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J .utered at t he p sto!u'-e :it I'lat.t siuout h. Ne
braska, as si-i-ondelass m:ittT.
Dare They Do It?
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A siiixiai, from Denver, says
that Ami 15. Todd, who was al
ready under a bond ofJSJ.OOO, has
feeu conijc-lled to give an additional
lond of 55,000. There are a few
other fellows teat the aheminc-nt
should 1c looning after just as well.
Ami is not the onlv one.
Tiikkk is another epidemic of
oldest inhabitants. A man died at
Kairniont recently who was 91
years of age, and who says that
he saw the first railroad operated
in the United States. lie neglect
ed to say whether the state officials
and judges rode on passes or not.
Tin. ivnn
loitiou i
attorney. 1 :. is jilea
val of Master from tin.
I'nited States district
some o: l!ie
reliullica:i leaders, while others
r-eetn to think he should have re
mained. A factional lijht is brew
ing. Let iteo'iie. The sooner tile
better it will be for thv ieojile of
Nebraska.
Santa Ci.ats will have a tre
mendous lot of presents to distri
bute tomorrow night, and the way
ought to be made as easy as pos
sible for him. It will be hard pull
ing for Douuer and Ulitzen and the
other brave steeds if the sleigh run
ners have to drag over dry, dusty
ground.
Ik by any chance Odell's fight
against reueral interterence in
New York politics should result in
the overthrow of bossism and ma
chine methods in that State, a mir
acle will have been wrought the
like of which has not been seen in
American politics since American
independence was won.
Somi: firms complain that they
are not getting trade that they
should. Possibly this is true. Pos
sibly many Send away for goods
that they should buy at home. Hut
remember the Lord helps those
who help themselves, and in every
day parlance, that means that the
merchant who does not reach out
after business through advertising,
shows no disposition to help himself.
Ch;;ist?.!As comes but once a
year and that is too bad. The
Christmas spirit ought to rule all
the year round. I nat is tne time
when earth is lifted nearest heaven.
If we could but fix the motives
which control men then, and give
them perennial force, if we could
diffuse throughout the whole year
the large-heartedness, the ingenu
ousness and sentiment of mankind
at Christmas-time, the world would
be belter for it.
Ir our merchants will get to
gether on special sale business
and all arrange for a special sale on
the same day, then advertise far
and wide their offerings they could
fill the city two or three days in a
week with bargain hunters. The
merchant who will let jealousy or
any other little thing stand in the
way of a good business policy is
standing in his own light. Other
towns are having these special sales
days with profit to everybody. Let's
get together upon this matter, and
sec that the customary dull period
does not follow the holiday buying.
An Excellent Appointment.
When the resignation of Fred V.
Ebiniier was presented and accepted
Tuesday nhilit by the council, William
Ilassler was appointed to till the
vacancy in the First ward. Mr. Kbing
er, who retires on account of his re
moval fruin the city, has made one of
the host members that ever occupied
a seat in the city council, and while
the Journal regrets to see him "step
down and out." we are positive that
Hilly Ilassler is just the man to step
into Mr. Fbinger's shoes. Mr. Ilassler
is a gentleman in every sense of the
term, and a citizen who can be de
pended upon to discharge the duties
of the oflice to the entire satisfaction
of the First ward constituency. Mr.
Ilassler is one of Plattsmouth 's best
citizens, he will be found laboring for
the best interests of the city at all
times and under all circumstances.
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to i'.. Put
'can iiiira-, as it dois, we are- very
jd.oi'.btiul as to th.e seriousness of the
i writer. We prefer to await the ac
tion of the next republican state
convention, and see if it dare act in
accordance with the News' article:
'It seems to the News that the
time has come in Nebraska for the
people of this state to give the rail
roads some of their own 'medicine.
