The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, March 24, 1910, Image 4
The - Plattsmouth - Journal r3 Published Semi-Weeklj it Plattsmouth, NebriskadZD R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. SI.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE The Insurgents are generous. They ay to Speaker Cannon: "Which would you prefer to have put under you skids or rollers?" -:o: Whether Democrat, Republican, Pnaulist or Socialist, all should boost for Plattsmouth. There should be no middle-of-the-roaders when interests of the old town are at stake. :o: Why should March go out like a lion? In the eternal fitness of aris tocratic things she will go out like a pig, Instead of a lion, and thus com mand attention from our ' financiers." :o: If the grand rush from the country to the cities and towns were reversed and more men were going to the farms, soon there would be more, pro ducers of what we eat and wear, and prices would assume the Wei where Ihry belong. :o: Eight new subscribers to the Jour nal Saturday five for the dally and three for the semi-weekly. All of whom called at the office and gave us many words of praise in our efforts to give them the worth of their money. They have faith in the Jour nal. :o: William B. Price of Lincoln, has finally announced himself as a candi date for United States senator. Mr. Price Is a Democrat and favors coun ty option. We do not believe Price stands the least show for the coveted position, as against Hitchcock or Thompson. I :o: The spectacle of Rev. Mr. Ludden, the preacher-poll! Ical-secretary of th normal school board threatening to l evoke the certificate of a teacher who dared to criticise the action of h board Is merely what might have ween expected from that source. Prof. Vltne, against whom the threat was issued, has called the Ludden bluff, nd if the preacher-secretary should mtttmpt to ronke the threat good It ii highly probable that Prof. Clino will bring action for attempted blackmail. The resignation of President Crabtree has been accepted, but he will con tinue at the head of the Teru normal until the end of the school year. f L. Metcalfe to announce himself as a candidate. :o: A majority of the county assessors met at the state house the first of last week and consulted with the at torney general concerning the inter preation of some sections of the revenue laws. With the erception of three or four assessors all were sat isfied with the law providing for the election of precinct assessors. The tax-shirking corporations are not well satisfied with the law, however. Un der the old rule they had no rouble in securing he appointment of pre cinct assessors who would "do the right thing," but now that the people elect, the aforesaid corporations will have to bear their proper share of the tax burden. The Republican as sessor of Lancaster county criticized the precinct assessor law very bitter ly, but the answer to that may be found In a recent list published by the State Journal, showing how the aforesaid assessor has failed miser ably to properly assess a number of men now deceased. :o: 1'TTILi: MISUKPKKKKXTATIOXS. body is engaged in cleaning up ready for making garden. In his letter to the Illinois editors Speaker Cannon has the effrontery to say that the Republican party never promised downward revision. The country knows better. The only, reason that the tariff was revised at all was because the public demand for revision was so great as to make revision Imperative. The only reason for that public de. mand was because the tariff was too high. A promise to meet that demand wag a promise to revise the tariff down ward. Candidate Taft so understood the demand and so understood and publicly Interpreted the tariff plank in the platform. And not one Republican anywhere ventured to say, in the presidential campaign, that the promise of revis ion was not a promise of revision downward. One authorative word to that ef fect, even three days before the elec tion, probably would have turned the tide and elected the Democratic nomi nee. ' Speaker Cannon enjoys repeating the president's declaration that the present tariff Is the best ever made in When Warden Smith prepared the supplemental contract providing that he shirts made in Nebraska should not be sold in Nebraska In competi tion with the shirts made by free this country labor, State Treasurer Brian, a mem- That, too, is not in accordance with ber of the board, refused to sign It. t" tacit. The net result of the He gave as his reason for refusing new upward revision. The rhat he "didn't care a continental o't of the law ,a to lncreaRe' not where they were sold." Mr. Brian is to decrease, the cost of living. a standpat candidate for congress in Even if the revision were slightly the Third district. Secretary of State downward, the law would Btlll be, Junkln Is spending a goodly portion not the be8t- but the wor8t ,n the of the state's time building congres- history of the Republican party, for clonal fences for himself in his dls- anything less than the substantial trlct-the Fifth. Mr. Junkln Is a downward revision promised by the standpatter of the first order, and Party-on the promised basis of the anything bearing the Aldrlch-Cannon dlfrt,rpnco ,n cost of Paction trado mark will bo accepted by him us Inspired. :o: home and abroad would have been a betrayal of the people In every way the uew law, whether I J - . . 