The Plattsmouth Journal
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Why shouldn't the spirit of mortal
he proud if that mortal happens to live
in Nebraska?
Ik Mr. Reese is elected, wonder if he
will put all his relations in oflice same
as he did lieforc?
It is refreshing and encouraging to
drive out through the country and look
at the fine corn and numerous haystacks
that adorn the fields.
It is dollars to doughnuts that the
Itritish Government is not paying Ding
ley prices for the horseshoes it is buy
ing in this country for its army horses.
At the end of eighteen months the
standpatters who have been pleading
for a delay of tariff revision will be
found pleading just as hard for eighteen
months more.
A Nevada, Missouri man and wife
quarreled over a feather bed, the wife
left home and the man committed sui
cide. Feather beds were not designed to
quarrel over.
"After life's fitful fever he sleeps
well." Where, in all of the domain of
dramatic or other literature, could an
epitaph be more fitting to Richard Mans
field be found?
Having yielded to temptation and lost
his gift of silence. Governor Hughes,
of New York, has shown himself great
ly inferior to Secretary Taft in the art
of saying nothing from notes.
After fifteen years a snagboat has
been put to work again pulling derelict
timber out of the channel of the Mis
souri River. More lights for pilots to
steer by would make nocturnal naviga
tion of that rediscovered waterway a
possibility once more.
THE Buffalo Time3 says that "form
er Governor Taylor of Kentucky will
return to that state for trial, if he can
select the judge and jury, dictate the
verdict and adjourn the court." This
is certainly fair from a republican stan
point, but will not be considered by the
blind goddess.
All. parties in Nebraska, when they
meet to formulate the state platforms
this year, should condemn in strongest
possible langage the salary-grabbing
congress, which adjourned last March,
after having voted congressman and
senators an increase of salary of from
$5,000 to $7,500. The doing of it should
be condemned, and the cowardly way in
which it was done is even worse.
Ik for no other reason, Mr. Reese
should not be nominated for the office
of supreme judge for the reason that
he has passed the period in life when
men are active, when minds are ciear,
and his elevation to that position would
simply mean the employment of another
commissioner to do his work. This is
not a partizan question; it is a matter
for the people to settle upon a purely
business basis.
Hon. George L. Loomis, of Fremon
was one of the speakers on Labor Day,
and took advantage of the occasion to
meet many of the democrats of Cass
county. He is a gentleman of consider
able ability and made many friends
during his few hours in our city. He is
evidently of that material to make a
supreme court judge that the state at
large would reap the benefit of his
ability as an eminent jurieot.
The enemies of William J. Bryan are
busily engaged just now in an endeavor
to start a boom for the Governor of Mis
souri for president. This is being done
with the hope of killing off the great
sentiment throughout the land for the
greatest statesman in the land. There
is only one thing that will ever cease
the growing sentiment in Mr. Bryan's
favor for president and that is his em
phatic declination to be a candidate.
An Illinois court has decided that the
step-mother of- Pension Commissioner
Vespasian Warner is not a n egress and
is entitled to all the rights of a widow,
As the estate is large the milk in the
cocoanut was sufficient in quantity to
incite the man Warner to try to black
en his father's memory in order to . de
prive the woman of her part of the
estate. "There's a heap of difference
between some folks and other people."
When the original standpatter, your
Uncle Joe Cannon, intimates that un
less the republicans walk a chalk line
this coming session of congress ' there
will be no use of the republicans hold
ing any convention next year, it is high
time lesser lights were putting their
ear to the ground and taking notice of
the steady and onward march of those
who sek and demand relief from dras
tic la . : put upon the statute books by
for .- republican congresses. The
r i- -iay be old snd profane, but he
. i J to conditions or deaf to pro-
The net frofits of the steel trust last
year wa3 $43,000,000. The tariff made
it possible. And the consumers paid
it.
The public schools of this city will be
opened next Tuesday and parents should
not forget the compulsory law which re
quires them to send their children to
school.
The democratic county committee
will probably meet and nominate a can
didate for county judge before the gen
eral election. It is altogether owing
who the republican candidate is.
According to the opinion of the at
torney general, the same rules apply to
primary as to general elections, so far
as closing the saloons is concerned.
This will make a dry day of it Tuesday.
Every candidate for the republican
nomination for county judge is sure he
is the man. All are pretty good fellows
and it is pretty hard for anyone to de
termine who will be the lucky one.
In order that there may be no mis
take in the issue, they are printing the
name of Rose after that of Reese in
some counties. The contest is between
Rose and Lindsay; between the outs
and. ins. ; ; : :
What are we. coming to anyhow?
Down at Coffey ville,. Kansas, the preach
ers have formed a trust and will here
after preach no funeral sermon outside
of their membership for less than $5.
And still we are told that salvation is
free.
It looks as though the people of Ne
braska would elect an attorney general
who understood the law, but evidences
since the primary election law was put
on the statute books that they have hit
wide the mark in the election of the
present incumbent.
Enthusiastic republican journals
point to the fact that the railroads are
so busy hauling grain that they are
neglecting the hauling of coal, and then
gleefuly assert that it means prosper
ity. The only thing lacking is the
statement that the republican party is
responsible for the big grain crop.
That was an exceedingly amusing
situation in Joplin, Mo., when J. F.
Holmes, a wealthy mine owner of Jop
lin, in the act of introducing Secretary
Taft to the large audience said: "La
dies and Gentlemen, President Roose
velt will now speak to you." This was
proper, as the booby talks from manu
script prepared by Roosevelt.
In this day and age the successful
newspaper publishers are those who at
tend strictly to that business. The
unsuccessful ones are those who have
other matters to attend to on the out
s;de, which occupies the time that
should be paid to newspaper work. "Too
many irons in the fire" has killed news
papers that otherwise would have been
prosperous.
A Johnson county farmer demon
strated what can be done with alfalfa.
He sowed a six-acre field from which
he has made two cuttings, saving the
second crop for seed, which yielded
thirty-six bushels worth $9 per bushel.
This man makes an average of $54 per
acre for the seed crop and $21 per acre
for the hay, or $75 per acre. Not so
slow for an off year. Stand up for Ne
braska.
In response to the appeal of Oklaho
ma republicans for financial aid towards
carrying the new state for the repub
lican ticket, the state officials in Ne
braska say they will have no money to
spare, and that they will have enough
to do in helping furnish the sinews of
war in their own state. Furthermore,
they think that Oklahoma is predestined
to be democratic-and no campaign fund
could be raised large enough to make
it republican. And right they are.
After the Labor Day celebration
the question of improving the city park
should be seriously considered. It is
the proper place to hold such celebra
tions, and would be the proper place if
in condition to do so. It has been
greatly neglected, and there seems to
be no reason for it either. Hundreds
of more people would have been de
lighted to have heard the speakers on
Labor Day, if they could have had a
comfortable place to sit down, and the
speakers would have enjoyed talkin,
much better if they had been speaking
from a stand like that in the park. Put
the park in proper shape. Let the
council take interest in the matter.
There is blood on the Kansas moon.
The women of Hutchinson wrote the
secretary of the state board of health
that unless he at once saw that the
negroes stopped dumping refuse on the
banks of the classic Arkansas things
would happen, good and plenty. Here
is what the women say: "Either you
proceed at once against these greasy
niggers, or we will proceed with a rope
We won't stand for it. About uwenty
five of us white women will just buy a
few feet of rope and then there won't
be any more law-defying niggers. " O,
shades of John Brown, Jim Lane and
John J. Ingalls! Somebody please
write Ben Tillman or Governor Varde
man of the imminent danger of the poor
black men in bleeding Kansas.
With the biggest naval force that
ever sailed around the world returning
to home ports and a Presidential elec
tion under full headway, we shall not
lack things spectacular in the year of
grace li08.