In defiance of decency and right
action, the Hurlington and Union
Pacific railways have taken the
question of justness of their assess
ment into the federal courts, where
it will hang for a dozen years, if
they have their way. There was
another course open to the rail
ways, if they felt themselves ag
grieved i. e., the state courts
but their object is not speedy jus
tice, but a delay through which
they may force a compromise.
ne way by which the people
can effectively strike at the railroads
was oninueu m iasi evening s
News. It is to change the law
that the railroads must run the
gauntlet ot tne locai assessors, just
as every other tax payer must do
1 he unit theory now m vogue was
invented as a tax dodging device-
It placed in the hands of state of
ficers, who have in most instances
in past years been selected at con
ventions dominated by the corpora
tion agents, the right to fix the
value of every bit of railroad pro
perty in the state, while every
other property owner had to rely
upon the sense of justice possessed
bv his local assessor. An Omaha
or Lincoln capatihst might own a
farm in every one of two dozen
counties in the state and yet there
was no state board that fixed his
assessment. He had to depend up
on what the local man thought of
the value of his farms.
Make the railroads equal with
citizens before the law. Make
them pay their just proportion of
taxes. In the city of Lincoln they
pay about a tenth in municipal
taxes of what they should pay, and
the same is true of every city in the
state where thev have any consider
able property.
The railroads have debauched
noli tics, courts and legislatures
Ion enoiurh. Thev have found
their control slipping away from
them, and they dee to the federal
court. Let the people of Nebraska
bring them to time by using some
of the weapons ready to hand. The
fight is on. Let us do a little fight
ing ourselves.
and higher, taxes doubled, appro
priations doubled . an incompetent
and iaithlcss lev islaturc ruled by an
unscrupulous and shameless lob
In irom eery point Nebraska
misgoverned, misrepresented, dis
graced! What is Nebraska going to do
about it.'
What would the ordinary citizen
do if he had been so cheated and
shamed by a confidential and trust
ed servant as Nebraska has been by
the republican party?
Would he kick the faithless serv
ant out of the house, or would he
merely tell him to go take a bath,
change his clothes and come back
and take charge of his affairs again?
What, we repeat, is Nebraska go
ing to do about it?
In other states they spank the
party that betrays and plunders
note Ohio and Pennsylvania and
Missouri.
What will they do in Nebraski?
World-IIerald.
HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF IT
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Our Sentiments Exactly.
What Will Nebraska Do?
Up and down goes the Pig Stick,
with sickeningand monotonous reg
ularity. Kvery time it rises a Nebraska re
publican official trembles in his
boots, and whenever it falls it's a
ten to one shot that a Nebraska
republican head has been cracked.
The bad eggs are being broken
and the stench overpowers the state.
What's the matter with Nebras
ka, anyhow?
Is the wdiole state rotten? Is the
entire republican organization rot
ten? Or is it merely that the state is
controlled by the republican organ
ization and the organization is con
trolled by rotten men, who are on
top?
If we were to dig down under this
scum of republican rottenness per
haps we would find the state clean
and wholesome at he-art. In fact,
we who live in Nebraka, and who
love Nebraska, know it is so.
Put what must thev think who
know Nebraska only by reputation
and by the character of men she
puts forth to represent her?
Nebraska is shamed before the
eyes of the sisterhood of states, not
one of which has brought upon the
federal service a deeper stain than
has she.
Look at w hat the republican par
ty has done for Nebraska!
Dietrich, Savage and Mickey for
governors; Deitrich to the senate,
Thompson to Brazil, Frout for at
torney general, Baker, Cruzen,
Petti john .Tucker , Mathews , Baxter!
The state debt piling up higher
Democrats, savs Kdgar Howard
of the Columbus Telegram, differ as
to the best course to pursue in or
der to secure the election of a demo
cratic United States Senator from
Nebraska next fall. Some contend
that the state convention should
not make a nomination, but that
the aspirants should be left free to
make a fight for themselves in the
various sections of the state. For
instance, it is argued that if the
state convention should leave a free
field to all democrats Congressman
Hitchcock might be able to land an
entire delegation in Omaha, solely
on his personality; that Judge Old
ham could certainly break the re
publican barriers in Buffalo and ad
joining western counties; that W.
