The- Plattsmouth - Journal
f - Mllsiied Seml-Weeklf it Plittsaootk, Nebraska C 3
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Foetoffice at Plattamouth, Nebraska, as aecond-claaa
matter.
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PARCELS POST.
"I am not ready, if I uu
derstand the subject cor- 4
rcctly, to place the country f
hierchants of Nebraska and
the nation at the mercy of 4
the groat mail order house .J
of the large cities who 80 $
earnestly desire a parcels H
J post. I remember full well
J the commencement of the
J mail order trade of Mont-
gomery Ward A Co., and
J others. I have never heard
J of that, class o(. business
bearing a penny of local J
j taxation, the upbuilding of
J local communities in Iowa J
J or Nebraska, of local J
schools, churches or any-
thing that goes to make the 4
J local communities vigorous
4 or towns a desirable place to
) live in or raise a family." $
J Congressman Loheek. 4
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What about, peroral ion Day?
It is only a few days off onr
week from next Tuesday.
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Uesides the questions of law
involved, the supreme court may
have shared the general reli.nlion
that Standard Oil, if allowed to
proceed unchecked, would even
tually own everything there is lo
own.
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Some of the Nebraska paper
when they can llnd nothing else to
write about pounce upon the
brewers of Omaha. The brewers
care less for what these hide
bound papers say than they do of
the winds that blow.
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Some of the New York organs
of the combination are fearful
least Wood row Wilson becomes
the democrat ic nominee for presi
dent. The more Wall street and
flu gang oppose the New Jersey
governor tho more popular he he
roines in the west.
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The Burlington will expend
$?5,000 in further improving their
Plattsmnul h shops. The Durling
ton folks have beep awful kind lo
our people and our people should
be for the Burlington llrsl, last
and all the lime. Our people owe
a great deal to Superintendent
Daird for the interest be has
taken in their behalf.
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Doubtless this Standard Oil rul
ing will lake rank as one of the
"epoch makers," or, rnlher,
"markers." Hut it is as certainly
iot in itself a Duality. It is only
an aid a very important aid lo
the adjustment of the relations of
bic business to the public welfare,
It will help also to brighten "'he
iwilight .one" between stale nntl
federal Jurisdictions for the con
trol of trusts, and it may lead to
legislation thing some more do
Unite line between legislative and
judicial function in the govern
ment. :os-
The New York bankers who are
traveling over and investigating
the west would learn much of
value If I hoy spent some of their
time vlslling the actual farmers
instead of devoting it all to boards
of trade and bankers. Tho in
crease In tho riches of the west is
largely owing to alfalfa, but there
is no report of any hanker bring
ing that fact lo the notice of the
eastern men. Thoy would learn
also of tho demand for labor on
the farm and might lake some in
terest in getting a few thousand
of able bodied men who have to b
assisted every winter In the east
ern cities, out whore they would
become wealth creators and self
supporting citizens. There are a
good many other things that the
farmers could tell them that they
will never hear around banquet
boards in the cities. The wealth
of this nation is in its soil, and
those who want the basic facts
should go to the tillers of the soil.
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It appears to the writer that
the spirit which prompted Dec
oration Day is gradually dying,
from some cause or other. Is it
because the old veterans are be
coming too old to take matters
and push them as of old, or is it
hat the younger people, who now
enjoy life and liberty under the
protecting wings of that maarnill
cienl old emblem, the Stars and
Slripes, have forgotten that they
owe the preservation of the Union
to those, many of whom have
passed to the Great Beyond, and
many are following them every
day? We trust Decoration Da
will never be forgotten, not even
when the last old veteran Jihs
been placed in tho silent tomb. It
is a noble tribute to those who are
gone, to remember their valiant
services to their country and their
people by scattering flowers over
the graves. The rising genera
tion should all be taught to re
member this day, so that they may
take up the work when others are
too old to do it longer. Decora
tion Day should not be forgotten
as long as the Stars and Stripes
float over this land.
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REPRESENTATIVE GOVERN
; ME NT.
"Are the people of Ohio si ill in
doubt about the initiative urn
referendum?" asks Louis F. Pos
in the Public. "Are they still wil
ling to give weight to the objec
tions of lobbyists who live by In
fluencing legislators and to the
interests that lobbyists serve?
Hasn't the grand jury at Colum
bus made them realize that rep
resentative government without
the initiative and referendum
doe not represent the people?"
