The - Plattsmouth - Journal
r 3 fubllshsd Semi-Weekly it Plattsmouth, Nebraska i
R. A. DATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoflke at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-clasB
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l its rights.
The east, through its control of
the government, has been making
laws for the benefit, not of the en
tire country, but of the east. It has
been making laws that make the east
prosperous at the expense of the
west. It has been mating laws mat
tax the west for the benfit of the
east It has been making laws that
discourage western agricultural de
velopment while fostering the develop
ment of eastern trusts and nionopo-
Isn't It about time we had the safe
and sane coal mine?
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A department of common Bense
wouldn't be a bad thing for Mr. Taft
to add to his cabinet.
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Now is the time to commence the
work of keeping the weeds down.
Weeds breed sickness.
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A tailless comet Is reported by the
watchers at the Yerkes observatory.
Perhaps the comet has It tall done
up on hairpins.
"Organize!" should be the watch
'word of every Democrat In Nebras
ka. It measn much, and will result
In vihtory at the fall election.
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Evidently Mr. Lawler thought Mr.
Taft meant that he should write that
Ballinger letter "as though he were
president" with a whitewash brush.
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After Mr. Ballinger is whitewash
ed, and then resigns, great care
should be taken to see that his suc
cessor Is not another Guggenheim se
lection.
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Senator Aldrlch Is "offering su
gar" to the Insurgents, but the su
gar Is purely figurative. It does not
mean that he Is going to desert the
sugar trust at this late day.
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With marked sagacity, Buffalo Dill
concluded not to take his Wild West
show to Europe this year, the compe
tition over there just now being
strenuous and no admission price
charged.
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Persons who are worrying over the
problem of what to do with our ex
presidents might take a hint from
Paris, where the other day ex-Presl
dent liounet was run down by an
automobile.
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' It's astounding what mean advan
tage some people will take of help
less children. Here's a fetish wor
shiper propnsnig that all babies born
on the day of Teddy's homecoming
shall be named after him.
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The Democrats In the central and
western sections of the state are
becoming thoroughly organized. Near
ly every county has been organized
by townshlpB and precincts. That's
the way to do it. A thorough or
ganization of the party In the state
.means vcltory next fall.
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Tho friends (and they are legion
throughout the state) are shoving
Senator Herman Dlers, of Gresham,
to the front for Lieutenant Governor.
Senator Dlers Is a good man, and a
very live wire In any business capa-
clty you take him. He Is a brother
of W, F. Dlers, the leading merchant
at Louisville and Is an all-round good
fellow and thorough business man
and gentleman. Herman and the
writer formed a lasting friendship
In the last session of the legislature,
and there Is nothing too good for
him. We are for Herman for Lieu
tenant Governor every day In the
week.
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LAW AXD SENTIMENT.
liquor from getting Into the hands lies.
of thoBe who are willing to take the The east has made tariff laws that
risk of selling it Illegally for the sake! compel the west to buy in a protect
of the profits tney can make, it will ed market where prices are fixed by
not, as so experienced a temperance monoply conspiracies, while at the
worker as Mr. Nicholson doubtless same time it sells what it has to
realizes, enforce actual prohibition, sell in a world market; tariff laws
The prohibitionists have always been that impose a heavy tax on every Im
extremely reluctant to recognize what ported article the west buys, which
the states tactily recognize by the tax goes to the government; and tar
kind of laws they pass. That is, iff laws which impose a tax, lm
where the sentiment of a community measurably larger in the aggregate,
Is not practically unanimous In favor on every eastern product the west
of prohibition, actual prohibition is buys, which tax goes Into the coffers
an impossibility as long as liquor of the eastern plutocracy,
is made anywhere, whether It be with- The east has bo controlled and
in the state or outside of It. Free! manipulated railroad traffic and rail
men who want liquor always have! road laws and other kindred legisla
managed to get it in some way, no tlon so as to discourage manufactur-
matter what may have been the legal ing enterprise in the west, and com
restrictions, and there is no reason to pel the west to ship its raw material
believe that they will not continue to the Atlantic seaboard and then
to do so. ship the manufactured product back
For this reason It might just as again
well De acknowledged nrst as last por these many weary years the
that prohibition is more a matter of east has been laying its heavy hand
sentiment than of law. Thus the in- on the west. For manv years it has
fluonce of sentiment than of law. been legislating in the interest of the
Thus the influence of education must plutocracy, which has its home in the
be a good deal more effective than easti ani against the welfare and
legal restriction. Neither prosper-1 rights of the home-owning middle
lty, nor morality, nor abstinence from classes who are most numerous In the
Intoxicating liquor can be brought Jwest,
t & .1 v.. i l i t mi - I
auuui nicies u, icBimauuu. i uei c ,f tha M.toPn rrtor nf
may be legislation that will tend to populatkm ftnd weaUh therefore,
foster all these things, it is true, but Lhow an lncreage ln populatlon lt
It Is not the kind of legislation that wll, not bfl the fault of the ce8U8
actually encourages law breaking by
its rigor. As no tax is an effective
tax when the expense of evading it is
less than the payment of it, so no law
is an effective law when the expense
of violating it is less than the profit
or satisfaction to be derived from
Buch evasion. Thus, wherever pro
hibition is adopted by a comparative'
this plain inhibition Ludden has been
drawing a salary as secretary.
