The Plattsmouth Journal
I'UHLISIIKD WKKKLY AT
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
II. A. HATES, 1'L'IiLl.SHKK.
ntcred at the stonii:u at i'lattsmoutb. Ne
braska, as MC!:ondcla.s mattor.
F.verybody walks hut father;
lie rides around all day;
Big Mogul on the railroad
lie doesn't have to pay.
Little Johnny is walking;
Also Brother Bill;
So is the whole d d family
Since Hepburn passed his bill.
A Chicago professor has discov
ered that the cakewalk originated
among the Congo tribes. And we
talk of alleviating the distress of
the poor heathen.
Senator Root seems to have
been well taken care of. He is
chairman of the finance, ways and
means committee, besides a member
of a half dozen other committees.
Tin-: president dodges a message
on the tariff by imploring congress
to allow him to avoid it as a com
paign issue by pacifying German
trade with the side i.-:sue known as
a treatv.
1 1- the present legislature will re- j
peal all the useless laws now en-
cumbering our siaime ar.u eiuiei
a do.en needed ones the state will
be blessed beyond niesuie. Our
statutes have become cumbersome
burdens.
It is said that John D. Rocke
feller's income is 560,000,000 a
year. Some people may envy him
this great sum, but not here. We
would rather be poor than to have
the responsibility of having to look
after so much money. In fact,
having to look after large sums of
money always did give us nervous
prostration.
Senator Root evidently pro
poses to "keep ahead the hounds"
in the race to see who can intro
duce the greatest number of bills
in the senate. In addition to the
nine introduced before adjourn
ment last week, the senate had no
more than settled down to business
Tuesday than Root produced seven
more making sixteen so far, out
the forty introduced into the senate.
Mr. Root is a hustler, wherever you
put him.
Harrison, the float representa
tive from Otoe and Cass, introduced
the following resolution in the
house, which was adopted with but
one dissenting voice: "Be it re
solved, by the house of representa
tives, that the attorney general be
and he is hereby instructed to be
gin and prosecute an action of quo
warranto in the supreme court of
this state to test and determine the
validity of the constitutional amend
ment recently adopted pertaining to
the state railway commission, and
that he make application to the su
preme court to have said cause ad
vanced for hearing, to the end that
the question involved may be speed
ily determined." This is a move
that will soon determine the ques
tion, and the sooner the better.
The following from the Beatrice
Sun contains some good, sound
sense: "This paper has for years
contended that the rules should be
so amended that no member of eith
er house of the legislature could in
troduce more than one bill during
the session. We are the more for
cibly impressed with the correctness
of this theory than ever. Senator
Root of Cass has introduced nine of
the fifteen bills that have been in
troduced in the senate so far. Of
course, not one in ten of these be
come a law. In fact, it has been
our observation in the past that less
than ten per cent of the bills intro
duced ever reach final passage. It
used to be one of the plays of the
corporation to have a vast number
of bills upon all conceivable sub
jects introduced, and especially to
have bills for the regulation of the
corporations offered which were so
rank that if they ever reached final
passage the courts would throw
them out. It appears that the same
plan has been adopted this winter.
Two thousand more Japs are in
vading us from Mexico. If we
don't stop worrying aboutthis thing
we will all have the vellow fever.
A l'kOPOSKD law to send wife de
serters to the penitentiary for from
two to five years might lessen the
tendency to make marriage a fail
ure. Aftkr looking at the present at
titude of the United States senate,
one wonders what has become of
the campaign shibboleth, "Stand
up for Roosevelt."
An Arkansas state senator con
victed of bribery is working his way
back home with a pick and shovel
in a chain gang. Another warning
to Nebraska legislators.
Chief Justice Fuller very pro
perly announces that when he gets
ready to retire from the supreme
bench to make a place for Taft he
will break the news without sug
gestion from the outside.