II. Thompson could carry the leg
islative ticket in the strong repub
lican county of Hall, and in a dozen
other counties w here his personality
always runs ahead of his party vote;
that Shellenberger could win sev
eral republican seats in the south
west country. We recognize the
force of this argument, and yet we
are ready to go on record in favor
of a senatorial nomination by the
state convention. It is time for the
democracy of the state to get into
closer touch witii the people. This
is a republican state, under normal
conditions, but present conditions
are not normal. Vast numbers of
republican voters have been hoping
against hope that their party would
break away from the railroad strings
by which the party now is bound.
These independent republican vo
ters are now passing from the stage
of hope to the stage of activity.
They are going to do things to their
faithless leaders next year. They
are going to try to force their leaders
to nominate republican candidates
who are free from corporation con
trol. That effort will be a tailure
and then independent republicans
will be mad enough to make effec
tive their protest against corpora
tion control of the republican party.
They will make that protest effec
tive by voting the democratic legis-
ative nominees. In order that re
publicans may be the more readily
induced to support democratic nom
inees for the legislature, the state
convention should name a candidate
for United States senator, and
pledge every democratic legislator
to vote for him. The nominee
should be a man whose record
would give everybody confidence in
lis loyalty to the people's view of
the railroad question. With such
a nominee giving everybodv to
understand that the election of a
democratic legislature will mean the
placing of that man in Senator Mil
lard's seat we believe the interests
of the democracy of the state would
fare better than if the state conven
tion should fail to make a nomina
tion.
Talk of Dispensing With County Assessor
Feature of New Revenue Law.
The Lincoln News is authority f . r
tb statement that viii,c state oieial.s j
who have watched the operation of j
the county assessor law are ur'in.' I
that the work done by those otlicialsl
ou'tit to be left to the county clerks J
and the precinct assessors. Men who)
have been out in the state report that
they have discovered evidences of sent
iment in favor of repealing the law at
the next session of the legislature. Py
many advocates of the new revenue
law, the county assessor feature lias
been regarded as an essential to the
enforcement. It is ured that the
county assessor, exercising jurisdiction
over the precinct assessors was bound
to insure a uniformity of assessment
as between the various districts of the
county. The fact, that he is endowed
with plenary powers and supervises
the work, has been regarded as an im
portant argument.
It is now charged that the county
assessors have not done what the
framers of the act had intended them
to accomplish. It is all ied that in
many of the counties they have done
but little work, which mijht readily
have been left to the comity clerks.
One ot the objects to be attained by
making the chan-e would be to save
the salaries paid to the oHicials, which
niiic from Si'od in the .smallest coun
ties to vuu in (.age county, fl.oo in
Lancaster and sj,400 in Douglas.
At the last session of the state leg
islature, an ell'ort was made to secure
the repeal of the comity assessor pro
vision and a return to the elective
precinct assessors, but it was defeated
by the friends of the revenue enact
ment who claimed that the election of
the assessors locally would bring about
a return to the old haphazard method
of assessment. Tiie plan broached
now indicates that an effort may be
made to retain the appointive feature
and clothe the county clerk with the
county assessors' functions.
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A Card of ThanKs.
After partaking of the bountiful re
past, served at the beautifully decor
ated table, which the management so
generously provided lor us, We, the
ladies of the Nebraska Masonic Home,
wish to expess our thanks to all who
so kindlycontributed to our happiness,
for the many presents and Christmas
greetings to each and all of us. Their
names are too many to enumerate in
this short space, but special mention
should be made of Hon. George W.
Linninger.presidentof the association,
who presented to each of us a beautiful
dress and many articles dear to the
feminine heart. Also to the boys of
the Methodist Episcopal church, who
contributed the tloral decorations tor
our Christmas feast.
Thk Laoiks ok tiik Nk-
i;i:aska Masonic Homi:.
