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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1906)
The Plattsmouth Journal lTHMMIKD W KKKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.. U. A. U.VTKS, ri iit.lsiiKU. nli'ti'il Ht tlu ikKitoffli'ii lit riiitlHinnuth. Nf lirnxl.it. n i'roiiti'lit mutter. 1!vi:kvih)1)Y is ju'npitin into tin.' Bryan lanlv;iKii, ami iituny repub licans arc follow iii; the procession anil shouting for Nebraska's favorite soli. Till': republican otlice hohlcrs in Washington hope to sec the Kver ment inspect the boarding houses of that city ami see what rocs into the hash. ic new Swedish minister of foreign affairs rejoices in the eup honioiis coki'01111'" of Trolley. lie otiKht to lie up to date on current events, if he doesn't c,ct his wires crossed. Tin: Pennsylvania lepublicans .uloi'ted a radical platform and nom inated a machine ticket, but as the late Senator ll.inni declared on the statehood matter republican plat forms are not bindiiiK. "SknaTou l!ll.i:v", remarks the Washington lVst, "iluiiUlcsjj figures that if he is a candidate for the presidency he would not K-t much of the UoiikIi Rider vote any way." The Post's tenses are a little mixed, but its logic is clear. Onic thins to be admired about 1'airbury and that is she is not let ting anything 1 without helping herself. She already has one su preme judge, a member of congress and is now bidding for the govern orship in the person of one Steele. Till': "lluster" Hrowu boom will drop with a deep, heavy thud. A leading regublican remarked a few days since that two iuntht' ago it looked like he would get the nomination without any trouble but that his boomers were not of the right kind of people. Upton Sinclair won the first round as the boss muck-raker when he ex posed the filth of the packinghouses. President Roosevelt has won the second round by publishing the tv port of the filth uncovered by inves tigation. It is now "horse and horse" and the public will watch the next muck rake performance with interest. I'rkmdnt a few days ago needed $40,000 to secure a good thing, and it is the boast of the papers of that town that it took just forty minutes to raise the amount. The good thing was the incubator factory from Clay Center, Neb., that l'latts mouth figured on getting for some time. Fremont got it while we were doing the figuring. TiiK sundry civil appropriation bill, as it passed the house, carries an item of $600,000 "for pay of offi cers and employees other than skill ed and unskilled laborers in the Canal Zone." It cost $600,000 a year to run the business exclusive of the pay for actual work on the isthmus and also of the president's canal zone press bureau, which was abolished last year. Knw.VRO Roskwatkk reached home yesterday in excellent health Now if the fur don t tly we miss our guess. Watch those fellows who have been talking so much about the old man in his absence, hunt their holes. Mr. Rosewater expects to commence a vigorous campaign, and he will make "Bust r"l?rown believe that he is "notit for the senate before the republican state convention. Tiikkk ought to be a hearty re sponce to(,"iovenor Cuinmins's call for a convention of delegates from nil the states to discuss election of senators by direct popular vote. Kvcn if such a convention should not result in an early amendment to the constitution, it could hardly fail to result in nn extension of the plan of naming senators in popular primaries now followed in no less than one-third of all the states. Extermination Root and Branch. Mr. Bryan will find n.i contro versy among democrats regarding the attitude of the party to the trusts. iVniocracv unitedly de- niandstheir extermination. As Mr. Bryan puts it truthfully, they must be exterminated "root and branch." Of course, the demand for tariff revision will be met the old cry that we must not disturb the busi ness of the country. But there will never le a change in the tariff if we listen to this cry, and the op pression of the people by the tariff protected trusts will go on forever if congress is not brought to recog nize the salutary truth that the people as a whole suffer more by the burdens of a robber tariff than they can possibly suffer by any dis turbance caused by a reasonable and sane revision of the schedules. The trust and tariff barons, of course, will again preach their old time sermons. We will hear once more the familiar story of the great American policy of fostering infant industries and protecting the Amer ican workman. Inspiration for the sermons will spi ing out of the fat treasuries of the great tariff-born trust, which monopolize so many American industries and levy bur densome taxes on the Aineicau consumer that they may undersell in foreign markets the "pauper made" product of Kurope. 