The Plattsmouth Journal
PUBLISH KD WEEKLY Al
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
K. A. KATK.S, PUBLISHER.
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brankii. mM!CundclHii matter.
Don't forget the Labor Day celebra
tion. Monday, September 2.
The Labor Day celebration promises
to be one of the largest gatherings of
people that ever assembled in Platts
mouth. Are you going to swell the
crowd?
Many farmers express themselves as
being very much dissatisfied with the
primary law, and for the reason that
they do not fully understand it, is one
reason why a small vote is expected in
the rural voting places.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch dividesre
publicans into two classes, "trust-busters
and trust-boosters" But what dif
ference can it make in the end when
they openly resolve to become unani
mous before they permit results of any
kind?
With the wheat' corn and oats crops
estimated to aggregate four billions of
bushels there will be no lack of some
thing to eat in this country during the
year, and somebody will have work to
do in hauling it to the mouths into which
it will disappear.
The primary election is not faraway.
Republican candidates for county judge
are putting in their best licks. From
present appearances it will be a close
race between the four candidates.
The race for district clerk also promises
to be quite interesting.
The demand made by Texas in its
suit against the Harvester Trust is for
the modest sum of $1,000,000. But a
million in the hand may be worth more
than $29, 400, OCX) expected to remain in
the bush until after a final decision that
may not be rendered until everything
else is over, including the shouting.
The democratic county central com
mittee does not want to forget that a
meeting in accordance with the primary
election law, will be held in this city on
Saturday, September 7, and that it is
desirable that every member be pesent.
An entire new committee is to be named
and a new chairman and secretary elect
fd by the new committee.
When we consider that the clerk of
the supreme court gets more clear
money out of the job than the combin
ed salaries of the judges of that court,
the motive for the fight vhich Chair
man Rose is making is apparent. Lee
Ilerdman retired from that position
rich, and purchased several business
blocks in Omaha. Harry Lindsay has
not held the job so long, but is getting
very comfortably fixed.
The Journal agrees with the Beatrice
Sun in the following expressions: "Too
much is being said about anti-railroad
men in connection with the selection of
supreme judges. The man who pro--claims
himself opposed to any great
"business interest is too narrow for a
judge of the highest court in the state.
The people demand fairness. We have
echoed the demand made for a square
deal, and that is all that we want. The
man who has to run for a judicial posi
tion upon any hobby and especially
prejudice, is not the man we want."
The Old Settlers Reunion at Union
was a big success in every way. Sat
urday an enormous crowd was present.
Many who were present say that it was
the largest that ever attended these an
nual reunions. Everything passed off
pleasantly, and good f eefing reigned su
preme throughout the day. Owing to
pressing business matters and the print
ing of the primary election ballots the
Journal was unable to have a represen
tative present for the first time since
assuming management of this paper.
We are sorry but it could not be . help
ed this time.
The tenth amendment to the -consti-tion
of the United States would trouble
President Roosevelt a good deal if he
felt any solicitous regard for legal lim
itations of governmental power. How
everj it must worry a jurist like Judge
Taft when he is confronted with plans
for a compulsory national incorporation
law. "The powars not delegated to
the United States by the constitution
nor prohibited by it to the states are
reserved to the states respectively or
to the people." That is the language
of the amendment and that is the true
spirit of political wisdom.
Mr. Taft, a3 the mirror and mouth
piece of an administration which would
break down State lines and substitute
Federal for State control of local in
stitutions, is the last man in the repub
lican party, except President Roose
velt himself, who could persuasively
appeal to the south to relax its adher
ence to democracy and all that democ
racy stands for in defense of the right
of every State to control its local and
domestic affairs in its own way.
Governor Sheldon will be here to
speak Labor Day. This announcement
should be sufficient to draw a large
crowd.
A very light vote is predicted at the
primary September 3.
. CoNFipENCE in Wall street is badly
shaken, put the belief in the corn crop
remains intact.
THE gentle consumer ought to find
some guarantee for purity in the price
he is required to pay for food.
Every citizen should boost the Labor
Day celebration, and make it a big day
for Plattsmouth. Let there be no kick
ing. Daniel's comet, visible in the north
eastern sky, travels at the rate of 50,
000, miles a second. No speed regula
tions hold against celestial motors.
