The-
Plattsmouth - Journal
Published Seml-Weeklj at Plattsmouth, Nebraska
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
$LS 0 PER YEAR IN AD VANCE
He is an active candidate who
runs ahead of the ticket.
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Political heroes, like political
eermons, are too often made to
order.
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Some men decline to practice
what they preach, because they
need the money.
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Thanksgiving comeH on apace
and the turkey crop short. What
are we lo do eat crow?
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William J. Hryan is also well
pleased with the election returns
throughout the country.
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Some people seem to think the
courts could jail J. I. Morgan, hut
it is much more likely that J. P.
could jail the courts.
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If Tuesday's election was a
"straw" it demonstrated that the
wind is blowing from tho north,
!ast, south and west.
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According lo reports from the
country over postal savings banks
are not proving as successful as
was expected in the start. ,
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If the Taft republicans can
glean any encouragement from
the election returns throughout
the nation, they are certainly
welcome to it.
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Kentucky returns to the demo
cratic fold with its 30,000 ma
jority, and James 11. Mcdrcary
is elected governor, carrying the
entire stale ticket aiul legislature
with him.
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Republican leaders in Mas
sachusetts had been warned from
the stump that Foss' election
would mean defeat for President
Taft. The light against Foss was
w holly made on the tariff issue.
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."International courtesy" is ex
pected to prevent any formal pro
test against the shocking brutality
of the Italians in Tripoli. It may
be suggested that international
courtesy is almost as much of a
nuisance as senatorial courtesy.
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Taft on his recent trip ro
The German people arc much
stirred up about the high cost of
living, but if they will only turn
to the speeches of any of our
pleted a few days previous. Ar
rangements have been made to
have a large number of good
roads and automobile represent-
candidates, they will learn how atives here on that date. There
that little
tended to.
difficulty can be at-
Wall street paid down its good
money for Mr. Taft on . rep-
will be a large number of leading
business men here from Omaha,
Nebraska City and other towns
along the line to Kansas City, and
prominent men of that city are
resentation that he would stand expected to be present. It prom-
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without hitching and was safe for j ises to be a big day for Platts
any lady to drive. But here he i mouth, and many strangers will
viewed the cowboys, battleships
and about every thing else that he
thought of. And now about the
only thing that is left for him to
review is the election returns,
which will no doubt serve to re
move that otherwise irremovable
emilo of his.
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Everything conies to the man
who waits. Kllis Wainwright, a
millionaire brewer of St. Louis,
who was indicted in 190i foi
lioodling, and has been a fugitive
in Trance most of the lime since,
was discharged yesterday. The
circuit attorney dismissed the
ense against him.
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With the election of Ian V.
Stephens in the Third Nebraska
congressional district, and Jos-1 while the
cph A. Taggart in the Second
Kansas' district, are indicative of
which way the political wind is!
Mowing. There is certainly no
encouragement for Taft and his
pang In the election returns.
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How much of the boasted
The world may be growing bet
ter, but not politics.
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Securo your tickets for the
minstrel show Wednesday night
before it is too late to get a seal.
There will be a big crowd present.
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Nothing has been heard from
the Lorimer investigation or the
Stephenson investigation for sev
eral days. What's the matter
wet grounds?
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Italy and Turkey seem likely to
fight for some time, but there are
no signs that the population will
bo so reduced that we can't get
our bananas sold.
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A Washington dispatch refers
to the wishes of the "southern re
publicans" meaning, of course,
the little handful of federal offlce
holdres in the south.
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Next Wednesday will be a big
day for Plattsmouth. Many
strangers will be here on that
date the opening of the Platte
river auto-wagon bridge.
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Joseph II. Choato says young
men should enter only the pro
fession that has a strong altrac
tion for them. Hut we need some
thing besides baseball players.
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J. P. Morgan says dissolving
Ihe trusts is like unscrambling a
scrambled egg. From the con
Lsiderable admixture of hog the
trusts look more to some like bam
omelette.
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The administration is certain
ly forcing the trusts into nominal
compliance with the law, but is
all of this upsetting process do
ing anything to reduce the cost of
living?
