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The - Plattsmouth - Journal
Published Seml-Weskl j at Plattsmouth, Nebraska I
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
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further proof were needed, that the
Taft wind blows toward the reaction
aries in congress.
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Any day the railroads may be ex
pected to attribute the shortage of
freight cars to the Immensity of the
Ice crop.
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Nor Is it surprising to learn that
the New York milk trust is paying
10 cents dividends on its "water."
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The ship subsidy Is a special in
terest, and the president's advocacy
of. It puts him in the special interest
class.
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Wherever he Is, Doctor Cook will
have ample time to reflect that his
$80,000 or $100,000 was a poor re
turn for what he did.
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Poet Watson denies that he is in
sane. But for that matter so did
Harry Thaw, and he was playing the
bucket shops at the time.
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The commercial club has resolved
to "bo up and doing next year." lie
who is not with us is against, and had
totter lay low with his "Kick Bazoo,"
when activity begins in earnest.
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'Cranky Patrick, once a state sen
utor, is now going to stop boxing
contests in South Omaha. Next he
will want to stop the playing of base
ball. Hut Tatrlck Is not the "whole
cheese," by a whole lot.
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Secretary Halllnger is to be tried
1 a jury of senators, a majority of
whom ,nre "conservative" In every
thing except conserving the public
domain.
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Speaker Cannon says the report
f hat he Intends to resign is "hot air."
However, when hot air comes Into
contact with Mr. Cannon's air of de
llnance there will be a whirlwind.
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Colonel Gordon, the new United
Slates senator from Mississippi, says:
"During my term in Washington 1
may not be able to do much good,
but I certainly will not do any harm."
What a pity that more senators do
not feel that way about It!
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Years ago when everybody could
afford to oat pork, a man arose who
lind a poetic vision.- He penned these
Hiioh: "O won't the pork be High,
When the pigs begin to fly?" It Is
.ell a reality now, and we can appre
ciate that the fellow was not only a
j)oet, but a prophet as well .
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Friends make Inquiry of the writer
every day as to whether Governor
KUnllonherger intends to call a spec
ial pension of the legislature. We
don't know, but If we wore governor
we would call the body together In
short order to amend Home of the
bills the Republican supreme court
declared unconstitutional.
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describing "Parsifal" and its failure And if congress doesn't investigate
to ptlase him, said: "The only peo- the interior department the way it
pie who enjoy It are those educated ought to, the people will investigate
fellows who don't know nothing."' congress.
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If the Ice dealer falls to get a full No one seems to care who becomes
suppy of the crop for next summer's King of Belgium, but there threatens
consumption, it wll be their own to be a lively contest as to who gets
fault. his fifty million dollars.
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In view of thn hleh nrlees which President Taft is said to have
prevailed, perhaps this particular splendid control of congress. Well,
Yuletide might better be called high- most men could get that If Aldrlch
tide. and Cannon can control him.
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Bwana Tumbo, mighty hunter, has "Business depends on the weath
at least one great achievement to er," says a business man; but our
his credit. He hasn't shot anybody friend Aldrlch says it depends on the
in mistake of a deer.
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Those goodfellowship lodges ought
not to bo disbanded merely because
Christmas Is over
ways ye have with you."
tariff. We are with the business man
on the proposition.
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The Kansas railroad commission
"The poor al- Qa8 compelled tho Pullman company
to reduce its rates about fifty cents
a berth. Evidently there's nothing
That clergyman who proposes to the matter with Kansas.
reform funerals would make a hit if :o
ho would en a ston further nnil find Of course an American
a way to abolish them altogether.
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cock advocates increasing it by mail
subsidies to certain steamship lines
flying the American flag. Lincoln
Journal.
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While discussing the record of
the last legislature, why not consider
the merits of the valid bills that
passed? Why confine the discussion
entirely to ,the three measures that
have been declared Invalid? Why
not mention the merits of more than
two hundred laws passed by that
body which are now in full force and
effect? Among these are the physi
cal valuation law; the precinct asses
sor law; the law taking the arbitrary
power of assessing property away
from the State Board of Assessment;
the reciprocal demurrage law; the
law limiting the Issuance of stocks
by railroad companies; the antl-dis
crimination law; the charter law for
both Omaha and South Omaha; the
military code; the law regulating
campaign contributions; the Oregon
plan of electing United States sena
tors; the law prohibiting employes
from attempting to control the votes
of persons employed by them by
Intimidation; the law regulating the
granting of divorces; the liquor leg
islation; the drainage laws; the cor
poration tax law, and many other
measures of merit that might be
mentloncl with pride
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cruiser
might have taken Zelaya off the Mexi
can cruiser. But the Trent affair
"Governor Straddleberk" Is what
tho Silver Crock Sand calls the chief
executive, because he refused to have
Mayor Dahlman and the police board
of Omaha removed. Governor Shal
lenborger canot afford to act accord
ing to the whims and dictations of
any clan of faction, and ho has dis
played the evidence that he is go
ing to use bis own Judgment In such
matters. And he Is usually right in
that Judgment, too.
