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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1910)
The - Plattsmouth - Journal r Published Semi-Week! at Plattsmouth, Nebraska ( ) R. A. DATES, Publisher. Entered at the Postofflce at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE At any rate the dead year man aged to keep something doing most all the time. :o: The new year unquestionably starts out as If It Intended to make a Nine teen Ten-strike. :o: Being a tetotaler himselr, it re quired 4,000 words for Mr. Taft to tell Just what whiskey is. :o: to make false statements. The probe has only begun its work at the New York custom house, yet the disclosures indicate that a good precentage of that part of the na tion engaged in the important busi ness are not only liars but bribe givers and smugglers. They are spec ialists in the line of dishonesty and wish to keep the revenue laws that will make their specialty. We pay the taxes to them, and thty steel trust (the greatest beneficiary of protection) issued a decree pro claiming its hostility toward labor, notifying employes that the right to associate for their common protec tlon was no longer to be recognized or tolerated, and announcing a fur ther reduction in the already scant wages of the steel workers. There must be radical legislation to appease the workers. The "crown of thorns" Is being pressed down more firmly than ever. We are in the habit of legislating for capital instead of legislating for man. We are confronted with a condition. Op portunity is beckoning to President Taft. Waterloo Times-Tribune. - :o: WHERE DID THEY GET IT? is not dishonest, for he emerged sought to befool the people. Duluth great parade was had and five thous- . ... 1 w Vi wlt- and UCKets were isuvu iui iu nesslng of the ceremonies of opening the big structure. .This aids In a measure to relieve the congestion on There can be no complaint as to the manner in which Explorer. Cook W the money over to the govern- has conducted himself since the lua- ,B '"Ul" luc' "Ie unable to lie out of. Instead of sev eral million people telling timid little i lies, we have wholesale liars who have perfected an organization and who, on account of the volume of their falsehoods, have the means to defend themselves, which an ordinary retail liar would be unable to do. We' are a nation of specialists. Beatrice Sun. :o: Copenhagen verdict was announced. :o: It is reported that President Taft is eager to have the charges against Balllnger investigated, and it may be added that the public chares the eag erness. :o: One of the bank robbers killed in Oklahoma Friday' was an umpire last season in tho Texas League. So the fans are not always wrong when they howl "Robber! " Pn.-umn nioKmnn.1 Pr0 John Bigelow, former ambassador Hobson has made another speech ad-jt France, statesman, diplomatist and vocatlng a larger navy. Still, most j author, declares he sees "more pros of us prefer waiting until Japan uaa Pe(,t of a revolution than any reform JOHN' IiIGELOW'8 PROPHECY. from a long career of office-holding a Herald. poor man. He is not lacking in in- :o: telllgence, or he would not have been 1 FROM THE BUSY WOULD, chosen for the many important places I n . ... .... . . . . . . Lt. .. ! . t he has filled. ine Kocnereieuer Diuie class oi the bridges between me iwo is Yet at Winona he declared the new New York city is facing a deficit in but it is only a step in that direction tariff law to be a "substantial re- its treasury. With all his great and the growth of travel between the vision downward," and "the best tar- ( wealth and all his desire to save two cities has been so great since iff bill the country ever had." jsouis jonn v. seems to reel that ne the bridge was started main nua uu To prove this he used some figures should not put up the money fcr outstripped the preparations for hand prepared by the senate committee on ,tnls purpose but the members of the, ling it and more bridges will be nec finance, of which Senator Aldrich is class should be willing to pay forisary at cnce. i determination of President chairman, showing that the tariff was tnelr own salvation. However, John i " i i i t -pan col i Ck iha rnnrrtnnlrw on1 nn- I Th reuuceu uu ueix'ssary unities wnicu . tw vJTv.vu.i; uu i this country uses to the extent of ' some more good advice on the Taft to emasculate the Sherman anti- I . ... ... ... li.no on a a a norm If thA trusts $3,000,000,000 a year, and increased members touching thrift and the , - country uses to the value of $300,- captured the Philippines. :o: In our government." He made the statement after noting that President Taft, in his annual message, denied that Increased cost of living was due to protective tariff. If a revolution ever does come In The Chicago man who treatens to blow up tho United States Senate with nitroglycerine Is altogether too violent A more effective and certain way to dispose of the senate oligarchy Is to this country, future historians will elect senators by direct vote of the not be brain-racked due to difficulty People. ;in finding causes to which to attri bute the event. For Instance, here are a few features of present day conditions which would no doubt be self-explanatory to future genera tions: I First. Increase in cost of living from 3 to 11 per cent annually, wages remaining either stationary or show- :o:- The Carnegie institute has with drew its support from Luther Bur bunk because the plant wizard is in clined to commercialism. Anything inclining to commercialism Is anathe ma to the canny Scot