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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1909)
The - Plattsmouth - Journal Published Seml-Weeklj tt Plattsmouth, Nebraska R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE And now conies a Chicago divine who says the souls of wicked men do not go straight to hell when they die. lie says they go to some intermediate place and rest there until judg ment day. When will we ever get this going to hell straight ened out? Omaha has a smart minister. lie advertises in the papers of that city that he has married 1,781 couples and asks that others contemplating matrimony call upon him as he wants to win the record for 2,000 marriages. Best of all, this minister pays for his advertisements. Wireless message from Speaker Cannon to the Sultan: "I notice that a lot of reformers are after your scalp, too. Buck up. A little soft soap and a few committee appointments will make them forget everything they ever promised their constit uents. I know them. Stand pat. Uncle Joe." What is the matter with the prices of all sorts of victuals? )o they keep on dimhing because middlemen are working the narket, or does it simply mean that the time is coming tasi when the erstwhile horny-handed farmer and the woman with hen will he the only real aristocrats in this country? St. Louis liVpublic. If any have remained this year ignorant of the meaning ol a joker, as applied to legislation, the tarilt discussion will supply the lack. A joker is a hidden provision in a hill which nullifies its apparent intent. Thus, in the senate hill sulphur is on-the free list, a concession to the farmers. But elsewhere an exemption is made in the case of sulphur "advanced beyond the condition as mined." In effect that means all sulphur and a duty of six dollars a ton. It is a favorite trick for getting public approval of a private graft. State Journal. It wasn't the name that made the fame of UfDdlsi o) mmfc It was the goodness of the crackers that made the fame of the name IteiLfliK The eyes of the world are on Turkey. The abdication of the throne by Abdul Hnmid, after the stubborn fight put up by the imperial soldiers, they were overcome by the superior force of the Young Turks, and now the sultan is a prisoner. The Turkish empire has gone the way of many other monarch ies. They knew not the authority of a Supreme ruler and took especial delight in persecuting the Christians. The results of the civil war in Turkey will will be watched with interest by all civilized nations.. Walter Wellman, who has been keeping in close tab on the doings of the extraordinary session of congress says the tariff measure introduced by Congressman Payne and revised by Senator Aldrich, is nothing more than the work of the in terests, lie holds up those republicans who dared to fight for revision ns heroes, ami condemns the others for disregarding their promises to the people in their party platform. The presi dent has been meek on this point,nlthough his speeches during the campaign were full of promises of tariff revision. They Hin ly have him muzzled. The only chance he has to redeem hinri'lf will be to veto the measure. Will he do it? V A, . n)) NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Sold only in Moisture "Proof Packages A movement has been started by the national banks of the state to get next to the new law by organizing Trust and Savings banks under the state law, as adjuncts to the National banks; thus giving any of their customers an opportunity to deposit their money and have the full protection of the state guaranty law. All the change necessary will be the transfer of the deposit account or certificate, from the National to the Trust and Savings bank, owned, officered and operated by the National Hankers and occupying the same banking house, is a new move and we opine, will enable .the National banks, in spite of the ruling and objection of the government bank of ficials and the I'nited States attorney general, to guarantee their depositors. The National banks at Columbus, Wnhoo and Crete have alreadv organized these savings banks. Of all the humbnggery ever practiced on the American people, the so called tariff revision is the worst. Taft as Hired the people before his election that the tariff should be revised downward. But the 44 interests" have proved too much Tor him and he has surrendered to them. He has given sanc tion to the Aldrich bill in preference to the Payne bill. The Aldrich bill is so rotten that even some western senators are proposing to tight it. If anything, the revision is upward, rather than downward. There isn't a single or solitary inter est in Cass county that will be benefitted one cent by the new tariff bill. Yet some partisans will howl for it because it bears the (1. O. P. brand and not because it brings V?v.rtH with it. But a majority voted for it and must share the burdens with the minority. The Gaunt Wolf. The increased price of bread is causing the gaunt wolf . 1 1 D il to make his appearance at lite uoors oi thousands oi poor people in the larger cities. It is hard to understand why Mich n condition should exist in the faet of so much boasted pros ..r;ir It uwxiw hfniiKTo that mir government should interest itself in curbing the exactions of the oil trust and shut its eyes to the manipulations of the wheat kings whaare doing infinitely more injury to the poor people than all the Rockefellers. .The -r tii,. iutitiiil tmrlisuns that the abnormal price of wheat j ' i " '"" ....... . - - i is a boom to the farmers is a specious one. The wheat was out .... . . t i iii of the hands of the tanners at less than one dollar per nusiiei i...fr. . iminmnliitors nut the Price above one dollar per 1 '1 I ' I till I ' I bushel. And the same thing will happen with the present ... . 1 I 1 1 A 1 A 11 pewit g crop. It ll'o abnormal price oi wneai was one io mi ...imMuttriitmii if Mr. Taft. whv !-ti t it maintained! liven iun ui'i'",i . i ..... t , ...ii, '.U.. i. ..in ill ii.i-i!iu7i that the recent bin unco of wheat k 1 I I '"1 11. I'll - t " a- due to th manipulation of Mr. Pntton instead of Mr. Taft. l'veiv sensible man wi'l recoi-nize also that our government vli.,iil,1 hit.