The - Plattsmouth - Jonrnal
r Published Seml-Weeklj at Plattsmouth, Nebraska CZD
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-elasB
matter.
f l.SO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
It com'3 with a shock when we
see Dr. Cook denonunced as a faker
by some other authority than Com
mander Peary.
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Senator Cummins does not deny
being an insurgent and he talks as
If he Intended to keep on Insurglng.
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Isi.s..iuch as everybody knows that
President Taft will issue his Thanks
giving proclamation in duo time,
there need be no delay in the prepar
ation. Already Judge Gaynor has been
mentioned as a possible Democratic
candidate for the presidency in 1912,
but with considerable emphasis on
the "possible."
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If the Republicans of the First
congressional district believe In Joe
Cannonlsm and the robber tariff,
I hey will nominate E. M. Pollard.
Ills nomination will be satisfactory to
Democrats, all right.
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And the Baltimore clergyman who
ruggested "a suicide machine where
ene can deposit a cent and be kill
ed easily and respectably" was sup
posed to be making "a plea for a
wholesale, enthuslatlc Interest in
life."
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Tt will take considerable explain
ing by the high tariff advocates to
prove that the reduction In Draper's
plurality in Massachusetts, reduced
to 8,000 from a normal Republican
majority of 80,000, wasn't on account
rf the Aldrteh measure.
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The Central Hank scheme Is sim
ply to drawn the attention of the
people from the robber tariff. Aid
rich refuses even to discuss that
question prefering to keep silent on
that and draw the attention of the
people to something he knows they
don't want and won't have.
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Turkeys are a scare article In this
taction of the country. A man will
be able to buy a pretty fair slzeJ
one for a Ave dollar William. Many
a family will go without turkey
this Thanksgiving. If it would only
now before that time, we would
have plenty of rabbit, thank the
l.ord.
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The fight the Journal made on
CJulnton was uncalled for and' the
result proved as in the ease of John
I). MeBrlde when assailed, made
votes for the candidate charged with
wrong.' Weenlnjr Water Republican.
Don't worry yourself about the
Journnl. It will be time' enough to
do that after the rounty attorney
makes Qulnton disgorge all the fees
in his possession and pay the money
over to the county treasurer. The
)xople of Cass county will see that
the Journal la right In its charges
against that official.
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tiiky m:ki no piuti:ctiox.
Tho superintendent of a South
Carolina cotton mill has made some
Interesting statements 'to a reporter
for the Providence (R. I.) Journnl.
He says that the southern mills are
earning large dividends many of
them from twenty-five to forty per
cent a year. In most cases what Is
earned over 10 per cent is put into
new buildings and improvements
That helps to explain why the mem
bers of spindles in the south has risen
In ten years from 4,000,000 to 10,
000,000 and why that section con
pumed more bales of cotton last year
(ban New England and Canada.
The big dividends of the southern
mLlls serve to explain the absence of
enthusiasm among southern senators
for the reduction of the duties In the
eotton schedules and their perfunc
tory opposition to whatever Increases
were made. It Is true that the In
creases were made. It is true that
the increases do not affect the cheap
er grades of goods to whose manu
facture the south devotes itself al
most eexclusively, but the owners of
the southern mills are looking for
ward to the time when they will bo
gin to rival New England in the pro
duction of finer goods.
One can understand why the ap
peal of .Mr. Ilryan and of the Sara
toga conference to the Democrats to
I "rally once again, boys, shouting the
battle cry" of "tariff for revenue
only" lias no response from those
interested in the great southern cot
ton manufacturing Industry. , They
call themselves Democrats, but they
are for a high protective tariff and
the preservation of their twenty
five to forty per cent dividends
Chicago Tribune.
THE OPPOSITION TO BURKETT.
The Nebraska State Journal, re
ferring to Senator Burkett's campaign
for re-electlou, suggests that he will
be opposeed by some disappointed
postmasters.
It is porbably true that Senator
Burkett has the usual problems that
go along with the distribution of of
nclal appointment and therefore
fewer applications to Interfere with
the pleasures of a senator's life at
Washington.
A large proportion of the appoln
tive positions have been put under
the civil service rules. Even the
postmastershlps are no longer open
as oportunity for the office-hunt
ing politician. It is, and has been
for a dozen years, a busy time, and
men have not sought office as much
as formerly.
The real trouble waiting for Sena
tor Burkett Is not from disappoint
ed ex-postmasters so much as from
the disappointed people In Nebraska
who feel that Senator Burkett puts
into his political work too much
personal posing, hand shaking and
oshlng among his associates In an
effort to be an amiable and popular
trimmer, Instead of putting ability
and force Into his position at WaBh
ington.
It used to please the people when
they read in the newspapers that
their senator or congressman was a
good story teller and was popular as
an all-around mixer, but such read
ing does not please them any more.
