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The News-Herald PLATTSMOUTH. NEIRASKA. Entered at the pontofflit at rutt'mouth, Cs County, Nebruka. an avcond-claiui mail matur. OFFICIAL. I'AI'KR OF IAS? COl'NTY ABRAHAM LINCOLN. One hundred years ago February 12th., in a hovel, in the wilderness of Kentucky, surrounded by an almost virgin forest, Abraham Lincoln was born. No new star appeared in firmament of heaven, to attract Maybe there's more to that gro'nnd business than we thought. One way to lioost for your home A. L. Tidd, Editor. R. 0. Watters, Manager. i BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION Ob Taar in' Advance, ii Hocth .11.60 ,. .75 TELCrttONES I'lattsmouth No. 85 Nebraska No. 85 Lincoln On Protective Tariff. "MY FELLOW CITIZENS, I MAY NOT LIVE TO SEE IT BUT CIVE US A PROTECTIVE TARIFF AND WE WILLHAVETHE GREATEST COUN TRY ON EARTH." Illinois still struggles along with her senatorial deadlock. A Charles P. Taft is needed in the , 'Sucker" stte to clar ify the political atmosphere. A coon, clean, upright manof good and sound business sense should be the next mayor of I'lattsmouth indepen dent of partisan politics. Business ability and integrity should be the first and last requisite. Such a man should claim the support of every man, who even claims to be a good citizen. tnJLn iu ti iilnntifv vmiraflf with on,? " - ' J J -.v.. nuj A A the i movement that has for its object the ; A. the advancement of the interests of your ' : z V . . ! f I II i X join eyes of the world to him. He was a , home town. Hustle around and child, weak, helpless and dependent, the commercial club, with no great and distinguished ances-1 . tors. Not born to greatness or riches, If you claim Plattsmouth for a home he grew up from the soil. From the for heaven's sakedon't be foreverslan- day of his birth until he was nine years i dering her good name. If you think E.G.B0VEY.S0N Y of age, he had a patient and sensible mother's care. At his mother's knee, he learned the lessons of truth, obedi ence, respect for the rights of others, industry, patient self-denial, and to pray. He was pre-eminently a mother's boy. And years afterwards, he said, "All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angle mother." He was left face to face with pioneer life in a thinly peopled wilderness; he must rise, if at all, by the genius of hard work. There were no tree schools, churches, libraries and newspapers ac cessible to him. But somehow he learned to read, write and figure. He had his mother's Bible, and from dis tant neighbors he borrowed Bunyan'B "Pilgrim's Progress," "Aeso's Fa bles," and Weems' "Life of Washing ton," which constituted his school, his library, and his university. These he read and re-read, when not engaged in chopping wood or splitting rails. There is no excuse for any boy today to say that he has no opportunity. If Lincoln could make his way from such sur roundings to greatness, why should not the boys of today, if they have had a mother's care and a mother's teaching, be prepared for even greater things. Lincoln early learned to hate slavery and to love liberty. He rose from the ranks of private citizenship to thepres idency, at the most critical period in the history of this country. He freed the slaves and preserved the Union His life is an inspiration to the youth of our country, and a model for the cit izen. He lived the golden ru!e-with malice toward none and with charity for all. No purer or nobler character can be found in the annals of history. No more lasting or finer monument can be reared to his memory than that of em ulating his grand and glorious life. It was Washington, who founded the re public, and Lincoln, who preserved it. The good never die; to them belongs endurable immortality; they perish not upon the earth, and they exist forever in heaven. The good of the present life in the future, ns the good of the past are here with us today. The great primeval lawgiver, entombed for more than forty centuries in an unknown grave in an obscure vale of Moab, is to day legislating in all the halls of' state, and preaching in all the churches. Soc rates questions atheists in the streets. The dead Leonidaa guards the gates of every empire which wrestles for its sovereignty; the dead Martin Luther issues from tho press the living oracles of God; the dead George Washington held together through decades this some other town is so much superior and that you can't be happy here, why -take your church letter and move on. A town is always what the inhabitants make it, and Plattsmouth has thrown off her cloak of pessimism and purposes taking her rightful place among the live progressive towns of the state. , About four-fifths of the democratic legislators have pie written all over their faces. They are framing laws for no other purpose than to benefit democratic office-holders and democratic nws-papers. They have given the republican representatives to under stand that this is the democratic year and we are going to stick together, and you republicans can go away back and sit down. -Weeping Water Republican. The Plattsmouth Commercial Club will hold its next regular monthly meet ing at Coates Hall, Tuesday, February I6th, at 8 p. m. Don't let it be said that anyone interested in the progress of the city failed to be present and take part in the business interests of Platts mouth. It is immaterial whether you ilerive any direct benefit or not. Platts mouth is to be the best and most en ergetic city in Nebraska for the year 1109. You can do much to make it so. Add your energy and best thought to it. Your assistance counts. You don't know just how much you can do until you try. