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Those days are not only hard upon
weed but upon the human kind. A
gentle breeze from Greenland's icy
mountains would he welcome for a brief
period.
One citizen who does things is worth
more that a herd of people who stand
around and tell what should be done,
tout who never takes a turn at accomp
lishing anything.
Theodore Jr. teaches a Sunday
achool class at Oyster Bay. . He seems
to have a good early start on the Roose'
velt policies, and we wonder whether
he will make a noise when he discovers
the Ten Commandments.
Thkrk doesn't seem to be any repub
lican coming out of the woods, ready to
sacrifice himself for county clerk on the
republican ticket. Can it be that the
present incumbent, by his pleasant de
meanor, has so endeared himself to the
IcopIe that others are afraid? Weep
ing Water Herald.
The smart attorney general, sincere
reviewing the primary election law, has
taken in his horns regarding the fusion
question. He says now that there can
le fusion. He should not have opened
his head until he had thoroughly exam
ined the law, and not "go off half-cocked"
as he did in his first opinion.
The esteemed Indianapolis Sun is in
great danger of bursting a blood vessel.
Every time a Republican paper compli
ments Fairbanks or denounces Roose
velt it throws a fit and cries with pain.
It's difficult to guess which worries it
most its adoration of the one or its
hatred of the other. If love and hate
each be physical pain, then the Sun
writhes in torture twenty-four hours
per day.
The Atlanta Constitution has discov
ered Roosevelt's dark horse for the re
publican nomination next year. Here
it is:
Root
CannOn
KnOx
, Fairbanks
HughEs
BeVeridge
ForakEr
La Follette
Taft.
The Nashville American has no pa
tience with the policy of the Big Stick
when used to coerce appointees and
other federal officials into truckling
subserviency and voices its disgust thus:
"Roosevelt is a slick artist when it
comes nominating time. A Congress
man can frank letters, but Roosevelt
makes the whole postoffice his election
bureau. It saves money, at the public
expense. Then, occasionally, at the
proper time, the whole of the United
States navy is pressed into service in
order to promote his political fortunes."
Prosperity based on tariff protec
tion is precarious; it makes princess
paupers- commercial princess of the
-trust magnates and paupers of those
vith incomes that do not respond to
trusts high prices. Experience shows
us that such Republican prosperity has
always broken down of its own weight
and financial disaster has followed very
high prices. There are indications that
the present boom is on the verge of col
lapse and it behooves wise men to be
careful. On the farmer depends our fu
ture prosperity, and if the Republican
policy of protecting the trusts could be
abolished, so that the fanners and con
sumers would not be compelled to pay
protection prices for what they buy, a
year of light crops could be passed over
without disaster. But as it is we must
have big crops and high prices to be
able to pay the trusts and corporations
enough toll to keep them from bank
ruptcy that would effect everyone.
Keep your eye on the crops.
The Journal is pleased to note from a
recent issue of the Memphis (Mo.) Dem
ocrat that the many friends of Judge S.
M. Pettingill are pushing him to the
front for Judge of the St. Louis Court
of Appeals. The writer has- known
Judge Pettingill for many years, and
while editor of the Democrat suggested
his name a number of times for a mem
ber of the Supreme Court of Missouri,
knowing, as we did, his eminent fitness
for the position. He is one of the very
best men we ever knew, and is acknowl
edged by the bar of the state one of its
best judges of law. We hope his friends
in Northeast Missouri will put their
shoulders to the wheel and work with
a vim that will land him in a position
for which he is so naturally well quali
fied. We are for "Pet" for anything,
no matter what it is. There are very
few who know him better than the writer
and his friends in the grand old com
monwealth is legion. But we desire to
impress upon the minds of every one of
his friends the necessity of hustling
you are the ones to do the work. You
know how timid "Pet" is about such
things. We may come down and lend
a few strokes ourself. If you need
us just holler, and we'll be on hand to
help deliver the goods.
"The stock market is weak and fever
ish." That is the case usually with the
dropsical patient after being tapped.
A railroad president announces that
his road is out of politics and done with
Jobying. Well, really, when you come
to think of it, there doesn't seem to be
anything left to fiVht for.
