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Blessed are the price-makers, for
they (.halt Inherit the earth. (
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There Is one consolation even dur
ing a blizzard It will be good and
warm, next summer.
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The, bank reports coming to the
surface Indicate that there Is nothing
wrong with Nebraska.
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If the price of pork keeps climb-
ing at the present rate It will soon j
pay the ultimate consumer to be a
hog.
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One thing Is pretty certain Com
mander Peary will not go after the
south pole unless congress comes
across.
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The desperate reformer who would
pull everything inside out every morn.
Ing Is quite sure to bite ofT more than
he can chew.
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President Taft Is rapidly reaching
the conclusion that all the people In
the United States are out of step
except himself.
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Senator Adrlch Is unaccountably
lardy in explaining that the high cost
of living Is due to the fact that the
larlff schedules are entirely too low.
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While we are continuing 0ur In
vestigations about tl)e price of food
Htuffs, the farmer will be found busy
getting out the plowware and the
seeder.
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The druggists of Nebraska City
have been compelled to cease selling
liquor, and have been given two
weeks to dispose of their surplus
stocks. What next.
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the Interstate commerce bill will pull
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through. We shall feel glad for the
president's sake. It may be the only
thing he will pull through.
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C.eorgc W. Merge will not be a
nnnflldate for governor. Put It Is
rumored that be may be a candidate
for United States senntor, a position
he is so abundantly able to fill.
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It Is thought that ex-Senator Allen
will soon announce as a candidate for
United States senator. Well, he made
good while representing Nebraska In
the upper house of congress, and the
party can do worse.
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"Test your seed corn," Is lh.; try
of some newspapers. We will venture
the assertion that a big majority of
the farmers know mere about testing
Heed corn than any of those news
papers thnt are giving them so much
free advice on a matter they know
nothing about.
The River Nile In Its seven thous
and years of history may have borne
upon Its opulent bosom greater men
than Col, Roosevelt, and It may not;
but one thing Is certain If he had
been in little Moses' place when alt(,n,,lllg (0 the publk,8 n(fair8 and
Pharoah's daughter came down to;exppndng th(? bIc.g m nrcor(U
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bathe she would have had to beat
bullets to the dressing room.
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Tobey, the ex-secretary of Senator
Burkett, who announced several
months since tli:. he would be a can
didate for congress, will be made to
nlde-Ptep In the Interest of Hayward.
This Is now the program. Hut what
about the other half dozen candidates
in lnncastcr county?
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Of course tho real reason why the
American pnekers sell American meat
nearly one-fourth cheaper in London
than in this country is because they
have to If they sell there at all. The
reason they hav to Is because they
have much competition in England
ind iniiio here. And tho reason they
have nono hero Is because tho tariff
laws forbid It. It Is very plain, very
ugly and almost provoking.
Tho Lincoln Republicans seem to
think that Pollard will not be n can
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didate for congress again, but .they
will probably be disappointed In their
surmises. Pollard will be In the race
If only for the purpose of giving
Billy Hayward a set-back. Ever since
the first nomination of Mr. Pollard, at
which time Hayward was also a can
didate, and came very near getting
the nomination, there has not been
the very best of feeling existing be-
tween these gentlemen, fiome people
go so far as to say that Mr. Hay-
ward was defeated a; that time by
the rankest fraud. With such a feel
ing existing it would look to a man
up a tree that both will fail in their
effort to secu-e the nomination.
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BOX CAK MKUCH.1XTS.
Some sections of the west are be
ing worked by the smooth-tongued
agents who are travejlng through the
country with fine samples of grocer
ies and other household supplies.
They take orders from the farmers at
low prices, explaining that they can
do this because they are making up a
car load, and each one who purchase!
will call at the station when notified
that the car Is there and receive his
goods and pay for them. When the
tar comes the purchasers are notified
to come in at once and get their
goods, as' the railroad will permit
the car to stand but one day. A
glib agent Is in charge of the car,
who hurries delivery, explaining that
the railroad Is hurrying him. Little
opportunity Is given for the exami
nation of the stuff. The money is col
lected and the agent Is jt of town
before tho purchasers know exactly
what they have gotten for their
money. As a rule they find that the
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have no recourse, as they do not
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.nave the name of the agent or of the
responsible party, if there is any re
sponsible party connected with the
deal. Our readers are cautioned
against dealing with transient mer
chants of this Hort. They have no
established business, no fixed abiding
place,, and are nothing more than
smocth fakers. They should not be
confused with the large catalogue
houses which nre established concerns
of large financial responsibility, and
who sell their goods through adver
tising In the agricultural and general
press, and by their catalogue repre
sentatives. Wallac's Farmer.
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wash: at Washington.
Fenntor Aldrich Introduced a reso
lution in the senate the other day
to create a "business methods com
mission" for the purpose of bringing
about a reform that would cause the
affairs of the government to be ad
ministered according to correct busi
ness principles.