Undoubtedly the Ohio legts
Iegilalio scandal, and like other
scandals in other slates reflecting
on legislative fidelity, is a "power
ful persuader" to induce I he peo
ple to put the initiative and ref
erendum "gun behind the door."
It shows how low representative
government sometimes sinks, how
misrepreseiilalive it may become.
But it is, nevertheless, the cx-
'Ireme of absurdity to assert, as
does the esteemed Public, that,
without the initiative and ref
ernduni "representative govern
ment doe not represent the peo
ple." Direct legislation ought to
serve to holster up represent
ative government. It ought to
make the rule of the people more
certain, and we believe it will.
Hut that is not to say that there
can be no such thing as rep
resentative government without
the initiative and referendum.
Representative government is
not a failure. It is the mightiest
success the world has seen and it
has done more for the world than
has any other political agency. It
has its flaws and weaknesses and
failures, of course. So have the
Christian religion and trial by
jury and the writ of habeas corpus
and the works of William Shakes
peare and Michael Angelo. Hut
representative government is still
I he best form of government t hat
the wisdom of man has devised
and its beneficences, in Europe, as
in America, are contributing won
derfully, every year, to the lifting
of the world to a higher plane.
The experiences of many of the
American states in the past few
i, ears have proved how truly rep
resentative can be representative
government with or without the
initiative and referendum. Look
at what has been done in Wiscon
sin, in Nebraska, in Texas, in
New Jersey, in Oregon, in Okla
homa. Oregon, with the in
itiative and referendum, giving
the people a direct say, has done
no more in the way of salutary
and equitable legislation than Ne
braska has done without it. In
any state where the people have a
will they can have their way, and
in those states where government
is bad the fault is that the people
have not willed to exercise their
power or have not known what
they wanted or have not cared
what they got. 1
The World-Herald believes in
the initiative and referendum,
just as it believes in safety
couplers and the telephone; it is
a convenience to the people, a
serviceable instrument, a short
cut to safety. But civilization
would not be a failure without any
or all of them. It is showing
scant respect for the builders of
our country and its institutions
to say now that all they dreamed
and planned and accomplished
would become an entire and hope
less failure were it not for the in
itiative and referendum. World-
Herald.
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NEBRASKA CROP PRODUCTION
It is only when we measure and
sum up what this state Is doing In
crop production through an un
broken series of productive years
that we gel an adequate concep
tion of the wealth creating
strength of Nebraska. Corn
wheal and oals are the gn at grain
crops of the stale, but I hey are so
closely followed by alfalfa grow
ing, slock raising and feeding that
in the production of wealth they
are by no means an overwhelm
ing part. Here is the record of
production of corn, wheal and
oal s,. for Ihejast ten years j'k. Ne
braska.' Not a short year m?the
ten, but a general average for the
ten years has given this stale the
records in average production of
these crops per acre in the United
States:
Nebraska Corn Crop by Years.
Bushels.
1 Ot,1 4 1.810
252,520,173
172.389.532
1904 200. f 12,3.35
190f
....203,551,772
2i3,782,500
HO? 179,328,483
IM" 205,7(57.000
l!W Iffl.5n5.000
1910 207,9 48,000
Wheat Crop by Years.
''"I 52. 000,885
1902 , 52.720.451
tfl"3 42.147,500
19i 31.453,0 43
1905 18,022,003
1900 52,288.092
1907 4!!8f8,nnn
1908 4 4.28 4,800
1909 45,590.800
1910
Oat Crop by Years.
1901 39.005,220
1902
1903
190 4
1905
1900
1907
1908
1909
1910
62,121,601
59,420,058
59,000,000
78,552,878
78,4(51,888
53,022,202
50,078,528
61,825,000
80,052,986
Grasp the fact from the above
record that this state has in the
last ten years produced over 2,
000,000,000 bushels of corn. It
would take a continuous train
from Nebraska to Liverpool ' lo
handlo tho tea years' crop at one
time. Take I ho averago price of
corn for tho ten years and figure
the volume of money tho ten
years' crop would bring if mar
keted at one time. It in when we
consolidate the principal produc
tions of this state In a series of
years that we begin to realize the
wealth that comes from the
ground in Nebraska. Why should
we not stand up for our home
state and work together for its
advancement in all lines of busi
ness and productive expansion?
Lincoln Trade Review.
