The Plattsmouth Journal
I-UBLI-SIIKU WKKKLY AT
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
II. A. IJATK.S, I'uisMsiikk.
ntt-ri'it iitth mstfBlir at PlattMiiouUi. Ne
tiriisksi. n nixofi'l:l:iH!i rnutU'r.
Scikntists have found microbes
in snowballs. lioil before using in
the future.
Indiana makes wife desertion a
felony. Hut the women may run
away whenever they get ready and
suffer no legal penalty.
Cioykknok Siii:i.iONT has refused
to sign the Z-cent fare bill, and it
will become a law next Wednesday
morning without his signature.
Tin-: president's private grave
yard in the vicinity of the Panama
Canal strip is growing. Walker,
Wallace, Shouts and now it is
Stevens.
Vi:s, Imogeiie, had Mr. Jerome
grilled "strong" men with half the
zeal and enthusiasm that he does
weak women the world would know
more about insurance frauds than
it docs now. The men were not
strong physically.
Tin-: Chicago paper which dis
covered and asserted that "Senator
Heveridge is the only logical sue-,
cessor of I'resideut Roosevelt" cer
tainly is about as vitriolic an ene
my of the present executive as
could be found outside of Texas.
Tin-: papers are discussing the
proposition to tax bachelors. In at
least six states bills are under con
sideration for taxing unmarried
men. In Iowa it is proposed that
a tax of $25 a year be laid upon
bachelors at the age of forty and $30
a year at the age of forty-five. This,
however, should have no terrors for
bachelors. The married man who
is not taxed several times that sum
is in great luck.
Whim-: in the business of regu
lating railroads rates, railroad mer
gers and what not, way dotsn't
some humanitarian legislature try
his iuind at regulating the speed of
tlu: livers that rush through the j
country that often outruns light
nine:? Manv railroad horrors
would be averted if that was done.
When a passenger train loaded
with human freight clips ofF time
at the rate of from fifty to seventy
miles an hour there is danger lurk
ing in every turn of the swiftly re
volving wheels.
Notwithstanding the talk that!
u.is put up during the campaign,
the present legislature, so far as it
has gone, has been the most reck
less in squandering time and mon
ey of any in the history of the
state. In every department thous
ands of dollars have been added
to the allowance made by the last
legislature. While no time has
been consumed in electing a United
States senator, the house has been
in session thirty-seven days and
the senate thirty-six days, and on
ly seven bills have passed both
houses and gone to the governor.
Three of these are appropriating
bills, and the others are of no gen
eral interest. Beatrice Sun.
It should be imperative that be
fore adjournment on Monday the
two houses of Congress to appoint
a joint committee to sit during the
recess and investigate the condition
of the nine Subtreasuries of the
United States and the methods of
doing business in them. If $61,
500 can be stolen from one of these
institutions and $173,000 from
another within the period of five
months, the thefts may easily in a
year run into the millions instead
of hundreds of thousands. The
safety of the Treasury requires that
the holes through which these leaks
occur be found and stopped before
there are larger losses. The Chi
cago statement, if it prove true,
that the money stolen there was in
bills of large denomination, probab
ly $1,000 and $5,000, calls for
special scrutiny. An ordinary
thief cannot change bills represent
ing so much money without im
mediately exciting suspicion.
Tiik free seed graft has again
sprouted in Washington, and is
expected to bear fruit lefore long.
Tiikkk will be no charge of ex
travagance against congress be
cause it raised the rural mail car
riers 5 100 a year.
Chicago willingly yields the
palm to Iioston and Philadelphia at
divorce centers, but still insists that
it stands supreme as a marriage
center.
Mr. Doolkv disposes of the
matter thus: "If the Docthers
j would open fewer people and more
windows there wouldn't be so many
Christian Scientists."
Him. in public jokes about Har
riman, and Harriman in turn grows
jovial when reference is made to
"Big Vim." But they don't mean
it. They are about as sincere as
are pugilists when they shake hands
before a battle.
By the time the next president
takes-office, Mr. Roosevelt will have
used up all the available American
bosses in constructing the Panama
Canal, and the new man will either
have to import an overseer or dig
the ditch himself.
OrK cartoonists will have to draw
some other figure to represent John
Bull. A British visitor says that
Swettenham is the type of Knglish
man that caricature represents.
We have always had a kindly feel
ing for the benevolent-looking gen
tleman with the square jaw and
side-whiskers, but if that's the
Jamaica Governor another picture
will have to be invented.
Reed Smoot, the Morman's
senator from Utah, whose expul
sion has been pending for some
time, -was given a certificate of
character by the Republican major
ity and will retain his seat to the
end of his term. Were Smoot a
democrat his expulsion would have
been precipitate as that of Congress
ma:: Roberts. A man's morals
should make r.o difference in the
matter of politics.
