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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1910)
The Plattsmouth - Journal Published Seml-Weeklj it R. A. BATES, Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE The Democratic hosts of Nebraska will gather la Lincoln on Monday, February 14, to enjoy a banquet and listen to Democratic orators expond Democratic doctrine, pure and sim ple. It should be remembered that every Democrat ia invited -to come and enjoy the lovefeast. :o: The Democrats of Nebraska should get themselves in readiness to enter the battle next fall, and it behooves every voter who believes In the Decla ration of Independence and the con stitution to get In line to save the country from the clutches of the money power. :o: .static general fund. More Tlmn $100,000 in the Long Deleted Fund. Immediately under the above head line on February 3, the Lincoln State Journal, page 1, second news sec tion, appeared the following: "For the first time in the history of the state, so far as known, the state treasurer has $ 1 00,000 in the general fund and the state Is out of debt." There is an Interesting story con nected with this. After many years of Republican mismanagement, the state of Nebraska found Itself burd ened by a debt of over $2,500,000, all In interest bearing warrants is sued by Republican treasurers. The Holcomb-Poynter administration re duced this debt approximately half a million dollars, the Demo-Pop. admin istration being the first tp reduce In stead of Increase the state's out standing indebtedness. Later a Re publican legislature introduced and passed what Is known as the "Sheld don law," which provided for a heavy tax for the especial purpose of wip ing out the debt. The law was un successful but the people pnld a direct tax in order to wipe out a heavy Indebtedness Incurred under Repub Jlcan mismanagement. The Democratic legislature of 1909 amended the Sheldon law, thus re ducing the tax burden upon the peo ple. But thot same legislature enact ed the corporation tax law, which hag already, within twelve months, brought $70,000 in fees into the state treasurer. The oil Inspection bureau has also added something like $10, 000 more than ever before turned over to tho state In any one year. Thus, under Democratic administra tion, within twelve months, a burd ensome tax is removed from the shoulders of the people, and a Bur plus of $100,000 piled up In the gen eral fund.' The more you study tho record of the present Democratic administra tion, the more certain It becomes that the Democratic legislature of 1909 was the best In the history of the state. : o; BENEFIT TO THU PEOPLE. There wus enacted by the late legls lautre a law regulating salo of oils and gasoline In Nebraska,. which took ef fect April 1, 1909, has resulted thus far In a saving to tho consumers of oils and gasoline In this state, for a period of nlie months covering Its operation to January 1, of the pres ent years of $158,320.72.' The new law in effect reduced the specific gravity tent on gasoline from 68 to 62 degrees, which per mltted the sale of Kansas and Okla homa oils and gasoline In Nebraska, which were formerly excluded by the provisions of tho old law from our markets. On tho very day the new oil bill took effect, the wholesale price of gasoline in Nebraska waB re duced 2 2-8 cents' per gallon. Under the old law the railroads refused to pay inspection .fees to tho state forjgreat .trusts and corporations, not the reason that they contended they withstanding the fact that practically were exempted from the provision! of all the trust prosecutions that have Plattsmoutti, Nebnsku Publisher. the act, by reason of the fact that they were users of oil and not deal ers. The new act specifically Includ es oils used by the railroads and by reason of this provision the several railroads of Nebraska during the per iod of nine months covered by the report of State Oil Inspector Mullen, paid to the state of Nebraska in In spection fees $1,271.15. This Is only another piece of leg islation enacted by the late Demo cratic legislature that has resulted in a great benefit to the people and will, during the present bl-anum, make a direct saving to the consumers of all in Nebraska of a aelttsotaolntta oil In Nebraska of at least a quarter million dollars. -:o:- TIIE TRUE SPIRIT. Our old friend, Judge William Peebler of Nelson, who was post master of the house of representa tives at the recent session of the leg isluture, and who was elected county Judge of Nuckells county last fall, writes the following to the Omaha World-Herald. There Is considerable sound logic in this article, and suits our views exactly. The judge is a rock-ribbed Democrat, and what he says comes direct from the heart, and makes good reading for Democrats That Is one reason for giving the let ter space in our columns. Judge Peebler says: "As a Democrat I have been fol lowing with Interest the discussion pro and con of the Democratic party's Interest and duty In and to tho Re publican Insurgents. It was pleasing and instructive to read Mr. Metcalf's strong and sure enough Democratic letter In the "Public Pulse." No false, note there. It Is usually safe to trust Mr. Metcalf on fundamental principles of common senso. Hut, !Mr. Editor, does