Immediately after Attorney General
Bonaparte's "flippant" prophecies of
reformation in the moral nature of
high financiers to be worked out through
jail sentences, ex-Senator Burton, who
was already editing one republican re
form paper in Kansas, bought another.
Possibly he may need a third before he
fully expressee all the ideas he thought
out in jail at Ironton, Mo. At any rate
this seems to be the time for Attorney
General Bonaparte to make a memoran
dum of the coincidence.
By his report to the president that
the Oklahoma Constitution will be adopt
ed in spite of Secretary. Taft's crit
icisms, Secretary Garfield, proves that
he was an intelligent observer during
his visit to the Indians of the coming
state. That constitution certainly will
be adopted by a large majority of the
votes to be cast on September 17, in all
probability by a much larger majority
than it would have received if Mr. Taft
and the president had let it alone. In
order to deprive the president of any
pretext for voting statehood until after
next year's election, the people down
there would do well to make their vote
for the Coustitution unanimous. They
had the intimation plainly enough from
Mr. Taft that .Mr. Roosevelt would
rather turn down statehood than not.
Nothing less than a thumping big vote
for it is liable to change his mind about
it. The President acknowledges that
he is beaten in the fight to make one
state of Arizona and New Mexico, and
will not renew it at the coming session
of congress. The right sort of a vote
in the statehood election will in all
probability cause him to acknowledge
himself beaten in the fight against
Oklahoma. Make it unanimous.
Steadily Growing Surplus
The school of political economy that
holds a public debt to be a public bless
ing may be expected to coin a new
apothegm to excuse our constantly
growing surplus. At any rate there is
no lack of defenders for the surplus and
they greatly need a catchy phrase, -
The surplus in the United States
Treasury continues to pile up with un
exampled rapidity. We cannot forget
that every dollar of this surplus repre
sents a needless levy upon an overtaxed
people.
One distinguished republican whose
views on this subject have, heretofore
been quoted in these columns, the form
er Treasurer of the United States, Mr.
Ellis H. Roberts, calls this unnecessary
collection of an unneeded revenue "The
wrong of the great surplus." And he
is right. According to his calculations
the surplus collection for the fiscal year
of 1908 will aggregate $12,000,000, or
about 13 per cent of the gross revenue.
So he has frankly declared it to be the
duty of the national government to
make a horizontal cut in all forms of
revenue levies, internal as well as cus
toms taxes. That is borrowing an idea
from the Morrison horizontal tariff-re
duction bill of a generation ago. But
no democrat will resent the appropria
tion. It should never be forgotten that our
steadily growing surplus reflects not
only unnecessary taxation, but a radi
cally imperfect monetary system. We
perpetrate our bonds to afford a basis
for our paper currency and then proceed
to tax ourselves on a needless debt.
Not content with that, we make our
taxes 13 per cent more than demanded
by the requirements of government
lavishly administered, and having set
the coffers of the Treasury to over
flowing we must perforce, pour our
surplus into the strong boxes of the
national banks to ward off a panic. This
marvelous financiering brought the
public funds in national banks from
$94,481,697 on June 30, 1906, to $182,
412, 809 on June 30, 1907, although the
net balance in the Treasury grew enly a
trifle over two millions. ; By June 30,
1908, the banks will doubtless hold $300,
000,000 of public funds, five-sixths of
which should never have been collected
unless required to pay the bonded debt,
since all experts agree that $50,000,000
is an ample working balance to hold . in
the Treasury.
The total debt of the United States
today, less the available balance in the
Treasury, aggregates $1,034,701,153.
But the available balance is $238,574,188
which is only theoretically available, as
we don't use it to pay off bonds andean
only disburse it, therefore, - when the
volume of the surplus tempts congress
to injudicious appropriations. Despite
these, however, the surplus goes on
growing and we have the prospect be
fore us that Uncle Sam will squeeze
trom tne people tnis nscal year seven
times as much revenue as necessary
to pay interest on the bonded debt we
are preserving to maintain our currency
system. The interest-bearing debt is
$858,685,510, and the interest payment
it calls for will aggregate $20,182,962.
