The Plattsmouth - Journal
t ) Published Semi-Weekly at Plattsmouth, Nebraska
R. A. DATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as Becond-class
matter.
SL50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
If he decided that he would bring because leather and other materials
In 11,000 worth of champagne, one! entering into their manufacture have
of the Items upon which there is j gone up. The Inquirer points to this
a large Increase, the tax levied by! as evidence that high prices are not
AXOTIIEU GOOD LAW.
The "man higher up" is always Just
out of reach.
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There will be a great huff on the
Congo when a certain faunal natural
ist hears of Judge Hough's decision.
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In sympathr with high prices pea
nuts have also taken an upward turn.
What shall we- buy for the children?
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Scientists are unable to agreo as
to where DeRake'B comet came from,
but they must agree that It's on its
way.
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Butter and eggs are now some
what cheaper, and very soon persons
in moderate circumstances can al
most afford to eat them.
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Two Drcadnaughts a year is the
naval program favored by Taft. Also
he would not mind having Clifford
Pinchot used as a target.
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The shoe manufacturers announco
an Increase In the price of their
goods cf 12 per cent. Glad summer
is approaching so we can go without
shoes.
Abstinence from meat, chemist
Wiley says, will produce a race of
mollycoddle s. And patience under
the present meat prices Is prima facie!
evidence of niollycoddlclsm.
Senator Dolllver denuded an in
surgent last night us "a man who
simply desires to have the bill ready
before It is adopted, and who Is pre
Judlclced against hand-me-down leg
islation cf any sort, kind, or chat neater."--
Kanan City Star, Rep.
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Conversely, ft regular may be le
lned us a man who desires to shut
his eyes and vote for any measure
proposed by the organization on be
half of the large business Interests
that furnish the campaign funds.
Kansas City Star, Rep.
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The subsidized news distributors
Trom Washington are sending flaming
accounts of how Taft Intends to smite
the trusts, to Hatlsfy the insurgents,
-as they claim. He will also push the
hhlp subsidy bill and the central bank
bill and the postal savings bill. It la
expected that the suckers will take
any old thing thrown to them as bait.
Fool 'em all the time.
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There will be a meeting of -the
Democrats of the state held at Lin
coln on Monday, February 14, to
which all members of the party will
be invited. In the evening a banquet
will be given. Home of the best speak
ers In the nation will be present to
address the assembly. Uegln now to
arrange your matters so that you can
attend. Cass county should be well
represented.
clare that the boycott will not harm
the packers to'any appreciable extent
but. will work great Injury to the
stock raisers. A meeting of farmers
and others Interested has been held,
according to the Kansas papers, and
the threat Is made that if the boy
cott Is continued they will organize
a counter boycott, In self defense,
against the products of union labor,
Inasmuch as the labor organizations
are the prime movers In the apt!
meat crusade.
There Is much truth In the conten
tion of the stock raisers that they and
not the meat trust will be the chief
sufferers from the anti-meat propa
ganda. The movement Is bound to be
of ephemeral duration, at the end of
which up will go the price of meat
again. In the meantime the trust
will have been given fine opportuni
ties to purchase cattle at extra lew
prices, from which it will reap ex
traordinary profits when the reaction
conies. A boycott Is a cure for high
prices is a poor remedy. An open
market for the world's products Is
the only efficacious and lasting cure
for the woes cf the consumers. Free
trade would give the meat trust a
blackeye. Thirty or 60-day boycott
only make t he octopus grin.
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SIGXII ICAXT REASONS.
While out In the west part of the
county last week severul young Dem
ocrats talked of applying for census
enumerators, and wanted to knowi
what we thought about It. We told!'
them that no Democrat need expect
such an appointment In Cass county,
notwithstanding the fact that Presi
dent Taft has Bald that polltlrs Bhould
notenter Into the matter. When ap
plication Is made to the local bosses
for endorsement to enter the exami
nation the first thing asked Is what
Is the politics. Such peanut methods
are contrary to the president's wishes,
but local partisans can not measure
up to falrnesB in the matter. No
Democrat should apply, because he
will simply be made a football of
by the local bosses. But let Demo
crats have good memories and not
forget the local bosses.'
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Tin; wrong remedy.
