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l'LATTsiMOtJTil WEEKLY 1IEUAL1), TlltntSDAV, MAY i), 1Ss7. l9iqlsmot l People lcVo io Fcxpeiaeiieed scl i Clolinir Seisq(ioi foi' Aqny Ycqi's, es Pi'odiicGd :by Tirm xitTTiR-oiDTTCT'ioiisr op S. c G. MilYKlfS PERFECT FITTIjTQ TAILOR AjiltJE SUITSImi VT THE ZKT" OLLOWIUG 1ULICES: G. A. It. Suits, complete outfit, $9; Blue Flannel suits, $0 and upwardf; Corkscrew AVorsted suits, 8 to $15; Boys' suits, .'5 to $15; Children's suits $l.t5 and upwards. rTTliis SlauL'hter Sale will continue for the next Tlii rty Days. All goods Bold and guaranteed to be as represented o r A r-TAUtl r -it r i ' , oyrefunded This is our style of doing business. b 1 O. 0 O. A'lAYl'clj, OpGl'q lrOllSG C LO liei'S. or money (TIlC VhttsmOUth We thin ZjCnlll. KNOTTS BROS Publishers & Proprietors. T II. KT OTTS, Editor. A. 1!. KNOTTS, liusincss Manager. TflK ri.ATTS.MOUTII II KK A I.J) Is publislieJ everv Thursday moiiiinti. Olllce, .inner of Vine ami Fifth streets. WEICKL.Y, by mall. fine ooi.y ono year One copy o:ie year (in advance) 1 lteulstered at the l'o.it Office. riatttinouth, as Mtiri innv all lnflllfnH ............ accoud ol;ui matter. Good streets and good morals are two advantages of which any town may well feel proud. When people learn to rely more upon double-barreled shot guns and less on the police there will be fewer burglaries in this community. A few thousand dollars expended in paving Main street will do more towards frivinrF the town a boom than holding t D " - public meetings or incorporating com panies which do nothing else than incor porate. It is the throwing of dirt that counts. TnE gas prospecting scheme is pro gressing satiafactorily and the gentlemen associated with that movement are enti tled to credit for their public-spiritedness and energy. ' Plattsmoutii people are not very ex citable. Talk about nail factories and Armour's Industry and other institutions does not disturb the average citizen. "When these industries begin to put up fliir lillilil infra nntl show people that their enterprise is not altogether on pa per, they will taka some stock in the "re ports," but not until then. The train robbery in Texas last week that the work of the robders i was both well planned and executed. None of the passengers were molested, the express car being their object. The express messenger refused to open the car and was knocked down and the sate broken into and robbed. The sum ob tained is estimated from $25,000 to $50, 000. The Herald desires to mention to the young men of Platsmouth the necesity of being cautious obout this speculation fe ver. They should be careful not to loose their heads. The speculative fever is a dangerous disease. Gambling in real estate is as dangerous as any omer kiuu of gambling. It is proper to make pru- ilent investmens upon a rising market' but it is not wise to break up one's indus-1 trious habits and educate one's self out of man must be through plod ding. Therefore The Heralds ad- vice is stick to your legitimate business, giving to it your hrst thought, Opportunities to buy and sell will con- tinuc long after you have gone from this world. There is a sort of contagion in the atniosphers which ought not be pcr niited to get into the blood. Our Public Improvements. The city council has done well to se cure the services of Messrs. Rosewater & Christie for the purpose of making an es timate of the probable cost of grading, paving and sewerage. It begins to look as if Plattsmoutii meant business, though there is little in what has been done to convince strangers of our sincerity in pushing this work. It is true that public meetings have been held and important questions discussed, but the real work of throwing dirt has not yet commenced, A month or two ago it was announced that a street car company had its coat off, so to speak, and was ready to commence track-laying as soon as a franchise were voted them. That franchise has been voted but the street car company are still holding off. for one pretext or another, while strangers are asking us what we have to show for all this bluster. The fact of the matter is that a little work upon our streets will do more to strength- en public opinion and advertise the town than the holding of a half-dozen public meetings or the incorporation of public improvement concerns that do little else than secure a franchise. The sentiment unions Plattsmouth tax-payers is almost unanimous in favor of anything in the line of public improvement which the . mavor and council may accept or suggest, nnrl while 'this sentiment is so largely v. .wS-rona mnpi'iillr wB surest mini m l ij v liviuu, vv f i that now is the time to inaugurate the work by voting bonds" for the purpose.