Merry Chrlstmas;
Is the song of the season which yearly
is sung
A down through the centuries regular
ly is rung
Since the birth of our Savior we wel
come the day
With love and good wishes both merry
and gay
And we bid it good bye with a smile
and a tear
For it heralds the birth of the glad
New Year
And may it be happy for one and
for all
Unmixed with a sorrow and may no
tear fall
May the Allwise Father continue to
bless
And remove from each heart every
thought of distress
And may God bless the Masons, its
officers grand
Who provided this Home in this
beautiful land."
Every one of the order, wherever they
roam
Will echo through God Bless Our
Home.
Mi:s. J. E. Vandkkcook.
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RATES $1.00 PER DAY
First House West B. 6c M. Depot
We Solicit the Farmers Trade
and Guarantee Satisfaction.
When in the City Give Us a Call
15he Perkins Hotel
Mrs. Miller Dangerously HI.
W. I. Jones and wife were called to
Lincoln Sunday owing to the serious
illness of Mrs. David Miller. Mrs.
Miller lived in Plattsmouth a few
years apo and has a host of friends
here who will regret to learn that she
is in a very critical condition, from the
results of a surgical operation perfor
med a few weeks ago. Mr. and Mrs.
Jones have returned home.
Masonic Festival.
A Masonic festival will be held at
the lodge rooms of Plattsmouth lodge
No. A. I- & A. M., on Wednesday
evening, December 1!K).j, at T:.0 p.
m. All Master Masons, their wives
and daughters are invited to be pres
ent. l'y order of the W. M.
M. Aw 111:1:, Secretary.
The First Requisite of Beauty.
The first requisite of beauty is a
clear complexion. Orino Laxative
Fruit Syrtp clears a sallow blotched
complexion as it stimulates the liver
and bowles, and the eyes become
bright and clear. You owe it to your
friends to take it if your complexion
is bad. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup
does not nauseate or gripe and is very
pleasant to take. Refuse substitutes.
F. G. Fricke & Co.
G. A. R. Renders Fine Program.
McConihie Tost No. 4-", held an open
meeting Saturday night. The Wo
man's Relief Corps was present as the
guests of the Post and the program
included a very patrotic talk by Com
mander Glenn; a rescitation, "Sheri
dan's Ride" by Miss Barnart: a talk by
Comrade R. W. Ilyers on prison life
interspersed with music; a drill of
the awkward squad; a general good
time was enjoyed. There was a large
attendance and this meeting of the
Fost closes the duties of the officers
for the year ending January 1, 1906.
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Jacks and Stallions
COME AND SEE MY
Perctyeron, Belgiarj & German CoacI) Stallions
Both Imported and Home-Brad. I will si-Il yim :i full Ij1ih!i iI A im ri'-:i n-l,rcl tril
lion us (fixKl as weri' fver jrruwii in Kunipe.'ainl Ul ur .1 ml rnuri-prwijiic-l.rcliTs';it
priros from .'JUti to i-l'KXl. I liitvc liorsi-s of sill :ies. J to 7 yt-;irs old. frori lOVj to -''Kw
in v-ilit. all sound and .'ood. and will. l-sid)-s paying for I ln-rnsH t i-s in on.- s :iZ,n
put S.VJU in tin; owner's x-k-t. Many a Nrhraska farmer lias rea. l . i the imint
where he has several line brood mares and is able to l.eep a tiii-e stallion for hlsotvn
and his neighbors' use. Iton't let the boys leaxe the farm: raise more horses and
mules, it pays bet ter t han anything you ean do. Now is the time to raise' ",Hid
horses. Come to the Cedar Rapids Jack Farm and buv a better stallion than'vou
have ever seen for ?smj. I also have a larjru assor tment of
HOME-CROWN JACKS
and brin four importations per year from Spain. .M ules three months o d at e sell
ing nearly everywhere this season at iltxi each.
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PRICES:
GuckenheimenRye, per gallon. . .14 00
Yellowstone, "... 4 00
Honey Dew, " ' ... 3 00
Big Horn, ' " ... 2 00
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PLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA