The Plattsmouth Journal
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TlH.S is no longer a free country when
nit-n an? arrested and f:ined "for being
s.H-ial."
Nor even the most anient supporters
of Judge Reese denies his nepotism re
cord. But republicans nowadays don't
let little things like thatliother them.
Kansas has scored again. She lioasts
of the first snow in this latitude, with
Trg county as the storm center.
Oklahoma is coming into the Union
under the flag and also under the con
stitution, llz Stick or no Biff Stick.
It is music to hear the busy work
man's busy hammer. Hut 'tis discord
when the kno. ker plies his nefarious
trade.
TllK "anti-treat law" is being enforc
ed in this city with a "vengeance."
But it seems "vengeance" got knocked
out in the "first round."
With compulsory voting introduced in
Cuba and compulsory extraction of hook
worms in Porto Klco, the next step in
the progress of the compulsory idea may
extend to the collection of $2".,2J0,(VK)
lines perhaps.
Oklahoma remains in the thorough
bred class, despite the national admin
istration and the carpet-bag contingent.
Fatty Taft didn't work wonders with
that sarcastic smile of his while down
in that country.
Tiik official report of its vote to enter
the Union, Oklahoma will sent! to Wash
ington, will not be sent from Asia or
or Spanish America. This is the most
important geographical point likely to
develop in the history of the Roosevelt
administration.
Tiik returns sho-.v that Oklahoma is a
lem-K-ratit- state, jit as safely so as
Kansas is a republican i--tate. and no in
l!iiem e can j enr.ai'.ntly change the po
litical complexion, of eit'.er of them.
I.K-.-d issues may sway iiaf.vs, but they
will rt main the s?:no in the end.
Sht '::.r UY Ta:t will accumulate a
considerable mileage bill before he gets
back. I.i the interest of economy, it
do-s yeem that if they mi'st have i:.ve
of the spirit of Asiatic despotism t'. : '
they I.ae already in Washington, the;.
nvht fid ihcr.jir way? of irr.jort
i:ig it.
In:: Nebraska City News says: "The
Missouri Pacific railroad has got around
to that point that t'.iey are in a swapping
hum" for transportation for advertis
ing. It took them a long time to make
up their minds to do this when other
road? are paying cash therefor all of
these months."
WiiKN the returns, from Oklahoma are
all in there will be a three-fourths ma
jority against the attempt of federal
office-holders to prevent the expansion
of the United States by applying the
Philippine plan to the west. When
American voters get an issue of this
kind squared they will know what to do
with their votes. Anyona who doubts it
has onlv to count them.
Tut: Weeping Water Herald and Re
publican will be consolidated and issued
as one paper after October 1. The Her
ald name will be dropped and the old
name Republican retained. F. E. Bricka
is also retained as business manager,
while the names of J. K. Keithley and
George H. Olive will appear as proprie
tors. This is the making of a good,
strong paper, and the only one in Weep
ing Water.
It may suit the campaign purposes of
the republican national machine man
agers to prevent the issuance of the
proclamation which announces the action
of Oklahoma in lawfully entering the
union. But no such action will "veto"
the lawful and constitutional authority
of the new state, as it has lawfully pro
claimed its entrance to the union at the
ballot box.
We are in receiptof a pamplet "From
The Directors of the Standard Oil Com
pany to its employees and Stockhold
ers'." In it the statement is made that
4 'Not one paper in twenty will print the
defense of the oil company." Measur
blythatis true. If Rockefeller will put
down the price of oil so that the news
papers can have more light they might
be able to see some virtue in the defense
the oil companies are putting up. "And
God said, let there be light, and there
was light," but Johm D. is furnishing
it at 2") cents per gallon, whereas it has
it has been proven that it could be fur
nished at half that price and still make
fortunes for the producers. John D.
must reduce thepriceof oil before news
papers can see to print his defense.
A Political Forecasl
It d e3 not command the ability of a
prophet to forecast the leading features
of the next democratic national platform.
