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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1909)
The - Plattsmouth - Journal rri Published SemNWeeklf at Plattsmouth, Nebraska t i R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the Poatoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Omaha men have pimha.-ed the '"City of Peoria," a steam boat of a thousand paenger capacity and will put it in ser vice on tlie Missouri river. The Omaha papers state that the boat was purchased by liquor nu n, hut give no dimensions as to the capacity of the hold. .Show this to vour hov: In the past six vears 1,310 per sons have been killed, and I'T.OSO wounded, as the result of Fourth of July celebrations. AVe have sympathy for the hoys, hut don't want to sympathize with the mothers. Plattsmouth has six saloons and we can boast of having the host regulated town of its size in Nebraska. The saloon men have wisely resolved to conform with laws governing their business. "Why is it so many men are optimistic at the very time they should be pessimistic? There are times when a heap of trouble could be avoided if they would get up on their hind legs at the proper time and howl instead of waiting until af terward and then howling at the moon. The mail order houses are distributing catalogues and literature in such quanitics that they are sending men to the country to make the distribution because salaries and expen ses are cheaper than postage. The country merchant who want to light the catalogue houses,and yet is too penurious to advertise in the newspaper, should take note of that fact. Numerous merchants have inquired in the past few weeks regarding the sale of lire-crackers and other explosives. The last legislature passed a law restricting the sale of the large cannon cracker and other dangerous fireworks, but the law will not be in effect until 1910; so all kinds of crackers can be sold on the coming 4th. In New Orleans the price of manufactured' ice is from seven and a half to fifteen cents per hundred pounds,aecord- ing to papers from down that wav. Up here m the cooler north, where it is made the same way, it sell, or is sold for thirty-five to fifty cents a hundred. This scheme leads the Council Bluffs Nonpariell to think that while in the south the ice is artificial, in the north it is the price that is artificial. A Chicago man in talking before the good roads congress lit Washington suggested that some of the money being spent annually for the building of battle ships be used in the con struction of good roads over the country. That is not a bad suggestion of good roads over the country. That is not a bad a good big battleship be expended in the making of good roads over the state of Nebraska. James H. Caseber, editor of the Blue Springs Sentinel, recently had an interview with a specialist from the national agricultural and horticultural department at "Washington. In expressing himself concering this section of Nebraska as a fruit growing country, the specialist said: "I don't see why any man living in southeastern Nebraska would want to sell out and go to some mountain valley to engage in fruit grow ing. If the same attention was given the subject here and as much time spent here on the trees this section would discount them. You can beat them not only on flavor but quality and in lime this will become the leading fruit producing section of the United States." In the Technical World is account of an invention recent ly perfected by the sun is made to supply electrical lighting. It is stated in the article that the apparatus is only about five feet square, comparatively inexpensive, and that if the sun shines but one day in seven it will furnish enough power to light an ordinary dwelling for the balance of the week. This sounds like a fairy tale, although the Technical World is not of the yellow journal order. It is a well known fact, how ever, that the sun pours out an enormous amount of energy u pon the earth, amounting to hundreds of millions of horse power, which now goes to waste. The only problem is how to utilize this power. That the time will come when all the power needed in the earth will be derived from the sun's rays is the expectation of scientists. Whether the inventor men tioned in the Technical World has conquered the secret re mains to be seen, but there is little doubt that if he hasn't someone else will sooner or later. When Lincoln is advertising itself as one of the largest cities in America that has adopted prohibiiton, and is enforc ing the law, it forgets that in almost every issue of her daily papers c;:n no iouihi such iiems as ine lonowing: rour (iruiiKS were arrested in live minutes. Janitors at the state house complained that tie lawn was so covered with broken beer and whisky bottles that they have great difficulty in mowing the grays without i inning their machines." And all this in the lace of the lact that no saloons exist in that city. Oh. what charming and delightful place is the state capital with its population of (().