-., w.mw. stfits to nrntcrt the people against the Pat 'i..iv !. H-..I! ;i- !i(r:iin.t the Rockefellers. With a high tariff and jnic- fur fo urmlucts the pour people are having a hard htni;rgle lor existence. The duty paid to refiners for granulated sugar is 4 cents per pound. The price of sugar f. o. b. New York is 5 cents to VL' cents a pound. To this add the cost of carriage and you uiveabout the price the consumer pays. The congressman that cannot see that the duty on sugar is too big is as blind as a bat, either accidentally or on purpose. All things considereded we believe that the legislature that has just finished its session has been an exceedingly strong one and that the record of its work as that record is written upon the statute books of the state, will go down through the years and will be considered as wise and wholesome legislation. fliere were a few good bills that were defeated that should have been passed, as for instance, Evans' referendum bill, one of the best that was offered during the whole session. But the physical valuation bill, the state control of stock issue bill, the bank guarantee bill, the daylight saloon bill these and others with them are good specimens of sound statesman ship like legislation. Let us not forget to give honor where honor is due. Aurora Sun. An improvement of minor consequence in our paper represen tatives of money is nnnounced, whereby the present nineteen different designs will be replaced with nine representing the different denominations from $t to $1,000. The ones and twos are all silver certificates. Bearing the portraits respectively of Washington and Jefferson, and these will remain unchanged. The $5 silver certificate now bears the head of an Indian and the legal tender note of the same denomination a portrait of Jackson. Both of these are to be replaced with a portrait of Lincoln. Cleveland's head will appear on all the $10 notes, dis placing Ilillegas, whom everybody has forgotten as the first treasurer of the United States, from the new gold certificate, Hendricks from the silver certificates and the buffalo from the legal tender note. All $20 bills will have n portrait of Jackson, fifties that of flrant, the $100 that of Franklin, $."00 Chase and $1,000 Alexander Hamilton. words: "Plattsmouth is an all right, 'wide-open town,' a half dozen or more gambling joints wide open and in full blast, houses of bad repute, three or four Sunday boozs joints, plenty of confederates and pimps to handle the unsophisticated coun try lad in a grand and glorious manner is the way things are beginning to loom up under tlic newly elected administration." Heal ly, we mean no reflection; but since you have exposed the place, unsophisticated country lads who go there for a new spring suit should be properly guarded or stay away until a new administration is elected. Nehawka Register. Bob Malone, democratic candidate for Mayor of Lincoln was defeated Tuesday by Love (Rep.) by (!.") majority. Bob made a good race, and the people will find out they have made a great mistake in not electing Mr. Malone. If Love is as lazy as he is said to be, Lincoln will be in 4 'a poor row of stumps" for the next two vears. Brother A. L. Tidd of the News-Jlerald "calls down" the Register man hard for facetiously referring to Plattsmouth. as a 44hamlet," in the Monday issue as follows: "Thomas Jeffer son O'Day in his Nehawka Register refers to Plattsmouth as a hamlet. We'd rather be as apoplectic as the 'Kunnel" than to have some people's disposition." Really, Brother, we were of the opinion that this word to which yon took offense was a real cute expression. Hereafter if our bright and sunny disposi tion causes us to make any more remarks of a similar char acter they will be duly labeled: "This is a joke." But really, would ou not rather have it referred to in that way, than in such a srions vein as appeared in an editorial of your own manufacture which was given preferred space in the same is Mie, "top column, next to reading mater ?" To quote your own Woman Suffrage. For many years the question of woman suffrage was of in terest only in the province of the crank and the jokesmith. Artemus Ward wrote entertainingly of tho "he-looking female with it green cotton umbrella in one hand and a bundle uv re form trax in the other," and the male citizens of Wyoming, when it was admitted into the Union in 1800, gallantly provided that "eoual niffrage" should brood, like a bison over the Lit tle Big Horn and Jackson's Hole. Some states experimented with woman suffrage in municipal or school affairs, with indif ferent success. There was much debate over the question, but no real discussion. Disputants devoted themselves to abstract principles a barren ground, in political discussion, as J. J. Rousseau unconsciously demonstrated more than n century niro or descended to thinly veiled personalities, garnished' with cheap wit. There was little humor on either side; some guile less supporters of the movement wrote a four-volumen "Historv of Woman Suffrage" an excellent work. dfaorv5nfr in ctnnrl t. the shelf with the ten volume "Natural Historv of Snakes in Ireland." The actual use of the suffrage by women stands now about where is stood since the beginning. The statistics of the wo man's vote in Illinois in the recent election of regents of th State University show but 239 votes in a populous county. A special ballot was printed for the women, and as many was prepared in each county as that county had female electors. In some counties so few woion made use of their opportunities that this expense amounted to more than $10 for each votp actually cast. The problem of woman suffrage at the present day mav be stated thus: Are the undoubted rights of a class of women, new in the historv of solely, increase in whose numbers tbrp en the perpetuation of the rjuv nm ,m,sont 0,.,j(l. ()f suf. ficicnt importance to m1- it worth while to double the elec torate and i.Heim. to imv to new and ur-uceust(vd act. lyities the ;Wdilv heavily bnrd-ned wives and mothers of ti;o land? No id!.. or ,.,,. pr.,.u,t 1;iik ..,, ()f mw vnh,(1 T he ,uoston 11(mm1s lb,. e1,..m.,t s..inir, the closet thought and highest; wisdom as to ways and means of which the present generation is capable. 1