
of the home paper in the way of Practically warranted every now and
advertlslne. We have before us then when they become careless in
copies of newspapers printed In one their duties.
of the of the best small cltie3 In the
state, ana bath or those newspa
pers have printed column after
The supreme court of the state of
Iowa has rendered a decision which
column, urging greater united effort 18 regaraea as aimosi an exiraor-
nn nnrt nf u mmmorMoi i,ndv ad. dlnary one. It has held in a case
ng them to abstain from ;ul nf's
which should in any manner inter- V0Cfttlng a coalHlon of the manu. brought by Mrs. Susie Brown, a
fot,.i i.i.i wtoii fn,.. neeress, against the J. H. Bell cof-
ces. striving to get them into har- fee company for damages for refus
ness together for the upbuilding and ,n to sel1 her a CUP of coffe0' that
further development of every meas- the company was justified in refus
declared that he strongly suspected ! wh,ch wm Becure advancement hng as it was a private corporation
that those who stopped the running lf eyery lnterest of tnat clty- Yet. and under no obligations to sell to
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those two newsnaners have an ad- negroes. This Is a direct slap at
do it by the railway managers ... flftDT,th cmnnoni'in tha foriomi
columns from the husinesa men of constitution and considerable cur-
thelr city. They are well printed iosity exists as to how the federal
newspapers, alive and keen as to supreme court would rule In a siml-
lty for declaring that Debs lied thank, new8 proper,y represente(i B8 iar case.
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tivo ftdsiimncA that each has a clr- The national grange, in session
fere with the transportation 1 f Uie
mails. And further, he believed
that his order had been strictly
obeyed by the men under him. He
of the mail trains had been hired
to
themselves, for the purpose of creat
ing a prejudice against his men.
Justice Woods had no more author
the president judge of the Paris
court has for screaming out that
Madam Stelnhell is a liar. It was culaUon that well warrant8 the rate at Des Moines. Ia., has passed reso-
solely a question of fact for a Jury
to decide.
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they charge for advertising space, lutions favoring better public hlgn-
It is unquestionably true' that in ways, instead of waterways. There
this instance the business men of 18 no aouoi mere is something 10
that town are not loyal to the news- tfae highway proposition and per-
papers. A town will succeed Just haps, as a general proposition it is
In proportion to the zeal with which of more importance to the general
pers 01 we country nave joinea in a Ug leadlng cItlzen8 and business Public than better waterways. It
men back up the patriotism of its la sure that improved highways
newsDaner. would save the American farmer a
TIME TO GET IT
Half a dozen of the big newspa-
man of the senate sub-committee
on public expenditures, says he is
preparing a report to submit to his
committee, in which he will show
how the government was needlessly
spending all the way from 850,000,-
000 to $100,000,000 a year. Isn't
that awful? Thing of It? All this
money needlessly expended by the re
form party, under the guidance of
Taft, Aldrlch, Cannon & Co.
bare skin of their teeth.
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That Ernest Pollard wants to get
back to congress, he won't even dis
pute himself. But how he is g6
Ing to do It, that's what Is now
worrying Earnie. There are bo many
others that are after the toga that
It will be awful hard for him to
make even a respectable showing
outside of his own county in the
prlmariea. And we might say that
Hon. D. R. Sutherland of Nelson, there are many Republicans in his
its sheltering hand over the laborer has annunced as a candidate for own county even that do not want
and mechanic also and shield them tlie Democratic nomination for con- nlnli a8 the vote a year ag0 8hows.