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The size of HO bill depends on
whether you are getting or losing
it. If you earned it doing
political work, loo, it looks ten
times as big as if you made it at
your regular job.
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lr. Wiley says that manu
facturing ought to be prohibited
in tho cities. There is no doubt
that tho practice of manufactur
ing interferes badly with tha
moving picture shows.
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George Fred Williams says
LINCOLN HALL
ISJEDICATED
President Tall Principal Spsak
er at Exercises in HodgenvIIIa.
ACCEPTS PARK FOR THE NATION
goes tearing down the street,
bead in air, and colliding with the
oil and steel and other wagons
that own the highway.
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Will these separated units of
the Tobacco trust really race
down tho track as the government
seems to think, or will they trot
along the course hand-in-hand
and divy up even on the prize
money?
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Vice President Sherman : re
garded the result of the election
in California two weeks ago as "a
slap at Mr. Taft." And how, it
may be asked, does he regard
Tuesday's demcratic landslide in
Cincinnati?
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Mr. Taft remarked the other
day for the 76,91 4th time that the
aw must be obeyed. And yet
about once in six weeks they en
gineer a rise on the stock market
ocause some people think ho was
only fooling.
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The trusts are justified for ex
tractions by tho very true remark
that everyone else would do just
the same if they had the chance.
Hut tho fact that all hogs put
their feet in the trough does nol
prove that that is good tabic
manners.
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Mary Garden says she's wedded
to the public and will not con
sider marriage before she is 45.
Better look out, Maryl When the
public gets tired of its favorites
it does not bother about the di
vorce court and never pays- ali
mony.
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James ft. Garfield, former sec
retary of the interior, was de
feated for member of the con
stitutional convention in Lake
county, Ohio. He is a progressive,
but refused to sign a pledge for
the initiative and referendum.
Thero are enough democrats and
progressive republicans elected to
the convention lo insure the in-
be here who were never here be
fore. :o:
NEBRASKA TO THE FRONT.
Nebraska has more things to be
proud of than any other state. She
ought to be making every one of Lincolu was born, an imposing granite
them known to all the world. Nc
State of Kentucky la Made Trustee of
the Fund Raised by Subscription for
Its Maintenance Throngs Witness
Ceremony.
Hodgenville, Ky., Nov. 10. Enshrin
ing the log cabin in which Abraham
braska is remiss in her duty to
herself when she fails to advertise
her resources and possibilities to
the remotest corners of the earth.
Nebraska has some mighty big
things, thank you.
She has the largest creamery
plant in the world.
Her largest city, Omaha, is the
greatest butter market in the
world.
She has the third largest pack
ing center in Ihe world.
She has the second
smelter in the world.
memorial to him wag dedicated here
and accepted for the nation by Presi
dent Taft.
The memorial stands in the center
of the farm on which Lincoln's par
ents settled after their long Journey
from Virginia.
Throngs from alt parts of the Unit
ed States witnessed the acceptance
of tho memorial and farm for the na
tion by President Taft. Former Gov
ernor Folk of Missouri, who is presi
dent of the Lincoln Farm association,
began laudation of Lincoln, and to
this was added tribute by President
Taft, Governor Willson, Senator Borah
and Major General Dlack.
Built by Subscription.
ATTACK I'NIFOIM LADING BILL
Jurisdictional Powers of Interstate
Commission in Question.
Omaha, Nov. 10. First step in a
battle for limitation of the jurisdic
tional po'ers of lne interstate com
merce commission was taken in the
county court when attorneys filed an
$87 50 suit against the Missouri Pa
cific railway, the decision of which
will involve the question of the com
mission's powers. The case will be
fought through to the United States
supreme court.
The suit Is filed for Shackelford &
Dickey, dealers In coal and Ice. They
ask judgment for $87.50 for loss of
50.000 pounds of ice. shipped from
Leavenworth, Kan, and consigned to
Omaha, on Oct. 6. this year. The Ice
was lost in a wreck. The plaintiffs
asked payment of $3.50 per ton. as
this was the Omaha market value at
the time the shipment was made The
company refused and offered to pay
$3 per ton. which was the Invoke
price at Leavenworth.
