The
Plattsmouth - Journal
Published Semi-Weekly it Plattsmouth, Nebraska
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
matter.
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Vindicating the Rooster.
(Baltimore American.)
The New York court of appeals is to pass on whether the
(.mivtifiitinrml fiorlit to the mirsuit of happiness extends to a
man's satisfaction in hearing his rooster crow at hours of the
night which deprive other men of that constitutional happi
ness which lies in slumber. The question appears trivial, but
so determined is the man in the case to enjoy this constitu
tional privilege, as involving a supreme right, that he says
lie will carry his rooster's midnight crow to the supreme court
of the United States it necessary.
Waxing Fat on Hay.
The recent exploitation of "alfalfa muffins" at an agricul
tural convention in Kansas seems to have tak.en practical root
at Crcighton university in Omaha, where a number of the
students have organized themselves into the "Alfalfa Hay
Club." their purpose being to demonstrate the value of this
product for human diet. From it, when properly prepared, are
made gems, muffins, mush, and pancakes, and the green meal
for some purposes is put through a bleaching process which
makes it agreeable to the eve as well as to the palate. Many
families in that city are also making the experiment. If
found as satisfactory as the first reports would indicate, there
need be no fear of famine in that section of the country, since
the alfalfa can be raised in large and unfailing quantities on ir
rigated land. At present, however, the allalia Hour costs about
as much as wheat.
simnr ltinW v..tpn!.iv administered a thrashing or In the senate yesterday Senator Aldrich postponed the
1 in An tn in si iivsii!imr eorrest ondent who hote on the income tax. evidently not having the senators
i..,-,.wi i;..i Siiwm.x-.rUv in liis fonrsn nn the income mute lined up vet. There is small room to doubt aliat wneu
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inv mivtinn Tt linn 11 v comforts with senatorial dignity to the time comes, the income tax will he defeated hy a nana)
indulge in fist fights but Bailey has been so persistently malign- vote
1 and traduced through the press that patience ceases to he a
oi
virtue and his course cannot be so severely criticised. Bailey
is one of the biggest and brightest minds in the senate buthe
seems to be the target for a line of persistent attacks-which
cannot help but try his patience. It would have been better
had he contended himself with a verbal denial or tue anicie
nd a denunciation of the author.
NO FREE LUMBER.
It is evident from the speeches so far made on the subject
in the senate that lumber will not be put on the free list. The
reason assigned for its retention is that otherwise the price
would be certain to go down. In view of the large number of
persons who buv lumber and who have been each year pay
ing a higher price, generally speaking, this would not be re
garded as an unmitigated evil. The truth, of course, is that
taking the tariff of $2 off lumber would not aftect tue price,
because the demand is so great and the American supply
Taxing Wealth in England,
(New York World.)
Ti.n TirWiJi l.nnsn nf commons last Monday passed by a dwindling so rapidly that prices are certain to go higher, tariff
vote of four to one the new income taxes under which an in- or no tariff, in time. n. . ... T, , ,
come above $13,000 must pay 5.3 per cent and one above $500,- W hat taking off the tariff would do is this: It would open
Ann q . Ji up the supplies to be found in the Canadian forests to Amen-
Thursdav by varying votes of more than 2 to 1 it passed can consumers, and because of the increased supply would pre-
the new death, settlement, legacy ana succession uuues. aue mc iuuuuuui xt " r.v.v. .
ure in
rini?os will rnnjre from 5 the matter at all. It is the fumber manufacturer who would
to 10 per cent." Thus a very large estate may pay to the nation be benefited because the tariff has at all times made it pos
nonrlv one-quarter of its value in passing from one genera- fible for him to charge more for his lumber than if there were
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The automobile tax was adopted without a division by collecting tnai mucn more, as xue price ns in response w uie
vea-and-nay vote, it taxes a sixty-norse-power auto a nttie uemauu.
above $200. besides a heavy tax on gasoline. The law recent- It appars to The News that the lumber manufacturer is
lv n.nssed bv the New York legislature taxes a biff auto $10, asking a great deal of the American people. They owned all
which does not begin to cover the road damage it does, and of the land from which the supply has been cut and that from
releases it from a much larger payment in taxes upon per
sonality.
