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A. AW. A. A A. .Ifc. fcJfcJW-jfttfcfcJfcfcAkA. AA. AA -AA. a6a -6a AA jft THE NEWS T t ? ? ? t t ? t IUA.T'rt-MOUTH. NICHWAHKA Entered at the postoflice at Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, as second claBs mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER .THE NEWS-HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Publishers A. E. QUINN KATES OF One Year in Advance, $1.50. Plattsmouth Telephone No. 85. Jtne 6, A ghostly figure in woman's attire appeared upon sixth street at about 7:15 last evening. A demand is now made for extra police. The thing Bliould bo caught at all hazards. The city should own three or four log drags, and then one day's work right after a rain, would be worth more than three or four days the way it is now done. It would be economy for the city council to order drags built at once. ' It seems peculiarly strange but nevertheless a fact that hundreds of dollars are wasted in street work cvry year in this city. Last Saturday a gang was sent out with the big road scrtiper to do sonic work. It is said buy those who saw the work done, that nearly a whole day was put in in doing that ought to have been done in two hours. The fault seems to lie with the party bossing the work. One day of that kind of work should call for a discharge. The united States Supreme court has just handed down a decision up holding an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission on an order reducing Missouri river freight rates. The immediate effect of this decision will be that tho railroads operating between St. Louis and other Mississippi river crossings, as well as all the Mis souri river cities, Sioux City to Kansas City, inclusive, must at once put into effect tho 51-cent scale, which will reduce the rates now charged between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers an Atlantic seaboard business 9 cents on first class, 7 cents on second class, 5 cents on third class, 3 cents on fourth class and 2 cents on fifth class. This substantial reduction means an ag gregate saving to shippers of freight to Missouri river cities of between $125,000 and $150,000 per year. RICHARD BALLINGER'S WORK. It is an easy thing to blacken one's character and reputation in the eyes of the public. Let any one, no matte! what his reputation might be, with out making direct charges, commence to make insinuations against another, and it is simply amazing how many will be aroused to the belief in the insinuations, without regard to whet her there is any foundation or not. The yellow journals seize upon all such cases, when a public officer is the vic tim, and enlarge upon such insinua tions for the solo purpose of making the columns of their papers pear startling. So it has been in the Ballingcr-Pinchot-Glavis investigation. The public and particularly tho yel low journals, had forgotten that Richard A. Ballinger was the man se lected for tho Commissioner of Pub lic Lands by President Roosevelt, and retained by him during his ad ministration. The public and parties larly the yellow journals had forgotten that it was this same Richard A. Ballinger who conducted such a vig orous investigation into the public land fraud cases, and upon whose in. vestigations so many public land fraud were prosecucd and so many convie tions made. The public and particularly the yd low journals have forgotten the great service rendered by this same Richard A. Ballinger during President Roose velt's administration. Can wc point to any other single department of the federal government where fraud was so vigorously investigated and pro secuted than in the public land cases during President Roosevelt's entire administration? Senators and congressmen, and others in high places were caught, prosecuted and convicted and Richard A. Ballinger was the one man in the service of President Roose velt's administration, who planned nnd carried out this great work. Who can now say that Pinchot and Glavis nrc not the tools of a vicious conspiracy t t ? Y ? ? f ? t OF CASS COUNTY Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION Six Months in idvance, 75c Nebraska Telephone No. 85 1910. to destroy his great usefulness to the government? Both Peru and Ecuador have agreed to call off the dogs of war nnd accept the order of mediation of the boun dary question by the United States, urazil and Argentina. Sensible fel lows those Peruvians, et al. Gotch lias again demonstrated that ho 9is the grcsatost wrestler the world has ever produced by defeating the big Pole the other night at Chicago. He says he will now retire and devote his time to his farms in Iowa, but be fore doing so will help Jeffries to get in condition for his little matinee with one Jack Johnson. Vol. 1, No. 1, of the Nchawka News John I. Long, publisher, is on our desk. It is a seven-column folio sheet, neatly printed, filled with eood stuff, well put together and is a credit to the publisher and the little town of Nc hawka. ihe News extends a warm welcome to Bro. Long and will gladly place him on our "X" list fnr tho daily and semi-weekly. The administration railroad bill which has been under consideration by congress the past twelve weeks was finally passed yesterday bv the senate. Only tewelve votes all of them democrats were recorded against the bill. Radical ' changes were mado in the bill before it was passed and that accounts for the brac- tical unanimity of the senate in its passage. All the insurgents who have been opposing the bill voted for it. p,vv oviuntnjjuuil UUIIti'Bt 111- augurated by the News Herald gives promise of being a hummer. All over the county they arc talking about it and alive signified their intention ui fiux-uug nit comm. ixic car to the past week and next week an en deavor will De made to visit the other places. CHAMP CLARK'S ASPIRATION. Without feininir a false mndesv or pretense that he is responding to the lrrestitsb e ea of h party and his country. Chamn Chirk announces that he will not get into the senatorial fight in Missouri be cause he wants to stay in the house and be speaker. For being frank and to the point, the minority leader of the