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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1909)
The - Plattsmouth - Journal r- Published Semi-Weekly it Plattsmouth, Nebraska CZD R. A. BATES, Publisher. E.iterdJ at ths Pjsto.!i:e at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE It wasn't the name that made the fame of Nebraska's biff crop of new dollar wheat Is beginning to reach the grain markets. The corn crop never showed better prospects than at this time and nothing short of a wholly unlikely calamity can now prevent a bumper crop. Simlliar conditions prevail in all neighboring states and thus prosperity will continue to reign undisturbed. :o: The Democrats in convention at Lincoln tomorrow will probably adopt a platform along the line of the bank guarantee and non-partisan judiciary, which are now be fore tho courts, to declare llielr legality. It makes considerable dif ference whoso ox Is gored with the Republican leaders and officehold ers. :o: Governor Shallenborger will ad dress tho old settlers at the reunion at Union on Friday, Juno C, and Hon. T. J. Majors and Judge Ramos will be there on Saturday following. It will be noted that good speakers have been secured for both days. If you desire to hear Nebraska's gov ernor bo sure that you attend the first day. You will never regret that you went especially to hear him. lie always pleases his uudl-tors. -:o:- Following the dismissal of two cases brought against Lincoln mer chants for violating the feniafo om plrjmcnt law et the state, Commis sioner Will Mit'ip'-ii H.tya that he will soon take a '.on of soi.io of the larger cities of the. state, going to Omaha. He will Investigate the hours which femr-.le clerk are com pelled to wo'k and will proheeete violations of tip? Ir.w. This stature has been In for for ten yearn, hut never obeyed. It mukoB It n mis demeanor for anyoirj to work wo men more than ten hour? in any one lay. Judges J. J. Sullivan and II. F. Good have filed for judges of the supreme court. The former is well known to nearly every reader of thlB paper, having served on the su premo bench for six years with great ability and honor. He Is one of the greatest legal minds in tho west, and nil attorneys get Justice before him. Judge Good has great experience as it lawyer, and has served nearly ten years as judge of tho district court, and was endorsed as one of tho two Democrats endorsed by the State liar association for appointment by Governor Sheldon to the new posi tions on tho bench created last fall. it me enure- supreme court was made up of such eminent Jurists do tisions would rendered Irrespective cif a client or his attorney's politics :o: 1THK l'OOR. This paper has frequently called attention to tho necessity of people knowing and insisting that the foods they buy come up to tho standard required by the pure food laws. We liavo before us the report of the pure food commissioner of this state for tho month of April. Fourteen samples, consisting of buchwhoat flour, lemon extract, hamburgers vanimn, vanillin extracts, cream tartar, asparagus tips and essence of coffee, were secured from dealers In different parts of tho state and ox nmlned. The result was that only two of tho samples were legal. The others proved to bo adulterated Health is too precious a boon to endanger it by eating Impure foods when tho law affords you ample pro leciion against them. Tho grocer who will supply himself with nbso lutcly pure food products and then let the people know that ho handles Hum will get the trade. It is helper to buy pure food than It Is to pay doctor Mild. Tlli: RIGHT KING. We have frequently been asked why "you bankers are fighting the bank guaranty law." Now this bank Is not putting up a fight. We are willing to let the people have what they voted for. There are but fifty state banks and two private banks In the state that are fighting it, and all the rest are willing to give It a trial. We believe there are some features of the law that would have been better li ft out, but there never was a law of any importance passed that was perfeit and that did not have to be amended by future legislatures. We think it will be the same with this. We think the day is not far in the future when every state will have a bank guar antee law, and why should the banks fight it? If the people want It, they are going to have It. FARMERS' STATE RANK, Py I. S. I'latt, President. :o: T.U'T ADOPTS RRYAMSM. Mr. Bryan urged the necessity of a constitutional amendment. Pre sident Taft in Ills acceptance speech Insisted that an amendment was not necessary. For years the Re publican leaders