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? ., ...
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, 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
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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.
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.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
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i ere a e 4.H .in persons emit oven in ministries m nm. .ir.i n .. ...
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ducts of which are protected by tariff duties. The total wage lated. and it controls the m.-nlct il,.-mri, ihn wiff -di
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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.
