The
Plattsmouth - Journal
Published Semi-Weekly it Plattsmouth. lebrisku
R. A. DATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoflke at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
matter.
$L50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Some alleged newspapers are ex
pensive at any old price.
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The enactment of laws to make
men good inevitably falls. The place
where men are made good is in the
home circle when the mind is formed.
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Speaking of summer resorts Ne
braska in January makes a fine sum
mer resort. However, this is all for
gotten when the August sun commen
ces to get busy.
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The poet has wisely said that If
we paid more attention to enforcing
good laws we would waste less time
in making poor ones. This is com
mended to congress and the state leg
Matures.
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Every factory which Plattsmouth so
cures means more mouths to feed
and more people to clothe. Let the
good work go on and let the commer
cial club get busier than ever. They
have done well so far but there is
room for improvement.
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Several of the newspapers Inter
ested in the present predicament of
the Republican party say right out
that party harmony is a good thing
but that party Integrity Is several
degrees better. The Democrats found
this out several years ago.
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A Republican contemporary calls
attention to the fact that when Mr.
Bryan landed in Panama there was
an earthquake in Yucatan. Every
time Mr. Bryan lands in New York
thero is an earthquake among the
political bandits of that region also.
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The incarceration of John R. Walsh
In the penitentiary at Leavenworth at
the age of 72 years, Is a striking ex
ample of how the mills of the gods
grind "slow but exceedingly fine."
Justice triumphed in the end and a
life of delinquencies must pay the
Inevitable penalty.
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All the criticism of Ex-Governor
-.7 as. K. Vardaman of Mississippi who
Is leading In the fight for the Bcnator
hlp from that state, does not wipe
wut tho fact that he will bo a dis
tinct Improvement on many now in
the senate and that, too, in more
ways than one.
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Senator Thirkett is said to have
"lnsurged" a little in tho senate yes
terday because the commltteo on
order of business has been so slow In
having business done. The senator
Hoems to bo getting nervous and
wants back into Nebraska where his
fences are going Into a state of de
cline truly alarming. Well, may he
tnsurge.
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While everybody is sprinkling salt
on the sidewalk it might be observed
that the Idea is most excellent but
if It disintegrates the cement pave
ment underneath, the use of It be
comes highly Injudicious and It la
said to have this effect. Those who
are using salt this way had best take
warning and be sparing in its use
lest It cost a new walk.
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Another thing which should be
taken up and pushed to completion as
soon as the. weather permits Is the
.bridge over the Platte river Into
Sarpy county. This Is sure to bo built
this year and It Is understood that
the stock In the concern has all been
subscribed for. This being tho case
let the good work go on and let the
structure be completed without delay.
them Is the bank guaranty law which
the governor pladged the party and
himself to.
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The consumer in this country Is
paying the maximum tariff rates on
about everything he eats and wears
and ho one has heard talk of Taft
discussing Issuing a proclamation. It
Isn't necessary in that case as the
consumer Is within reach of the trusts
and the other beneficiaries of the Al-
drlch-Cannon bill.
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Now comes another iconoclast and
ruins all this beautiful theory of cold
weather being healthy. He says that
microbes and germs flourish In cold
weather and points out that ice cream
Is the most fertile producer of the
microbe In existence. How now, you
advocates of a fine winter weather?
Come on, get busy and explain where
you are at.
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Plattsmouth Is going to succeed. It
has secured two new factories since
the motto was adopted and it will
secure many mure before the slogan
becomes frayed and worn at the
edges. It Just can't help it. It has
the location, It has the railroad faclll
ties, it has the people and It has
the push. The end of 1910 ought to
see Plattsmouth at the top of the
heap with more factories to its pop
ulatlon than any town In Nebraska
All that Is needed is to get together
and push and we have got together
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crumbs from the great man's table
were there and the people received
their right amid loud acclaim. Be
it known to all men that Elmer J.,
the "thorn in the side of Aldrich,"
is the people.
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More factories, a Platte river
bridge and an interurban into Cass
county would make 1910 look like
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I a winner sure enougn. au inese
things are on the Journal's success
list for 1910 and all of them will be
accomplished if the commercial club
and the live wires of the city go
after them. Let a strong pull be
made for these things and when the
year has closed It will show a pros
perity record unequaled In the his
tory of Nebraska cities. Boom the
town and boost the boosters.
