The Plattsmouth Journal
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she'll soon be back in America.
Tin-: mightiness of truth is illus
trated in the rapid growth of Pres
ident Roosevelt's Ananias Club.
The president is a Big Stickler for
veracity.
I :. -Conor kssm a n Wa dswokt ii
of New York, says President Roose
velt is a "lofty bluff and humbug."
That statement will put Wadsworth
in the Ananias Club.
Kcmok has it that a $10,000 re
ward will be paid to any negro who
will turn state's evidence and thus
legally convict those guilty of
"shooting tip" Brownsville, Texas,
last August.
Skvi:ntki:n West Point cadets
are being tried by court martial for
lending their overcoats to shivering
young young ladies. Love and
war were ever implacable foes, but
war's retaliation is fairly picayune.
That was a wise old bald eagle
that settled on the fore-mast of the
steamer Columbia and welcomed
returning Americans home, cer
tainly chose his roosting place with
an eye to the eternal fitness of
things.
Pkksidknt Hill says that 96 per
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cent or the business or uie worm i
done on credit. That is why every
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movement designed to bring about
universal peace and business secur-;
ity should receive the support of !
practical men.
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Tin: Courier Journal says that;
Mr. Bryan should be nominated
niton a rdatform of "Back to the i
Constitution!" And it would be a j
rallying cry which would excite
and enthuse every man who ever
had a drop of Democratic blood in
his veins.
Ckoj conditions in Nebraska are
not bad, according to reports. A
little late, to be sure, but they
might be a whole lot worse. We
are in better shape than Kansas,
Oklanoma or any other place from
which we have received reports.
Stand up for Nebraska.
Dki kw and Piatt are still upon
the roster of the United States Sen
ate but the New York Post evident
ly thinks that state unrepresented
in the American "Houseof Lords."
Here is how it expresses itself: "So
Rhode Island is to get on with but
one United States Senator. That,
however, is one more than New
York has."
Tkn or fifteen years ago, when
the Fourth of July balloon ascen
sion of a few hundreds of feet was
a thing to gape and wonder at, we
would have scoffed at a prophet
who should have told us that air
ships would one day cross the At
lantic in less than twenty-four
hours. Now we half believe. Ver
ily "the world do move!"
Amid the wreck ot matter and
the crash of worlds the same old
joke lives on serenely from one
generation to another. This para
graph appeared in a Kansas paper
thirty years ago and is now being
revived: "A Salina girl got angry
at her friends and slept with her
feet out the window Tto keep them
from seeing the comet." Had
this incident have accured in Chi
cago we would not have been sur
prised, but oh! Salina, we certainly
didn't think it of you!
Pkivati: Secrktarv Loeh has
accepted the presidency of the
Washington city street railway sys
tem. Mr Loeb will find his posi
tion more pleasant and reposeful
than his late occupation as Chief
Broncho Buster for the Ancient
and Honorable Associotion of
Amalgamated Political Rough Riders.
Iowa thiiiks it lias outgrown the
I custom of discordant serenades at
j ill-assorted marriages, and as an
; evidence of the growing sentiment
j against it offers this as an exhibit:
i A farmer near Albia laid out five
members of a charivari gang with a
I a shot gun. To the introduction
land acceptance of which, as evi-
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Fokakkk scores most every time
he strikes out and his latest is his
reply to President Woodrow Wil
son of Princeton. He tries to give
that gentleman to understand that
while the framers of the constitution
might not now recognize it if
they saw it, that they would
not be any worse off than the
president, who knows so little about
it that he does not recognize its
limitations. Will Taft be coached
to reply to this?
Idols get shattered and customs
are overturned by the flood of years,
but the worst and most noted piece
of unconscious iconclasm is the
mere fact that neither the Governor
of South Carolina nor the Governor
of North Carolina drinks a drop of
the O-Iie-Joyful of American poli
tics and gubernatorial good-fellowship.
