The Plattsmouth Journal
OAIIV AND WEEKLY.
C. W. SHERMAN, Editor.
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braska, as second class matter.
Official County Paper.
Sugar cane was used in India as
early as 323 11. C.,but happily there
was no United States senate at the
time.
Tub man who issues the liars'
licenses should be working over time,
as the fishing season is now in full
blast.
Don M. Dickinson has been telling
a Cincinnati reporter of his abounding
and undiminished faith in G. C, whom
he facetiously calls "the best living
friend of bimetallism" and "a believer
in silver." There have been numbers
of "believers in silver," but not all of
them have achieved a desirable fame.
One of the number 2,0)1) years ago be
lieved in thirty pieces of the white
metal and his name is mentioned only
with execration throughout Christen
dom to this day.
The Ohio republicans in their plat
form "demand such protection for
Bheep husbandry as will secure fair
prices for wool." The Ohio republicans
should be more specific. What is
"such protection for sheep husbandry
as will secure fair prices for wool?"
Where is it found and how is it got?
Under the protection which the Mc
Kinley act gives sheep husbandly, as
under all protection given by the re
publicans to sheep husbandry, the
prices for wool have been gettinglower
and lower, until they have reached
their present beautifully "fair" figures.
TnE Charleston Mews and Courier
solemnly asks, "Are we to have 5-cent
cotton V" and the Atlanta Constitution
very pertinently demands to known:
"Are we to have a gold standard?''
The true answer to the first question
will be found in an answer to the sec
ond. The gold standard has already
cost the farmers of the country $600,
000,000 by way of shrinkage in the
market value of their crops, and of
this sura the cotton growers have con
tributed Homethiug like 100,000,000.
Keep the gold standard in effect long
enough and o-cent cotton will come
soon enough, to keep company with 50
cent wheat.
One of the documents submitted by
Erastas Wiman's counsel in the Cana
dian's trial for forgery wasa statemeut
showing the enormous profits of the
merceutile agency business. Accord
ing to this statement the Dun concern
earned .345,780 in 1&S5, anJ the profits
steadily increased until in IS!): they
reached 325,000, making the total for
eight years of 3.313,500. This enor
mous sum being the net profit of only
one concern in the business, we are
left only to conjecture how much
money the business men of America
spend to learn the financial standingof
their brothers, and inferential' how
enormous must be the original transac
tions upon which the agency business
is merely a parasite.
KAILROADS IN NEBRASKA.
Chicago Times.
The last report o.the Nebraska state
board of transportation recently pub
lished shows that of the 5,529.22 miles
of railroad in that state 1,403.11 miles
are in the hands of receivers. Of this
mileage nearly all, or 1,25- miles, be
longs to the Union Pacific system, in
cluding the Union Pacific main line.
Omaha & Republican Valley, Kearney
& Black Hills, St. Joseph & Grand
Island, and Kansas City & Omaha.
During the fiscal year covered by the
report it appears that only 69.03 miles
of new road have been constructed 10.
77 miles by the Burlington & Missouri
and 52.2G by the Bock Island. This is
accounted a very poor showing as com
pared with the work of the previous
year, in which 200 miles were built.
But it was not perhaps to be expected
that with the receiver so much in evi
dence very important additions would
be made to the mileage.
But, strangely enough, the board's
report contains a comparative table of
earnings and expenses which shows
that for the first half of 1S93 at least
business was not bad with the Ne
braska roads. From this table it ap
pears that while the operating expenses
for the year ending June 30.1S93, were
not as a rule higher than in the pre
vious year the gross earnings were al
most without exception considerably
greater. It remains for Nebraska
statesmen to reconcile these facts with
the facts of the receiverships already
mentioned. A careful study of this
report may prove of the highest value.
And this is especially true in view of
the fact that the maximum freight
law, w--"Yle railroad men of Ne
Jbpeached as unconstitu-
n trial in the courts and
CAPITAL. CKKKKSI'OMIKMi:.
ap Important Issue in I
' There . is scarcely
b which the voter of
t to inform himself
Wsiiinoton, I). C.,June 13,1894.