It :s no v. imported that Kvelyn
Nesbit Thaw broke down and utter
ly collapsed after she had been so
'one and so severelv cross-examin
ed by Jerome. But not until she
h id helped her husband in every
possiable way and had, with the
frie:;dly assistance of Delmas, par
ried ar.d weakened the savage on
slaughts of the district attorney.
And she made an ideal witness for
the defense, swearing like a major
geneual v. !jeii hard pressed.
Is it possible that private protests
from northern white people pre
vented Roosevelt from appointing
negroes to Ohio offices? Three
weeks ago it was all the talk in
partisan circles and now the color
ed man and brother is wondering
where those offices are "at." It
all depends upon who is to be hu
miliated or has to do with negroes
as to whether they are named for
public offices. Consistency is a
jewel with which Roosevelt is unac
quainted. In view of the fact that a lot of
the Nebraska editors signed con
tracts with a Colorado railroad man,
for the sort of transportation which
they would not think of accepting
from a Nebraska road, the recent
newspaper convention in Omaha
very wisely said nothing about Mr.
Maupin's alleged offense in writing
to railway officials concerning ad
vertising tickets for convention
purposes. The incident simply af
forded an exense for a lot of silly
talk before the meeting.
Wisdom and sarcasm not infre
quently camp upon the same side
of the creek and have been known
to sleep side by side o'nights. An
Eastern paper this week said:
"President Roosevelt, who, of
course, is standard authority on
all subjects, says that it reqires
rough sport to instill courage. Yet
it is a fact that half the pugilists
are arrant cowards in a real rough
and tumble fight, and that the
bravest soldiers who ever distin
guished themselves in battle were
shy, retiring and unassuming men.
Courage isn't knocked into a man.
It is born in him or is a minus
quantity." -
State Rights and Monopoly.
President Roosevelt may be right
in saying, as he did in his Harvard
speech, that the state's rights cry
is swelled by great monopoly mag
nates who desire to interpose the
reserved rights of the statesbetween
themselves and the kind of regula
tion he wants to give them through
federal action.
This being so, President Roose
velt only strengthens the hands of
these magnates by his general as
sault upon the reserved rights and
powers of the state governments.
The monopolists did not invent
the principles of state's rights and
local self-government. They have
often been as ready as Mr. Roose
velt himself to override these prin
ciples and to disregard state lines
whenever these stood in their way.
But in every county of the
United States the principle of local
self-government is cherished as the
most precious inheritance of the
American people. Unbounded as
is the patriotic devotion to the fed
eral government, the people will
never consent to substitute its
power and control for state power
and control in the relations of life
which the constitution leaves in the
hands of the state governments.
The people desire the federal
government to exercise its legiti
mate and constitutional powers in
any and all ways that may promote
their welfare. But in the last
analysis they would rather side with
monoply magnates shouting for
state rights than with a president
who practically denies the existence
of such rights whenever they inter- j
pose barriers to anything he wants
to do.
The president will make a fatal
mistake if he encourages resistance
to his reform measures by pushing
too far the issue whether the states
have any rights at all which the
federal government is bound to
respect.
Pass the Ship Subsidy Measure.
In the final vote of 155 to 144,
the ship subsidy measure passed
congress yesterday. The Nebraska
members divided on the matter.
After the legislature had adopted a
resolution almost unanimously in
structing the members of congress
from the state to vote against the
measure, it seems that they divided
equally 3 for and 3 against he bill.
Congressman Pollard was one of
the three that voted for the bill.
The resurrection in the house of
representatives of the moribund
ship-subsidy bill near the fifty-ninth
minute of the eleventh hour of the
session is tolerably .convincing evi
dence that monopoly is more potent
in this republican congress than the
preference of the people who creat
ed the law-making bod y. The bill,
passed by the senate at the last ses
sion, was shelved in the house
because Speaker Cannon and his
assistant bosses in the house knew,
as they still know, that public sent
iment in the west is immovably op
posed to this gift of the people's
money to favored interests in which
the west has no share. But it seems
that the pressure brought to bear
by the president and the shipbuild
ers has been too strong for Speaker
Cannon and his lieutenants to with
stand. The speaker is potent only
so long as he works in a good un
derstanding with the dispenser of
patronage in the White House, and
the White House had set its heart
on the subsidy. While readily as
senting to the denial of the money
for betterments of river navigation
which the commerce of the middle
west sorely needs, Mr. Cannon
and other republican congressmen
from this part of the country would
be more cordially welcomed home
if they had stood out against this
measure which sluices the money
off into another direction. But,
though boss of the house, Mr. Can
non is not his own master. He
must bend his neck to the yoke of
the interests and influences which
control his party.
" Steps are about to be taken to
increase Secretary Loeb's salary.
Since it is Loeb who acts as the
buffer between the president and
the thousand and one cranks who
want to see him, perhaps the raise
would be justifiable.