Candidates for the oflice of Gover
nor in New York will not under the
new law be permitted to spend over $10,
000 on their campaigns. This is indeed
the "poor man's country!"
A hen's peck killed a Missouri woman
recently. Many a man has been hen
pecked to death in other states and no
particular mention was made of the
canse of death by the enterprising news
papers.
An Indiana maiden lady has not spok
en to a man for seventy years. The
wonder is that some appreciative Hoos
ier hasn't long ago taken her silence
for consent and married the priceless
jewel.
The city of Kearney loses its case in
the supreme court against Governor
Sheldon, in the veto of the appropria
tion of $85,000 for the normal school
addition. The decision is a just one,
although rather distasteful to Kearney-
ites.
The evidence is all in at Boise in the
murder conspiracy cases against the
union labor leaders among western mi
ners and a two weeks gabfest by the
lawyers for the prosecution and defense
will now begin. The evidence is con
flicting and much discredit has been
thrown upon miners and mine owners
for acts done during the past ten years
The Indianapolis Star urges in favor
of farm work for women. We had no
idea that Indiana's agricultural necessi
tie3 were a3 dire as all that, but we
suggest that she reconvert enough of
of her novelists, poets and politicians to
to fill the requirements. Indiana has
spoiled more good farm hands by diver
ting their energies than any half-dozen
other States in the Union.
It is barely possible that all the Presi
dent's attacks upon trusts and combi
nations are not sham battles, but we
are from Missouri and will have to be
shown. Nobody has forgotten that he
saved a member of his cabinet from
criminal prosecution for rebating by al
lowing him to resign, calling off the
prosecution and then forcing him upon
the helpless stockho'ders of the Equita
ble Life Insurance company as its presi
dent. His name is Morton, Paul Mor
ton, son of the late J. Sterling Morton.
The one black spot in Judge Sedge-
wick's record as supreme judge, is his
decision against the state in the Bart
ley embezzlement case. Bartley took
state money, and was convicted. He
was pardoned by a republican governor
and now the bondsmen were let off
from paying the shortage by a republi
can judge Sedgewick. The state by
this suit loses about $200,000, and the
court must have known that Bartley
got what the state loses. Such deci
sions will soon make us lose faith in the
higher courts.
The South and the Presidency.
The writer in the North American Re
view who, over the signature "A Nation
al Democrat," urges the claims of the
south as a source of presidential timber
pays that section many compliments
but wholly misreads a long-settled pol
icy of the south in national politics.
The south has justly too good an opin
ion of itself to deny that it has many
men who would make good presidents.
During the two terms of president Cleve
land it was demonstrated that the south
is good recruiting ground for cabinet
officers and justices of the supreme
court. There is no lack of men in the
south who would do as well in the presi
dency as southerners since the civil war
have done in these offices.
But in a measure isolated, formerly by
slavery and later by conditions incident
to a large population of free negroes,
the south has little sought the presiden
cy since the "Virginia Dynasty" ended
with Monroe. The south has wisely
preferred to fortify itself against at
tack by alliances in the north and west,
and the southern democracy in national
conventions has generally supported
available candidates belonging to those
sections.
President Andrew Jackson, first a
candidate in 1824, and first elected in
1828, was more a western than a south
ern man. The first mention of him for
the presidency came from democrats of
Pennsylvania. Since his retirement
James K. Polk, elected in 1844, and John
C. Breckinridge, defeated in 1860, are
the only democratic candidates for the
presidency taken from the south. And
if Martin Van Buren, the northern can
didate for the nomintion, had not been
opposed to the coming Mexican war, he,
instead of Polk, would have have been
the nominee in the year first above
named.
During the twenty years immediate
ly preceeding the civil war it was the
steady policy of the southern democracy
to seek a northern or a western candi
date. It still adheres tenaciously to that
policy, and will certainly continue in it
until the country makes an imperative
call upon the south to give it a presi
dent.
Korea is now the seat of war, and it
seems to be about ready for a good
spanking.
The best thing aLout the mercury is
that it is confined inside the thermom
eter and can't ?limb out.
Colonel Henri Watterson and
Colonel George Harvey can manage to
make more noise over being wrong
than an entire rump convention with a
brass band. In an era of common
sense one way to attract attention is by
constituting the exclusive minority.