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The county option bill to be pre
sented to the legislature has been
drafted by tbe anti-saloon league
Isn't it about time for the ending of
this eternal farce of passing rid
culous and unenforceable laws. This
state has been cursed with this agl
tation until It well nigh sickens one,
The agitation and the passage of
such acts as the eight o'clock clos
lng act has resulted in the gradual
withdrawal of capital from the state
until it has reached a stage where
a halt Is necessary. Nebraska would
bravely he , tackles all the problems J rise to acknowledge our appreciation
hlch beset mankind. Fearless and! of a truly great mind. Let the wo-
alone he attacks the abstruse prob-lman dress Just as they please so
lems which have worried the human long as they dress.
mind for ages and when he has fin-
ished with It, It lies before his read- Richard Harding Davis who has
era a mangled and bleeding wreck, written some good novels which have
He sails Into the abuses which beset 1 been among the best sellers and
the public service and lo! they He which can be found in any good, re-
cold In eternal slumber when he Is liable Carnegie library with the backs
through with them. He vigorously land covers In a very dilapidated con
wields the ax upon moral delinquen- dition, now has a new side of life
cles and they are not. He even tackles presented to his vision. He Is about
the print paper trust and herein he to go through divorce court. A great
hath the struggle of his life but he many people regard a divorce action
will down It year, verily, It will be so. as next to being muck-raked and
Think this all over and you can see I probably Dickey will also when the
how truly a hero Is the newspaper I finish hoves In sight. Just' what ex-
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man. cuse Mrs. Dickey will give to the law
to: for hpr rieftlrp tn nnlto tha ereftt
INTERESTED? CERTAINLY.
war, correspondent Is not stated. The
'Believing that you are interested Dkv,se8 ha a resplendant wooin.
with all the romantic settings which
even his susceptible nature could ask
In the enactment of a ship subsidy
law." begins a communication re-
ceived by the Courier-Journal from and fter thelr ma"lae thev fiPent
the press bureau'of the Washington a noneymoon by the sad sea which
lobby. We interrupt to insist that the waa aream' " e UP
Courier-Journal is opposed to hoss weiiaaajr, us saa
thieves and all other kinds of thieves
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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TIT-TAT-TOO.
Illinois Is having a nice, quiet, lit
tie sideshow all to itself down at
Springfield, the state capital. It's
legislature is In special session try
ing to fry out a primary election law,
And while we are succeeding all
right, It might be Just as well to boom
a conference with the Burlington for
more shops for Plattsmouth. There Is
no good reason why this shouldn't
be done. The men now at the head
of that road realize that It has no
better friends on its line than in this
town. There is no prospect of labor
trouble here, the town has plenty
of room for more shops and Its peo
ple are willing to do the right thing
to get them, It has good water and
plenty of It and It has the best loca
tion on the Bystem for big shops.
What more can any corporation want
than this?
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Nothing to It, that anti-meat crus
ade Is some crusade. Already out of
ninety millions of . people some two
hundred thousand have stopped eat
lng meat. Tbe people who have to
work for a living, however, will find
It pretty hard to get along,
without a small section of the front
end of a steer for some time to
come. It is hardly believed that J.
Ogden Armour has yet sold his pack
ing house stock on account of the
boycott. More likely he will now cor
ner all the available canned goods
and the cheese market. It Is hard to
boat a trust magnate any way you
figure It.
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The plan of the "regular" Repub
llcans, as said to have been outlined, The plurality system or a majority of
Is to drown out insurgency by oppos- the votes seems to be the principal
have grown twice as fast as it has ing the nomination of every so-called stumbling block for the solons. Re
If this had been stopped. Insurgent at the primaries, and In cently they had up a bill which pro
;o: the event that they are nominated, to vided for direct plurality primaries
Illinois Is struggling with the prop- put out Independent candidates. The and an innocent looking amendment
osltion to strangle the hold of the result, they figure, would be the elec- was tacked on it providing all tickets
bosses on Its state polities by the tion of Democrats, be printed on one ballot identical
direct primary system. If Illinois They prefer Democrats to the In- with the Nebraska law. Now comes
has the same experience which Ne- surgent Republicans for the reason the press with the discovery that this
braska has gone through it will con- that they believe it would crush out means to give the bosses control of
sign the direct primary to" Gehenna insurgency, and they are of the opln- the primary by voting their men for
or some other seaport. The theory ion that this Democratic triumph any ticket they please. Cass county
is all right but under the Nebraska would be short lived, while the tri- realizes this is true for It saw It tried
law the grip of the boss is tighter Umph of insurgent Republicans might not long ago. However, the clever
than ever. The state and county com- mean permanent loss to the machine man who tried it found he had some
mlttees absolutely control the priraar- Republicans. trouble of his own and needed all
ies and name the nominees and there Their reasoning is wrong, In nu- his votes to nominate himself. The
Is no appeal from their decision. And merous districts In the ,west the In- objection to the scheme Is well found
the state and county organizations Uurgent Republicans are the "ma- ed.
