t
The - Plattsmouth - Journal
r ) Published Seml-Weeklf at flittsnoutb, Mehriskn
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Eiitered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
matter.
$L50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
The Ohio river 1b on a big ram-
less have to go out of business for
Somehow the plan of the regulars
to Ignore the Insurgents didn't work
out as weir as the Cannon machine
expected.
-tor-
confronts us" in these days of trusts
and combines, fostered by a high pro
tective tariff.
-:o:-
Thls week the harvester trust 1b
cutting a 20-milloin dollar melon,
which you'll have to admit is a very
neat Job of harvesting.
:o:
"There are no idle rich," says
Frederick Townsend Martin of New
York. And this Is true to the ex
tent, at least, that moBt of the rich
are busy getting richer.
:o:
And now Congressman Murdock of
Kansas has the temerity to suggest
that the leaks in the postal service
ought to be stopped. No doubt about
it, that young Mr. Murdock Is not a
safe person to be at largo in Wash
ington.
:o:
Sugar Indictments are going up
and have reached one of the officers
of the trust. It is not probable, how
ever, that they will get high enough
to reach the members of congress
who are responsible for the great
tariff wall behind which the stealing
of tho sugar trust have been securely
sheltered;
:o:
When President Cleveland appoint
ed Lurton to a United States Dis
trict Judgeship almost every Repub
lican paper denounced him for giving
such an Important place to an Ex
Confederate. Taft has Just promoted
Lurton by making him a member of
tho United States, Supreme Court. Do
you hear any wall coming from those
papers that assailed Cleveland? The
king can do no wrong.
:o:
Wo are in receipt of a voluminous
protest from tho Protective Tariff
League against the corporation tax
Imposed by congress. The protest
Charges that the tax Is unconstitution
al and urges newspapers throughout
the country to oppose it. We protest
against helping the protective tariff
THE GUARANTY LAW.
The Kearney Democrat expresses
the Journal's sentiment to a fare-you-well
in the following article. And
not only that, but it expresses the
sentiments of a big majority of the
voters of Nebraska, also:
A conference of the three govern
ors of the three states that have had
a bank guaranty law enacted by the
state legislature, and which laws
have been annulled by the courts,
have called a conference to talk the
Binuatlon over and determine If pos
sible the best action to be taken In
regard thereto. The governors of Kan
sas, Oklahoma and Nebraska will rep
resent the three states that have
enacted such guaranty laws. These
laws were enacted, not through or
by partisan manipulations, but
through and by the desire and the
demand of the people of these respect
ive states. For instance, take a look
at the result In Nebraska. Governor
Shallenberger made the guaranty
bank law an Issue In a state that was
nominally Republican by from 15,000
to 30,000 majority, and with an ex
piring legislature that in one house
contained but one member who did
not belong to the majority party, and
with only about half a dozen minority
members in the popular, or lower
house. And Shallenberger was met
on the stump by what was considered
a most popular governor , who was
running for re-election. The result at
the polls' even astonished the most
visionary dreamer, the personal of
both houses of the legislature almost
reversing Itself, and the anti-guaranty
banking law advocate was most vio
lently defeated for re-election. That
the people of this state emphatically
demanded this guaranty law there
can be no question, and It Is part of
the duty of the governor of this Btate
to use every honorable and consistent
page and property estimated as worth ( some time to come at least.
many millions of dollars is Bald to be
in danger of destruction. The prin
cipal seat of trouble is at Louisville,
Ky., and Cincinnati, O., where every
thing floating on the river Is threat
ened with being sunk by the tremend
ous volume of Ice which is rushing
toward the gulf. Indications are that
the rise in the Missouri will also
reach the Mississippi Just about the
time the Ohio flood gets there and
the lower river will probably make a
great deal of trouble all along its
banks. Near Louisville there Is an
Ice gorge sixty-five miles long which
threatens to give way at any time
and sweep the property along the
banks to certain destruction. Little
can be done to avert the disaster
which seems almost certain.
The elections in England so far
as they have proceeded Indicate that
the liberals retain power by a com
fortable working majority and that
the people have endorsed their taxa
tion schemes. The gains which the
conservatives made are bo small that
they do not appreciably affect the
total results and the probabilities are
that the house of lords is doomed
to be reformed. The contention of
the lords and the moneyed classes
that the liberal budget would ruin
the country evidently has failed to
bear fruit and the Increased taxes
whirh have been carried in the bill,
will go into effect. The members of
the labor party who are supporting
the government, are highly gratified
at the result so far as it has gone
and regard victory as a foregone conclusion.