have opposed an income tax and denounced the Dem ocrats for advocating It. Rut be hold the change: President Taft sends a message to congress pro posing tho submission of an Income tax amendment and it passes the sennte by an unanimous vote 77 ayes, nays none. Democratic gov ernors In states having Democratic legislatures ought to call extra ses sions at once and secure Immediate ratification of the amendment. In come tax clubs ought to be formed immediately in every county non partisan clubs to pledge members of the various legislatures to vote for ratification. Now Is the time to act. -:o:- KTKAIGI! FROM TIIK SHOl LDKR. In speaking of the matter of or ganizing a new party. Senator Tanner in his South Omaha. Demo- rat says: "The Democratic party Is good enough. We don't want any 'new party" In ours. Some of these men who are jlbberlng con stantly about reforms and new party are simply disgruntled because they are dead wrong. No political party an retain Its power unless It Is managed by politicians. That Is men who give some thought and study of the political situation. The place for tho alleged reformers Is In the salvation army or some stmlilnr organization. There Is no room for them in either tho Democratic or Republican party. This political name Is purely a commercial pro position and tho political parties must ho managed by men who have something at stake except a politi cal Job or a chanco to grand stand at some Chautauqua blow out. No man can ever again bo elected pre sident of the United States who Is at war with the great commercial enterprises of tho country. Senti ment Is all right at a Sunday School picnic but It takes horse sense and Rood, clean, practical management to make money out of a legitimate business enterprise. Tho Democra it. . UK puny cannoi afford to chase Illuminated rainbow reforms. Ilrass tacks and common sense commer cial manipulation Is what we want Politicians who stand constantly un der n halo of sanctified personlfi tloti look dangerous to tho average business man. Honest go eminent, reasonable regulation and personal liberty In Its broadest sense Is what the people want and the time has come when they are going to cast their lot with the political party that will give it to them." 4ft J I i After all, It Is said the streets in Havelock are somewhat llvlller than those In Lincoln. :o: That loud popping noise you heard, was the corn starting up out of the ground after that million dol lar rain Sunday. :o: As we said before that fall carni val will be but then what's the use? You all know it s going to be the best ever, anyway. :oi There can be no doubt of it. The eight o'clock law put Tolf Hanson to flight, Just as it is liable to do others in the future :o: Who wants to see the Democratic state convention endorse the stand of the supreme court on the non partisan judiciary law? :o: Look out for the Sox. Chicago has won eight straight baseball games now and that means tho White Sox are going some. :o: Also, who believes tho federal court will be approved for knock ing out the bank guarantee law? Don't everybody speak at once. :o: It Is said Senator Aldrlch and Representative Fayne got real mad and called one another real, naugh ty names. This gives us a payne for they are sure to vote together on the wind-up. :o: Senator Gore's appeal to tho Dem ocrats to endorse the Republican ' insurgents m their fight for re election to congress Is timely. Rut how ninny of them will be allowed to go on the Republican ticket for re-election? That chauffeur who started out oi wiuniiu i no other night on a "Joy ride" with sundry female com panlons, can thank his stars he get! out without worse loss than a $0. r.oi) num. Suppose the rldo had re sulted In his marrying one of the women! It was the goodness of the crackers that made the fame of the name NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY It rained too much for the sold iers at Camp Poynter Sunday, and they had to hunt the shelter ot their tents. Time was when many a good soldier was rained on a whole lot harder than Sunday's rain and he had no tent to shelter him. -:o: Inspector McCann indicted at Chi cago for grafting upon vice in his district, says It Is a plot of the criminals to undo him. Maybe so, Mac, maybe so. If it be so, they had better make a good Job of It for when McCann Is cleared If he Is, he will sure undo them. -:o:- According to the Influential thorltles In jurisprudence in east, tho proposed Income au the tax amendment is worse than the aboli tion of negro slavery. This pro poses to strike at the wealth and property of the rich while the other