Postmaster General Cortel
vou's resignation of the chairman
ship of the republican national
committee without opportunity to
name his successor indicates that
President Roosevelt is no more confi
dent of the support of a majority of
the committee than of the republi
can membership in the senate. It
is not easy to see, however, what
advantage Roosevelt gains by hav
ing his friend, Vice Chairman New,
at the head of the committee at this
time, since there is little for it to do
before its meeting next December
to elect a chairman foi the presi
dential campaign.
Foraker will get no help from
democratic senators in his effort to
have the discharged negro soldiers
reinstated. The army is well rid of
these fellows. There is probably
not a rascal of them who ought not
thank his stars that he got off so
easily. It would have gone much
harder with them if they had been
expelled in the lawful and usual
way after sifting the Brownsville
outrage to the bottom. Being out,
nobody but Foraker and other pan
derers to the negro vote wants them
back. The law will deal with mur
derers and accessories among them
if they are ever discovered, Fora
ker or no Foraker.
The Journal mentioned a few days
ago cf a number of schools in the
rural districts of Lancaster being
closed on account of diptheria, and
no doubt many cases of the dread
disease exists in the rural districts
of Cass county, although we have
heard of no schools being broken up
in consequence. Preventive medi
cine, exercised through isolation
and quarantine regulation, can be
effectively employed to remove the
source of this particular infection.
It is in a form of protection, there
fore, no community can afford to
ignore. Mad dogs are not allowed
to run at large, and yet the com
munity that will take the greatest
care to protect its people against
hyrophobia will treat diptheria with
indifference, permitting a child car
rying the infection to go to school
and possibly spread the disease
among hundreds; There is no such
certain and specific cure for any
other form of disease as antitoxin
offers for diptheria when it is used
early enough . This significant fact
inevitably suggests governmental
assistance, either by state legisla
tion or otherwise, in providihg this
salutary specific and in teaching
the importance of its prompt use
whenever the disease develops.
The republicans could select at
least two men in this legislature
who are better material for U. S.
senator than the man they are now
likely to elect Senator Root of
Cass or Senator Aldrich of Butler.
There is I nothing of the jack leg
about either of these gentlemen
and as far as the Herald has learn
ed, never publicly or privately,
politically or otherwise, boldly
consorted with corporation cormo
rants and then wantonly proclaimed
themselves defenders of the dear
down trodden, or saviors of men.
Xorry Brown is the crookedest
stick in the pile. Lincoln Herald.
Ten cents a day will be allowed
each member of the Nebraska legis
lature for postage.
The legislature should avoid
drastic legislation. Sober judgment
is required in these days of strenu
osity. "All that glitters is not
gold."
Reports from Lincoln are to the
effect that unless plans carefully
mapped out and so far adroitly ma
nipulated should chance to mis
carry, Nebraska is to get just so
much of reform legislation as Chair
man Rose and the republican state
committee thinks is good for it and
no more. If this isn't ring rule,
what do you call it?
There is a bill before the Mis
souri legislature making the ability
to read and write the Knglish lan
guage a requirement to' vote. There
is nothing wrong with such a law.
Fvery voter, white or black, should
at least be able to read before he
can vote intelligibly.
Madame Modjeski will appear
at the Overland theatre in Nebraska
City next Tuesday night in Mac
beth, and the people from the Peru
normal school have reserved 156
seats for the entertainment. Won
der if the Parmtle theatre would
not draw from neighboring towns
more extensively if a higher class of
ralent was put upon the stage?
It is officially stated that the cost
of living in the past several years
has increased by a much larger per
cent than wages. This proves that
while trusts and corporations have
prospered beyond measure, labor
has suffered. Vet we are told that
our high tariff is for the protection
of labor. We have never yet been
simple enough to be deceived by
that spacious doctrine.
It will be a crowning glory for
Nebraska if she can enact and en
force a law that will hold in check
those trusts whose hands are
heavily felt in every business and
in every household. Fines do not
disturb the great concerns which
gain enormous profits by entering
into arrangements and contracts
such as have been known almost
from the beginning of English law
as combinations in restraint of
trade. The penalties of imprison
ment are not too severe for the of
ficials of such trusts who violate
laws made to protect the public from
spoilatiou by them.