The great 'granite Building, corn-
largest pleted, provided out of contributions
of loyal Americans and endowed by
them, occupies the site of tho cabin
She is the third largest corn . j whlch Lincoln was born, near the
E, L, ROUSE HEADS
STATEJTEAGHERS
Dean of Peru Normal School is
Chosen President.
EDUCATORS WANT MORE PAY.
producer.
She is the third largest dairy
ing state, and promises to be the
largest inside of ten years.
Her annual egg output is worth
more than the gold output of any
state or territory.
Her annual butter, egg and
poultry output is worth more than
the gold and silver output of any
two states or territories.
center of the Lincoln farm, the shrine
of the wholo country
Cut Into one wall of the memorial
hall are these words:
"Here, over the log cabin where
Abraham Lincoln wu3 born, destined
to preserve the union and free the
slaves, a grateful people have dedi
cated this memorial to unity, peace
and brotherhood among these states."
I Within Is the rude cabin of logs,
' the same that the newly wedded Un
! coin and Nancy Hanks built when they
I took possession of the farm that now
becomes a national park.
Declare They Ar Victims of Confi
dence Game Should Get Larger'
' Salary to Provide for Idle Months.
Dean Rouse Does Not Wholly A3
Her annual output of corn and Robert J. Collier, chairman or me
1 , ,..i., rxf the T .1 nnriln
wheat is worth more than the na- , u0 nOPn
I HI III Ua't rlUII, 1103 niiuv" vvfw.
of crude'
lion's annual
petroleum.
output
that the m
1 ho Uan oror-tt.rl unit nnlrt for and
Her annual output of grains and thRt a fun(1 of some $50iooo has been
grasses is worth more than the , completed and Invested In safe secur
coal output of Pennsylvania. ! itles- th; lncome prvlde the neces-
nary niiiMiii'iinMiu num.
. Governor Willson has accepted tne
trust In the name of the common-
Omaha, Nov. 10. One hinu
teachers of education, members of tnc
Nebraska State Teachers' association,
assembled at the city hall and dis
cussed "Professional Teachers In Ne
braska," but were unable to agree as
to what a professional teacher Is.
President W. A. Clark of the Kear
ney normal opened a general discus
sion on the teaching profession, which
drew forth a volume of complaint
against the present rating of those In
the teaching business.
"I tell you what," said one of the
teachers, "it seems to me that school
boards are playing a confidence game
rrmnllv nnMfvtnc him
'Jl HIIUIMI rrl,.. 1,1..,. . a.hn.
Her annual corn output is
worth more than the nation's an
nual ouput of copper.'
If one year's product of her
farms were loaded in standard
valth. .providing , only that , formal
transfer await the artion of Ms suc
cessor, Governor McCreary, and the
next state legislature.
President Taft's Address.
mi nl,Lint In lila nrlrlfoea TIAtnri
train, the train would reach from fhe apJropriatenesfl of the memorial
St. Petersburg, Russia, lo a point and said:
in tho Pacific ocean nearly 1,000 "Few men have come Into public
prominence wno came aosoiuieiy irom
freight cars and the cars into one 1
miles duo west of San Francisco,
crossing the lialtie sea, the Eng
lish channel, England, Ireland, the
Atlantic ocean and tho United
Slates.
She has nearly a million acres
ilialive and referendum and re-jin alfalfa, and the acreage is in-
call in Ohio.
Hryan could bo nominated if he
would only say tho world. We
never knew Mr. Hryan to bo re
strained by inability to say as
many words as might be called
for.
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Tho advisability of trial en
gagements is discussed, but this
is probably the effort of some
young man to get a girl's com
pany without having to buy her
an engagement ring.
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civilizalion of the twentieth cen
tury is sham and hypocrisy? The
soldiers of the Matiohuu, China's
most enlightened class, are
butchering women and children
by the wholesale, while the
soldiers of Italy, a Christian na
tion of Europe, or doing the
some thing im Tripoli.