Good for the Farmers
One of the cheering facts of the money
market of the west is that now, and for
some years past, the farmers no longer
crowd the banks and financial institu
tions for loans.
Loans on farm mortgages are a favor
ite investment, for they bear a higher
interest than mortgages on city propery,
but in eastern Nebraska they are be
coming almost as scarce as they are gilt
edged. In some sections of the west farmers
themselves have become money lenders,
and some town concerns which made a
specialty of placing farm mortgages
have been driven out of the busines.
A succession of good crops, sold at
good prices, explains the change. And
while the record-breaking crops of wheat
and corn made last year will not be du
plicated this year there is every prom
ise that the farmers will get good yields.
In Nebraska, notwithstanding the recent
heavy rains, the corn and wheat are re
ported to be in usually good condition.
In Missouri and Kansas the wheat is
threshing out much better than was ex
pected, and the latter state is counting
on a yield of not less than 70,000,000
bushels.
In this state agriculture, dairying and
stock-raising are being as never before.
In Oklahoma there is this year an in
crease of 20 per cent in the acreage of
corn, the Indian Territory has a big crop
of peaches which will be relished further
north, where the peach buds were win
terkilled, while in Texas there is a grow
ing confidence that cotton will not turn
out badly after all.
Everywhere in the west the prospect
improves that the farmers are to have
another year of bountiful prosperity in
spite of a bad start with the season.
And, as the prosperity of the towns and
cities are measured by that of the farm
ers, we may well be in the humor to
smile and look pleasant.
Railroads and Politics
The Rock Island company announces
that it has gone out of politics, and the
Burlington declares the same. The an
nouncement of the Rock Island company
is a gratifying one and the declaration
of the Burlington is a surprising one.
The Rock Island deserves credit alike
for the frankness of its implied confes
sion as to the past and its promise of
amendment for the future. However,
the latter company has never been very
conspicuous in the politics of Nebraska-
The statement of the Burlington that
it is out of politics will not be believed
by any, because it is not true. The com
pany has been active and aggressive in
the politics of Missouri, Iowa and Ne
braska. Its law department is made up
largely of men who are selected because
of their skill in political intrigue and ma
neuver. They appear as members of
state committees and as delegates to
state and national conv ntions. Their
prominence and power are not due, as
in the case of the ordinary politician, to
party services openly and publicly ren
dered, but are due entirely to the pass,
which the company has put in use indis
criminately, so be it they are Burling
ton men.
The Burlington is not affiliated with
any particular party, or rather it is in
differently ffiliated with all parties.
It has been more distinctively Demo
cratic in Missouri and Republican in
Iowa and Nebraska, but in every State
it is Burlington. It can not disclaim
responsibility for its political represeta
tives because they derive their power
from the pass, a gift which the company
bestows. Moreover, it has had men on
its salary roll in Nebraska, and no doubt
in other states, who, whatever their
nominal functions have to politics in
the interest of the company. The
names Of some of these men will sug
gest themselves at once to every in
telligent reader, and the company cer
tainly does not need to be reminded of
them. And the methods of these men
have not always been consonant with
public policy nor in accord with public
law. The anti-pass law cuts no figure
with these fellows. They belong to the
Burlington "force" and ride on a pass
just the same.
Therefore, the statement of the Bur
lington, in view of notorious facts, we
repeat, is untrue. If jestingly intended
the humor was ill timed. The sugges
tion is that, unlike the Rock Island, it
proposes no change, and that it is now
doing and will do in the future as it has
done in the past. The company should
hasten to make correction of its state
ment, acknowledgment of its past of
fenses and promise to take the passes
from every county official whojis now
guilty of carrying one. They were tak
en from newspaper men, and county of
ficials are no better than common every
day editors, who are too poor generally
to pay railroad fare.
In the case of a nineteen-million-dol-lar
trusts there's likely to be enough
water in the churn.
THE Theatrical Trust may be "a blow
to art," but think of the thousands it
will support to whom art is a stranger.
Ik the democrats of Cass and Otoe
will get busy and nominate Judge
Travis of Plattsmouth for district
judge there will be a change in the po
litical attitude of that district after
next November. Lincoln Herald.
