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PLATTSnOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1914.
Oe plattsmoutb journal
Published Semi-Weekly at Platttmouth. N b r.
Entered at the Postoffice t PUttsmoath, Nebrtok, as second-elms mall matter.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
s "In be. kmc back over our
I Iive at moments that
have been worth while, how
iti.'inv nf fhem diil nionev
buy Selected.
There is one month of good
hard wrk for the candidate that
expect to be nominated.
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Hem'inbT the deniocratc pri
maries will be held in the various
ward on Thursday evening' at 8
o'clock.
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W hen a man comes out for the
democratic nomination for oliice
he should possess some record as
a democrat.
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Llmwood is preparing to yive
fin- democrats a cordial greeting
n't Saturday. She's the town
that ran do it up-brown.
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Harry McDonald of Murdock- is
a democratic candidate- for rep
resentative. Harry possesses the
pialilies lo iill the bill in good
hape.
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Thre are some fears enfer
faineil of a general strike on all
western railroads, but nothing in
that direction has yet materializ
ed. :o:
- J'.-P. Shields of Orleans will
oppose C. V. Pool for the demo
cratic nomination f,,,. secretary of
.slate. ,o use in one man run
ning all the time.
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Cass county is entitled to
twenty delegates to the .slate
coiieriljoii at Columbus next
Tuesday, July JH, and every man
selected should attend.
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The man who invented smoke
ej powder died last Friday, but
riot before he had seen his first
crude product develop into all
sort of tints for brunettes and
bloridc.
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Hed clothing- makes over-cx-
ile, neres, causing sunstroke.
JUtje destroys germs; green is the
codes arid most restful, while
.some chickens wear scarcely any
clothes at all.
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If Hoe is expected to sweep
the .stale at the primary, what
does Koss Hammond and Senator
Kemp expect? Our opinion is
that Howell will have to go sonic
to beat either one of them.
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.No one .should be elected as a
deb-gale to the Columbus stale
convention who will not first
pledge himself to attend in per
son. State Chairman V. H.
Thompson requests that this be
required.
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The tilings for state, congres
sional and county candidates are
now complete and the voters will
now- hae ample opportunity to
reflect between now and August
18. what a miserable farce the
primary election is, for .some.
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If either faction attempts to
cut any "monkeyshiiies" at the
Columbus convention, it, will
prove a sorry day for the democ
racy of Nebraska. We would re
gret to bear of either faction
raising a disturbance, and the
man who attempts anything of
the kind should be sat down upon
pretty hard.
AGRICULTURAL WEALTH.
The secretary of agriculture
estimates the total value of the
farm products of the United
States for the census year 1910
at 8,92G,000,000. The govern
ment crop reports for July, 1914,
indicate that on the same basis
the total value of the farm prod
ucts of the country for the cur
rent year will be $10,000,000,000
A dollar needs no measure, but
billions are belter grasped by
comparison. i he editor of the
.Vevv York World has made a com
parison of a 10,000,000,000 esti
mate that is interesting, and
probably is as accurate as can be
made with the data at hand. The
vast sum of $10,000,000,000, the
World says, would buy all the
real estate in New York and Chi
cago, with something to spare. It
would pay the huge and fast-
mounting national debts of war
obsessed France and Germany.
It would clear oil our own na
tional debt nearly ten limes over;
or pay its interest charges nearly
135 times. If next year's farm
products wer.e to fall off a trifle
of $ 400,000,000, the 1914 and
1915 product combined would
still buy every railroad in the
country at the i 9 1 "1 capitalized
valuation. Our iron yield is in
comparably the greatest of the
nations; the industries it feeds
are called basic. Yet our iron
product is only about one-lvventy-third
part that of the farms. That
product is fourteen times the
alue of our annual output of
coal at the mines. It is seventy
limes the value of a ear's yield
of petroleum, parent of some of
the world's most gigantic for
tunes. For some thousands of
years gold and silver have been
words to suggest wealth untold.
Our farm product in this year of
abundance will be seventy-live
times the latest reported annual
production of gold and silver
combined. It is greater than the
entire world's stock of coined
gold and silver in existence today,
the hoarded and almost in
destructible product of many
centuries. It is more than two
thirds of all the gold dug, coined
and consumed in the arts in all
the world since Columbus dis
coercd Amer ica. Some elements
of uncertainly enter into this
vast aggregate of farm-produced
wealth. Duplications complicate
it lo an unknown extent. The
yield of corn and cotton is not
yet secure. The slightest varia
tion of price of which markets
can lake cognizance raises or
lowers by millions Hie value of
Ihe year's bounty; and a great
part of it never directly comes lo
a money market at all. Hut one
phase of the situation which pro
foundly affects the future of the
nation and the course of its com
merce is part uncertainty. The
winter wheat crop is secure; the
spring wheat yield is fairly in
sight, and between them they
break the world record of this
country and every other, and lly
in the face of some gloomy fore
bodings concerning the continued
life of man upon his planet.
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Sam Hinkle, of Havelock, and a
former Plattsmouth boy, has tiled
for register of deeds of Lancaster
county on the democratic ticket.
Hope you'll get there, Sam.
