The Plattsmouth Journal
IX'ltMSIIKU WKKKLV AT
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
II. A. KATKS, Pijumsiikk.
1". U r-d :il tin? stni-; at Plattsmouth. Ne
Ijmika. its sc"iinlcla..sH matter.
A s.M'K kkaut trust has been
formed. Thank heaven, Limber
ger cheese is still strong enough to
stand out against the trust.
Republican Extrayagance.
Kvkkv democrat should attend
the ward primaries tomorrow night.
I'ko.m some of our exchanges we
see that the "endless chain prayer"
fake is still making the rounds
Such silliness should not misleac
anv one with the least modicui:
of sense.
V.ki primaries tomorow night I Don't forget the democratic pri
at 7 o'clock. I5e on hand to as- maries next Saturday evening at 7
sist in selecting delegates to
city convention.
the I o'clock, to select delegates to the
Tin: Omaha I5ee is constantly re
minding the legislature of the re
publican promises to the people
last fall.
make
Kvkkv democrat should
arrangements to attend the ward
primaries Saturday evening next at
7 oclock.
1 1- President Roosevelt is really
against the railroads, why is it he
holds so many conferences with J.
T. Morgan. Hill, Harriman and
other magnates?
With the advent of spring
weather the Journal hopes to see a
revival in cement and brick week
constructions. The summer ought
to see the finish of the remaining
old wood walks that stil remain as
an eve-sore.
citv convention one hour later at
the council chamber! Let every
democrat attend these primaries.
Iowa's two-cent passenger fare
bill will go into effect July 4. Mis
souri's law on the same subject goes
into effect a month earlier. Xe
braska's law beats both severa
months, and is already in effect.
A bii.i. has passed both houses of
the Missouri legislature which pro
vides a fine ot $300 on telegraph
and telephone companies for the
non-delivery of messages or for di
vulging their contents. A similar
law should be in force in every
state.
Whatever people may think of
our strenuous president, the entire
nation is "pulling" for the recov
ery of little Archie, who has had a
hard battle with diptheria. The
heart of the people goes out to the
small boy in suffering, and the fact
that he may some day grow up and
become a republican makes not a
particle of differance.
Commencing with July 1st, the
rural mail carriers will be given an
increase of salary to $900. We are
pleased to see Uncle Sam take this
view in behalf of our rural carriers.
This will now enable them to meet
necessary expense in the keeping of
three or four head of horses to cover
their routes property.
There will be one councilman in
each ward and two members of the
school board to elect at the election
next month. The democratic ward
primaries will be held Saturday
evening at 7 o'clock, and the nom
inating convention one hour later
Champ Clark says: "I am to- j at the council chamber
tallv opposed to a third term for (
oppose
any man now living or who may j Credit is due totheG. A. R. for
be born hereafter. It would be j establishing the legal right of a
the beirinninsr of the end of our re- I state to prohibit the use of the
public. No man will ever be given j United States flag for
a third term until this government
is on its last legs. I am in favor
advertising
purposes. Nebraska has a statute
forbidding any such use, but in
of a constitutional amendment ex- j spite ot that iact an Omaha liquor
lending the presidential terr: to firm placed a picture of the nation
six years and prohibiting eve:; a al emblem on their brand of beer,
second term." The G. A. R. post caused the arrest
. md conviction of the firm.
It looks like a simple indulgence
to creat a new federal judgeship in j
this state, although it is absolutely!
unnecessary, but when one looks!
aver the list of new clerks and court
.satellites at fancy salaries rendered J
necessary by a simple indulgence, I
he iTitist feci that there is something
really outrageous about it. Vet ,
this is what statesmen call "Doing!
something for the state." Filch-j
i:ig from t'nele Sam to create - life
jobs at comfortable salaries for a!
The
c ise was appealed from court to
Cii:rt, reaching at last the supreme
court of the United States, which
sustained the Nebraska law. The
decision will be hailed with gratifi
cation by ninety-five out of a hun
dred of o;:r citizens. The use of
any firm : an act of desecration,
and especially so when it is used
for a brewer v.