Wall street may conclude, after all,
not to have a panic this year. It learns
that the panic would not affect the
West in the least, and would hurt only
New York.
The Chicago reformer who would
make criminals be good by colonizing
them in a garden to grow peaches and
roses seems to forget that all our trou
bles began in a garden.
It seems that there are times when,
instead of speaking even softly, a stren
uous President may merely nod to his
private secretary to say nothing and let
someone saw the wood.
The telegraphers' strike must soon
end one way or another. The demand
for telegrphic service is so great that
it must be met. Either an agreement
must be reached soon or the places of
the strikers must be filled. This is not
a strike that can hang fire indefinitely.
The republican gang of office-seekers
and office-holders around the capital are
never satisfied, it would seem. They
wanted the primary election law, and
got it. It don't just exactly suit them,
and now the don't want it. Well, really,
it is a poor excuse of a law, containing
a conglomoration of stuff that a Philadel
phia lawyer can't figure out, let alone
cheap-screws around Lincoln.
The "trust magnates" who are said
to be worrying because Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte continues to talk of
sending several of them to jail for the
sake of the example must be easily
worried. Perhaps it would soothe them
to read over the corespondence with
"Dear Harriman" when he was show
ing his worth as well as his dearness by
frying out monopoly fat to grease the
wheels of republican reform.
The country can rest assured that it
can expect no help in tariff revision
from the crowd which will likely con
trol the next Republican convention.
They are already organizing against
any candidate, prospective or listed,
who shows any sign of leaning toward
honesty in dealing with the people. As
that crowd furnishes the money to in
sure the purchase of the voters in the
close states it is reasonably certain that
no revisionist will be nominated by that
party and that the democrats and re
publican revisionists will carry the next
election if united in a sincere desire to
relieve the oppression wraught by the
indefensible tariff schedules of the
Dingley law.
Just how to keep the tariff at its
present high water mark of piratical
brigandage and at the same time fool
the man who is being robbed daily into
believing relief is in sight, will occupy
the time of the platform jugglers of the
Republican party for the next ten
months. The cry for radical revision
from heretofore staunch and loyal re
publicans in tariff schedules has caused
more than one former platform maker
for the "Grand Old Party" to sit- up
and take notice of a ghost that will not
be laid by mere indefinite promises of
future relief. It is impossible to long
er appease victims of outrageously high
prices for life's necessaries by the hol
low promise of a "revision of the tariff
by friends of the tariff." This, the
victim knows, is no relief for him and
is made to quiet him during a campaign
and catch his vote on election day.
After that he will see he has been duped
again, and again he must wait to have
the disease cured by those interested
in spreading it.
William H. Taft has delivered him
alf of the carefully prepared speech
promised by his managers before he
starts upon-his tour around the globe.
In it he speaks for all the world like a
genuine reformer, and had it been de
livered by a northern democrat at some
political gathering it would have passed
muster as a conservative democratic
speech in many vital particulars. Taft
is an abler man than his enemies wish
to concede, and he thinks upon broader
lines than his party is willing to admit.
His spoken desire for imprisoning trust
offenders, the income tax and tariff re
vision is most commendable, and if they
had place or were even likely to have
place in any republican platform he
would be formidable as a candidate or
nominee. But he reckons without his
host if he imagines the American peo
ple will take him. seriously as being
representative of the officeholders who
will compose the next republica conv
ention and write the next republican
national platform.
Evidently the primary election law
is the worst bungled up law that was ev
er enacted by any legislature in any
state in the union.
Mr. Taft upholds the policy of the
national administration and also declares
in favor of tariff reform. This is play
ing both ends of the polical game with
a vengeance.
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I1AVC you Iiuuteu laieiy nisi ai
speakers at public gatherings denounce
the railroads and the trusts? Under
what party did the trusts get their life
and under what party are they fed by
tariff taffy?
Republican papers continue to prate
of the cry for harvest hands from west
ern states in order to bolster up the de
lusion that everybody is prosperous.
This, notwithstanding the harvest has
been over for some time.
