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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1910)
V The - Plattsmouth - Journal Published Semi-Week!) at Plittsauiit!), littnaskjj R. A. DATES, Publisher. E il-MV.l at the' L'ostolTke at I'i Ut.s n jjti, .r j ru i, as second-class mitter. $l.ZO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Yv k kiTilum declares Giavis Is a , iih suloiiiiiniao. Whatever that mean, It seems thut the country could stand a few more of them on Uncle Sam's pay roll. President Tatt wants -congress to pass a law discriminating between good and bad trusts, when In fact, the only possible distinction la between l ad, worse and worst trusts. :o: May-r Gaynor tied a large bunch of crepe to the tiger's tall when he appointed eight Democrats who were not indorsed by Tammany to offices at salaries aggregating $07,000 annually :o: "'Having killed specimens of all knows animals, Roosevelt has now discovered and slain an entirely new kind of beast, to which the national museum scientists give the name of otocyon vergatus. Like many a nob ler being, tho otocyon vergatus had to die to gain a name. :o: tin: insi kgkxt ktati:.mi;t It was well enough for the pro gressives to issue a Htutomentdcfln ing their position, though there was no urgent need for such a statement. The country understands that position well, In spite of tho efforts of the re tictlonarles to make It appear that the opponents of Cannon and Aldrlch are i against the administration and the Republican party. So far as the presi dent's purposes were defined In his message bearing on the railroads and other corporations, the progressive! nro In accord with them, and the country knows that the obstruction to carrying out those purposes Is more likely to be offered by the ro nctlonarlos than by the progressive!. . Meanwhile,' It Is well that the treatment of the progressive! by Can non has been such as to force them Into a working organization of their Sun. They need not be alarmed about helr status. They aro making the fight that must be made If the people .are to be delivered from the rule of itongress by the power of money. If the Republican party Is Injured by this formal division In congress It will not be because the progressives have refused to obey Cannon, but be. cause Cannon has made his policies the party's policies by forcing his will through the caucus when he has found It Impossible to force It by illreet order. Kansas City Star, Rep. TIIH MKKTIXd AT LINCOLN. The action taken by the insurgent Republicans at Lincoln, In openly condemning tho record of Senator Durkett and calling for a state meet ing of Insurgents to determine on a plan of action is significant, not so much la its bearings on the personal fortune of the senior senator, as in the light it sheds on the state ot the . public mind in Nebraska. It goes to show, as this newspaper Bald yester day, 1hat even If the Insurgents at Washington should surrender and make peace with the dominant ele ment of the party the Insurgents out on the plains and prairies would still continue to fight. And the reason Is that the rank and- file of insurgents aro not fighting for patronage, or for admission Into a Joe Cannon caucus, but for principle In which they be lieve. They are thoroughly awake to tho fact that there prevails, in this nation today, a government by "The , System" Instead of a government by the people. They propose to keep on fighting to restore government by the . people and there Is no man or cotcrio of men so big that by an ukase of ex communication they can make them utop fighting. Senator Durkett has been tho half-and-half, milk-and-water type of in mirgent. Ho has been 49 per cent Insurgent and GO',4 per cent stand- imt. Ho has pursued tho path ot umi)iimist. lie has talked one way in Nebraska and another way In Washington. And he has talked ono way in Washington and voted an other, lie has sought, at one and the Hiinie time, to be Insurgent and re gular. He has tried to create the Im pression that he was representing the people of his Btate, and in sympathy with them, while al the 6ame time he was cheek by jowl with Aldrlch and Smoot. The failure of this policy to w in the approval of the folks back home shows that those pamo folks back home have enlisted for the war. They o not look on tho movement In which they aro engaged as a fake warfare, conducted for party advantage, but as a real war waged In the name of good government and popular rights. They have no disposition to compro mise, and they know how to fight. The Lincoln meeting was attended by Republicans like Attorney General Thompson, Mayor Love, City Attor ney Flaiisburg, Judge Frost, former State Superintendent MeDrien, form er Speaker Clark and others who have spent their lives and won honors In the service of their party. They aro no mere malcontents, fighting for personal advantage, or making trou ble because they thrive on It. .They are earnest and representative Repub licans, driven reluctantly, by flagrant act8 of betrayal, to take up armg against the unfaithful leaders whom a short time ago they delighted to honor. World-Herald. :o:- FROM TMK UUSY WORLD. John Williamson of Auburn, 111., on Tuesday crawled through a hedge dragging a loaded shotgun after him. In the excitement the gun was dis charged and John died. CarelesB, very earless, yet every day It happens. Think It over. Two men were suspended from the New York stock exchange for short periods for the manipulation of Rock Island stocks a few weeks ago. This stock. went up thirty points in a few minutes and then reacted back in a shorter length of time. The men were found by the governors of the board to be guilty of practices