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The Plattsmouth Journal
rL'KMSIIhI WKKKI.V AT
PLAmMOUTH, NEBKASKA.
It. A. I : ATHS, ri.UMSHKi:.
Kotrrtvl at the pKtofnV at I'lalttruouth. Ne
lrka. at tK'coii'li'laH.t nutUT.
Wk have another opportunity of
netting a canning factory if the
knockrr don't get in his work.
Thk Nebraska City girl who is
suing for $10,(KK for the loss of her
scalp will have the heartfelt sympa
thy of the Nebraska federal office
holders who recently lost theirs.
TnK Iowa Kir! who has received
one hundred proposals of marriage
since drawing a claim in the Rose
hud reservation lottery probably
feels that she has solved the mystery
of the matrimonial business. She
certainly does not feel matrimonial
ly inclined. We know of some girls
in this old town who would jump
:it even one proposal.
Tin. resolution of Representative
Sheppard, of Texas, for a commit
tee to invetigate the ejectment of
Mrs. Morris from the White House
is rendered necessary by the presi
idetit's neglect to investigate it him
self. ICverybodv wants to know
whether roughness to women is en
couraged by the chief executive of
this great, free and indeiendent
America.
Turk:; railroad commissioners
will 1-e elected next lall. This
ought to please the railroads, from
the fact that three men are more
esily controlled than an entire leg
islative bodv.
Tin: man who isn't for I'latts
mouth is against it. The man who
is for the city is always saying a
good word in its favor, while the
man who isn't is saying and doing
all he can against the town and the
interests of the public-spirited peo
ple living therein.
Tin: government is exacting li
cense to sell patent medicine lo
calise of the alcoholic ingredients
they contain. This is indeed a hard
blow at the people who would nev
er poison their lips, by touching
anything having an alcoholic taint,
but who drink p. "tent medicines and
;ecure go.nl results from their ex
hilarating properties. ()'..! King
Ilooe mows i:i a mysterious way.
hi-, wonders to perform.
An exchange rises to remark that
the next United States senator from
Nebraska will jc "one whose posi
tion on questions of great interest
will not be of a doubtful quantity."
That sounds like the opening of a
political campaign. Who would
have suggested at the time of their
election, that there was any ques
tion as to the position of Deitrich,
Millard, ISurkctt or any of the great
and good men who have represent
ed the railroads of this state in the
national seriate? The railroads will
select the next senator from Ne
braska, in case the legislature is
republican, and there will be no
question as to his position upon all
matters effecting the railroads.
The railroads never make mistakes.
Individual Incomes. I their fellows in the faith to a greater
Waldron calculates in his Hand-'effort in behalf of principles held
book of Currencv and Wealth that j dear. Such a meeting cannot fail
N Nii:i senators are curioti-
to know way the- president appoint
ed delegates to the Morocco con
ference and is sending a tleet to
( I ibraltar. I n snarling this country
up with quarrels, great and small,
of ICurope, the president rejects
the wise advice of Washington and
Jefferson, and breaks the rule fol
lowed by our government from the
first inauguration of George Wash
ington to that of William McKinley.
Reform Between Friends.
Mr. Roosevelt's administration
is at least consistent in discrimin
ating between those who are and
those who are not friends for the
purposes of reform. It has been
but a week or ten days since the
President "fired" some Federal of
ficials because they failed of suffi
cient rigor toward an offender who
did not happen to have a friend in
th.e Cabinet. Following this, and
capping the Roweii-Loomis and
I'.ir.I Morton incidents, comes Sec-
vy ;aw s exoneration ot J;an-
Walsh. of Chicago, who caused i
ke:
in the United States more than four
million families, comprising nearly
a third of the nation , must get along
on annual incomes of less than four
hundred dollars jer family; more
than one-half of the families in the
United States get less than six hun
dred dollars; two-thirds of the fam
ilies get less than nine hundred dol
lars, while only one in twenty of
the nation's families is able to ob
tain an income of over three thous
and dollars a year. Mr. Moffett
cites the conclusions of experts in
financial statistics to the effect that
whatever may befall individual mul
timillionaires, or individual sons or
grandsons of multimillionaires, the
rich are destined to grow so much
richer that in thirty or forty years,
under existing conditions, the five
thousand richest Americans, instead
of having fifteen billions between
them, as they have todav, may
have fifty or even a hundred
billions. Some well-informed per
sons go so far as to assert that John
I). Rockefeller alone, should he live
to 1926, when he would still be
a younger man than Kussell rageis
today, would himself be able to dis
pose of eight billions of dollars.
