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Anohikr Mow was dealt to watered
.stnk when the Chicago Fish Trust
was indicted.
TllE only way to be happy is to he
irtnl to others," says John I). Rocke
feller. Somebody must have told him.
A Chicago girl fell from a tree. Her
camera-strap caught and saved her from
death. She has better views on the ko
dak than ever.
Now a corset trust has been formed.
Those who do not wear them will not be
pinched either by the raise in prices or
by the articles themselves.
It don't require much exertion upon
the part of candidates to make the po
litical jMt boil. In fact, there are some
people who would, prefer to have it iced.
That Philadelphia husband who, on
his deathbed, gave his wife to a friend,
afforded hern fears;me lever over her
new spouse. He can never doubt the
generosity f the d'ar departed.
A MA was taken before the police
jud.e in Maryvi'le, Missouri, the other
day becaus:; he came to town in his
bare feet. That is the way the man
can.e into the world but nobody was
foolish enough to kick about it,
TilK la.y man who refuses to help his
wife wash the dishes when she wants to
to church Sunday morning, and is in
a hurry, should read II Kings, 12 and l;.
This item is printed ro as to get people
to take down the old family bible and
wife otf the accumulated dust.
The protective tariff of 25 cents per
bushel on wheat isn't holding up the
prioe of that commodity like the tariff
on iron, steel and living necessities is
holding up their prices. The farmer
loses out on the wheat tariff and pays
the tariff on almost everything he con
sumes. If he can stand it others must.
"Yh r paper is i tending up for the
right and I want to take it for that reas
on." This is the way a prominent
farmer talked to the editor of this paper
last Saturday as he handed over the
price of a year's suhscrij tion. We ap
preciate such commendation, especially
when it emanates from a life-long re
publican. The Journal is pleased to learn that a
large number of Plattsmouth people are
arranging to attend the Elm wood Cha
iauqua next week. This is proper and
right. Elmwood is a Cass county town,
and its enterprising people have gone
to a great expense to inaugurate a cha
tauqita within its limits. And most cer
tainly the county seat should have a
large delegation in attendance each day.
The wheat from this year's crop is not
bringing the price that the farmers con
fidently expected. When wheat went
to the dollar mark several months ago
on the Chicago market, enthusiastic re
publican papers paraded the fact with
much gusto as an evidence of prosperity.
At the time we asserted that it was the
city farmer who was getting the dollar
for wheat, but the real farmer would get
decidedly less when he put his wheat on
the market. Our prophecy proved true.
Now the question comes in again -where
is the protection that protects the Amer
ican farmer?
TflE English-bom, standpat and cen
tralizationist Congressman, Jenkins of
Wisconsin, permitted his mouth to run
ahead of his judgement in his puerile
denunciation of a Governor who would
not permit a federal judge to outrage
all law and all decency by submitting
to a flagrant wrong. Now he knows
he was wrong but pouts in his tent and
refuses to exhibit manhood enough to
admit his asininity. Those who have
schooled themselves to think a federal
judge is infallible are making, them
selves objects of keenest ridicule every
where and this Jenkins of Wisconsin is
the chief butt of the pointed shafts.
The devotion of the Democratic par
ty to the constitutional rights of the
States is so historic that the party's
conventions have not deemed it neces
sary upon all occasions to expand upon
it. When the rights of the States are
not threatened the party lets its record
speak for it on that subject and devotes
itself to matters of greater present im
portance. But events of the last eight
months make it certain that one of the
clearest and most emphatic declarations
of the Democratic National Convention
of next year will express the party's
determination to stand immovable upon
its principle that the rights of the States
must be respected by the Federal power.
The rational Democracy will make no
declaration that would bring any State
into clash with the Federal Government,
so lor.g as it is administered in close
accordance with the letter and the spirit
of the Constitution. Dut it will be firm
ly asserted that the Federal hand must
be kept out of the domestic affairs of
the States, and confine itself to the
purely national, international and inter
state affairs which it was created to
deal with.