Two big shows last night the
comet and eclipse of the moon.
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Iowa doctors ln convention at Des
Moines the other day voted against
raising their own fees. Isn't that
wonderful?
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Denver's saloon majority was bo
high that the community evidently
did more than "go wet." It voted
to Inundate itself. 1
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Those who have seen the comet
agree that it is built on the plan of a
kangaroo most of it is a backward
protruberance.
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Senator Aldrlch is offering all
kinds of concessions for the passage
of the railroad bill. Evidently the
railroad bill contains more jokers
than anyone suspected.
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As recently as 1905, Mr. Taft ad
vised the Cincinnati Republicans to
defeat the Cox machine. He wasn't
so awfully particular about "party
solidarity" in those days.
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Stenographer Kerby expresses the
belief that public duty compelled him
to tell the truth as he did. This how
ever, is a consideration with wnicn
the Ballinger crowd has very little
patience.
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Burkett's Advertising bureau at
Lincoln Is again busy, with fjve or
six clerks in charge. This costs lots
of money, but then w hat's the differ
ence, Aldrich, Cannon and Taft will
see that the trusts pay the freight.
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it is a little more than a man's job
to make one pay at Plattsmouth,
And If such great agricultural
states as Iowa and Nebraska show an
actual falling off in population, or a
falling off outside the larger cities,
lt will not be the fault of the cen
sus.
It will be the natural an logical
results of the sectional and class leg-
ly'scant majority of a communlt J tlon which the east has been "put-
t- k I "IB over' on the west.
tucic id niuiuat uuuuu lu vd luuuuu
oils violation of the law by that part
of the community which Is actively
opposed to lt. That is why there are
so many blind tlgerB in cities and re nominated from the east, by the
And the west will have no one but
itself to thank or blame. The west
has been helping elect candidates who
good-sized towns, though the larger
communities of which tbey are a part
may have voted "dry." In other
communities where the prohibition
sentiment largely predominates
especially in those which have no
cities or large towns there is almost
no difficulty In enforcing the law. In
fact, it almost enforces itself.
The logical conclusion from all the
experience we have had is that pro
hibition is largely a local question,
and for this reason it Is most diffi
cult it not, Indeed, impossible to
make state wide prohibition effective.
The long experience of Maine and
Kansas and the briefer and more re
cent experience of some southern
states afford abundant evidence of
this. Indianapolis News.
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ri'TTlXO IT OVKK THE WEST.
In an argument ln favor of the
Miller-Curtts interstate liquor bill,
which gives the state jurisdiction
over liquor shipped into lt as soon as
the state boundaries are passed, in
stead of only after its delivery to the
consignee, as is now the case, Mr.
S. E. Nicholson says:
It is pertinent to aak why any
stato has endeavored to pro
hibit the manufacture of liquor,
and why it is not content merely
to interdict its sale. Presum
ably, because so long as liquor is
made, and especially bo long as
a violator of the law can get pos
session of it, the state recognizes
the practical lmpoBHlblllty of
adopting ony system or regula-
tlon by which its subsequent sale
can be wholly prevented.
