The - Plattsmouth - Journal
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R. A. BATES,
fiUsrsJ at thi Po3to(!i:e at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, ssecond-clas
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Wonder if last night was not part
of the "frosts" that Taft is receiving
in his westward flight? An old Re
publican friend says he believes it
was. Now watch out for snow when
Aldrich comes.
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A. J. Snyder, candidate for re
gister of deeds, is one of the best
fellows in the world. He is compe
tent for the position, and if he is
t lectcd, he will prove one of the most
genial and accommdating officials in
the court house. lie is a farmer, but
is well qualified for the office.
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Never in the history of this coun
try was a governor more mourned
than the deceased governor of Min
nesota. The people of his own state
in every city, town and hamlet sus
pended business and draped their
business houses and homes in mourn
ing for the dearest executive they
ever had. Governor Johnson was a
man of the people and they all loved
him.
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Judge Archer has been interview
ing the people considerably the past
week and he feels very much en
couraged.' No one disputes his quali
fications for county Judge, and being
a man of splendid citizenship, he
should be elected. A vote for Judge
Archer means a vote for the best
man for the place, and one who
will not outgrow himself and fall to
recognize former friends.
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Reports from every section of the
county are to the effect that the
third-term proposition won't win out
this year. Grant could not work If
for president, Roosevelt had too
much manhood to attempt it, and
now It remains for Cass county to
attempt It. Dut we don't believe
the voters will down the proposition
by voting against the third-term
'candidate for sheriff. . ,
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MR ALDRICH AM A ItKI) lLfl.
The announcement that Senator
Aldrich will make a fall tour of the
middle west In the Interests of cur
rency and banking reform comes as
a surprise. It Is a good deal like
getting a bad-tempered bull ready
for a red rag.
Aldrich knows a lot about the rur
rency question, but what of that?
He also knows a lot about the tar
iff, but what has he done with his
knowledge? The tariff record made
under the leadership of Aldrich has
left the west In no mood to listen to
the Rhodo Islander on any subjert.
If the real promoters of sound
currency legislation want to gather
support in the west, let them keep
Aldrich as far nway as possble. If
Aldrich Insists on coming into the
west and hopes to have any Influence
for any legislative plan he has In
nilnd, let him talk directly against
that plan.
The great west has no confidence
In Aldrich, and It Instinctively dis
trusts anything he advocates. The
betrayal of the country and of the
Republican party on the tariff was
especially arrogant toward tho vast
Bectlon Mr. Aldrich proposes to visit.
Resides, the people out here are
not now greatly excited about cur
rency, postal savings banks or addi
tional corporation legislation. They
are thinking a good deal about the
conservation pollutes, especially as
to the development of lnlund water
ways. Hut tho truth Is that they
are no Intensely interested in tho
tariff, so aroused over the betrayal
of tho party and tho people by con
gress, that all other public questions
are of relatively little Importance for
tho present. The tariff is now recog
nized as a great moral question, in
volving tho honor and tho stability
of tho republic. Llko tho slavery
question after it becamo acute, this
question it) enough for tho people un
til It la settled, and settled right.
Plattsnoutli, Nebnska
Publisher.
Neither Aldrich nor any other re
actionary can come Into the west and
divert attention from the tariff by
discoursing on other things. The
west has gotten into the tariff game
as it never was in it before. It has
work of its own to do along this line,
and it is going to do it, and it is
going to be mightily absorbed in the
Job until it is done. When it has
straightened out Its own representa
tion in congress, and has a strong
alignment of mediums through
which It can address Itself to the
country, It is going to have more to
say about national affairs, and it will
be said from the national point of
view, not from the Rhodo Island
point of view. Kansas City Times
(Rep.).
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AFFRONT TO HONEST CITIZF.N'.
Kllll.
If President Taft had gone to sleep
ten years ago, in the days when
patriotism was prostrate under the
foot of partisanship, when every
thing gave way to the demands of
the "party organization," no matter
how Infamous the make-up of that
organization might be, and had just
awakened, be would talk just aa he
talked at Winona.
His first appearance In Minnesota
at president is la the ungrateful
hole of apologist for an Infamous law
which is a flat and flagrant betrayal
of the party of which he is the nomi
nal chief and of the nation of which
he Is the actual chief executive. He
admits that he had declared for real
tariff revision, and that by that he
meant revision downward. Tet In
face of the fact that experts, actuat
ed neither by partisanship nor by
loyality to any political organization,
flatly deny that the Aldrlch-Payne-Taft
bill Is revision downward at all,
the president has the effortery to
come into Minnesota and tell an
audience of normal, thlnglng, In
telligent American citizens that this
"is the best tariff bill the Republi
can party ever passed."
