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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1908)
The Piattsmouth Journal i'UHLISIIKU WKKKLV AT PLAITS MOUTH, NEBRASKA. R. A. HATKS, I'uitLiPHKK. nMrdatti.u.m-eat I'lattsmouth. Ne- in-.i.skn.. 11 -.I'trond clah mailer $l,SO Per Year in Advance. If President U evelt will take as liiix li pains in explaining certain ad ministration ('oings as he has in elti--i latino Judge Taft's religious views evcrjciii- would feel nun h easier. Property dodge; and business in terest scheme, proving to be the most .scheuc, having proved to be the most potent arguments to win votes in na tional lections, ever adopted by po lithal jugglers. It will fool the sue k--rs all tin; time. Just think of the 4 gotisni of a lot of pie eaters, to put forward the claim that all property is due to their pie eating capacity. The :;th is Thanksgiving. One thing to be thankful for is, that while Te ldy has endorsed the; issue of bonds to replenish the treasury in times of peace the resources of this great country are boun Hess and by hard knot ks the American people will be :ibl' to pay them. iSut there must be no kicking, because the people have -sail by their ballots that they want t'o-.:r years more of my "policies st ly :;s t hey a re. Caudidatcs are still looming up l'c r speaker of the house of represen tatives ami chief clerk. Probably each and everyone1 of them is quali fied, but they should bear in mind the responsibilities that devolve upon each of these; positions. We are per scnally asiiuainted with two for speaker we know that are well fitted for the place, and we know of about the same number for chief clerk that an' well adapted in every way to per fcrm the duties. They should be well t-atisfed in their own minds that they are the proper men for these respon sible positions. Is Socialism n Dream. Nothing is easier than to imagine be."iatcr Deliver toying with social ism, rsing it as the foil of his wit and sharpening the appetite cf his hearers for more of Doliver, whether rr not they agreed with him in his conclusion that socialism is a dream i-ays the St. Louis Republic: It is not necessary to admit that socialism is a matter to cause alarm or that it is likely to assume propor tions alarming in extent. Politically this country is merely a manifesta tion cf discontent with the existing crder of things. The discontent, al ways with the existing order of things the socialists assure us, is likely to be numerically stronger. If the two great parties nominate men .whose persons or views are likely to antag onize many, and weaker if the two candidates have merit. The figures seem to indicate that the rush to socialism in the recourse of the dis satisfied as well as the affirmation of those who believe in its princi ples. However, socialism has principles and, fundamentally, they are well defined. That they do not represent a dream is told in the successes of the socialists politically in Germany, France and other countries of Conti nental Europe, and of socialism in England. But it is not less astonish ing than true that socialism grows conservative with success. . The bare possibility of applying any of its prin ciples causes a halt and it divides and subdivides over the detailed ques tions. In Germany, for instance, the socialists never fail to inveigh against milltaryism and yet the leaders ad mit that if they should practically in sist on party neutrality in time of danger their 3,000,000 adherents would melt away. In France M. Jaures, under pres sure of duty as a member of the chamber of deputies dare not in dorse the views of Herve that it is the duty of socialists to make war im possible, and dare not oppose them, j But the German and English social ists assail Herveism and at the con gress at Stuttgart last year compre hensiveness rather than rigid ortho-! doxy was sounded as the keynote of the policy "that hopes to conquer j the world as primative Christianity did." Questions of this kind may be taken lightly aa marking the efficient-of socialism to define Itself. Hut ,it cannot be doubted that socialism is 'making an earnest effort to accommo date itself to circumstances and pro I vide remedies with the fuudanien- iJ as jf )roI,erty and the denom ination of the stale ever the individ ual. To those who thoughtfully an 1 ser iously turn to socialism is it a practi cal and formative program, not to be abandoned because it wins no physi cal victory, and a thing separate from the doctrines of discontent. Practi cally at this time socialism has a place in our scheme of politics, for it marks the radicalism of dissatisfac tion. No one may say that, whether it is regarded as a grim specter in the background or a beacon of hope in the heavens, it has operated as a wholesome check on extravagant ten dencies. AM NOW ! The following editorial written by Henry Watterson appears in the Liouisyille Courier-.! or rnal : "I do net know," sai l K !mund IJvrke, "the metho 1 of drawing up an i:uMctn ent against a whole peo- .)