Friendship for and faith in the
president has brought at least one con
gressman to grief. Clifton I?.. Breck
enridge is a free silver 'nan, represent
ing a district in tl o mountainous
portion of Arkansas. lie is an able
nan; is an honest, diligent, faithful
hard-workinr representative. As a
tariff reformer he is as well posted on
schedules as any man on the committee,
and in point of influence ranks with
the best of its members. He is a man
of modest appearance, is dignified in
bearing, never loafs or fritters away
anv tune but is always at work a
zealous, careful, earnest representa
tive. Yet with all hese traits to his
credit he has been "turned down" in
bis district in favor of a man who is
unknown outside of it, and all because
he had faith in tlie pledges that were
made by Mr. Cleveland and his friends
that he would in good time rehabilitate
silver remonetize it and was thus
induced to vote for the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act
last fall. He has a consistent record
as a fiee silver advocate but for this
vote, but, alas! that vote was enough.
His people want a man who will stand
by his convictions under all circum
stances; and their brilliant and in
fluential member must give place to a
man who represents their views. The
incident has or ought to have a moral
in it that oug'jt not to be lost on other
members.
The spirit that animates the white
house followers was welL illustrated in
a county convention at Port Huron in
northern Michigan the other day.
Here was a place where the custom
house has 100 employes, and they are
all administration strikers. It is the
home of Congressman "Whiting, who is
a free silver man, and is in the race
for nomination for governor. The
government office-holders concluded
they would beat Mr. Whiting in his
own county, and they organized to do
it ; but when the convention met they
could ouly muster eight votes out of
thirty-eight. They had the chairman
of the county committee with them,
however, and concluded they would
run things anyway, and that official re
fused to give up his place to the duly
elected chairman. He thinks better
of that now, however. Two black
eyes for himself and a thumping for
several of his followers taught him
some maimers. The spirit of that
little minority almost found a parallel
in the Elmwood convention last fall.
The senate investigating committee
has brought out quite a number of
things which will promote the public
good. For instance, it has developed
the fact that Senators Brice and Smith
were in conference with Havemeyer,
the great sugar king at a room in a
hotel in this city last March, after
which conference an involuntary
listener declared that the sugar trust
was certain to have its way in the
formation of the tariff bill. Just what
the all-potent influence was that was
applied to these two and . perhaps
other senators to bring about that re
suit, has not been developed yet, but
it may come out before they get
through.
Every day on which the tariff bill is
not passed is now clearly republican de
lay, and the people ought to realize it.
The republican senators are talking
against time. There's Matt Quay, for
instance, has lately occupied the floor
for four entire days talking against
time and others are no better. The
bill is coming through the finance com
mittee's hands much more to the liking
of the republican protectionists, but it
is still better by 50 per cent than the
McKinley bill so members tell me who
have studied the schedules.
The public schools of Washington
and nearly all the business houses
celebrated and were yesterday deco
rated with mammoth American flags,
In commemoration of the anniversary
of the adoption of the stars and stripes
as the national emblem by the con
tinental congress. There were Hags
everywhere, the school children and
many others even carrying miniature
flags as buttonaires. I think this town
can turn out more Hags, anyhow, than
any half dozen other places in the land,
and this celebration was an exceptional
one in the display of the starry banner.
Just now the house seems destined
to endure its first official scandal.
There have been indications for two
months past that there was something
not straight respecting the method of
pushing certain district bills for street
railway extensions, and now the News
of this city comes out boldly and
charges James D. Richardson, of the
house, from Tennessee, with having
sold valuable property to a Philadel
phia syndicate, through a third party,
to be used for erecting a power house,
within four days of the time when he,
as chairman of the district committee,
reported favorably a bill allowing this
company valuable franchises. I am
prepared to believe this story, because
una
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lv f: to create miani-
r-
y.es with respect
r
one in the future, or I am mistaken.
The law schools of "Washington turn
out more lawyers, it seems to me, than
the whole country needs. First the
National university had its commence
ment and graduated a big law class,
next the Georgetown university gradu
ated a bigger class, and last the
Columbian university held its cere
monies and sent out a still larger num
ber nearly one hundred graduates of
its law department. They all had
great"doings"on commencement even
ings, and each class was lectured by
orators of wide repute. Mr. Bryan ad
dressed the first named, Senator Man
derson the second and James C. Carter,
the great New York lawyer, the last
named class. The reputation of our
congressman did not suffer by com
parison with either of the other ad
dresses, either in character, merit or
method of presentation.