The Fifty-ninth congress, which
came to an end March 4, succeeded
in voting away two billion dollars
of the people's money. This ex
ceeds all records by
and is twice as much as was spent
The Republican Puzzle.
Over in Ohio, the people rightly
regard Taft a fine man, a good re
publican and a popular possibility
! for the republican presidential nom-
$400,000,000 j ination. But still over in Ohio, the
machine with Foraker and Dick as
a. ! v m a
by congress ten years ago. j i-s head has not even a remote
For the past ten years the repub- j notion that Taft will do. The wish
licans have been in control of everv 1S- ot course, tather to the thought,
branch of the national government,
and during that time the expendi
tures have increased by leaps and
bounds. During the jears from
1S87 to 1897 the increase was less
than 13 per cent, from 1897 to 1907
it was 100 per cent. He is a fool
who would believe that the differ
ence has been caused by an honest
increase in the cost of administra
tion. If this wholesale extrava
gance goes on, and there is no hope
of cessation so long as the republi
can party is in control, it is not
difficult to predict the end. In the
natural course of events there will
come a vear not so prospsrous as
the recent ones. Revenues from
all sour.ces will suffer a falling off
and the willful wast of public
money will perforce of necessity
have to come to a stop. When this
does costs to pass, the party re
sponsible for the spendthrift spree
of a decade will be kicked uncere
moniously out of power and the
country given into safer hands.
But the nation should not and will
not wait till then. The time will
be ripe for a change next year and
there will be no waiting for a lean
year to force the lesson home.
Kx press charges are beyond all
reason and we hope the day is hast-
score of politicians is certainly tlo-1 eniug when the people will be given
ing something for this state. j some relief along this line of graft.
deal of howling against railroads
on account of their charging extor
tiouate rates, out haw vou ever
stopped to give the express com-
panics a iittie attention.' mere is
greater reason for complaint against
express companies than against
railroads and you will find it almost
an impossibility to find railroaP
stocks selling as high as that of
express companies. To' "give you
some idea what express company
stocks are quoted at we will mention
a few of the leading companies.
Woniek what excuse Governor
Sheldon gives for not signing the
bill prohibiting the shipment of
liquor to fictitious persons and pre
scribing that every package must
lear the label, "Intoxicating
Liquor." It has become a law but
without the governor's signature.
That man Sheldon is pretty touchy.
He has reasons to be, best known
to himself. He owes the liquor in
terests of Nebraska for his election
and he is afraid to act in am- man
ner detrimental to the liquor inter
est of this state.
The best man we have in Platts
mouth for the general good of the
town is the one you will always see
on the front seat in the pro
gressive "band wagon . ' ' He is the
first one to extend an open and
warm hand to greet the stranger
and welcome him to thebesttown'of
its inches in the state. He will re
sent an insult to our city as quickly
as he would a slur at a member of
his own family. He very politely
invitesthc chronic croaker to ' 'move
on." He is ever ready to give his
just proportion to every enterprise.
He talks up for the town at home
and abroad and believes it the best
place upon God's green earth in
which to live and desires to be bur
ied here when he dies. Let us all
try to be like this man for one year
at least, and Plattsmouth will take
on new life and improve as never
before in its history.
The Adams is quoted at $285, the
American at $225 and on this they
earn immense dividends. We hope
to see a reduction in freight rates
brought about.
Blt few people know that Easter
Sunday cannot come earlier than
March 22, nor later than April 25,
but between these two dates has a
range of thirty-five days. At the
Council of Nice, 325 A. D., it was
agreed that from that time forward
Easter should fall on the first Sun
day after the full moon occurring
on or after March 21, or, in other
words, on the first Sunday after
the sun crosses the line. Since this
arrangement was made Easter has
fallen on March 23, and on every
date between that and April 25, but
it is only after long intervals of time
that it occurs on extreme dates.
This year Easter comes on Sunday,
March 31.