They want more earnestness and sin
cerity. They want more force put into
their part of the national govern
ment by their representatives In the
national congress. The people have
learned that the professional Josher
is never quite square. The peoplo
do not want to be jollied about their
public affairs, nor do they want a
Jollier to represent them in the
handling of the serious and import
ant things In governemnt.
Look at Senator Aldrlch! He
works night and day. His energy
never flags. He is capable. As a
representative, of the high tariff In
terest he gets results out of his work
because he puts his whole soul into
it. He fritters away no time in trv.
m
lng to be a good fellow.
The Nebraska people want their
senator to be as. earnest and as cap
able as the senators from Rhode Is
land or any other high tariff state.
Nebraska people know that Nebras
ka loses, and the west loses, when
it puts up light-weights against the
heavy-weights that represent the
high tariff interests of the cast.
If Senator Burkett will take a
bolder and moro serious attitude to
ward the serious questions before
the public, and get himself more in
line with the general desire of the
Nebraska people to have the tariff
law bettered at the next session of
congress, ho will find the Ncbraka
Republicans gathering around him
with such enthusiasm that the ex
postmasters will cut no figure.
It will be very much easier for
Senator Burkett if he will stand for
what the people want rather than
try to persuade tbera to be satisfied
with what they get. They are not
satisfied and they will not bo Jollied
away from their convictions.
Looking over into Nebraska from
this point of view it seems as if the
Republicans are not willing to nomi
nate for re-electioh any congressman
or senator who stands pat in the com
ing session on the present tariff law
and on the Cannonized rules of the
lower house. Sioux City Tribune.
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SOME ELECTION RESULTS.
As the "smoke of battle" dears
away the student of politics and
politicians can find much food for
reflection in the election returns.
Neither of the great parties can
claim with much logic a general vic
tory. Republican gains in some
sections of the country were offset
by Democratic gains in others, while
In many of the elections the "Inde
pendent" vote the largo and grow
lng element that refuses to be hide
bound to any party was the de
ciding factor.
Notably was this true in New
York city, where the people chose
Judge Gaynor, the candidate on the
Tammany ticket, for mayor, while
at the same time administering a
stinging blow to Tammany by the
election of the entire Fusion ticket
below the mayoralty. As Tam-
many hall cannot hope to control
Gaynor a . man whose independ
ence and rugged honesty has often
been brought to public notice and
as it has lost its grip on all the
other offices, the Tiger looks ahead
to four lean years. Judge Oaynor's
election and Tammany's defeat give
reason for hope that a new Demo
cratic organization may arise in New
York city of which the Democracy
of the nation need not be ashamed
Pennsylvania Republicans rolled
up a good-sized off-year majority
for their ticket, despite the fact that
it was made up of men whose politi
cal record is malodorous and ' that
the Democratic candidates Bhone by
contrast. One strong reason for the
large Republican majority is doubt
less found in the fact that Pennsyl
vania Democrats are, in a large
measure, disgusted with the leader
ship of Colonel James M. Guffey, and
lacking In confidence in or fof the
gentleman who, ousted at Denver,
again gained control of the party or
ganization through the, to him, for
tultous circumstances of the sudden
death of National Committeeman
James M. Kerr. Because of Guffey,
thousands of Pennsylvania Demo
crata did not go to polls. In Massa
chusetts Draper, Republican, was
re-elected governor by a greatly re
duced plurality. In Maryland the
Poe amendment to the state const!
tution, whereby it was sought to
eliminate the illiterate colored vote,
was defeated, and the hope of the
better element for deliverance from
the threatened domination of a race
that should never have been given
the ballot, is, for the time being
shattered. The Democrats, how
ev(er, elected their candidates for
comptroller and chief Justice of the
court of appeals and have a strong
majority in the legislature.
Several municipal contests besides
that of New York were more than
local interest. In Cincinnati the Cox
gang of political freebooters triumph
ed. In Cleveland Tom L. Johnson
failed by a small margin, of success
in his fifth campaign for mayor, but
nothing daunted, Immediately an
nounced that he would take up the
battle again two years hence.
fighting mayor and reformer of
similar calibre to Johnson gained
a great personal victory in Toledo
where Brand Whltlock was re-elect
ed against heavy odds. In San
Franclso, where FranclB J. Heney
denied a Republican nomination, ran
for district attorney on the Demo
cratic ticket, the grafters appear to
be in the saddle once more, Henry
and the whole reform ticket being
defeated by a decisive vote.
One thing Is pretty clearly dem
onstrated by the elections Just past.
That is that politics Is "mighty on-
cartin" and getting more so with
every passing year. Wrong tri-
mphs momentarily in many places
but right is moving forward with
giant strides, and the uncertainty of
all political contests until the votes
are counted is the best guaranty
that the dawn of a better era in
the government of our cities, states
nd nation is at hand.