The American Review of Reviews,
which is rigidly independent though
a warm supporter of the Taft ad
ministration, had this bill analyzed
by a man whom is declared to be
more competent to do It than any
member of either branch of congress,
and who is certainly more compet
ent to do It than President Taft. As
a result of that analysis this Inde
pendent review, which .has never
been accused of free trade or Demo
cratic learnings, but has often been
accused of favortism to tho Repub
lican party, states emphatically that
the new law " is the most thorough
going high protectionist measure
that has ever been enacted in this
or In any other land," and that It
was framed almost entirely to suit
the wishes of selfish lnterest;ln short
that "the tariff In detail is a most
monstrous and Inlqultlous perform
ance." Yet the president of tho United
States comes into the state of Min
nesota, ten out of eleven of whose
representatives in congress voted
against that bill and thereby richly
earned the applause of their consti
tuents, and declares thnt the bill is
the best ever produced by the Re
publican patty. Not content with
that, he practically leads out of the
party of Aldrich, of Cannon, of
Lonlmer, of Dopew, of Piatt, of
Tawney and of all the other high
priests of special privilege, the Re
publican representatives of this staie
who had the manhood and tho cour
age to vote their convictions rather
than accept the orders of tho Ald
rli h-Cannon hlcrarny of corrupt and
prostituted partisanship.
President Taft dellberiitely pro-
cured the re-election of Cannon as
speaker, and thereby Insured the de
feat of honest tariff revision.
President Taft came to the rescue
of the Aldrich organization in the
senate when it was threatened with
defeat in its opposition to an in
come tax law, and swung the tide of
victory to the banners of special priv
ilege. President Taft has sided with Bal
llnger, who believes in throwing the
natural resources left in the posses
sion of the people into the bursting
treasury of private greed, and against
Pinchot, who follows RoQsevelt In
urging that these riches be kept for
the people.
President Taft has commended
Aldrich to the people of the country
as a pure-hearted statesman, repre
sentative of what he deems to be the
alms of the Republican party, and in
the same breath has sharply criti
cised Governor Johnson for urging
the west to throw off the shackles
of the Aldrlch-Payne tryanny.
President Taft has signed, approv
ed, defended and praised the in
famous trachery of the Aldrlch-Payne
bill.
President Taft has praised and ap
plauded the people's servants who
have been faithful to special privi
lege and its organization In control
of tho government, and has up
braided and held up to public scorn
the people's servants who have been
faithful to the people and have re
volted from the galling rule of the
vice-regents of organized greed.
Could machine rule in politics, the
hope for more", than this? Duluth
Herald (Rep.).
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Since Taft's vlalt to Des Moines,
the friends of the chief insurgent of
the west, Senator Cummins, have
started a boom for hla nomination
for president In 1913. The Iowa Re
publicans who have taken up the
fight for him expect the support of
publicans who have taken up the
the entire middle west The senator
will prove a strong candidate.
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We can point with pride to the
ticket at the masthead of the Jour
nal, and defy anyone to say, and say
truthfully, that a better was ever
presented to the voters of Cass
county asking their suffrage. From
top to bottom not a man appears
there who cannot hold down the po
sition for which' he is a candidate
with credit. You see no third-termers
on that ticket.
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The voters of Cass county should
elect George, P. Meislnger county
commissioner, because he 1b a gen
tleman that will see that the Inter
ests of every Bectlon of the county
are cared for. When he tells you
that he will do a thing he will do it,
and not beat around the bush and
give some flimsy excuse for not liv
ing up to his promises. That is
George P. Meislnger every day in the
week.
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Frank E. Schlater will be re
elected county treasurer because the
people of the county know that he
Is as competent for the place as any
man In Cass county; not only that,
but he has saved the taxpayers hun
dreds of dollars during his incum
bency. His record through life is
one that any man should be proud
of, and the taxpayers are proud to
have such a reliable, trustworthy
aud competent person to look after
financial affairs, which Is one of the
most essential parts In the treasur
er's office.
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, We are JiiBt listening to hear of
someone who can do so, give a good,
plausable excuse for an official run
ning for the third term in Cass
county. There can be none offered.
The Republican candidate for sheriff
is a candidate for the third term, be
cause tho ring wanted it that way.
John Husche, who was his opponent
for the nomination, is as good as he
Is, and as well qualified as he Is
for the of lice, nnd In some in
stances a great deal better. Tho peo
ple of this county do not believe In
third terms, especially under the cir
cumstances by which the present In
cumbent was nominated.
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"TARIFF AND IMIOSI'FRITY."
We are not "entering an era of
prosperity," because we have been
In an era of prosperity for a good
many years. What we are entering
and have already gotten pretty
well Into Is an era of effectual de
mand that the prosperity shall be
distributed In some proportion to
the earning thereof.