A Kentuckian evolved a new method
of divorce. After a quarrel with his
wife, he lay on a 125 sticks of powder,
touched a fuse, and was jarred loose.
The London woman who chased her
husband 5,KK miles must have been
very easy to suit, considering that her
spouse was an English tailor.
Ji-doe Landis recommends the use
of a base ball bat in squelching the
political hooms for him. That ought to
be good for a hit with the bleachers.
In these day3 of Standard Oil discus
sions, it will be well to remember that
Standard Oil is a product of high tariff,
and high tariff is a product of the re
publican party.
If the national government will not
help us to make the Missouri river a
great trafficway, we could use the stream
for a sleeping place on hot nights, if it
wasn't for the darned mosquitos.
The fusionists have two canbidates
in the primaries to vote on for supreme
judge. They are Hon. Geogre L. Loom
is of Fremont and Judge I. A. Alberts
of Columbus. Either one excellent
jurisis.
The New York Herald puplishes a
report saying that unless Roosevelt
runs again for president George R.
Cortelyou will positively be a candidate.
With all his life insurance contributions
in his last campaign record?
The Natio'iv.l Union of Railway
Trackmen has protested against bad
railway ties i:i Nebraska. The track
men are tardy. The National Conven
tion of Tramps in Michigan registered
that kick three months ago.
A Chemist has devised a way of put
ting up beer in tablet form, thereby en
abling one to carry around a few jags
in his vest pocket. But where would
be the satisgaction of indulging in beer,
if one is deprived of the pleasure of
blowing off the foam.?
As a newspaper man we are sorry we
cannot please everybody, and extremely
glad that we please so many people.
The newspaperman who has no enemies
is of little use to his profession. He
hasn't ginger enough in his entire make
up to edit stale jokes in a patent medi
cine almanac.
Attorney General Bonaparte in
directly threatens to jail a few criminal
trust magnates in addition to the fines
imposed for law violations. This is ex
cellent weather to incarcerate some of
the trade highwaymen, and about sixty
days in a stuffy jail might recall to
their minds the long forgotten Golden
Rule and several of the Ten Command
ments. Try it, Mr. Attorney Gener
al. The squeeze has come at last. A
-rset trust being formed and two hun
dreq millions of those invisible coat
sleeves are to be turned out each year.
As there are only about 85,000,000 of
us, the question arises as to how many
corsets per year the average corset
wearer uses? Nick Longworth and oth
er mollycoddles among the male sex
may wear them, but robust vjrility
scorns such aTerr.inate adjuncts to grace
of person.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis is a ver
itable volcano of activity these days.
At one and the snrr.e time he tendered
the Standard Oil a $2i,0')0.000 fine, dis
solved the Church Trust, put Volia out
of Zion, tackled the Chicago & Alton
and grabbed a ball bat to club his fool
political friends to silence. And they
say he sleeps well and eats three times
a day as usual.
Plattsmouth has outgrown the pe
riod when a few men or a few lines of
business can control the town. We
have reached a point where we want all
the business that is coming, and the
more we have in the business the closer
the competition, the more extended will
be the trade drawn from the outside.
Every dry goods store helps the trade
in every other dry goods store in the
city. The same is true of every line of
trade. Our people are becoming less
jealous than they used to be, and they
are working together in better shape.
Plattsmouth can do much for her future
prosperity, if she only will.
Our Mistake Your Treat
In naming over the possible available
timber for democratic nominees a few
weeks ago, Col. Bates, of the Platts
mouth Journal, named H. G. Wellensick,
of Avoca, as being a young man who
would fill the requirements for the posi
tion of county judge. We agree with
the Colonel in every respect but one,
and that is that Mr. Wallensick is not a
democrat. He is and always has been a
republican, and how the Colonel could
have gotten the idea that he was a dem
ocrat, no one can tell, unless it was be
cause the democrats are shy of good at
torneys to become candidates for judge
and he thought he would draw on the
republicans. But Mr. Wallensick is a
republican and objects to being classed
on the other side. Weeping Water Re
publican. The Journal stands corrected. How
ever, we received our information from
one whom we presumed knew what he
was talking about, when he said Mr.