When the trusts get behind a candi
date they should take care to select one
of sufficent proportions and consistency
to screen them from view. We sug
gest that Secretary Taft is a good can
didate to hide behind.
If the few men who are working so
hard for the advancement of the inter
ests of Plattmouth, were to sit down
and do nothing, what would become of
the old town? It would go to the bow
wows quicker than you could say "scat!"
Here's to the skeeter.
The human blood-eater,
Whose drill is as long as his legs.
He hovers and hums.
Then finally comes
And sucks all our juice but the dregs.
Two republican candidates for judge
of the district court Root, of Cass, and
Warren, of Otoe. They will each car
ry their respective county, and as they
are near equal in republican voters, it
will be Nip and Tuck between them,
with the chances in favor of the one
who can carry his county by the largest
majority.
It would not be true to assert that
the Chicago News (rep.) is always dull
and uninteresting. Listen to this: "In
the course of its long and checkered his
tory, tariff revision has acquired a fixed
habit of postponing itself until after the
next election. The habit may prove
embarrassing to a hopeful political party
some day."
Whenever the courts assess a heavy
fine upon the Standard Oil company,
the railroads or other corporations, they
are simply punishing the people. The
corporations have no money except
what they receive from the people.
They make a fine or penalty as one of
the fixed charges of doing business and
the people have to pay it.
The St Louis Globe-Democrat, one of
the stinkingest and most uncompromis
ing republican papers in the United
States, admits that the democrats are
in overwhelming majority in Oklahoma
and that they will elect nearly all the
state and congressional candidates. But
it is fair enough to not oppose statehood
on that account and urges the republi
cans to put up their best men for party
sacrifices.
From reports throughout the country,
Mr. Bryan has strengthed himself im
measurably by his declaration that
government ownership will not be an
issue of the 1908 campaign, and party
leaders everywhere give expressions fa
vorable to the great Nebraskan as the
ideal candidate for president. Even
Roger Sullivan says: "I am pleased at
the announcement. It may mean a party
victory next year." Charles Williams,
editor of the Indianapolis News, says:
"The democratic party will be helped by
Mr. Bryan's latest declaration, for it is
now made clear that there will no at
tempt to commit it to any such radical
ism, and that the campaign will be
fought on other and more radical is
sues." Here's Your City Farmer
Nelson Morris, America's biggest
feeder of distillery cattle, has just
cleared $1,000,000 in Chicago by the
present advance in prices. The big
packer bought cattle last fall at $3.50
and $4.00 per cwt., and this week -sold
them at $6.50 and 7.00 per cwt., or $15
per head higher than last fall. St.
Joseph Star.
The city farmer made a fortune.
The country farmer, who is the real
farmer, can now get a pencil and figure
out how much he made by reason of a
protective tariff on livestock. It's an
easy job. He can figure It out after
his noonday meal while waiting for his
team to eat before going back into the
field to plow corn so as to raise a good
crop to feed more cattle for the city
farmer. By the sweat of his brow
shall the farmer learn the beauties of
protection.
E. F. Warren a Candidate.
Hon.E. F. Warren this morning filed
with the county clerk his application to
have his name placed on the primary
ballot, as a republican candidate for
district judge. As yet no candidates
on the democratic side of the house
have filed their applications and it may
be the democrats may experience some
trouble in inducing some one to make
the race. It is understood that Jesse
L. Root of Plattsmouth republican can
didate for district judge, has filed his
application with the secretary of state.
It will be more than likely that Hon. E.
F. Warren will get the vote of this
county for the nomination. Nebraska
City News.
John Albert from Cedar Creek had
business in the county ; seat this morn
ing coming on the"early train.
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The Kind Ton Have Always
In use for over 30 years,
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All Counterfeits, Imitations and 'Tust-as-MNl" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Kxperiuieiit.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing? Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething? Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Dowels, giving1 healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
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Bears the
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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Bryan and Government Ownership
If Mr Bryan is sincere, and his en
emies have never questioned his sincer
ity, he has done much to clear the
Democratic atmosphere by his repudia
tion of the public ownership of rail
ways and the initiative and referendum.