The Kearney Hub and Fremont
Tribune are two of the strongest
"Btand-pat" and pro-Burkett newspa
pers In Nebraska.
Let us see why the editors of
these papers are so much' In lovo with
the Cannon-Aldiich bunch. Who Is
the editor of the Kearney Hub? Mr.
M. A. Drown. ' Who is postmaster of
Kearney? Mr. A. Brown. Who ap
pointed Mr. Brown to his present fed
eral office? E. J. Burkett, senior
senators of Nebraska. It's not hard to
reconcile Mr. Brown's love for federal
c.fflce and his high regard for Bur
kett and all he represents.
Who Is chief owner of the Fremont
Tribune? Ross Hammond. Ross Ham
mond, If we are not mistaken is also
collector of Internal revenue at Oma
ha, a position paying Mr. Hammond
In the neighborhood of $5000 a year.
Who appointed him to this position?
The answer is too hard, bo we give it
up. Therefore, we should say in our
calmer moments that Mr. Hammond
would be quite ungrateful to object
to Mr. Burkett getting-another term
as senator. Of course, these two men
are unbiased and unprejudiced; na
turally they represent public Bentl-
ment. Of course, their views on the
political situation in Nebraska are In
accord with the opinions of the rank
and file, why Bhould our "stand-pat"
friends hold them up as examples
of true-blue Republicanism! A man
with a federal Job sticking out of his
pocket is not fighting Burkett. He
the tariff is $500.
if Jie brought In 1,000 worth of
blankets he would pay a tariff tax of
$1,645.42.
If he brought In $1,000 worth of
paintings and statuary, all he would
have to pay as customs duties would
be $200.
If it were sugar he would pay
$788.80 tax on $1,000 worth.
If he brought in $1,000 worth of
Jewelry he would have to pay $600
tariff tax.
But If he brought in $1,000 worth
of wool dress goods he would pay
$1,050.92 tariff.
If he Imported a $5,000 automo
bile the tariff takers would relieve
him of $2,250.
If It were $6,000 worth of yearns
the tariff tax would be $6,960.
If the Importation were $5,000
of furs the tariff tax would be $1,650.
But If It were $5,000 worth of
clothing that tax would be $4,330.
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If you are a booster Jump Into
the booster wagon; If you are not
a booster Jump out of town, and the
sooner the better It will be for Platts
mouth.
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So far as heard from Billy Thomp'
son of Grand Island, and O. M. Hitch'
cock of Omaha, are the only DeniO'
crats announced for United States
senator. Either one would be a big
Improvement over Slippery Elmer,
who has misrepresented the people
of Nebraska about long enough.
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Congressman Anthony's proposed
addition of $100 a year to the sal
nries of rural mail carriers because
of the "increased cost' of horse feed'
should be increased at least $173 so
as to Include the Increased cost of
horseshoes, currycombs, harness and
vehicles, under the beneficent tariff
system, which Mr. Anthony voted for,
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ttributable to high tariff. But un
the lnw n:iHipri :v the latu 8p-;inn nf
fortunately for the argument the
Inquirer' article lets the cat out of
the bag near the close by the admis
sion that the leather business of the
country Is controlled by a trust.
That'a Just the rub. The leather trust
took advantage of the free hides
schedules to buy up all the hides and
then shove the price up beyond the
former water marks, thus reaping ex
orbitant profits and "getting even"
State Inspector of Oils, Arthur
Mullen, has filed hi3 annual report
with the governor, which shows that
the legislature, has saved the users
of oil In this state the sum of $250,-
000, by admitting the oil products
of Oklahoma and Kansas to Nebras
ka. No law passed in years has been
of so much benefit to the public.
One of the changes made In the
law permits the inspection of all oils
used in the state. Under the old law
It was contended that only oils sold
in the state could be inspected. Tho
with the neoDle who demanded free
hides at the Bame time. So long as reP" rere" 10 tne acu011 01 80me
there are trusts there will he cdm- of tne railroads In not allowing their
mercial piracy and bo long as there 0,1 to be inspected and refusing to
Is a protective tariff there will be Pa inspection fees
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trusts. The people will not be re- It shows that since the first of last
lleved of their burdens by the low- April all railroads have permitted
ering of a duty here and there. The their oils to be Inspected, and the
trusts must be smashed and the way various companies have paid nearly
to crush them is to repeal all tariff $1,300 to the department in inspec-
duties.