San Antonio, Tex., ha3 been having
an epidemic of crimes the past few
months which has taxed their police
and detective force to the limit. Rob
beries, burglaries and murders have
followed each other with astonishing
frequency. The local officers claim
that the city is being over-run with
crooks from the north driven there
by the severe winter weather which
this country has been having. The
latest crime to stir the police up is
an attempt to assassinate detective
Frank Newman. Newman was shot
while setting at his supper table sev
eral days since, the crime being com
mitted with a shot gun. While badly
wounded he is now thought to be
out of danger and is said to be on
the highway toward recovery. The
officers are making strenuous efforts
to break up the gangs of criminals
and one party arrested for vagrancy,
has been given a sentence of a year
on the rock pile.
Mew Line To
The Northwest
Through The Big Horn Basin
The Big Horn Basin is fast settling up and offers the greatest op
portunities tor farmers, and especially farm, renters to secure fine gov
ernment irrigated farms at the mere cost of the water, and often a sin
gle crop can be made to pay for the farm, Ten yearly payments with
out interest. And this is cheaper than paying rent in any locality.
With the completion of the new line this promises to become a
great wealth producing region.
The oil, gas, and irrigation of the Big Horn Basin will make that
ountry a combination of farm and industrial prosperity.
Write we for full descriptive literature.
Go with we to the Basin and let me help you select a new home.
Dollar paid for rent are lost.
D. CLEM DEAVER, General Agent,
Land Seekers Information Bureau,
Room 6, "Q" Building, Omaha, Nebr.
Iinliiil!)riii
lliiiiil;
league to pull their chestnuts out of
the Are. The leugue helped make the means to have such a law adopted and
corporation tnx possible by aiding
In the election of a Republican presi
dent and congress. Ix't the league
now make the best of a bad bargain.
Personally wo believe in an Income
tax and the corporation tax Is of next
kin to it, hence we are not opposed to
it. In the meanwhile the league can
take up the battle and light It out
with the purty it helped to put iu
power.
:o:-
UK COMPLAINS.
Several days ago we had a conver
Batlon with a laboring man who has
lived hero many years. He complain
ed that for the first time In many
years he and his family had no
turkey for dinner this Christmas or
New Year's day. "I Just couldn't
afford to buy a turkey at the high
price I was asked to pay and at the
little work and Bmall wages I get
We asked him how conditions were
with him now as compared with the
panic in 1893. He replied that they
are infinitely worse. Bald he: "In
1893, I had more work to do than
now and got about the same wages.
In 1893 1 could buy from one-third
to one-halt more for ono dollar than
1 can now. Then I could buy plenty
to eat and wear for my faplly, but
now I cannot make ends meet, even
though we eat less meat and do
with less groceries and good cloth
ing." The experience of this laboring
man Is tho experience of thousands of
the laboring men throughout the
country. However, the riattsmouth
laboring man Is better off than the
laboring men of tho larger cities,
where rentB, fuel, light, water, meats
unci taxes aro very much higher. In
tho language of President Cleveland,
"it Is a condition, not a theory, that
placed In operation in spite of the
partisan and political attitude of our
courts which appear to take as great
an Interest in having this wholesome
law wiped out as do the advocates
of the national central banking
scheme. It 1b certainly Governor Shal
lenberger's duty to attend the guar
anty law conference, and If no other
way Is mado clear, it is his duty to
convene the legislature In extraordln
ary session and re-enact the law, and
keep on re-enacting It as often as
tho courts repudiate it until the peo
ple who deposit moneys in banks have
the same evidence of protection as is
demanded of the banks by these same
courts in handling the funds of the
government, both national and state
Governor Shallenberger has noth
tng to fear in fearlessly discharging
the demands of the people of his
state In reBpcct to bank deposits.
The great aviation meet at Los
Angeles yesterday resulted in some
additional demonstrations of what
can be done with the machines, both
Glenn II. Curtisa and Louis Paulhan
taking their machines out in a storm
of rain and wind and doing: almost
every conceivable trick with them,
(o the great delight of an Interesting
concourse of people who braved the
elements to Bee what could be done,
According to the papers Curttas got
a Utile the best of the exhibition and
did things which seemed Impossible
of accomplishment. The two aviators
got their machines under way and
accd about the course side by side
In the meantime cutting all kinds of
circles and angles and swinging about
like vertable thngs of lfe. The meet
Ing 1b certainly the greatest ever
given in this or any other country!
-:o:-
I UOM TIIK WHY WOULD.