The mind reels when it essays to
reckon what might be accomplished
with so vast a capital were it left to
a son or a grandson of great strength
of intellect and character.
to accomplish results. It should
not be given in the name of any po
litical club, but in the name of the
state committee, and the expense
to be met by the committee and at
tendants. In other states the plan
has been tried with profit. The
Telegram commends it heartily
to Chairman Allen and the state
committee. ' ' Chairman Allen need
not wait to call the committee to
gether for action, but let him issue
an invitation to all democrats to at
tend such meeting, fat the same
time request each one to signify by
the return mail his intention of at
tending or otherwise .CI By such re
sponses it can easily be determined
the number that will be present
and how to proceed in completing
arrangements. This meeting would
inaugurate a movement that would
result in a complete organization of
the party in the state. On with
the movement.
Mk. Rogkrs may have forgotten
all he ever knew about Standard
Oil, but in the end Missouri desires
to be shown.
It is reported that Vice President
Fairbanks has opened headquarters
in Chicago and will launch his
boom for the presidential nomina
tion in 1908. Floating icebergs!
Fairbanks would arouse about as
much enthusiasm as a frost in
August.
j Spkakkk Cannon nowfindsthat,
It is indeed appalling that a man
so absolutely ignorant of the doings
of the Standard Oil company as Mr.
Rogers apiears to le should draw
so large a salary for managing the
concern. He dK.-s not seem to Ik?
positive of anything not even his
name. He refuses to give a direct
answer to any question; and bases
his refusal upon his "personal
rights. In this connection we
might remark that the Standard Oil
trust recognizes no rights in others.
three banks to become insolvent
Secretarv Shaw declares there was I maybe, a liu3e "0"-'' ca bc Pared
nothing "criminal" about Mr.
T::i: worst thing thr.t can happen
to a tow:; is for the business men to
come to the conclusion at the close
:t ill
el'.ot;
.-pi'ing.
time to
ear that
t;;ev have i
mimey to lay idle until
T!v f.r.si of the- year is the
pih tilings. Plattsmouth
now in s';a-)j to ;;o ir.io the swim.
e-n:::g ia.i has Kept the :.irm-
r.me. and the aoeuce
ii::er has lessened the
es. There ought to be
.vinter trade in this old
e.irs, it the nier
re.'ch out after it.
tde
The
ers bus
of cold weaihe
trade in slaves,
tile bigge-i wint
town !":' many
chants will only
Will thev reach?
I'r
R.v
criticism of
csider.t Roosevelt's interpretation
t!ie Monroe uoctrir.e is as just as
it is forcible. Monroeand the states
men of histime never had a thought
of setting up protectorates over the
weak republics of Latin America.
In the minds of Oeorge Channing,
the lritish secretary of state, who
suggested it; of Jefferson, who con
sulted alxnit it, and of President
Monroe, who promulgated it, the
Monroe doctrine meant neither
more nor less than that we woidd
not suffer Kuropean powers to mo
lest or impose upon the colonies of
Spain, which had, with our hearty
approval, recently won their independence.
Walsh's methods. To be sure,
"that part of the banking law
which prohibits the loaning of more
money than 10 per cent of the cap
italization to one man may have
leen violated," but that is not
criminal, and the Secretary de
clares that "Walsh did no more
than many other bankers are doing
all the time."
A good many other people are all
the time doing what Paul Morton
ditl, and what Loomis did, too; but
where is the excuse in that? The
point now is, why should the Sec
retary of the Treasury make light
ot grave financial irregularities?
The defense they all do it" is
hardly Incoming, under the cir
cumstances. "For our part," declares the
Nation, "we find the Secretary's
condonation of Walsh simply shock
ing mosi shocking of all, per
haps, from the fact that Mr. Shaw
appears to think it the most inno
cent thing in the world. Walsh is
his personal friend. It is in the
guise of friendship that Mr. Shaw
comes forward to make light of the
charges agai'.ist the Chicago banker
and promoter? In this respect, it
must be confessed, he is following
an exalted precedent." Following
an exalted President, to be exact.
The administration is merely
guilty of what a low order of ward
politicians term in the most ex
pressive vernacular "fronting" for
its friends. It has acquired the
for much-needed public buildings iir
the growing towns and cities of the
west and southwest. Let us live
in the hope that before the end of
the session enough money may be
scraped together for a government
building in Plattsmouth.
Mr. Roosevelt's little Phillip
pines tariff bill may or may not
go through; but Mr. Burgess of
Texas exactly expressed the senti
ment of a great majority in the
south and west, when he called
upon the advocates of that measure
to quit making agricultural products
the burden-bearers of the produc
tive svstem.
A Railroad Commission.