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POOH ADVERTISING.
While In Lincoln the other day we
learned that there will be at least
three Republican candidates for con
gress In the First district Judge
Cosgave of Lincoln, Will Ilayward
of Nebraska City, and E. M. Pollard
of Cass county, with the sentiment
decidedly in favor of Ilayward. The
Republicans seem to have had ah
they wanted of Pollard with his
friendship for Old Joe Cannon and
the ship subsidy.
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The people of the west are begin
ning to get their eyes -open to the
fact that the east Is determined to
have everything their own way, or
they don't Intend to play. As long
as the schemers can contrive the ways
and means of draining the people of
the west of their surplus earnings,
they are satisfied, but when the halt
Is called on them, they kick ltke a
bay-Bteer. The people of the west
want to keep their eyes wide open
to their refarioua schemes.
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Merchants in this city who cannot
be persuaded to use. advertising space
In their home newspapers for love or
money, considering it money given
for "charitable purposes," as one
mossback merchant puts it, will break
their necks to give fakers cf the
hotel register class a "piece of their
money" which they might better do
nate to the poor. There Is a man
In town now soliciting advertising for
a purpose that will do the merchants
of this city absolutely no good, al
though those who have donated so
freely, when they read these lines
will call , us fools for putting them
next to a game which is worked sole
ly for the purpose of mucting the
public. The same amount of money
spent in judicious advertising In the
home papers, with known, paid-in-advance
circulation, would bring re
turns. These fake schemes are ab
solutely worthless and it is a shame
that Nebraska City business men will
still persist In paying out their good
profits to fakirs. Nebraska City
Press.
The above is as true as steel, and
tlon fees. The change in the law of
such vast benefit to the public, how
ever, is the feature opening the great
oil fields of Kansas and Oklahoma
to the gasoline users of this state.
The old law, in effect, directed all
users of gasoline to purchase eastern
oils. It prohibited the neighboring
state of Kansas from selling one of
its principal products in the markets
of this state. It compelled the people
cf this state to pay hundreds of
thousands of dollars in unnecessary
freight charges. By requiring all gas-
oline users in the state to use 68
degree gasoline, it created a demand
and increased the value of 68 degree
gasoline. By closing the markets of
this 6tate to Kansas gasoline, it, in
effect, reduced the value of that pro
duct.
Attention Is called to the effect the
present law had on the price of gaso
line. The day it went into effect, the
wholesale price of gasoline was re
duced 2 2-3 cents per gallon. Since
that time the average reduction in
the wholesale price of gasoline in this
state has been 2 xk cents less per
gallon that it was for the same period
in 1908. '
As shown by the report, from Janu
ary 1 to March 31, 1909, none of the
Public Auction.
I, the undersigned, have disposed
of my real estate and expect to leave
Nebraska in the near future, I will
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder at my residence one mile west
and five miles south of Plattsmouth.
and one mile east and one and one-
half miles north of Murray, on
. FEB. 17. 1310.
the following described property;
LIVE STOCK
One span of geldings, weight 2500,
age twelve years, one span of bay
mares, weight 2000, age eight years.
one span of brown mares, weight
2500, age fourteen years, one bay
mare with foal, one gray mare,
weight 1100, eleven years old, one
gray horse, weight 1100, five yeart
old, one span hay mules, weight
2000 coming 3-years old, one span
dark mules, weight 1800, five years
old, one mare mule, two milk cows,
five brood sows.
IMPLEMENTS.
Four farm wagons, one hay rake.
one riding cultivator, one Bet farm
harness, one Smith stump puller,
new; 25 rods woven wire, five feet
high, one movable chicken coop,
shingle roof; two hundred fence
posts, six cords of dry woods, one top
buggy, one 1-horse wheat drill, one
hay rack, one saddle, one mowing
machine, two riding listers, one disc,
one single buggy harness, four dozen
white Plymouth Rock hens, one dozen
white Plymouth Rock roosters, twen
ty bushels good variety potatoes,
some household goods and numerous
other articles.
The Ladies Aid Society of Murray
Will Serve Lunch at Noon.
TERMS OF SALE.