1 every body knows the argument, and mil lions of American people long ago learned its hollow sophistry. Nor least among those Americans who have grown to a full know ledge and a clear understanding of the tariff question are the American workingnien. Most of them know to-day that their high wages are not a product of the protectve tariff and are not going to drop when the tar iff is cut to revenue-producing fig ures. They know the wages of the American workingnien are just as as high in those trades associated with enterprises which share in none of the artificial advanatges of the protective tariff. Seeing that the American work inginan is quite able to take care of himself, even when the tariff con tains no suggestion of protection, the working classes have come to understand their interests are the same as those of the great body of the people. So it is in the erst while strongholds of protection in New England. Sentiment for tariff reforms lias strengthed year by year among the workingnien there quite as much as amongthe capitalistswho have found their trade handicapjed and their business throttled by the blighting intluuce of tfiat political system they once looked upon as their greatest blessing. Mr. Bryan is right. There is no such thing as controlling the real truss. "Kxtcnnination, root and branch," must le the cry, and in most cases the high tariff make up all the branches, if it doesen't con stitute all the roots also. To ex terminate the trust, therefore, we are going to extirpate the prohibi tory tariff which gives the trust their life blood. Tin-: supreme court has refused a rehearing m the Bartley loiid case and thus ends all hope of ever getting back any of the money stolen from the state by republican officials. The Iwndsmen go scot free and the jK'Ople are the losers Necessity Brout and others of his kind are to blame for this failure to recover. Vet a majority of th voters in the state stand ready to indorse- this outrage by retain ing the party in power, which has cost the people millions, Partisan ism binds men closer than kinship. No wonder Secretary I,. M. Shaw has declared that the tendency to dispute party line is the most vicious toing in politics. It would turn the rascals out wher ever found. It may sound strange but it is nevertheless n fact there are sixty . seven veterans oi tiie civil war in congress today, forty years aftet the close of the unpleasantness. Of this nutuhcr twenty-three are in the senate, of whom thirteen were con federates. In the lower house arc twenty-one who served in the Union army and twelve were confederates. Aki- we never to have an end to tragedies in which the Florodor.i ! girls figure? I.itti.i: Wii.i.ik's premature cel ebrations often send him to the pre mature grave. Tin-" passage by the House of the lock canal bill scuds it up to the president. Now, Mr. Roosevelt, sign and dig, A Wr.sTKKN republican editor, U'lieving that an honest confession is good for the soul, admits that lie loves his party and all its brood, in the following lines: "I Ion- tin-1 mil r fair, Thy fnii'liit". for lmt ulr, Thy mi'ii of k'liift. Thy rnllronil that ivhnle, Tliy rcirimral Ion tfivat, 'I'd v luillliiiiiilnt t'liil: Tht wlinli' liluiiii il raft. TiiK still, small voice of the pres ident's conscience reminds us of his forgotten pledge that every dol lar contributed by the insurance companies to the republican cam paign fund must be paid back. The nation's voice will be emphatic enough in l')us in reminding the republican party of the unfulfilled promise of restitution. Ai.i. ambiguity about the applica tion of the anti-third-tenn ruled to the case of President Roosevelt ought to be removed by his renew declaratiou that he will not be a canadate again. There is the best of reasons why he ought not to be. He coins so neatly within the un broken precedent set by Washing nnd Jefferson that he could not be elected. In conversation the other day with a prominate republican we were suprised to have him say that in the event of Bryan'snomina tion for the presidency he will vote for him. I Ic stated that what Bry an advocated in 1896 is what Roose velt is now advocating in the strongest way. Ilclalso said that Roosevelt was a copyist after Bry an. It certainly looks like every thing was coming Bryan's way. Conokkss with many misgiving has at last allowed the president' to have his way and has voted for the lock type of canal. So there can be no furter excuse if the work is not pushed with vigor. As the ac count stands to date there have been millions spent during the last two years and little if anything to show for it, as far as the work on the can al is concerned. The highest auth ority has told us, more than once, that the republican party "does things," but all it has done at Pan ama is chiefly to spend money. Official reports from the ithmus show that the canal force has been merely "marking time". Up to March 31, 1906, there has been ex pended $17,245,396, of which vast sum only $2,071,616 has been paid for labor. The pay of the officials has leen much greater than the men who reallv make the dirt flv. Trust Bustlug Pastime. All that has so far been done against trust plundering is merely scratching the surface. Not a trust has lieen forced to reduce its enor mous profits and indeed the coast of living has greatly increased since the so-called trust busting liegan. Does not this show that the republican politicians, although making faces at the trusts in public, are secretly allowing them to con tinue their predatory warfare on the IK'ople. If the republican party really wished to prevent the trusts selling their productscheaperabroad than here, the leaders in congress would have allowed some sort of tariff revision bill to pass. But all the bills for that purpose have been voted down in committee by a party vote, even the bill to reduce the tar iff to 1(H) per cent on those articles that are taxed over enormous per centage. The fact is the trust bust ing campaign is intended to just scare the trust and combines enough so they will "come down with the dust." The campaign fund in that way is replenished and the corporations