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Senator Dolllvor believes the time
when a skin game can bo worked on
the people with the unanimous con
sent c'it congress will never come
again. This Is a gentle hint that he
has no sympathy with the tariff bill
passed by the recent special session of
congress. Doiliver la an Iowa insur
gent of recent conversion, who has
foresight enough to tell how tho land
lays In. Iowa. He Is lined up with
Cummins, whom he fought so stren
uoUhly a few years ago.
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Three new short cuts to truth
bavo been coined In Washington re
cently. Senator Shelby M. Cullom of
Illinois Is responsible for one. Tho
Veteran senator, In commenting on an
nged friend, said: "He has one foot
l the grave and tho other resting
on a banany peel." Congressman
Hughes of New Jersey, in describing
a lobbyist whom ho had met, remark
ed: "lie Is so crooked that ho puts
on. Lis clothes with a corkscrew tad
Zelaya has escaped Into Mexico, taught the state department that des
and If Mexico Is as barbarous as the perate measures are not always ad
American Magazine declares It to be, j vlsable.
.eiaya win reel porreeuy at norat :o
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there. A good New Year resolution: "1
:o: will send the Plattsmouth Journal,
Not even Speaker Cannon's prom- the best paper In Cass county to a
Ise to relinquish the speakership In former resident of the county, and
1911 will save the reactionary Re- who would appreciate It more than
publican congressmen. The fight has! anything I could give him."
been not so much on Cannon as on :o:
Cannonlsm. It is incredible but true that there
:o: are still many politicians in Wash
Anyone who Is willing to operate ington who Imagine that the public
the sugar factory at Norfolk, Neb., wm i,0 satisfied to have Secretary
will be given the plant absolutely Balllnger tried by a Jury of senators
free of charge. The offer looks easy, already committed In his favor.
but the trouble is to get the sugar
trust's consent to the running of the
plant.
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Many claim that last night was
the coldest of the winter. Over town
the thermometers varied all the way
from 12 to 17 degrees below. At
the Burlington depot at half-past
eight o'clock this morning It was 12
below. Pretty cold, thank you.
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The prohibitionists of the state are
going to make a desperate effort to
have everything their own way at
the next election. No one faction can
do Just as they please bo long as
there Is free ballot. And the radical
temperance people might as well un
derstand this right now. This Is yet
a free country.
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comes from an authoritative source
and is entirely plausible besides. The
fact that a number of the speaker's
closest frlend3 and allies In the house
are In danger of losing their seats
in the election of next year Is plainly
obvious. For some time It has been
accepted as Inevitable that a move
would be made by the speaker or his
cabinet" to counteract the hostility
to Cannon's thick and thin supporters.
But it Is almost unbelievable that
either the speaker or the other ma
chine leaders could be so fatuous as
to suppose that even an Irrevocable
pledge that Cannon will not be a can
didate for speaker again would give
his followers a clear field. Even if
Cannon should resign at once, and
under an arrangement that would
bring about the election of a more
liberal speaker, such action would
not clear the skirts of the men who
servilely obeyed his orders In the
tariff session.
It Is not Cannon, but Cannonlsm,
that the country Is determined to
eliminate. The personality of the
speaker. is a mere incident. The per-
MONEY AX I) MONEY.
Governor Shallenberger has sign!
fled his willingness to join in a con
ference with the governors of Okla
homa and Kansas In regard to the
bank guarantee law, which was pass
ed by the legislature of the three
states.
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Canada should pass a vote of
Others of the Republican "insur
gents" may bo amendable to persua
sion or Intimidation, but Senator La
Follette of Wisconsin, evidently Is
not. He comes out in his weekly
publication in severe criticism of the
evident disposition of President Taft
to coddle up to "the Interests," and
calls attention to the fact that Taft
was elected on pledges that have not
been carried out and that evidently
he does not Intend to fulfill. The
Cannon-Aldrlch-Taft reactionaries
will find a foeman worthy of their
steel in the present session of con
gress so long as the senator of Wis
consin retains his energies and his
disposition to call them to account.