detrimental to the welfare of tho exchange. We Bhould believe they were. The speed of Insurgency In the Re publican party can be traced by the fact that Jas. M. Mann, member of the congressional committee from Il linois, has been forced to decline a re-election oh account of his Cannon views and Congressman McKlnley takes his place. The latter Is a Can non man but not bo pugnacious as Mann and the latter's retirement Is the result of the insurgent agitation. The expectation that the aviation meeting at, Los Angeles, would be the greatest In American history, If not in that of the world, seems destined to turn out correct. On Tuesday Glenn Curtlss, the American aviator, with a passenger made a Bpeed of fifty-five miles an hour, something never be fore done. In addition he secured re cords for rising from the ground and for running his aeroplane the short est distance before rising. Paulhan, the French star, failed In his efforts to establish a high altitude record, reaching but 400 feet. John F. Fitzgerald, former mayor of noston, who was defeated for re election two years ago on account -of chnrges affecting his administration, was last Tuesday once more elected, defeating Storrow, who ran on a good government ticket. As Is generally the enso about one term of reform administration Is all the people of a city want. Usually the reformers turn out to bo worse grafters than tho pco- pie whom they succeed and this seems. to have been tho prevailing Idea In lioston. Roth leadiug candidates were j complished real good. In many other Democrats, Iitston voting now under cases it has operated the other way. a non-partisan law. i j Mrs. James Hunt of Chicago and j Louis Paulhan who was oversuaw- Howard G. Cole also of said city, have lowed on Tuesday at t lie great a iatlon ' started tongues wagging because, for j meeting at Los Angeles by Glenn Cur-jsooth, they cr.iuniitted matrimony at tiss, vesurday reJur.K'd himself and j Jacksonville, Fla., cn' January 7. He 'established a new record for height, it remembered, Mrs. Hunt was di : reaching the unexampled distance of vorccd by Mr. Hunt because ho sus iat least i, COO feet. The judges of-jpxUed Mr. die was unduly Intimate filial record placed the distance at a little under 3,000 feet. He was iu the air more than fifty minutes, and came down in seven and one-half minutes. The meeting was a gran J one and has aroused the greatest en-1 thuslasm. Yesterday one of the sights of the meeting was when three bal - 1,....,.. I., l,rl,t ., IfK II,.. 1,1 ,r I 1UU1J9 VtUlU 111 OlbUL, mm UIq dirigible of Knabenshue and Beachey and Faulhan and his big by plane all in the air at once. Paulhan greeted In turn the balloons and the dirigible flying about, a vertiable manblrd. As an additional evidence of the growing strength of Congressman Norris of this state, tho fact that he has taken the initiative In protesting to the president on behalf of the in surgents against being classed as against the policies of the adminis tration ir.ay be cited. It Is said that a lively and highly entertaining cor respondence has been taking place between the chief executive and the Independent Nebraskan and that Nor ris has not spared words In stating plainly the character of men with whom the president has aligned him self. That he should have courage enough and conscience enough to place himself squarely on record, is an evidence that he Is well fitted to take the place of Durkett in the sen ate. The anti-saloon league of Nebraska Is stirring Itself and preparing to make a hard fight for county option at the coming election. In their or gans they are running quarter and half page ads., calling for all who favor that policy to send then a writ ten pledge to that effect. This would Indicate that If the liberal element In the state want to maintain what they construe to be their rights, they have to huBtle and organize: The principal appeal of the anti-saloon league Is to the ministers of the church. They declare an aroused church means a clear-cut issue. In connection with this fight it Is an nounced Mayor Dahlman of Omaha is to make a touf of the state in an automobile and speak against county opinion and prohibition but the au tentlclty of this state is questionable. Owing to the continuance of cold weather and the heavy snows over he corn belt, corn yesterday made an other sharp advance and gives every promise of reaching unheard of fig ures by next spring. The great quan tity of corn caught In the fields by the wet weather of November and held there by the sudden descent of winter is Influencing the market and it gives promise of soaring to the top of the list While the crop last season was a good one In the total there is a great quantity estimated from one-quarter to forty per cent of the crop still In the field with email prospect of being gathered be fore April and the loss must be very heavy. Wheat, on the other hand gives promise of going down to bed rock as compared with the price of the past few years. Illinois is about to pass a law per mitting cities in that state to adopt the commission form of government This system which had it's origin In Galveston, Tex., after the great flood and tidal wave has grown stead Uy In favor and many cities in many states now operate under It. It does away with the council manic form of government confiding the care of tho city to a board of commissioners con sistlng of three or five members. It does not abolish ring rule or graft, however, contrary to general belief, but it does reduco It to a more exact science. Tho right of the people to rulo under It's operation, however, is reduced to a minimum. The so-called "better element," usually a synonym for rich