No doubt while the proposed law
would be a step toward preventing waking up aud preparing to fight for
The Beatrice Sun prints the fol
lowing:
The belligerent Crete Demo
crat declares that the census
will Bhow that the eastern states
have increased in population
while the western states have
decreased, and the Democrat in
sists that this fraud la being per
petrated upon the country for
the purpose of giving the east
ern states greater representa
tion In congress. In view of the
fact that the taking of the cen
bus is all over the country left
to local people It is hard to un
derstand how tho east could put
anything over the west.
Our esteemed contemporaries, we
are confident, are both of them In
the right church. But they are in
tho wrong pew.
The east has been "putting som
thing over on the west" for a long
while. The enst has been "putting
something over on the west' not
alone In the past few weeks, while
the census was being taken, but dur
ing the Inst several decades.
The east has gained control of
the government and Washington, and
holds that control still, although the
signs are not lacking that the west Is
east, and for the east.
The west has been supporting
platforms loaded down with sectional
and class iniquity which were made
by the east and for the east.
Thus far the west, because of its
splendid resources, because of its
cheap lands, because of its indust
rious, frugal and enterprising popu
lation, has been able to pay the tax,
to endure the discriminations and In
justices, and still make a flattering
showing. But it Is reaching the end
of the lane. The time is coming
when the west will have to stand up
and fight for its rights, when agricul
ture will have to demand that It stand
on an equal footing with manufactur
ing, or the west will suffer not only
relatively but actually.
The west has only to go on sup
porting Aldrlch tariffs and central
bank schemes and commerce courts
and railroad and industrial monopoly
and eastern politicians who serve
them, to become, at last, a satrapy
of New York, New England, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania.
There may be a lesson in the cen
sus figures, when they are officially
announced. And it will be a lesson
lt will do the west no harm to study
understanding and prayerfully.
World-Herald.
The commercial club meets again Colonel Barrows made a good one,
tomorrow night to take some action but undoubtedly the red ink just
in regard to a Fourth of July cele- would seep into the bank account.
bration. The action at this meeting The paper goes on, but In milder
will be definite. So if you want a form. Fremont Tribune.
celebration be on hand to speak your :o: ,
little piece. 11 13 seemingly but a short step
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Whenever Secretary Ballinger Pl riAmnnrncv. Tho rpppnt nnwhpn
found himself in a tight corner he f Senators Dolllver and Cummins at
always appealed to the committee to rjes Moines might well have been
protect him "from the Insolence of mistaken for an address by William
this man" Brandels. And the worst J. Brvftn. Senator lllmn9,. nsnor.
of it is that the committee was us- tlon that the present leaders of the
ually right there with the protection. Republican party are in league with
the corporations and have "scant
time to consider the needs and de
sires of the great mass of humanity '
1b but a reiteration of charge made
by the Nebraska Democrat upwards
of ten years ago. The Iowa senators
stand, practically where the Dem
ocratic party has stood for more
PLEASED
THE SOUTHLAND
There will be a big effort made by
the church people throughout the
land to stop the Jeffries-Johnson
fight in San Francisco on July 4.
Petition after petition, signed by
thousands of people will be forwarded
to the governor of California to the
end that the big fight be called off.
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than a decade and their attitude, and
Plattsmouth will' fare pretty weU that of the other insurgents, is mere-
ly a vindiction of Democratic princi
ples a notice to the world that
this summer and fall even If we do
not have a Fourth of July celebra-
tlotu Besides our animal stock 8how Brvan was rlght ,n 1896' ln 1900 and
and carnival for one week, we will
have the annual meeting of the Red
Men of the state for three days,
which wdlll bring hundreds of stran
gers to our city.
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The Ludden case will not down
that Is to say, Rev. Mr. Ludden does
not purpose letting go of his little
$300 a year slice of the public funds,
even though he has been drawing It
ln violation of law. Mr. Ludden
made out a voucher for his salary,
but Governor Shallenberger insisted
that it be held up until lt was shown
thnt the clulm was a legal ono. Mr
Ludden has now asked for a writ of
mandamus compelling the auditor to
Issue a voucher. The law governing
the normal school board provides for
the expenses of its members, and
specifically states that no payment
shall be made for services. Despite
in 190S.
