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The Plattsmouth Journal
I'L'ltM.SIIKU WKKKI-Y AT
PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA.
K. A. liA'J'KS, PlKMSHKK.
iti r.-.l iitllii- po-.tott!r:it I'UltsmouMi
hr:ivk:i. ;is ..ll"I-1 :iss li.:ittT.
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Viii:n tin- politi ians do their fishing
will, reform for bait it's a tribute to the
-u ker.s anvhow.
A.soTlil.i: three-ringed
Central America arrives
in. th.- cirrus season.
revolution in
appropriately
Justice is blind, but .-he will undoubt
ed! v sit up and take not-ice when John
!- Rockefeller comes into court.
Mm:v talks as a genera! thing, but
when v'ou subpoena it as a witness it
stands on its constitutional rights.
Ik your neighbor complains of heat
tell him tliat the thermometer register
ed 111 in tin; shade yesterday in south
t rn A ri.ona.
M Win: SciiMiTZ cannot eve:: claim to
be original. He isn't the first boss to
fiddle while his twi: was going to the
bow-WOWS.
'I HI Ki: are just tw.o things that will
get the averaffe small boy out of bed
before dayliffht. the I-Vuath of July and.
the unloadinff of a circus.
Till: worst form of race suicide is the
couvential Fourth of July ct lebration
when the youth of the laud is wantonly
permitted t destroy itself.
Fh;hty dead and wounded on
the Cilorious Fourth prove that the
boys of lTT'I were not the only patriots,
willing to !ie for their independence.
Ik the President of the United States
should emulate the President of Mexico
and send his enemies to jail, the Senate
would be in session behind closed doors.
Ik Senator Knox is in earnest in ad-
to the constitution, lie ought to join the j
party that
the step.
seriouslv advocates taking j
Jt rx;i(; from the numbers of Japa
nese that are landing in this country
everyday, it must be a victory of peace,
not war. that the little brown men are
contemplating.
Whkn the republicans suggest a hi- , the home of his son-in-law near Pitts- j the individual and freedom of local gov
partisan commission to revise the tariff j field, Mass., and that after the said son- ernments to act intelligently for their
it looks very much like they are afraid ( in-law had lied to a couple of marshals , own good have been the making of this
of an issue, and prefer n- surrender be- ; as to the whereabouts of the old saint. country. They will be the perpetua
fore the battle. j One of the marshals, himself a Puritan j t;on Df its blessings if we have the wis-
First aid to theiniureii on the Fourth !
of July might even go to the length of
anticipating the injury by twelve hours
and soaking Young America's explos'ves
in a tubful of water over night.
"Thk Apaches are about to take the
warpath." says a dispatch. If they do.
they should put it bach when they get
through with it. President Rooseveit
may want to use it at any time.
Did you ever notice no w hard it is for
a county official to let go of his job even
after serving about a dozen years? Evi
dently it becomes a fixed idea with him
that the machinery will stop if he is
jarred loose.
The frequency with which, witnesses
mc applying the "short and ugiy" epi
thet to Harry Orchard would make
many a better man peevish, particular
ly in this warm weather. But Harry
can console himself with one thing. ;
Say what they will, nobody has ever ,
called him a mollycoddle. '
Rki'L'BI.ICAN leaders and campaign
managers rightly fear to open the Pan-
doa's box of tariff revision in
the ses- :
sion ot Congress which will negin in
December. They are likely to find it
still more dangerous to go into the ;
Presidential election without having re- '
moved from the tariff its greediest and ,
most impudent robberies.
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work of minors in the railroad telegraph ;
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men to be a bad thing. They aver that
some of the best men they have had in
the train operation department have
been minors, and that to weed them
out of resHnsible positions is a
hardship not only on the railroads but
on the young men themselves,
Rockefeller is reported as still dodg
ing process servers. When he dies it
will be a mooted question as to whether ; that this town could adequately enter
his name will live as the world's richest ' taul an' considerable number of visitors,
man who could and did make courts, j The history of the exposition has prov
congress. legislatures, law officers and ! en this to be tine. The cold fact is
all representatives of the government that the exposition business has been
eat from his hand with servility. But sadly overdone in this country. We
possibly his being so rich enabled him
to do those things in this free republic.
With a surplus of $si.MM,(H.o and an
tvailable cash balance of :?2o",tMMi,(0(i
in the Treasury, Representative Taw-
r.ey. of Minneota, sounds the right
note when he says that it is nearly time
to ease the load of tarifF taxation which
the people of this country are carrying. ;
As chairman of the House Committee
on Appropriations in the last Congress.
