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The - Plattsmouth - Journal r i Published Seml-Weeklf it Plattsmouth, Nebraska dZD R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the I'ostoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as Becond-elass matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Dalilman'.s majority ia Omaha Tuesday was overwhelm ing. The voters of the Nebraska metropolis evidently realize the worth of one who does his duty irrespective of critics. Jim DahSnian is loved for the enemies he made. Jim Dahlman's manners certainly feel "little" after reading the returns from the election in Omaha Tuesday. Evi dently the business interests of the metropolis have confidence in Mayor Dahlman, "scallawags" to the contrary notwithstanding. AVe are now enjoying another national republican victory. The United frteel corporation has put up prices on all its pro duels and put down wages for all its laborers. There Ls noth ing like enjoying the fruits of a well earned victory. Let the pople rejoice. There will be no political campaign in Nebraska this year. The new law provides that supreme judges and state regents Hoist lie non-partisan and run on petition, and as these are the only Male officers to be chosen this year, the politician will be out of a job. County officers will be elected, but as there will !-o i;o state polities, county politics will be practically along non-partisan lines. According to the latest information given out by President Tuft's close friends is that none of the trust magnates or corpo rations are to be criminally prosecuted during his adminis tration. This is only what could be expected when it is known that the present administration owes its election to the money furnished by these people and the president and his friends are inclined to be lenient with those to whom they owe so much. A publication in this immediate locality took the Journal to task for endorsing Mayor Jim Dahlman of Omaha for re election. The people of Omaha gave Jim Dahlman four thous and plurality and the Journal is satisfied. The people of Plat smouth. elected John P. Fattier by an unprocedent ma jority several weeks ago and Omaha does the same bv Mayor Dahlman. There is no kick coming from the Journal, the thing to do is to run a newspaper not a handbill. can do, that they are doing and that they will do as well by the customer as the mail order proposition; that they make" this known to the people through the columns of the home newspa pers, through meetings, through every available channel, then the mail order houses may tremble for their future. Until then they will e safe and their business will increase. If the country merchant expects to check the growing ten dency of the mail order buying he must be ever on the alert for every idea, plan or proposition which will bring him in closer contact with his customers. lie must look more to the welfare, the needs and comforts of" his customers; he must not only make the town more attrac tive; but he must provide some means of taking care of that customer as well as amusing him, and everything he does con tributing to this end he does contributing to his own profit. Taft's Veto. From the New York World. In any controversy between Mr. Taft'nnd congress over the issue of honest tariff revision the country will support the president. One of the most disastrous political blunders of nor land's second administration was his failure to veto the Wilson (iorman tariff, which he properly denounced as an act of party "perfidy" and which he refused to sign. He allowed it to become a law, however, without his signature, and its disrep utable ghost is still haunting the republican party. While it wo,ild require great courage on Mr. Taft's part to veto the Uayne-Aldrich tariff, no matter how unsatisfactory its schedules might be, he could do nothing which would more ouicklv satisfv the American rtoonlo nf !nrlm,nn,i,m,. .....i his exceptional fitness for the office which he holds. The nop- lu.ii n-siunse would no instantaneous. Republican stand-pat lenders would of course deplore the veto. To Aldrich and Hale and Scott and Cannon it would be the borinnin? of th mul nf Hm n-r,l,l i ,.