An Iowa woman has been granted a
divorce from her husband because he re
quested his lady stenographer to change
the buttons in his vest while he put on
his collar. It doesn't take much some
times to break the matrimonial hitch
strap.
Below the hollow reverberation of
the heavy guns of alledged Roosevelt
iari reform as Secretary Taft is unlim
bered at various danger points along
the front, there is a still, small echo
from Illinois, where Speaker Cannon
is standing just as pat as usual.
The pure food inspectors are still af
er the grocers and others who violate
the law. Pure food is necessary to
health and all should strive to see that
the law is properly enforced. How
many of our grocers keep pure food as
the law requires?
If, as Foraker asserts, the Hepburn
bill has greatly benefited the railroads
by knocking out both passes and re
bates, why in the name of commom
sense is he sounding his fire alarm
again? Heretofore it has been suppos
ed he would be perfectly satisfied if
just that result were accomplished.
When Senator Foraker says that he
is in the Ohio fight to the finish, he de
fines his principle as opposition to hum
bug in reform. But then he hastens to
add that if the republican party must
have it he will show himself as good a
republican as ever, by loyal acquies
cence in all possible republican hum
bugs. The United States are now manuf act
turing and using paper at the rate of
$188,000,000 a year, an increase, accord
ing to late official estimates of about 50
per cent since 1900. It is an enormous
industry, created chiefly by the increas
ing demand for newspapers and grow
ing with it, as evidence of the increas
ing spread of public intelligence.
A Dingley organ explains with some
verbosity the expedition with which the
Dingley act was but through the spec
ial session of congress ten years ago.
The real explanation is that the Ding
ley license to rob was paid for in ad
vance with contributions to the repub
lican slush fund, and the schedules
were already written by the contribu
tors before the session was called.
Governor Sheldon has wisely de
clined to appoint delegates to. the con
vention called by the West End Busi
ness Men's association of St. Louis for
the ostensible purpose of proposing
amendments to the state and federal
constitutions to bring into harmony the
jurisdiction of the state and federal
courts on certain questions. The gov
ernor thinks he scents a railroad scheme
in the proposed convention, and the
Journal thinks he is right about it, too.
If what republican papers say of
Judge Sedgwick is true, and if what
Judge Pound says of Norris Brown is
true, and if what the Lincoln Journal
says of J udge Resse is true, then it is
truly proper for the people of this state
to rise up in a solid body and annihilate
the whole hydra-headed bunch of repub
lican court corruption. If what is char
ged and counter-charged is true, the
whole bunch has been in collusion to de
fraud justice and have been making
our courts a plaything and the people
should look for relief in some other
candidate for supreme judge.
When President Roosevelt in Massa
chusetts assaulted "Laissez Faire" the
day that Secretary Taft had assaulted
it in Ohio, the fact that both used al
most the same indignant language is a
coincidence, suggesting that both failed
contemporaneously to consult a reliable
French dictionary and a reliable French
history. Had they done so, they might
have learned that in French and out of
French "Laissez Faire, Laissez Passer"
means not "Let italone" if it is wrong,
but stop doing it when there is no quest
ion that it is wrong. In French or
English, it means: let us do our work,
let us go about our business, stop hold
ing us up on the highway, take your
grip from our collars and your hands
out of our pockets. And that makes a
difference in French or English, in Ohio
or Massachusetts, which is also the
difference between reform in fact and
! promises to do something in the way of
! reform if it cannot be avoided.
A new paper trust has been organi
zed. If it can be any more gTasping
than the old one it must have claws
like a hayrake.
The trouble with the plea which
Leslie M. Shaw and statesmen of his
stripe make in behalf of "sanity" is
that by sanity they mean the Dingley
tariff.
A Washington dispatch discusses
the likelihood of putting lawless trust
magnates in jail. Did the late Jules
Verne ever conceive of anything more
fanciful and grotesque than this?
The joint speech of Roosevelt and
Taft, delivered by Taft, is coming in
for much comment, favorable and unfa
vorable. Indeed some of the New York
papers intimate that it was nothing
but a declamation.