Hereafter when the Governor
of South Carolina meets the Govern
or North Carolina he can say, "it's
a long time between eats!M
Ali. records were broken at New
York yesterday as to foreign immi
gration. More by 5,000 were landed
that day than ever before upon any
previous day. The grand total was
20,728, of which Naples alone sent
S.267 steerage passengers, thus en
ormously adding to our fruit-stand,
street musician, peddler and saloon
population. And the seaboard po
lice will continue to get their 100
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corn and cnewing gum.
fine Nashville American has
never been very friendly to Bryan,
just for what reason Democrats can-
not understand, but it steps aside
long enough to have this pleasantry
with hi::i: 4 'Up in Vermont a team
ran away with the carriage in
which the Peerless was ridin
Brought to a sudden stop, Bryan
shot out of the carriage like a
; shot from a cannon, lit on his feet,
a:;d made a short address to the
crowd that gathered in a hurry.
But I:e could fall out of a balloon
and do the same thing."
T:u-:kk is no place on the earth
for the man who is unwilling to
work. The man begins before the
boy leaves off. The manly man is
he who employs his moments pofit-
ably. The manly boy has no idle
time. The boy who finds some
thing to do and who does it because
he feels that he owes society some
thing is the boy that makes the use
ful man. Kncourage the boy to
work even in defiance of a law pass
ed by a legislature that was simply
trying to make a record in the ful
fillment of prophecy.
Your Uncle Joseph is foxy very
foxy. It is more than suspected
that the venerable speaker of the
house of representatives is a recep
tive candidate for the republican
nomination for the presidency, and
that he does not take kindly to the
notion of Roosevelt's picking out
the nominee about fourteen months
in advance of the convention. As
he is known to be somewhat free in
the use of forbidden English when
aroused, his friends were not sur
prised when he said that "whoever
at this stage of the game proposes
to deliver any state to any particu
lar presidential candidate is a darned
fool." In this language, Uncle
takes no chances upon being called
a liar from the White House, for
to have been so branded would have
been confession from the executive
that he was really trying to do so
and Foraker's contentions would
have been made good . But the dar
ing and audacity of Uncle Joe in
thus queering himself at the execu
tive mansion is a perfect bombshell
in the camp at the White House
boomers of the Falstaffian Taft, and
they probably went into immediate
executive session to devise ways
and means to parry the blow and
divert attention from the unveiled
thrust
The Beatrice Sun sees through a
grindstone as easily as any other
blind man: "All the newspapers
edited by postmasters are declaring
that it is the duty of President
Roosevelt to accept another nomi
nation. As an exchange of courte
sies, Mr. Roosevelt should now in
sist that it is the duty of each of
these postmasters to accept another
term of office."
Somi: of the cuckoo papers are
throwing a fit because a Boston
committee is sending out circulars
proposing that Theodore Roosevelt
be made president for life, with
power to name his successor. The
late Artemus Ward had a way of
adding t his grotesque proposals:
"N. B. This is -ote sarkastical."
But a cuckoo paper, state or nation
al, is too dense tosee the "sarkasm."
A Missouri club woman asked
for an expression of opinion as to
President Roosevelt's views on race
suicide, replied that she was oppos
ed to the public discussion of such
a question and thought it should be
discussed only in the home. Sounds
reasonable. . But then President
Roosevelt cannot be expected to
call upon ever' woman in the land
and have a tee-a-tee with her on
the subject.
A Rhode Island editor has cata
logued the Rooseveltian adjectives
used to designate the degrees of
prevarication in the Ananias club.
He says the president called Her
bert W. Bowen a "disingenious
liar," William E. Chandler a "de
liberate and unqualified liar," G.
O. Shields an "inventive liar."
Bellamy Storer a "peculiarly per
fidious liar," John F. Wallace an
"utter liar," and Henry M. Whit
ney "a deliberate liar." Mr. Har
riman was flattered in a way, since
he was only charged with a "delib
erate and willful untruth." It yet
remains to be seen what kind of a
liar ex-Congressman Wadsworth
will be designated by the terrible
occupant of the White House.