According to rumors, Platts
mouth may yet have a celebra
tion. :o:
Mr-. TaTt is down sick now, like
many other women, with house
cleaning only half done.
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Lady Decies being unable to
deny herself any luxury, has been
operated on for appendicitis.
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The primaries are not very far
distant, and still there does not
seem to be very much stir among
candidates.
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The primary election will come
off in August this year, but under
the new law it will be held in
April next year.
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Five hundred thousand dollars
in silver went to the bottom in the
Merida, and now the mermaids
can have their new spring hats.
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It is not true that the secretary
of war resigned because the
militia officers were always in the
foreground when the pictures
were taken.
Henry Van Dyke has resumed
teaching of literature at Prince
Ion, ami we hope he gives due at
tention to the classic style of the
baseball reporters.
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The Woman's Whist league is
meeting at Baltimore, and the
combatants could better afford to
break all the ten commandments
than trump a partner's trick.
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The Mexican mess will seem
like smoking the pipe of peace
lo Henry Sliinson, after his ex
perience with the war paint and
tomahawks of Tammany politics
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The informer Abbetemaggio
w as called a hyena in I he Camor
ra trial. In our country the wit
nesses feel like hyenas after the
lawyers get through with them.
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Wireless telegraph was a fac
tor in rescuing 300 people on the
steamer Merida, but lots of pas
senger vessels are roaming the
coast with no means of asking
help buM browing a bottle over
with a message inside.
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The parcels post may be al
right, but we fail lo see it that
way, and we candidly believe it
will prove an injury to western
retail merchants.
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The Reno divorce lawyers want
all papers in divorce cases made
secret. The marriage service
should be changed from "until
death do us part," so as to read,
"until the newspapers can be
bushed up'
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The Mexican rebels are to have
three cabinet ofllcers and a ma
jority of the governorships. Can
it bo that "patronage" was what
these patriots were warring for?
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The politicians arc kicking over
the $29,000 for a children's
bureau to protect 30,000,000 chil
dren in this country. Meanwhile
they spend four times that
amount for a public building to
mako some one-horse town vole
tho right ticket.
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Some ofllceholders should be
learned to know when they have
had enough. But in Cass county
it would seem that some do not
take readily lo that kind of learn
ing. But the people are liable to
leach them a lesson of knowing
when to quit.
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Stimson's appointment as war
secretary is criticised on the
ground that he doesn't know any
thing about war. In view of his
inexperience, we suggest that if
he will put the army in that town
in Indiana that is right in the
center of the United State, tho
enemy would not bo able lo get it.
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In defining the Missouri Pacific
railroad branches in Nebraska
President Bush says: "Once let
a dog get a bad reputation and
nearly everyone is ready to give it
a kick." The fault was with the
Gould management in letting the
road go to the dogs in the first
place.
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The plight of the republicans
who find themselves unable to
elect a president pro tern of the
senate, although they have ten
majority in that body, is due to
the anxiety of the standpatters to
humiliate the progressives. Sen
ator Gallinger was selected by
the regulars in their caucus be
cause he was, for good and suf
ficient reasons, the most offensive
member of the senate to the pro
gressive group.
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OUR CANADIAN TRADE.
Representative Shackleford of
Missouri has prepared a table
showing the business done be
tween the United States and
Canada in the five years ending
with June 30, last. It is sum
marized as follows:
Horses
We sold in Canada. .$14,172,475
Canada sold to us 2,519,211
Difference in our
favor $11,022,874
Cattle
We sold in Canada.. $ 1,578.179
Canada sold to us 1,193,796
Difference in our
favor $ 38 4,383
Meat and Dairy Products
We sold in Canada. .$17,011,017
Canada sold to us. . . . 90 4,191
Difference in our
favor $16,100,826
Breadstuffs
We sold in Canada. .$31.59(5,556
Canada sold to us 6.679,884
Difference in our
favor $24,910,672
Difference in our .
favor on above,
items $53,030,755
Total trade in five years
We sold in Canada. .$880,417,276
Canada sold lo us. . . 393,913,073
Total different in our, .
" favor...' $492,503,703
The query naturally arises, why
does Canada buy so much from us
if products on the northern side
of the line are so much cheaper
than ours as to constitute a
menace to our producers? The
figures, il must be conceded, give
point to the president's declara
tion that reciprocity will prove
a benefit to the United States in
all directions.
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NEBRASKA RICHES.