Mr. Tawney knows that the government j No city with less than 15(1,01(11 of popula
does not need all the money which this tion should attempt such an undertak-
top-heavy tariff brings it. He knows
that an excess of mney in any Treasury ,
state or national, is a temptation to
extravagance and a breeder of corrup
tion among the lawmakers-
The national Republican committee
wii! net tap the Fairbanks bar'I. ,It i.s
money, not buttermilk, the committee
will want.
) K again ami all together: "Sum-ii,.-r
h;ts 'came!' " It. had to come to
mat;:re the corn crop and it is doing the
ii.-.ndsotr.e.
ThkI'.i: will ben- warwith Japan, says
Whitelaw Keid. Who is that fellow,
an how? Didn't he run for vice presi
dent once'.'
'1 Fairbanks boo.r. should take on a
new impetus now. ISuttermiik is the
most welcome drink
weather, anv how.
during the hot
I.istkn for an awful exposition at
Oyster I Jay. When large blasts are to
be set olF. the fuse iscut long, much time
elapses and a death-like stillness perva
des the vicinity. It has been ominously
still at the bay now for a week. Some
mollycoddle will get skined alive, some
new Ananias will be added to the class
or s me former fat contributor to the
campaiirn fund will
Harrimanized.
be repudiated ami
I'll vii:.VA Al.l.KN of the state demo
cratic committee, who was in I'latts-j
' mouth vesterdav. lias called a meetintr
of ti e committee for Tuesday evening.
July l''.th, at Lincoln. To tins mettin
! are invited also democrats who leel in- i
i terested in the future of the party. It
is to be in the nature of a conference
how best to meet the new primary
; law. The state commnttee will call no
convention, but will give the primary
! law a thorough and fair test as it should.
IT is mighty hf.nl to find a Republican
paper w hich will sav that there is any
oossihle hone of anv canal
ever bein"
finished across the isthus of Panama.
Of course Democratic papers think the
canal was never intended to be finished
and give most plausable reasons for the
faith that begets the assertion. Here
is w hat the Peoi-ia Herald-Trenscript
i. .. .... . ,
savs or it: ltis saici on.irooa autnontv
that the dirt is flying in the canal zone
as fast as the stories are i-vin
ontside of it.
At last John D. Rockefeller, America's
greatest defter of law, has been caught
ami a supoena served on him to appear
and testify in court regarding the phil- i
ar.thropic Standard Oil. He was caught j
by a Massachusetts deputy marshal at
r"
some people to play with truth, return-
ed most unexpectedly and found Rocke-
feller on the front porch, talking to that
Truthful James of a son:in-Iaw. J
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The people of the United States are .
fast sickening of all this humbug about j
prosecution of monopolies. For several j
years now the courts have been filled
with various proceedings which prosecu
tors Ijveto recount as marking much
progress. A long procession of rebate
culprits has filed through the United
States courts, paying fines for the privi
lege of dealing out favoritism to mono
polies. Bii'is have been filed and inves-
tigatiens ha ie been prosecuted by ad-i
ministrative a-.d legislative agents, j
Always, nevertheless, the trusts have j
continued to thrive. Always they will
continue to prosper until the individuals
who manage them are punished with
stfiucient severity to discourage them
from their unlawfn! practices. Public
demand for the extinction of these
monopolies growing stronger every day,
and more impatient when lawyers chat
ter about "sweeping victories" which
do not in the slighest degree reduce the
sum of extortion which we are ail com
pelled to j ay for the necessaries of life.
There has got to be an end to all this
humbug, because there are many signs
that the people are seeing through it.
New York Press (Rep.)
1 he great Jamestown exposition
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called in the patois of the pave
is
a
"frost, "and very deservedly. It was a
mistake to conceive such a project and
a blunder to attempt to carry it into
execution. Previous to this exposition
nobody ever heard of Jamestown except
in the school histories of the United
States. We know that a small settle
ment was made there in 1607 and that
it has remained a small settlement ever
since. It was preposterous to suppose
have
had too
many of them.
There
were good reasons lor holding exposi
tions in Philadelphia in 1T, at Chicago
in Omaha in lS'.tS. and at St. Louis
in 1:"4. These were splended exhibi-
i
tions and the cities in which they were
held made ample preparation for the
thousands of visitors that thronged to
them. The success of these embolden
ed smaller towns to follow their exam
ple, but with farcical results. The
Jamestown lesson should be heeded.
ing. Omaha is the only city under this
number that made a success of the ex
position business, and the only failure
they made was repeating the dose the
i following year.