and the republican leaders are combined for a new lease of life. That pleasant pas time is rather expensive for the people for all they buy has advanc ed on an average 47 per cent since the present tariff law was enacted. Wuxdkr if the president will do any muck-raking in the Panama I ditch1 Iowa evidently is trying to usurp the place so long held by Ohio as the state in which they raise babies on politics." Oxk more star for the starry flag, one more state in the fold, two more seats in the senate boys, and each worth its weight in gold. It is suggested that the muck rakers may find something wrong with thebreweries. But good grac ious, man, don't spring a thing like that. Mr. Armoi'r is quoted as saying that if the stories about the packers are true they are greater than Bar nam. Barnaul's animals were all alive and didn't have be eaten. Pki:siiknt Roosi;vi:i.t has ad vised a Colorado admirer that he will have to vote for some other republi can candidate for president in 19S. Docs hedeliberately advise to throw it awav? Mrs. I.oxowoktii and her hus band are having a dee-lightful time hobnobbing with royalty and no bility abroad. No doubt they will be glad to get back home again and greet plain Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt. Gkorgk Washington' had the courage to beard the British Lion in his den mauy years since, but he never had the courage to make a Fourth of July speech right in the heart of London. This remains for the great commoner, Hon. Wil liam Jennings Bryan, to do to-morrow. Govenror MiCKKvhasserved the railroads pretty faithfully for four years, as the evidence well shows, yet in spite of that the re publican machine does not like him. lie has been tolerated as a neces sity, and now he has to go out. The governor is sore, of course, and bites back. lie is quoted assaying: "We are now engaged in a contest with the railroads. I have contended right along that the railroads should havetheir assessment raised, but the majority of the board was against me. I noticed a statement last night that the average increase of assessment this year is estimated at $100,000 per county, making the total raise about $9,000,000, The state board raised the railroads less than $100,000, or about one per cen of the total increase. The people of the state are talking about this and they are wanting to know whether the railroads will be able to handle the board of equalization next year. I suspect that some of the candidates for re-election to memlership on that board have already assured the railroads that there will be no increase during the next two years if they are elected." Governor Mickey only confirms what the democrats have charged in campaigns. The state is rail road bossed and only a radical change can help us. Passage of the Rate Bill After one of the most strenuous contests the congress of the United States has known, the administra tion measure for the regulation of interstate transportation went to the president for signature containing most of the provisions for which he contended. l lie enactment ot tne law is a concession to the demand of the nat ional platforms of both the great political parties, though it is in re ality more of a democratic than re publican measure. That it is not the makeshift which the Aldrich combine in the senate would have it, is due to the able support and ill requited loyality given the presi dent throughout the long stuggh by democratic senators. The new act strengthens the orig inal interstate commerce law and makes more efficient the control of the interstate commerce commision over interstate traffic. The power of the commission is not so great as it would have becu if the court-review provisions Acctable Prcparaiionror As similating HtcFoodandRcgula ung the Stomachs andDowels of Promotes DigC3tion.Chcerfur ness and Re st.Contains neither Opium.Morphine nor Mineral JsotJIahcotic. fmfifd .ttnr huinywH navar. Aperfecl Remedy fcrConstipa lion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms ,(lonvulsions,Fevcnsh ncss (inil Loss of Sleep. Facsimile Sitfnnlure or NEW VORK. EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER c advocated by democratic senators, under the leadershio of Senator Bailey, had been incorporated, but e restrictions upon summary court injunctions are accepted by democrats like Senator Tillman as making the measure fairly effect ive. That the measure is more demo cratic than republican is readily seen by reference to the national plat forms adopted by the two parties in 1904. The republicans in their platform did little more than ' 'point ith pride" to the rather meatrer achievement of their oartv in nrn- viuing "additional remedies for the prevention of disriminatiou in freight rates." The democratic platform on which the conservative Parker made his race for the sresidency contains the direct demand for such enlargement of the powers of the interstate com merce commission as would protect the interstate-shipper and the inter- I :r hi r m PERKINS HOTEL GUTHMAN BROS., PR0PS.e PLATTSMOUTH, -:- -:- NEBRASKA 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 T5he Perkins Hotel DISTRIBUTING DEROT FOR "PITTSBURGH PERFECT" FENCES, ALL GALVANIZED STEEL WIRES. FOR FIELD, FAR3I AND HOG FENCING. THE ONLY ELECTRICALLY WELDED FENCE. ;:VKUY HOD r.tJAKANTEED PERFECT. Thn WRAHLE Fcr.cs. None; so S'i'KONw. :i l.u-;j wire:;. 1 1 i u'ih'!- t II Ir I: ! C I V. . V. 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