who lends his name to the Carnegie institute. :o: One of the things Cook can't be ln8 but nominal Increase; lower accused of is a luck of the sense to standard of living. go while the going was good. The Second. National government tak- sevcral thousand dollars Cook made lng no steps to decrease cost of 11 v before the Danish uprising raise a lng by reducing import duties, but question concerning the theory that on the other hand taking every op portunity to revise tariff upward, and thereby assuring further advances In Now they are going to try out the prPCg 4 J I I. .... A If III..9. .... I new i,, ,.. .., .i n . . -u. ( Thlrd io government tak- ernment and nowhere wlll lt be found cess, battleships of 30.000 tons will ,ng ttaoIutdy no Btep toward break. ilioncsty is the best policy, :o: The legislature of the state of Kansas, one of the forty-six sovereign states of this nation, possessing every power of absoluete sovernelgnty not granted to the federal government, duly enacted a bank deposit guar anty law. The lower house passed lt, the governor approved lt. It af fected only banks within the state and only banks organized under the laws of the state. A federal Judge presiding over one of those Inferior courts which the constitution authorized congress to create, has vetoed that law. He has used a power the governor of the state has but which he did not use because he saw no cause to. The Judge not only vetoes the law but he commands the officers of the state to acquiesce In his veto and refrain from acting under the law. Judge Pollock did only what other Judges of state and federal courts have done for over thirty years until we Ameri cans have become so dulled to this astounding usurpation of power that it does not disturb our nerves. Where did these Judges get the power that makes them the govern ment in fact? It did not come to us from England by Inheritance like our common law. It did not come from any European country to us, for neither In Great Britain nor on the continent - would even the highest courts dream of vetoing an act of parliament or reichstag. In some cases Judges have held invalid laws that curbed their authority because that authority existed prior to the constitution and therefore, they rea soned, became a part of lt. But no precedent anywhere Justifies this as sumed supremacy of courts over leg islatures, congresses and executives. Read tho federal constitution, the state constitutions, sources of auth ority, for the three branches of gov- 000,000 a year. As to the increases, there should have been none at all; and there were few because practi cally every greedy and powerful In terest already was getting all the1 tariff duties it needed. It sounds well to say that the tar iff was reduced on commodities which the country uses to the value of $5,- President Taft is now said to be opposed to any congressional Inquiry into the sugar trust frauds in New York, ft is charged openly and above i board that immunity had been offer ed the responsible parties for their testimony and that the prosecution will end with the conviction of some of the country to go on and rob the people under the protection of the law, will meet with a righteous re- buke at the hands of the people. The proposition is one of the most mon strous ever mapped out before the American people. The record of the Taft administration has certainly been bad enough in all conscience with the iniquitous Aldrich-Cannon of the little thieves while the big tariff bill, the Balllnger-Pinchot 000,000,000 a year, but it means ab solutely nothing. Take an article which the country uses to the value of $1,000,000,000 a year, and on which the tariff duty is prohibitive. Reduce that duty a trifle, though leaving it still prohibitive. The presi dent could then say that the duty had been reduced on an article of which the country uses $1,000,000,- 000 worth a year; but there would be no benefit whatever from the revision. And that is exactly what the presi dent did. Either he was badly fooled by Aldrich, or he deliberately sought to fool the people. Will Payne in the Saturday Even ing Post analyzses that $5,000,000, 000 argument, and he doesn't leave much of it. Duties were reduced on petroleum products, which this country uses to the value of $260,000,000 a year. Yet this country Is the great exporter of petroleum products, and free pe troleum products would not lower prices. Duties were reduced on marble, which is used to the extent of $84, 000,000 a year. Is marble a "neces sary?" Metals and manufacturers of metal which we used to the value of $1,- scoundrels who have been guilty of I debauching the public service go free. iThe Taft-admlnistratlon as remarked before certainly Is making a record , for rotten performances which smells i to heaven. bo necessary to carry It and all the up tru8l8 wWch have becn re- LvaHdate a law duly enacted The urcaanougins in mo worm win again become antiquated. War Is all that Ooncrnl Sherman said, but the price of peace is perhaps even more so. :o: ipeatodly shown to be in existence in federal 8upreme court Is given ap I violation of the anti-trust law, such penate power with some specified orl as tne sugar trust, me neei irusi, glnal powerSi but nowhere can there Bteel trust and harvester trust, which bo fpund a word or Byiiabie on which out having hud dozens of people wanting his head. The people of Ne- too. -:o: .. 