The Declaration of Independence
It is only seventy-nine years since
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, the last
iiirvU'inf siimer of the I)eclaration of
Independence, laid the corner stone of j
the Baltimore A: Ohio Railroad, the first
road of the kind built in the United
States. It may be doubted if he ever
traveled on it. for he was then over JM
vears old. and he died four years later.
in is;--' '
N'onJof thcM.ther signers ever saw or
read of a finished steam railroad, for
Stephenson had not built his English
r..ad when, on the Fourth of July, lSli",
Thomas Jefferson and John Anamsdied.
the last of the signers to precede Car-
rollton to the ffrave.
The soundness of the foundations laid
by the men who brought the United
States into the family of nations is per
haps no better illustrated than by the
fact that in the four-score years since
the last of the siffners placed the corn
er stone for the first raiiroad there have
been built in this country some 220,000
miles of such road, more than two-fifths
i f the mileage of the entire world.
These roads ffive employment to about
i l,."n,",,n persons, which means that
some 7, 51 '0,000 persons are directly or
indirecly supported by railroad earnings.
It is the internal commerce of the
country which enables the building of
i so much road and the support of so many
persons from the earnings of transpor
tation. This commerce could not have
I ffrown to its present enormous dimen-
j sions if the men who siffned the Dec
j iaration of Independence, and who
I afterwards aided in starting our young
I Republic in the riffht path, had not
j handed down to us the
and the best practices
best principles
of government
! that the world has ever known.
t In creating an indestructible union of
indestructible states, the men of that
i day and generation made possible the
j steady advance of the youngest of the
j nations to first place among them in
I wealth and power. A government more
! I-.,"- tnntkm. ii'AiiU ratnvil.
""'. "n. --"1 wUt iciaiu-
ed progress through its inefficiency.
One more concentrated would have
! suppressed progress through ignorance
of the needs of its remoter parts.
It is freedom of action in matters re
lating only to themselves which has
j j)Ujt up state after snate. from
ocean
to ocean, more rapidly than any other
part Gf the world has" ever grown in
population and industry. Freedom of
aom to preserve our institutions as we
have inherited them
Constitution lawyers of the type of
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Root Would undo the great work begun
by the signers of the Declaration of
Independence if it were possible for
them to have their way. It is well to
resolve that this shall never be done.
These men put their necks into the
halter in order to make possible the
great destiny of America. No sub-
limer exhitition ot moral courage is
mentioned in all history. We must
keep what they gave us.
Peffer on Rooseveit.
Vv llnam A. Perfer, iormely a Populist
Senator from Kansas, emerges from the
privacy of a quiet old age to remark
that he is the real inventor of the
Roosevelt policy of requiriug the rail
roads to file statements of their affairs
with Commerce Commission or some
similar board.
It seems rather hard that Mr. Roose
velt should be thus accused of purloin
ing political thunder from the Populist
as well as from the Democrats. Mr.
Peffer belonged to the school of political
thought whose members Mr. Roosevelt
said, while Mr. Peffer was still in the
Senate, ought to be stood up against a
stone wall and shot to death.
Mr. Peffer entered the Senate in 1S91
as a part of the landslide which over
whelmed the Republican party in the
year before. His bill to make the rail
roads submit reports of their affairs
was introduced in the Senate early in
his term. Mr. Roosevelt must now
realize that if the shooting had begun
in time he might have been deprived of
the idea which Mr Piffer embodied in
in his bill.
He would, also, have lost an apprecia
tive admirer, for Senator Peffer, in his
retirement at Washington, is an ardent
Roosevelt man. Mr. Peffer sees in Mr.
Roosevelt the idol of the Populists, and
he makes his forecaster the next Presi
dential election upon the hypothesis that
all the voters who formerly were Pop
ulists are now in the Roosevelt camp.
It is truly a fortunate thing for Presi
dent Roosevelt that leaders like Senator
Peffer were not lined up against a stone
wall and shot to death.
Evki'.y once in awhile a Chicago pro- :
fessor breaks out with some fool theory
that makes all the world laugh. But
occasionally there comes unexpectedly
from the sacred precincts of John D.