-i. w e. t" ; , " "!!. nut iicu iifisii. i, til to gain by signing a tariff bill which does not represent honest revision that will reduce the cost of living to the consumer? im ouium win rest largely upon liim as the leader of his party. The question will remain open. The agitation for downward revision will continue. It will be an issue in the congres sional campaign of 1010, and it will probablv be the chie"f is sue in the presidents campaign of 11)12. If a fake tariff re vision is then repudiated, the most prominent victim will be William Howard Taft. Having demanded genuine revision, there is nothing for Mr. Taft to do but stand by his principles. Should this involve veto of the Payne-Aldrich bill, the president need not fear the political consequences. The York Times (Ken.) says: "The last legislature has been the most progressive and freest from corruption rule, passed the most wholesome laws and advanced furtherest u' line with reform movements of every description of any which ever met in this state." The Times is one of the leading Re publican papers in the state and is edited by Tim Sedgewiek, but he is not so blind that he cannot see anything good in any' one outside the republican party, and will tell the truth occa sionally. ' The manner in which a very large number of the eastern republican congressmen, and a certain few of the democrats, are clinging tenaciously to reactionary ideas on the tariff ques tion is a serious menace to the country. We are at present heavily tariff ridden, and there is a demand everywhere for a revision downward. In the interests of the common people, and of the poor, :uch a revision should take place. Democrats undoubtedly have their faults, but on this burning question as a party they ring true. And the stand they take is not only in the interests of the people, but it is in harmony with the fun damental principles of socialogy, as that study is carried on in our great universities. The stand- of these reactionary re publicans is not in harmony with anything except the greed of certain overgrown trusts. A merchant selling large quantities of merchandise can afford to sell cheaper than when only selling a limited and smaller amounts. If every person in a community would patron ize their home or nearby merchants and pay cash, thev would seen re their goods as cheap as from the mail order houses, and be improving and !-ustaining home enterprises, which in turn wou'd insure their benefits, besides thev would obtnin better goods. Politics and Politicians. The great assembly of Connecticut has rejected a lull pro viding for the election of United States senators bv the people " ii' Representative Victor Murdoek of Kansas, one of the lead ing republican insurgents in the house, was formerly a Chicago newspaper reporter. Leading republicans in the New York state organization announce flatly that Timothy L. Woodruff is to be the successor of Mr. Depew in the United States senate. r Charles P. Taft of Circinnatti, brother of Prfesident Taft, declares that he is tired of politics and says he has no intention of becoming n candidate for United States senator to succeed Charles F. Dick. The lower branch of the Missouri legislature passed by a vote of 80 to 51 a resolution to submit the prohibition constitu tional amendment to the vote of the people at the regular elec tion in November, 1910. With 90 odd out of 100 counties dry and with a strong pro hibition element hammering steadily at the wet places it looks as though Virginia was going to tae her place within the next twelve months in the prohibition column. NO EVIDENCE F0?4 ifiS. BOYLE Defense m fi$ Upoii dab ai The Merchant's Duty. "Is the day of (he country merchant over?" asks the New York Home Trade Journal. It would almo-t M-em so. This will be a truth and fact, we '"-ar, before long unless the country merchant awakens and ansH to tl;e full respomibility of his position.,, Unless lie awakens to the conditions which are surrounding him he cannot tail lo see that his services will nnf tw lnm ,.,.. as an ac( onimodation to those who cannot ami do not iav cash i iwi men- iMcrcimndise. inis is no phaiiti'sv no exaggerated statement. It is a condition of the not far distant future, made as plain as plain can be by the events which are gradnallv yes, rapidly taking place. ' The Home Trade Journal wants to impress 'upon the mer chant that he can accomplish nothing bv joining the numerous socalled merchants' organizations which, while claiming to give him aid nd protection in upholding certain rules and prices, always have as their ultimatum the collection of dues and the creating of soft snaps for certain individuals. These combinations can do the merchant no good. Onlv that combi nation which affects the material and phvsical-the business interests of the whole community can either