house is entitled to credit. although he may as well take in ventory of his strength, because even in the event of a democratic majority next time he would not bo be safe on counting on an unapposed elevation to the sneakers e in r Competent observers of thennliii. cal drama as played on the con gressional boards regard Champ Clark as being more luckv thnn shrewd in securing whatever measure of success the democrats have ac chieyed under his floor leadership He is a good talker and quick at re partee, but easily out matched as a parliamentarian. As an nhstrnp. tionist he has done fairly well, but demonstrated no constructive ability To get the minority to vote nirninat something proposed by the repub licans is one tnmg ,and to get them to vote for something proposed by a democrat is another. He is lost control completely at the opening of the Congress when the Fitzgreald bolt saved the Cannon rules, and in the later successes mrninst. Pnn. nonisn it wa sthe insurgent alliance that saved the day and not tlm generalship of Champ Clark. It takes peculiar oua ifieiatinnn tn perform the duties of sneaker in tho national house of representatives and to guide the deliberations of a body of more than 550 statesman, each - HERALD and Champ Clark's possession of qulajifflcations has been questioned by his own party colleagues. The best thing that could happen to Champ Clark would be to have the next house republican,and thu9 save him either from being dethroned as party leader or from being sub jected' to a test his closest friends think he cannot meet. Ike. TKE NEW OLD SEXTON. He toiled, away, alone, alone around him many an humble stojic on which the primitive legend read, of people numbered with the dead, he saw the grasses round him wave but as he dug the lowly grave and lis tened to the shovel ring, the winter wind could hear him sing: "I dig I dig the yielding clay; the old, the young must pass away." A mother kneels with moaning wild. beside the dead form of her child- :v...'r i . . , . ' i uv oinuiiig lace sue once had seen is now on death's reoose sorr-nn t,f little hands are on his breast, the little heart is now at rest; the sexton as his shovel rings, in stranco and som ber accents sings: "Some live an hour some live a day, but all on earth must pass away." A husband, pale and tearful eyed, stands by the coffin of his bride: he sees her hair in silk-on strands, he sees the cold and pulseless hands; cold the brow and dead the eyes no soft voice answers to bin ori..- and yet the wind that southward sings, still hears the sexton as he sings: "The bride may deck in bright ar ray, bur all the earth must pass away." There lies in state in vondoi- Imll the master of these acres all; the lord oi neid and wood and world, who leaves behind his wenlfJi nf irrilil" it could not warm the chilling breath,' nor turn aside the hand of death; in life wealth transient pleasures brings and still the gray haired sexton sings: "Tho rich, the poor, the sad, the gay, all, all on earth must pass away." A widow in yon humble cot, holds deathly hands that have wrought; sees deadly eyes she once had known, to look so gladly in her own, but blind the eyes and deaf the ears, to yearning gaze and falling tears: O irrave and donth you have your stings. And still the aged sexton sings: "Men vanish like a transient ray, all on earth must pass away." We journey through the world along, with merry laugh and heedless song, we reck not of the flvinir years, or muffled drums and failing tca-rs wnat tnoueh the honrso tho dead may bear? Our world is glad and tree ot care; the sun it s radiance o'er us flings and still the feeblo sovt.nn sings: "This life is but a winter's day, we only breakfast and away." Another sexton dies a era ve. out whorp the leafless willows wave; the skies are uarK, the day is drear, and who will now be buried here? Who in this narrow room shall dwell? The sexton old who sung so well. And he who digs, though young and strong, has learned his predecessor's song; and as his tireless shovel rinirs. ho still in thoughtless accents sines! "T'rlitr I dig the yielding clay: the old and young must pass away." Waft Mason. TAFT AND TARIFF. t In an interview between President Taft and George K. Turner, published in the June issue of McClure's maga zine, on the subject of the tariff bill, President Taft said: "I did not secure all the reductions I believe should have been made. The woolen schedule should have been lowered; it was not, because a com bination of representatives from the manufacturing and wool-growine sec tions of the east and West had a ma jority in Congress, which was over whelming. Not only would it have been useless to ry and beat it, but a reopening of the old fight between the growers and the manu facturers set tled by the present schedule wouldhave unfastened a Pandora's box that might have defeated the whole bill. "The Democratic South, with the Northern lumbering states, prevented free lumber; another combination of the same sections made impossible the lowering of the much criticized cotton schedules. As always has been the case in making tariffs in this country, certain combinations of bcc tional interests in Congress formed irrespective of parties, uponp urely indusrtial lines had majorities.which were a matter of fact and had to be recognized as such. I finally signed the bill. Not be cause it was a perfect tariff; ideal tariffs are an impossibility under the methodsof tariff legislation we have employed. I signed it because ic was the best I could secure under the circumstances; because it represented a considerable downward revision from the Dinglcy tariff; and because all things considered, I did not be lieve myself justified in holding up the business of the country for months longer by vetoing this bill, on the chance of getting a better one. The bill gave free hides and free ore; it reduced the duty on iron 75 per cent on coal 33 1-3 per cent; on lumber 37 1-2 per cent; on all classes of iron and steel manufactures very greatly; and, generally sneaking, made large cuts in the rates on the necessities of life; while, to offset this, it made large raises in luxuries. These Have Agreed. Sometime ago the Western Traffic Association agreed upon a general advance of interstate freight rates. The following roads compose this organization. The Missouri Pacific railway. Chicago & Noithwestern. Chicagom, Burlington, & Quincy. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. Wabash (o:npany. ' Illinois Central. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. Chicago & Alton. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Chicago, Great Western. Missouri, Kansas & Texas. St. Louis and San Franscisco. . Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City. St. Paul & Des Moines. Minneapolis & St. Louis. Iowa Central. Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern em. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Umaha. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern. Chicago, Milwaukee & Gary. Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Saulte St. Marie. Kansas City Southern. Chicago, Indiana & Southern. The Western Trunk line committee. To prevent this hardship upon ship pers in the following states, viz., Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Da kota, Wyoming and parts of Montana Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Tennasec, Attorney General Wiek crsham obtained a restraining order in the name of the United States in the Federal Court. HOW WOULD JESUS VOTE? Rev. Burdick of Nehawak, might better tackle the business end of a mule than to engage in a controversy with Editor Olive of Weeping Water especially when the editor has the best side of the argument. Burdick is the editor of the Religious Field Glass, which is printed in the Platts mouth Journal office, and in replying to the article from Burdick's pen Editor Olive strikes the Field Glass editor a solar plexus blow when he says: "We think we have made ourselves plain, and will state that The Repub lican has been doing business for twenty-eight years, and it has in all those years advocated temperance, been a clean, moral toned paper, and we think' the editor the the Religious Field Glass has gone out of his way to condemn the paper on a question of right, as to which is right. This Field Glass, but two months old, print ed in the office of the only avowed champion of the liqur business in Cass county undertakes to besmirch the reputation of the Republican for no oilier reason than that we dif fer on the question of the right of a Christian to vote for a compriomse on the liquor question. The Field Glass editor gets paid well for working for conty option, and it is possible that part of our re cent article struck home, and perhaps because we refused to sign our name to a paper donating to him, is one reason why he gets s Christian spirit to moving so conspicuously. We recog nize that the Field Glass is a better paying proposition than the pulpit and while we admire your paper as a neat and crditable one, would give you this kindly advice, that you shouuld not work the religious, or tem perance, or Sunday School racket to get even, but to do good. "And further for we have no shame, we aslk the Field Glass editor in his next issue to give as much promi nence to the fact that the Republican has for twenty-eight years been an advocate of temperance, that it favors state wide prohibition and docs not favor a compromise whereby Douglas county and a few others may sell liquor. We respectfully suggest that you use a little of the "Christian'.' spirit in dealing with others. "Again we ask you to tell us without equivocation, in a gentlemanly way, if in your opinion Jesus would vote for county option. Then we will know that Burdick, Bryan and Jim Dahlman who are all working for an act that will permit the sale of liquor, are doin a Christian act, Christian act, only of course Jim Dahlman favors a lot of booze and you favor just a curtailment; while the Republican favors that if the right o'clock law is a good thing, curtailing the sale and hours, a law curtailing it all day is still better. We want you to answer the above question for you preach bible truths and the question is all summed up in its answer." Mrs. William Claus and daueht er Bertha were passengers ion the north bound Burlington this mornirg, go ing up to the city for the day. Iff Fitly Years W III ihe Standard A Guarantee of Light, Swctif Pure, Viholesomo Food Misses Ellen and Alice Pollock are callers at Omaha today. Fred Majors, night fireman at the Burlington shops, hads added a mem ber to his family. Its a boty. Thomas and Bidwell Joiae left this afternoon to spend Sunday with their sinter at Bellevuc. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Clark came in this morning on the train from Omaha. Miss Hilda Barwick was an Omaha traveler this morning. Mrs. T. J. Will was among the Platts Plattsmoyuth people who left this morning for Saturday's visit to Oma ha. Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Waters of Lin coln arrived in the city this morning for a brief stay. Mrs. Joe Fitzgerald and daughter Grace are in the Gate City tofday on their regular Saturday visit. Weyrich and Hadraba have iust had printed an order of pretty half year calendars. Old calendars removed during houseelcaning days, and soiled -' H Tf itl n 1 1 ir-'" -t mm m. 9 x 12 Rugs Axminister, Wilton Velvets, Brussels and Ingrains from $10.00 to $27.50 We will give you a discount of from 5 to 10 per cent for a few days. )E. G. Dovey & Son j !1 by six months usage, can now be re placed with new ones. The half year calendars are becoming quite popular and the News has yet some very pretty ones left. Mrs. G. A. Grissman and mother Mrs. S. Kinkaid left this mornong for Omaha where the former resides, she had been visiting in town a few days at the home of her mother. Social. at Mynard Thursday evening, June y. riattsmouth Cornet Band will furnish music. Everyone is invited to come. Do not forget the date w2t-d2t. Notice. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for County Commissioner from the Third district, subject to the will of the republicans, at the primary election this fall. 191-Ct-wtf. II. DETTMAN. DAILEY d MAGI! MOtl O't COUNTS T VV VKMVVR. I f WUmuul Ik . ink MUMtm. I r