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If Argentine, lirazil and Chile
should be able to form a South
American league, offensive and
defensive, their smaller neighbors
on the continent would view it
with suspicion.
But Iluerta won somewhat of a
reputation as a hanger-on.
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If the memhers of congress are
one-half as tired as the people
they would adjourn.
"O
iluerta will now seek some
foreign shore and calmly await
for the vindication of time.
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There is no scarcity of candi
dates this year. Prtmary elec
tions furnishes a "free-for-all,"
you know.
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We are now paying congress
men 50 per cent more than we did
a few years ago, but it has not
raised the tone of either house.
The chief increase has been in the
percentage of rabbits.
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Tommy Allen, the midget
rother-in-lavv of Oiant Bryan,
was in the city Tuesday. Did he
call on the Journal, as in days of
old? Oh, no! He and his gang
can't run the Journal. That's
what's the matter.
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Willis C. Reed is a candidate
for attorney general on the demo
cratic ticket. He will be nomin
ated, and if elected will be the
ablest occupant of that office that
the state has had in a great many
years.
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Thomas D. Jones, whom Presi-
Jent Wilson wants as a member
f the federal serve board, it
would seem becomes more and
more unpalatable, and it is not al
all probable that he will be con
firmed by the senate. Arid we can
not see why President Wilson so
ersislenlly demands his con
firmation. Kven the Springfield
(..Mass.) liepubtican, which lias
tood by President Wilson in all
lis acts so far, now opposes the
continuation of Jones. The Re
publican is one of the most in
fluential papers in the east.
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The recent decision of the su
preme court in the Douglas
county case makes it possible'
that sheriffs can claim all fees,
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GOVERNOR iOHU II. YIOREHEAD
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Primaries, August IS, 1914
Stands Squarely Upon His Record
s well as his salary. While Ibis
does not appear just right, how
ire you going to help it? The
case was brought by the sheriff of
uglas county t secure com
pensation for feeding prisoners,
uid the law in reference to this
matter was declared unconstitu
tional. This decision, it is said,
wipes out Hie requirement, mai
heriffs must account for fees.
while in no way affecting the law
lllowing him a salary, which is a
ifferent measure. Funny piece.
a ji i .
ol business, nui men now are ou
going lo help yourself, coming
rom the highest authority of the
slate?
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No one man has the right to
uestion another man's right as
o the manner in which he expects
to support men ami measures.
he men who attempts it simply
display their ignorance. There
never was a party where the
members were a unit on mailers
that come before llieni, and there
never will be. If a man has a
ood cause for not supporting a
andidate, that's his business, and
not yours, and he should not be
questioned as to his right. There
neer was a lime in our ex-
perience in politics thai more or
ess democrats haven't refused t
ote the straight ticket. It is done
at every election. It has been
only a few years since thai
democrats who now claim to be
eaders refused point blank to
ote for the head of the ticket,
that are now condemning those
who dare assort the same right at
at the present time. II ibakes con
siderable difference with them
whose ox is gored." Notwith-
tanding thees facts, there can be
larrnony at the Columbus con
vention, if all who attend as dele
gales will throw aside these bit
ter annirnosities and got together,
as they should do, and unite the
party the best they can.
Mr. Howell's Hand-Mado Issue
Almost in the same breath with
his announcement of a d
termination l run lor governor,
Mr. It. 11. Howell of Omaha ap
pealed to the slate railway oin-
mis.-iou lo hao maue a ptiysicai
valuation of the South Omaha
stock yards to end that jul rales
mav be Jixi-d for the beielit of
patrons of those yards.
It would be interesting to know
whether or not any considerable
oinplaints are being made by
those who, as producers of slock,
are most interested in the rales
charged by the stock yards. It
must be confessed that if the
farmers and stock raisers of Ne
braska are suffering from any ex
tortionate stock yards rates, they
are mighty patient ami submis
sive alut it, fr whenever dur
ing recent years any outcry has
been started against stock yards,
it has come through some politi
cian, who, like Mr. Howell, has
been seeking- public preferment.
If the rates at the stock ards
are really unreasonable or exor
bitant, and those who patronize
the yards are very generally
heard complaining of their in
justice or oppressiveness, the im
pulse of every supporter of the
popular welfare would be to sup
port the protests of stock yards
patrons and demand that tin'
rates be lowered. The Star would
be among the lirst ! offer its
support to any real parly in in
terest who might have a just
grievance. II would lind satis
faction and pleasure in Ihe per
formance of such a duty .
Hut in this instance t lie demand
for a physical valuation f the
yards comes from a locality thai
necessarily subjects it to sus
picion. It conies from Omaha,
from a man who has just enlered
a campaign for "Mce, and who
has eidently nicely timed his de
mand to suit, the ends f his
candidacy. Hut th stock that
passes through these yards, is
raised out in other portions of"
the state, and it is there that the
patrons live who would have the
right lo complain if rates were
excessive..
ilt is not the '-.purpose here to
say' that stock yards rates aro'not
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excessive. Lnev inay no, ituiur.