A Lincoln firm advertised "sale
of muslin underwear now on."
How in the thunder are they going
o show the goods if they're al
ready on?
Tin-: ship owners who were reach
ing out to grab a fat subsidy have
only the Dutchman's flea. When
they put their hands on it, it wasn't
there. Rosey and Uncle Joe were
badly sat down upon at the last
moment.
To the credit of Henshaw, Kin
kain and McCarthy, congressmen
from Nebraska, be it said that they
voted against the ship subsidy bill.
Our own member, Mr. Pollard, be
it ever remembered, voted for one
of the most gigantic steals that con
gress ever fostered.
Congrkss has declared war, but
not on the Japs, or on any foreign
notion. It is on bugs. The house
voted $118,000 a few days ago for
the purpose of exterminating the
insect pests that have been bother
ing the farmers so long. That's
better than appropriating ten times
that amount for a war fund.
Senator Druois is to get $40,-
000 for lecturing on Mormonism
before chautauquas this summer.
Senator Smoot ought to be able to
do a great deal better, since
the senate has allowed him to re
tain his seat as a member of that
body.
."The railroads will do little or
no construction work while anti-
railroad legislation is threated,"
says A. H. Mohler, general mana
ger of the Union Pacific. The rail
roads will go ahead with extensions
just the same wherever they are
found to be profitable. The threat
ened lassitude is only a lash to whip
legislatures into line.
Beginning March 5, Senator
Tillman has engaged to deliver a
lecture even weekday, save three,
up to November 20. For the lec
tures the Senator is to receceive
$200 each, and his gross earnings
for the period will be $43,000. If he
could only take the senate minstrels
on this tour he would be in the mil
lionaire class before the end of the
year.
A persistent rumor is in the
air that the Xew York subtreasury,
doubtless influenced by the St.
Louis and Chicago cash disappear
ances, has become jealous and is to
admit an even larger steal than was
pulled off by the republicans in both
the western cities. The disappear
ance ot money when in custody of
a republican has long ceased to be
startling and that no one is ever
punished for stealing it is now
taken as a party matter of course.
Among the Nebraska postmasters
appointed by President Roosevelt
that were confirmed by the senate
last week, we note that of Chester
H. Smith of Plattsmouth. The pat
rons'of the office have cause to con
gratulate themselves upon the re
appointment and confirmation of
one who has given such universal
satisfaction as postmaster. Mr.
Smith is every inch a gentleman,
and has demonstrated to a dead
moral certainty that he is "right
man in the right place."
Beatrice Sun: The mettle of
our ' 'Boy Governor' ' was put to the
test in the 2-cent fare bill, and he
was found decidedly deficient in
the material that goes to make up
a strong executive. Last fall the
2-cent rate was made the campaign'
slogan. "Sheldon and 2-cent fare"
was heard upon every hand. To
day the governor has discredited
his campaign and has refused to
sign the bill which was urged as
one of the reasons for his election.
The possibility that the railroads
will fight the measure is no justifi
cation for the attitude of the gov
ornor. The legislature might as
well have said that it was useless
to pass the bill for the same reason.
Nebraska has been cursed by weak
lings in the executive chair for
many years, and the hope of any
thing better has vanished with the
refusal of "The Boy Governor" to
sign the bill.
The Kind You Have Always
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Govkkxor Siikumdx's sympathy
with the railroads was a surprise
to those who do not realize ' that
platforms are built to get in on not
to ride on.
Although American business in
terests are not dependent upon
German finances, still it will do no
harm to hearken to the words of
Herr Gamp, a Free Conservative,
spoken in the Reichstag. He ad
vises great caution in handling
American railway securities, saying
that the railroads are so badly con
structed that a reaction is certain
to come. The'facts are greatly ex
aggerated, but it will be well for the
railroads to correct the mistaken
impression. A bad reputation
abroad will be found most incon
venient if it happens that foreign
capital is needed to float construc
tion bonds.
Mr. Delmas, of counsel for Har
ry Kendall Thaw, now on trial in
New York for the murder of Stan
ford White, announced in open
court, last Wednesday, that the end
of the famous hearing would likely
come this week. As the trial ad
vances, the line of questioning fol
lowed by District Attorney Jerome
indicates that he, probably, will re
quest the appointment of a lunacy
commissiou to decide upon the
present status of the defendent's
mental conditian. Dr. Kvans, the
noted New Kngland alienist, in
testifying for the defense, positive
ly stated that Thaw is not now and
never was insane in the generally
acceptedinterpretation of that word .
The doctor declared that the pris
er is suffering from a melancholia
to which could be attributed the
deed that resulted in the architect's
death.
A Boston
weak and sickly.
His arms were soft and flabby.
He didn't have a strong muscle in his
entire body.
The physician who hv.d attended
the family for thirty years prescribed
Scott Emulsion.
NOW:
To feel
would think he
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was
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