Think of that!
A Republican administration In
power, and the Republican "leader of
the senate" declaring flint ft la nnt
ing to business principles!
When for lo, those many years we
have been told that the Republican
party was the only party qualified to
govern, and that It was divinely en
dowed with the business sagacity and
experience a requlsl for the job!
Rut that Is not all. Not by any
means.
Senator Aldrich went farther and
declared, solemcly from his place on
the floor of the senate, thnt there
could bo saved, by practical economy
and Intelligent management, one
third of the entire amount that Is an
nually appropriated by the bllllcn dol
lar congresses!
A Republican "business adminis
tration," in other words, is wnsting
$.100,000,000 of the people's money
every year!
This Is almost a million dollars a
day of waste. The amount which, ac
cording to Sinator Aldrich, Is wasted
by this Republican administration is
almost as much as sufficed to pay
the entire expenses of government,
waste and all, under the administra
tion of the last Democratic president,
Grover Cleveland.
To cap the climax. Senator Aldrich
announced that his plans for a com
mission to teach the Republican party
how to administer the government so
as to save this waste of a million
dollars a day had been submitted to
President Taft and approved.
The president, therefore, also ad
mits that his own administration and
his own party needs to be taught, by
a congressional commission, the art
of honest and economical govern
ment!
We haven't another word to say.
Rut the next time the Republican
spellbinders come around telling us
that the G. O. P. is the onlv
party with the business capacity to
run this government, we trust some
nregenerate Democrat will be around
to call attention to this admission
that the present Republican adminis
tration wastes today almost as moh
as the last Democratic administration
spent. World-Herald.
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The attempts of Senator . Burkett
to line up with, the "insurgents"
without endangering his standing
with the Aldrlch-Cannon machine
would be laughable if they were not
pitiful, An analysis of the Burkett
yotes. on the Aldrich tariff shows that
he has succeded in giving little "All
Right" valuable pointers on the art
of balancing on the slack wire. He
voted with the "insurgents" about 4?
per cent of the time, and with Aldrich
51 per cent of the time. But the "in
surgent" percentage was when things
of little moment were under discus
sion, while bla Ajdrlch votes were in
variably at times when they would
help out the big trusts.
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Reviewing the case of Oliver
Spltzer, one of the small fry of the
sugar trust, Col. Watterson can see
no reason to extend mercy. Spltzer
said ho hud been deserted by the
trust; that he was not a highly paid
man, havlns at the end of thirty
years' service, received but $5$ per
week Now he is serving a two year
term In prison All of which loads
Col, Watterson to remark. "Don't
steal! Young man be honest! But if
you insist upon being a thief, pick
pockets or rob safes upon your own
hook rather than accept employment
at living wages for that character of
work." And better still,, when you
go into that kind of business be sure
to make regular contributions to the
Republican campaign fund.
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When Uncle Mose KlnkalU took a
speculative "flier" In Alaska lands he
stored up more trouble than Alaska
coal. Uncle Mose says It was purely
a business transaction on his part,
but there are lots of people in his
congressional district who are just
old-fashioned enough to believe that
a congressman should not establish
too dose connections between his of
ficials acts and votes and his private
business enterprises. As a result of
Uncle Mose's Alaska speculation he
will not have a clear field for re
nominaticn In the big sixth. When
caught with the goods on, Mose of
fered to dCse out the deal to any
person who would pay him the
amount of money he had Invested.
This sounds a good deal like the horse
thief who Is caught offering to turn
over the horse if the officer would
Just let him go.
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This paper has no objections to
W. H. Thompson as a candidate for
United States senator, but say, Isn't
It Just possible that Mr. Thompson
has run often enough? We don't like
to see a man Jump up at each suc
ceeding election for anything that is
In sight. Thompson Is a good man,
but there are others JubI as competent
and deserving.
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Slippery Klmer's insurgency incli
nations come too late to do much
good In his candidacy in.- re-election
to the United States senate. Burkett
clubs are not materializing to nny
great extent, simply because tho mas
ses of tho Republican party In No-
brnska are net in the humor to com-
mlt themselves to n representative
that is too much of an eastern man
in his act to suit the yeomenry of
Nebraska.
When you read in a Republican
paper that the party which it pre-
t nds to represent should have eauallv
as much credit as the 'Democrats in
the late session of the legislature for
passing the eight o'clock closing law,
just put it down that the pretender
known not what he is talking about.
And to bear us out in this assertion
why had not the Republican party
taken a step to advance temperance
when two years ago they had such
an overwhelming majority in the
legislature and wouldn't even enter
tain a move in this direction? The
writer did not vote for the eight
o'clock dosing law, and would not
do so if he had a hundred oppor
tunities, but we hate to see a paper
use deception in order to gain a point.