Howell does not say that they are.
lie merely wants a valuation v so
that it may be discovered whether
they are or ' not. A physical
aIualion is a mighty line lhi:ig
Lo have, bul il cots considerable
to gel it, and the people inii-t pay
the expense.
Ihe point is that a gond many
observant ncrde hae begun l
Hole that outcries against tin
slock vards are of late seldom
heard from the patrons of tin.
vards. but generally come jrom
politicians hunting preferment
and popular attention.
If the slock raisers oT Nebraska
feel thai sick yards rales are
oppressive, the public ought to
know il from the slock raisers
themselves. Lincoln Star.
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The Travelers' Aid society has
been incorporated under the laws
of California to protect girls from
Ihe pitfalls of Los Angeles and
provides a .-alary for the organiz-
1 Alt' I I
er. An organization or mis mum
would be a good move for Oma
ha to make.
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The people of Nebraska in
every section of the stale seem to
be very well satisfied with io-
eritop .Moreliead s administration
of 'affairs, and one who has done
his duly as well as the governor,
the people will come lo his rescue
at the proper hour. The fact is,
try as bard as I hey may, it is im
possible to keep a good man
down.
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II is an acknowledged fad that
lion, John Maltes is one of Ihe
ablest men that ever served in
the stale senate. lie is a (iermaan,
well known in both Otoe and
Cass counties, and is well liked
by all who know him. In the sen
ale the interests of Ihe counties
he will represent will be
well guarded, and he should re
ceive the democratic nominal ion
without a dissenting vote.
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Hon. -I. If. Kemp of p'ullerion
was in the city a few hours Tues
day, and made this oliice a pleas
ant visit. Senator Kemp is a
candidate for governor on (he re
publican ticket, and bears the ap
pearance (of a gentleman vvilh allj
Ihe attributes necessary lo till thej
bill if nominated and elected. We,
were pleased to meet, Senator'
Kemp, and -believe he'slands more,
than' an equal -.show vvilh Howell
and Hammond for the nomination.
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Wedding stationery at the
Journal office.
NEW LIGHT ON RED HAIR.
Chicago, if appears, has de
veloped what is called a Court of
Domestic Relations. What the
or iginal and ultimate powers and
jurisdictions of this court mav
be are not set out in the. dispatch
announcing mat ne ol the wom
an ollicials connected with its ad
ministration has reported that
her investigations, under the
panoply ol the court s authority,
reveal the red-haired man as the
model husband. Fewer red-haired
men, tins report says, have been
arraigned for beating their wives
I ban of any other soi l of men ar
range,! in groups according to
the sorts of hair coloring. It
might be at once answered that
re, i nair is much less common
than black, or in Chicago) white
lair, or brown, or any of thej
intermediate shades between
ilaek and white. This fact seems
;o incontestable that il at once
threatens to wipe out the red-
uiircd man s new-iound distinc
tion, until this remarkable report
from Chicago is more fully con
sidered.
J'he Court of Domestic Rela
tions in Chicago is not conliiied to
uv cstigat ion of wife beatings, de-
ertions or oilier situations which
grow only out ol domestic broils
or incompatibilities. its pro
vince seems to extend much
farther, and to reach even the
questioning of married women for
learning nl only the color of
their husband's hair, but the tem
perament of that individual, his
habils, and in short, everything
about him. And it. is in the ex
ercise of (his one of its functions
thai the Chicago Court of Do
mestic Relation sets the red
haired man upon a pedestal, to
stand as a monument to himself.
Fewer of him slay out late al
night than men of other hirsute
coloring. . More of him help in
washing the dishes than do men
whos capillary integuments are
not intended for the illumination
of a world.
It is on this negative side of
the work of the Court of Domestic
Relations that Ihe halo is found
for the led head. We now know
ttiat he does less of the evil
tilings a man shouldn't do than
men of other sor ts, and more of
the good things all good men de
light in doing. And yet, the court
warns us, we should not Jet our
selves be brought to look upon
the red-haired man as an angel
m temper. This warning is use
less. No matter what the Court
of Domestic Relations may say
about it, the old tradition that a
red-haired man is a quick-light
ing man will not disappear m a
day. The red-haired man will
till be safe from having his no?e
Hilled by men who are only look
ing for fun.
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Democratic county convention
al FIrnvvood on Saturday, July .3.
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Measured by the publicity he
gets free of charge, Villa must in
deed be the Roosevelt of Mexico.
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The Jones that Hie senate re
fuses to conlirru is no relation to
the Jones who always paid the
freight.
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One thing about President Wil
son he is not claiming credit for
the bumper wheat and corn crops.
He is more modest than his pre
decessors in this respect.
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It is to be hoped that harmony
will reign supreme at the Colum
bus convention. A united effort
on. the part of factional leaders
can do wonders in harmonizing
the whole business.
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It would be a very easy matter
to have a harmonious convention
at Columbus, if the Lincoln 'pb'
ring" will remain in the distance,
and not try to run the whole
business. The man or set of men
who go to the state convent ion
with the "rule or ruin" idea in
their craw will fully demonstrate,
that they have not the true in
terest of the democratic party of
Ihe slate at hearl. It is easy to
get logether if the right policy is
carried out.
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