Our surplus of revenue in excess of
other expenses than interest will amount
to $120,000,000 after we have paid inter
est. Yet any talk of tariff revision
stirs a howl of republican protest.
Isn't there a campaign isue in such a
situation?
Mr. Bryan photographs Mr. Taft in
the right attidude when he depicts him
as a straddler. In the speeches he has
made since leaving Washington Mr.
Taft has straddled the Rooseveltian
ideals and he has done little else.
The astronomers have now discovered
fifty-six distinct canals upon the nlanet
Mars and if not restrained there is no
telling what they may see up there
within the next year. Two to one they
never discover the money which so
mysteriously disappeared from the
United States sub-treasuries at St.
Louis and Chicago nor any missing po
lice commissioner under accusation.
Mothers with spankable boys should
take warning from the fate of a mother
and boy in Wisconsin! She drew him
across the maternal knee, wielded the
household 6hingle and applied it where
she thought it would do the most good.
But the paddle hit a dynamite cap the
boy had in his hip pocket and the ex
plosion fatally injured the child and
blew off two fingers of the mother.
Colonel Bryan will not deliver his
keynote speech this year until he finally
decides what keynote he will use.
Omaha Bee.
So? Well just wait his visit to Oklaho
ma and you will hear something along
the line of a keynote that will give you
something to harp on for a few weeks,
at least. Booby Taft will appear insig
nificant after the great Nebraskan gets
through with him.
Mr. Bryan made a real political
speech at St. Joseph the other day and
it is a real pleasure to read a speech
which deals with the vital questions of
the day without splitting hairs. Mr.
Bryan speaks of the leading issues in
the next campaign, and gives little hope
to the tariff barons, trust magnates and
railway princes. It's the same Bryan.
Bold and outspoken, hiding nothing,
and making no uncertainty of his pur
poses. There is no intent to deceive
the people in what the Nebraskan has
to say.
Dentists should have a care in ad
ministering laughing gas, for some
times it turns out no laughing matter.
A Washington dentist gave some to a
man who arose from the chair, whipped
the dentist and another man of the
same profession who ran in to help his
brother tooth-puller, and was about to
clean out the entire building when he
was struck down with a hammer and all
the laugh knocked out of him. But it
took an iron hammer to knock all the
audible and hilarious mirth out of him.
A General Holiday.
Labor Day has become a recognized
institution in the United States, though
neither the national government nor all
of the states have as yet formally de
clared it, says the Kansas City Post.
And it would push the objectors to such
holidays cruelly to invent any good or
valid reason why labor should not have
a holiday, one on which to rest, parade
and make merry throughout the length
and breadth of the union, as it is upon
their muscle, their brain and their brawn
that all material prosperity rests, and no
set or caste is more deserving a general
holiday than those who toil, build, con
struct and create.
And in the enjoyment of the day and
its plesures and advantages it is not in
cumbent upon the laborer to belong to
a trades union, nor is membership in
any kind of an organization a condition
precedent to the day's diversions. The
toiler is capable of enjoying a day off
who is of a craft or who works at a
business in which it is neither incum
bent or compulsory to join a union as a
man who belongs to and upholds the
trades organizasions. These features
of the case are not taken into account
when the workman and his family
knock off from toil to enjoy a day of
rest and innocent pleasure.
But all may enjoy themselves as
to each one seemeth best, and when the
day is over it will be found that each
man, member or non-member, is upon
better terms with himself and the
world and he will return to work with a
lighter heart and sweeter song in his
mouth for having observed Labor Day.
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days visit to his daughter, Mrs.August
Baumeister. Mr. Sibbert has made
Plattsmouth numerous visits and has
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