"Prosperity" in the lexicon of
tariff privilege grabbers is a condi
tion under which they can get all
the surplus wealth of this great, pro
ductive republic. That Ideal is the
very antithesis of real prosperity.
Theodore Roosevelt expressed an
exact truth when he declared that
the only thing which could interfere
with the prosperity of a country pro
ducing as much wealth as ours would
be "a conspiracy of wealthy male
factors," to create out of hand il
logical "depressions," to frighten
the country into a continuance of
Immoral favoritism to them.
It Is meaningless to talk about al
ternate eras of prosperity and adver
sity in a land which has no alternate
periods of generally bad crops and
good crops; which, on the contrary,
produces an Immense surplus of
wealth every year, and which Is as
free one year as another from wars
and plaugues and other calamities.
It Is meaningless, unless it Is to be
taken as a confession of belief that
the tariff graft has already gone so
far, and has already become so po
tent, that it can and will Invade the
natural prosperity of the times un
less the conspiracy for plunder Is
unmolested.
If that last is the meaning of the
"tariff and prosperity" talk, then It
Is the strongest of all arguments for
revising out of existence the iniqui
ties of the tariff system. Kansas
City Times (Rep.).
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CKNTRAL BABTK OF IS8UE.
In his speech at Boston, President
Taft said:
Mr. Aldrich states that there are
two indisputable requirements In
any plan to be adopted involving a
central bank of issue. The one is
that the control of the monetary
system shall be kept from Wall
street Influences and the other that
It shall not be manipulated for po
litical purposes. These are ' two
principles to which we can all sub
scribe. Mr. Aldrich will recommend a
central bank of issue, which is to
say that we' shall, have such a bank,
to be created probably at the next
session of congress. Thereafter the
thing remaining to give Wall street
absolute, direct control of the money
of the country will be supplied.
It has been impossible to keep the
United States treasury free from the
control of Wall street interests and
manipulation for political purposes.
Whenever Wall street has needed
the government's money it has got it.
During the panic of two years ago it
received some $180,000,000 of the
people's money, without interest.
J. Plerpont Morgan secured all the
cash he needed to acquire control of
the Steel trust's most formidable
competitor, the Tennesse Coal and
Iron company, from tho United
States treasury.
The cash sent from Washington
Into Wall street a year ago last Oc
tober was Bold at a premium. It was
loaned at rates as high as 125 per
cent.
For the use of this money the gov
ernment received nothing.
Leslie M. Shaw established the
custom of loaning out the surplus to
Wall street without charge and set
the precedent of accepting as secur
ity for such loans other bonds than
those of the United States govern
ment. Mr. Roosevelt made his campaign
manager, George D. Cortelyou, sec
retary of the treasury, and Cortelyou
paid back in governmental favors for
the aid rendered by Wall street to
the Roosevelt campaign.
As the New York World Bays:
"When the United States treasury
cannot be kept free from such In
fluences, what hope Is there In a
central bank of Issue with power to
expand or contract the currency nt
will? If the currency system can
only be reformed by substituting a
greater for a lesser evil, it had bet
ter be left unregenerated."
Let tho government give to a cen
tral bank of Issue power of control
over tho money of the country, and
it will be found that Wall street will
control the bank. Dubuque Telegraph-Herald
(Rep.).
Cleveland, O., Is not willing to give
up Tom L. Johnson, if he is dead
broke. It is one case where a man's
worth counts for more than his
money. Tom has again received the
Democratic nomination for mayor of
that city and the probabilities are he
will be elected.
Ed. Tutt is making a grand race
for sheriff, and in every section of
the county that he has visited he has
become a great favorite. There are
two very essential things about Ed.
Tutt which should be admired. He
Is honest and thoroughly competent
His Bervlces as deputy under former
Sheriff McBrlde demonstrated that
he was well fitted for this responsible
position. A vote for Ed. Tutt means
a vote for the "right man in the
right place."
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The Hill Interests are reaching
out. Under this company's control a
new railroad is to be built from the
Columbia river in Oregon to San
Francisco. John F. Steevens, former
engineer of the Panama canal, is to
be president of the railroad com
pany. It would not be surprising if
all the trunk lines in America
should some day merge into one
great Hill system. The interstate
commerce commission and even con
gress seems powerless to prevent
these things.
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Miss Mary Foster, our very ef
ficient county superintendent,'; is so
busy with the duties of the office to
which the people of Cass county
elected her two years ago, that she
has no time to pay the least atten
tion to the grouchy editor of the
Weeping Water Republican. Misa
Foster was rearer in Cass county,
while her opponent has lived here
hardly the required time to become
a voter. This should be one consid
eration in favor of the present in
cumbent. No one questions Miss Fos
ter's qualifications, and we believe
the people of Cass county will prefer
her to a man who Is comparatively
unknown to people outside the dis
trict in which be is teaching.