!e." Neither dees the Courier Jour sal. The result of Tuesday's electioi shows conclusively that a great ma jority of the pec pie of the control ing section cf the union are well con tent with things as they are. That it is better to endure tne conceded shortcoming of the- party in power that embark upon an unknown sea of continuous agitation; that Bryan meant this whilst Taft meant rest; in short that a dollar, though tainted, in hand is worth a bush full of patriotic abstractions. The idiasyncrasy of the time is commerce. As in the last century it was liberty reaching out after in stitutional freedom and measura bly attaining it. It is now material ism reaching out after markets. The average voter of better education and intelligence takes no thought of the hereafter, and is even more indif ferent to the heretofore. He is com pletely engrossed by the present That which Bacon calls "the wisdom of our ancestors," makes as little ap peal to his reason or reverence, as that which Burns call "the light of Heaven" makes to his imagination He would not exchange the current reports, with a rising price list, for all the books that were ever written upon political economy. He either carries the fool of the vicinage with him, or else raises enough dust to blind his eyes and disarm his suf frage. We need take no account here of the agencies of organization and cor ruption, though both may been seen clearly enough. They show so plain ly in the nomination and election of the successful candidate as to make it apparent that whole segments of the people are no longer appalled by anything, however immoral and wrong, that does not touch their pockets. Even those who preach the simple life in the magazines in the east are "deaf to" the dftfm5 taps of conscience. Nay, he that seeks righteousness from the highest "places is found often practicing fraud in the lowest; so that the language of the religion of literature and jour nalism and commerce, is cant. It is the part neither of common sense, nor of upright manhood, in the vanquished to kick against the pricks. Let us hope and believe that, despite its pharasaism and defile ment, politics is not war, nor party lines yet lines of battle. The elect orate has declared for a high pro tective tariff it has declared for an invincible armament; embracing a navy unsurpassed upon the seas, along with a corresponding military establishment upon a fixed war foot ing on the land; it has recorded a vote of confidence in the chieftains of the two branches of the legisla ture, as they are known to be con stituted and controlled, and has given them carte blanche to make billion dollar congresses the rule and not the exception. The country is rich. It is in the aggregate growing richer. It is quite rich enough to stand it How- ever unequaled its distribution of wealth, the system, which is able to keep up a lobby in both of the houses at Washington, will have no reason to fear that its orders will not be ex- ' ecuted as well in the matter of im post duties laid to protest their vast accretions of capital as in the matter of government contracts made o fat ten tlie party workers. Are we not a world power, and are not these out lays essential to our dignity? Yet each mishap has its compens ation. The personality of the elect ed president the people may be said to be in possession of an anchor to windward. Judge Taft owes his elec tion to his own character. In this there can be no manner of doubt. From first to last he was greviously handicapped by the president. It was the belief that he is not as Roose velt that though his platform faced two ways, he could be relied upon to face but one way, and that way the reverse of the spectacular per formances and agitations barren of result, to which the president has accustomed us that weighed with the commercial instincts of the mid dle classes of society as well as the overpowering interests of massed wealth, the honest yielding them selves to the dishonest, an 1 making a common cause against a c hange of parties in spite of all arguments in its favor. That the republican party cannot compose the irrepressible conflict be tween capital and labcr is as ceiU"i:i as that the old, historic democratic party could not compose that between freedom and slavery. But licit her the chiefs of the system, nor the vic torious party leaflet's need trouble themselves about that just yet. With such men the rule is "sufficient unto he day," and "cat, drink a a. I b'i nerry, though tomorrow you die." Just as fifty years ago a little more 3i moderation and a lift!