The
. Plattsmouth - Journal
relished Seml-Weektj it
R. A. BATES,
Entered t the Postoffice. at riattsmouth, Nebraska, as aecond-clasg
matter.
J 1.5 0 PER YEAR IN AD VANCE
Hecf ami pork prices are i'3 per
rent lower, Hit- packers say. Hut
vhen the butcher from whm you
lAiy your meat say it inl, what's
the answer?
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No speaker of the house of rep
resentatives lias become president
f-lnce Mr. l'olk. Mr. Camion once
said: "The speaker in frequently
mention an a presidential posibil
j(y until he lias appointed his
committees."
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fiovernor Aldrieh, in a procla
mation, lias net apart May l i as
'Mothers' day" and ou lhal day
every man in I In; .state Is supposed
to wear a while flower in honor
of his mother.
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Platlsmouth will still reman on
the map, even if she does not have
as many inhabitants as we think
we ought to have. We have one
of the liveliest Commercial clubs
in the state that will look to that
matter.
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Congrcssman I.obeck of Omaha
made a speech the other night in
Haltimore and favored Champ
Clark for Ihe democratic nomina
tion for president. The mention
of the speaker's name for presi
dent brought forth considerable
applause.
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Mr. Tilden, Ihe Chicago packer,
has been released on a writ of
habeas corpus. The fourteenth
amendment, you viil remember,
fpecillcally provides that mil-
lmnaire packers need not testify
it bcodle investigations.
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The solicitude of Ihe lumber
trust and tr paper trust and
numerous other trusts lest Can
adian reciprocity may harm their
dearly beloved friend, Ihe western
farmer, is the most touching and
beautiful phase of contemporary
politics.
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. The Plattsmouth Commercial
Club was about as well represent
ed at the meeting of the stale
federation in Kearney last week
as any of the cities, and they all
proved equal to the occasion.
Plattsmouth has some very live
wires in the commercial vlnli, and
when they take a notion they can
do much for the interests of Ihe
town, and are doing it every day.
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. The poslolliee building is rapidly
Hearing completion, ami with
favorable weather it is not going
(o take long to complete it. The
Commercial club don't want to
lose sight ot the fad (hat we
should have a big celebration in
honor of its completion. We
fhould al least feel sufficiently1
$ratcful to have such a demon
stration and not let it go by de
fault, its we did Ihe laying of the
orncr stone.
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There is one consolation to our
pople and that is we have not
suffered in the loss of population
in the past ten vears any more
than many other towns in Ne
braska and Iowa. There are but
- few towns in eastern Nebraska
thai have not decreased in pop
ulation. Hut it won't lake ,g ,
regain this loss with the hustling
of tho live and up-to-date Com
mercial club that we boast of.
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Another good measure passed
by tho legislature tho last session
was ono compelling (he payment
of fees salary and mileage al
Ihe close of their labors to grand
and petit jurors. Heretofore it has
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been the custom to force a juror
to pay out his own money for
board and traveling expenses and
then wait the pleasure of the
county board to secure his money
fiuin the county treasury.
Former Secretary of the Treas
ury Leslie M. Shaw became con
siderably peeved the other night
at a banquet in New York. He
made some disparaging remark in
response to fJovernor Wilson of
New Jersey. When he mention
ed Wilson's name it aroused the
diners, who cheered the former
Princeton president to the echo
shouting: "Wilson will be our
next president." It it said that
Shaw was so mad that he! didn't
know which way to look for com
fort. :o:
The members of congress from
Nebraska need not have any kick
coming so far as committees are
concerned. On the whole, it is
doubtful if there is a stale in the
union which has fared so well in
the matter of committee assign
ments, all things considered. Mr.
Maguire js on agriculture and
also on claims and both of these
assignments will give him an op
portunity to look after the state
on important subjecls which an
always pressing for considera
tion. -::-
II the 1'mlerwood bill passes the
house ami senate both, the farm
ers will have no cause whatever
to complain. Hon. John A. Ma
guire has favored us with a copy
of this'hill, audit places on the
free list 'all kinds of farm imple
ments, cotton goods, boots am
shoes, leather, harness and sad
dlery, barbed wire and all other
wire, lumber of all grades, pro
visions of all kinds, salt, sewing
machines, and, in fact, everything
that the farmer or laborer uses. It
is just what will help the poor
people. Hut then, will the lords
of the, senate support such a
measure? There's the rub.