Why is it that the boot and
shoe industry, which has always
had a low tariff, pays high wages,
wool and cotton in
dustries, which always had a
high tariff, pay low wages?
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The bright business man never
attempts to corcurnvent dull
limes by sending his advertise
ments out of town and then kick
because his customers send out
of town for what they want.
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In Philadelphia the election of
Rudolph Mankenburg, the demo
cratic-key8tono candidate for
mayor, over a candidate support
ed by Senator Penrose and the re
publican machine, is a tremen
dons overturning.
Ilut Nebraska is not going to
settle up her vacant and fertile
18,000,000 acres by silling idle
and allowing other and more pro
gressive, though less favored,
states lo draw lo themselves the
sturdy homeseekers who aro look
ing westward, land hungry and
eager to become producers.
Lured by judicious advertising,
Iheso homeseekers are passing
through Nebraska, utterly ignor
ant of all that Nehraska has to
offer them. And they will always
remain in ignorance about Ne
braska until Nebraska begins to
advertise. Will Maupin's Weekly
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Speaker Champ Clark is well
pleased with the election returns.
Well, why shouldn't ho be? With
the re-election of Governor Foss
in Massachusetts, upon whom the
protectionists centered all their
work; tho election of a demo
cratic governor in New Mexico,
and all the largo cities in Ohio,
Taft's own state, electing demo
cratic mayors, and Nebraska giv
ing a republican majority that
ran bo easily overcome next year,
the signs are all right for a
democratic landslide next year, if
the right man is nominated for
president.
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Wednesday, November! 15, is
tho dale upon which the Platte
river wagon bridge will be proper
ly opened to public travel, al
though the structure will be com-
thp soil as did Abraham Lincoln. It Is
difficult to Imagine the lack of ac
commodation, comfort and necessities
of life that there were In the cabin In
which he was horn. With an illiterate
and shiftless father, and a mother who,
though of education and force, died be
fore he reached youth, his future was
dark Indeed. In the stepmother that
his father found for him, however, he
had a woman of strength and charac
ter and of education enough to assist
him."
I Lincoln's lack of advantages for
study and tho persistency with which
he kept up his reading were touched
creasing at the rale of 10 per
cent a year.
She has more than $8,000,000
worth of interest-bearing se
curities in her permanent school
fund, and school property, includ- upon and the president continued, say-
for nine months and say they are pay-
I ing her $fi() per month. The fact Is,
! they are only paying $45 a month, for
the teacher must live through three
other lean months."
"The Spirit of the Profession" was
discussed and Dean E. I Rouse de
glared that the teacher who thought
tort much of the money side, or was
unwilling to remain In the teaching
profession because the pay was small,
was not In reality a professional.
Professor W. T. Stockdale, talking
on "His Growth In the Profession," de
clared that teaching has made prog
ress as a profession.
"The teacher," he said, "should
make such progress that she would at
all times teach for a purpose, and that
she should know what that purpose Is.
Thero should be some advancement In
position, tenure and salary, because
the talent required deserves It."
The Nebraska State Teachers' asso
ciation elected the following officers:
President, Professor E. L. Rouse of
1 Peru; vice president, Superintendent
H. E. Bradford of Kearney; treasurer,
J. A. Woodard of IJavelock: member
reading circle board, n. E. Dili of Wilier.
ing school lands, worth $10,000,
000. She has 19,000,000 acres, three
fourlhs of it fertilo and less than
two-fifths of it under cultivation.
She has a climate unsurpassed,
a soil more fertile than that of tho
valley of the Nile.
She offers more opportunities
to tho honest and industrious
homo-niaker than any other state
or territory and she isn't doing
a blessed thing to make the fact
known. Will Maupin's Weekly.
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Farmers, Notice I
To the farmer man or lady
who brings us tho largest num
ber of eggs between November 9
and December 9 we will give a
sack of Plainsifter Flour. When
you bring us your eggs don't for
get that wo pay the highest mar
ket price for same.
Halt & Son.
NEW STATION AGENT.