afford him any prolit or any advancement along the line of his business pur suit. 1 One of the greatest draw backs to business improvement in any community is a lack of confidence and moral support between one business man and the other, and more especially between the merchants and the newspapers. !n the liist place, the merchant dos not look upon h's ad vertisements' as a matter of business, but generally as n matter of tribute. And it rou vires a great deal cf solicitation in " ,"rci t many instances on the pint of the newspaper man ov hi ; agent to secure an 'advertising cmtract. An advertising con tract which the morchfiit should be more than willing to execute. On the part of the editor there should be the coMstant' .1......,...:...- :..i.. i.! i ... . i ii . ! ui iiii-mui iiiit ins readers minds ino gospel ot home trah hoine dealing home patronage. This, in brief, is a condition which might be brought about amicably, and until this con dition does exist and until the merchrnt and the editor work harmoniously hand in hand for the uplifting f a community, that community will continue to lose its trade to the mnil onhn houses. If the merchaid who is now so indifferent to th condi tions, who in so many instances has grown to accent the in evitable, but knew, as the editor of the Home Trade Jourvl does, how readily, how easily the ot berth row of the mailorder business could be accomplished, he would not accept defeat so easily. Hut just as sure as the sun rises the day p- dawning when, vnless the merchant and the editor of the count rv towns work h'M'd ;n hand nd preach dd spread and agitate thi doctrine of home trading, which is the salvation of their communitv. they "ill fipd (i,.;r towns deprived of their vet ail busines - and they become mere figureheads and no long factors in the busi ness world. Ml the preaching that can be done about the lovalty of a ve,He ' nrelasinc- their supplies at home will be of little Or no .avail so lonir as the iren hunts 1m tnt cniv!n... tlx, i.... i..,i r- - - .v nil' ",M,- III.'! 1 the merchant can and will sell articles eoual in nualitv. enual ' in irice to ino'e irrn'secd ny ttie maM onler houses. When, however, the merchants do rrie aed show the people of n com munity immediately surrounding them, or near by, that they STATE'S WITNESSES TESTIFY Husband and Accused Accomplice In Whltla Kidnaping Create Sensation In Court by Trying to Bring Out Name of Third Party Connected With Case Want to "Tell the Whole Story." Mercer, Pa., May 8. Relying entire ly upon their contention that tne Penn sylvanlii courts have no Jurisdiction Ij her case, counsel for Mrs. Jninea Iloyle, charged with aiding and abei ting the kidnaping of Willie Wiiitla, rcf.ised to offer any evidence in h;r behalf. The claim of the prosecution that Mrs. Doyle participated in thi3 state in a conspiracy to kidnap the boy will be coinhatted by the defense, which will endeavor to have her turned over to the authorities at Cleve land. The state's testimony was mainly the samo as thut given in the trial of James Boyle, but some additional wlt nensos testified about the connection of Mrs. Boyle with the abduction. One of the Cleveland policemen testified thnt she said' when arrested: "I am the frail little women who planned the whole thing." The finding of the ransom money Re creted In her clothing wns alao testi fied to. The proprietor of the ('ranger apartments, In Cleveland. Identified ! Boyle nnd Mrs. Uoyle as the couplo who rented an apartment from her j under the name of Walter. Throughout the proceedings Boyle 1 and his wife apparently desired to bring out the name of another pnrty anld to have been connected with tha case. Boyle, at one point, said: "I want to tell the whole truth about this case now. I want the whole thlnij cleared up. The whole blnme waa on some one elso." I.nter In her cell, Mrs. Boyle sntd: "Both .Jliumlo and myself have tried to tell the whole stiry. We have not been permitted to do so. It Is not Jus tlve. Everything should he heard and thrashed out. As for myself l will rcmmlt suh Ide before I go to the LEAPS FROM FAST TRAIN Erl Walker of Muscatine Chooe Unusual Method of Suicide. MuHcutlne, In., May 8. While Rock Island passenger train No. til was run nlng at a high rate of ppid, a ni.K east of the city, Karl Wulkor, aned thirty five, rushed jr.st the biakenuiu and dived headlong to the grou.id. II was picked up in un unconscious con dition and died at Kersey hospital an hour later. Tlio cause of the rash aoi la unknown. The mnn