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Omaha seems to be at fever
heat over Ihe kidnapping of young
Smyth, son of C. J. Smyth, former
attorney general of Nebraska.
Some people are going so far as
to say that it was a put-up Job by
Ihe young man himself. The Sun
day World-Herald, in an editorial,
pours the Ind shot into Chief
Donahue and recites some of his
former actions in regard to cases
of Ibis character happening in
Omaha. Young Smlli bears an
excellent reputation - and his
father is one of Ihe most noted
lawyers in the state and most
highly esteemed for his honesty
and integrity.
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Kx-Senator Lafayette Young of
Iowa, ami editor of the Des Moines
Capital, in a recent address before
the students at the Missouri
School of Journalism at Colum
bia, said: "I confess to grave
doubts about news which I read.
I have doubled Ihe news from Ihe
Mexican border. Hright young
fellows are sent there to dig up
something, and they must 'dig
up.' The managers of newspapers
might to call a halt on their
sensational correspondents wher
ever located. A high wind should
not be called a cyclone. A stray
shot from the Mexican side of the
line ought not to be called a hat
tie."
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LORIMER AND "THE SYSTEM."
The center of interest in the
Lorinier case is shifting. The
punishment of Ihe senator hiin-
self is so sure, even though it may
be delayed, that, as the ugly
scandal unfolds itself, it would
soon cease to interest were tt not
that the public Is beginning to
look away from Lorinier in search
of "the man higher up. It is
"higher up" that the core of the
interest must be found.
Justiee can no lunger pe satis-
fied by the throwing of William 1
I.orirner out of the senate of thej
United States. Lorinier is only
the miserable puppet of the fertile
and adroit brains, the long and
mighty arms, that have been
working behind the scenes.. Lori
mer is a mere incident. The event,
the danger, the evil, is there back
of the screens.
How vicious and how mighty is
that unseen power is gradually
revealed in the evidence. It talks
of other senators than Lorinier
as its tools and puppets north
ern "reform" republicans as well
as southern democrats. It men
tions, in a very friendly and inti
mate way, even the names of the
greatest and most powerful offi
cials in the republic such names
as Tart and Aldrieh. It calls
"(iovcrnor" at Springfield over
the Ioiik distance telephone and
shouts its orders and instructions.
It collects the assessments it
needs for the furtherance of its
purposes in the form of. checks
for 1 0.000 each and doubtless,
if the occasion requires, for ten
times that amount, and yet again
ten times.
II is "The System" that has
shown itself at work in Illinois.
Hecause the afTair was an unusual
one, because the difficulties were
extraordinary, because the scheme
was bunglingly handled, it show
ed so much as to cause a scandal
and investigation. (ienerally,
however, it shows o very little as
to cause, at the most, only mur
murs of suspicion, and occasion
ally charges that have no proof to
back them. A noise was made,
and attention attracted in "put
ting Lorinier across. " Mostly il
is done so adroitly and smoothly
that only Ihe initiated suspect r
and even they canfmly suspect.
It is away from Lorinier, Ihe
puppet, and toward "The System,
master of puppets, that the publi
gaze is directed. II is the reason
that impelled "The System" to
spend its money to buy this seat
in Ihe senate which is more and
more interesting the people.
very simple reason. Lumber.
Just ? 1 00,000 for a vide lo keep
the tariff on lumber, that was all.
And plainly, if what the elusive
Mr. Hines is reported as saying
be (rue, not Ihe only $100,000 that
lias been spent to build a bulwark
for Lumber in the senate,
In this case Lumber. In an
other case Wool. In another
Steel. In another Rubber. In an
other Sugar. In another Oil. In
another llailroads. In another
Shipping. Possibly it is even true
that Lorinier did not know how
much was being paid for him.
Kven more possibly oilier men
have been raised to the seats of
power in the same way hut
smoothly, noiselessly, without
scandal or even suspicion all
unknowing how much they cost
Ihe interest Ihey were to serve.
And not caring, perhaps.
Hut now we are beginning to
see a little, to understand n little.