1 1 . , ..n lin.n.1,. MADivnnullJa - There's no distinction In Colonel 1 " ' to hang Judge Marshall's usurpation Gordon, the new Mississippi senator, lfor fllllure of 'ttRV t0 lncre,lbe f'0" which all courts readily followed be. once having hud a price on his head. Port,onaU',y wllh the f0st of I,v,n cause of tho added power lt gave No man ever got to the senate wlth-1l'A1'"Dl0 them. fourth, uemunas or an increasing And we boaat of our representative number of manufacturers of food government. We prate our vox popull bruska are after Hurketfs head right Produrta (necessaries) that their vox De, and lt,t judge8 Inall0 ttlcm, now, and they are going to get It, K00,,a must bo B0,d by the wholoBa,or selves above both. We enact law to to the retailer and by the latter to meot mw condiUon8 to remedy bad the consumer nt a fixed exorbitant ont8 and fortify good one8i and some Prit'P. judge, elected or appointed to wls- Flfth. Smothering in committee dom adjusts ht8 glasses, peers first on rules or me nouse oi represent- at the luw and thcn at 80me old con. tlves of resolutions providing for 8titution and vetoes the hw because government investigation oi tnis prac- he thlnk8 the constitution did not t,c0- authorize the law. Who gave him a Sixth. Increasing frequency of h&hvT right of Judgment of law's destruction of foods in largo cities in relations to constitutions than the order to maintain outrageous prices legislators had who enacted or the charged for what Is sold and con- governor or p-esldent had who ap sunied. proved It? Who created these law Seventh. Action of combinations umpires with power of finality? And of manufacturers (practically cotton in whoso behalf is this constitutional manufacturers) in agreeing to close veto mostly invoked and applied? The mills for specified periods, thereby holders of privilege, tho possessors I depriving workmen of employment, In of great Interests wielding great CUt In line and catch the step for 1'lnttnmouth's progress in 1910. The new year opens with great prom ise and with abundance of opportun ity. Put your shoulders to the wheel and push incessantly for the best interests of the old town. Boost all the time. ;o:- Champ Clark, Democratic house leader, has Informally outlined the policy of the houso Democrats for this session of congress In terse, vigorous lnngungo. In a nutshell it is to keep down appropriations, to favor a river and harbor bill and op pose a ship subsidy bill. It is a good! program and one on which all tho Democratic members can unite for vigorous action. :o; A NATION OF LIARS. Opposition was raised to the In come tax on the ground that it would make us a nation of liars. Revenue by tariff, suld tho oppo nents of the Income tax, can easier be raised, than by n tax upon In conies, and they assured us that the desire to dodge taxation' would be an order to tighten markets and force power which the people Beek by law consumers to pay increased and un- h curD ....nrni r.rnfi. And in the future, as tho people .-..!. o ..u..0- ,., Jm0r ml n,Or0 n8SCrt thelr rlK,lt8 u.Kui... D.v."-uv u, u. - wju court8 niore and more veto tho rich on behalf of the national gov- iawa enacted to restore or conserve crnment while steel schedules of the those rights, until some day this a Tayne tariff bill was under discussion rogated power of courts will bo brush In the United States senate, that rates on certain steel products were 50,000,000, were reduced, but prices have gone up since the law went Into ffect. This is because the duties, combined with this country's su premacy in methods of manufactur ing, are prohibitive still. Lumber was slightly reduced, and that item amounts to $500,000,000. If the maximum ratesapply to Canada, the duty will be enormously Increased Instead of being reduced. The price of lumber has not been reduced by the reduced tariff. Refined sugar represents $300,-' 000,000, and the duty on that was reduced so little that if the benefit of the reduction got to the consumer, he would have to eat an even ton of sugar to save a dollar; yet the price of sugar has advanced Since the law went Into effect. The sugar duties are still prohibitive. Half a billion Is represented by food and agricultural products, most ly bacon, hams, pork and beef, of which we export vast quantitlesand import little or nothing. These com modities have also gone up in price, j Tho reason: The duties are still too high and the products are controlled by a trust. Print paper represents $67,000,- 000. There was a very slight reduc tion on this duty, which still is prac tically prohibitive, and if the maxi mum duties apply, as they almost certainly will, the duty will be multi plied several times instead of being reduced. Soft coal, another large Item, amounts to $900,000,000, and the slight reduction in the tariff will have A Chicago Judge has Issued a "trial" divorce to parties In that city, the divorce to last for five years at the end of which time the parties may live together again or obtain a final seperatlon If desirable. Neither may marry in the meantime. Now this Is more like it, it is the cele- brated trial marriage In another form and doubtless will leap Into immedi ate favor with all. It makes life well worth living again and just when we are becoming ennuied and tired, it furnishes another new fangle to our butterfly existence. Hall to the Chicago jurist who has taken so far a step toward completing the bur lesque of the law. Down in Kansas at the town ,of Jetmore, Rudolph Meyers is engaged in building a railroad all alone and single-handed save for the assistance of four mules and a scraper. Myers states he will build a line fifty-four miles long and has completed two miles of the