A fanner from the north of the
Platte writes that he has 125
acres of corn planted, some of it
ts up and every grain as far as he
can find of the rest is sprouted,
the fall wheat in his neighborhood
never promised so good a crop at
this time of the year and that
oafs, barley and alfalfa are all in
a flourishing condition. There
has been no cholera among the
hogs and his wife is selling more
eggs than she ever sold before.
Reports from other portions of
tho state are of like character.
What this means to every citi
zen of Nebraska, if the prospect
holds good until harvest J time,
few comprehend. Let them com
pare tho time when crops failed
in the state, when grass was
growing between the cobble stones
on lower Farnam street, when
merchants were going into bank
ruptcy, when thousands of men
wero wandering over the country
hunting for work, when many
houses and stores wero vacant in
every city and town, when the
farmer bought little or nothing,
when the railroads had little
freight and few passengers, when
the clearances in tho banks were
so small that they were not worth
reporting, when tho streets and
parks were run down and neglect
ed, when school teachers were
hawking their warrants around to
get money to pay their board bills,
with these day after a few years
of good crops. Now the farmer
rides in an automobile, his house
has modern improvements, his
cribs are full, his cattle and hogs
graze over the fields, the city
dweller plans a trip to Europe,
the stores are crowded with
customers, the clearances in the
banks run up into the millions,
the streets are swept,"the boule
vards extended and the parks are
beautiful.
That is the difference between
years of good crops and years of
failure. The foundation of all
prosperity is the success of the
farmer and he has brighter pros
pects than he ever before had at
this time of the year. World
Herald. .
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" MIXED PICKLES. j
According to a newspaper poll
of the senate the reciprocity bill
will pass by a vote of 48 to 42.
All the democrats but three are
counted for the bill, the three be- '
ing Bailey, Simmons and Foster.
And all the republicans but eleven
are against the bill, the eleven
who are for it being Brown, Bur
ton, Crane, Cullom, Kenyon,
Lodge, Lorimer, Penrose, Poin
dexter, Root and Works.
This is as hopeless a mixup as
has been seen in congress for
many a day. It is a republican
measure that is at stake, an
agreement negotiated by a repub
lican administration; and il is the
darling of the heart of a repub
lican president. Yet 39 repub
licans are against it, while only
11 are for it! : And 37 democrats
are for it, while only 3 are against
it and those three southern
democrats who lean to the Aid-rich-Payne
theory of the tariff!
Reciprocity js republican doc
trine. II has been written re
peatedly into republican plat
forms. It was fathered by James ,"
G. Blaine. It was lauded by Wil
liam McKinley. It is indorsed, in
its present form, by Theodore
Roosevelt. It is being pushed by ,
President Taft. Yet there are
three republicans against it in the
senate where one is for it
Insurgents have denounced, in
the senate and out of the senate,
democrats like Bailey and Foster
and Simmons, because, they de
manded tariff reform in general,
but opposed it in particular when
ever it touched on products In
which their own states were par
ticularly interested. And now
these same insurgents, men like
La Follette and Cummins and
Brislow and Clapp, strike hands
with Bailey and Simmons and "
Foster to oppose reciprocity, and
for the identical reasons that they
denounced when Bailey p:id Sim-
mons and Foster advanced them!
Consistency and fidelity to fixed
principles remains alone with the
great body of the senate demo- -crats,
who support I he reciprocity
agreement because it's a step for
ward in tariff reform, and who
support the free list bill and favor
a radical reduction in the woolen
and cotton schedules because
these, too, would be steps for
ward. The regular republicans,
like Penrose and Crane and Roof,,
who favor reciprocity, are entitled
to no credit, for they would stop
there, crying "hands off" when
ever an attempt is made lo reduce
the tariff on manufacturers. TheJr
action, like that of the insurgents,
is dictated by motives that are
purely selfish and local. It is the
democrats alone who stand, as a
body, for tariff reform on the pro
ducts of the east the same as of
the north. Their position is
founded on principle and convic
tions. World -Herald.
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A Suit on at Murray, Neb.
Stop in and see my new line of
samples for spring and summer
tailor-made suits. I can please
yon both in price and material
and show you the latest, styles for
the season. Satisfaction guar
anteed. M. G. Churchill.
For Sale.
One Davis fi-inch bore by 10
inch stroke gasoline engine. Ha
only been used a short lime. In
quire at this o(Hce for further
particulars. A good bargain.
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