1 1 ... nnM.nmln1ll Th nni.m.nr ,.mmt nf r'nnu.mon consiuereu lliuiuny ui v..w., Hitchcock's candidacy for the United u tho worst of a11 tar,ft ,aW8' Even Cannon knows, by this time that it Is the worst ever for the Re -Kansas City Star States senate has brought out sev eral candidates for his congressional neat among tho Democrats of tho So- mib,k'an ,mrty cond district. Charles O. Lobeck, city Ro"' Omaha; of S. A Hon -:o:- rm: i:n.v or vuv.v. discission romptrallcr Lewis, a rea lestato dealer; and II. It Fleharty, n attornye, have Billed There was a time In the history of their castors into tho ring. Mr. Lo- civilization when newspapers of nil beck and Mr. Lewis were formerly kinds were censored; that Is, a gov Republicans but united with tho sll- eminent official looked over the ver Republicans In 1896, and after- proofs and cut out everything which wards affiliated with the Democratic he thought U was not best for the party. Mr. Hitchcock's candidacy has public to know. This condition still been well received throughout the prevails in Russia, Turkey and to utate, and William B. Trice, of Lin- some extent in Germany, today. The coin Is Bhowlng symptoms of a desire I freer governments have got beyond to get into the senatorial primaries. tall this. There are rumors that George W. There was a time in the not very Iierge may yet announce himself a remote past when political papers did candidate, and considerable pressure not dare to present anything contrary la being brought to boar upon Richard to the doctrines or the policy of tho party they were supposed to repre sent. To do so would be to forego all hopes of partisan support or of future political offices or emoluments. The people refused to stand this, and hence strictly partisan papers have gone into a decline and ceased to be profitable a an investment. The really strong dally papers today are nearly if not altogether independent, non-partisan. They find it best to tell the public the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The parti san press has lost its Influence sim ply because people have advanced so far that they want to know the facts. Supposed independent papers which are edited fronvthe business office are rapidly ceasing to be influential. Their editorials are weak, common place, flabby, and the life of the pa per is usually in the work of one or two special correspondents who can afford to tell the truth. In editorial matter people want honest opinions, whether they agree with them or not. You can not have a great paper of any kind without a man behind it to whose utterances there are no strings. The public, however,- has not yet become entirely emancipated from the narrowness and tryanny of the past While they very much enjoy the vigorous advocacy of their own opin ions and ideas, some people are dis posed to resent a strong presentation of views with which they are not in harmony. People who like to have somebody do their thinking like a paper to every statement of which they can heartily subscribe. This Is simply a remnant of the narrowness of ages long past. No man should expect to endorse every opinion or view, editorial or otherwise, present ed in a really live, vigorous, wide awake paper. He should not expect his point of view to be always the same as that of the editor, or that their opinions will always run paral lel. A gentleman who had taken charge of a great paper once asked us con fldentially how he should treat pub lic questions on which there was a marked difference of opinion in his own political party. We said to him; "You are not fit to edit the paper at all unless you have convictions on public questions for which you are willing to sacrifice. First, believe something; then advocate It; fight for it." "Well," he said, "as you are a subscriber to the paper, suppose my opinion was radically different from yours. Would you stop ut we an swered, "No, we would want two papers them." As we pointed out In a recent arti cle, no man should expect to practice everything he sees in an agricultural paper. We might go one step further: No man should expect an agricultural paper to voice his convictions always even on agricultural questions. Truth, agricultural or otherwise, is not a matter of mathematical demonstra tion. There