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make as perfect a machine as the chine." They are in a large majority
orst boss ever dared to want. and will Drobably elect their candi- Late returns today show that the
o: Loto after imrnin them. Peoria Unionists In England are gaining
U U I V U fc v - - 1
right merrily on the liberals and
there is now a possibility of the de
feat of the government after all. The
returns look suspiciously as if the
tactics used in the United States In
1896 had been Imported into merry
Harrison Gray Otis, cCltor of a journal, Rep
Los Angeles paper, takes so much de
light in the dismissal of GIfford Pin
chot that he names him In the same
class with Dr. Cook. Anyone ac
quainted with the past record of Har
rison Gray Otis can understand why
this Is done and it makes another
glory. 'Tls such persons as Otis who
are worth having against one In this
world. His paper has always been the
most outspoken advocate of polit!
cal grafters In the world and it has Kaln lt mlght not
waxed fat and flourished In Its de
bauchery. When the sheet has pas
of GIfford Pinchot will Burvlve as
that of a man who truly loved the
public welfare and who devoted him
self unselfishly to it's betterment.
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At the same time Governor Rhal
Icnbcrgcr could do a whole lot worse
things than to call a special session
of the legislature. Thero nro many
things whick the Democratic party
stands pladged to In Us last platform
which they should make good before
they enter on tho next one. Among
Governor Shallenberger Is said to
be hedging on calling an extra bos
sion of the legislature and to want
a petition signed by a majority of the
members before so doing. If there
Is no necessity for one a petition
signed by the legislators should be
Ignored and If it la considered advls
able to enact new laws or to correct
the ones heretofore passed and since
held Invalid, then it should not be
necessary to wait for the legislators
to ask for tho session. The enactment
of the recommendations and pledges
of tho Democratic platform Into law
should bo sufficient retiBon for calling
tho solons together, lt the governor
considers this has been done, the
no session is necessary,
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Now comes that "thorn In the side
of Aldrich," Senator Burkett and get
Into tho game In Nebraska. Yesterday
great and vast outpourings of tho
people met up together and formed
nurkett clubs throughout tho state.
All the postmasters and all tho un
derlings who hope to cat of tbe
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FKOM THE BUSY WORLD.
The anti-meat crusade In Cleve
land, Ohio, includes eggs now. Why
not extend the list and refuse to eat
. I Enelflnd find that tho lnneer the. oler
at all? That makes a splendid and
ll Aiat h If la t,nt 1 e """J
enemy for Pinchot in whom he should for the money powers. This seems
. rt.i u However, lt might bring J. Ogden
ln.i frtti aimh noranna a a fit la tt.'nrtlv 0 a I . . t .. . ....
.u. De me nisiory or me wona mat
Armour, me uiem num., iuo ""6"'
. , . , j I money makes the mare go and also
trust, the canned goods trust and
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carries me elections. n,ngianu nas ai-
the milk trust off their perch. Then
ways made a lot of talk about the
sterling honesty of their elections and
Wellesley college near Dostlng has 8Uch rot bu lf ne may Judge by the
. .... - . I rhnrnptpr nf tho rhnnppa pnlnsr on
en mo tn tn rronL wun a Kin ui ouu .
sed into a merited oblivion, the name lhou8and Blmoleon8 tQ tne BtrIklng there, the greater part of the talk
shirtwaist makers of New York and h" hyproclsy of the rankest sort
also an order for one thousand peek- The victory of the Unionists would
a-boos. This enables the proposed Tea"t the passage of a tariff bill
co-operative Bhirtwaist factory to anl then the United States would find
start up. The scheme was mothered Put how tne 8ystem works- 0ne can
The snow is still on the ground but ft womftn from the mlddle not blame the manufacturers of Eng
lt Is not too early to commence to ga,d tQ b(J from 0maha( wn0 land for wanting a high tariff upon
agitate that interurban road from spok'e eloquenUy ,n favor of the the same theory that the United
Plattsmoutn into Lass county, ine 8chome There ,8 BOme clas8 to those States manufacturers want one to nil
young women and they have set some thelr Pckets,
hot pace by their action
W. C. Lllley, treasurer of a Pitts-
American products. The outcome of
the trouble with Germany and France
may be a tariff war but lt is doubt
ful. When the time comes for the
concession to be made they will be
made. Tariff wars affect the big
trusts too vitally to be allowed in this
ay and age.
Luther Burbank when he Invented
the thornless rose did not know that
Nebraska would persist in having at
least one of the old fashioned kind
but it does. Now there's Elmer J.
Burkett who was "a thorn in the side
of Aldrich," for Instance.
One of the freaks of nature took
place yesterday when a heavy snow
storm struck southern Georgia.
Thousands of people saw their first
snow and the curious freak attracted
great attention. There was a howling
gale accompanying the storm. A storm
of this kind in the latitude where It
occurred is something which north
ern people cannot appreciate. " t The
natives of that climate have been
used to warm weather for so long that
they do not know what winter is and
a strong wind with snow goes through
them like a knife.