Wellensick was a democrat.
Those who attend the Chautauqua at
Elmwood next week, need not go to
Elm wood station, unless they so desire.
All trains stop near the park, going and
coming.
A contemporary says Rockefeller
and Landis are stars in the latest tank
drama. It might be added that they
are getting big press notices on the
kerosene circuit.
Governor Glenn of North Carolina
is neither a braggart nor an excitable
visionary. He knew he was right and
maintained his position with both dig
nity and determination.
"For whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap." If he sows deceit
he will reap deceit; if he sows hypocrisy
he will reap hypocrisy; if he sows the
truth he reaps the truth.
Missouri has a peculiar automible
law. A machine from another state
can be run in that state for twenty days
without paying a license. After that
its owner must put up a $15 state li
cense. With a 370-foot lizard skeleton in
Wyoming, a forty-foot snake in Ne
braska and forty-pound watermelons in
Texas, Mr. Roosevelt must be undecid
ed which section of nature fakes to
attack next.
An Atlanta divine, Dr. Len G.
Broughton. who preaches occasionally
in Chicago, New York, London, Paris,
Berlin and Vienna, says Chicago is the
wickedest city in the world, Paris sec
ond, and New York third. It is at
least gratifying to know that we do not
lead in all three, much as the United
States delights in being first in 'almost
everything.
Taft is in doubt whether to permit
the cuckoo papers to hearten him over
the fact that 15 of the 21 Ohio Repub
lican central committee were dragooned
into boosting him for the Republican
presidential nomination in 1908, or to
take on a running scare at the manner
in which it was done and the outspoken
opposition of the six who refused to be
coerced.
Frank E. Schlater, now deputy
treasurer, has come out for the office
of county treasurer, subject to the will
of the democratic voters at the primar
ies. But that don't mean after he is
nominated that he will be content to
receive only democrat votes at the polls
election day. Frank is a pretty good
sort of a democrat. Weeping Water
Herald.
The assessor of Douglas county says
that the smaller merchants in Omaha
are assessed higher in proportion, than
the large merchants. That is' true of
other localities. The man who owns
nothing but a cook stove and bed, a
sewing macnine and a house full of chil
dren is the man who pays taxes out of
all proportion to his ability to do so.
An equitable distribution of the burden
of taxation is one of the things that do
not exist.
That was a good political platform
John Sharp Williams gave out at the
closing of the Mississippii Senatorial pri
maries. "Thank God," he said, "I
fought a clean fight and kept the faith,
the old Democratic faith, midway be
tween plutocracy and mobocracy. Thank
God again I was strong enough to
preach the doctrine of mutual helpful
ness, and not mutual hate on earth."
This is true Democracy and exactly the
kind the Journal aims to preach.
This office is in receipt of a copy of
"The Trackman," published at Ft.
Scott, Kansas. The Trackman is deci
dedly in favor of a good railroad track,
and the way it goes after the Missouri
Pacific in this state, is a caution. It
illustrates several points on the road
between Plattsmouth and Omaha and
Plattsmouth and Union and Weeping
Water, which, according to "pictures"
printed in that paper, represents the
the road-bed in a most deplorable con
dition. Broken nails and rotten ties
seem to be in numerous places
along the line. If the roadbed is in
half as serious condition as represented
by The Trackman, the railroad com
missioners should suspend the company
from doing business until they place
the road in proper condition.
It's easy to be a lord in Engandnow'
according to Hugh Cecil Lea, M. P.
Purchase of titles has become so com
mon he has moved that a license office
be opened, tags procured, and entree
into the upper house regulated in man
ner similar to collection of dog tax.