In (Ireat Britian, as in Germany, they have learned to tax
wealth, not proverty.
which it is now. being cut. They practically gave away this
land to the lumbermen, charging, only so small a price as to
be ridiculous. After having had these vast forests of the peo
ple turned over to him at a nominal figure, it requires a large
amount of nerve for the lumbermen to insist that we keep on
taxing ourselves for the benefit of his pocketbook. Don't you
thing so? Lincoln News.
Yesterday in the senate Senator Beveridge of Indiana took
occasion to criticise the stand which certain democratic sen
ators have taken in the pending tariff bill and his criticism is
well placed. Pledged to secure revision of tariff downward,
a number of democratic senators have been voting quite con
sistently for higher duties on various articles many of them
necessities of life. This is not democracy in any sense of the
word and it does not help either the democratic party or the
senators individually. The democrats have' always stood for
genuine tariff reform and if they are to remove from this po
sition it means a readjustment of political lines. Beverage
is quite right in declaring their promises are made to the ear
but to be broken at the first opportunity. It is well enough for
the democrats to disagree among themselves but their disa
greement should not be carried to the extent that they vote for
things emphatically opposed by their platform.
Well, Forever More!
A bold train robbery took place within the city limits of
Omaha on one day, and" the next the perpetrators were thought
to bo hiding in some rendezvous in Omaha or South Omaha
The supposition is that the robbers had an automobile, chauf
feur for their accomplice rnd were furnished a machine to
whisk them awav from the scene of the crime to a place of
safety. The excellent facilities offered bv the two Omahas for
((fncoalfmont of criminals ur.der the municipal regimes in
power are well known. Evil rt sorts are so multiplied in the
two towns that the police have to scatter their effort over a
large territory when it comes to apprehending men of this
stripe. The resorts are allowed to operate because they are the
(enters of a large part of the voting population nnd are a con
venient asset for the politicians on election days.
Even the World-Herald, which rushes to the defense of
saloons and other ''liberal" institutions of Omaha, sounds a
note of alarm by asking the city council whether it is going to
let Tom Denmson name the municipal prosecutor. It says
there is a well grounded suspicion that something of the kin
is in the air. Considering that in the past Dennison has hat
a irreat deal to sav about the selection of, not only prosecutors
but mayors, chief of police and members of the lire and police
board,the question put by the World-Herald seems pretty much
to the point. There is an old saying, "Let me administer the
laws and you mav make them," the force of which Dennison
no doubt knows, ith a trendly prosecutor, lie snouia no in
a position to protect those who have always looked up to him
as a godfather. Lincoln ews.
Catchincr the Spirit of the Age.
The general assembly of the Presbyterian church, in ses
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sion ai weaver, is giving ovim-noo imu u i wiu-uiuk ui-.-i-m
of Ihis industrial age. Not that the church is becoming world
ly or abandoning any of its religious ideals, but it is applying
to the business branches ot the church organization tue busi
ness methods which have been demonstrated produce best re
suits in other lines of human endeavor. 1 here are at presen
eight boards having the direction of the various agencies o
administering the temporal affairs of the church, which in the
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light oi experience ana me exiuupio in cuiuiuerieiai m
('.list rial life appear wasteful of effort and lacking in effective
ness. It is proposed to consolidate these various agencies, so
lar at least as mo general direction oi ineir auairs is con
corned and place them all under the supervision of a centra
nuthoritv.
At present in the raising of money each of the various
hurch board covers the entire field, making a duplication of
4-ffort which in a large private business enterprise would be
considered so wasteful as not to be though of. I he same con
tlition exists as in other work of the church to a considerable
extent. Under such system the "cost of doing business.
as the captain of industry would denominate it, is certainly
high. .