It will begin with the declaration of Isa
dor Raynor, that "there is no unwritten
constitution of the republic." It will
indict the Roosevelt administration for
n.iurping powers which do not belong to
the presidential office, and for interfer
ing in the duties of the other two co
ordinate branches of the government.
It will contain a declaration for a tariff
for revenue only. . It will demand that
the tariir be revised, not by its friends
nor by its enemies, but by the friends of
the people of this country.
Upon the question of dealing with the
trusts, it will declare in no uncertain
terms for their extermination.
It will declare for the old-fashioned
doctrine of states' rights and rotation
in office.
Honest and equitable regulation of the
railroads and all public service corpora
tions will be demanded. When upon in
vestigation it is ascertained that freight
rates are too high, it will demand that
they be lowered. When upon investiga
tion it is found that passenger fares are
exorbitant, it will demand that they be
regulated and made just and reasonable.
The democratic national platform will
inveigh in no uncertain term against the
extravagance of the republican admin
istration in public affairs. It will de
mand a return to old-fashioned demo
cratic efficiency and economy in every
branch of the national government.
The democratic national convention,
representative of the best thought and
sentiment' of the democratic party, will
declare for a just measure of protection
for both capital and labor. The demo
cratic party is not an enemy of the hon
accumulation of capital, and it is the
friend and champion of the honest en
deavors and purposes of labor.
The platform will denounce in unmeas
ured terms the policies of Theodore
Roosevelt in attempting to control the
politics of the country through a federal
office-holding machine; it will indict
William H. Taft as the federal office
holders' nominee, and pledge itself to
the American people to restore the great
office of the presidency to its old-time
glory and dignity.
And the democratic national platform
will not contain a declaration in favor of
the government ownership of railroads,
or of the government ownership of any
other public service institution. The
democratic party is not going to be drawn
over to Socialism, which is as contrary to
democratic principles as anarchy is on
the one hand and republicanism on the
other.
The democratic platform will not de
clare for the initiative andreferendum
and the imperative mandate; it has pro
vided in the constitution of this republic
for all of the initiative and referendum
that is necessary.
The democratic national platform will
: written as a conservative appeal for
democratic votes, and for the votes of
all those who believe in a conservative,
honest, efficient and economical represen
tative government. As it will oppose
repuLli:ari:sm, so it will be free from
Socialis..-. it will bear the stamp of the
charter upon which the party was found
ed and mark the return to the era of
sanity and conrnon sense. It will notjbe
the work of either a demagogue or a sel
fish politician but will represent the
sentiment of the party which has ahvays
been strong in the I carts of the Ameri
can people.
Upon that platform William Jennings
Bryan will be nominated. Johnson of
Minnesota. Harris of Kansas, Smith of
Georgia, Culbertson of Texas, Chanler
of New York, or some other strong
democrat will be nominated for vice
president. Mr. Bryan will recognize the
platform as a command for his party.
He will take it into the very heart of
the enemy's country and pledge himself
to the execution of every line and letter
of it and from Maine to the Golden Gate,
from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico,
there will be aroused in the hearts of
the rank and file an enthusiasm for suc
cess which the office-holding brigade of
the republican party will rot be able to
defeat. Political sanity and democracy
will ride hand in hand to the greatest
victory ever won for the constitution,
for principle, for right and justice.
Following we quote the historic
words of Piesident Grant, first given
utterance July 25, 1875. They are as
verile today as they weie thirty
two years ago: "Let no guilty man es
cape if it can be avoided. Be especially
vigilant, or instruct those engaged in
the prosecutions to be, against those
who insinuate that they have high in
fluence to protect, or to protect them.
No personal consideration should stand
in the way of performing a public duty. "
How is it with the present "reform"
chief executive? Evidently, to the con
trary, he favors "Letting every guilty
man escape," if he a corporatin or trust
magnate.
With a million and a half people who
have adopted a constitution establishing
democratic institutions under a republi
can form of government, Oklahoma has
voted itself into the union and runup the
flag of the union to float forever over
its rights as an American state. "Who
will pull it down?"
The strenuous rough rider butted into
the Oklahoma contest and got butted
out the first round.