Richard Olney, the prominent Mas
sachusetts Democrat and formerly at
torney general in Cleveland's cabl
net, Is reported as being quito ill at
his home in Doston suffering from ab
domlnal troubles. He la a very strong
and powerful figure In national poll
tics and has been at times spoken
of as a possible candidate for tho
presidency. That he may speedily re
cover Is the slncero hopo of many
who have known him by reputation
as one of the ablest attorneys in
tho country. At ono time he was
general counsel for tho Burlington
system when Perkins was its control
ct
ling factor. Ills best known public nc
probably was the famous Venezullan
message of Cleveland's admlnlstra nationality. Tho
Yesterday was a day of disasters in
the railroad world, there being three
bad wrecks iu different points in the
country. In Iowa two fast passen
ger trains of the Chicago, Milwau
kee and St. Paul road collided at
Kaystone, la., there being one killed.
one fatally Injured and nine serious
ly Injured. In Illinois near Flnckney
ville, one was killed and ten others
badly Injured in a collision between a
fast passenger train and a freight
train on the Illinois Central railroad.
Near Leadvlllo, Col., a freight train
waa wrecked and four men killed and
three injured, the train being on the
Colorado Midland. While the bad
weather is not blamed for any of the
wrecks, it has had the effect of mak
ing railroading very dangerous and
exceedingly difficult. That more fa
tal accidents have not taken place
is due to the extreme care used in
operating the trains.
The enginemen and conductors on
the Mexican railroads are said to be
on the verge of quitting their places
In a body, owing to a disagreement
over salaries and also becauso of al
leged discrimination against foreign
employes. Several conferences aro be
Ing held between the officials and the
men and it la hoped to arrive at some
kind of an agreement bo that the
roads may continue to operate. Tho
foreign employes such as the Anierl
cans who fill the position of train
and enginemen claim that they are
being discriminated against on ac
count of their nationality and that
Mexican employes are being accorded
special privileges on account of thel
desertion of tho
The Taft administration is deeply
concerned over the fate of the sev-
ral policies which the president advo
cates in contradistinction to those
known as Roosevelt policies. That
the bill to amend the Interstate com
merce law will pasB seems certain.
As to the bill to amend the Sherman
anti-trust act, there seems decided
opposition as it really provides for
the removal of the monster corpora
tions from control by the several
states and the people to control by
the national government and amounts
In effect to licensing them and pro
tecting tbem In their vocations. The
general run of the Republicans do
not want this done. The bills for the
conservaton of national resources is
another which seems to have rocky
sledding ahead of it. There is a ser
ious question as to whether or not
such bills do not validate the seizure
of the public resources by the trusts
and this Is something which is arous
ing opposition to them. Altogether
the prospect for the enactment of
the Taft measures is cloudy jutt now
but every effort will be made to carry
them lato effect. What the people
think of them remains to be seen
According to the papers this morn
ing the progress of the scheme for
stopping the fight in the house of
representatives between the regulars
and the insurgents Is not encouraging.
The latter are In a defiant mood and
are strong in their determination to
oust ispeaKer cannon from power.
All the negotiations which have been
on for some time In regard to get
tlug the two factions together seems
to be useless and the fight must go
to a finish. One of the funny features
of the war is the effort of Ylctor
Rosewater and his paper to make
Senator Burkett out as an Insurgent
Rosewater, with a fine sense of hu
mor, remaraa mat uurkett " was
more often a thorn in the side of the
Cannon-Aldrlch crowd than not." If
the senator has been a thorn In their
side what has La Follette, Cummins
and the rest been? Burkett as a thorn
Is a huge Joke. The real thoru from
this state Is George W. Norrls of the
Fifth district. Norrls has got some
thing to show for his lnsurging while
Burkett can show only forty-nine per
cent Insurgent and fifty-one per cent
conservative. The general trend of
Nebraska Republicans is toward In
surgency but It is not of the Burkett
variety. The senator will likely find
that he has not been a strenuous
enough insurgent to convlne tho peo
pie of his Intentions.
The Homestake mines at Lead, S
l)., will open today as non-union
mines. According to the press dis
patches there Is no trouble antici
pated and the mines will be operated
under a strong body guard. It Is
probablo that most of the old union
men have left the city and that there
aro not enough of them there to
make serious trouble. It Is to be
hoped that the forecast Is correct
and that the opening pussos'o IT without
bloodshed which hns been feared for
so long.
destruction of property and delay to
the monster liners which ply the deep.
The Lusitanla arrived In New York
Saturday with Its pilot house wreck
ed, the result of an eighty foot comer
which swept the vessel. According to
the officers of the boat, the waves
roared like an earthquake and look
like a mountain. The Augusta
Moll, a document
(great stale paper.
considered as a
Americans would result In rrlpplin
tho roads so that they would doubt
ed
Victoria was another vessel to suffer
from the storm and put Into Ply
mouth battered up. So far as known,
however, no lives were lost.
