The Plattsmouth - Journal
fcSMSrml-WftUjU Plittsaaatli, Nebraska
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
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Don't forget to to:,- at the im i
uiarlcs Tuesday, August IT. Hy ro
maluing away front the polls wnii"
one may he nominated that )vu d.
not want.
A monoplane at $2,00t) is cheaper
tliitn an automobile. Ami it tests
llttli' or nothing to keep it. Soon
we Khali hear of the "passlrg" if
t he uulo jn.st as wo loaid of the
"passinc" (if the hoise n few years
age.
Four years ago John 1. McHrlde
wan defeated because) he was can
didate for the third term. Now the
nun ess' ul candidate on that issue
four yearn ago Is u candidate for
the third term himself, l.sn't that
consistency with a big C?
lug killed In very many case. It Is
I not expensive to try, at any rate.
Central City Record.
I Keiresentatlve Sink of nine-foot
! lu d sheet fame Is going to havo the
Mate capital removed from Lincoln
' to ('.rand Island.
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Wlth 300,000 applications filed
for the 3,000 homesteads to be open
ed In the Coeur d'Aleuo and Flat
head reservations, it becomes ob
vious that the hunger for western
lands extends beyond the railroads
and the I'lilled States Senate.
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The candidacy of Ed, Tutt for
sheriff assures the peoplo of Cass
county an energetic and capable
young man for t'..e plaee. He nerved
two years as deputy during Mr.
Mcltrlde's last term, and everybody
knows he was ever alert to his
ilu lies.
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The writer inailo several drives
this week In the western part of
Cuss county, and talk about your
corn crops; why, we neter khw such
llelds In all our born days. It does
one's soul good to got out and view
the county over, and notice the
growing corn and the ronds lined
Willi t'H!l! hauling the old corn nud
I he new w heat crops to market.
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The objection Is raised to Theo
dore Roosevelt as a candidate for
mayor of New York city that bo Is
a resident of Oyster Itay, another
hamlet In the Umpire- state. He was
elected governor when, according to
bis own oath, be was a resident of
Washington. Theodore will not
worry about the matter of resi
dence; why should ordinary mor
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Some people remarked a few
weeks since that there was but very
little old corn ,n the county. Hut
reports show differently. Fifty
thousand bushels was Hold at F.lin-
wood on Monday last, me same
amount at Murdock, and Ito.OoO
bushels at each Alvo and Kngle
.. uk .. i . .
"im mitrai tuner towns to bear
from. This does not look like all
Hit? oil com was gone.
l'erbaps that Ohio inventor has a
chemical process for clearing up
fogs will be able to dissipate the
fog that surrounds the tariff bill.
Is It any wonder that Willie Hay
ward attacked C. O. AVhedon, the
chairman of the Republican conven
tion, last Friday. Hay ward Is In
terested In a national bank at Ne
braska City, bein?! vice president of
an institution of this character at
that city. Whedon favors a bank
guarantee and, of course, Willie
doesn't. This Is why ho attacked
Mr. Whodon. From what reports
said immediately nfter the conven
tion, Willie bit off more than he
could conveniently chew when he
shot back at the eminent lawyer.
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Oovernor Herbert Hadley of Mis
souri, In a speech before the Chau
tauqua at Topeka, Kas., the other
day said: "Seventy-five per cent of
the corporations doing the business
of tills country are either organized
Illegally or are doing an Illegal busi
ness." This means that the captains
of industry are criminals and law
breakers'. Hut they are not arrested;
they are not Jailed. They are per
fectly Immune. They are the ruling
class. They hate a light to trample
upon the law with Impunity, for they
are the Lords of I'rivllege, ami ctn
do as they please. A poor devil in
Ohio who was hungry stole 50 cents
worth of corned beef not long ago
and was sentenced to the penlton-
ary for ninety-nine years. Still the
present administration has again li
censed the robbers to continue their
nefarious work under the guise of
revising the tariff that the consumer
may pay more for the necessaries of
life.
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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
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
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We can see no reason for the
o'tlock dosing law cutting any fjg
ure In the campaign this year, dot
emor Fhallfiiberger la not In the rae
this fall, and the whole blame for
the law rest on his shoulders. Next
year, then, Is the time to wreak
vengeance upon the one who are
responsible for your complaint.
lHn't cut your noses off to spite
your fares. The time Is not ripe for
that kind of business.