Mr. Talbot, clerk of the house ways
ami means committee, who knows a
good deal more about the situation in
the senate than he cares to tell, pre
dicts that the tariff bill will come to
the house about July 1 , and will become
a law about August 1. We shall see.
Mr. Bryan now expects to attend the
Nebraska free silver democratic con
Terence on the 21st, but of course will
not go if there is any likelihood of the
passat-e by the senate of the tariff bill
while he might be gone.
The Daily -Journal of June 11,
which has my letter of the 8th, con
tains an unfortunate blunder. It gives
the actual cost of life insurance at $5.
I wrote it S. Such an error makes
nonsense of what I wrote. C. W. S.
NKHKAS-K VS KltKltillT-UATK I, AW.
C'hicugo Times.
Ex-Chief Justice Maxwell of Ne
braska has gone on record as saying
that a federal court has no jurisdiction
to try the injunction suit begun by the
stockholders of certain railways in that
state to restrain the operation of what
is known as the freight-rate law. It
is to that tribunal that the railroads
appealed after the state courts had de
cided in effect that the Nebraska legis
lature had the right to fix a maximum
freight rate to be charged by lailroads
doing business in that state. In the
opinion of Judge Maxwell both the
character of the action and the court
of resort are wrong. "A state court of
equity," he says, "would have no jur
isdiction there being, in the judge's
opinion, adequate remedy in a court of
law, nnd the federal court has not a
shadow of excuse for jurisdiction. The
action is brought by the stockholders
against their own employes, to prevent
them obeying the laws of the state un
der which corporations are formed."
And concerning the plea of the stock
holders that the law will work the
practical confiscation of their property
Judge Maxwell says, in an interview
published in the Fremont Leader:
" These stockholders in effect seek to
take the great corporations from under
the control of state laws and declare
they are not subject to regulation.
This will be denied, no doubt, but that
will be the effect if they succeed in
stead of being mere servants of the
public they would become practically
masters. It does not follow that be
cause freight rates are somewhat re
duced that railway receipts will be
diminished. The probability is they
would be increased. Every reduction
of passenger rates is followed by an in
crease of travel. The same rule is true
to quite an extent with the reduction of
freight rates."
Judge Maxwell is highly respected as
a legal authority, and his opinion will
bring no small comfort to the people of
Nebraska, who have been watching
with much anxiety this latest assault
by the railroads upon their few remain
ing privileges. If it be true, as Judge
Maxwell intimates, that the railroads
are to become the masters rather than
servants of the people; if they can rise
superior to the courts of the state and
set their edicts at defiance, then indeed
it is time that either the railroads or
the courts should be brought before
some supreme tribunal having author
ity to speak for the people. It is note
worthy that at least three railroads
which are not affected by the freight
rate bill have made themselves parties
to the pending action. The Nebraskan
may well ask an explanation to this
fact, which can mean nothing unless it
is that the corporate powers are
leagued together in this effort to fasten
a perpetual yoke on the popular neck.
A GOOI ANsYVKlS.
Between the 4th of April and the
4th or May 170 leaves of absence were
granted to the members of the national
house of representatives, on the plea of
illuess. There are any number of men
iu congress who will be granted per
manent leaves of absence on account
of the country's "illness."
The finance committee of the senate
is said to be about to adopt an amend
ment exempting the fraternal bene
ficiary societies from the operations of
the income tax. The amendment reads
as below:
"That the exemption shall stand to
those corporations, including fraternal
beneficiary societies, organizations, or
associations operating on the lodge
system and providing for the payment
of life, sick, accident, and other bene
fits to the members and the dependents
of such members."
A slight extension of the provisions
of the paragraph quoted should be
made to incjTQde in the exemption all
bona fide ftriutual insurance associa-
"' Savings banks which re
ranging from 10 cents
ay interest upon them.
nr
tions and
ceive dep
upward a
Burlington (Iowa Gazette.