F. I). Moore, a terminate of ROYLES
BUSINKSS COLLKUK. Omaha, Nehr.,
theofflriul t'nlnnParilic and Illinois Cen
tral R. R. Telegraph School, has been
appointed Station rint at $1,100.00 per
year on tho Union Pacific Railroad. All
graduates of thisOtllcial Scnnolare gur
ntcsd positions. Thirteen Bo v I is College
graduates are in one Omaha bank. Super
ior conrK in Bookkeeping, Typewriting,
Shorthand. Salesmanship and Civil Ser
vies Branches. New classes open Decem
ber 4th. Address "Dept. R" for free
catalog-. Boyle Business College, 1701-1.1
llarnoy St., Omaha, Nehr.
Ing In part:
"The almost squalor in which he
passed his early life made him familiar
with the sufferings, thoughts and
sympathy of the plain people and
when he came to great power his un
derstanding of their reasoning and of
their views gave him an advantage
In Interpctlng their attitude which
cannot be overstated.
"H's evident sympathy for the col
ored race, his roused sense of Justice
to secure them freedom and equality
of opportunity had their Inspiration
in the sufferings and limitations of his
own early life
"He was not slow, but he was cau
tious, deliberate, attentive as befitted
one who Insisted on establishing every
nrnnositlon that he adhered to by orig
inal reasoning from fundamental postu
lates. The lucidity and clearness of
his thought manifested itself In the
simplicity, directness and clearness of
his style. H? had Imagination and
loved poetry. He had the rhythm of
language, and thought purely, self ed
ucated these circumstances, developed
1 power of literary expression that the
world, and especially the literary
world, has come fully to recognize and
enjoy.
"He was a lawyer and a good one.
He studied hla cases hard and he pre
pared his arguments with the force
and clearness that might have been
expected from one of his mental make
up. His mind was luminous with
truth. His conscience was governed
by devotion to right and the tender
ness of his hr.-nrt was only restrained
by his Intellect and his conscience."
Blizzard In Dakotas.
Pierre, S D.. Nov. 10 The first se
vere storm of the winter, with freer
Ing temperature and driving snow,,
prevailed here. Dispatches from Ab-
MORE HOGS THAN ALL WEST
Census Bulletin Shows Nebraska Is
Immense Pork Raising Place.
Lincoln, Nov. 10. According to a
census bulletin there are more hogs
In the state of Nebraska than In all
of the states west of here, with Mary
land thrown In for good measure. The
number Is only exceeded by Iowa
with 7.S27.153. Missouri with 4,429,
429 and Illinois and Indiana with al
most the same number. In other
words, thero are Just 3.434.938 head
of swine in this state. Iowa has the
largest total value of swine on farms,
amounting to $70,000,000. Illinois
ranks second with $36,000,000. Ne
hraska Is fourth In the list with $29,
000.000. On the face of the returns there was
a decrease In the number of swine re
ported, being about 7-7 per cent on a
total of r.8,000,fi32.
The law of supply and demand Is
working overtime In the hog business,
in spite of the significant decrease
shown In the number of swine, there
was a mrterhl Increase In the value
of nil swine, amounting to $160,025,000,
or 71 6 per cent, the present value be
lne $398,000,000. As a necessary re
sult the avera-e value of swine In
creased, the ftnnge being from $3.69
to $! Ffi, which Is $3.17. or 85.9 per
cent.
Funeral of Frank D. Resd.
Hastings. Neb., Nov. 10. Following
funeral services at Shelton, the body
of Frank D Reed, editor of the Shel
ton Clipper, was brought here for
burial In au automobile hearse, accom
panled by foityflve Shelton persons,
riding In fifteen automobiles The
cars made the forty mile trip without
mishap.
Diss of Wounds GWsn by Husband.
Atlantic, la., Nov. 10-Mrs. J. H.
ChrlBtoffevson, shot four times by her
rdeen and other South Dakota towns husband. U dead. Her husband bI-
say that after a day of drizzling rain : ready has been sent to tbt asylum for
driving snowstorm et In. lnsan at Clarlnda.
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