Acquirement of place in Britian's col
ony of peers didn't move Mr. Lea to
effervescence of extraordinary descrip
ion until an individual of New York flir
tations fame was made a holy of holies.
Lea then passed over to the Prime Min
ister a pinwheel of pyrotechnic in
terrogations which blinded that august
personage, but failed to make him talk.
Lea accuses the governmental chiefs of
graft, in comparison to which the
American article is tame. He says
that a peerage is only a matter of pounds,
and that the aristocracj has given way
to snobocracy. The latter sentiment
is not altogether original, as the ma
jority on this side of the pond express
ed moons ago. Coming from an Eng
lishman, it may serve to alleviate the
matrimonial myopia of some American
mothers. Pay your money; take your
choice.
An exchange complains that since
the passage of the law last winter
making a rcdnction of 25 per cent in
express rates the expressage on its
package of ready print has been increas
ed 33J per cent. That paper does -not
want any more "relief" legislation.
Now the fact is that the present rail
road commission is composed of men
who feel much more kindly towards the
railroads and express companies than
they do towards the people of Nebraska.
We say the present commission, and
we might add that all future commiss
ions will be same. The law creating
commissions is a delusion. It simply
creates jobs for a few politicians at the
expense of the people, and relieves the
state officers, who should be responsi
ble for the administration of affairs,
by shifting the execution of the laws to
others. This state is becoming a bur
lesque by reason of its numerous com
missions, and not one of them is of bene
fit, to any person except the fellow who
draws the salary.
Plain Talk.
Judge Sedgwick's supporters must
show a justification for having released
the Omaha National Bank from all
liability on the Bartley warrant, through
which the state lost $200,000. They
will be required to explain the appoint
ment by Judge Sedgwick of a Bartley
bondsman as Supreme Court Commiss
ioner while the case was pending before
that Court. They must tell why the
Bartley bondsmen were released from
a $500,000 liability to the state on a
technicality by a decision in which
Judge Sedgwick participated after the
legal liability of the bondsmen had been
established. Thev will have to account
for Judge Sedgwick's part in the judg
ment releasing the State Journal Com
pany from a liability to the state of
$S5,000, realized from the illicit sale of
Supreme Court Reports which were j
published at the expense of the state.
They must defend, if defense is possible,
the appointment by Judge Sedgwick as
Commissioners of the Supreme Court of
men who had been repudiated by there
publican state convention on account of
their railroad affiliations. They must
explain why the railroad machine men
of the state are all working for Sedg
wick. This fact cannot be denied, ex
cused or disguised. These are the
issues upon which Judge Sedgwick's
candidacy must go before the people.
His supporters should not be permitted
to evade them by raising the untruth
ful cry of malice or persecution. Aurora
Republican (rep.)
The Tariff Plank.
The tariff plank in the Democratic
platform next year will voice the sober
judgement of the party on an economic
question which comes to the front again
with more than the usual insistence.
The Democratic utterance will not be
influenced by anything the Republicans
may say, or leave unsaid, in their plat
form. That the Dingley act must soon be
revised is admitted, even by such un
yielding standpatters as Joseph G. Can
non, Speaker of the House in the last
Congress and probable Speaker in the
new Congress. The Republican Con
vention next year will, with hardly a
doubt, yield to the inevitable and prom
ise some definite changes in the Ding
ley schedules, while declaring their de
votion to the protective principle. They
will insist that the tariff should be re
vised "by its friends." At thesame
time, the powerful antiprotection sen
timent that has grown up among Re
publicans in the Northwest may make
it necessary for them to be very liberal
in their promises of lower rates.
The Democrats will do well to make
up their minds on the tariff in advance,
and pay no attention to what the Re
publicans say about it. Democrats will
bear in mind that so false and artificial
a system as have grown up under the
prohibitive rates of the Dingley act can
not safely be corrected at a single
stroke.