Chicago has reconsidered, and
will agree to tho central bank idea,
if it will be located there.
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Ballinger demands Pinchot's head,
and says Taft must remove him.
The people of the west are for Pin-
hot and demand the removal of
Ballinger. PInchot has stood by
the rights of tho people.
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One feature of the Evening Jour
nal is to get out on time, and our
readers can expect their papers from
3:30 to 5 o'clock, unless some acci
dent happens to our machinery to
make it impossible for our carriers
to get around on time.
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Mr. Bryan wiys ho will be a can
didate for United States Senator If
the people want him to find of course
this means that he will contest for
the seat now held down at Washing
ton by "Slippery Elmer Burkett,"
who will attempt to slide out of any
discussion of the robber tariff and
Cannonlsm.
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The enemies of Roosevelt in the
Republican party fear his nomina
tion in 1912. The masses of that
party prefer him to the present tool
of the trust that now occupies the
presidential chair. The trusts and
combines have no love for Roosevelt.
They are justly termed "Roosevelt
Haters."
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Friends of Mr. Roosevelt are pre.
paring to fight actively what they
call a diabolical plot to discredit
his administration. Of course this
plot origate8 from the friends of
the man who now occupies the presl
dential chair, and who owes his elec
tion to the ex-president who used
his extensive influence to place him
where he Is, on the solemn promise
that he would carry out the Roose
velt policies but has signally failed
this early in his administration.
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A SHir SUBSIDY.
Washington dispatches make it
plain that the Republicans are de
termined to attempt to pass a ship
subsidy bill at the approaching see
slon of congress, in an effort to solve
the problem of re-establishing
American shipping and ship build
lng.
By all means this problem should
be solved, and 'the time was when
the tariff was being revised and the
way by placing ship building ma
terlal on the free list and revising
the general tariff downward. Such
a solution would not cost the gov
eminent a single, penny, and would
not injure anyone or anything save
possibly the monoply of the Ameri
can ship building trust.
President Taft's plan is to donate
to the private ship owners from $6,-
000,000 to $8,000,000 a year to
start with. Once given root, a ship
subsidy is like a tariff; it grows,
and grows, and grows
Germany, although maintaining a
high protection policy, does not per
mit a cent of import duty to be
levied on ship building materials.
Even the members of the English
parliament who are endeavoring to
saddle England with protection ad
mit that free ship building materials
are desirable, and that should they
be successful they would not think
of taxing materials that are used in
shipbuilding.
Note the comparative progress of
British and American shipping, one
under free trade and the other pro
tection:
British
Million Tons
American
Million Tons,
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1906
4.6
5.6
6.6
7.9
9.3
11.2
2.5
1.5
1.3
.9
.8
.9
Thero was a time in tho fifties
nd sixties when the United States
had a healthy merchant marine, and
it was not coddled on subsidies,
either. We lost our hold on the seas
through raising the tariff on ma
terials used in the construction of
ships. It now costs forty per cent
more to build a ship in the United
States than it does in England. The
result is practically no ships are be
ing built here for the foreign trade.
If revision upward ruined our marl-
time industries, we see no reason
why we may not conclude suitable
revision downward coupled with the
repeal of certain barbarous and anti
quated navigations laws would not
restore them.
The American people are not in
mood for a ship subsidy. Presi
dent Taft and the Aldrlches and the
Cannons and the Smoots should stop
and meditate. Their sins are al
ready great. Owing to Reoubliean
extravaganco the deficit in the na
tional finances for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1900, was the stag
gering sum of $S9,811,156! Then
there was a tariff revision that was
notorious as a fraud and a fake! A
ship subsidy may be like the straw
that broke the camel's back. Our
wn dear Mr. Pollard would like to
get back Into congress that he may
mpport Joe Cannon In furthering
ship subsidy and other refarlous
hemes.
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WITH THE BUSY WOULD.
P. W. McCoy at Herman has kill
ed two large Canadian geese with
one shot from a small single barrel
ed shotgun. Truly, P. W. is some hot
sport.
Several points in the state report
an electric storm as having cooled
the air. Our personal observation
is that the north wind gets in on
this deal to some extent.
Up at Herman, Neb., L. F. Hll-
slnger trapper 65 musk rats and
mink and now he has signs of otter
in sight. Verily, it is high time the
Hudson Bay company retired from
the field.
11,000 chickens were burned to
death Thursday at Hutchison, Kas.,
when the plant of the United States
Packing company was burned. This
was some chicken roast. The fire
loss was $50,000.
Governor Shallenberger has issued
his Thanksgiving Day proclamation
wherein we are asked to be thank
ful for the material things and the
better realization of American citi
zenship and so forth and so on. The
date is set for November 25. Don't
forget the date, for we all have
many things to offer up thanks for,
some of which we best not print.
