The - Plattsmouth - Journal
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Yesterday the new Sultan of Turkey, "girdled the sword"
whatever tliat means. To many it sounds omniously like ho
was preparing for the Armenians in the most approved Abdul
JJamid style.
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Henry Urn-kins' in his Lincoln Herald takes some pretty
pointed exceptions to certain democrats in this state. While
we cannot admire Henry's particular brand of politics, it must
be admitted he sometimes says perteuent things.
The passage of the new tariff bill with its increased duties
ought to go far toward restoring confidence to those timid mor
tals who were afraid congress might cut off their profits.
They were always safe.
Some of the papers out in the state are throwing fits over
the election of Mayor Dahlman of Omaha. They seem to all
lake their cue from the Lincoln Journal and this suggests
that in one particular instance at least, these editors are not
so much democrat as republican.
The crusade on the mushroom or waste basket hat, con
tinues apace. The Texas legislature debated the matter very
seriously of abolishing this hat in the confines of the Lone
Star State. It should have passed the bill as it has always
set the pace for other states in real reform legislation.
' It is now frankly conceded that all the noise and buncomh
of the vtcrn senators on the tariff bill is to be of no effect,
.lust enough of them have spoken to keep the republicans of
the west still plodding along in the party hoping against hope
that congress will finally wake up and give the people re
lief from the excessive tariff taxation. But all the same it is to
be noted, that Aldrich and the tariff barons have the votes and
the bill will be passed. The tariff will indeed bo revised, but it
will be revised up instead of down and the beneficiaries will
be the same old set of looters who have for years been robbing
the American people. It is always questionable whether the re
publicans of the west will be misled by this spectacular clap
trap which their senators are now engaged in peddling out, or
whether they will rise in their might and clean out the party
so thoroughly that genuine revision will take place. The prob
abilities are that they will do the former for they have always
been in the past a most gullible set.
The action of the city council in taking steps toward hav
ing the property of the Burlington protected from disastrous
floods which have swept down on the shops in years past, can
not le too highly commended. The objection to doing the
work that the council had no right to exceed the levy and
order the work done does not reined v the objections to the'work.
It was impacrative that these floods must be stopped and the
members of the council who took the bull bv the horns and
bravely ordered this property protected should and will meet
with public approval. The Burlington shops are the backbone
and mainstay of the city. They spend everv month "in this city
from $-,000 to :'0,000 and this amount forms a mighty big
item in local trade accounts. To stand back on technicalities
and refuse to vote a paltrv few hundred dollars to protect this
property would be suicide and would be quite justly con
demned by the people of the city. The conscience of some
members may have caused them to refrain from voting for
this work but it was misplaced nevertheless. The maintenance
of these works is something which every citizen is interested
in and the votes cast for the work deserve the highest commen
dation. Any person attacking this appropriation is an enemy
to Plattsmouth and its interests. What is wanted is more Bur
lington shops jf they can be gotten instead of less and the wax
to get them is to treat the company fair. Besides this the
work w-as city work and should have been done on general
principles. The city protected their merchants on Main street
from flood and this would have been useless if the Burlington
property had been left unprotected and the mainstay of the
Plattsmouth merchants swept away. It is well to know the
members of tho council can rise to an emergency and take the
proper steps for the city's advancement. Let the Burlington
know that Platfsmouth appreciates it and wants more of its
patronage. Do this by looking after its property the same as
other property ami if other means are needed to increase the
business take them.
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What makes them the best soda crackers ever baked?
What makes them the only choice of millions?
What makes them famous as the National Biscuit ?
National - Biscuit - Goodness
I An Uncalled For Charge.
Heretofore a county judge had more political patronage
io iiesutw man any oiner ouicer around the court house, es
pecially so far as the newspapers were concerned. A new law
is now in force. It provides than any attorney or person
having litigation before the judge may' select in' what paper
he will have his legal notices printed and the Midge is bound
to grant the request. All who have business ith out county
judge should take particular notice of the above information,
riattsmouth .Journal.
It is unfair and unjust for any newspaper to publish an
article iikc Hie a hove, which is intended as a thrust at County
Judge Allen ,). Bccson. Judge Beoson is a man who is re
h pec ted bv all who know him. republicans and denmcrnt nlil..
. and the Courier does not believe he ever used his high office
to throw business to anv newspaper in Cass Countv. Tin.
Courier (Iocs not take issue with the law that permits litigants
and their attorneys to select their own newspaper for publica
tion of their legal matter, but it does take issue with any news
paper that indirectly charges .Judge Bccson with influencing
the placing of legal advertising. It would be just as fair to
say that he is an unfair judge, which statement would be resent
ed by people all over our county. Cass County has long been
blessed with good, fair county judges, and it is not straining a
point to say that .Judge Beoson is the peer of any of them.
Louisville Courier.
It seems that the Courier innf.es serious objection to the
above, when no wrong to Judge Bccson was intended. And
while this matter is now up for discussion, we will say, how
ever, that we know of notices that were placed in other papers
under .Judge Booson's directions, where the attorneys and
parties interested in estates wanted the same published in the
.Journal. We did not think of making this assertion public un-
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
il the Courier has at tanked us for rmblishiner that, which is
of interest to all the friends of the Journal. The law is just to
all papers alike, and no one should complain.