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That was a very cute move of Mr,
Taft's In Issuing an order that no
subordinate of an executive depart
ment shall give information to any
member of congress, senator or re
presentative, except upon instructions
from the head of the department
Democratic and "Insurgout" Itepub
llcan members of the houao are dis
covering that this new executive order
la an effective barrier against their
obtaining Information from the dif
ferent executive departments with
which to support their arguments in
favor of such legislation they deem
desirable or In fighting the moves of
the Aldrlch-Cannon organization
This Innocent appearing but really
ha to sleep In a coll of rope." State drastic executive order is a little
-Senator John Gardner of Illinois, straw Bhowlng conclusively, if any
thanks to the Republican party of
the United States for enacting the
Taft-Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, for (lt
is profiting by the act far more than
the United States. The drift' of the
American emigration Into, the Can
adian northwost is becoming more
pronounced than ever, and it la free
ly predicted that by another year tne
umber of emigrants will have reach
ed a million. It may be Bald that
thlB ia due to natural causes and not
to the tariff. Tosslbly, but the fact
remains that Canada is becoming
more and more able to get on with
out close trade relations with the
United States. Its industries and its
agriculture are rapidly developing.
Canada would like the American
market but is not obliged to beg for
It, while New England Is suffering
becauso It has been cut off from the
Canadian market. '
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The postofflce is the form in which
the national government Is most fa
miliar to its people. That gives the
reports of the postmaster general a
maximum of popular Interest as re
ports go. Mr. Hitchcock shows that
hla department falls $17,000,000
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hort o fpaying expenses. The carriage
and delivery of Becond class mall,
printed periodicals, costs $64,000,000
more than It pays. Rural free do-
livery costs $28,000,000 moro than it
returns. The profit from letter mail
pays a large share of this deficit
How much of this profitable letter
mail is caused by the unprofitable
printed mall and the expensive rural
routes, Mr. Hitchcock does not say
for he cannot, and so la proved the
partial futllty of his classification.
How much of the deficit may come
from railroad subsidies in the form
of pay for hauling mail Is another
open question. It is Interesting to
noto that despite his inferential
criticism of the deficit, Mr. Hitch
Senator Money of Mlssisslsslppi was
recently chosen leader of the Demo
cratic minority in the senate. The
fact Inspired Senator La Follette,
leader of the Republican Insurgents,
to draw a very truthful and striking
parallel between the Money who Is
the Democratic leader and the Money
that is the Republican leader. We
quote from the current issue of La
Follette's Magazine:
"The selection of Money of Missis
sippi as senate minority leader Is less
Important than the leadership of both
house and senate by Money of Wall
Street. Money of Mississippi Is a
fine old southern gentleman in the
best sense of the word. Money of
Wall Street ia not a gentleman In any
sense. Money of Misslsspippi ia the
soul of honor, whose word ia as good
aa hla bond. Money of Wall Street is
destitute of honor in public life, and
is guilty of most of its corruption,
local, state and national. Money of
Mississippi will voluntarily retire
from public service one of these days,
and will be missed by all who know
him. Money of Wall Street never dies,
never resigns, and must be hurled
from hla place of power In our poll-
tics by the force of the ballot of an
aroused people.- Here's health and
long lifo to Leader Money of Missis
sippi. And here's confusion and an
nlhllatlon to the political reign of
Money of Wall Street.
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A TAFT ELECTOR'S COMMENT,
A Taft elector from Ohio, Mr. E
M. Hugglns, returned rrom a visit
to Washington a few days ago and
gave his impressions to the Ohio
State. Journal as follows.
"I have seen in tho concrete in
Washington what I have always
known In the abstract, and that is
Cannonlsm and Aldrlchlsm In control
of the legislative machinery of the
national government, directing the
party's policy, suppressing reforma
tive measures, blocking the president
In hia program, insolent with power,
defying public opinion, celebrating
their successful exploitation of the
people and planning further to serve
the special Interests, of which Can
nonlsm and Aldrlchlsm are the
agents.. I am a Republican. All these
evils are done In tho name of the Re
publican party. If these forces of
corruption and deplorable political
methods are not dislodged, the Re
publican party wll collapse by the
very weight of them. The Issue Is
becoming more a moral than a poli
tical one."
All of which means, In a word, that
If the Republican party is to be saved,
It Is to be saved by the lnusrgents,
whom Speaker Cannon has been try
ing to read out of the organization.