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All the G. O. P. shouting about
trouble In Democratic ranks does not
avail to hide the fact that the Re
publicans of Nebraska are hopeelssly
divided on the tariff question, and al
most as hopelessly divided on the
liquor question. For years tho G. 0. P.
In Nebraska has posed as the party
of "God and Morality," yet in twenty
years it did absolutely nothing along
progressive temperance lines. It de
nounced Democracy as the "whiskey
party" and made its annual tie-up
with the men it pretended to oppose,
playing the political game both ways
from the middle. Now that its hy
procracy has been exposed It is dodg
ing and trimming at a lively rate in
order to conceal, if possible, its own
Internal troubles it is trying to make
Democrats believe that Democracy is
divided. The attempt, however, will
deceive only those who love to be de
ceived. The Republicans have all they
can do to settle their own quarrels.
Democrats 'are united and are up and
doing.
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lUtKAKIVG LOOSK IX OHIO.
TI19 Ohio situation, according to
th Now York Sun, is continuing to
ive the national administration much
concern. There have been disclosures
of graft and Inefficiency In the Re
publican state organization. Governor
Harmon, a Democrat, has impressed
the people with his sincerity In at
tempting to administer state affairs
efficiently. There seems to be a
curious disposition on the- part of
the voters to support him for re-election,
regardless of the effect this
will have on the national administra
tion Another distressing phase of the
situation is the general discussion of
James R. Garfield of Cleveland as
the only Republican with a chance
against Harmon. Garfield, as every
body known, was dismissed from of
fice by the Taft administration and
he has openly sided with Pinchot
against Ballinger. His nomination
therefore would be viewed with more
or less alarm in Washington.
But in Ohio as well as in other
states people have begun to develop
recently a strange way of doing their
own thinking that Is mighty puzzling
to the organization loaders who have
been accustomed in the past to di
recting the views to be taken on all
political situations. Kansas City
Star.
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1XQI IRIXH OX IIUiH PRICKS.
It seems to us that congress Is sim
ply fooling away its time' when it ap
points committees for the purpose of
Investigating the cause of high prices.
The newspapers and magazines the
country over are studying high prices,
and long before congress can investi
gate and report, the public will have
settled convictions on it, which no
congressional lnvestlgat Ion can
change. Their report will then be of
about the same value as a last year's
bird's nest. Secretary Wilson Is mak
ing Investigations, and will be able to
report long before congress can com
plete Its investigation.
There is, however, n more cogent
reason why congress should not fool
away its time just now, namely, that
it Is Impossible to have nny congres
sional Investigations that nre not po
litical in their nature. Congressional
elections will take place the coming
fall. Tho high tariff people, who con-
jtrol belli house and senate, v 111 ho
shape investigations as to deceive the
public rather than enlighten it. They
can do this more effectively because
people now generally understand that
the tariff of last year has had very
little to do with the high prices. There
was not sufficient advance in the tar
iffs to justify the conclusion that high
prices were due to the failure to ful
fill the pledges made by both political
parties. Had they revised the tariff
dow nward, as they said they would, it
might have had some effect, Just what
no person can yet definitely say.
The high prices are due to causes
operating long before last summer
Whatever effect the tariff may have
acy and we think it had a good deal)
was not due to the Payne bill, but to
the McKinley bill, and the Dingley
bill. That these high tariffs have had
the effect of making a higher scale of
prices on lmportanted products is
manifest. The reason these high tar
iffs were demanded was to enable
manufacturers to put up prices. No
sensible man would give any other
reason. A congressional investiga
tion conducted as this must be would
naturally be calculated to fool the
people instead of enlightening them.
There is a third reason why con
gress should not engage in investiga
tion now. Thepresldent is urging im
portant legislation on which definite
information can be had. He is asking
congress to enact, for example, laws
that will prevent the big interests
from continuing to steal the public
domain, as tbey have been for the
last fifty years. What these big in
terests now want is Bimply that noth
ing be done. Therefore, an investiga
tion by congress of the high prices of
living Is simply another way of how
not to do it. Congress is simply mark
ing time, that 1s, doing nothing; and
will continue to do so. The fences of
the congressmen will require looking
after this year more than any year
for the last ten or twelve. The pres
sure for a short session will therefore
be very great. All of w'hlch will aid
congressmen In the scheme of how
not to do it.
What congress should do is to enact
conservation laws mat will prevent
the big capitalists from stealing the
public domain, especially the lands
containing coal, phosphates and those
adjacent to water powers. They
should give the Interstate Commerce
Commission power to fix rates on
their own initiative, and let the Sher
man act alone. They should do these
and other necessary things whfen the
people are now demanding. If they
fail to do this, the people will be so
angry at the delay and at -their ex
cusics fcr delay, that they will bring
about a political revolution. Wal
lace's Farmer.