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The divorce evil has arisen to
startling proportions in this country"
and students of sociology are study
ing the question. It Is interesting to
That Ballinger will be whitewashed note the ivc found taken on
by a vote of 7 to 5, Is predicted, but the dIvorce que9tlon the Derao
the official announcement will not "atIc legislature of 1909. That ses
be made until after the November slon 80 amended the dlvoree law aa
election. Why wait so long? The to requlre a bona flde resldence of
people know he Is guilty and that the one year t"raediately prior to the
president wants to protect him ad- flling of the petlt,on- lf the dlvorce
mlnlatrntlnn frnm Tt r.n' ,S asked for 0n caS6 arising Out Of
be did, Mr. Taft. The American peo
ple have lost all faith In you.
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the state, either the petitioner or
the defendant shall have been a
oona nae resident for two years
As much as the Lincoln people PrIor to the flllnS ' tho petition. A
would like to see the state capital decree Qf divorce shall not become
moving question dlo out, it is like flnal unt11 the expiration of six
Banuqos ghost will not down. The months. This latter provision puts
people ln the central and western a 8tP to the habit of getting a dl-
sectlons of the state don't intend vorce one day and then hlklnS over
to let it. All they have to do is to to Counc Bl"a the next day and
keep everlasting pegging away. The marrving again, thus avoiding the
people all over the state .would not lnhlblt,on of six months. The actual
care If thfi rnnitnl wna mnv1 tn. divorce Is not in effect Until Six
morrow. months have elapsed since trial and
:0: decision. Service on parties living
Stung by the caustic comments in the state must be in person, and
made upon his efforts to hang to his If without the state and whereabouts
petty little slice of public funds, Lud- unknown after three months diligent
den prepared a long list of charges search may be had by publication
against ex-Superintendent Crabtree Nebraska, will not be known as a
of the Peru normal. When Mr. Crab- 8tate of easy divorce. The last legls
tree's answer was submitted It made Mature made divorce more difficult,
tho Ludden charges look as email and 11 put a stop to speedy re-mar-
as the Ludden grab of public funds.
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We regret to report that Colonel
Pell Barrows has discontinued his
sitting posture on the riattsmouth
News tripod. It is heavy enough
work for any man to successfully
run a dally paper in any town, but
Frank Hawksworth Talks of His
Recent Texas Trip.
Frank Hawksworth came down
this morning from Lincoln for a day's
visit with his parents in the city.
Mr. Hawksworth who runs between
Lincoln and McCook on the Burling
ton's fast trains, reports indications
around the latter city are for the
greatest small grain crop in many
years in that section. Wheat is look
ing fine and he considers it as much ;
superior to this section. General
conditions seem better throughout
that Bection for crops than here. Mr.
Hawksworth recently returned from
an extended trip through Texas and
he is very much Impressed with that
state. He visited at Ft. Worth, Dal
las, Temple, Cleburne, San Antonio,
Houston, Galveston, Laredo and
Brownsville, besides many intermedi
ate points. He found some won
derfully Impressive cities in that
country and their marvelous growth
was a complete surprise to him. He
found, the state to have a great
abundance of heavy crops this year;
wheat, cotton, corn and all the other
field crops being in evidence on every
(hand. Another tnlng which bur-
prised him was the extent of rail
way communication in that section.
He found all the large cities with
lines of railway radiating from them
ln every direction and Houston and
Ft. Worth had far more railroads
than most of the largo northern cit
ies. He looked over the land to
form an estimate of its worth as
compared with land throughout this
section and found it marvelousty
rich. The only drawback which he
heard while there was the inability
to tend the heavy, rich, black soil
of the central and southern parts of
the state during wet season1. Owing
to the depth of the soil it is diffi
cult to get into the fields when the
rains prevail and many advised
against the black land. However, he
noticed everything was being grown
there. Taken altogether he was very
much pleased with the country and
riage after divorce is granted. The
more one studies the record of the
legislature of 1909 the better that re
cord appears.
Mrs. Charles L. Martin is visiting
today in Omaha, having gone to that
city this morning.
contemplates another trip to that
section in the future.
B. B. Daniher, the well ' known
Murrayite, spent this morning in the
city attending to business, driving
up from his farm during the morning.
Herman Greodor,
Graduate Veterinary Surgeon
(Formerly with U. S. Department
Agriculture)
Licensed by Nebraska State
Board
Calls Answered Promptly
Telephone 378 White, riattsmouth.