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. The, new. tariff law 1b certainly a
daisy. Take the lumber Item, for
instance, one of the most important
on the list. The Dingley act imposed
a duty of 1 cent per cubic foot on
lumber, "hewn, sided or squared."
In the new law this rate Is made to
show up as reduced to cent per
cubic foot. Certainly a substantial
reduction, and one that Taft might
well call a fulfillment of party
pledges. But in some way an innocent-looking
little change crept into
the law on Its final passage so that
the clause was made to read "lum
ber, hewn, sided or squared other
wise than sawing." Now It appears
that lumber is no longer hewed. It
is all sawed, and sawed lumber of all
kinds Is classed under the tariff reg
ulations as "boards." "Boards,"
somehow, have had a slight increase
of 30 cents tucked on for good meas
ure. And this is the measure which
President Taft declares "Is the best
tariff law congress ever enacted."
Low Rates
TO THE NORTHWEST: Cheap one-way Colonist fares to the North
west, Ttiget Sound and California, September 15th to October 15th;
daily through trains to the Northwest via the Great Northern; also via
the Northern Pacific. To California, daily through tonrist sleepers
via Denver, Scenic Colorado and Salt Lake City.
ROUND TRIP TO PACIFIC COAST: Very low Seattle and California
round trip excursion tickets on sale during September. This is the
last chance to obtain these cheap rates for the greatest railroad jour
ney in the World.
EASTBOUND: Special round trip rates to Chicago, Kansas City,
Lincoln, Omaha, St. Joseph, St. Louis, August 28th to September 5th
and from September 11th to September 19th. Daily low thirty day
round trip rates from Chicago to Atlantic cities and resorts.
September is the last month for the special vacation rates to Colo
rado. Homcseekers' excursions September 7th and 21st.
iiiniioii
lite
Consult nearest
of special rates,.
L. W. Wakklev,
Verily, we begin to wonder If it con
tains a single item of importance
without Its little "Joker."
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TF.ACHIN'G THE CHILDREN.
Senator Brown pats us benignly on
the head, tells us that we seem like
real, good children and that if we
will just run along and play he and
the other party leaders will come
down some time and tell us Just what
a nice, good bill the Payne-AIdrlch
tariff law is. All that he can tell us
now is that the law is all right, that
the president is all right and that
everything is all right. Along comes
the president and informs us that it
is the best tariff law ever passed,
that it means substantial reductions
in prices of what we buy and that
we mustn't talk this tariff business
out loud because it disturbs busi
ness and business must not be dis-
turbed.
He admits that he doesn't know
very much about the bill itself ex
cept that a friends of his, Congress
man Payne, who is one of the best
posted men on the tariff he has ever
known in his six months' career as
president, has told him it really re
duces things and has handed him
some figures that seem to prove it.
The figures turn out to be a compila
tion that experts have long since
thorought discredited, jand ' the
source of which nobody has ever
been informed. Soon perhaps we
may hear what Senator Burkett, In
stead of his appointees, has to say.
Some people deny that ours Is a
paternalistic form of government.
Here la proof of the contrary. The
little father down at Washington
sends out hli sub-fathers to soothe
our. ruffled nerves and then drops in
later to tell us that we really don't
know what we have been talking
about as regards this here tariff UU..
and that here are the facts. Then he
gives them to us, fully confident that
we ought at least to take his word
for It, and then gayly drops along to
another group to admonish them to
correct their wrong thinking. This
teaching of the children the way in
which they should go is a very old
device of the elder statesmen who
haven't made good on their promises,
but we don't think it will work well
this year.
Mr. Taft was nominated because
the Republicans believed he was for
revision of the tariff. If he had said
a year ago that he would have been
satisfied If congress put up to him a
bill that reduced the tariff less than
1 per cent which is all that Mr.
Payne ever claims it did does any
body imagine that any tariff revis
ionist would have been yelling very
loud for him? If he had said that as
president he would sign any bill that
the party organization decided was
all right, he would not now be the
man in the White house. We are
very frank to say that we don't be
lieve the president can convince very
many real tariff revisionists that a 1
per cent reduction in duties is a sub
stantial reduction such as he promis
ed he would stand for, or that he
meant what he said before tne Ohio
society last December when he said
that It was better to veto a bill that
was not In compliance with the party
pledge. Lincoln News,
for Autumn
ticket agent; he has latest advice '
L. PICKIvTT, Ticket Agent.
G. P. A., Omaha.