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The Plattsmouth - Journal Mlistiei Seml-Weeklj it Plattsmouth, KelimV.CZZ) R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the Postoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE If you'd avoid the Christmas Jam That makes your head so whlrly, Be sure to get right into line And do your shopping early. :o: When you are measuring your own Importance cut out the watered 6tock. -:o: Only three week till Christmas The wise merchant will tell the poo. pie what he has in store for Christ mas presents. After a man has demonstrated that there Is money in a certain en terprise his neighbors begin to won der why they didn't engage In the same business. :o: The Taft administration shows It iielf decidedly In favor of the Insur gent movement in Nicaragua, regard less of how it may feel about the In surgents at home. :o: Speaker Cannon says this is a gov eminent by the people. But it isn't quite clear why "the Old Czar" should refer to himself and "Boss" Aldrich as "the people!" :o: When Governor Shallenberger calls a special session of the legislature It will more than likely be for some other purpose than passing the inia tative and referendum bill. :o: Walter Wellman greeted Comman der Peary as the "only discoverer of the pole." There are some who think there are other dlscovers.but no one includes Walter In the list :o: Collier's names Secretary Knox, Secretary Balllnger, Vice President Sherman and Senator Aldrich as "the four pall bearers of the Roosevelt policies." With Speaker Cannon, of .course, as the funeral director. :o: Th merchant who thinks he Is going to get what he thinks Is hia Bhare of the Christmas trade with 'out telling people what he has, Is go ing to get badly fooled this year. The wdvertlacr Is the man that will get the people's patronage. The wise mer chant will catch on. - :o: We desire once more to Inform our patrons that we have a regular hour of going to press, and that hour Is at half-past three o'clock, unless some accident to our machinery pre vents. All notices Intended to be published la the Journal must be In the office not later than 3 p. m., to Insure publication on that date. If you have anything, for publication don't wait until the hour of going to press to send it in. Our carrier boys have to deliver their papers be fore dark. A word to the wise ought be sufficient. :o: The Holdrege (Neb.) Citizen ad monlshes Nebraska merchants to meet the mall-order houses with the formidable weapon they ubo adver Using. This is the one agency that will down them and keep them down It has made for Sears, Roebuck & Company a little fortune of $25,000, 000 In less than two decades, large ly taken from the country merchant because be thought he was so well known and so well established that trade would come of its own volition No, sir, Mr. Merchant, you can't soil goods to all the people all the time unless you get the habit of adver tising and keep It up all the time. :o: We are In receipt of an Indexed copy of the upwardly revised Aid rich-Payne tariff law and It makes the chills run up our back as we read the outrageous burden placed on clothing, which prevents poor people from buying what they nood In face of winter. Were It not that the Innocent must suffer In conse quence of this unjust and extortia ate mcausre our sympathy would not go out on account of It. Tdobo who voted for men who aro responsible for this law are not entitled to sym pathy. It Is the culmination of what they voted for, but the Innocent must share In the disaster. The Aldrich- Payne tariff, law was enacted solely for th trusts and combines who have long fatted at the crib of govern mental prok-'tlon and without one solitary thought of the consumers. o: red to, has landed in New York and irocieda to biate that he referred to tie wife of the English prime min ister and her daughter, Mis3 Violut Asqulth. The confession is not creditable to Watson, no matter what motives Inspired his work. In America it is not considered either gentlemanly or courageous for a man to insult a woman and Watson's poem amounts to that. If it is the fashion In England, he should have stayed there. Responsibility for the terrible mine disaster at Cherry, III., where 300 men lost their lives ha been definitely fixed upon a boy under the legal age, who pushed a load of hay up against an unprotected flaming torch. The hay caught fire and the foreman In charge at that point did The wickedness of the sugar trust not notlfy the mlne bo88 untU the Is indeed appahng. But in waxing woodwork of the mine was ablaze indignant at this meBS of conspiracy, An sample Bhould promptly be made hrlherv and theft, that has heen nn- of the mlne officials who permitted covered, we should remember that the h,rlng of ch,ld labor and who al the suagr trust is but one of many Iowcd the burning torch, in the mine trusts. And while, as Henry O. The Pena'ty for this awful disaster Havemeyer once testified, "the cus- cannot bo made too severe and tnmn tariff la th mr.hpr nf nii criminal proceedings of the most I ..I A . . V. II 1. A 1 trusts," still the sugar trust Is the V1fcuruus n"1" "ou'a "e maun. Image In which the others have been created. It furnished the mode And if the others trusts have follow ed the pattern of the sugar trust In all details, If they have entrenched themselves In power by corruption and fraud, then there is a much greater task ahead of us than the only too difficult, one of bringing the sugar trust melefactors to Jus tice. La Toilette's Magazine. :o: The sugar trust has Bhown utter disregard for both law and morality. It has persistently vlolatod the Sher- man anti-trust law. It has accepted defeat for Asqu,th and hU llberal fo1" King Edward has formally poro gued parliment, and England is now in the throes of a great political fight. The outcome seems much in aoubt. individual opinions vary greatly on the prospect but the greater number seem Inclined to be lieve the country will return the lib erals once more but by a greatly reduced majority.. The real Issue is the budget which the wealth of the kingdom Is fighting and, as England Is largely controlled by Its wealthy citizens, the result may be easily a MESSAGE READ TO GQHESS No Tariff Revision For fhe Proscnf. NICARAGUA!! TROUBLE. Irresponsible Nations Not Pro tected by Monroe Doctrine. A DEFICIT OF $73,075,600. legislation Urged Against .In- junctions Without Notic: rebates in violation of the lnter-state commerce act. It has used money In politics freely, and, it would appear, profitably. It has conspired to ruin Independent sugar refiners. It has lowing. In any event, the fight pro mlses to be spectacular beyond any previous campaign and one intensly interesting to the outside world. Secretary Knox, It Is announced, stolen vast sums of money from the ,ntend8 to make an effectual cnange United States government by using In the administration of Nicaragua, short weight scales and bribing cus- , p,an (J to depo8e PresIdent Zel. toras house employees. It has com mitted these atrocious acts to aya of that unhappy country and aid Gen. Estrada, who is heading the strengthen and complete the mono- revolutlonary force8. The BeCretary ply made possible by the enormous regard8 Zo,aya ag thj author of the graft handed to it by congress in woeg a,one of Nloaraguai . but the form of exhorbitant and unjustl- of tne other Centra, Amerlcan Btate8 fiable and dishonest tariff duties. No oa ,, w . . v, I MO TV V-1 4 U II IA V t UJVOVO tU CUU UiO rArlm nH rtnr .nn.rltv tn llf Washington, Deo. 7. In bis annual message, rt-ud to congress, president Taft said: To the Senate and the House of Representatives: The relations of the United States with ull foreign governments have con tinued upon the uoi'iual busts of (unity and good understanding and are very generally satisfactory. , Europe. preuensiou which jrave r'.ae to the Monr.ie ilocti'I.ie ui.i.. be said to have nearly disappeared, and neither the dot-trine m it eUts uur any other doc trine f American policy should be permitted to oH-rute for the perpetua tion of irresponsible government, the esvupe of Just obligations or the lnsKll oils allegation of dominating ambition on the part of the L'ultcU States. My meeting with l'resideiit Diaz and i the greeting exchanged uu both Amer ican and Mexican soli served. 1 hope, to signalize the cIom and cordial rela tioiia which so well bind together this republic und the great republic lmme tllutely to the south, betweeu which there is so vast a uetworU of material Interests. I am happy to say that nil but oue of the cases which for so long Texcd our relations with Venezuela have been settled wlthlu the past few mouths and that, under the enllgul ened regime now directing the govern tuent of Venezuela, provision has been made for arbitration of the remniniug case before The Hague tribunal. On July 30. 10O"J, the government of Punamu agreed, after considerable ne gotiation, to Indemnify the relatives of the American officers and sailors who were brutally treated, oue of them having. Indeed, been killed by the Panaman police tills year. This government was obliged to in tervene diplomatically to bring about arbitration or settlement of the claim o. ;:u Emery company against Niea :r.. which it had long before been rud -'iould be arbitrated A settle !:ic;:: or tint trouniesome case was ivachrd lv the signature of n protocol on Sept. IS. litOl). Many years ago diplomatic interven tion became uecessary to the protec tion of the luterests In the American claim of Alson & Co. against the government of Chile. The govern ment of Chile bad frequently admitted obligation In the case and bad prom ised this government to settle it. There had beeu two abortive attempts to do so through arbitral commissions, which failed through lack of Jurisdiction Now. happily, as the result of the re cent diplomatic negotiations, the gov ernments of the United States and of Chile, actuated by the sincere desire to free from any strain those cordial The American rights in the fisheries on the north Atlantic const under the and frioudly relations upon which both fisheries article of the treaty of 181S get such store, have agreed by a proto- have beeu a cuuse of difference be- col to submit the controversy to defln tween the United States uud Great jtlve