The intelligent churchman is realizing as never before tha
not onlv in methods but in though, the church must get near
to the evervdav affairs of the people. The churchman who
neglects to avail himself of the means which produces result
is as much an impractical dreamer as a business man who lags
lags behind with obsolete methods. The business man who
puts money into church work wants results and he wants to
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see Hie cliun ll uispiay capaeuy ami inoso nuanucs wiucu ijs
mre success. The proposed change is purely one of adminis
" trative svstcm, but it is through its administrative system
that the church must insure results on the business side
Whether the particular plan proposed is found practicable or
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not, Hie I act. oi lis noing consnii-iou i oimcihc nun
church, as is every other institution, is being touched
modern and adapting itself to modern needs. Omaha Boo
MESSAGE FROM JU JA.
Mr. Roosevelt is ''annoyed," and, no doubt through force
The Lighting Injunction.
A cursory perusal of the papers served upon the city of
ficials in the matter regarding the injunction sought
against the city to restrain the officials from interfering
with the gas company officials in collecting their gas bills at of habit, he relieves himself in a statement that sounds just
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he old rate on the ground that the ordinance is unconstuu- UKe one oi tnose oiu, iamniar special messages, rnueea one
ional as it seeks to take property ot the company without has to rub his eyes to realize that the man is on the Ju Ja
tie process of law and is unreasonable in its provisions seems ranch in Atnca and not in the White house.
3 indicate that the city has a long and expensive contest Consider the phrasing: "Sheer inventions," "due to
with the company in court. This is to be greatly regretted bribery," "dishonorable man," "willing to invent untruths for
and
udgment upon the case until it is finally heard and the facts of authenticity," as the literary critics would say, is con-
are in evidence. If the evidence develops that the plant can- vincing. Mistakes may have been made, yarns told,, about
not be run at a profit under the rate imposed or sought to be Roosevelt's bags ot game, but there is no mistake about tins
imposed by the ordinance, then the court will unquestionably bag of words. It is the straight goods from the old man him-
lold the ordinance invalid. On the contrary should it be self.
hown that a reasonable profit can be exacted from the plant Mr. IJoosevelt warns the world that a great deal of ly-
'.nder the proposed rates nnd that the city has authority ing is being done about his hunt, and that when the truth, or
under its charter to enact an ordinance regulating rates to something like it, has been told, it has been bought with
e charged, then the ordinance will be sustained. It is not bribes from mercenary and conscienceless guides or porters.
he general belief that the city seeks to make the company do lor no newspaper, he informs us, lias a representative with
lusiness at a loss for that is not fair nor just. At the same the party, and all persons connected with the expidition are
ime, the citizens are entitled to the benefit ot any legitimate obligated to secrecy.
reduction which thev can legally secure and thev should have This offers some hope that the stories of Sunday slaughter,
the killing of the two giraffes on one Sunday and of a female
The entire controversy is regrettable and does not improve rhinocercus on the next, were erroneous. But only some hope,
the chances for immediate lighting of the city. Plattsmouth for these stories were wired by the Associated Press, and
needs light nnd there is but one company in a position to Roosevelt does not say that a representative of the Associat-
give it. To enter into long and expensive litigation with ed Press is barred from the camp. Indeed such a representa-
that company is not calculated to secure good terms for a tive has just returned to Nairobi after two days spent on the
city contract. It is hoped the litigation can be speedily firing line and it is through him that Roosevelt transmits this
settled for the welfare of everyone concerned. special message from the jungle to the world.
, Perhaps it is the report of his bagging a mosquito that
ia fnrmnr urncirlont mninlv nnioota ic tha mncrmitn moncnr.