An exchange Is authority for the
Matement that a wire stapled firmly
over each wire In it barbed wire
fence and then run Into the ground
deep enough so that It rea. lies
moMtire, win effectually protod
Fto.k from being killed from light
ning striking the feme. No. I
wire Is recommended and It must
e put cm at intervals of ten rods
to be tff.Ttlto. The Record Is a
little doubtful of this being protec
tion In all u-n, as It U probable
that sometimes the wire will not be
long enough to crry off a heary
Volt, but It can harly be questioned
IHM)K OLD LINCOLN.
Lincoln has many vacant build
ings since it went dry and so much
has been said about It that the Lin
coln News tries this poor excuse to
offer:
When you see a vacant store room
lit Lincoln don't commlsserate the
owner until you llnd out the fads
Half n dozen of these vacant rooms
being held by their forme:- tenants
saloonkeepers, who confidently hope
that next year saloons will again be
running In Lincoln, and they want
the locations. One man Is reputed
to be paying $ 1 2T a month to have
a choice location under his control.
One lawyer the other day drew up a
contract for a lease of one of these
rooms, which amounted to a bet of
J.'iOO by tho lesseo that Lincoln will
have saloons next year. If It doesn't
ho forfeits T00 to the owner. In a
suburban section of tho city, where
there is a group of store buildings,
three of them, the older ones are
vacant. Hut they are bringing In
revenue to the owner Just the same.
The grocer und other business men
who occupy the newer buildings,
hold leases on the vacau; ones, and
cheerfully pay the rental price to
keep out any competitors."
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THINK OF TDK smWTION.
The American people hate for
many years lived in a fool's para
dise, believing that the principle for
whlth their forefathers fought In
1776 "no taxation without repre
sentation" w (is well established 111
our political st stent.
now much representation bate
th. taxpayers in the Cttltvd States?
commonwealth, or tho special inter
ests in whose behalf the taxes are
laid?
Do the senators from Pennsylvania
and West Virginia represent the tax
payers of those states' or the coal
and iron Interests? Sugar is ably
represented in both houses by the
delegation from Louisana. There is
a Missouri district in which the tiff
Interest has been able to get itself
well represented; but who repre
sents the people who pay federal
taxes?
So it Is, all the way down the
list of states and districts. Wher
ever there is an interest strong
enough to make an impression it ob
tains representation, while the peo
ple In a mesmeric trance, go on pay
ing tho taxes, and the monoply
profits which build up trusts and
powers which are great powers
amid the powers of the world.
It is time to wake up. "No taxa
tion without representation." That
should bo a good battle cry for any
party which can break away from
the control of Interests which are
too well represented In congress.
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The Lincoln Star Is not afraid to
speak out in meeting. It calls a
spade a spade, and tells the repre
sentatives from Nebraska at Wash
ington what they can expect from
the people at the polls In 19 io. Dar
ken comes In for tils share of cen
sure, and deservedly, too.
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What there Is In Henry Khhmond
for anyone to even think of him as
the chairman of the state committee
we are unable to perceive. The selec
tion of Richmond would be ron-
Do the two senators from M.tssachu
that It will prevent stoik from be- setts represent th taxpayers of that
M ;
trusts will Boon be able to increase
this amount to a cool million.
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In revising the tariff congress has
been very generous to the poor peo
ple. It has reduced the tariff on
diamonds and other precious stones
and raised it on the necessaries of
life. In the language of an esteem
ed exchange, the people are getting
what they voted for, and they are
getting It good and plenty.
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J. J. Hill, the great railroad mag
nate, gives It as his opinion that the
coming year will be one of the great
est in point of business activity that
the country has seen since the panic
of 1893. He says that freight cars
that have been lying idle since the
panic of 1907 will be at a premium
before the close of the year.
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As far as revealed this difference
seems to exist between the Taft and
the Iloosevelt administrations:
Roosevelt always forced congress to
go farther than the Interests wanted
them to do, and congress now forces
Taft to go farther than he wants to
do. The strong man Is no longer In
the white house; he Is the special
representative of the Interests In the
senate.
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There Is one thing in favor of M.