(MMM It ought to also advertise that there are more hypocrites in 1 ;ncoln to the square foot than any outer city in me I lined M-.tcs. The most glaring treachery ever engaged in, by repre sentatives of the people, was the vote by the senate to retain the tariff on lumber, logs, etc. Both parties have promised to put lumber, logs etc. on the free list, in the interest of every man, woman and child, who use lumber in any way, or live in houses. But the men who have become enormously wealth v while destroying all our magnificient forests in Michigan, Wis consin and Minnesota, protected from competition by the tariff gralt, iiave with the money they legally filched from western homebuildres, obtained control of about all the remaining tim ber in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, California and the southern states. Congress wants to give them a legal right to put their hands into your pockets and take more millions from all the people, on the protection gralt plan, till all our forests are con verted into cash and in the pocket of these rich devils, then the holm-builders can get their lumber from other countries and pay just what those countries ask. J he lumher gratters will con tinue to enjoy their legalized loot and the men who misrepre sent the interests of the peopl, can go down in infamcy as th legislators who legalized graft, and thus devastated our for est laud and robbed the people. it sell its surplus manufacture abroad at ' cents. Stock in the sugar trust went up 5 points after the senate had voted down the Bri.-tow amendment, i The telephone girl sits still in her chair and listens to voices from everywhere. She hears all the gossip, she learns all the news, she' knows who is happy and who has the blues; she- knows all our sorrows, she knows all our joys, she knows every girl who is chasing the boys; she knows of our troubles, she knows of our strife, she knows every man who is talking mean to his wife; she knows every time we are out with "the boys" she hears the excuses each fellow employes ;she knows every woman who has a dark past, she knows every man who is; inclined to be "fast"; in fact, there's a secret beneath each saucy curl of that quiet, demure looking telephone girl. If the telephone girl told us all that she knows it would turn half our friends into bitterest foes; she could sow a small wind that would soon be a gale, engulf us in trouble and land us in jail; she could let go a story which, gaining in force, would cause half our wives to sue for divorce; she could get all our churches mixed up in a fight and turn all our days into sor rowing night; in fact, she could keep the whole town in a stew if she'll tell a tenth part of the things that she knew. Oh, brother, now doesn't it make your head whirl when you think what vou owe to the telephone girl? ., ... ; ,j , i LOST THE CONSUMER. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) There is no such a thing as the consumer. At least not mi it i t 1 i m now. ihe consumer is an abstraction a ievensn iancy. len months ago he was a realitjwicclamorous reality,crying with raucous voice for a revision of the Uingley tariff schedules and revision downward at that. lie was a gaunt, emphatic and in sistant figure then. He stood on a pedestal and great politi cal parties and great political leaders bowed before him and placed offerings at Ins feet to propititate lnrr. He was propitiated and began to shrink. Like the blow up rock driller to Mark Twain's yam he went up until he was no bigger than a boy. He kept on going until he seemed only as big as a baby and then till he was no bigger than a small uee andthen puff he was out ot sight. The senate standpatters destroyed the consumer com- pleteh' and having removed him and shown that a high tariff is necessarily of benefit to the producer, they were in a position to make a high tariff. So, we are all producers all the beneficiaries of a high tariff, all participants in the graft and all equally guilty and equally satisfied. It s a shame to spoil the argument. But the veal fallacy lies in the asumption that, being producers, what we consume is, in excess of cost, balanced by the excess price we receive for our product. In the realm of the ideal such a condi tion of econimic balance might be obtained. But in our practi cal world a little a very little study will show that the great mass of producers produce out of of all proportion to their compensation. The wages they receive represent only a small part of the production, but they consume to the limit of their wages. . High prices the result of tariff taxes widen the gap and make the disportion still greater and we come naturally to a conclusion, marked by a real condition, that