- favor?f .voting $50,000, and ! ,,(!f bi. Jftahy s-- Son) e are m others IOO.OOO. Those in favor of vot- IIIJ CIUJJ p-JV, VUU, llimol kllUb JL umv amount makes a good showing thi;re will le no trouble in securing another $00, 000, while if it docs not make a good showing then the amount was sufficiently large. We have no doubt however, that when once the work of grading and pav ing our streets is commenced the result will be so favorable to both public and private interests that substantial aid will not be withheld. The Sun's Souvenir. Wk received last week from the Balti- inure Sun an odd and pretty design of the first issue of that paper which was printed, and of the issue of May 17th, 1SS7, its OUth anniversary. llic design 13 typical of days away back, an owl sits on an empty barrel tearing a paper in pieces, and in an instant its eyes are daz zled by the burst of an orb whose rays of light may never fade. The inclosure of the Souvenir is an euvelope heavily em bossed, with the sunburst, the owl, the barrel and the clouds ornamenting the upper lefthand corner. No Mugwump Criticisms Wanted. Republicans do not look with much favor upon presidential criticisms com ing from mugwump sources. That there should be different factious within the republican party is a matter of regret,but the rank and file of that party hayc come to regard the mugwump as a democrat and as such he is not likely to meet with much success in advising republicans as to their presidential candidate. It is ad mitted, of course, that in an election the feelings of the envious or revengful should give way to devotion to principle, but the conviction is generally becoming more and more settled in the minds of re publicans that the New England reform ers are allied with the democrats and for that reason very little attention is paid to their blathcrskitings about Blaine. They intend to support Cleveland and we ini aginc it will be a cold day for republi cans when they make a nomination to suit mugwumps or any body else outside the party fold. Giye us a good straight republican and a ringing platform that means the same thing whether read up or down and it we are tlien cleieatea we can bear the humiliation with the good grace which attends defeat in a good cause. If the disaffection which exists in the east could be healed by the nomination of some straight republican acceptable to all, then it would be the part of policy to make such a nomination, but the trouble with those dude moralizers down east is that their choice would be a mongrel 1S that their choice would be a republican or a full fledged democrat, nnd for our part we prefer defeat under the old flag than an apparent victory un- jcr the" leadership -of a candidate accept able to democrats. The "No Issue" Fraud. When the democrats were out of office they were familiar with many reasons -vvhy republican rule was disastrous to the best interests of the country, but now we hear it remarked occasionally that there is "no issue" between the parties and that there is no need for any particular change in the administration. Democratic pre ception is very keen, to say the least, but it is exceeded by the brazen audacity which is exhibited in the pretention that there is no good reason why democrats should not continue to hold the fort at "Washington. In the nrst place, there never was a good reason why the management of the affairs of the nation should be handed over to that party,- and in the second place that party has not improved the opportunity to show cause why it should continue in power. But now that they are in power, and would sooner die than resign, they endeavor to influence well known republicans, otherwise known as mugwumps, by intimating that there is really no issue between the old parties and that as a matter of fact it is merely a question ot men. nai an imposing spectacle a democrat presents in advanc wg such an idea: t or a party mat uas constantly opposed every great measure calculated to advance the commercial in-J terests ot this country, ro siana up ana insist with cnnstian meesness mai u is not unlike another, party, whose history is the history of this country during its most progressive period is an exhibition of gall of which democrats are only ca pable. l ... . I The republican party, may not be en tirely .harmonious upon certain pnnci- plea, but as a party it ia jostly recognized as the strong friend ot a protective poll- Icy; it is the only party that ' Ls made an honest effort to regulate referg ,nufacture add sale of intoxicje 8caool7; it is the . - 1 to those markL. author of the leading statutes which have stimulated trade, protected industrial pursuits and given to the country honor at home and fame abroad during the last quarter of a century. While on the other hand the democratic party has not only opposed the legislation which brought about the greatest era of prosperity