settlement by his Brituimlc mujes Britain for nearly seventy years. The ty Edward VII interests Involved are of great Impor. TheNicaraguan Trouble. tance to the American nsuing industry. H. tho Wn),h,llirt(lfl conventions of and the final settlement of the contro versy Iby the permanent court of ar bitratlon at The Hague 1 will remove a source of constant irritation and com plaint This 1 the first case Involving such great International questions which bus txvn submitted to the per 1907 were communicated to the gov ernment of the United States ns a con suiting and advising party this gov ernment has been almost continuously called upou by oue or another and in turn by all of the five Central Amer lean republics to exert Itself for the ed into profits seems to have been and property ln tnat reglon paESod by. La Follette a Magazine :o: It is "Champ Clark's future depends largely upon the result of the next congressman election," said a promt ent western Democrat the other day. 'That the next house will be Demo cratic, and that Clark will be chosen as speaker, is as certain as anything that has not already happened, can pro8pect of a great rallroad Btrlke Once speaker of the house, lnvolvlng one minion employeB on be. Champ Clark will be more ln the limelight than perhaps any other Democrat in the country. As speak er, ho would give the right-of-way to said Mexico will back up this pro gram and a comprehensive plan for policing the western world by these two powers is under consideration. European diplomats profess great amazement at what they call Knox's "shotgun" diplomacy but none are disposed to interfere with it. Chicago reports that there Is every mnnent court of arbitration st The maIntcDance of tDe conventions. Near uague. I i p.imntnlnt 1ina been strains! isegotiations ior au iiaernuu-ma. - . mvprntnpn. of nIpiuiicuq. conference to consider and reach an wWch bag kept Centra Amerlca ll( urrauKeujuui rioviuiuK 101 w.c C0Dstant tension or turmoil. The re vauon ana protection oi me iur ,, to 18 PerePntatlons of ln the north Pacific are In progress Central Americnn republics as due with the governments of Great Britain. frnm th. Vnlt - Rtnta nn fl(,rolint of japan ana uussm. ine uuuuue w u, rc,atlon to ,he Washington conven me governments inieresieu leaos me Uon8 hftve at a n)Cg conserva to hope for a satisfactory settlement of Uve nd baye avolded m rar a9 po88, this question as the ultimate outcome w 8embalK..8 0f interference, al oi 109 negotiations. thmih it I. vprr nnnnrpnt thnt thi Th Nr East. I considerations of geographic proximity The quick transition of the govern-1 to the canal zone and of the very sub ment of the Ottoman empire from one Btantlal American interests in Central of retrograde tendencies to a constl I America give to the United States a all the roads, east and west. The cause is a demand on the part of the men for an advance of five and six cents per hour. This demand is a lot of measures of the people, which lflde by the Beveral brotherhood8 ln the past have been held back at i . ,,, . . . land unions and It is now under con- every turn by Speaker Cannon. The B,deratlon by the raroad offlclalSi Missouri's administration would IntervIew8 wlth load, ra of. undoubtedly be ln such contrast to fldaly Rre r1, tQ th(j effect that that f "ITnnln Tna " haf th Tlflmn. I demand will be refused on the cratic party would be very likely I nd that thfl cannQt Rt to Bolect hlra as lta Btandard bearer ... f. A - . . . in the next presidential contest. At flc,a,8 any rate, that is Champ Clark's pros- . ... . . . pective future as myseu ana a urge wouW be a naUona, d,8a8ter flf ,m. number of Mr. Clark's friends in I congress aee it." -:o; FROM T1IK BUSY WORLD. The corn show at Omaha opened today and it la said the exhibits are very good. As was the case last year, Indiana has again carried away the prizes, Fred C. Falin of Newton, tak- paralleled magnitude. It would to tally paralyze business and cause a loss of many millions in money be sides which, no man could predict the end. For the national good it is to be hoped a peaceable settlement can be had. County Judge's Office. County court was very quiet to Ing the Kellogg trophy valued at day' thero be,n no ,eal bness . . , , . ra a marriage license was is T ' ' sued by Manage License Clerk Miss J. R. Overstreet of Franklin, wlnB the Gertrude Beeson to Gordon L. Hen fl.000 silver trophy for the best neger, aged 25, and Miss Alice Ho- tcn ears. O. L. Ken win of Frank- back, aged 23, both of Weeping Wa- I 4... rrt.A i iin ya w " yuuug peopie are wen t . . . . . i known and popular in their respect bushel of corn. This is a Brand re-1. ..... . . tve netgnDornooa ana nave many cord for Indiana corn and demon- friends who trust their married life strates that state is the best corn will be one of unalloyed pleasure. state ln the union The peculiar properties of Cham berlala's Cough Remedy have been thoroughly tested during epidemics of inuuenza, and when it was taken In time we have not heard of a sin William Watson, whose poem, "Tho Woman With a Borpent'a Ton gue," has caised so much specula tion on both sides of Hit Atlantic sh gi0 