the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. Still the tariff frauds, as if to emphasize their contempt for our pockets, assault our minds and assure us we have reached the ideal condition where we prosper by stealing one from the etner. As a little bit of Memoiial day aftermath this written bv Wait Mason when he lived in Nebraska is worth while: "The BURKETT AGAINST CHEAP SUGAR. little green tents where the soldiers sleep, and the sunbeams Judging from street comment Senator Elmer J. Burkett play ami the women weep, are covered with flowers today; and wll have to make some pretty 'strong explanations of his between the tents walk the weary few who were young and course in voting'with the Aldrich crowd in the senate yester stalwart in sixty-two, when they went to the war away. The Jay against eliminating from the sugar tarilT schedule the pro little green tents are built of sod, and they are not long and vision requiring all sugar coming into this country to conform they are not broad, but the soldiers have lots of room'; and to the Dutch standard 1G test. Not that very many peole un the sod is part of the land they saved, when the flag of the derstand just what "the Dutch standard 10 test" means, but enemy darkly waved, the symbol of dole and gloom. The lit- Hie fact that Aldrich wanted it and that Burkett voted with green tent in a country's shrine where patriots kneel and Aldrich. is what makes them mad, says the Lincoln rsews. pray; and the brave men left, so old, so few. were young and Among the few who know, Burkett 's vote is also condemn stalwart in sixty-two, when they went to the war away." ed. The real effect of it, is to keep the poorer class of the country irom getting an opportunity to buy cheaper grades ot The test of the strength of President Taft will soon be made sugar. Years ago. when Dcrsons now of forty were vonnsr. public. The test will come when Aldrich gets his tarilT mens- dark and light brown sugar were very freely used, and it was ure passed by his stuffed congress. It will then be up to Taft pood sugar, too. The tariff is now fixed up, however, so that to stand, as he declared he stood during the campaign, for this kind of sugar can no longer be imported, the duty being the people as against the tarilT robbers and the tarilT trusts, prohibitive. The provision requiring sugar imported to be i m- iiiuricii measure, as .iirieii win nave it passed, is drawn "J mien standard Jt" means that no other kind of sugar than in the interest of the tarilT barons and nirninst the neonle. the dark red kind sugar after it has been snhieetod to tho first It increases the tarilT burdens and does not decrease them, process after the molasses stage, when it is uneatable and un it does not redeem the promises ot the republicans that the marketable, can be imported. i.uiii wouui be lowered. It is not even prepared to give a 1 he Bnstow amendment against which Burkett voted was greater revenue to the government.but does give n greater rev- to remove this test and this would have allowed sugar to come enue to the tariff barons. It does not lessen the hold of the in other shades dark brown, lisrlit brown, etc. It' was fcilUl. tarilf lords upon the people, but fastens their clutchis morn and this shuts out chenii surar because ns is nvnhiinnil. 11m tenaciously upon the throats of the consumers. The Aldrich dark red variety must be still further refined, and the smrnr law is opposed by Senators Brown and Burkett. of Nebraska, consumed to be relind sugar, the granulated and powder white but will they have the hardihood to vote against it when it kind, because there is big money in refining. A man who conies to pass? Will Taft dare veto it! . ought to know said today to The News that the price of sugar LABOR AND PROTECTION. in this country is based on the urice of Dutch standard 1(1 in New York, and that so long as this test is in the law the trust r,M I e , . , , , " o coiuroi i iu Migar mai Kei because ll sums out i he annua wage of the average employe in the protoc ed grades-in short, it is the backbone of trust control ill. iiii ii n ., vi niv iriimi ir-fiio. J 111 illllUIHl Waire Ol ( imn nmnn wii.l II. . 4 ..P . . , .... : , , . f,i.ui. imiii I nil l Hiv- iniUill VIIM in vill control the sugar market because it shuts out all cheaper 1.. .1 .1 '1 II , I, . .... 