Protection of guilty men in
high places by officials sworn to en
force the law has been attempted
and in some conspicuous cases has
been successful. But the record of
the year shows that the time has
gone in this country when wealth
and political influence could pur
chase immunity from punishment
for statutory crime. While this is
gratifying to every citizen who
knows that the republic can not
survive continued favoritism in
the administration of the law, it is
nevertheless a source of sorrow to
all of us that so many of the nation's
foremost men could be justly used
as the examples, and deserved to te
treated like the common wretches
whose lack of training maybe plead
ed to excuse their crimes.
The Omaha Examiner sets Nor
ris Brown, and the convention plan
of selecting senatorial candidates,
forth in very questionable light. It
shows that Mr. Brown and his
henchmen tramped the state a year
before the convention, and in the
precinct caucuses begged the votes
and laid the foundation tor his se
lection. All this is undignified and
beneath a gentleman who will make
a creditable senator. However,
when the people selected Brown for
senator it was for the purpose of
getting rid of him as attorney gen
eral. His stand-in with the cor
porations and the railroads and
the elevator trust made it impossi
ble for the people to secure a square
deal while he was at the head of
the legal department cf the state,
and he can do no harm as senator.
After Deitrich, Nebraska need
shrink from nothing.
A resolution calling for a rigid
investigation of the official career of
Norris Brown, ex-atcorner general,
and the methods employed by him
in his candidacy for the United
States senate was introduced in the
house of representatives Friday
morning by J. C. Van Housen of
Colfax county. The resolution is
the final public expression of senti
ments which have been privately
and secretly voiced about the state
capital since the members of the
legislature began to gather and rep
resents not alone the feeling of the
democratic and populist members,
but of many republicans as well, re
publicans who privately denounce
the candidate tor senator, but who
have stated that they can see no oth
er course open before them but to
cast their votes for "Buster"
Brown.
The following from the Beatrice
Sun contains some food for thought
among parents in this city. "Boys
are raised, not born. True there is
ajdifferance in dispositions, and all
cannot be handled alike, but the
worst bred boy can be developed
into a good industrious citizen by
proper care and training, if the
work is not postponed too long.
Environment is everything to a
child. It learns to talk from hear
ing others and speaks the language
that it hears, regardless of the na
tionality of the parents. In the
same way it adopts the custom of
those who surround it. The boy
who from force of circumstances,
natural inclination or training is
taught to place the proper value
upon time, does not become a street
loafer. He gets more pleasure out
of work of some kind than does he
who depends upon some one else to
feed and clothe him, and who wastes
his time about billiard halls or other
resorts. In most cases the parents
are to blame where children bring
sorrow to their declining years. The
child that is started right will make
a good finish, but he wTho is not
taught obedience, and w ho does not
learn in early life to place a proper
value upon time, seldom develops
into a man."
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Election of Officers.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Eagle Telephone company was
held in the hall Wednesday afternoon.
No business was done save the elec
tion of oilicers. Pink Venner was
chosen president to succeed his father,
G. W. Venner. EdCarr became vice
president, C. W. Jester remains in
office as secretary with an increase in
salary. Geo. Eitter was re-elected
treasurer, and J. C. Brown was chosen
director for three years to succeed Mr.
Carr. Rudolf Oberle got the contract
for operating the board for the ensu
ing year with the understanding that
the company install a power genera
tor at the central office. Eagle Bea
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Journal Collecting Debts.
When a newspaper goes into fac
tional politics, makes up a slate
early before election dar and pulls
through its nominees, the public
may expect and will not be disap
pointed if the elected ones show
their appreciation of favors by a
return. The Lincoln Journal is
beginning to collect its political
debts.
Yesterday the Journal got a good
thing from its friends in the legis
lature. The Wheeler reports were
adopted which means a big job for
the Journal Publishing companj'.
Saturday or Monday they will get
the printing of the daily journal of
both houses and for this they will
get a second good price when at
the end of the session they get paid
for the collection in book form of
the daily reports.