According to a recent ruling of
Richard K. Campbell, chief of the
naturalization division of the depart
ment of commerce and labor, Syrians
and other of kindred races are de
barred from naturalization in this
country. Secretary Nagel of the de
partment takes another view of the
matter and the whole thing will
likely be shoved up to President Taft
for adjudication. Verily, Sunny Bill
has his griefs.
Patrick McGowan of York states
he is unable to find who waylaid
him on his way home the other night
and beat him up a whole lot. From
reports of the waylaying in the pa
pers, we opine Patrick had better
take care he don't find who did it
they may repeat the dose. The
waylaying took place in Grand Is
land and perhaps Pat's whereabouts
at the time might help a little in
the matter as Grand Island is a
wicked place for men from York.
Mr. Bryan has had several con
ferences In the past few days with
many statesmen of the Democratic
party and also with Edgar Howard.
They have likely debated many
momentous matters including the
eight o'clock closing law and Its ef
fect on the late Democratic state
ticket. The Omaha Bee, as usual, Is
having spectres of Bryan for the
senate and forsees great Democratic
dissension. The Bee is always in
tensely Interested in Dmocratlc sue-
ess we don't think.
( A remarkable case Is on trial in
the Denver courts where Mrs. Al
len F. Read is being tried for in
alleged attempt to obtain $100,000
from Mrs. Geniveve Pblpps by
threatening her death by dynamite.
The case is a very sensational one
owing to the family skeletons f
the Phipps household being dragged
into it. Mrs. Read yesterday was
taken with convulsions and is now
at the point of death. Should she
recover it is probable her defense
will be insanity. Fortunate are we
who have no $100,000 for we are
not In danger of death by dynamite.
We are glad to note that tke
board of regents of the state uni
versity have decided to confer no
more honorary degrees without the
vote of the university senate. This
is a much needed reform. Hereto
fore the regents have been confer
ring honorary degree all by them
selves and without the aid or con
sent of the senate and they have
ladled them out until he is, indeed.
a fortunate man who has escaped
being made a D. L. L. D. or a M.
X. rA. or something that way. The
senate should put a quietus on this
broadcast distribution of honorary
degrees.
The five robbers, D. W. Woods,
William Mathews, Lawrence J. Gold
en, Frank Grigware and Fred Tor-
genson, were all found guilty of
holding up the U. P. train near Om
aha and will receive long terms la
the penitentiary. Thje evidence
against the men was quite conclusive
and little doubt was felt of the jury's
convicting them. There was a good
deal of spectacular work in guarding
the prisoners and enough officers
were grouped about them to have
suppressed a small sized riot. As
is usually the case, the officers were
needed in Cairo, 111., more than in
Omaha, hence they were in Omaha.
Elmer E. Thomas is again in the
lime light. He now files a com
plaint before Governor Shallenber
ger under the Sackett law seeking
the removal of Mayor Dahlman and
the Omaha fire and police board for
failing to revoke the saloon license
of Frank Dlnuzzo, the saloonkeep
er convicted of violating the eight
o'clock closing law, Elmer may
find these spectacular stunts both In
teresting to himself as "the people"
and peculiarly advantageous but he
really is a nuisance to the general
run of the body politic. The people
of Omaha are not behind Thomas
and certainly the rest of the state
of Nebraska is not interested in his
freak performances.
Out at Broken Bow Roy Parker
was examined for having filled lit-
tlo 7-yearlold Ralph Bishop full of
shot on Hallow'een eve while en?
gaged in a festive celebration of
the occasion. The worthy Justice be
fore whom the examination was held
bound Roy over in $1,000 bonds for
trial, a grand consummation. The
reveler whether he be one of the
hallow'een variety or Just a plato,
common everyday reveler, should he
tought enough to hang his weapons
up high on the wall when he starts
out to revel. It is an unpleasant
circumstance for the worthy house
holder to be suddenly roused fro
a fireside reverie by the abrupt en
trance of a bullet into some sacred
part of his body and the practice
should be frowned upon.
Senator Nelson W. Aldrlch Is tour
ing the "insurgent" states speaking
on the money question but careful
ly refraining from discussing the
tariff question. Nelse realizes that
It la lllflt HU U'oll tn start a pnimtap
irritant to the tariff talk now go
ing on among the plain people. Won
der if he is going to receive en
couragement by someone on the low
tariff side of the house taking the
stump against him on the money
question. He "explains" his money
views with an elaborateness which
indicates he would prefer to have a
discussion or it to hearing more.
from tho nennlo nn tho Aldrlch tar
iff bill. It looks like a clever scheme
to divert tho public mind from the
worst tariff steal In the history of
the country. He has spoken at Chi
cago, Kansas City, Omaha, Dos
Moines and other cities in the heart
of the rountry where the Republi
cans are most restless over the tar
iff Issue.