from the competition on the cheap Erea8 ,n tbe F,fth district next year. :o:
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wommen or Kurope who are com- mr- ouuiurmnu serveu iwo lerms in gome fellows seem to be worry
ing here at the rate of a million a congress several years ago, and made ng considerably over the eight
year." Allot which protection falls 8od- and we can see no reason o'clock closing law. and lay all the
to do, and thus condemns itself. wnv be cannot be given an oppor- blame on Governor Shallenberger
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:o: tunny to do so again. Mr. Suther- why don't they lay some of the
demand for a relentless investigation
and prosecution of the sugar trust
It ia openly charged that the gov
ernment officials charged . with the
duty of prosecuting this trust for
its weighing frauds have been hunt
ing about for a way by which lt can
escape a portion of the penalities
that the law fixes for offenses of
the character charged. Rich offend
era against the law have gone free
through court decisions and official
Inactivity in the past, and they will
be in the future unless public sentl
ment can so Impress itself upon those
whose duty it is to preserve the
integrity of the principle of equality
before the law that they will go af
ter the wealthy magnate with , the
same zeal and cold impartiality as
The . average Nebraska newspaper
devotes columns of space through
out the year to boosting the city or
lot of money, while there is a ques
tion as to whether Improved 'water
ways would really benefit ' anyone
wants. It was true of the McKlnley
bill, the Wilson bill, the Dingley
bill. and the Payne bill. Two attor
ney generala had refused to prose
cute directors of the trust for vlola-
A writer on advertising topics hits land believes that lf nominated he blame on Vic Wilson and Chief Clerk tlon of the law in relation to the
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a bullBeye by saying: "Have you can De eieciea. lie is an aoie man. 0f House Cone? They are the jcrusning out or competion, and a new
ver considered an advertising cam- and we believe that under present schemers that did the work, and! York judge recently held that this
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lUfTU 1U WUllU It to yUUUBUCU. CiTi 1
town in the state is worthy of be- m,Sht make heaV,er tlver trftfflC ,a
In - Tharo 4a nnf a rnm. I bulky artlcle8
munlty where prosperity should not
relirn. not a town wherein there is I Georgetown University has de
pot Just reason for boosting its ad- elded to suspend all football games
vantages, however small they may until such times as rules can be de-
be. The most loyal boosters are found I vised to make the games free from
In the newspaper offices, and the (danger. This Is a sensible step and
newspaper Itself is generally found in MN be commended by everyone who
advance of the procession of nro-bas been appalled at the number of
gress. Most Nebraska newspapers Injuries which have taken place dur
stand for better things, seeking al- ,nK e course or the root bail sea
ways to help the conditions of the son. There is scarcely a big game
home town, extending eawsrlv the Played but what some of the play-
when they employ the machinery of I ,come tQ neW cltlzen9 and new ers have been crippled and in some
institutions, and always and fear- instances killed. The game can be
lessly pushing for the more better- made Just as Interesting without
ment of its citizenship and improved the dangerous features as with them
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civic conditions. In many of the Bna u universities tase irteps
nwnB in thi HtntA thn newsnnnora similar to Georgetown this would
have an unhill task, and sometimes 800n come to pass.
a most discouraging and lonesome
one. But honest effort never falls,
the law to grind down some poor
devil, who may have what the rich
man hasn't, the excuse of the pres
sure of necessity.
The sugar trust has for years had
a mysterious hold upon government
Every time a tariff bill has been con
structed for twenty years, that ag
gregation of law-made millionaires
The Bazaar.
The bazaar given by St. Mary's
anil the continued devotion of thel ,,j , . ... .
has been able to get everything it t , , . , , uul,a ,asi evening repealed me sig-
eauors 10 me nwimeuiHg 01 civic nal success of the night before. The
and commercial spirit will surely attendance was much better and the
lead to the accomplishment of the ladles have cleared a handsome sum
things they so loyally and persist
ently strive for.
FROM THE BUSY WORLD.
palgn from the standpoint of an in- conditions of the political horizon, they chose the very last hours of
eurance policy? You Insure against be will not bo disappointed. tne session to do It It was a cow-
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know, but why noi cease kicking?