King Corn has Jack Frost bested this
year again.
The democratic ticket is one of the
cleanest and best that was ever placed
before the voters of Cass county.
Wkllman has again postponed his
trip to the north pole. The pole will prob
ably remain right where it is until Well
man arrives.
Tiik candidate who will deliberately
tell a lie about his opponent in order to
gain a vote, is not worthy of the suf
frages of the voters of Cass county.
If Oklahoma is shut out now demo
crats in the coming session of congress
will certainly insist, in season and out
of season, that the country know the
reason why.
The Oklahoma majority of 25,000 is
still going higher and higher as the back
districts continue to give their official
opinions of the proper answer to the Big
Stick as a political argument.
Startling headlines in the daily pa
pers give nervous people awful shocks
sometimes. Recently a metropolitan
daily had this: "Refuses to Marry a
Millionaire," and the shock it caused
was only relieved when it was found to
be a preac her and not a woman who had
refused.
Omaha public schools have tobooed
erticai writing and pupils will now
practice the only sensible method of
writing plainly and rapidly, that has yet
been tried. The slanting Spencerian
plate for learners is the most elegant
style and should never be put aside for
other forms so long as people write with
pen and pencil.
When a candidate goes around over
the county lying about his opponent, he
should bear in mind that he may have
an oppertunity to prove his base false
hoods in the courts. He should have
sense enough to know that his baseness
would come to the ears of his opponent.
It is poor business to electioneer by tell
ing bare-faced lies.
The Taft propaganda is still poll
ing postmasters and other federal
office-holders as to their fear of espous
ing any other man for the republican
nomination for the presidency next year.
With one accord they all declare for
Taft, and that with an eye single to a
reappointment in case he should happen
to become chief executive.
John C. Sprechek. editor of the
Schuyler Free Lance, says he served in
the legislature with Judge Loomis and
"knows" he is a railroad tool. This is
a bit of recklessness which Judge Loomis
should give Sprecher a chance to prove.
Although not of this paper's political
faith, the Fremont candidate is too good
a man to be talked about in this way.
Lincoln (Rep.) Star.
Omaha Bee: "The Omaha Electric
Light and Power company is making a
special effort to give Omaha the best il
luminations ever shown anywhere in the
west," saidF. A. !N"ash, president of the
company. We are amply prepared to
take care of an occasion like this and we
want the people to know it. This com
pany has l-ecently increased the capacity
of its plant in Omaha by the expendi
ture of $265,000 and we are able to de
liver plenty of light and cheap power
and we are going to advertise that fact
by showing people who visit what we
can do. The new turbine engine of the
power house is working in fine shape and
will be able to carry the extra load
which the festival will demand. " This
is the company that will submit a prop
osition at the next meeting of the city
council of Plattsmouth to furnish lights
and power for this city. From the fore
going it appears to us a good company
to tie up with if we desire the proper
service Ed. Journal.
Mathematics of Public Plunder.
As the meaning of the Standard Oil
"denominator" is explained by Wesley
II. Tilford, treasurer of the Standard
Oil company, on the witness stand in
New York, it is a full explanation of the
first half of "plutocracy," mathemati
cally systemized and operating with
mathematical precision as a system of
public plunder.
The explanation as it applies to the
Standard Oil company applies equally to
other combinations organized on the
same plan for the same purposes.
The original Standard Oil company of
Ohio, in which JohnD. Rockefeller held
256,854 out of 871,500 shares of stock,
having been declared a conspiracy by
the courts, the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey was organized to succeed
it, and as treasurer, Mr. Tilford "issued
to Mr. Rockefeller the shares of that
company in the fractional proportion of
256, 854972, 500. ' ' The same thing was
done in the case of twenty "subsidiary
companies" operating in Missouri, Ken
tucky, Illinois, Texas and other states,
some of them as alleged rivals of the
Standard Oil company of New Jersey.
This mathematical process is not real
ly too difficult for the mind of any well
drilled boy in the public schools. Sup
posing that Mr. Rockefeller had an in
terest of one-fourth in the original con
spiracy he would have "four1 as the
denominator for twenty or more con
spiracies incorporated to succeed it. He
would thus have held his same interest
in all the subsequent conspiracies as in
the original one. This in fact he does.