It not seem as though some of our party friends are grow ing a little hysterical about tho so- called "Insurgents?" "For the sake of the argument, let It be granted that all the house and senate Insurgents 'are actuated by honest convictions In opposing Can- nonlsm and Aldrlchlsm, and not be cause they have seen the trend of the western voter and for political safe ty's sake have Joined the procession; then, that granted, In its sum total what does It amount to? I have yet to read of a single Insurgent admit ting that he Is less a Republican, less a' protectionist for protection's sake, or any less dominated by the Hamll toulan idea of government. "Read the Interviews, read the speeches in or out of congress of the insurgents. Do any of them criticise Taft or the Taft administration? "Have you, Mr. Editor, read any where of one of these so-called In surgents criticising Taft's cabinet, made up as It is of trust and corpora tion mouthpieces? 'What does the Taft admlnlstra- tlon stand for? In Mr. Taft's own words, "It stands (referring to the present Iniquitous tariff law) for the best revenue law ever passed by the Republican party or any other party." Do our hysterical Democrat friends believe and approve that? The In surgents do, for while in a way they fought sonio of the schedules of that law, they voted for it at last and on the whole they are supporting Mr Tnft and his administration. "Let us see what else Mr. Taft stands for. Mr. Taft Is urging con gress to amend the Interstate com merce law by taking the teeth out of It. Mr. Taft stands for a central bank of issue. Mr. Taft stands for a ship subsidy. Mr. Taft stands for national Incorporation, taking It out of the power of the Btates to control the ' proved, in result, something more than a sham, have been had under state laws, yet the insurgents are standing for all these measures, for they say they are for Taft and his ad ministration. Now I would fike to ask Mr. Fleharty and Mr. Porter If they subscribe to those measures. Do they believe them to be such laws as this country stands In need? If you do, you can consistently support the insurgents. "The Insurgents practically say they believe It, bo Mr. Fleharty and Mr. Porter, If the Democratic rank and file take your advice, will we not as Democrats, be standing for and indorsing the Taft administra tion? "Mr. Editor, it is so obviously ab surd for Democrats to be asked for a moment to listen to such advice that one can hardly take It seriously or believe It was so meant. Myself and thousands of other Democrats in Nebraska worked and voted for each of the above-named gentlemen for postlons in this state of honor and trust and it is with regret that we have to acknowledge that if Mr. Fle harty and Mr. Porter ever stood for fundamental Democratic principles they are far off the reservation at thU time. "One other matter, Mr. Editor, and I am done. I have generally enjoyed and agreed with the World-Herald's editorials, but you In this matter, Mr. Editor, have, in trying to build up insurgency in the Republican par ty, built up the Individual Insurgent, who say they are standing for Taft and bis administration. Pray tells us of the rank and file now, when these Insurgent congressman and senators have been nominated and go before the people on the records largely of Democratic dallies and weeklies mak ing; I ask how are you going to be able to consistently support the re gular Democratic candidates and tear down the fellow that has been boost ed and built up? Finally let us say to our overzealous friends In the In surgent cause that they will be fool ed once and for all If they entertain the idea that any Insurgent of the urown-mirKett-Morris stripe, ir re elected, will ever stand for or vote for a real Democratic principle. uemocrats or Nebraska, let us keep our Democracy on straight and not be found following off after strange gods." :o: BIG RVENTE TO T1IK STATE. Among the Important laws passed by the last legislature is the so-called corpoartlon tax law. This law im poses an occupation tax on all cor porations, both foreign and domestic, doing business in the state. The tax is based on the capital stock of the orporatlon and runs from $5 to $200 Under the provisions of this law, the state collected this year more than $70,0ff0.00 from the various corpora tlons in the state. The right of the state to levy this tax has been tested and sustained by the supreme court of the state. As the principle has now been established In our law, the legislature can modify the law and change the rates to be paid by the various corporations. In the so-called reform legislature of 1907, a law very similar to this was introduced and defeated. Tho corporations were strong enough to defeat this proposed law In 1907, but thanks to the Democratic legislature, this law was passed and the state has been the beneficiary. In another way this law has been valuable to the state. By reason of Its provisions, the secretary of state has been able to get a check on the corporations doing business in the state. More than 4,500 different cor porations failed to pay this tax. Near ly all of theso are defunct and have gono out of business. In the future, it will not bo necessary to include these defunct corporations In the list of corporations