grafters, generally profit by the commission system, hence they all favor it. In many cases it has ac with her. Also, be it remembered, lMr. Cole was divorced bv Mrs. Cole because he had been seen with a "wo man in a pink gowa" and when said ; divorce was granted an injunction was issued restraining Cole from i t marrying Inside of two years unless jhe re-married. Now, they have gone and done it and the man Cole says he will stay In Jacksonville for some time to come. From what the court says, it will be well for him to do so as he surely is in contempt for his actions. Just, what can be done out side of Illinois Is doubtful but Cole and lady are exiles for a while at least. The case seems to have the good people of Chicago In some sweat. Incidentally, the first Mrs. Cole who was an Intimate friend of the second Mrs. Cole Is some scandalized over her conduct and will probably make a "scene" when she meets her. She! also may disturb Cole's serenity of mind at said meeting, However, little we wot! The Macedonian cry is raised from the white house at last. President Taft has definitely decided to call for help. eYsterday's Chicago Tribune has an official pronouncement of the president's position, as he views It, given to the country through the medium of It's able Washington re presentative. Without question the Tribune knows whereof it speaks, It represents the greatest and most up-to-date news service in this country. We are told that the president is bent on securing the legislature re forms to which he pledged himself in the national ccampalgn. We are also told that he intends to maintain the strength of the party of which he Is the titular head. Now, let's see the program: First, He intends to secure the enactments to the interstate com merce law aa recommended In hla message several days since. These recommendations In the main, are good. Second, He wants the federal In corporation law enacted. As the Ne braska state Journal says he creates 'A Zone of Lawlessness" for the big corporations. H1b federal Incorpora tion law means exemption from Btate control ot every big trust In the coun try. In effect, "t is a license to plun der the people, menace to the few rights remaining in their hands. These then, we are told, are the two pet measures he advocates, the one of deception and the other a downright betrayal of the people. The first to blind them, the second to loot them. No legislation at all is better than this program. Further In this authorized state ment from the white house, comes the statement that "the president natur ally is impatient at the action of certain senators and members of the house In Imputing notives to him which are discreditable and are cir culated, he feels, only for the pur pose of doing him injury in the eyes of the people &c." "The hand Is the hand of Taft but the voice is the of Cannon." Let any calm dlspas- lonate man read the paragraph print ed and say what it means. It means that La Follette, Clapp, Cummins, Drlstow and even Dolllver in the senate are beyond the pole that Norris, Murdock and the rest of the Insurgents are outlawed and no long er persona grata at the white house. In the Republican party it Is war grim, Implacable, red-vlsaged war The President casts his lot with Can non and Aldrlch. He takes tho place he agreed to take when ho accepted at their hands the presidency. He Is "safe and sane," andi from tho Jun gles of Africa, comes no word., "Tho Jungles are silent." Yet from their depths may como salvation of the Republican party. Over the na tional cnpltol and the white house looms a figure Inspiring and bold to honest Republicanism. It 13 the spec tre of a man whose record looks good to the Republican who Is such from principle. It is the'dim ghost of the man who has initiated reforms which were made for the people. It Is the terror to New Lork and Wall street one terror to New York and Wall .street Theodcre Roosevelt. Poli Jrs as played today is a strange game. Largely it is money, but in the end it will he justhe, Roosevelt, has his faults. They are many and grievous. At times he transcends the law, at times he is like unto an auto crat. Yet never has he been accused of being owned. A clever politician, has oft turned his sails to meet the favoring breeze cf public opinion but, more oft, he has loosed, all sails and rode out on adverse w ind landing In a fair harbor. Today he and his policies stand discredited in the house of his friends. In Africa he Is a companion to the Hon and the eleph ant, and he gives no word. But he will return Will he on his return, will defend his policies or will be eat from the hand of Cannon and Aid- rich? Time alone can tell. ' No sensations took place yester day at Los Angeles In the great avia tion meeting but the avalliblllty of the biplane for carrying passengers received an Impetus as nearly every machine in the contest carried at least one or two passengers and did it with ease. The way toward aerial transportation seems to lie open and within a very short time there will be regular passenger lines operating machines for transportation without doubt. Yesterday another big storm had the country in its grasp and old winter has been playing havoc with travel . and communication in the eastern states. Coal carrying roads have been badly crippled and Indica tions are for a lot of trouble with a coal famine In many eastern and mid dle west cities. The traffic of the railroads in other commodities has also been diminished and the result will show in decreased railroad earn ings for the month. ; ' :; ?. . - i An alleged "confession" of Ray Lamphere 13 printed today in a St. Louis paper. The confession describes In detail the many murders which