We await with a good deal of In
terest the outcome of the Ballinger
Investigation. From the complexion
of the committee as finally made up,
we cannot see how the majority caa
find against him and we look for two
reports. The people will Judge the
reports from the general character
of the men making them and their
decision will be final. This being the
case we opine lt would have beea
better for Ballinger to have had a
committee not so overwhelming for
him to start with. However, the Ald-rich-Cannon-Taft
ring probably knew
all the evidence and lt needed a cast
Iron committee to stand the gaff.
Now we shall see the blood stream.
Attorney General Wlckersham haa
commenced a suit against the meat
trust and will dissolve lt. No doubt
of this. This is terror in the camp
of the packers sure "nuff." The price
of beef and pork will tumble now that
Wlckersham has whetted bis snick
ersnee and got after them. All this la .
possible and then again it is the
most unlikely thing in the world. Like
all the big fellows, the meat trust has
waxed strong and arrogant. It has
the goods and whether lt retains Its
corporate existence under the name
of the meat trust or under some other
name, there will be an understanding
as to prices.
commercial club could not do better
than to take this project up In the
spirit of making It a success and do
lng what lt can toward its building
Many of the good things which the burg, Pa., Presbyterian church who
Journal advocated last year have Walked off loavlng the church minus
come to pass and this can be made 22, 800, came back the other day and
to succeed also. It meanB a great L8ked to be cast into a cell. As the
big thing for Plattsmouth but for jaller nad no warrant for him he de-
every town in the county and for n,d nla reauest. He will be sloughed
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the farmers all over the county. It 1 1-tor. however, for his oilferlnK. LI1
will afford accomodations far Buper- hejr Cajm8 ne gave the funds to var
lor to those now given by tne rail- ,ou8 preachers who were poor and
roads and it would mult in a better hardup and needed the money. May
feeling throughout tho entire com- be he was technically wrong, but, be.
munlty. It means to the farmer an R known, many a good minister needs
even sharper advanco in the price the n,oney whilo many who ought
of his real estate and it moans an to jn jail, have it thrust on them
easy way to market for his products, killey may deserve commendation
It means a big boom In this city and
all other Cass county towns. In short, Another Solomon. In New York
It means prosperity. Think It over! la young woman was arrested by o
:o: detective because she was walking
At last the newspaper man is com- the streets in men's clotliees. When
lng into his own. A newspaper man arraigned before the police Justice,
In the east bus been awarded a Car- tho latter wanted to know wherein
neglo medal for heroism. This Is she had violated any law. As no on?
more like. Never In the history of could tell him, be promptly ordered
tho world has thero been tho like of her dlschargo, holding that there was
heroism as that shown by the news- nothing Improper In her dressing ns
paper man. Especially Is that true she pleased provided sho dressed.
today. Behold him In all hla pristine This is well, It Bottles another of the
glory, lie goes down to t'ae office and 'immortal rlglitB of woman and we
Washington opines that the Unit
ed States Is near to a tariff war with
Germany and France. All of which
is based upon the fact that Germany
has sanitary provisions in Us tariff
which excludes our dressed beef and
our cattle while Austria and Denmark
are allowed to enter under worse
conditions In their products. Unless
those provisions be modified or other
important tariff concessions be made
by Germany and France the good
entering this country from those
countries must pay the present tariff
plus 25 per cent additional. The
chance for both nations to get In un
der the minimum tarlk ends Mar. 21
The Dominion of Canada enters into
tho deal in that lt will be the bene
flclary of a deadlock between the na
tlons and wduld take away the Amerl
enn trade in the countries named as
It would not Impose the maximum
tarlg of the United States against
them. It Is but a few days since the
president, acting under the authority
conferred on him by the Aldrlch-Cun-non
bill granted the minimum talrff
to Great Britain, Italy. Russia, Spain,
Turkey and Switzerland as those
countries did not discriminate against
Representative Lloyd of Missouri
who was elected by the Republican
caucus as one of the Democratic mem
bers of the Ballinger Investigating
committee day before yesterday re
fused to serve and in this refusal he
was sustained by Speaker Cannon.
Last night the Democrats held an
other caucus and selected Represen
tative James H. Graham of Illinois
In his place. Representative Graham
was chosen unanimously and is un
derstood to be acceptable to the Re
publican majority. This Insures the
Democrats of two good men on the
committee and means that the probe
will be thorough if they are allow
ed to Investigate as they want to.
There was considerable Indignation
in the cauBus over the Republicans
refusing to allow Ralney to serve but
this feeling was suppressed as near
ly as possible by the managers of the
caucus.
Price reduced again M. E. church
parsonage, 8 rooms, bathroom barn
two lots price only $1400. '
R. B. Windham, Plattsmouth. Neb.
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