1 he sai per nuimrei riciiii- iiikI bance. A most delightful picnic and plat form dance will be given Sunday, June 13th, at the old Pitcher farm. Good music has been secured and a good time is assurred. Will Vallery, Manager. E. B. Thrall and wife who have been visiting relatives at Sabula, la., came In this morning on the train. They had a very delightful trip and were highly pleased with It. They went over to witness the graduation of a niece from the schools at that place. Telephone Meeting. Those Interested In the private telephone line now under advisability by those farmers along the proposed farm lines, will please attend the meeting to be held at the home of Hans Kemp on Wednesday evening, June 9th. Alfalfa Seed. I have a number of bushels of alfalfa seed for sale. Anyone wish ing same will find It at my farm. Z. V. Shrader. Councilman Frank Neuman was taken 111 yesterday wllth a pain In Lis side which developed Into so serious a case that he was compelled to lay off for the afternoon and today, lie was feeling some better today and will be able to return to work on Monday, he believes. Strayed. Four white faced yealing steer calves and one Durham. Finder please notify Chas. Countryman and he will pay damages. A. Matous was a passenger this morning for Omaha where he will undergo an operation for a growth upon his scalp. The operation Is not at all dangerous and Mr.Matrous ex pects to return this afternoon. Liiir.ir l ii I ..... I .Ui.111 H I 11 l 1 tM 1 .ucn.go empire , unprou-eieu indiisir.es is industries mmh nt t!l0 vo(hurv wns s is Usunv soM nt two receiving no benefits Irom a tariff pay their average employe tluw times that sum. The trust is able to do 'this because fc-,4 more annually than those receiving protection Tins h the tarilT of $1.00 per hundred pounds on refined sugar is pro he way government statistics from the census of 1000, and hibitive, very little being brought in. This is excused on the taken Irom a tab e giving the "average number of wage earn- ,roumi that it gives to American refineries the work of placing u-s and wages of employes in manufactures ,n the United the raw sugar from abroad into marketable shape. Only Nates, classihed under Section ( and the free list. Any school f,i,mit fm,,-l, r 4i, w,,.,., 1 it..:., i . : I " " . wt ii. i n.iklll I l'l lllllvll III HU" I IllU'tl Olilll'S IS boy or girl, by referring to the table, may answer the argument of the protectionist. For instance the table referred to shows raised here, and the remainder is brought in in the raw state. The trust, however, will make but little of the cheaper grades il I l.)l Ii I . .. I.I? 1 i .1 I i ere a e 4.H .in persons emit oven in ministries m nm. .ir.i n .. ... - . I'l PI I UriilllM' I III" It l Mill !W 1 II 11 f . II 111 11 11 V I II It fl u IM m-.lllll ducts of which are protected by tariff duties. The total wage lated. and it controls the m.-nlct il,.-mri, ihn wiff -di ..r ......... ,.r ....... j.. vi n-i-i r.io 11.. .. .... . p" v .-. V. VVn.r.' 1 r"i"' i" i ,. ',.j i o ii i in inn i , I ii (..m ,tl(.,nt(, not ol,ly Uu, r v rv . t , Divide the total wage by the number of employes and you have sugar, but what kind of sugar each must use the average annual wage of the employe of the protected in- The figures show that an average of eighty dnstry-iM.I 1 1'e tal.le shows here are 'Jt0,f0. persons sugrar is consumed annually bv each person ii unjmneu m inmisines in me rimcu fMaies ine products ol n Hamburg the price of refined which are not protected by tariff duties. The annual pav past ten vears 1 SO cents ier doiii roll of these J 10,40.-) persons is $i:!0,400,SSO. Divide VAm- York market.' Multiply this bv V .S0 by IMO.-IO."), and you have the annual wages of the average w n tju, United States and the employe- of the unprotected industries $."1' An illustration of he extent br which high protection States collect from the whole people bv reason of the tari hem lits the American laborer may be found by studing the in- Of this $1..000.000 but .VW 10,000 goes to the governm dustrinl conditions of Pittsburg. In Pittsburg and suburbs are the shape of customs duties, l,.avin" s$:i000 000 that the located the great plant of the steel trust. The steel industry phhloS for itself. At the same time that it charges an is one of the most highly protected industiit one pounds of person in this country. 1 sugar has averaged for the pound less than it has in the New the number of pounds consuni- resnlt of i:?(j.000.000. which represents the amount the sugar manufactures of the United iff tax. nmcnt in e trust in aver age of jf't.O.'n a hundred pounds in this country for its product. BIG REDUCTION ON PLUMBING -:-GOODS AIR PRESSURE WATER SYSTEMS! Withiu the last sixty days we have made some extraordinary low purchases on Plumbing Goods, and have the largest line ot Bath Tubs, Closets, Lavatories and Sinks ever shown in riattsmotith at remarkable reduction in price: Bath Tubs, white enameled $15.00 and Up Lavatories, ' .... 6.75 and Up One-Pieoe. white enameled Sink and back 9.75 and Up Low-Down Closets 14.50 and Up 18x30 tlat rim Sinks, whiteenam- eled 3 CO and Up We cm also make Kewaunee Air Pressure Water Systems nt a big reduction over former prices. Ke merubvT you can see what you pet when purchasing from us. as we have six styles of tubs, six styles of lavatories and three styles of closets in stock and on display. Plattsmouth, 9 Nebraska.