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.
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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?
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NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
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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
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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
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is a boom to the farmers is a specious one. The wheat was out
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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
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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
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" 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