And attention is turning from
Lorinier to "The System;" from
"The System" to the senate and
the way it is to vole on this
question of a lumber tariff and on
the other questions of woolen
tariff, and cotton tariff, and steel
tariff and the rest. For long and
bitter years this "System" has had
its will of the senate. Of late
ears the task has grown a bit
difficult. The Lorinier rase and
Ihe revelations il is piling up be
fore the astonished eyes of the
country will make it very difficult
indeed hereafter. Lorinier him
self may be dropped from the
rolls of Ihe senate, but his ghost
will remain to plague his col
leagues, not only when they come
to vote on lumber, but on a good
many other matters as well.
World-Herald.
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Some snow here Monday morn
ing, but not two feet deep, like in
South Dakota.
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"Is the fruit all killed?" is the
query you will be confronted with
for u"' 110x1 wek-
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A new moon always brings a
change in the weather some say,
Wc hope it brings us some fine
spring weather.
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fiovernor Wilson is starting
out on a long tour of the south
west. It is very kind of him to
perform part of Mr. Taft's duties,
while not getting any part of his
salary.
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Although the board of health
gavo that garbage heap in Mr.
Lorimer's back yard a shining
coat of whitewash, the neighbors
are sniffing more suspiciously
than ever.
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The Dutch have hauled down
our flag on Palmas, but the im
pression prevails in this country
that the island did not pay Uncle
Sam for keeping the flag pol
painted.
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The country has a balance of
trade in its favor of about $ 400,-
000,000. Tint after we have paid
the bills of the European tourists,
the cashier will be sending us the
usual overdraw notice.
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The country proposes lo find
out who did this long list of dyna
mite jobs. They are the cowardly
acts of dirty sneaks who want to
kill people in the dark without
giving them a chance lo hit back
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New York is preparing to spent
$9,000,000 repairing and improv
ing the old slate capital in Albany
Allowing half of this for the
politicians, the states should be
able to restore Ihe capltol in
fairly creditable condition for
$1,500,000.
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We don't have lo say anything
in praise of the F.vening Journa
It speaks for itself, and our big
list of subscribers is sufficient for
us to know that the people of the
city and vicinity appreciate our
efforts in giving them the bes
paper ever printed in Plaits
mouth.
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Seventeen years ago, on the 4th
day of May, the w riter was a dele
gate to the democratic state con
vention, which was held in Kan
sas City, and candidly we believe
il was the hottest weather, not
only on that date, but for several
days after, that we ever ex
perienced. The season continued
warm and we had one of the big
gest fruit crops in the history of
the state.
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What about a Fourth of July
celebration? Are we going to
wait until every little (own in (he
county has made arrangements
and then jump in and have one?
No. no, don't do that. If we in
tend to celebrate let us so declare
right now and begin to boost for
it. Other towns in this section
will come here to celebrate in
preference to celebrating at home.
They always did. Then let us
get a move on us and talk (he
matter over.
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The democratic parly fought
extension and expansion from its
first inception. The republican
party was in power and forced
upon this country that policy.
Now the leaders of the republican
parly in congress are accusing
(he democrats of desiring ex
pansion and declare it a fearful
thing. Congressman Prico is
warning the world of Ihe complete
change in Ihe policies of the two
parties and is especially solic
itous about the annexation of
Canada. The performance of
some republican congressmen
would make the old clown Grim
aldi jealous.
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The significant thing about all
of the arguments brought for
ward in attacking the reciprocity
bill is that the protesting farm
ers are not able to see beyond the
end of their noses. They figure
correctly that the immediate re
sult of reciprocity will be to af
fect unfavorably the prices ot
some of the things they have to
sell. Therefore they are against
it. But the ultimate result of the
enactment of this bill into law
will be to cheapen the price of
everything the farmer has to buy.
It may be set down as a fact that
cannot be controverted that as
ong as the farmer remains a
member of the combination which
has maintained tariffs at exces
sive heights there won't be much
doing in tariff reduction, because
if he is not willing to give away
some of the protection given him
he cannot ask others to relin
quish anything they have. The
fact that the farmer has been
made the goat in all tariff re
visions in the past, that he has
been given a little sop while the
lists have taken the cream of
things, that so long as the price
of wheat he sells is made, like (tie
price of everything he buys, by
somebody ' else, ought to induce
him to be willing that a new dea
all around should be made
Certainly lie cannot rare worst
than he has in the past, and he
stands to fare a great deal better
than he can hope for in a com
bination where he furnishes the
votes and the other fellows ap
portion Ihe benefits. Lincoln
News.