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Old and XeW at Omaha. n c..on W from fin in tin nn,l W Tt-na ltrmmU Anrxrn witli
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. one bullet from Roosevelt's gun as it was sucking a hundred
t-nllons of sweat v hlnml from n hirmonotnmns widen it. bad
t Train robbers, like other robbers are capable of using run 0ican through with its steel-like and elongated pro-
the
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it is to be hoped the city authorities are well fortified for money," "traffic in other forms of dishonor."
fight. It would be just as well for citizens to withold No correspondent faked this. The "ii
internal evidence
the new appliances of civilization without losing any of the h)0sciSi
'ssential coarseness of their work. The four men who did the
re we not to believe that Roosevelt and Kermit have slain
neat job of Saturday night on the Union Pacific road.in the charging lions, leopards, rhinoceroses and a python, coiled to
outskirts of Omaha, had an automobile, in which they made
a quick disappearance after the haul. The automobile was
evidence of their adaptability to an advanced civilization so
strike, to enwrap and to strangle to swaow v. hole, indeed,
our beloved former president? Are we not to believe that
kermit s latest achievements were the slaying of a charging
far as it can be made to serve evil purposes, but the essential kyena and the slaughter of a surprising number of female
cnaracxer oi ineir woric was seen 10 ue uncnangeu. nne one warthogsT These deeds are chronicled and given to a breath
man was. covering the chief clerk in the mail coach, and fore- (,ss worit by the Associated Tress correspondent the same
ing ine surrender oi ine regisierea man poucnes coniaining ine , nan that has given us the undeniably authentic from '.the
bank mail, his three confederates were distributed at strategic juno-le. '
Ail ot tins sounds liKe an ecno oi jsiue I'ui.oiuienaaie or nre K0 uncomplimentary as t(
f (lad's Hill. The automobile alone marked an advance in the messages. They only show tha
rt of train robbing. At Omaha, as at Gad's Hill, Glendale or j,e wont after, and he didn't gi
Hue Cut, the method of overawing surprised and unprepared sickness.
points along the train, "keeping up a constant fusillade and
an incessant veiling.
All of this sounds like an echo of Blue Cut,of Glendale or
of
art
Blue
men was the same." A constant fusillade made nnd inces
sant yelling" being shown to be as effective at Omaha as
elsewhere for the purpose of their use, we may confidently
look to see them remain as elements in every train robbery of
the future. No matter how far crime may go in adoption of
the new appliances of science or mechanics, there are some
old things it will not abandon so long as they continue to
make good as they did at Omaha, lhe burglar may ere
long moor his airship on the casing of the window through
which he intends to emerge from the house he is paying a
nocturnal visit, but he will stick to the jimmy for forcing
looked drawers and locked rooms, until modem civilization
provides him with something better.
We shall not miss hearing much valorous talk of the seven
other men in the mail car who stood still while the chief
clerk was under cover and in the act of surrender. "Put
yourself in his place" is an axiom to be commended to all
such critics. "A constant lusillade and an incessant yelling
to men taken unwares in the dark, and left in.no doubt as
to their meaning, may have a temporary narcotic effect which
those who have never tacen the medicine can not under
stand. Such things sound better when you don't hear them.
It might be more profitable for us to consider the Omaha
robbery from the philosophical rather than the personal point
of view. A question we might speculate upon is the one
of whether scientific and mechanical advance, bringing with
them so many new appliances in what we term a material
civilization, is being accompanied by a corresponding evolution
in the moral and spiritual nature of mankind, which alone can
make them beneficent. The automobile is civilized. Many
people think it the fruit and flower of civilization. But "n
constant fusillade nnd an incessant yelling" nre savagery.
If savagery can turn civilization against itself, which will
survive?
It would be cruelty to pry us loose from the charging
hyena and the warthogs. And, indeed, none of the reports
nre so uncomplimentary as to provoke sizzling hot special
how that .Mr. Roosevelt is getting what
go to Africa to get the sleeping
We are not going to carry over
Cravenettes until Fall and then ask
you to pay full price for them.
We are going to sell what we have left in Micheals, Stern
& Co. and Hart, Schaffner & Marx high and low collar coats, all
new shades and styles, including a nice line of blacks. For this
week only we will offer the following bonafide cash prices on
all cravenettes:
SI2.50 and $13,50 Craveislles $9.50
SI5.00 and SI6.50
$13,00 and $20.00
S22.50 and $25,00
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$11.50
$16.50
$20.00
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