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT POP ULAR. Mr. Roosevelt has been the most popular President who has ever rilled the office. The range of his acquaint ance with public affairs and the unflag ging industry and vitality that mark him beyond almost any other man of his generation have led him to try sim ultaneously to lead the country in a double-quick march to progress in every possible direction. His public spirit has been beyond all question, his intel ligence and his information have been of bewildering extent, his actual achievements form a prodigious list, and his energy has seemed to a great many excellent men at Washington to have made him a trifle impatient and dictatorial. It takes a vast amount of vigor for any man in public office to exercise all the power that is theoret ically available. It is not that Mr. Roosevelt has been a usurper of author ity, but that his unceasing energy has shown the country, -for the first time since Lincoln and the exigencies of a colossal war,-how vast is the power beckon on the wavering battle line of that is reposed in the handsofourChief universal liberty till the last genera Magistrate. If Mr. Roevelt had lift- tion of mar-kind. ed his finger for another term tho Re- DUUUCan liartV Would have nnmipntril I him with unanimity.ho would have been easily re-elected, and politicians, wheth er in Congress or out of it, would not have wished to run the risk of fighting him. This, in fact, furnished one of the reasons why it was best that Mr. DEMOCRATIC ORATORS ON LIN COLN IN 1864. "I cannot give you any better ar gument why you should change this administration than to say that if you prefer liberty to slavery you will change it and change it quick ly, for if Lincoln is elected, fare well to civil liberty." I Ex-Gov. Wickliffej of Kentucky, at N. Y., Sept. 9, 18641 "By arrogating to himself pow ers not granted by the constitution and the laws, Mr. Lincoln has ex ercised, or attempted to exercise, a despotic power over the people such as only the emperor of Austria can exercise. He has given himJ self over to those who declare that the constitution is a league with death and a covenant with hell." Col. Gray of De troit, Mich., Oct. 5, 1864. "After nearly four years' exper ience of the rule of the republican party, the merchants and capital ists have met together to declare that the only certain way to restore an honorable peace with the union is by hurling Abraham Lincoln from power and placing the government in the hands of patriots and states men." " John T. Hoffman, address at N. Y., Oct. 31, 1S64. "Mr. Lincoln is not satisfied with the blood now being shed in the southern states. For the price of the presidency he is willing to ex tend the era of fraternal slaugh ter." Reverdy Johnson, address at N. Y., Oct. 21, 1864. "Itisof this moment the unspeak able misfortune of the country to be placed in the wrong by the law less and unconstitutional measures adopted under the administration of an ignorant and financial presi dent, the tool of the worst men and the worst party that ever rose to power in any nation." George F. Comstock, X ? ? ? ? ? ? Y Y ? ? ? ? ? ? Y ? Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y NEW GINGHAMS Our summer goods are now coming in and we are busy marking them, getting them ready as fast as we can. This week we wish to call your attention to our Ginghams, as this year we are in a position to offer to you Everett's Classics Dress Ginghams for 8 1-2 ccnls per Yard Seersuckers and Chambrays at 7c per yard. Get an idea from a glance at our window. Ready-to-wear Shirt Waists, Surfs and Wrap pers. We have a complete line of these in stock high quality and perfect fit. Watch this space (or further announce ments about our New Goods. X ? Y Y Y Y Y E. G. OOVEY Q SON X V Roosevelt should retire. His influence wai tending to become so prodigious that his legislative programs would have seemed more authoritative than Presidential recommendations ought to be. But when Mr. Roosevelt had made it plain that he was going to retire.and when the end of his term was so near that there was little to fear by way of punishment or reward, the temptation to snarl at him was as strcng for a certain class of men as was the temp tation to fawn upon his successor-elect. A good-humored and disinterested pub lic across the length of a great land is able to understand both processes, that the cheap detractors who snarl at the outgoing President, and that of the hopeful sycophants who try to gain favor by praising the President-elect at ! the expense of his most valuable and closest public associate."