the nation ever saw, but it has come to be recognized as the party of conflicting theories. As a party, the democrats are free traders, but a respectable minority are as rabid protectionists as arc found in congress. In Nebraska even they are not harmonious upon the tariff, or, we might add, upon any other question, not even the offices. In Connecticut, democracy mcan3 civil service reform, while in Indiana it means "to the victors belong the spoils;" in New York democracy means free whisky, while in Georgia, Texas and a few other places it means prohibition. But as a party the democrats are practically unan imous in favor of whisky, especially if made in Kentucky. So it appears that instead of there being "no issue" between the two great parties, there is scarcely a great question before the country upon which these parties agree. The highest ambition of the one party was good gov ernment; the highest ambition of the other was the offices, and it is not surpris ing therefore that the more blunders the democrats make the more they wish to impress people with the bogus idea that they are not unlike republicans. But it won't work. The differences between the two parties are so plain that in the elec tion of 1888 we confidently believe the republicans will elect Mr. Cleveland's successor. The Crimes Act Unlawful. The English Bastile of Ireland, Kil- lnainham jail, has been made to disgorge to release an Irish patriot, Father Keller, from its confining walls. The law enter- vened to release him from the outrageous imprisonment to which a wrongful inter pretation of the law consigned him There is more in the release of the rever end father than the return of a patriot to active service in behalf of Ireland TT was incarcerated for advocating "the plan of campaign." His imprisonment haviner been declared illegal by the highest court of resort, his release is vindication of "the plan of campaign Father Kellar's restoration to liberty is equivalent to a declaration that the Irisl have the right to combine to resist as they have, in "the plan of campaign." the ex tortions and exactions of rapaciour land lords. Furthermore, the order that opened the gates of Kiluiainham jail was as much a legal protest and decision against the ille gality of the proposed coercion, or crimes act, as it was a mandate giving Father Keller freedom. The pnrpose of the crimes act is to empower the government with authority to proceed against all in terested in conducting and advocating "the plan of campaign." and taking ad vantage of its operations; but now the highest court of the land has intervened to declare that there is nothing illegal in 'the plan of campaign," and that its ad vocates or beneficiaries are not outlaws. nor amenable to criminal prosecution, or the usual consequence of British prose cution of an Irishman imprisonment In other words, the Salisbury government is put, by the release of Father Kellar, in the position of seeking authority to com bat, prosecute and persecute an associa tion which the courts declared is author ized to exist and act as it has done anc as it proposes doing. Omalia Herald, The Railroad Assessment The state board of equalization has once more gone through the farce of making an equalized assessment of th property of railroad and telegraph com panies in Nebraska. To call their work a farce does not, however, do them jus tice. It was worse than a farce. Its so called equalization of the railroad assess ment is in reality downright discrimina tion in favor of certain railroads as a gainst others, and reckless partiality at the expense of the tax payere. : Let us examine the figures. The main line of the Burlington road from Platts mouth to Hastings is assessed at $12,500 per mile This is the highest rate at whieh any of the roads are assessed,the Union Pacific main line being rated at $11,155 and all other railways considerably low er. The Omaha & Southwestern, which is as much the main line as any part of the B. &,M. system, is appraised at $9,150, I aua the republican v alley extension ot I the main line of the B, &, M, at f 5,850. I or less than one-half of the assessment a mouth and Hastings. There are I miles of the Republican Valley extension paid only 101 of the main line. If the main line is worth $12,50) a mile, the xtension of the main line west of llast- ngs is worth fullyjt wo-thirds us much. The Sioux City & Pacific railroad, which only returns twenty-six miles for axatiou is apprised at $5,(550 a mile, while the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad, which extends GIJS miles through the state, is assessed at only $4,450 a mil;'. "Was there ever a more are-faccd imposition attempted upon lie taxpayers of the state? The Fremont, Elkhorn it Missouri Valley road is no onger a branch line confined to traffic jetween