All sums of $10 and under, cash
In hand; all sums of $10 and more
six to twelve months time will be
given on bankable notes bearing 8
per cent Interest. No property to
leave premises until settled for. Sale
begins at 10 o'clock a. m., sharp.
F. M. VOUXG, Jit., Owner.
Robert Wilkinson, Auctioneer,
W. G. Boedeker, Clerk.
Miss Marie Kaufman, the popular
postmistress at Cedar Creek, was a
visitor today in the city attending
to business matters and while here
made the Journal a very pleasant
call. Miss Kaufman who is one of
the leading business women of the
county, has been giving excellent sat
isfaction In the office of postmistress
and her patrons are well pleased with
her administration of the office.
gasoline used in this state came f-om
should have been printed In letters of Kamja8 or Ok,ahoraa glnce the pre8.
ent law went Into effect practically
all of the gasoline used came from
gold, if it would only accomplish its
purpose. Plattsmouth merchants are
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NOT LESE MAJESTY.
knows better. Nebraska City Tress,
Rep. 1
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RElTItLlCAV TARIFF MAKING.
Kansas papers say the farmers and
The last congress enacted some
tariff laws that are not appealing to
the tax payers, or men only fairly
well provided with this world's goods,
Judging from the constant howl being
raised by the "Insurgents" and others
who think a tariff law should be for
tho purpose of "revenue" and notjis
a matter of protection. In the mak
ing of a tariff law, one would natur
ally suppose that those least able to
bear the burdens of taxation would
not be discriminated against In favor
of thoso best able to pay the tax
Involved In any tariff levy.
But what are tho facts?
The man who Imports $1,000 worth
of diamonds pays a tax of but $100
10 per cent.
If ho Imported ft thousand shirts
Some Imaginative newspaper cor
respondent at Washington became
imbued with a wild Idea the other
day that the administration was real
ly going to do something to relieve
tho common people who are suffering
from the exactions of the trusts. How
such a wholly fantastic notion ever
gained currency 1b a mystery, but It
did, and the newspapers published
glowing forecasts of a Taft trust-
busting crusade. The trust heads and
Wall street stock manipulators were
annoyed exceedingly by the publica
tion of Buch foolishness. So Mr. J.
J. Hill was sent to the white house.
He had a brief Interview with Mr.
Tnft, at the conclusion of which the
president issued a statement deelar
lng that the "sensational Btate
ments" published In the newspapers
were unauthorized and without
foundation and that there will be no
"Indiscriminate prosecution of Im
portant Industries." The Important
industries may therefore contlnuo In
the pleasant pastime of picking the
people's pockets with renewed assur
ances of distinguished consideration
from the great man at Washington.
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u, ui, meiuuHum. tb0ie 8tates. From April 1 to De.
nwA - 4 l i,a I
uulu" i mi '- cember 31, 1909, 6,332,829 gallons
it this city, we publish the above to of Kansa8 and Oklahoma gasoline
put them next. lorn. InannMuH hv Ma Honnrtmont
The public saved 2 cents on each
gallon. The total saving for the per
iod of nine months Is $158,320.72
Judge Hough, of the United States Th,s amount is an actual saving to
district court, declines to subscribe to the a8oHne U8ers of Nebraska. An
the doctrine of lese majesty and dis-1 effort was made to convince the leg-
misses the suit of the government Mature that it would be detrimental
against the New York World. ana injurious to me people or iNeDras-
It will be remembered that this ka lf a law were passed allowing
case was the outcome of publications western gasoline to be sold. The fig
In the World of certain phases of the ures how that practically all of the
Panama canal acquisition, whereby gasoline sold in the state, after the
the government paid $40,000,000 for law Paa8t'd, came from Kansas and
the property and rights of the old Oklahoma. The ratio in favor of
French company. President Roosevelt these atatea waa ?,4 t0 L Tne work
made the matter the aubiect of ings of this law Is a complete answer
special message to congress, in which t0 tne arguments made against it
he denounced the World and Its pub- Tne Pol,( V and tho wisdom of the
Usher, Joseph Pulitzer. Mr. Roosevelt legislature in passing this law has
also Inspired the government's libel been vindicated. No other single law
suit against the World on the ground Passed by the legislature has been so
that the newspaper had slandered the beneficial to the public
government in saying disagreeable
Chris Miller, one of the best citi
zens of Murray, was in the city yes
terday attending to business matters,
having driven in from his home.
stock raisers of that Bectlon are up j worth a dollar each, ho would have to
In arms agaliiHt the mcnt boycott leave at tho custom houso nnd tack
which has spread with such rapidity onto the selling prices $601.90
within the past few weeks. They d- r,(Ur per cent.
things about the president's brother
In-law," Douglass Robinson; the can
didate for the presidency, William II.