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ROUT OF DICTATOR CAXXOX.
sonnel of the house Is everything. Sol
long as that personnel is untrust
worthy, so long there will be no as
surance of the desired changes In the
rules and regulations of the body.
The progressives must gain control
if representative rule Is to be re
stored. Cannon Is quite capable of doing
something for his "friends" that he is
incapable of doing or unwilling to do
for his country or even his party.
But the time has passed when any
personal sacrifice he may make will
vail those "friends." They are mark
ed men. Many of them will face hard
contests, and such of these as win
their nominations against progressive
candidates of their own party will
have hard fights with their Demo
cratic opponents. A number of them
are doomed In spite of the events
that the next ten months may bring
forth.
Some of those now in Jeojardy
would be saved, no doubt, if they
should come out aggressively ror
strong, progressive measures in the
present session, regardless .of the
orders of Aldrlch and Cannon, re
gardless of the Influence of the spec
ial interests in congress. But there
Is little prospect of a stampede to
get into the progressive bandwagon.
Most of the flagrant offenders know
that the records they made in the
tariff session are the standards by
which their constituents will Judge
them, for those records were made
in violation of the party's promises
and the country's expectations.
Meanwhile the rout of Cannon Is a
gratifying spectacle. Representative
Murdock was not far out of the way
when he predicted that early In the
present session the speaker would
have to resign or announce that he
would not be a candidate for re
election. Kansas City Times, Rep.
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sentatlve he is, Is unworthy the
position of trust which he holds.
This indictment is flung square!
in the face of Senator Burkett, whi
lives In the same city and Is a mem
ber of the same party as Mr. Whedon.
Senator Burkett, without devia
tion, voted with and for the outlaw
sugar trust. He voted with Aldrlch
j and his flock of trained senators to
give this criminal trust the right to
tax the American people two cents a
pound on all the sugar they consume.
Mr. Whedon declares that his votes
on the sugar schedule constituted "a
crime against the people." Mr.
Whedon declares that his votes
amounted to "a surrender of the duty
which he oyes to those whose chosen
representative he is." Mr. Whedon
declares that those votes Btamp him
as "unworthy of the position of trust
which he holds."
Senator Burkett is now In Ne
braska. Will he allow this indict
ment, made by a prominent and re
sponsible fellow townsman and fellow
Republican, to pass unchanged? Or
will he defend his honor, which is
thus directly assailed?
What has Senator Burkett to Baw
In response to what Charles O. Whe
don has said? World-Herald.
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We don't mind an occasional cold
wave, but this season's cold billows
have surged too much for the average
poor man. '
While the speaker denies that he
intends to resign, the insurgents are
still confident they will tie a can on
Cannon.
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Now for more industries for Platts
mouth In 1910 than we succeeded in
procuring in 1909. And we did pretty
well in the year just closed.
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Did you resolve to do your duty to
oursclf and the city in which you live
in 1910? We hope you did, and
that you will live up to your resolve.
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Every busienss man in Platts
mouth should make up his mind to
continue the good work inaugurated
In 1909, during the year 1910. There
should be no factions in striving for
the best Interests of the old town.
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Jacob Glenn who attended the re
union of the Glenn family Saturday,
departed this morning for his home
at Gothenburg.
The news that Mr. Joseph G. Can
non soon will announce that he will
not again be a candidate for speaker
PLAIN' TALK IIY WIIEDOX.
Charles O. iVhedon' of Lincoln,
chairman of the last Republican state
convention, concludes a searching ar
ticle on the sugar trust and Its tariff
graft, published in Tuesdays Lin
coln Journal, in the following straight
from the shoulder fashion:
The crimes in which sugar Is
Involved are not limited or con
fined to false weights at the cus
tom house. It Is a crime against
the people of this country, a
crime for which the dominant
party 13 responsible and answer
able, that an unnecessary and
prohibitory duty should be main
tained on a necessary of life in
most general use by all the peo
ple, In the interests and for the
benefit of a combination whose
very existence is a continued vio
lation of law. A congressional
investigation would, If as com
plete as could be made, disclose
the influences which were at
work when the representatives of
the nomlnat party made the par
ty false to its pladge and placed
it on the defensive. But a decade
has passed since an investigation
disclosed to a moral certainty
the fact that the votes upon a
tariff bill containing a sugar
schedule were influenced by
speculation in sugar stocks.
A member of congress who
acquiesces In the policy of the
administration when such ac
qulcsence carries with it a sur
render of the duty which he owes
Vo thoso whose chosen repre-'
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