The Democratic party next year will
do well to declare its ancient principle
of tariff for revenue, with incidental
protection, and to announce its purpose
to make the tariff legislation of the
country conform to that principle, at
the earliest date. But the attempt
may not safely be made to return to the
basis at a single step. A good, substan
tial reduction at the start, to be follow
ed periodically by gradual reduction,
would relieve consumers without alarm
ing business interests which have been
so stimulated by Dingleyism that they
might collapse if too suddenly deprived
of its support.
For such a tariff the party has a pre
cedent in the compromise tariff of 1833,
following the nullification troubles.
But while dealing conservatively with
business interests, the party sh uld, in
no uncertain voice, declare its purpose
to give tariff, shelter to no monopoly,
and to deprive any trust of all protect
ion which it might directly or indirect
ly obtain from the tariff. Products of
any industry monopolized by a trust
should go upon the free list.
A Bright Young Man.
C. E. Metzger, of Cedar Creek will be
the democratic candidate for clerk of
the district court. He has no opposi
tion in his party. He is one of the
brightest yeung men in the county and
has hosts of friends who would like to
see him fill the position to which he
aspires. Louisville Courier.
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Tho Kind Yo:i Have- Alv.ay.s
in use for over CO years,
and
7V7"7" aonal supervision since its infancy.
j -CCccAZi Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-g-ood ' are but
12xperiments that trifle- 'with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Kxncricnco against Experiment
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
suhstance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys "Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrluea and Wind
Colie. It relieves Teething" Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho
Stomach and liowels, giving healthy and natural hleep.
The Children's ianacea Tho Mother's Friend.
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the last to file for office was II. IX
Travis for district juike. His support
will come from the counties of Cass and
Otoe, comprising this judicial district.
We have no doubt but that Judge Travis
will make a splendid showing and after
securing the nomination will give his ,
adversary a close run. With Messrs. !
Root and Travis pitted against each 1
other the fight will be an interesting 1
one and a splendid judge assurredno'
matter who wins.
The chautauquas held in towns over
Nebraska have, generally speaking, met
with great success. They are worth all
they cost to any town from an enter
tainment standpoint and bringing a good
class of people to. town. Elmwood is
the only town in Cass county that pos
sesses citizens with vim and push suffi
cient to invest in such an enterpiise.
and their first venture should be made i
a big success. The way to help make
it so is for every citizen of Plattsmouth
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Scott Krn-ulsion strengthens enfeebled
nursing mo
thej
nerve force.
It provides hzhy
and mineral food fcr
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TheGund Brewing Co., LaCrosse, Wis., pays Toland
Graduates $30,000 per annum.
The Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. pays To
land Graduates more than $30,000 per annum.
The Swift Packing Co., South St. Paul, pays Toland
Graduates more than $12,000 per annum.
Hundreds of other firms pay Toland Graduates from
$3,000 to $10,000 per annum.
WHY DO THESE FIRMS GIVE TOLAND GRADUATES THE PREFERENCE?
Why do Toland Graduates Succeed where others fail?
Send for our beautiful, free catalogue, and you will know.
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PERKINS HOTEL
PLATTSMOUTH.
RATES $1.00 PER DAY
First House West B. 5c M. Depot
We Solicit the Farmers Trade
and Guarantee Satisfaction.
When in the City Give Us a Cal!
H6e Perkins Hotel
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Jioiight, and ivhlch lias been
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Signature of
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who get away from home two or three
days, is to attend next week and help
swell the crowd. The gentlemen who
have the chautauqua in hand certainly
deserve success, and big one at that.
Remedy for Diarrhoea Never Known
to Fail
"I want to say a few words for Cham
berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrrhoea
Remedy. I have used this preparation
in my family for the past live years and
have recommended it to a number of
people in York county and have never
known it to fail to effect a cure in any
instance. I feel that I can not say too
much for the best remedy of the kind in
the world." S. Jemison, Spring drove,
York county, Pa. This remedy is for
sale by F. G. Fricke & Co. and A. T.
Fried.
A first-class well improved 100 acre
Cass County farm for sale. Inquire of
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