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What has become of the Boosevelt policies
that Tuft was going to adopt f Have they gone
glimmering among the things that were! It
looks that way.
A certain New .Jersey justice of the peace,
who makes a specialty of performing marriages,
is a firm bleiver in the effectiveness of adver
tising. Finding business in his particular line
dull, he decided to advertise. Among the in
ducements held out by liim are a present to the
bride, an air of solemnity at the ceremony, ush
ering the prospective bride and bridegroom to
his parlor to the strains of a wedding march, his
daughter and grand daughter being musicians,
and a large floral bell under which to perform
the ceremony. That surely should be enough
to fetch 'em.
The writer was in Union last Saturday a
few hours for the first time since late last fall
Since that time they have had two disastrous
fires burning out the hotel and two or three
business houses. While the material is on the
ground to replace the business houses, it would
seem that the lot where the hotel stood will
remain as an eye-sore for some time. Union
can be made one of the best hotel towns in the
state, if a person can be found with $5,000 cap
ital to erect a modern hotel of brick. To the
right man the business men will render all the
assistance in their power to get a new hotel.
The old frame that went up in flames was a very
poor excuse, and traveling men, who would have
remained in town over night, shunned the old
rattle-trap, and if it was impossible for them to
get out of town after transacting their business,
they would dive out of town. Some good hotel
man will do well to investigate this proposi
The Mail Order Menace.
You hear much these days about the curse
of the mail order evil and the menace that these
great retail institution are to the small retailers
of the country. On all sides you hear the lamen
tations of the retail merchant and his appeal for
protection from this great retail octopus, whose
tenacles have ienetratcd every village and ham
let throughout the country. The picture is not
overdrawn nor is the danger over estimated.
The menace of the mail order house to tht
local retailer is present and exists to an alarm
ing degree.
There is no escape by legislation, nor relief
through public sentiment. It is a clean cut is
sue between the mail order house and the retail
merchant for the business of every community.
The result will be determined largely by the fu
ture and it is merely a question of the survival
of the fitest. There is little left for the mer
chant to do but light for his existence, and as
the old adage goes, "fight the devil with fire."
There is but one weapon with which to pene
trate the tenacles of this great octopus and that
is advertising. The mail order houses are liv
ing examples of the value of retail advertising.
If the retail merchants in every country
town would place himself upon an equal basis
with these concerns, he must convince his peo
ple he can serve them best he must place adver
tising in the homes also so that the things which
he has to sell and the prices that he gets for
them may be compared with the price of the
mail order house. The success of any business
depends largely upon two things first, effec
tive advertising that brings people to your store
and second, the delivering of your goods accord
ing to your advertisment. Pairbury (lazettee.
Now is the time to dress up your front and
back yards. Don't put it off till real warm
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weauier. i-vmewav don t iorget me aues
where vou throw all vour rubbish during the
winter.
Our Lincoln Letter.
Lincoln, Neb., April 20111, lOOO.-Special
Correspondnce) Despite the constant criticism
of an adverse partisan press at the state capital
during the entire legislative session the people
are informing themselves concerning measures
enacted into laws by a democratic legislature
and signed by a democratic governor, ami his
lory will record that the 1!H)9 session passed
more good, wholesome laws, measures that will
distribute more equitably the burden of taxa
tion, and at the same time correct a greater
number of prevalent evils, than has any former
legislative body m the history ot the state.
It should be born in mind that every pint
fnnn pledire of the democratic party was fulfill
Jnnd Mm legislature went further ami in ad
Atnn nnssed an unusually large number of mor
ever passed so few so-called "freak measures,"
and no vicious or unjust laws were enacted.
There has been a gread deal of fault-finding
from a republican source concerning the labors
of the session. It is a common thing to hear the
comment that the bank guarantee bill really
amounts to nothing at all, and falls far from
the mark of fulfilling the platform pledge of the
party, but if you have followed the metropolitan
press you will have observed that a gathering
of the big bankers was held at Omaha last week
to devise ways and raise funds to defeat the
purpose and object of the law, notwithstanding
the fact that at least nine-tenth of the people
of the state of Nebraska today, with the politi
cal situation removed, are strongly in favor of
the guarantee law. The highest compliment
that could possibly be paid to the measure is
to have these big bankers, the men who want
to use the people's money for nothing, and if
losses occur make the people shtand for it, lit
terlv tear up the earth in their efforts to defeat
the bill.
In order that the state railway commis
sion, the courts and the public may have some
thing upon which to base the earing ca
pacity, a basis for dividend earnings as well
as for the purpose of taxation, of the public
service corporations of the state, a physical val
uation was passed carrying with it an appro
priation of $40,000 The governor has super
vision of the work and has already been in con
sultation with the railway commission, outlin
ing a campaign with a view of first valuing the
railroads of the state. This bill is one that
will bring great relief to the people in the way
of equitable rates, and at the same time com
pel the railroads to pay their just portion of
the taxes.