All doubt as to the triumph of the
people in England over the landed
classes and the moneyed men, are
now removed. The result of the bal
loting yesterday removed any lingeri
ng doubts and reassures the return
f the liberals to power by a ma-
ority but slighly under that in the
last house which was abnormally
large- Yesterday's elections resulted
in the return of John Burns whom it
was expected might have a defeat or
at the best a narrow majority. He
seems to have won handily. It is
almost certain now that the rejected
budget will aow pass.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s., grand
ury in Aeir York city which has.
been deliing into the white slave
traffic has located the price of a
young woman in that place as $2.0'.
Evidence adduced before them went
to shov that a twenty year old girl
was sold Into a resort in the city by
two young men who are charged with
abducting ber and selling her for
$20. They have been held for trial
in $7,500 bail. If a conviction Is
sustained In their case, they should
receive the extreme penalty of the
law which Is not then severe enough
for the enormity of the offense.
Great storms on the sea the past
sevearl weeks have resulted In much
I
The United States supreme court
yesterday affirmed the sentence of
John R. Walsh, the Chicago banker,
who was sentenced to five years im
prlsonment at Leavenworth, for mis
applying the funds of his bank. He
was the most bitter opponent William
J. Bryan had In the campaigns of
1896 and 1900 when he owned the
Chicago Chronicle. His paper bristled
with denunciation of Mr. Bryan and
those who followed his fortunes, there
being no Invective too strong for it
to apply to them. "Anarchist," "dis
honest" and the like were mild terms
Mr. Bryan is still outside the pen!
tentlary and has the proud satlsfac
Hon of being known as an honest
man while this man who denounced
him so bitterly, is wearing a felon's
stripes.
The conservation idea which has
been so prominently to the fore for
months past yesterday received an
added Impetus when President Taft
and ex-Forester Pinchot spoke from
the same platform in Washington on
the subject. The words of the two
men were practically the same and
each declared for conservation. The
trouble sterns to be that Pinchot
really has a record favoring con
servatlon while Taft speaks that way
but acts tho other. He wants a lot
more laws passed to accomplish Just
what rinchot has been doing, In other
words. The greeting accorded Pin
chot was fully as enthusiastic as that
given the president and he Is gen
erally accorded the distinction of be
ing a man who really does things
and is worth while.
Ex-Senator W. E. Mason of Il
linois is out today in an interview in
which he denounces Senator Aid rich
for an alleged plan to defeat the
postal savings bank scheme. Here
is another curious instance- of a con
fiding citizen gone wrong. If Mason
ever had the idea that Aldrlca was in
favor of a postal savings bank, he
shows a lack of perspicuity simply
amazing. Aldrlch Is not In the sen
ate In the Interests of savings banks.
He has always been against such
ideas. Aldrich has generally been re
cognized as the mouthpiece cf the
trusts and the Wall street interests
and for an ex-senator to even intimate
that he believed him otherwise, is to
expose of perceptive faculties simply
amazing. Of course, Aldrlch is against
postal banks and of course postal
savings banks will not pass. The only
tanking system which will go through
If Aldrlch and Cannon have their
o
say will be the central bank plan to
Jbe controlled by Standard Oil and
Waif street.
Congressman Hitchcock of this
state does not propose to be outdone
by Congressman Norrls or others and
yesterday he got into the limelight
with charges affecting Secretary Bal
linger which are described as sensa
tional in their nature. Mr. Hitchcock's
charges include extravagance and fa
voritism in the land office as well as
misappropriation of the funds of the
department. He charges that the
funds of the department were im
properly used in paying the expenses
of the nephew of the secretary. Ow
ing to the specific nature of the
charges there was a hurried meeting
of bureau chiefs in the department
to locate who had been giving out the
information. It is probable there will
be a lopping off of heads In tho de
partment in consequence of the
charges. Another Investigation will
now be had of Balllnger on these
charges as they are of such a nature
that they cannot be overlooked and
If he' can substantiate them it la
hard to see how Taft can keep the
secretary In his official family.
It is now denied from Washington
that the suit of the government to
dissolve the merger of the Union
Pacific and the Southern Pacific rail
roads is to be dropped. According to
the report as given out several days
ago President Lovett of the roads
had called upon President Taft and
Attorney General Wlckersham and
the three had gone over the cases to
gether with the result that Wlcker
sham advised the dropping of the
suits on the ground that the govern
ment did not have evidence to sus
tain them. An immediate protest went
up from the press of the country and
this was followed by the announce
ment that the agreement contem
lated the voluntary dissolution of the
merger. Now it la stated that the
cases will not be dropped but will be
prosecuted to a finish.' It remains
now to be Been whether or not the
evidence warrants prosecution or
whether the supremo court decides
that the merger is authorized by
law.