two or three villages, but in cality an extension of the Chicago fc Northwestern railroad. It is as much a trunk line as the B. & M. railroad. It sustains precisely the same relations to the Chicago & Northwestern as the 15. & M. in Nebiaska doses to the Chicago Bur- ington & Quiney road. Why should such a road, doing about one-third of the trainc oi me state, ue Classen as a stuo roatl, ami assessed at one-third ot the valuation placed upon the main lines of the B. & M. or Union Pacific? If it is not quite up to the standard of those roads, w hy should it be appraised at fifty per cent of the valuation of the Omaha & Southwestern and way below other roads that are not doing one-half of its traffic? Why is it assessed $2,000 per mile less than the Missouri Pacific, which does not carry half as much traffic as the Elkhorn Valley line? Years ago, when the Elkhorn Valley road was only extended to Norfolk, there might have been some excuse for its low classification, but with a line 638 miles long, traversing a region in wich it has the monopoly of traffic, it can no longer be classed as a poor little stub road, and should be made to bear its due propor tion of railroad taxes. lhese unequal assessments will very seriously affect the taxpayers in the coun ties through which these roads pass, Many of the counties traversed by the B & M. extension and the Elkhorn Valley line have bonded themselves to aid in the construction of these railroads, and now they will receive only a very small proportion of the taxes which the rail roads, properly assessed, should have paid. If the last legislature had done its duty and passed the laws recommended by Governor Thayer in his inaugral, the would present board of equalization have been wiped out, and a new board created more familiar with the relative value of railroads in Nebraska. A state board made up of at least one member of every organized county would have made an assessment based on the known valuation of the different roads. The present method of equalization by three state officers is unsatisfactory and liable to grave abuses. Instead of a board of equalization, it always has been, and always will be, a board of discrimination. Owaha liee. To Whom Passes are Civen A newspaper correspodent in the east with a pocket filled with annual passes. writing in defence of the inter-state law, among his other logical propositions, says: Uut it it shall turn out that the majority of the free passes have been is- sued by traffic managers to shippers, and by cutting off the passes less money will be receive from freight." He might as Well have said that if it turned out that free passes have been is- sued alone to ministers, the companies nnw stand a nooror show for salvation. It is notoriously known that nine-tenths of the thousands of passes on whieh dead-head9, dead-beats and sore-eyed politicians rode over Nebraska were giv- en alone for political influence. Legis- lators were corrupted; newspapers were hushed; politicans were captured, and the entire band of "favored" mendicants worked industriously for all railway measures. To-day in the state of Nebraska there are. uundrecis oi one-uorse politicians, fledgling lawyers and disreputable bum mers being carried within the state free of charge on every line of railroad doing business in Nebraska. They come under the head of employes, The interstate law says it is unlawful "to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or ad vantage to any particular person in nnv rpsnprt whatever, or to subiect anv particular person to any undue or unreas- j A- . T J - - onable prejudice or disadyantage in any respect whatever." In another section the law permits railways to give free car- riage to "their own officers and em- ploves. "and exchange "passes or tickets with other railroad companies for their Ql... I officers and employe?." it may oe that no passes nave been is sued to the alleged employes, good on line; 'de of Nebraska, but if the "employe," was considered "valuable" enough, he no doubt could secure trans portation, in all of the states where the B. & 31., the M. P. or U. P. own or con trol leased lines. The railroad companies wearied of an nually carrying exhaused strkers, and ac cordingly took advantage of the inter state law to cut off the gratuities and when the next legislature meets, unless there is a radical chaugc in public opin ion, such strikers as Cams. Palmer. Humphrey, Lee, Greene, Walters, and in fact the entire troupe of railrogue blatherskites will have at their disposal books of blank passes, and every man who cares to serve the corporate bosses will become an "employe", during the session. The issuance of free passes is a corrupting evil, but the railroads, if it will scrye their interests, desire corrup tion. Omaha liee. The Springfield (Mass.) Htpublican publishes the following quibble about the tariff: Let nobody be deceived by any idea that some part of this tax is paid by for eigners. This is a favorite protectionist superstition, which has not a leg to stand on. The American people, and no other, bear the burden of their own Govern ment. The goods which pay duty do not pay it until they are bought abroad in the market of the world and arrive on American soil. Nobody pays our taxes but we ourselves. It is easy enough to talk about ".