Among the things which appears
" to have escaped the political piacc
hunters, says the Peatrice'Sun, is
the fact that there is to be elected
next fall, three railroad commis
sioners. These wili be contingent
officers, their service depending up
on the adoption of a constitutional
amendment, which will create the
offices.
A prominent railroad man, and
one who takes an'active parti in the
selection of candidates for conven
tions, suggests that the people must
be very careful not to slop over, and
select men who are liable to do
something radical. He says there
should be one good business man, a
lawyer, and a railroad man, in or
der that the commission will not do
something that will not be indorsed
by the courts.
Probably lie would recommend
business man who is a member of
'the elevator trust, a railroad attor
nev, and a railroad man who is in
the employ of one of the companies
There is a great deal of anxiety
upon the part of the railroads for
fear that the people shall attempt to
manage their own affairs, and fail.
The disposition upon the part of
the railroads to manage everything,
is what creates a prejudice against
them in the minds of the people.
So far as the railroad commission
is concerned, it will amount to noth
ing. If it should attempt to do
anything, the roads would simply
step into court and get an injunction
showing that the people have no
rights which the railroads are bound
to respect.
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in use for over 30 years, has borno tho signature of
and has been made under his per-
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All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-trmMl are but
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Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
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List your farm and city
property with J. H Thrasher
Coates Block.
upon
For Sale.
A trood 47 acre farm 1 mile from
town, good timber, near 2000 fruit
trees, alfalfa meadow, good fish pond,
containing a couple thousand fish. good
j spring water, and good rock on place.
I (Tood new 4-room house, and outbuild
j ing. one-half made cf rock. This place
I will be for sale only one month. J 'rice
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! I'lattsmouth. Neb.
C. A. F?avvls, Lawyer
c relied upon in
habit, and it may
any extreme.
It balks not at the severest tests
to which fneiu!hip may be put.
Ami the friends of the administra
tion appear tolc legion. Only the
rankest outsiders are allowed to
feel the law's heavy hand. I5y the
way, it is interesting to speculate
uioii what course would have been
pursued in the cases of Senators
Mitchell and Burton, had those
two estimable statesmen been mem
bers of the extensive but charmed
circle.
The policy of "reform between
friends" is seriously interfering
with the Roosevelt vaunted ''square
deal" and how much farther will
it go?
A Democratic Dinner Party.
Here is another proposition ema
nating from the brainy editor of the
Columbus Telegram, one of best
democratic papers in Nebraska,
which meets with the Journal's
hearty approval: "in view of the
fact that the principles of govern
ment advocated by the democratic
party during the past dozen years
are now fast winning favor in the
state and nation. The Tele
urges again and again
the deinocracv of the state of Xe
braska the necessity of a better or- bate GHd general practice,
gani.atiou for the purpose of hav- f zq of CcUJlty AttOTTjSy.
ing those principles not only talked
about and applauded, "but of having
them applied to the actual affairs of
government. We have appealed
for county organizations for this
purpose, and without desire to re
flect upon the present state organ
ization. We are not asking for any
reorganization of the state commit
tee. The committe is all right.
Our object is to arouse the interest
of individual democrats, so that
they may be induced to give lietter
support to the state committee.
Looking always to this end. we sug
gest to the state committee the giv
ing of a democratic dinner party
some evening in late February or
early March, and to that dinner we
would like to see the working dem
ocrats from all over the state invit
ed. Let the dinner be given in the
Auditorium in Lincoln or Omaha,
where thousands can be seated . At
the feast let addresses be delivered
by democrats capable of inspiring
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PLATTSMOUTH, -:- -:- NEBRASKA
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We Solicit the Fanners Trade
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Jacks and Stallions
COME AND SEE MY
Percfyeron, Belgiai) & German Coacf) Stallions
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lion as kooU as wen- evt-r jrrown in Kurojx'. ami Ixatcr aril more prolific breeder-. nl
prices from &W0 to tlOOO. I liave horses of all ai s. 2 to 7 years olil. from WM to
in weight, all sound and Kod. and will, besides paying for tliem.el ves in on- season,
put ?5U in tiie owner's pocket. .Many a Nebraska farmer has reael ed tin- ioliit
where lie lias several fine brood mares and is able to keep a nice stallion for his own
and liis neihlMtrs' use. Don't let the lioys leave the farm; raise more horses and
mules, it pays better than anything you can do. Now is the time to raise jrood
horses. Come to the Cedar Rapids Jack Farm and buy a Ix tter stallion than'you
have ever seen for tsiJO. I also have a large assortment of
HOME-CROWN JACKS
and bring four importations per year from Spain. .Mules three monih-o'd ure sei;
injr nearly everywhere this season at ;1'0 each.
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