lived In a cable boat within a short distance of the place and some suppose he tl'.ouRht he could successfully make the leap. Suicide 1 mora probable. SeTTS LUFF COUNTRY UP THE FAMOUS PLATTE VALLEY OF NEBRASKA. BEST IRRIGATED LANDS IN THE WEST Thirty thousand acres fertile land in a splendid climate, water ed by one of the biggest irrigation systems in the country. No Ne braska land of equal area will support more families. Men from the Greeley district of the South Platte country say the advantages of the North Platte are superior and the prices are one-fourth to one-third less. Read again; think. Tuesday, May 18th ls the date of our Becond excursion for the sale of the famous Til-State land at Scott's Bluffs, Neb., said to be the finest single body of irrigated land In tho United States, embracing 30,000 acres, of which 10,000 acres will be sold Immediately. This land is owned by the Tri-State Land Company, of which E. A. Cud ahy Is president, and Is under the great Til-State Cnnal, one of the largest systems of Irrigation In the west, constructed at a cost of $2,000, 000. Six four-horse teams. 24 horses, can stand abreast across the bottom of the canal, which for the first few miles Is ninety fret wide on tho bot tom. It is half again as large as the Immense government Bathllnder canal. Its headgates, dams, Intakes, waste ways, and drops are wholly constructed of steel and re-inforced concrete. Its every part represents the highest achievement of modern engineering skill and workmanship. The Trl-State Land Co. has pra tlcally the tlrst water right out of the Xortli I'latte river, and for an Im mense amount of water. When It Is also remembered that the South Platte waters all the Irrigated land at Fort Collins, Greeley. Fort Morgan, Brush. Sterling and Julesburg, and supplies only one-forth us much water at the North Platte, thesuffklency of water under the Trl-State canal can never be questioned. It Is this fact that Is bringing so many of the Greeley, Fort Collins and Fort Mor gan farmers to the Scotts Bluff coun try, who all declare its land and wa ter equal or superior to anything In Colorado, while the prices are only a fraction of the Colorado prices. This magnificent body of land at Scotts Bluffs represents the best there Is In Irrigated lRnd. The two big canals, the government and the Tri-State, represent a combined cost of $4,000, 000, which Is an evidence of the val ue of the lands. Speaking of the Irriguteri LiiimI, Just remember: First Irrigated land produces the maximum every year. Your eastern Nebrska and Western Iowa land never produces the maximum, be cause even If you got Just enough rain at the right time for one crop It would destroy part of tho other. Second On your eastern land you you raise 40 bushels of corn on an nverage at 40 cents per bushel, at a cost of $8.00. leaving you $8.00 clear profit. We will take you to many men at Scotts Bluffs who raised 230 to 400 bushels of potatoes per acre and sold them at 4 0 cents, this year considerably higher than that; 15 to 25 tons of alfalfa at $8.00 per ton; 100 bushels of oats at 40 cents per bushel. Third It Is a singular thing that while the majority of farmers who buy irrigated land know nothing of irrigation, : ou can never Interest an irrigation farmer in any other kind of land. He doesn't have to under stand all about irrigation to succeed. The ditch rider knows and the farmer soon knows. Fourth While your Eastern Ne braska land will go on up to $150 per acre, it may then stop, or it may go back to $50 or $75, like the same land did in Pennsylvania. Ohio and New York. But your Irrigated land, increasing Its fertility and pro ducing pewer each succeeding year, will do like the other Irrigated land in this country and Europe go on up to $200, $300, $400 and $500 per acre, and will not simply "keep you." but will make you rich.' This land lies so perfectly that a fat price of $70.00 per acre has been fixed on all uncultivated land and $S0.00 upon cultivated land; hence the first excursionists have the cholcee of the entire land. A re gular excursion will bo run every two weeks. All irrigated Lands advance steadily to $300 and $500 per acre; they never go back. Think once more; act. One price to all-$70.00 per acre for uncultivated; $80.00 for cultivated. First come, first served. No favorites. For further information call on or write to Windham Dnvestment o., Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Associate A-ents with Payne Investment Company, General Land Agents, Omaha, Nel