doing business in the state. :o: The "Taft smile" Is no longer one that won't come off. -:o: We don't know whether Uncle Joe Cannon saw his shadow on groundhog day, but we see bis finish. . -:o: It is a matter of regret that the late Russell Sage Is not here to help Hetty Green enjoy the meat boycott. :o: A breakfast food trust is the latest tlonal Democratic Congressional com Now look (out for a rise in the price mittee, keeps in closest touch . with of excelsior, shavings, peanut shells and sawdust. -:o:- At the rate an foodstuffs are ad vancing in price It will Boon be ne cessary for man to develop a cud and chew that :o: When all else falls a man can de rive some publicity at' this season of the year by announcing that 'he saw the first robin. :o: Ex-Senator Foraker deserves cred it for declaring that he will never hold office again. Some politicians have to be kicked down stairs a se cond or third time. :o: Walter Wellman, who announces he will fly across the Atlantic ocean next July, should have said a year from next July. Dy that time the people would have forgotten - about it. -:o: Republicans are scrambling for the nomination for congress in both the Fifth and Sixth 'districts of Nebraska Norrls and Kinkaid, it would seem, are both hung up forevermore. Like Old Joe Cannon they see their finish. :o: When a Republican congress be comes possessed suddenly of an ir resistible desire to investigate the high cost of living there is good ground for suspicion that its real aim ia to prove an alibi for the tariff. :o: One mine disaster with appalling loss of life may be regarded in a measure as unavoidable, but eight or ten such shocking disasters in quick succession prove conclusively that the mine owners hold human life cheaper than safety devices. :o: Burkett's program is to organize lubs in his name where it can be done. In several sections of the state a signal failure has been the result. The Burkett henchmen throughout the state are alert, nevertheless. :o: This paper would like to see Mr. Bryan come out for United States senator. His candidacy would shove out many aspirants, and do wonders in the way of bringing great harmony In the party. Bryan'B name is yet dear to every Democrat in Nebraska, and he would make the ablest repre sentative in the upper house of con gress, the state ever produced. :o: Private advice from Washington brings the news that there is not the last probability of a postal savings bank bill passing the present con gress. Hon.-J. Pierpont Morgan has Intimated that it would bo Just as well not to have any postal savings bank legislation at this session of congress, the recommendation .of President Taft to the contrary not withstanding. When J. Pierpont says anything, his word is law. :o:- Some of the metropolitan press of the east are agitating the question of a new party. When one finds the Philadelphia Ledger, one of the old est papers in the land, seriously dis cussing such a proposition, we are lead to believe that this subject is breaking out In spots all over the country. Tho Taft administration is causing uneasiness all over tae coun try and the people have come to the conclusion that something must be done to check the recklessness of Taft-Cannon-Aldrlch & Co., and that If it Is not checked very soon, the country is gone to the bow-wows. :o:- If the Democratic party expects victory In Nebraska next fall they must "get together" on the Issues be fore the people, and the leaders must cease their bickerings over the posi tions to be filled. The party owes no man ac office unless he is abundantly well qualified and is popular with the people. Men are talked of for United States senator, that should not allow their names to be used. The great trouble wlth-the party in Nebraska Is that we have too many men who are after office, and If they rail In their efforts to secure a nomination, they sulk, and In doing so, injure those who are nominated. Jams T. Lloyd of Missouri, repre sentativce and chairman of the Na- sentiment over the country of any man in Washington today, and his reputation for conservative political statements makes his prognostication one of unusual Importance, and cer tainly his Democratic friends bank with great reliance on his most recent statement which tersely put Is: "The next house of representatives will be Democratic by 25 majority." It is quite the rule for the enthusiasts to let figures run high, but when Lloyd's statement comes bo conservatively, there is good reason for Democrats to have full faith in his prophecy. :o: There are many reasons why the Democratic banquet next Monday at Lincoln should be largely attended, the chief reason seems to be to know "where we are at" on state Issues. Nationally speaking we know right where we are. All that the Democrats fear in Nebraska i3 a disagreement ton issues and the platform upon which the Democrats expect to pre sent to the voters for their support1. The temperance question will be a matter upon which we must tread very lightly. It Is a foregone conclus ion that the Republicans will not fa vor prohibition, and It is a question as to whether or not they will have anything to say on the liquor ques tion in the platform. They will try to deceive the voters going and com ing. THE FULL DINNER PAIL. "Revolutions