The Burlington railroad has been
fined for working its telegraph opera
tors overtime. In the meantime the
telegraph companies are overworked
because the operators - will -- not work
any of the time, and the patience of
the public is, of course, overworked
more than anything else.
County Clerk Rosencrans wishes
to notify those concerned that all elect
ion boards throughout the county serv
ing at the last general election will serve
as election officers at the primary
election to be held Tuesday, September
3, and they are expected to be at the
polling places at the hours named to
take charge of the same, without fur
ther notice.
An editor by the name of Moores,
down at Mound City, Mo., has "skipped
by the light of the moon" with a hand
some female typo of 22 summers, who
worked in his office. He is nearly fifty
years of age, and leaves behind him a
wife and several children. We knew
Moores, but never thought he was a
man who would do such a guilty act. He
should be apprehended and given a life
sentence in the penitentiary.
Triumphant Democracy
There is patriotism, as well as altra
ism, in the wish expressed by William
J. Bryan recently, that President Roose
velt would bite still bigger mouthfuls
out of the democratic platform.
The republican party has substained
itself in power during the greater part
of the last ten years by the nourishing
diet of democratic policies. If it had
not resorted to that inexhaustable
source of life and strength it would
have stumbled and fallen in the very
first election after the passage of the
outrageous Dingley tariff law. But be
fore the next election came on the re
publicans took up the democratic policy
of freeing Cuba, and diverted attention
from the republican conspiracy to in
trench monopoly to a patriotic war.
Opportunity was thus given the re
publicans to modify their traditional
but losing policy of treating the south
as if it was not really an integral part
of the United States. President Mc
Kinley greatly strengthened his party
by adopting the democratic view that
the south is as much entitled to consid
eration as any other part of the country.
President Roosevelt, one of the
shrewdest politicians in the country,
has gone further on this line even than
President McKinley did. By his court
ing of southern support, his frequent
visits to the south and by acquiring a
country home there he has acted upon
democratic inspiration and put to sleep
for the moment an issue which for thir
ty years conspiciously divided parties.
But his sinister threat of obliterating
state lines is never out of sight.
President Roosevelt's personal popu
larity as chief executive is wholly to
those policies in which he has been guid
ed by the Jeffersonian principle of equal
rights to all, special privileges to none.
Follow republican precedents he would
today be sprawling in a quagmire of in
nocuous desuetude. By pressing meas
ures long demanded by democrats he
has become a vital force in the politics
of the time.
But Mr. Bryan's desire to rebuild the
government of this country in accord
ance with the plans of Thomas Jeffer
son can never be gratified by means of
such an agent as President Roosevelt.
The president's democracy is sporadic.
It is resorted to only when necessary
to carry him through a course on which
he has resolved.
Like the old barn burners of the Van
Buren democracy in . New York, he
would destroy the well-adjusted fabric
of our government in order to rid it of
nuisances and abuses that can be done
away with by less heroic remedies.
The democratic party makes acknow
ledgements to President Roosevelt for
doing some of its work. But democra
cy can never be triumphant in this coun
try, as it was under Jefferson, until it
is led to victory by a real democrat like
William Jennings Bryan.
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reading the article the public wonders
for how much.
The tariff should not be revised by
either its friends or its enemies. It
should be revised by the friends of the
people of the United States.
Hon. George L. Loomis, of Fremont,
will speak in Plattsmouth on Labor
Day. Mr. Loomis is a candidate for
the democratic nomination for supreme
judge, and one of the most brilliant
men in Nebraska.
The American Protective Tariff League
has declared its opposition to the
presidential candidacy of Secretary
Taft. The tariff league is at least con
sistent when it objects to a republican
running for president on the democrat
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The strike of the telegraph operators
shows but very slight change. Uoth
sides are standing firm and neither has
shown any sign of yielding.
Eviden'CES multiply that it is not a
primrose path to nomination that lies
before Mr. Secretary Taft, but a steep
and rocky road picketed by bush-whackers.
It is-not only a fight to the finish
with the friends of Reese and Sedg
wick in Lancaster county, but the party
is all broke up, candidates for district
judge and several other offices. The
g. o. p. is simply split wide open in
Lancaster county this year. And the
Journal of Lincoln is to blame for the
whole business, if reports are true.
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