case of pneumonia. Sold by all to the identity of tho woman refer-'dealers. tutlonal government with a parlia ment and with progressive modern policies of reform and public Improve ment is one of the Important phenome na of our times. Constitutional gov ernment seems also to have made special position in the cone of tbesr republics and the Caribbean sea. I need not rehearse here the patient efforts of this government to promote peace and welfare among these re publics, efforts which are fully appr further advance In Persia. These I dated by the majority of them who events have turned the eyes of the I are loyal to their true interests. It world upon the near east. In that I would be no less unnecessary to re quarter the prestige of tho United hearse here the sad tale of unspesk states has spread widely through tblaDie barbarities and oppression alleged peaceful influence of American schools, I to have been committed by the Zelaya universities and missionaries, lucre e0verninent. Recently two Americans is every reason why we should obtain were put to death by order of Tresl a greater share of the commerce of the den zeflya himself. They were otD near east since the conditions ore cer9 iu the organized forces of a rev more favorable now than ever before Latin America. Oue of the happiest events in recent pan-American diplomacy was the pa- olutlon which bad continued niuny weeks and was in control of about half of the republic, and as such, tic cording to tne modern enlightened cllic, Independent settlement by the practice of civilized nations, they were governments of Bolivia nnd Peru of a entitled to be fleait witn as prisoners boundarv difference between them, of war which for some weeks threatened to cause war and even to entrain im- At the date when this message is printed this government has term. bltterments affecting other republics uoted diplomatic relations with the less directly concerned. Our Citizens Abroad. This administration, tbrongh the de partment of state and the foreign serv ice, Is tending all proper support to legitimate and beneficial American en- Zelaya government for reasons made public In a communication to the for mer Nlcaraguan charge d'affaires and is Intending to take such future steps as may be found most consistent with Its dignity, its duty to American In terests and its moral obligations to terprlse, In foreign countries, the de-1 Qenraj America and to civilisation. It gm of such support being measured by the national advantages to be ex pected. A citizen- himself cannot by contract or otherwise divest himself of the right, nor can this government escape the obligation, of his protcc tlon ln his personal and property rights when these are unjustly in fringed in a foreign country. To avoid ceaseless vexations it is proper that in considering whether American enter prise should be encouraged or support ed in a particular country the govern ment should give full weight not only to tho national as opposed to the indl vidual benefits to accrue, but also to the fact whether or not the govern ment of the country In question Is In Us administration and in Its diplomacy faithful to the principles of modera Hon, equity and Justice upon which alone depends lnternatlonol credit in diplomacy as well as ln finance Thi Monroe Dootrlno. The pan-American policy of this goTernment has long been fixed In Tts principles and remains unchanged. With tho changed circumstances of the United States and of the republics to the south of us, most of which have great natural resources, stable govern ment and progressive 'deals, the ap- may later be necessary for me to bring this subject to the attention of th congress In a special message. In the Far East. In the far east this government pre serves unchanged its policy of support ing the principle of equality of oppor tunity nud scrupulous respect for the Integrity of the Chinese empire, to which policy are pledged the Interest d powers of both east and west. By tho treaty of 11)03 Cblua has un dcrtr.Uen the nbolltlou of likin with moderate and proportionate raising o the customs tariff along with currency reform. These reforms being a msnl fest advantage to foreign commerce a well as to the Interests of China, thlK government Is endeavoring to fnclll tate these measures and the needful acquiescence of the treaty power When it appeared that Chinese llkl revenues were to be hypothecated t foreign bankers In connection with jrreat railway project it won obviou that the governments whose national held this loan would have a rertalu direct Interest In the question of the carrying out by China of tho reforms In question. The administration deem ed American partlclpotlon to be of great national Interest. Happily, when it was us a matter of broad policy ur gent that this opportunity should not be lost, the indispensable Instrumental ity presented Itself when a group of American bankers of iutvruatiunal reputation ami great resources agreed at once to share lu the loan uikhi pre cisely such terms us this government should approve. The chief of those terms was that American railway ma terial should be upou an exact equality with that of the