-? less cf part spirit might have averted our sectional war, ought it to yi plain to thinking men that the course of over- confidence on which we are launched must inevitably lead to conditions equally baffling to the statesman ship of the future. Pray heaven that they be not so ruinous and tragical; but that, under God, it shall be the destiny of the republic to vary the experience of human kind and to work out without bloodshed the prob lems of popular government to same hitherto unknown and benign con clusion. Looking "back over the circumstan ces of the campaign now ended, the Courier Journal has nothing to ru gret, or retract. We have given ex pression to our true beliefs.' accept ing alternatives, not of our own male ing. with good grace and putting forth our uttermost in the cause of the right as we are able to see it We had great confidence in the elec tion of the democratic ticket. In no political battle that we recall has it seemed to us that so much to con demn appeared upon a single side, or was so plainly visible. We believed that there was virtue and intelligence enough in the voters to see this, and to resent it at the ballot box. though only as a rebuke to ovcr lordism and partyism, quite lost to the sense of good citizenship and fi delity to the state. The result shows that we over sized the spiritual and undersized the material in the hearts and minds of the people. They were deaf alike to precedents, to reason and to elo quence; for nothing could, as noth ing has ever equaled, the personal canvass of Mr. Bryan; its wonder ous lucidity and power of statement; its splendid intellectual an 1 physical endurance; its unanswerable argu ment. Nor did Ignatius of Loyola sweep through a world of incarnate evil bearing the cross of Jesus to triumph with greater force of inspir ation and truth than did the heroic son of Nebraska traverse a land gap ping with curiosity, but too busy over its work and play to consider any danger to the immortal soul of its constitutional fabric. There is something yet better than being president of the United States, nd that Is the real sense of duty I done. Tilden will live in history, me esteemed oiar pays me oum when Hayes is forgotten. History nal quite a compliment in the above will say of Bryan that in three great 'but it is evident that it has not been popular movements, clouded some- times by errors of judgment and ob- structed always by corruption he led sublimely; that he set before his j countrymen the standards alike of God and truth; and that he went down beaten with clean hands and high repute, carrying with him the C. P. HALE, President ,r . 0 L Lawson Sheldon Monument Erected by Us in the Nehawka Cemetery. We manufacture our work from all kinds of standard granite, which we pur chase direct from the quarries, in the rough, in carload lots, using power ma chinery and automatic tools. See one of our salesman, or c.dl at our plant before placing an order for memorial work. You will receive prompt and cour teous treatment whether jou place a large or small order with us or not. WHY NOT TRADE AT HOYE? homage of patriotic men. In the national government the oligarchism of privilege finds itself stronger entrenched than ever be fore. Its fortress is unassailable. It can never be driven out short of its own dissolution, or some dire cata slysm, bringing ruin in its train. Yet vanquished as the democratic party is, has not been so one with itself in many a day and it owes renewed loyalty to the public service. This should be maintained equally in de feat and in victory. There must be a systematic and enlightened opposi tion. How this shall arrange itself and who shall lead it, will appear in good season. Old time democrats will wait and keep their powder dry. If they should despair, if they should break apart, the country would be exposed to political anarchy leading through radicalism and excesses of every sort to practical irresponsibility on the one hand, unregenerate debauchery backed by resistless force on the other hand. We may be a power for good though beaten and in opposi tion. Seven millions of votes are nev er to be despised in case they hold to gether. Many states remain to us. The constitution of the United States has not been abolished yet, nor in stitutional freedom, nor wise and up right administration, and these are still worth fighting for. So. amid the unneighborly and un patriotic vociferation of the repub licans, the jubilation and intoler ance of the nondescripts