A movement developed during
the past week which, if it becomes
a law, will establish what appears
to be as nearly a perfect scheme
or federal control of the railroads
as is possible in this country. The
origin of the plan is credited to the
nterstate Commerce Commission,
and is said to be directly resultant
of the disclosures made recently of
the various railroads investigated
by that body. President Roosevelt
now has the matter under consider
ation, and it is also said that it will
orm a part of the discussion which
the chief executive will have with
the various railroad officials within
the next few weeks. Brief! y put,
the plan contemplates the legaliza
tion of mergers by exempting rail-
oads from the Sherman anti-trust
act and establishing federal super
ision over the finances of these
corporations. This will give the
railroads every opportunity for ex
pansion and development, and at
the same time will give the invest-
j public a government guarantee
that mere stock-jobbing cannot be
carried on in the name of expansion
and development. The federal gov
ernment, in other words, will pass
upon stock issues, and also fix a
limit of capitalization. This will
be done in conjunction with the
railroad appraisement plan now fa
vored by the president. That it
will meet with general favor is tak
en for granted, since even promi
nent railroad officials have come to
realize that if the corporations are
again to have public support and
regain confidence, a more stringent
federal supervision is inevitable.
The convention at the council
chamber Saturday night did well
in nominating J. M. Roberts and
H. M. Soennichsen for members of
the school board. They are equal
to the emergency, and will prove
that beyond doubt they are the right
men to serve in a position where
every parent is interested.
and the wish will work overtime to
make the thought come out. says
the St. Louis Republic.
Moving into Indiana, there is a
strong machine movement for Fair
banks. Correspondents who have
recently looked into conditions in
that state say that the vice presi
dent has been building a solid fence
around the "boys." Occasionally
a few rails get out of place, but Mr.
Fairbanks forthwith gives another
reception and matters are straight
ened out again. But with the plain
people in Indiana the situation is
different. They don't exactly "see"
the distinguished vice president.
There is no more enthusiasm for
him in the average crowd of ordin
ry voters than the vice president
might find in a similar crowd here
in Nebraska:
Over in Iowa, the split republican
party is looking two ways. The
old crowd thinks with Shaw that
he might become presidential tim
ber. The reformers are sure that
Shaw is out of the running, but
they are not so sure that their man
Cummins is in it. Up in Wiscon
sin the resignation of Senator
Spooner has raised the stock of La
Follette, whose name they insist on
pronouncing with an accent on the
second sylable. In other parts of
the country, too, there is some
whispering of the Wisconsin sena
tor's name, always with the inti
mation that he is as much a demo
crat as he is a republican, an admis
sion that is made with the air that
it adds to the senator's strength.
Going into the east, there arises
the boom of Philander Knox, of
Pennsyvania, who has a cabinet re
cord. The Knox boom will grow
among the politicians, since it was
in that fruitful quarter of booms
that it had its start.
This brings us around to Elihu
Root, who is the mouthpiece of the
administration in many important
particulars, and as some people are
rude enough to say, the balance
wheel as well. Certain it is that
Mr. Root has spoken well for Roose
velt on more than one important
occasion; and when there have aris
en moments when a little calm was
needed to take the place of a cy
clone of strenuosity, it was Root
who came to the fore with a touch
of statesmanship that suited the
needs of the situation. An exam
ple of this may be found in the sec
retary's handling of the Japanese
problem. But Mr. Root's popu
larity with the whole people is
about of the same grade as that en
joyed hy the frigid vice president.
His coldly classic methods, his cor
porate affiliations and his formal
personality are not calculated to
stir voters to a frenzy of enthusi
asm. Thus we find the republican pro
gram a complicated one. The next
convention of the grand old party
will find most everybody guessing.
It may be that the party guesses will
reach out even to Uncle Joe, the
sage of Danville.
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iii use for over 30 years, lias borno tho Mgnaiiiro of
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All Counterfeits, Imitations ami " Jnst-as-ood " are lut
Experiments that trifle with ami endanger i In; health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
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Drops and Soothing' Syrups. It is l'leasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Nareotlc
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worm
and allays Peverishness. It cures Diarrluea ami Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething" Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates tho .
Stomach and ISowels, giving" healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
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The KM You Have Always Bought
in Use For Over 30 Years.