Wheat growers in Minnesota turn
their cattle into growing wheat fields
while people starve. Corn growers in
Kansas burn their product a fuel while
coal miners are compelled to work at
starvation wages. Cotton growers in
the south refuse to pick the crop v.hile
millions go half clothed. What is the
cause and what the cure of conditions
which thus obstruct free exchanges of
the necessaries of life and in the midst
of plenty create poverty and distress ?
The Chicago Times puts this propo
sition to its readers and asks thtm to
answer it in short letters not to exceed
200 words. The cause is that we have
attempted to adopt an exclusive policy.
We have attempted to destroy the free
inter-change of commodities, cripple
our commerce, and destroy one-half of
our monetary basis. We have gone de
liberately to work to make as little of
our money buy as much of our prop
erty as it was possible for a govern
ment to do, with only two metals for
the basis of our exchange, because we
have done everything in our power,
aided by the civilized nations of the
earth, to drive one of these metals
from its position as a monetaiy gauge
for the value of our property. The
government has been persisting in this
policy until the nation might just as
well be upon the verge of bankruptcy
as to be as it is, with the coffers of the
rich men overflowing with the circulat
ing medium of the country with no de
mand for it. It is idle money doing no
good for the present, and will do no
one any good until the business of the
country sees a change, leading us back
to a condition from which the legisla
tion of the country has driven its people
and its enterprises.
There is more catarrh iu this sec
tion of the country than all other dis
eases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be incura
ble. For a great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease, and pre
scribed local remedies, and by con
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment, prououuced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitu
tional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's ca
tarrh cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. It
is taken internal:- in doses from ten
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly
on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
F. J. CIIEXEY& CO., Toledo, O.
feiS"Sold by Druggists, 73c.
Don't buy a bicycle until you see us.
The "fifty-dollar ladies' " is certainly
a sensation. We are sole agents for
them. Lehniioff Buos.
Found The finest soda water in
the city at Gering & Co's.
MAGNETIC NERVINE.
Is told with written
guarantee to cure
Nervous Prostra
tion, Fus, Dizzi
ness, HcadHt'lit nnd
NeunuKi" utidWnke
f ulliffiM'HU'-t' il I'J'ex-
r-::v'Ufioiimiu,
fs Tohucro uuil Alco-
liu-FORL - AFTER- hion, softeninKof
. t'rain, rriu-ins Misery, Insanity and Death;
. .:ri'ijw, Ijuoti'iu y, Lot Power ia either eux.
. . jr.)3tuf OId Att, Involuntary Losses, caused
. ovt r-iiiiial'Ut"e. overexertion of tlm Itrnin and
irorsof Youth. Itpivesto Weak Oriritus their
v.iiurul Vi;;or nnil double tue Joys ot life; cure
. .-orrhoba an J Female Weakness. A month' treat
.. n',, iu plain pitt-kittP, by mail, to any address, fl
yn-r tMjx, 6 loiea $5. With every fS order we Kive u
".'ritten Cuarnntee to cure or refund the money.
Circular free. Guarantee isi-ued ouly by our ex-
ciuio ai;(nt.
f. g. friikk &. to.. imn.i.isrs,
Sole aKents. I'lattsmotith , Neb.
First Premium
at the
Columbian Exposition
Tlie SiDger Man'f'g Co.
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54: First Awards,
Being the larpest number of awards obtained
by any exhibitor and more than double the
number received by all other Sewing Machine
companies. Awards received on the f ollowint;:
Family Sewlnsr Machines, V. S. No. 2,
I. F. C. B. and single Thread Automatic
Chain Stitch .Machine. Sewing Machine
Cabinets, Art Embroideries. Laces. Cur
tains. Upholstery, Artistic Furnishings,
Sewing and Embroidery, Tapestry Ma
chine Work.
Also 43 Award, covering machines
for manufacture in every line where a
Sewing Machine can te used on Wool,
Cotton and Silk Cloth. Knit Goods,
Leather, etc., for Ornamental Stitching,
Button holes. Eyelets, Barring, Over
seaming, Staying, etc.
AGENTS WANTED.
The Singer M'fg Co
"All Over the World. "
Itrancli Office Lincoln Nct.