And there are yet more nice
plums to be obtained by the "re
form" organ if their lobbyists do
not get thrown out and their legis
lator friends do not repudiate their
debt.
The legislature and the people
should be able to see that there are
other ways of bribery than with
railway passes.
Keep jrour eye on the printing
graft from this time on. Lincoln
Star.
Trial Divorce.
Trial divorce is the newest idea
in the matrimoial problem. It is a
converse application of the Parsons
trial marriage doctrine and the first
test is being made by an idealistic
Spokane couple, who after a passi
vely happy maried life of ten years
have separated lo compare notes at
the end of a year.
That the lawyers of the western
city are regarding the experiment
with some trepidation implies pos
sible solution of the divorce scandal
by simple home adjudication. At
least it has many advantages over
the trial marriage as a preventive of
matrimonal failures, the principal
one of course being that it looks
sane. Yet the Spokane test is en
dangered by the convenience of
elasticity. If at the end of the year
the notes do not agree an extension
of the separation may ensue.
The trial marriageexperiment
possessed only one virtue and that
was the limit of the probation. On
the other hand, the trial divorce
seems to suggest the possibilities
of complications as these states of
single blessedness lengthen by
mutual agreement. It might all be
delightful to the participants, but
perhaps embarrassing to the second
generation, for instance. Of course
the inventors of the new scheme
have provided for such contingency
by the suggestion that if the notes
do not finally compare resort may
be had to the courts.
Whether those who avail them
selves of the independence of sepa
rate establishments would care to
embark again on the troublesome
sea of adventure after such uniuue
experiences becomes another stum
bilngblockto a widespread emula
tion of our Spokane couple.
Yet we will await their first an
nual report with some interest.
Senator Root is evidently of the
opinion that there is no furtherjus
for the state board of charities and
corrections, and has introduced a
bill for its abolishment.
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Harmony In Service Pensions.
The passage by the senate of a
service pensions bill in which the
Union veterans of 1 861 -65 are
designated as men who fought in
the "Civil War" may be accepted
as official notice that "the war is
over."
Heretofore in all official papers
of the United States the great
struggle has been called the War
of the Rebellion, says the St. Louis
Republic. Since Cromwell's war
against the divine right of kings is
still called by Knglish historians
the great rebellion, this designation
need not have given offense to any
of the confederates who were for so
many years known in Washington
by no other name than that of
rebels. Such rebels as Nathaniel
Bacon and George Washington will
live in history as the noblest of
patriots.
Let the struggle be called war
between the states, as Alexander
II. Stevens named it, war of the
rebellion, civil war or war of seces
sion, which latter most accurately
describes it. Friday's debate in
the senate was about the first oc
casion on which it has been dis
cussed in either house of congress
without calling forth words of bitter
ness from some member whose
dominent thought lingered in the
past.
Senators of the United States, as
a rule, are men of strong convictions
who have reached an age at which
they are not easily weaned from
old prejudices. When those of
them who were on opposite sides
of the civil war discuss it in terms
of mutual esteem and compliment,
as brothers who, having fought are
now thoroughly reconciled, it is
time for all others to look upon
every monument of the war as a
memorial of American valor and of
American devotion to principle
without respect to the flag it cele
brates. The nation will cheerfully give
this bounty to the union veterans
who are passing into the shadows.
It will especially approve the
gracious act by which the senate
grants to the tottering veterans of
the Mexican war the more liberal
aid their friends have been asking
for them. Probably there is not a
survivor of them who will not re
ceive the maximum of $20 a month
alloted to veterans of either war
who have attained the age of 75
years.
So many union veterans have
found, and are still finding, homes
in the southern and southwestern
states that the pension money latest
voted is every year more nearly
equally distributed between the sec
tions than that paid out before. In
order that the treasury may not
feel the new draft upon it, the ten
or fifteen millions which this bill
adds to the pensions account ought
in some way to be deducted from
our costly and wasteful expendi
tures in the distant Philippines.
Iowa has had its lynching bee.
The more of these happenings north
of certain parallels, the more care
ful we should be about finding the
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