With President Roosevent advis
ing large families and Professor
Ross of the University of Wiscon
sin, declaring that race suicide is a
blessing, the babies are having a
hard time of it making up their
minds as to the advisability of be
ing born at all.
The latest theory in regard to
the $173,000 shortage in the Chica
go subtreasury is that it was ab
stracted and hidden by a clerk who
has spells of mental aberration and
remembers nothing of them after
wards. The authorities are wait
ing for another brain storm with
the hope of getting a clew.
The north would teach the south
how to treat the negroes. In Mas
sachusetts there are thousands of
white children in factories and
sweatshops. This is not permitted
in the south, where young negro
children are compelled to go to
schools built and maintained by
the taxes of white people. Why
not reverse this form of missionary
work and start the teachers of hu
manitarianism in the opposite direction?
The Omaha Xews, after a fash
ion adopted by the leading city pa
pers of the country, is eager to find
the prettiest lady in the world, and
expects to find her in Omaha. Now,
if the Xews is honest in its efforts
it will have to extend its proposition
beyond the limits or the metropolis.
The beauties of this great country
of ours do not reside in the large
cities, by any means, but are to be
found in the rural homes, where a
daughter is fully competent, if need
be, to prepare a good meal, or get
out in the early morn and milk a
half dozen cows long before the city
belles even think of arising from
their beds of down. Then she
gathers the eggs, while her mother
churns the butter. Then she har
nesses and hitches Old Dobbins to
the bugg' and is off to the village
store with her butter and eggs to
exchange for some articles desired
by her mother. Soon she is back
home, for she "has to help mother
get dinner for a half dozen farm
hands." Vou will see girls with
rosy cheeks and bright eyes from
the effects of the fresh moiningair
healthy and full of life, and as
prett' as a picture. Let the Xews
extend its object to the rural dis
tricts of Xebraska, and it will soon
have the satisfactuion of presenting
to it readers the prettiest lady in
the state, and her residence won't
be in Omaha, either.
The Omaha Hee insists that a
constitutional amendment should
be submitted permitting the govern
or to occupy the executive mansion
without question of right. It will
cost several thousand dollars to sub
mit an amendment and have it vot
ed upon. The result is not known
as several amendments have been
permitted to go by default. Would
it not be easier for the commissioner
of public lands and buildings to fix
a rental of a dollar a month, or a
3'ear? The state owns the building,
and the governor should use it, but
the adoption of coustitutiou.il
amendments is a very expensive
method of bringing about the result.
The city convention at the coun
cil chamber was a success in every
particular. Every ward was fully
represented, and harmony prevail
ed throughout.
Your money refunded If after using
three-fourths () of a tube of ManZan,
you are dissatisfied. Return the bal
ance of the tube to your druggist, and
your money will be cheerfully re
turned. Take advantage of this offer
Sold by Gerinj? & Co's drug store.
WHEN . THE KETLTE SINGS
it's a sipn of coal satisfaction. Want
to hear the music in your kitchen?
Easy- order coal from this cilice and
yard. The output of the Trenton
mine the fuel we handle has no su
perior anywhere, its equal in few
places
J. V. EGENBERGFR,
'PUniiP Plattsmouth No. 22.
PLASTTMOUTH, - - - NEBRASKA
A special from Lincoln says that
the direct primary bill passed
the house Morida- by a vote of 74
to 14, twelve members being absent.
It has now passed to the senate.
Some of the most bitter opponents
of the state-wide primary, those
who attacked it most fiercely in
committee, got in the band wagon
and voted for the measure upon its
final passage.
Most people know that if they have
been sick they need Scott' jt Emtxt
ion to bring back health and strength.
But the strongest point about Scott' s
Kmxxlsion is that you don't have to be
sick to get results from it.
It keeps up the athlete's strength, puts fat
on thin people, makes a fretful baby happy,
brings color to a pale girl's cheeks, and pre
vents coughs, colds and consumption.
Food in concentrated form for sick and
well, young and old, rich and poor.
And it contains no clrugs and no alcohol.
ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c. AND St.OO.
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