It is said again that the railroads
of Nebraska will fight the 2-cent
fare. It is the opposition of the
railroads to the laws that other peo
ple have to respect that has brought
upon them all sorts of trouble. If
the railroads had paid their taxes
in the beginning, instead of at the
end of a lawsuit, there might have
been less radical legislation . If the
present law is contested and the
state wins, the next move will be
the enactment of a freight rate that
will really affect the roads. When
the railroads go to fighting the
people, demagognes will see that it
is a popular thing to fight the rail
roads, and they will not be slow to
take advantage of conditions.
It is said that "It is an ill wind
that blows nobody good." But
facts show that prosperity blows
good to some people and overlooks
others. Last week the Western El
ectric company, Chicago, dropped
5,000 from its pay roll. The as
signed cause is that the trusts have
so outrageously advanced the price
of their products, such as copper,
steel and lead metals that new con
struction work is impossible. All
these products are covered by an
excessive tariff and that enables the
trust to put up the price. The
tariff is ostensibly to protect labor,
but here is one case where the tariff
and excessive prosperity have com
bined against those who earn their
living by the sweat of their brow.
There isn't a particle of doubt con
cerning the prosperity of the trusts.
Our tariff laws protected them.
But how about those 5,000 dis
charged workingmen? Too much
prosperity has proved their undo-
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ing. But this is oniy one out or a
thousand similar cases that have oc
curred and will continue to occur
so long as our laws permit and en
courage the classes as against the
masses.
While the ' 'green bug' ' has done
considerable damage in Kansas, the
loss will not be as great as at first
indicated, according to the report
of the secretary of the Kansas Grain
Dealers' Association. This official
finds that the average crop yield
throughout the state will be 88 per
cent . His report is based on returns
from 200 correspondents.
A HLizzARD in Nebraska in May
is unique, but then Nebraska be
lieves in unique things just to show
what a great state can do.
The Beatrice Sun very appro
priately remarks: The vindication
of Tom Dennison and the appoint
ment of Don Despain will be re
membered with the snowstorm in
May.
John W. Gates informs us that
President Roosevelt will be nomin
ated for the third term. "It's a
hundred to one he'll run," says the
financier. A man may quit Wall
street in a day, but the speculative
fever seems to bold on to the end-
Ik President Roosevelt should
seek renomination or a man of his
choice should go before the conven
tion with good backing, we are apt
to have something like a repetition
of the convention in which Conk
ling and his Spartan band of 306
were ridden down by the Ohio man,
who, until the last ballot, had never
received more than fifty votes in
the convention. For some such
grand-stand wind-up the favorite
sons are now practicing and going
through their paces. When the
show begins they are likely to make
it very interesting for Mr. Roose
velt himself, or for his slate.
"Nonsense!" exclaims Presi
dent Roosevelt when anybod' says
"third term?" to him. Julius
Caesar thrice said the same thing
when thrice a crown was offered
him upon the Lupercal. And yet,
Caesar assumed imperial power,
and wielded it so strenuously that
the Czar and the Kaiser are named
after him. In the year before the
election, President Roosevelt would
be more intelligible if, instead of
saying "nonsense!" he would re
peat now, in forcible and emphatic
English, what he said that Novem
ber night in 1904 when he heard
the news of his tidal-wave elec
tion. The United States government
has issued a circular telling of the
enormous decrease of the timber
supply within the past twenty-two
years. Here is just one paragraph
which, to say the least, is startling:
"Ever' person in the United States
is using over six times as much
wood as he would use if he were in
Europe. The country as a whole
consumes every 3-ear between three
and four times more wood than all
of the forests of the United States
grow in the meantime. The aver
age acre of forest lays up a store of
only 10 cubic feet annually, where
as it ought to be laying up at least
30 cubic feet in order to furnish the
products taken out of it. Since
1880more than 700,000,000,000 feet
of timber have been cut for lumber
alone, including 80,000,000,000 feet
of coniferous timber in excess of
the total coniferous stumpage esti
mate of the census in 1SS0."