Rockefeller's university an idea that is
worth considering. The unexpected
happened the other xlay when Professor
Stetson warned the country that an epi
demic of anarchy would result from the
frequent recognition of the so-called
"unwritten law. "
C. S. Stone, cashier of the Murray
State bank, was a brief business visitor
in the city last evening.
Eastkrs financiers say that they lost
biff bunch of money last month
I What they mean is they failed to con
nect with a biff bunch that wasn't theirs
I
JfLiOixt; from Old Man Pockefe!hr's
testimony in the Chicaffo court one
would be constrained to believe that
ignorance is a prime requisite to su -cess
in the oil business.
j 'T '-S rumored that Senator Tillman
j"" cha!lenffel Senator Dolliver to a
The ,llstam'e Probably will be
I T'1' miles and vocabular.es the
j weapons.
Ok course the sending of almost the
entire American navy to the Pacific
coast is only a practice cruise. The
Atlanticocean is not big enough for
such maneuvers.
John I). Rockffkm.kk admits that
Standard Oil is honest, and he and his
son both say the company is a great
blessing to the United States. The
doubting Thomases will now go oil" and
die from very shame and remorse.
Thk Courier-Journal propounds the
hardest hot weather comundrum of the
entire season: "A magazine called
'Success' says Theodore Roosevelt is a
Democrat. If Dr. Long is a nature
faker, what is 'Success?' "
A HICH up Jap officer thinks our na
val officers are mere carpet knights and
ball-room decorations, and that the
crews of American warships would de
sert when actual hostilities begun.
Spain holds no such opinion.
Ex-Senator Burton of Kansas, in
his Home-Rule takes a wing-shot at
immunity and hypocrisy: "Andrew
Carnegie comes to the defence of Presi
dent Roosevelt, whose attact on the
railroads he approves. While the steel
trust is immune and the President writes
with Carnegie simplicity all will be har
monious between the thrifty Scot and
the administration."
The Journal printed two hundred ex
tra copies of Monday's edition, and did
not have near enough to supply the de
mand. The weekly edition will contain
a more extended account of the calam
ities, and those who desire can have as
many copies as they want at five cents
each. But you must leave orders today
and tomorrow.
Two naturalists in Dela ware are in an
animated dispute relative to the exact
time it requires for a tadpole to turn to
a frog, and as to whether or not the
frog, with his delicious legs, has an op
portunity to kick his ancestor during the
period of transmigration. A patient and
observing people will welcome the final
decision on these questions by President
Roosevelt.
Senator Daniel and Mr. Bryan.
No one would be more ready than Mr.
Bryan or his friends to support Senator
Daniel if he should be nominated.
Daniel has fought long and well for the
democracy and deserves well of it. He
comes from a state which is always
demoratic and which has earned the
name of " the mother of presidents."
If the needs of the democratic party
should put him to the front, no loyal
democrat would fail to givehimhis sup
port. But Mr. Daniel himself does not be
lieve that this need is either present
or likely to arrive. In conversation re
cently he said: "I do not believe that
the time is yet ripe for the nomination
of a man who wore the gray in the war.
While I do disagree with Mr. Bryan on
the question of the government owner
ship of railroads, I believe that he is
the strongest candidate who could be
nominated, and I have not any doubt
that the Virginia delegation will be for
him."
This is the general opinion of well in
formed people in Washington or politi
cians who visit the capital. They look
upon the Daniel talk as very largely
that of a limited number of capitalists
who are in hopes of defeating Mr. Bryan,
and who have picked Daniel as the best
man to be pushed to the front. And
yet all of those men believe that Sena
tor Daniel will not be a party to such a
combination.
That it is possible that some southern
man may be nominated is accepted here
as truth. Indeed, Mr. Bryan himself
has not been entirely silent on the sub
ject, but has expressed the opinion that
it might be well worth the while of the
democratic party to put a southern man
to the front. Among the people at the
capital who know Mr. Bryan his posi
tion on this subject is well understood,
and they are all frank to say that what
he looks for is not a personal victory.
but a victory for the party which he has
served so long and aided so greatly. Sen
ator Daniel understands this and has
more than once expressed his admira
tion for Mr. Bryan's position. Willis J.
Abbot's Washington Letter.
A Memorable Day
One of the days we remember with
pleasure, as well as with profit to our
health, is the one on which we became
acquainted with Dr. King's New Life
Pills, the painless purifiers that cure
headaches and billiousness. and keep the
bowels right. 2.".c at F. G. Fricke &
Co. 's drug store.