Taft, and his brother, Charles P.
Taft.
In quashing the indictment the
court said: "If the1 statute on which
the indictment is based be strictly
and absolutely construed It would
extend the Jurisdiction of federal
courts in a manner which, I may Bay,
I would regard as alarming."
The men whose grievances the gov
ernment sougth to make its own In
this case has ample remedy, if they
had been unjustly dealth with, In the
libel laws of the state of New York
nnd tho courts of that common wealth
Tho taking over by the government
of their individual grievances was a
radical innovation and plainly an ap
plication of "big stick" principles. It
was Intended as an Intimidation of
tho press of tho country nnd had tho
The Philadelphia Inquirer gloats
over tho fact that In spite of the
repeal of the duty on hides it Is an
nounced that shoes are to cost more been a death blow to a free press.
RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS WANTED
The Government Pays Railway Mall
Clerks $800 to 91,200, and Other
Employes up to $2,500 Annually.
Uncle Sam will hold spring exam!
nations throughout the country for
Railway Mall Clerks, Custom House
Clerks, Stenographers, Bookkeepers
Department Clerks and other Govern
nient positions. Thousands of ap
pointments will be made. Any man
or woman over 18, In City of Coun
try, can get Instruction and free In
formation by writing at once to th
Bureau of Instruction, 79 J Hamil
ton .Building, Rochester, N. Y.
Robt. Gillam and family who hav
been -visiting In tho city with friends
nnd realtlvos, departed this mornin
for Lnwton. Okla., where they will
make their ney home. They hav
been living in Pes Moines, la., for
some time past but Mr. Gillam con
eluded to make a change, hence th
ttin to Lnwton. He reports work as
cubo been sustained it would have plentiful at Des Moines and hopes t
1 find the same condition at Lnwton.
Public Saie.
The undersigned will sell at pub
lic auction, at his home two miles
east and one mile south of Cedar
Creek, and nine miles weBt of Platts
mouth, on
Friday, Feb. II, 1910
the following property, towlt:
HORSES and MULES
One black mare, ten years old,
weight 1300, one gray mare, eleven
years old, weight 1350, one black
horse, nine years old, weight 1400,
one bay horse, thirteen years old,
weight 1300, one bay mule, four
yearB old, one black mule, three years
old, one bay mare, one yea rold, six
head of shoats, 10 cows, one heifer.
FARM IMPLEMENTS
One 12-inch brush plow, one 14-
inch stirring plow, one Solid Com
fort riding plow, one Hummer rid
ing plow, two Ave-y cultivators, one
John Deere two-row machine, one
McCormick binder, one Deerlng
mower, one McCormick mower, one
Sterling hay rake, one Farmer
Friend corn planter, one Western
Belle lister, one Sattley lister,
one Sterling force feed seeder,
three good farm wagons, one
wagon and hay rake, two spring wa
gons, 28 foot corn elevator, one top
buggy, one carriage, nearly new, one
bob sled, one 3-section harrow, one
2-row Pekln curler, one Center Belle
disc, one Superior Press drill, one
roller, one Daln feed grinder, one Ad
vance fanning mill, one lard press,
one meat grinder, three sets 1ft
Inch work harness, one set 1 M Inch
work harness, one set W inch har
ness, one set buggy harness, and
many other articles too numerous to
mention. Sale to commence at 11
o'clock a. m., sharp.
Free Lunch nt Noon.
TERMS OF SALE.
AH sums of $10 and under, cash
In hand, and all over $10, a credit of
twelve months will be given, pur
chaser giving good bankable paper,
bearing eight per cent from date.
All property must be settled for be
fore being removed.
G. P. MEISIXGEK.
William Dunn, Auctioneer.