As a companion measure to the physical
valuation bill the governor by special mes
sage had a law passed requiring all corpora-
lions hereafter organized in this state and
aving for its purpose the placing of stock
upon the market, to first receive the consent
of the state railway commission by showing
that the property and assets of the corporation
is adequate and sufficient upon which to base
the stock issue. This bill will in the future
prevent a great deal of stock jobbing and swind
ling transactions in the floating of watered
htock.
The democratic party in Nebraska has
placid itself above the control of the so-called
liquor interests of the state by enacting more
legislation having for its object the control of
the sale of liquor that all previous legislation
;n Nebraska for a quarter of a century. A
bill as passed prohibiting the sale of liquor to
a person who has been treated under the pro
visions of the dipsomaniac law; another mak
ing it a misdemeanor to drink liquors on trains;
(Jovernor Shallenberger vetoed a bill which will
prevent the sale of liquor at the army post at
Ft. Crook and in this he was sustained by the
legislature without a dissenting vote. With
the closing hours of the session came the "Day
light" saloon law, making a record on liquor
legislation that has won the encomiums and
admiration of the great masses of the people.
The opponeuts of the 8 o'clock closing law,
and thev are confined principally to Omaha, ex
iress themselves as being entirely satisfied
with the Slocum law, without this amendment,
mt it is not too vain that it will indulge the
bought that it will yet receive the approbation
of those who worship at the shrine of the Czar
at the city hall in Nebraska's metropolis.
In all 202 bills ere passed by the legislature
and signed by the governor, 78 of which orig
inated in the senate and 124 in the house.
To the credit of the legislature so recently
adjourned it may be said that it appropriated
over $700,000 for normal schools, in excess of
any sum heretofore appropriated, and the same
spirit for adequate provision for educational
interests of our splendid state was shown in nil
the appropriations for carrying on and improv
ing the schools of Nebraska.
" A delegation of old soldiers from the Sold
iers and Sailors Home at Mil ford called upon
the governor Pridav and entered a vigorous pro
test against the action of some of the republican
state officials who are attempting to deprive
them of the money appropriated by the recent
legislature to reimburse them for the fund.
so unjustly taken under the guise of "Hule 17,"
adopted'under the republican administration of
Compound of Ignorance and Pharisaism.
Because President Elliott, of Harvard, after
having studied the race question at close range,
has declared the necessary preservation of a
face barrier, he is being roundly denounced
by certain New England papers. President El-
"When will prohibition prohibit?" asks a Hot had said that he believed radical interming-
reader of the Journal. When all the United Hug, leading to miscegenation, would be fatal to
States join in making prohibition prohibit, and both white and black, and keeping the races
tiie national government ceases receiving the separate was a necessity to prevent disastrous
millions of dollars revenue it does from the man- consequences.
ufacture and sale of whiskev. That's when pro- President Taft also having studied the race
hibition will prohibit and the youngest people problem at close range, reached the same con-
on earth will never live to see that time.
elusion, which he expressed in his declared pur
pose not to appoint negroes to office in South-
rvt'vi nAimnnitifiL' otijl list nlhjji An r in tt olintin
n l'iii 1 lil ,i il 1 "i nil luuiiuuiuiit -n, cum 11c tw.-'u v.uiiic m lu niiuic
is a little earlv, but don t vou think it ., , , - TT
about time to discuss the matter of a Jbourth . . , 1 . ,,
of Julv celebration! Last vear Plattsmouth this is appears irom the ollowing rabid exjjres-
, , fiii i u sion, given puouciy in me columns oi me ros-
uul the most successful celebration ever held in . . , J
Cass Countv, and the largest number of people ,,T '. ' f. . , . , , m e,
v. ii i , i j ii in truiu ir. ri ioi aim i resilient xaii
were here that ever assembled in the town on . , . . . , ... .
f, r , , , . seem to be trying to do the same thing at the
a like occasion, hvervbody went home greatlv ... J n, , , , , .
, . n i , i ii ' i.,; 1. i i South, with sweet words and halt-meanings
pleased, and it was the talk ot the entire countv ' , ... , . , s
L. m4i,u ti k; ,i,.0rnn10nf f.r ih to strew sugar over bottled spiders."
IV'l lUUiilll1i It II Oil 1ft '-"-pS HOI 1111 lit lll 111V I rf, 11 11ll 1 11
town, and the people are ready to come again Lc llie artIclf ,!n 1 thl? ,mea " .lieaded;
this year. Will they have an opportunity!