Compares Appropriations.
Sneaker C. W. Pool, who is editor of the Teenmseh Tri
bune compares the appropriations by the republican legislature
of two years ago with that of the democratic legislature of
last winter as lollows:
"Some republican papers still maintain their charge of
extravagance against the last legislature, and bv comimrinsr to-
tials make it appear that the republican legislature of 1007
was a model ot economy as compared with the democratic leg
islature of 1 009, but a careful investigation of the facts will re
veal quite the contrary.
'It is true that tho total amount appropriated in 100!)
exceeded the amount appropriated in 1007. Xo one will care to
deny the fact, nor is there any necessity for denying it, but
me democratic legislature ot VMJ and to appropriate iflfiO,-
w to take care ot deliciencies created by republican managers
of state institutions, and the state institutions during the next
two years will cost more to maintain than they cost during
tho two years under the Sheldon administration. For instance,
the legislature of 1007 appropriated for the pentitentiary on
the basis of :?'J5 convicts. There are now 427 convicts in the big
prison. The same ratio of increase is found in all of the other
state institutions.
, "Two years ago Gov. Sheldon vetoed building appropria
tion amounting to about $400,000, although he admitted that
the new buildings were sadly needed. His claim was, how
ever, that the expenditures must be kept inside the revenue.
And when he issued the vetoes helpless inmates of the Lincoln,
Hastings and Norfolk asylums, were sleepinir on cots in mils.
sleeping in attics and basements, sleeping two in a bed; and the
leehie minded children in the Beatrice institution were forced
to sloop in unfinished attics and in damp basements. The
1001) legislature appropriated $500,000 for new buildings in
which to house those helpless ami dependent wards of the state.
Yet, with the same levy and the increased expenditures for new
buildings and for educational purposes the present biennium
will end with more money in the treasury than was left under
the Sheldon administration.
"Adding the $100,000 deficiency to the total of the 1007
cgislature and subtract it from the total of the 1000 legislature,
and the difference between the two totals is not large enough
o excite comment. Take into account the growth of the state
limitations and the difference is wiped out. And then give
the 10d!) legislature credit for $.")00.000 of new buildings and
! 700,000 more for educational purposes all without adding a
ingle iota to the tax rate. When you analyze the fact you will
discover that the 100!) legislature was the most economical in
the history of the state.
When Governor Deitrich succeeded Governor Poynter he made
a clean sweep of the Poynter appointees. Governor Shallen-
berger has not done so."
Representative Murphy of Missouri seems to have some
stamina and backbone in him, and his merited rebuke of Frank
JIagerman, counsel for the allied roads who won in Judge
Mcpherson's court, was well merited. Without a knowledge
of the facts in the case, it is difficult to say as to the. merits
of his resolution to impeach Judges MePherson and Philips but
the decision on the two-cent fare laws in that state looks
mighty funny.
Demonstration Arouses Mirth.
In speaking of the jollifications of the prohibitionists in
Lincoln the other day, in honor of the triumph of prohibition
in that city, the Star says the "street parade was rather tame,"
and the "procession of temperance cohorts aroused mirth."
And the Star further says:
''That the result of the city election, which decreed that
there shall be no saloons in Lincoln after next Monday night,
does not yet mean temperance,, but vigilant work will have
to be done to enforce the law, was the belief of the speakers who
addressed the temperance workers at the auditorium Friday
night The parade which hundreds gathered along the streets
to see, was a rather tame affair, but a little more enthusiasm
was shown at the auditorium meeting.
" "Less than fifty people took part in the parade. It formed
at Fifteenth and M and marched to P street and from there to
Eleventh, and doubled back on O to Thirteenth and then to the
auditorium. The parade was led by half a dozen horsemen
and a band of twenty pieces. Perhaps twenty people marched
along behind the band.
"Among the speakers at the auditorium were C. M. Green,
I. F. Poach, A. G. Wolfenbargcr, A. L. Bixbv, John M. Mockett,
W. K Price, l C. Abbott and T. J. Merryman. Uichard L.
Metcalfe presided at the meeting, introducing the various
speakers. There was a fair sized crowd listening to the ad
dresses and cheered the speakers when in their opinion they
scored a point. .
All of the speakers expressed joy because of the victory
of the temperance forces. But they likewise all believed that
the work of the church people is just beginning. The victory
was won easily, they believed, as compared with the ease
with which the sale of liquor can be prevented."
"Another charge circulated is that the Shallonhorgor ad
ministration exhibited an awful hunger for political pie. This
charge is founded on the fact that the legislature gave into
the hands of the governor some appointments heretofore in
the hands of other state officers. But in doing this the legis
lature only went back to the system in vogue prior to the
election of Win. A. Poynter. The republican legislature in its
greed, took a lot of appointments a vay from the demo-pop
governor. The legislature of 1001) merely gave them back.
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