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LAME DUCKS IN WASHINGTON.
During our last visit to Wash
ington we became acquainted with
some flue samples of a new breed
of poultry, called, in' the ver
nacular of the capital, "lame
ducks." Our readers, may have
noticed that after a man has been
kept in congress for a number of
years and has been repudiated by
his constituents, he is often fur
nished with a fine, comfortable
berth in the treasury department,
or some oilier department, or on
some commission, where he can
"live happily ever after." These
are the various coops where the
lame ducks are kept and careful
ly fed and watered.
It is interesting to note that
when these lame ducks were
active members of congress, they
were usually on the wrong side o?
questions in which the people had
a vital interest, and worked with
Ihe crowd that have usually con
trolled congress for Ihe benefit of
big business. In many cases the
right lo claim a place In a com
forlablee coop was earned by
serving the administration,
whether republican or demo
cratic. Senator Cummins of Iowa has
discovered that one of the choic
est coops in Ihe entire Washing
ton poultry yard is the National
Monetary commission, which was
created three years ago for the
ostensible purpose of reporting
on a monetary system for the
future, but really as a coop for
lame ducks, with an appropria
tion for their feed and water of
$7,500 a year. The poultry in (his
coop are said lo have cost the
government in the last three
years about $1,000,000; but under
the terms of the law its ex
penditures can easily be kept a
profound secret, for the reason
that there is no .appropriation,
but the vouchers for expenses are
paid when approved by (he chair
man. Of (he poultry in this coop
twelve arc lame ducks who have
been repudiated by (heir con
stituents. In other words, but
six of the members of this com
mission, two senators and four
representatives, are now serving
the people in congress. The six
members of congress draw no
salaries on the commission; but
the twelve lame ducks are paid
as above stated for staing in the
coop.
What Senator Cummins pro
poses is to take asvay this coop on
the fourth day of next December,
on the theory that three years is
ample time to furnish a report on
the currency question. This is
not (he only coop. There are
a lot of other commissions that
furnish a comfortable shelter for
the lame ducks, or the statesmen
that the people have dismissed
from their service. President
Roosevelt appointed two or three
other commissions, on the condi
tion that they would work for
nothing and board themselves.
They found out something about
the public property and its con
servation, about country life and
how it could be bettered, hut the
congress that so generously pro
vided coops and feed for political
lame ducks refused to even pub
lish Ihe results of their investiga
tions and discoveries. Wallace's
Farmer.
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Champ Clark has broken four
gavels in keeping the house in
order. That's what comes from
only hitting the desk instead of
the heads of offending members.
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The senators are quarreling
over committee places, but the
fact that they wrangle over pos
session of the buck saw is far
from indicating a disposition to
do things-to the wood pile.
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There is a heavy drop in the
Steel trust profits, but as Mr.
Carnegie got an article accepted
by the May Century, he can still
furnish a few more library hooks.
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Our society people are mort
gaging their houses to see King
Oeorge crowned, while in Eng
land they will want one way fare
rebated to take the bother of go
ing to "Lunnon."
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""The broom is one symbol to"t)e
carried in the New York suffragist
parade May 6. Mere man crouch
ing on the sidewalks will ask
timorously if this is displayed as
a weapon or as a household
implement.
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No more bootlegging and dives
in Lincoln. A. II. Armstrong was
elected mayor and the city went
"wet" by 900 majority. The
"cranks" and bootleggers can't
have everything their own way all
the time.
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Canada bought 750,000 dozen
eggs from the United States in
the fiscal year that ended March
31. In the same period it sold
Ihe United States 40,000 dozen.
Evidently free trade in eggs with
Canada as provided in the reci
procity treaty, is going to ruin the
American farmer! Kansas City
Star.
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give your stomach, liver and
bowels the help they will need.
Regulets bring easy, regular pas
sages of the bowels.
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