-uper- stition which has not a leg to stand on," but what a terribly weak case it must be that requires bolstering up by such arrant nonsense as this. Foreign manufacturers who send their wares to America have to fix their prices so as to compete with home-made articles. It is utterly imma terial whether the exporter pays the duty, or whether the importer pays it and de ducts it from his invoice. The tariff is really paid out of the pocket of the for- ;n manufacturer and out of the wages of the foreign workman. If the former were not handicapped by the tariff, he could flood the American market with cheap articles produced by pauper labor, and make home manufacturing at a profit impossible, The statement that no part of the tariff is paid by foreigners, and that "the xVmerican people and no other" ' 3 a ree"race superstition, which, verily, "has not a leg to stand on." Globe Democrat. While recently investigating the title to some New York surburban property be longing to the estate of Gouverneur Mor ris, the lawyers came across the will of Lewis Morris, the grandfather of Gouv erneur Morris, in which the following oc curs: It is my desire that my son Gouver neur may haye the best education that is to be had in England or America, but my express will and direction are that Le never be sent for that purpose to the col ony of Conneticut, least he should im bibe in his youth that low craft and low cunning so incident to the people of that country, which is so interwoven in their constitution that all their acts can not disguise it from the world; though many I of them, under the sanctified garb of re ligion, have endeavored to impose them I selves on the world as honest men. Ex. The mugwumps are "turning backward with averted gaze" from Hon. Theodore Roosevelt for the evident puipose of I forcing him to quit the field of politics; and we can only say that their course is entirely unjustifiable when he talks about them in the following invidious and un feeling manner 1 "I want to point out to you an invol untary compliment that is paid us by our more recentlv acquired antagonists. They always claim, when they say that we have done wron. that we have failed to live 0p to the old republican standard. When the democrats do as tl.ev think: right, as the highest praise they can give them, they say they have gone contrary to all the traditions of their party. "Globe Dem ocrat. The democrats of Kentucky are in such a demoralized "condition that pre- dictions are made' that the republicans may carry the state this year. One of the ! - - - sources of dissatisfaction is the 6tate debt Twenty years ago, when the democrats came into control, the state was free from debt, and had a balance of $4,000,000 to its credit. Now there is no surplus, and a deficit of $1,500,000 exists. Then there is the temperance issue and the labor question, while John G. Carlisle, for some reason, particularly in his own ' dis trict, does not lighten the democratic j load. Sioux City Journal. Tim';crr Absolutely Pure. Tli is powder never varies. A marvel of par ity, htniiic' h an J v iKilesoniciii'ss. .Morn e0 uomieal than tin; ordinary kinds. ami cannot ho fold in cimipt'titioii with the multitude of low tent, short weight jilnin or plittsphate powders. Sold onlv in Cil.s. KnVAl, 15AKIM1 l'owDkH Oo.,10Gv;ill St. New York. 3'..'U8 m SAKE Our Seventh Public Sale of Thoroughbred ' Short-Horn cattle wilt be held at Ked Oak," Iowa, onTUL"KSL)AY,.IL:E9, 1S37. and will comprise twenty biocky Balis and forty choice Cows and Heifers. AH females of proper age will have calves by sidee, or be brea to either Imp. Cruiekshank bull Friuce of Orange (5191C), tr the Bates bull 13th Duke ot Woodford 60539. Sale will be held under thelter, rain or oiilue. Terms, caeh ; or approved note due June 1888.- & m . I mm til L Ikfc Vi . n rue lor caiaioues vo j i. C. C. Tlatter, or4 8-4 JOIJH IlAYKS. I Ked Oak low f Col. F. M. Woods, Auctioneer. J Gov. Taylor, of TAinessee, poir. with pride and gratitude to the fact tr there is not a republican left in any eral office in that state. That is ti in Tennessee, "the mad chase after,, tisian spoils" ha3 come to an end, 1 (very good reason that there are no any spoils to be obtained. f-7 ' .'Grace Beunet Hnot a't. vnng the T We mr mat Al Kennedy has sol ""Uoueer. V in the least