When he returned from his trip abroad
the whole country delighted to do him
honor by the greatest popular demon
stration ever accorded to a private in
dividual with nothing but the prestige
of defeat to awaken such enthusiasm.
He was hailed as the greatest private
citizen in the whole world and was re
ceived and welcomed as no other man
has ever been received since time began.
But his speech upon that memorable
occasion threw cold water on all enthu
siasm and lost to him the hearty sup
port which was sure to be his had he
been less radical and more conservative
in dealing with such questions. ' His
utterances as to ownership alone caused
potent allies to drop off, one by one,
and these were from sections where the
Democratic nominee for the presidency
must receive electoral votes in order to
win. Even with this handicap he easi
ly continued to be the most popular
man in his party, but under such a
handicap he could never expect to ba
elected President of the United States.
With objectionable fad3 elimainted
and with confidence in his safety re
stored to those who feared his radica
lism upon these two questions, he may
again become the idol of all Democrats,
as he easily was upon landing after his
trip around the world, and he has
once again become a probable nominee
of an united and aggressive Democracy
The public confidently expects to hear
further and more definitely from the
distinguished Nebraskan along the lines
mentioned and if his ' abandonment of
those two fads is unmistakenly certain
then he will have gone far toward
again becoming the world's most popu
lar and deserving publicist. Kansas
City Post.
Roosevelt is missing the chance of
his life. Wolves are very bad and an
noying to farmers along the Platte river
over in Sarpy county, and if our Oyster
Bay ennuied president would only run
out and catch a few of them alive he
would make a hit with some people who
do not now take him seriously or regard
him highly. If he can only show these
Platte bottom settlers that he "catches
'em alive" some of them could forgive
Nick Longworth for being a hopeless
mollycoddle.
Truth hath her victories no less re
nowned than political prevarication.
Grover Cleveland won a national elec
tion by urging his friends to "tell the
truth" about a certain line of former
conduct, and the Republicans seem sure
of losing the text election through
failure to tell the truth about govern
mental policies and canal crookedness.
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Scott's E,mtiIsion is powerful nourish- q
Q ment highly concentrated. -w0
It makes bone, blood and muscle without
J? putting any tax cn the digestion.
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Signature of
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The Way to do it
At the present time retail merchants
are devising ways and means to meet
the competition of the mail order houses.
One of these is to loycott wholesalers
and manufacturers who sell to mail or
der houses. The mail order business
appears to be the higgest thing in Chi
cago, and the trade derived from it ap
proaches the business of the big whole
sale houses in many lines. The best way
to defeat the mail order house is to
advertise your own territory. Beatrice
Sun.
Cauarrh Cannot Be Cured
with local applications, as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh
is a blood or constitunal disease, anc in
order to cure it you must take internal
remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, and acts directly on the
blood and mucus surface, Hall's Ca
tarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It
was prescribed by one of the best phy
sicians in this country for years and is
a regular prescription. It is composed
of the best tonics known, combined
with the best blood purifiers, acts di
rectly on the mucus surfaces- The per
fect combination of the two ingredients
is what produces such wonderful re
sults in curing catarrh. Send for tes
monials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo.O.
Sold by druggists, price 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The "Jolly Six" Return
The "Jolly Six," who were enter
tained at the hospitable home of Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Week bach at Crete for
the past few days, returned home thi3
afternoon. They had a fine time and
were loath to leave a home made so
inviting as the one prepared for the
entertainment of the old time friends,
who had met so many times for a pleas
ant hour in old Plattsmouth in the years
gone by.
Bad sick headaches, biliousness or
constipation are quickly relieved by De
Witt's Little Early Risers. Small pill,
sure pill prompt and pleasant inaction.
Sold by F. G. Fricke & Co.
A Narrow Escape
Robert Brissey, the manager of the
freight house for the Burlington, had a
verv narrow escape from sunstroke
yesterday while loading some caskets
that are being reshipped, forrefinishing.
He crot into the freight house but when
he got down he could not go again when
he wanted to. After some rest and
cooling off, he went home, but 13 not
feeling well yet this morning.
Harsh phvsics react, weaken the
bowels, cause chronic constipation.
Doan's Regulets operate easily, tone
the stomach, cure constipation. ac.
Ask your druggist for them.
large amount of nourish
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