"Sugaring Bottled Spiders," and what is meant
by "bottled spiders" is made clear when "Ken
tucky feuds, Tennessee street murders, Atlanta
Whatever mav be said of Mayor Dahlnian, riots and Lincoln assinations" are bunched as
of Omaha, the people of that citv realize the fact "the residuary legatee of negro slavery" and a
that he has made the safest soundest executive 'misguided race hatred that slavery fostered. A
they have had for years. Jim Dahlman may more striking illustration of ignorance and
have many faults (and who has not!) but the pharsaism combined it would be impossible to
voters of Omaha realize the fact that his few find."
faults should pass into insignifigance, when it Between the Kentucky feuds or the Car
comes to a thought of his many qualities mack murder and the negro race question there
and the manner in which he has guided the is about as much connection as there is between
destinies of this great metropol-s of Nebraska digging potatoes and playing a fiddle, and they
during his incumbency. could be put into logical relationship only by
a mind warped by prejudice. It is only the
nhariseps who. can noeomnlish this feat, thesp.
The city election in Lincoln is not as hotly holior-tlian-tlion neonlo. who imagine thev are
contested this spring as it has been in previous saiuts and comlemn as sinners an who do not do
elections. The fight for mayor has narrowed as the imar;see thinks he would do because he
down 10 L,ove, uie repuuiican canuiuaie, anu knows nothing about it.
noi) Jiaione, me democratic candidate, jonn
B. Wriirht. who expected to run bv petition, has
withdrawn from the race. Bob Malone is a good ' There seems to be a great deal to say in
man, and should be elected. Manv of the re- the papers about Missouri and prohibition, but
miblicans and all the democrats prefer Mavor just mark our prediction it will be the last
Brown, but he emphatically refused to serve state in the Union to vote a constitutional
another term. Evervone in Lincoln is of the amendment to that ettect. 1 he republicans last
ame opinion, that Frank W Brown has the fall co-operated with the breweries, and they
credit of being the most competent and best furnished the money to carry on the campaign
mayor Lincoln ever possessed. tor that party, while the democrats lought the
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tight on their own resources. JNow the repub
lican members of the legislature want prohibi-
The Income Tax. tion, just what the breweries detest. When a
Every real democrat will be rejoiced that Uote is taken in Missouri we are willing to wager
the democratic members of the United States anything in reason that the prohibition
enate have agreed to stand solidly for an in- will be defeated by one hundred thousand ma-
come tax amendment to the Payne-Aldrich tar- jority. The republicans of the grand old state
iff bill. When they take this stand they are are born hypocrites, and they will do anything
on solid democratic ground, and are fighting on to get into power, while the democrats make a
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the right side in the old, old conflict between piatiorm and stand squareiy upon u ior victory
the special privileges and equal rights. or defeat. There can be no prohibition in a
The income tax is honest and just and dem- state with three large cities like bt. Louis, Kan-
ocratic. It taxes men in accordance to the ben- sas City and bt- Joseph controlling the pontics
fits thev receive from society and in proportion of the state, especially when the democrats re-
their ability to pay. Itis easily and cheaply turn to power by the votes of those citizens
ollected. and every dollar that is paid, under who are gradually finding out what hypocnts
an income tax. iroes directly to the support of these republicans are. The same is true in
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the government. Nebraska.
Taxes raised bv a protective tariff repre
sents taxation in its most expens-ve form. For
every dollar the government collects, the pro
tected interests collect five . The one dollar goes
into the public treasury. The five dollars goes
into the coffers of the trusts.
Taxes raised by a protective tariff repre
sent taxation in its most unjust and oppressive
form. The poor man, for example, eats about as
much sugar as a rich man. The poor man with
a large family buys more sugar than a million
aire bachelor buys. When, therefore, a tariff
tax is levied on sugar it is paid principally by
those who can least afford to pay it, and who
have the least share in the riches they help pro
duce.
The same is true with taxes on lumber-
glass, nails, wire, clothing, dress goods, shoes,
stockings, hats and caps, dishes and pots and
pans, tableware and furniture, etc. Such taxes
at an average of nearly oO per cent collected di
rectly bv the government and indirectly by the
trusts, represent a large percentage of the large
expenditures of the man with an, income of
a thousand dollnrs a year. But they represent
a very small percentage of the man with an in-
ome of of the millionaire.
A tariff tax is a tax on poverty. An income
tax is a tax on wealth. Which ought to pay!
Which can best afford to pay t
It is encouraging to note the assertion that
a dozen or more republican senators are counted
on to join the forces with the democratic sena
tors in support of the income tax. 1 hat there
will be enough for them to win success will be
the hope of nine people out of every ten, through
tho length and breadth of the republic orld-
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