worst work. We wish Myers all the success in the world but have scant hopes of his being able to ever complete his line but when it is done George Gould or Willie II. Moore or B. Franklin Yoakum or Eddie Hawley will grab it away from him. However, a man who has nerve enough to build the road should have nerve enough to hold on to it when it is done. , In New York last Wednesday George E. McCarroll, a musician, on the battleship Missouri, was picked up by the police in an intoxicated con- scandal and a number of other minor scandals but this is the culminating outrage of all. To wipe off the books every vestige of legislation standing between the people and the robber trusts cannot but arouse a righteous indignation among the people and sweep the party responsible for such an act from power. Congresman Flint of California states In an interview that the tariff is not responsible for the high cost of living and that the trusts are not to blame. He charges the high prices to the middle man and lays the blame for the high prices on the retailer. Senator Bristow of Kan sas, comes right back at him with a denial and alleges the trusts and the railroads are responsible for the prices especially as relates to meat products. The general public and the meat men and grocers will , agree with the latter. A little personal In vestigation by anyone will convince him that the retailer is not responsi ble for the high prices. An Investi gation Into the wholesale p ices charged for food products will de monstrate that the trusts have gob bled the markets and are squeezing excessive profits from the people. The retailer must pay the wholesaler his price and the wholesaler and Jobber is at the mercy of the trusts and in the end the people pay the bill. Sena tor Flint's attempt to saddle the cost off on the retailer will not work, the public know better than this. The greatest rainfall In recent years has been taking place on the Pacific coast and untold loss has re sulted therefrom. The city of Los Angeles counts Its loss in the thous ands while neighboring cities and towns also suffered heavily. The storm extended up and down the dltlon and haled before one of the I . . . x , coast and penetrated into the interior as far as the mountains. The same storm has been sweeping eastward police magistrates. At the time of his arrest he had with him a suit case with $2,000 worth of Jewelry in it. The police suspicloned that he might be a porch climber of a con man or something of that nature but investigation disclosed that he sold jewelry among the sailors of the fleet as a side lino. The magistrate fined Mac $5 and cots whereupo'n he re marked "Gee, next time I'll go to the Waldorf." He paid the fine though and joined his ship. Camllle Flammarlon, the noted French astronomer, has stirred up the peasants of Europe by a predic tion that Halley's comet is due to strike the earth sometime this year with the consequent destruction of this sphere. Flammarlon is given to making predictions but few of them have ever come to pass but . this oesn't cut any figure with the natives of most European countries. Nearly every other astronomer has figured out that the earth will merely pass and today it Is giving the middle west a heavy blanket of snow, stop ping trains and causing much misery and suffering among the poor. The winter so far has been marked with a succession of heavy storms and much suffering in the cities. So far loss to cattle has been light but the heavy snowfall may result disastrous ly to that interest. Long range weather prophets do not hold out much hope for a let up in the bad weather. Hicks, DeVoe and others uniting in predictions of storms and floods to last throughout the year. If their predictions come true even in part, the year 1910 will go down In history as one of the most disas trous In the country's history. Mrs. Charles Carroll and Mrs. J. W. Berger of Murray, were In the city Friday evening doing some trading. no effect on the price except in such through the tall of the comet and localities as can be reached by ves sels from Nova Scotia. The price of soft coal has not gone down since the tariff went Into effect. These items amount to $4,000,- being maintained or adv nnced, not tojpny Tribune increase profits of manufacturers, but solely for tho benefit of the Bteel workers. Ninth. Trovlng of utter falsity of ed away Just as Britons are now getting ready to sweep out the vet power of their houso of lords. Sioux that the worst that wlll happen will be a shower of star dust as they term it. This means many shooting stars in the heavens and some beau tiful sights at night but nothing more inducement for otherwise honest tnn this assertion on July 1, '09, when the -:o. DECEIVED Oil DECEIVING? A great many people are puzzled 000,000 out of the president's total 8erlous. Anyway all we can do is to of $3,000,000,000, and from none of ait and see what really will happen them will the consumer get the slight est benefit. Other items too small to amount to much in detail consume the rest of the five billions. and it is only a few months away. New York and Brooklyn have been Joined by another Immense bridge, Either tho president was rldl- the monster Manhattan bridge being what to make of President Toft. He culously fooled by Aldrich, or he opened for traffic new year's day. A Do you want an AUGTI0NEER? If you do, get one who has Experience, Ability, Judgement. Telegraph or write ROBERT WILKINSON, Dunbar, Ileb. Dates made at this office or the Murray State Bank. Good Service, Reasonable Rale.