The writer voted against the bill,
THE EAST SPEAKS.
nch contingencies' as fire, shipping
disaster, dishonest employes, etc., as
a matter of course, but the moment
vomeone mentions advertising as al Anybody who ever heard William and would do bo again, if we had
Business ouiiaer tor your particular E. Russell pronounce the words "old the opportunity, but we take our
benefit, you Immediately begin to Massachusetts" in that firm, brave medicine the same as the other fel
'hedge' and vow that you cannot af- voice of his should be poignantly lows, who didn't like lt, ought to
ford such an expensive luxury, etc. remlndod of htm and his Ufework do
nave you ever mougnt tnai you can oy tne returns from last week s elec- :o:-
be Insured against the greatest of tlon in tbe old Bay state. He had RESTORE RIGHTS OK JURIES.
all commercial calamities loss of a way, too, of t appealing to "the
trade? Well, you can. This view of silent peoplo" and calling on them The American Federation of Labor
advertising is already accepted by to Bpeak out with their ballots. They do well in declaring for a restora
many of the most successful business spoke out with good effect more tlon of the rights and dutleB of
houses. The day Is past when the than once In his dny, and now they jurors. The battle fought and won
pregrcBBlve merchants waste time dls
ussing whether or not advertising
pays. That the right kind of adver
tising pays has been so thoroughly
and conclusively demonstrated, tho
wise business fan nowadays regards
have done It again. Their utterance ln England n the eighteenth cen-
In Massachusetts is. on the whole, tury muBt bo fought over in the
the most Important political happen-1 western hemisphere.
ing certainly tne most BlKnlficant We care nothing for Der8 as a
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since mo presidential election of lust politician. On tne omer nana, we
autumn. I may doubt that he deserved the
prosecution could not be maintained
because the offense had been outlaw
ed. Attorney General Wlckersham,
on the theory that this is a continu
ing offense and that it does not date
Director Percival Lowell of the
Flagstaff, Ariz, observatory reports
the first snowfall on the planet
Mars. This is highly Interesting but
what Is really of more Interest, is
snowfalls around Plattsmouth and
on the outcome. There Is little which
can be added to The Journal's re
view printed last evening. Suffice
it to say the ladles taking part in
the entertainment In every way re
peated their success and the entire
affair was one of the best ever given
in the city.
NOT1CK OK ft tLK.
back to the time the refinery was
put out of business, is talking about u v,c,n,ty' ' We can 8tand now on
starting it over again elsewhere. In
the weighing frauds case, where the aW to rua u "alnfll " 00
.nvf.n,nnt hH n rlnoh man. nnnnlP,anet Earth
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of the big ones were Indicted, and
the trust calmly went on committing
the same offense, lt Is charged.
Tho sugar trust scandal broke
while congress was maktng over the
tariff. In Its righteous Indignation
congress reduced that Bugar tariff 5
cents a hundred 'pounds, leaving it
about four times as high as lt should
be.
This trust Is ono of tho most
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offensive and boldest of- the com
mercial brigands,
o fthe ordinary.
How long must
IN THK DISTRICT COURT OF CASS
COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
In the matter of the Guardianship of
Ree Campbell, a Minor.
Notice is hereby given that In pur-
nuance of an order of Hon. Harvey D.
Travis, judge of the District Court of
Cass county, Nebraska, made and en
tered on the 16th day of October, 1109,
for the selling; of the real estate here
inafter described, there will be sold at
In a quarrel between two factions the eouth door of tho court houiie at
I Pin t tnmoul h. WhrAxka. on thn 1st dv
of a church at Clinton, Ind., yes- nf npi,.mh, ,909. m 1 ovioek n. m.. .t
terday, Bomeone exploded a charge public vendue to the hiRhest bidder for
cash, the following oexriitieii real ex-
of dynamite in front of the church
and wrecked It. This is a real speci-
man of "rule or ruin" policy. Each
faction wanted to run the church
and if it could not It was determined
the others could not either, hence
the explosion. The church cost $50,
006. which is Borne expensive way of
settling quarrels.
tate, towlt:
The undivided one-half of the north
half of the went half of the iioiithwet
quarter of Section 25, Township 11,
North of Range 0, In said Cass county.
Snld sule will remain one on hour.
JAMES M. CAMPRRLU
Cluardlan of Ree Campbell, a Minor
1). O. DWYKR, Attorney.
Pa lor waie.
Iledgo fence posts for sale. . Wm.
Gllmour, riattsmouth, Neb.