From all parts of the country
comes the cry that labor is scarce,
even at the advances in salaries that
have been made by large corpora
tions since the first of the year. In
New York the complaint is general
that responsible labor, for instance,
men with intelligence enough to be
motormen, are extremely scarce.
In Chicago laborers and skilled me
chanics never earned so much
money and did so little for it as at
the present time. Railroad men
throughout the west are finding
difficulty in securing even common
laborers who will work steadily
away from a city. A railroad pres
ident is quoted as saying that his
railroad cannot complete contem
plated improvements because of the
lack of help. In the great south
west, too. there is a new labor sit
uation. The young men have left
the farms and their fathers and
taken up their own land. Farm
help at a price which the farmer
can afford to pay is very scarce at
harvest time. Skilled help is scarce
and all wages, even those of the
common laborer, are high. From
the Pacific coast comes word that
Oriental exclusion, a subject which
has been brought into extra promi
nence by recent events, may be
come an issue in the next state
campaign . A large number of peo
ple of California, it appears, think
that the state needs the Japanese
laborer.
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More Democratic Thunder.
The decision of the Department
of Justice to prosecute the Watch
trust is the latest illustration of the
familiar truism that Mr. Roosevelt
would have proven a tame sort of a
president did he not draw perenni
al aid and inspiration from the
democrats.
Though in the last congress Rep
resentative Henry T. Rainey of the
Twentieth district, was the only
democrat from Illinois, he alone
obtained the evidence upon which
the proposed suit is to be brought
against an oppressive trust whioh
has one of its principal headquart
ers in that state.
Xot one of his twenty-four re
publican colleagues lifted a finger
to disturb the combine in its levy
of tribute on the American who
wants to know the time of day.
Through the efforts of Mr. Rainey
it was made familiar in the con
gressional campaign of last year
that one man had been making
money by buying, in England,
American watches for $7.98 and
bringing them back to this country
where the retail price for the same
timepieces was fixed by the trust
at $10.58.
The democratic campaign docu
ment in which it was exploited
that the trust was gouging the
American of mederate means out of
$2.60 on his cheap watch is now to
be worked up into more Roosevelt
thunder in another trust prosecu
tion. The democratic party likes
to get its work done, but is confi
dent that it could itself do it better
than anybody else.
This is the biggest season in the
history of our store, especially in the
millinery department. Some may ask
why this is the fact, which is easily
explained. We never carried such a
fine lice before, and the designs this
season are the very latest. We still
have a large variety left, and would
suggest that you call now and look
them over. M. Fanokk.
Despaln's Appointment.
Governor Sheldon has appointed
Don Despain deputy labor commis
sioner. Mr. Despain is tbe young man
who, as chief clerk in the deputy's of
fice last winter, wrote a threatening
and blackmailing letter to a member
of the legislature when the appropri
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EX
ation for his otlice was in peril.
The recipient of the letter, Mr.
McMullen of Gage, read the black
mailing letter in open session of the
house, thereby making it public prop
erty. It could not have failpd to reach
the attention of Governor Sheldon.
The letter proved irs writer to be
unfit for public service. It should
have been the signal for Mr. Despain's
immediate dismissal. But the gover
nor took no action. And now, after
the legislature's adjournment, be pro
motes this crude blackmailer to one
of the best positions at his disposal.
Why?
The Lincoln correspondent of the
Omaha Be3 explains that Mr. Des
pain's appointment "is supposed to be
a sort of consolation" to Senator
Brown, to compensate him for the
veto of the Kearney normal school bill.
Brown, it is claimed, is "under obli
gations" to Despain, and just at this
time "unable to take care" of him.
So he has persuaded Governor Shel
don to do it for him.
The World-Herald ha3 a high regard
for Governor Sheldon. It is therefore
more surprised to find him engaged in
this kind of peanut politics.
If the state labor bureau has no
higher mission to perform than to en
able the governor to "console" Sena
tor Brown by placing in charge of it a
man of the Despain type, then the bu
reau would better be abolished. Om
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