-Review of Kcviews. address at N. Y., Sept. 18, 1864. The above quotations are only a few brotherhood of States, and the dl.ad the many that miBht be given, and Abraham Lincoln will peal the clarion of j illustrate very clearly how the beleagured nations, and marshal! and ! democratic orators spoke of Abraham Lincoln at the very tune when he was doing the great and noble deeds that cause the world to praise him new. I Many democrats call themselves Lin- It M A V lw ttntnrl nnOL'nif. Mint enmj) I ....an ....... - Yir t T 1 . . -mi u v nutvu I.I jmiiii biiui. evil iv I I.UI.I Ul'NIUl 1(119 I1UW, CVt.ll ft li LlTJ Ull people are always just n little behind is wont to call himself a Lincoln demo- tune. Had the esteemed Journal hus- crat, but it is a well known fact that tied around with its gopher-groundhog , his father trained with that class from' bounty bill perhaps even now some) whom we have quoted above in 1S64. bright Cass county boy were proudly Nay, more, many of Mr. Bryan's speech- exhibiting a tiny scalp as a token of jes about President McKinley and Pres-. his prowess as a mighty hunter, and ident Roosevelt sound much like a dem this last batch of Eskimo delight had ocratic speech against Abraham Lin- been kept ut home for local consumption. It is astonishing what interesting reading a batch of official reports and statistics will make when dished out by a master hand. Bulletins from the Ne braska Department of Labor now have coin in 1864. If there was such a thing as a Lincoln democrat, you would find him in the republican pr.rt. Lincoln was a republican, and was denounced by democrats just the sam as every republican president has been from that day to this. It is the same demo cratic party today that it was when it tit. ... i. t T : u..t u.. Ul denouncing Al,rahm Linco,n ning column which Will Maupin used to a'ritp lluilv fnr tVi.i Wnrlil.llnrulil I - v... niriTAni c i ittcd a mcto OP LINCOLN. I A Berlin society note in the Chicago Recorti-Her.ild announce that A. E. Wet en and wife are the guests for a few days of W. IIohen:ol!em and fam- iiy. sales-room in New Orleans, Lincoln, who had conducted a freighted flatboat down the Mississippi from Indiana, re marked to his ciew: If ever I get a chance to hit that thing (slavery,) I'll hit it hard. Who ever heard of a reformer reap ing the reward of his labors in his life time! Versatility is an injurious possession, since it never can be greatness. A versatile man, to be safe from execra tion, should never soar. The severest justice may not always be the best policy. There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. I apprehend tha. in no society that ever did exist, or ever shall be formed, was or can the equality asserted be practically enforced and carried out. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher considera tion. The strongest bond of human sym pathy, outside of the family relations, should be one uniting all working peo ple, of all nations, and tongues, and , kindreds. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. All nature, the whole world, mate rial, moral intellectual, is a mine. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. As I understand the spirit of our in- stitutions, it is designed to promote the elevation of men. 1 am, therefore, hostile to anything that tends to their debasement. With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, ! 1 yli r'-N.'- iJW' 1 jfvAtf Business Men Eat here to their own great sat isfaction and profit. Our lunch from 11:30 to 1:30 meets most wants of the man who looks for easily and quickly digested food tastily prepared and at a price not prohibitive to one of ordinary means. Plenty of variety. Glad to see you any cay. DR. A. P. BARNES V. S. For Hot Fires Get Egenber ger's Coal ! Sure satisfaction every time you light a fire if on top of the kindling is ebony fuel from our yards. It's heat and light giving and slate-free when it leaves the mines, screened and cleaned agan here and served to you full weight and with celerity of delivery. Order any way that suits you. Both telephones. J. V. EGENBERCER REMEMBER THE GREAT CLEARING SALE now going on at our store. Below we quote many saving prices for the buyer. Buy now and be wise If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. (February, 1812.) Do you suppose that I should ever j let us strive to finish the work we arc have got into notice if I hnd waited to in, to bind up the the nation's wounds; be hunted up and rushed forward bv ', to care for him who shall have borne I Thosu democrats over ut Lincoln older, men. j the battle, and for his widow and his seem to btk very sensitive about the Suspicion and jealousy never did help j orphan-to do all which may achieve Radiant home, former price $45 now oo Sapphire Hird Coal Stove.formey price $42.50, now.... 30 00 German heater, soft or hard coal, former price $19.00. . .Jl'j 50 Splendid Oak, nicely trimmed, former price $14.50 j 50 Gem Star Light Wood Stove former price $15.00 10 25 Round Oak, former price $1!.(I0, now 13 50 suggest on that the republican minority any man in any situation. is dictating legislation. On coming out of a slave auction and cherish a just ami lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. H. L. 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