WITHOUT THE
BOW (RING)
it is easy to steal or ring watches from the
pocket. The thief gets the watch in one
hand, the chain in the other and gives a
short, quick jerk the ring slips off the
watch stem, and away goes the watch, leav
ing the victim only the chain.
This idea stopped
tbat little game:
The bow has m eroovo
on each end. A collar
runs down inside the
pendant (stem) and
fits into the grooves,
firmly locking the
bow to the pendant,
ao that it cannot be
pulled or twisted offe4
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Sold by til watc'k
cost, on Jas. BotJ
cases containing
A watch cisaorii
Keystoney
Hiout JSsZ,
'Coy andfcjer M
iss-" T:-iHuest
V Co.,
3amro?yromfmmrorom?!fm?mi
You will Find
the Proper
Shirt
for Summer
at
WESCOTT'S.
It's a
MANHATTAN
Cool,
Dressy,
Serviceable.
Just Received A full line of the new
"Slim" ties, for Summer. Come in
and we'll make you.feel comfortable.
C. E. Wescott
The "Boss" Clothier.
The City Hotel, Excursions Courtlalul Beach
( nrnpr tnin anil Tlnril tc
Corner Main and Third Sts.,
PLATTSMOUTH.
A FIRST-CLASS HOSTELRY
IX EVEKY RESPECT.
REFITTED and REFURNISHED !
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grounds. Siie' iul rtei to Suiiiliiy school mnl FBinih I'ic uic s. I vti t ( oi ier l rest t vcd. ;
Look out for the Excursions. Cars land you riplit in the grounds.
Special Attention Given to the;
Accommodation of Farmers. j
First-Class Bar
CLEAN ROOMS AND TABLE 1
Rates-Si Per Day.
H. H. GOOST PropV.
ED. FITZGJEHAjLD,
THE 4ILII KKI.I A Itl.t-:
Liverymar;
HAS PURCHASED THE
Sixth Street Checkered Barn,
AXD WILL RUN T
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THE EVER-RELIABLE
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run to nil trains. "I'romptnexs an t ri.le.iiyto
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Turkish Lottt Manhood ('ntmulea. $1 box, 6 for
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W without pin. $1 box by mail. Aaems wanted. W
?T 2012 Farnam St., Omaha. Neb.
OF PLATTSMOUTH,
Is distinctively the place where the Farmer's Dollar Goes the
Farthest. We lead, as ever, in
Buggies and Carriages
This year's line is larger than ever and the prices
cannot fail but suit.
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Is wild urj.ter positive written fruarnntw, by nutbor-
liiHinmid Nerve Power; It Maiihotxl: Ciii.-knis:
. ii ;nuni; ijirK or uoiiniience;
Kervou-ncss; Ijissitmle; all Drntns; Loss of Power
of the Generative Oi c;m in eithvr flex, caused by
over-exertion; Youthful Errorp, or Kxet .s.-lvo Upo of
Tolmcco. Opium or I.i'iuor, which noon lead to
Miser, Consumption, Insanity nnd loath. By mail,
f 1 a box; ti for $C; with wrilti n ffu.-irnnt-e to cure or
refund money. WKii'fs COt'ttll HYiirP. A certain
cure for Contrite, CoMs, A-thma, Enmchiti -.Croup
Whooping Couirh. Sure Throat. Plear-jmt to take.
Small tize discontinued; old. Se. Pize, now 'i"(.; old
$1 size, cow 30C. U UAKAXTEES iusued only ty
P. G. Fricke & Co, druggists.
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Rplendid enrntive nirent for Nervons or Sick
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special or mmeral Neuraluia; also for ltbu-
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pepnis, Anieraia. Antidote for Alcoholic
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Effervescent.
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151 S. Western Avenue, CHICAGO-
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Testimonials and particulars sealed Scents, g
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As to Implements,
Our two large store-rooms are brim-full of the REST and
MOST PERFECTED to be found in the Implement
market.
SPEAKING OF fjgpjjggg
We Manufacture
The Very Best
For the Money, and are the only firm using "Old Fashioned Oak
Tanned Leather" in Cass County. Consult your own interests and
Deal with an Establishment which conducts Business on the Plan of
Giving Real Worth in Return for the Buyer's Money.
FRED GORDER & SON,
307-300 Main Street,
LMallsmoulli, Nib
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