His associates in the original conspiracy
have their share with him in all its suc
cessors on the basis of the original Rock
efeller denominator and their own enum
erators. ,
This is the first half of the mathemat
ics of the system of public plunder made
possible by republican abuses of federal
law and the federal taxing power in
tended to close the American market
against competition. In the second half
of the operation the privileged benefi
ciaries of abuses take the figures of the
census population of each state and in
all the states. They find already cal
culated for them the annual rate of in
crease. They have already used this in
fixing the total involved by the denom
inator as the alleged amount of their in
vestment. They fix this total not on
investment or with any relation to in
vestment, but on what they politely call
"earning capacity" that is, the aver
age paying capacity per head of popula
tion. Such calculations require no great
powers of mind. The schoolboy of l(j
who cannot make them is not fit to enter
the high school. All they require for
success is systemized opportunity for
plundering the public. Does the public
hope for the reform of such a system
from partisans of policies which created
it and whose future successes depend on
the perpetuation of its principles?
To Increase Pensions
A movement is on foot all over the
country to have congress pass a law
making each and every Union soldier in
the United States, who attains the age
of 65 years eligible to a pension of $20
per month. Since death has decimated
the ranks of late years this is meeting
with general favor. It is stated the law
is so regulated that there will be prac
tically no increase in the pensions as a
whole' to the government. The follow
ing communication is sent out to com
mander of posts all over the country.
The movement originated in Iowa, and
is a just one:
To MY COMRADES OF THE CIVIL WAR:
I request every veteran to carefully
read the Iowa resolutions in order that
he may fully understand the movement
in which the G. A. R. is now engaged.
and his own interest on the numerical
strength of the G. A. II. as an organiza
tion and the furtherment of this move
ment. One important fac t which every
veteran should understand is that the
success of this movement depends to a
large extent on the fact that every
veteran who is interested in the move
ment, though not a member of the G.
A. R.. is permitting his comrades to
bear all the burden, which he himself
should help to bear. This attitude in
any of the various relations or duties of
life never recommends itself to our
sence of civic righteousness. The
organization needs you, now perhaps
more than ever, for we have reached a
time in the history of the organization,
when it becomes the duty of every
veteran to break loose from the lethargy
he has permitted to settle around him.
give his application for membership to
the first comrade of the G. A. R. he
meets and thus help to make the organi
zation a tower of strength, capable of
looking after theinterestof the veterans
as fully and completely as possible.
W. H. Hittle, Commander,
A. B. Kearney Post, No. 15, G.A.R.
Therefore be it resolved:
1st. That the commander of this
Post appoint a committee of three who
shall, as early as possible, confer with
the member of congress from this dis
trict as to the advisability of congress
making such an amendment and re
port to this post the attitude of said
member as to whether he will or will
not favor an amendment of this charac
ter. 2nd. That each and every Post of the
Grand Army of the Republic through
out the whole nation be requested to
take a similar action.
3rd. That the Commander of this,
and every Post which shall adopt these
resolutions, appoint a comrade to collect
10 cents each from all veterans, whether
members of the Post or not, who shall
report and pay the amount collected to
the Adjutant, who shall, after making
a record of the amount, remit same to
Lee Daken, Logan, Iowa.
4th. That all money so collected
sary expenses involved in prosecuting
this movement to a successful issue.
5th. That the foregoing resolutions
shall be known as the Iowa resolutions.
J. C. MlLLIMAN,
Lee Daken,
W. N. Palmer.
Committee.
Taken to the Poor Farm
By an order of the chairman of the
board of county commissioners, Wald
mar Boeck was today taken to the county
farm, where he will make his home.
Prof. Boeck has been sick at his rooms
in the Drew building for some time and
not able to care for himself, or with
the means of securing medical atten
dence or a nurse. It was therefore
deemed the better plan to take him
where he can have the proper attention
that he may have an opportunity to recover.
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