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On account of a shortage of three
minion head the price of hogs is
extremely high at the present time
and in all liklthood It will remain
so for some time. However, if the
high price now is due to general pros
perity, the general must be blamed
for the low prices in 1907. It is a
poor rule that won't work both ways.
It seems to us that if the general Is
entrusted with the power to put the
price of hogs up one day, he should
not permit It to drop down the next
day. Anyhow, is there a man in the
entire universe who has so little gray
matter in his head as to believe that
the federal administration ha3 one
thing to do with making the price
on hogs? If there be one such we'd
give a leather medal to see him.
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Mrs. Bentner was a passenger tor
Omaha on the morning train, going
there to spend the day with her hus
band In the hospital. Mr. Bentner's
condition is not much changed, al
though he seems to be holding his
own quite well
Do you want an
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ROBERT WILKINSON,
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ANOTHER HEW III
iii mil
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McMaken and Sons Will Manu
facture the Stephenson Ce
ment Grave Vault
Plattsmouth is to have a new in
dustry, Messrs. McMaken & Sons hav
ing made arrangements to commence
the manufacture here of the Stephea
son Cement Grave Vault, a recently
patented invention designed to fur
nish a vault immune from water,
varmin and grave robbers. This in
vention is being sold the country over
and the right to manufacture under
it in this county has been seered
by Messrs. McMaken & Sons. Ar
rangements are being made for the
commencement of the work at a very
early day, Messrs. Kroehler Bros.,
having been contracted with to con
struct the forms to be used in the
cement work. The forms are to be
of steel and iron and are built for
permanent work.
The Stephenson vault which th
Messrs. McMaken will manufacture
operates upon what is called the air
principle. This principle contends:
First, that no two substances can
occupy the same space at the same
time.
Second, owing to their difference
in specific gravity (weight) "air
when escaping, ascends or goes up
ward; water descends or goes down
ward." The vault which will be manu
factured will consist of one air-tight
piece open only on the bottom and
when in place it forms a perfectly
tight space, from which air cannot
ascend or escape. This results in
excluding water as it cannot rise
against the air in the vault. The
entire vault is built' of cement and
no metal of any kind is used in its
construction, therefore, there ia none
to rust out or corrode. In addition
to being thoroughly modern in every
way, this vault is to be placed on
the market at a price within the
reach of all. It can be manufactured
for a remarkably low price, especial
ly when the durability of the vault
and its many advantages are consid
ered. It is tire Intention of Messrs. Mc
Maken & Sons to establish agencies
throughout the county where their
Vault will be handled and where
orders can be left for their manu
facture. The Industry win be a good
one and will furnish employment for
several people. Owing to the super
ior train service throughout the
county from this city the vault can
be shipped to all points on very
short notice. That it will prove a
winner has been demonstrated by
the success which has attended its
application in other places and It has
become one of the most reliable
vaults ever put on the market.
Masque Party.
The pleasant 'home of S. O. Cole
at Mynard was the scene last even
ing of a large gathering of the young
and old people of that neighborhood,
all of whom came en masque for a
party to be given Carl Cole, a son
of Mr .and Mrs. S. O. Cole, who has
been attending York college. R. M.
Cole and wife of Alberta, Can., and
Mrs. Mary Eccles of Roswell, N. M.
Nearly all attending came disguised
as negroes of every shade of black
from the yellow boy to the negro of
real Africa with skin of ebony. There
were a number of others present, how
ever, who had costumes both strik
ing and handsome, and many of con
siderable expense. Among the note
worthy ones of these was Uncle Sam.
a lifelike caricature, the demon fierce
and hideous enough for anybody, a
clown who would have been at home
In a circus ling and a number of
others. The attendance was quite
large, there being some fifty guests
present and all had a splendid time.
A very handsome luncheon was serv
ed the guests, the handiwork of Mrs.
Cole who was assisted in serving it
by Mrs. Z. W. Cole and Mrs. Silas
Long of this city. It was a late hour
before the merry party broke up and
departed for their several homes,
having had a most enjoyable even
ing and leaving the guest of honor
highly pleased at being so kindly re
membered by his many good friends.
Real Estate Transfers.
In the office of Register of Deeds
Snyder today several deeds and mort
gages were filed. A dcree of the dis
trict court quieting the title to the
northeast quarter of section 17, town
11, range 13, in the Bank of Cass
County was filed, the defendants In
the case being George Sheldon et al.
A mortgage deed was given by L.
J. and Itattie M. Martin to the .
Plattsmouth State Bank for the sum
of $2."0 coveiine fractional lote 16.
Porter Place, addition to Platts- ,
mouth. A deed from Samuel L. and .
Sarah D. Thomas to Louie Porn was
tiled conveying the southeast quarlc: '
of tho northeast quarter o f sect ion
1."., town 12, r,in;;e 1", for the sum
of S.VflOO.
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