Wm. Schneider of Cedar Creek, was
a business visitor at the county seat to
day, returning home on the evening train.
AVegc tabic Preparation for As -simila
ting Uic rood and He vj ula -ting
the S topiachs and Dowels of
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Op:uv.:Ir .T'-iir.e nor Mineral.
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NEW YOHK.
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THE M P MUST
NOW GET BUSY
Railway Commission Says So
and No Time Musi be Lost
A special from Lincoln, under date of
July 9, says: "It is time for the Mis
souri Pacific railway officials to get busy.
The railway commission said so thi
afternoon.
"With a peremptory order, which
established an So per cent basis for the
freight rates on carload shipments of
grain, live stock, potatoes, fruit, coal
lumber and building material on the
Missouri Pacific lines in Nebraska, the
state railway commission showed its in
tention to enforce the Aldrich maximum
freight rate law which become effective
July 5. The Aldrich law was not
mentioned in the order by name, but
the rates were established the same.
making the rates those ot the com
mission and inforcable by the com
mission. The Missouri Pacific is the
only road that has not compiled with
the new law by filing schedules and it
will be given until July 11 to do so.
After that date the commission will
act and act at once.
"The order was served on the local
Missouri Pacific officials this afternoon
by Rate Expert Powell. It was as fol
lows :
"Whereas, an emergency exists, it is
ordered by the Nebraska state railway
commission that on or before 10 a. m.
on the 11th of July, 1907, the Missouri
Pacific Railway company, establish and
maintain effective, unless otherwise or
dered by this commission, rates for the
transportation of live stock, potatoes,
grain and grain products, coal and lum
ber in carload lots, between stations on
its line in the state of Nebraska, which
shall be 85 per cent of the rates effec
tive for such transportion service, Jan
uary I, 1907."
This order was dictated by Attorney
General Thompson and will place the
commission in position to enforce the
Aldrich bill as though it were its own
law.
The Charming Woman
not necessarily one of perfect form
features. Many a plain woman
Is
and
could never serve as an artists model,
possesses those rare qualities that all
the world admirss; neatness, clear eyes,
clean smooth skin, and that sprightli
ness of step and action that accompany
good health. A physically weak woman
is never attractive, not even to herself.
Electric I'.itters restore weak women,
give stroug nerves, bright eyes, smooth,
velvety skin, beautiful complexion.
Guaranteed by F. G. Fricke & Co
druggists ."0c.
Rickets.
Simply the visible sign that baby's tiny bones
are not forming rapidly enough.
Lack of nourishment is the cause.
Scoffs E,mzilsion nourishes baby's
entire s3-stem. Stimulates and makes bone.
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For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bough!
Bears the
Signature
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Thi cintauh loanaf, new Vbna crrr.
When You Make
a purchase its a business
matter to buy the btst, to
insist upon satisfactory and
srvicable merchandise.
Tno-e that return Hip full
est measure of value We've
fop price to interest the
mooey saving values and a
stock that fully responds to
the ordinary requirements.
Starting Monday Like This:
2o0() yds Standard Calico's
at 5c per yard.
",00 yds Bleached Tow! ing
as 41c per yard.
lOOOydsof Apron Ginghams
at He per pard.
o00 yds of Lake Port Shirt
ing at Sc ppr yard.
12W yds of Checked Glase
Towlintf at Sc ptr vard.
200 yds Farmer Satin, best
quality at 1 i c per yard.
THE ABOVE ARE MILL REMNANTS
running from 10 to 2o yds
lengths
l."00 pieces of granite ware
just received and are on
sale at 10c each.
The VARIETY STORE
M door East of Bank
Cass County.
of
Opportunities
That Will
Not Last
FOR. SALE: The following prop.
erty; pa-yments $2Q to $25; bsvl
anceSlO pr month:
A six-room cottage in fine
repair with one lot and a
half .. 5500
A ti.e-room cottage with
city water, in good repair
with brick barn and other
improvements $875
A good four-room cottage
with two lots $700
A fine five-room cottage
with one lot, city water. .$725
Two good five-room cottag
es with lot and haue each
near the shops $8CO
One nine-room house with
one acre of ground and
improvements $900
One six-room cottage, one
acre of ground $6C0
One five-room cottage with
four lots $653
Five, six. ten and twenty acre
improved tracts for sale: one
fourth down, remainder in sums
to suit purchaser Prices furn
ished at office.
WINDHAM
INVESTMENT
COMPANY
AND $1.00 lll
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