this man claims to have participated In, in company with Belle Gunness at La Porte, Ind. The story Is a grue some one and doubtless In Its details would make reading anything but pleasant, yet It will doubtless sell the paper in great quantities. There is a serious question as to whether or not it is merely a well written piece of fiction and much doubt exists as to whether he ever confessed or not. As he Is dead, it will be hard to Drcooklze him. A Washington dispatch to the State Journal calls attention to the sudden leap Into fame of George W. Norris of the Fifth Nebraska dls trlct and in an extended article much praise Is given him. The article also states that it is only a question of time when Norrla will announce his candidacy for senator to succeed Bur kett. As Busy World has said before, if it must be a Republican from Ne braska by all means let It be Norris. He stands for something and he can be located when one wants to know where he la while the present senator Is colorless and plays both ends against the middle at all times. Nor ris would be of sufficient calibre to make his name ana tUe name of his state known as a member of the up per house. The Kansas City police have un earthed a great, big, sensation in the death of Col. Thos. Swope and his nephew Christian Swope, both of whom recently died. The authorities did not at first suspicion but the deaths were natural but later develop ments aroused suspicion that the two men were murdered for the many millions which Thos. Swope posses sed. It Is said that a man who would have Inherited the rich man's estate tried to Inoculate the entire Swope family with typhoid bacteria so that death might come In that way without throwing suspicion on him. This fall lug, he resorted to poison to accom pllsh his ends and succeeded. The vague outline of the story which has reached the public furnishes the foundation for a tale rivalling the most gruesome novels. As is nearly always the case, however, there seems little likihoed cf the villain escaping and the hand of justice is upon him. Ex-Chief Forester Pinchot yester day issued an extended statement to the people which touches the ques tion of conservation cf natural re sources and in which he defends his course and criticises the policy cf the administration In no uncertain tones. Pinchot also reiterates the belief that the resources are in peril and that the right of popular government is no less in peril, lie declares that he stands ready to back the government policies when they are right and to oppose . them when w hen they are wrong. The document on the whole is an able one and sounds like Pin- hot was all he has been credited with being a sound and true friend of the public and a patriotic official. Despite this he was decapitated and his overthrow which was sought for so long by the interests, was finally accomplished. Really the oft-reiterated charge that the government does not want consclencious officials seems to bear fruit in this case. The merry hades which Is envelop ing England has received an addition al boost in the shape of a solemn warning issued to the electorate by Joseph Chamberlain. Chamberlain, who is the dyed-in-the-wool leader of the English protectionists, comes out strongly for a high protective tariff and for the abandonment of the policy of free trade which has been the policy of the government for so many years. He is an advocate of the policy of protection as connected with Its colonies and believes In rais ing a high trade wall about all the colonies as against other nations. The adoption of the Chamberlain policy by England would probably lead to a tariff war between the nations which would have disastrous and far-reaching effects throughout the world. However, the Indications are that the Tories cannot win and that the pres ent government will be returned, al though It may be by a reduced ma jority. ' President Taft la said to have been appalled at the extent of the row he has raised In the Republican ranks and to have an appeal to the Repub licans to get together and cease their fighting. He denied that he intended to hold patronage from the insur gents unless they continued to fight the speaker and oppose party meas ures. This proviso about fighting the speaker will probably be a stumbling block toward a settlement of the trouble. Then again, what is to be done on the Pinchot matter? This may result In more grief for Pinchot Is the one man of all others who has brought matters to a crisis and the Insurgents cannot conscienclously de sert him now. Then again the in surgents have almost burned their bridges behind them bo far as the people are concerned. They have showsn the public the true inward ness of the Republican policies and the party control. They have ex posed the tendency of the party legis lation toward favoring the "inter ests" ond have plainly developed that the party machinery is ln the hands of the Aldrlch-Cannon crowd. How they can swallow all they have done and quit their fight, Is a mystery. $100 Per Acre. Harry Smith and brother A. W. Smith today closed a deal bywhlch a Mr. Nelson located at Carson, la., becomes the owner of the eighty-five acre tract of land lying north of Mr. Smith's property and owned by J. M. Roberts of the Plattsmouth State nank. The consideration is stated to be $100 per acre or $8,500 for the tract, a handsome figure and yet quite TeaBonable. The Messrs. Smith have located a number of Iowa farm ers in Cass county lands, they being able to secure good land cheaper here than alnd In their own locality Is selling. For Sale An 80 acre farm In Otoe county. 40 acres adjoining Platts mouth; also small acreage tracts. Windham Investment & Loan Co.