other nationals Join ing in the loau lu the placing of or ders for this whole railroad system, After months of negotiation the equai participation of Americans seems a: last assured. In one of the Cbluese-Japanese con ventions of Sept 1 of this year there was a provision which caused consid erable public apprehension ln that upon its face It was believed lu some quarters to seek to establish a monop oly of mining privileges along the South Manchurian and Antung-Muk-den railroads and thus to exclude Americans from a wide field of enter prise, to take part in which they were by treaty with China entitled. After a thorough examination of the conven tions and of the several contextual documents the secretary of state reach ed the conclusion that no such mooop. oly was intended or accomplished. This government made inquiry of the imperial Chinese and Japanese gov ernme'tits nud received from each offi cial assurance that the provision had no purpose Inconsistent with the poli cy of equality of opportunity to which the signatories, ln common with the United States, ore pledged. Our traditional relations with the apanese empire continue cordial, as usual. The arrangement of 1008 ror co-operative coutrol of the coming of laborers to the United States has proved to work satisfactorily. The matter of a "revision of the existing treaty between the United States nnd Japan which is terminable In 1912 is already receiving the study of both countries. The Department of State. 1 earnest lv recommend to the favor able action of the congress the esti mates submitted by the deportment of state and at especially the legisla tion suggested in the secretary of state's letter of this date whereby It will be possible to develop and make permanent ilw reorganization of the department upon modern lines in a manner to make It a thoroughly ef ficient instrument In the furtherance of our foreign trade and of American Interests abroad. Under a provision of the act of Aug. 5. 1909. I have appointed three officials to assist the officers of the government In collecting information necessary to a wise administration of the tariff act of Aug. 5. 1909. As to questions of customs administration they are co operating with the officials of the treasury department and as to matters of the needs and the exigencies of our manufacturers and exporters with the department of commerce and labor in Its relation to tbe domestic aspect of he subject of foreign commerce. As a consequence of section 2 of tbe tariff act of Aug. 5. 1900. it becomes tbe duty of the secretary of state to con duct as diplomatic business all the negotiations necessary to place blm In a position to advise me as to whether, or not a particular country unduly dis criminates against tbe United States in the sense of tbe statute referred to. Government Expenditures and Rev enues. Perhaps the most important ques tion presented to this administration Is that of economy lu expenditures and sufficiency of revenue Tbe report of tbe secretary shows that tbe ordinary expenditures for tbe current fiscal year ending June 30. 1910. will exceed the estimated re ceipts by $34,075,620. If to this deficit are added tbe sum to be disbursed for tbe Panama canal, amounting to $38, 000,000, und (1.000,000 to be paid on tbe public debt, the deficit of ordinary receipts and expenditures will be in creased to a total deficit of $73,073,020. This deficit tbe secretary proposes to meet by tbe proceeds of bonds issued to pay the cost of constructing the Panama canal. I approve this pro posal. The Panama Canal. The' policy of paying for the con struction of the Panama canal not out of current revenue, but by bond Issue, was adopted In the Spooner act of 1902, and there seems to be no good reason for departing from the princi ple by which a part at least of tbe burden of the cost of the canal shall fall upon our posterity, who are to enjoy it, and there Is all the more rea son for this view because the actual cost to date of the canal, which it now half done and which will be completed Jan. 1. 1915, shows that tbe cost of engineering and construction will be $297,700,000 Instead of $139,705,200, as originally estimated. In addition to engineering and construction, tbe oth er expenses. Including sanitation and government and the amount paid for tbe properties, the franchise and tbe privilege of building the canal, - In crease the cost by $75,435,000 to a total of $375,201,000. The increase ln the cost of engineering and construc tion Is due to n substantial enlarge ment of the plan of construction by widening the canal 100 feet In the Cu lebra cut and by Increasing the di mensions of the locks, to the under cstlmote.of the quantity of the work to bo done under the original plan and to an underestimate of the cost of la bor and materlnls. both of which have greatly enhanced In price since the original estimate was made. Government Economy. In order to avoid a deficit for the ensuing fiscal yeor 1 directed the heads of departments ln the prepara tion of their estimates to make them as low as possible consistent with Im perative governmental necessity. The result has been, as I am advised by