have been started by less than the American people are suf fering now,' says Senator Joseph L Bristow of Kansas. "Meat foots up to a quarter of the average house hold expenses, and it ought to be cheaper today insteao of dearer than it was twenty-five years ago, because of the greater economy in its pre paration and sale. .When I was a boy twenty-five cents of the carcass went to waste. Now nothing goes to waste not even the blood." Senator Bristow's words crystalize the sentiment of protest in all parts of the country against the higher cost of living. Thus far the move ment, which first took form in an actual boycott at Cleveland, has met with most Buccess in the west. The east has been slower to follow, In fluenced perhaps by a widespread feeling among small dealers and in the labor unions, that a universal boycott, though effective as a protest. would actually play into the hands of the packers, who, with their control of cold storage houses and refrigera tor lines could carry their product through a prolonged boycott, though a thirty day's cessation of trade would put the small Independents out of business. Denver News. -:o:- HARI) JOB WHITEWASHING. When President Taft and other high Republican leaders barred Re presentatlve Rainey of Illinois, from the uainnger investigation com mittee, it became pretty clearly evl dent that the Intent to whitewash the secertary of the interior. That lm pression has been given added weight by the attitude of certain members of the committee, who have consistently sought to belittle, discredit or be cloud every damaging bit of evidence thus far elicited and to Bpread the idea that nothing really important as reflecting upon Balllnger haa been brought out. The services of the news papers that are owned or subsidized by the "interests" and of a newsgath erlng agency that is notoriously amendable to corporation influence have been enlisted In the cause. And yet notwithstanding all the efforts to minimize the damaging facts, enough has already been brought out to sub tain the charges against Balllnger, proving him absolutely unfit for any place in the government Bervlee. And furthermore, other men in high circles of official Washington have been shown to have had a fin ger In the land-grafting pie. Richard Achilles Balllnger, now secretary of the interior, it is brought out, as an attorney advised his clients to de- fraud the government and defraud k through perjury. And Senator Hey burn of Idaho, Representative M Lachlan of California, and Represen tative Kinkaid, of Nebraska, are re vealed as being secretely inthe race U gobble up valuable feovernment lands With all these representatives of the grand old party mixed up ia the asty mess it is no wonder President Taft did not want Mr. Rainey on the investigating committee. That gei tleman has a reputation for probing sores on the body politic with little regard for the sensitiveness of the wound. The 'committee is going U have, a hard enough time whitewash ing Balllnger as it is. Public Sale. The undersigned will sell at pub lic auction, at his home two miles east and one mile Bouth of Cedar Creek, and nine miles west of Platts mouth, on Friday, Feb, II, 1910 the following property, towit: 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 years 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-lnch brush plow, one 14- Inch stirring plow, one Solid Com fort riding plow, one Hummer rid ing plow, two Avey cultivators, one John Deere two-row machine, one McCormick binder, one Deering mower, one McCormick mower, one Sterling hay rake, one Farmer Friend corn planter, one Western Belle lister, one Sattley lister. one Sterling v 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 Pekin 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 Bets ly, Inch work harness, one set 1 inch work harness, one set 14 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 at Noon. TERMS OF BALE. All 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. MEISINGEIt William Dunn, Auctioneer. President Helps Orphans. Hundreds of orphans have been help ed by the President of the Industrial and Orphan's Home at Macon, Ga., who writes: "We have used Electric Bitters In this institution for nine years, it has proved a most excellent medicine for Stomach, Liver and Kid ney troubles. We regard it as one of the best family medicines on earth." It invigorates all vital organs, puri fies the blood, aids digestion, creates appetite. To strengthen and build up pale, thin, weak children or rundown people it has no equal. Best for fern ale complaints. Only 60c. at F. G. Frlcke & Co. Hop For Speedy Recovery. G. L. Rhoden of Murray came in this morning from his home and was a passenger for Omaha where he will visit his wife In the hospital in that city. He regrets to state that she is not bo well as for several days past and that her advance toward re covery is not nearly so rapid as he had hoped for. However, no cause exists for Immediate alarm accord ing to the physicians and she will doubtlesB rally and make a speedy recovery. Do you want an AUCTIONEER? If you do, get one who has Experience, Ability, Judgement. Telegraph or write ROBERT WILKINSON, Dunbar, Neb. Dates made at this office or the Murray State Bank. Good Service, Reasonable Bates