merely proposed to give the negro his freedom, regardless of the fact that he represented a good, round Investment for the southron. It does seem to make a difference whose ox Is gored. :o: One thing which It would be wis dom for the approaching stale con vention of the Democrats to do, would be to confine the campaign this year to a fight for a non-par tlsan Judiciary. There Is no need to overburden tho people whh a lot of Issues which do not exist One thing which is sadly needed In this state is a Judiciary free from partisan bias or taint and upon this Issue. The Democrats have all the best of It. With two such able and strong candidates before the people of Nebraska as Judges Sullivan and Good. It would be folly to endanger the chances of their election by the Injection of matters which con have no logical beating on the campaign. Show the people that the Democracy presents them a tl ket of clean, actual, hon-pnrtlcan Judges and they will vote It. Judges Sulllvnn and Is Sold only in Moisture Proof Packages Good are that kind and their re cord shows it. :o: Of course, there is one redeem ing feature about this Republican administration. Tnjat Tain yester day and last night was surely migh ty fine. :o: Our worthy ambassador to Merry England, Whltelaw Reld, has the royal standard floating over his resi dence In old Lunnon. It must be a bally good sight for our engllsh counslns. :o: Only a few days until the big old settlers reunion at Union on Aug. 6 nnd 7, then the Elmwood Chautau qua on Aug. 14 to 22, the G. A. R. reunion at Weeping Water.and then the big Cass county fall festival in this city Sept. 1 to 6. See them all and the last shall be the great est and wind-up a month of great events. :o:- Louls Rllerlot, a Frenchman, has really done something worth while In the flying line. He has crossed the Engllsh channel and landed in Dover, England from Calais, France. Instead of confining his flights to enclosed grounds and then only a few feet above the enrth, he soared out and showed It could be done He Is a real navigator of the air. :o: The committee to raise funds for the fall carnival report that the big end of the money has been se cured and they are now on the down grade side of the hill. That is the right spirit and it will be a winner. Let everyone contribute their share and Southeast Nebraska will find Plattsmouth n mighty fine place to spend the first week In September. :o: WHY HARD TIMFS IMIVT LAST LONG. The chief reason why this coun try has emerged ho promptly from the Mou r1i of financial nnd Indus trial depression Is found In the latest report of the department of agriculture. The value of this year's farm products, as estimated by Sec retary Wilson, is $8,000,000, an In crease of 5 per cent over the great record of 1908. The corn crop will reach 8,161,174,000 bushels, and there will be 962,933,000 bushels of oats, 183,923,000 bushels of barley, 31,928,000 bushels of rye and 11,250,000 bales of cotton, not to mention the immense aggregate of the lesser crops. These figures are almost too stup endous to permit a proper realiza tion of what they mean. Farm me thods are becoming more scientific, and therefore, more efficient every year; the average acre will soon be producing what the average five acres used to produce and there seems to be no limit set upon the possibilities of developing and in creasing the productivity of the soil. The country's potential agricultural resources are beyond comprehen sion. Add to them the untold wealth of our mines and our fisher ies, and it Is easy to see why actual hard times cannot last for long. LEFT ON HER DOORSTEP FOR THIS MOTHER Mrs. A. O. Tuson, of Llvermore, Cal, writes: "I picked up from my door step one day a little book In which I soon became very much Interested. My little girl of five years of age had been troubled for a long tlmo with loss of appetite, extreme nervousness nd undue fatigue. She was all run down and In a very delicate condition. "This little book was very compre hensively written, and told of the new method of extracting the medicinal ele ments of the cod s liver from the oil, eliminating the obnoxious oil which la so hard for children to take. " 'Just the thing,' said I, -for my little daughter,' and I Immediately went for a bottle ot Vinol. It helped her won derfully. e has gained rapidly In flesh and strength, and she does not take cold half so easily. "I am extremely grateful for the pood it has done her, and I hope other mothers who have weak, delicate or ailing children will be benefited by my experience and Just give Vinol a trial." GERING & CO. Druggists Plattsmouth, Neb