flocking to the winning side the blatant bully ing of the leaders alike of predatory wealth and of plundering politics let us sit steady in the boat, sustained by our own rectitude and holding to the oars of what we conceive to be good government in the nation an I in the state. Quite a Compliment. The Plattsmouth Journal sur rounds itself with gloom. It refuses to see that times are better or that a shade of hope has been left to man kind. The Plattsmouth paper is real ly unbearable in its cynicism. Other wise ably edited, it might become a power for good if it would adopt a policy of optimism even in the face of what it considers a political trag- edy. Lincoln btar. rr j. .1 r-A. 1. . T. a close reader of this paper or it would see that the paper is quite the reverse of the picture of gloom which seems its idea. This paper is optimistic in the extreme, it believes that there is" still hope left even in the face of triumph of debauchery in pciitics. Eventually, it is the firm W. FROM THE MANUFACTURER TO TIIIC A PERMANENT MEMORIAL IS A JOY f 3 " - . i ii ii i r - ii i - - ii i i - - ? . -. -- .. r ;?..... v---- -i. : ;' . 1 GLEM OOj GRaNITE belief of the Journal, even debauch ery at the polls will fail to blind the people to the real facts of the situa- tion and when that day comes they hence. In that p'.ith ular v e be will throw off the yoke of monopoly lieve he is mistaken. The primary which is holding them dow n and be-i vote in Lane aster c ounty shows that come free and independent. he was not the favorite? candidate and At the present time there is no such good times as Vic Itosewater's publicity bureau would have the Star believe exists leastwise not in this immediate vicinity. Vic may be able to furnish prosperity literature pal atable to the Star's taste but not for this paper. As for the political tragedy of -which it speaks, the Journal has made not so much of it as many of the Star's own political contemporaries are making over the defeat of Gov Sheldon and the star's particular friend, Congressman Pollard. But the idea that the Journal is pessimistic is erroneous. The demo crats stood for the truth in the past campaign and "Truth is mighty and must prevail." Don't Get Ciay. From what the Herald can pick up here and there it is safe to say there are a number of new legislators com ing to Lincoln this winter with the idea of revolutionizing things and re forming the earth of raising hades and putting a chunk under it, ia oth er words. It is a new order of things, a change of party, and some of the new" statesmen give evidence in ad vance of showing the dear people how things should be done. Io such the Herald would say. don't get gay. There have been other legislatures before and there will probably be others when you coun try savers have turned up your toes to the daiseys, so don't get gay. The Herald and a number of its friends, is going to stand guard with an elm club and a meat axe and if you do proceed to make spectacles of your selves, your office and the people who elected you, you are going to get it. There are a few of us in Lincoln who have labored diligently for years here to break up the combines and ma chine rule and now that we have broken into them, we do not want you gentlemen to come here and make a mess of things. We are in position to do something in future, since so many hide bound partisans have broken away from their old moorings; not to do something for party, especially but for the people and the independent voter as against ma chine politics, and we don't want a good thing spoiled. Therefore, the Herald would again admonish you, don't get gay. Lin coln Herald. Congressman Pollard, who new perfixes aa "ex" before his m!u, La; R. BRUCE, Secretary Uorfis CONSUMER FOKEVER " WORKS, 6LENW00D, IA. recovered from the shock if 1h-j ltu'l election, and announced his candl drry for y!)oi'r whirl at it two y:-:r? the same thing is true of the strong republican counties of Johnson, Ne maha, Pawnee? and Cass. When the first congressional district was or ganized Church Howe said that "all h 1 couldn't beat a republican there," but is seems that the repub licans have quit voting a straight ticket. The district is republican by fully three thousand and to be de feated in such a district Is truly hu miliating. Nebraska City News. A lazy liver leads to chronic dys pepsia and constipation weakens the whole system. Doan's Regulets (25 cents per box) correct the liver, tone the stomach, cure constipation. Dr. Hess' Stock Food scientific compound for horses and cattle. IIqss' Slock Food guaranteed to give results. F. G. Fircke & Co . rrugir'sta. For Chapped Skin. 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