Archer for county Judge. He Is a
gentleman eminently fitted for the
position. He Is a pioneer citizen of
Cass county, and one In whom every
body has confidence. Cnder bis ad
ministration, every one will be guar
anteed Justice. He Is a man that
will do his duty, and Irrespective of
party, sect or erewl, give etery one
fair treatment In 1.1 court. Tin
elusive evidence that the Democratic
party held out no hope for the sue-1 people of Cass county owe Jndg
state officials, which they omitted to
pay before the election last fall, and
afterwards. These gentlemen have
refused to "poney up," because the
chairman spent most of the money
to carry the state for Taft. The
amount spent was 142,000, and but
little of it went to help the state
candidates, and the most of them
were compelled to pay their own
traveling expenses. If this be true
they can't be blamed for refusing to
put up money to help out in tho
campaign this year.
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The Lincoln News has the follow
ing to say in reference to those sena
tors and congressmen from Nebraska
who are unable to determine where
they are at: "Perhaps tho safest
guide for the N'ebraskans In con
gress, if they were anxious to carry
out the wishes of their people, would
have been to act with the body of
the Insurgents on all important mat
ters. There would havo been no
complaint whatever regarding the
conduct of any of them had It not
been for the continual Jumping about
from one side to thhe other and back
again which particular members of
the delegation did. Those who show
ed their colors from first to last,
without faltering, will have the least
explaining to do when they get home
again."
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When William .1. Hryan f.is. advo
cated an Income tax h wa de
nounced by every prominent l;iub
llcan and every two by four pill-
ttditn of that faith as an nn.trdiM
Ing incorporated into the life of our
republic. And his public and private
life is without spot or blemish. He
is as far above his traducers as earth
Is from the blue skies.
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cess of the tb ket this fall
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Thh Des Moines Register s.t.ts It
costs the people $2S;.,!0i) prr ftn.
mint to support a president. The
manner In which the president's sal-
Anher this position beeause he Is an
honest man. and well qualified for
(the position.
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Recently the Republican state
committee Instructed one of Its
ary has been Increased In the mist , member to colled bin k nssess-
few years, the representative of the(nirnts from the present Republican j the year go by his Ilea are b"com-
The big Increase made by the Re
publican majority in congress in the
tariff schedule on wool and woolen
goods is sending the price of those
commodities skyward. In a letter to
us from a dealer in woolen goods, he
says that if the rates In the Payne
Aldrlch tariff bill become the law
the price to the consumer will be
advanced from 20 to DO per cent.
We appeal to the sober business
Judgment of every man In Cass coun
ty to show us wherein he can pos
sibly be benefitted by such a law. It
Is not a question of politics. It Is a
matter of the gravest business con
cern to the consumer and resolves
itself Into a finality of self-preservation
against the taxing power of our
government to stimulate private en
terprise and human greed. When
Justice Rrewer said years ago that
"the power to tax la the power to
destroy," he uttered a prophetic,
truth. The tariff protect the sfroug
and oppresses the weak.
When the Stomach, Heart, or Kld
i.ey nerves get weak, then these or
gans always fail. Don't drug the.
Stomnch nor stimulate the Heart
or Kidneys. That Is simply a nuke
shift, (let a prescription known to
Druggists everywhere as Dr. Shoop's
Restorative. The Restorative Is pre
pared expressly fr thep. weak In-
Ritit norVtw Cf . .... .t .
m urn in mm idiiii n h ni nil tin mm 1 '""mih-u uitm nerves.
who would deprlte labor cf lis jutl "W lh,,n l,h "r loop's RP.
reward. That his appeal to hate an J lT Vl'vM'Mi
I "n qi.l.k!) help will cotve. Sold by
income tax put Into our hot ks would i aj dealers.
destroy Individual effort to accumu
late wealth and build tip enterprise.
Hut now rom s President Taft and
recommends a constitutional amend
ment to bring about an Income tax.
Is be, too. an ananhlst? No man
ha ever been more shamefully
abused anil misrepresented In Amer
ican polities than Mr. Hryan, jt as
liirm for Sale.
HO acres 6 mile northwest of
Clatk. Nob.; Ho acres under cult!
nation. 10 acres alfalfa, balance in
meadow and padure. c.ood house,
barn and granary, rrlb, nttl
hed. good ha.e and running spring
at the house. No tra,,v
'eo. A. Asnew.
Central city, N,h.
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