will be difference of opinion. Their differences of opinion must be threshed out. No man should expect another man to think for him; he must think for himself, "and di versity of opinion is not to be de plored, but to be desired. It Is only be presenting different sides of the question before us at the time that the reader Is able to view the subject from different angles and thus get at the exact truth. We do not expect every man to agree with us on all we say in Wallace's Farmer. We simply give our views freely and fearlessly n any question, agricultural or other wise, which comes within our range or which in our Judgment Is suitable to be discussed In our columns. We do not expect nil our subscribers to agree with us. Looking back over twenty-five years of this kind of Journalism, thero aro but two or threo questions of public Importance on w hich we now realize that we were wrong nnd which if the opportunity ever offered, we propose to do our best to set right. Tho most Important of these is the election of railroad commissioners. In advocating that we were dead wrong. Whenever we are satisfied that in the discussion of any ques tion we are wrong, we will be among the first to point out our mistake and rectify it. Therefore, If you do not agree with us on any matter of agri culture or on any matter of public policy that vitally interests farmers, give us at least credit for honesty. Then turn the matter over from our point of view, and if you differ with us, we will think Just as much of you as If you were heartily commending our ideas. If we are to maintain our free in stitutions, If we are to preserve our liberties as a people, we must thresh out all public questions in the most effective way they can be threshed out, through the press, and stand by the man who is fearless and honest in his convictions, whether we agree with him or not. Waiaice's Farmer. :o: Spring is certainly hare. Every- The farmers are praying for rain. A good shower would be gladly wel comed by the planters ,as the ground Is becoming very dry. :o: Senator Lodge has discovered that there were abnormally high prices way back In 1836. But the discovery doesn't pay any 1910 meat bills. :o: Two Long Island men have volun tarily submitted to skin grafting to save a hospital nurse's life. This sort of "grafting" makes men heroes. :o: Soon a lot of men will begin to show an irresistible longing to "get back to the soil" by going out and digging up a can of angleworms. ' :o: The Hon. Leslie M. Shaw is sure there will be war with Japan. But this is the same Shaw, who, as secre tary of the treasury, ruled that frog legs were poultry. :o: If the druggists could manufacture breach of promise balm and sell it at the usual profit they would soon have the meat barons beaten to frayed and tattered nothingness. :o: J. J. Hill discusses this as the "financial delirium age." After a careful perusal of what he has to say, we can't see that he has anything on our old friend Horn Lawson. :o: Everybody should be thinking about cleaning up their premises Some of the alleys are in wretched condition. Begin in time, and by all means let's have a clean town. :o: Billy Hayward may get the Re publican nomination for -congress, but he will have to go some if he out-! wits the Lincoln gang. They are In the saddle and propose to have that nomination, by fair means or fout. :o: It is Bald that Richardson and Nemaha counties will both have can didates for the Republican nomina tion for congress. Well, they have the right of contest, and one or the other may land the coveted prize. :o: Halley's comet has evidently been reading Ella Wheelers Wilcox. It is heading this way with a large volume of the chemical equivalent for laugh ing gas, prepared to do Just as much laughing as the world is willing to do with it. :o: The taste for art was over devel oped in that San Francisco man who stole a $10,000 painting because he admired it so much. :o: Rockefeller's former pastor, Rev. Rufus P. Johnson, says the oil king once told him that his dally prayer was that he might be kept of the same mind and thought. It seems that his prayer has been enswered. jgiy ilQ For Infants and Children. ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT ANcgelaWcftrparajionCrAj sirailailnthcFociandRrtula lintlieStoraartisandBowii BAST Promotes Diesfonfltttful ncss and RestjContalnsneitfer OpiuTu.Morphine norMiaeralJ NOT NARCOTIC. y .... JixJntna Jinvmat -HilurimabSiii I firm Sen CtmM &yir katafHulkinr. Anerfecl Remedy forConsfiM tion , Sour Stomach.Dlarrlioca Worms Convulsions J cvtrisn ness andLoss of Sleep. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. Guaranteed Exact Copy of Wrapper BtO A The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years m THl eiMTMIR COMMMTi HIW VO CITY. Will Attend Banquet. The. Finishing Touches. Hon. 11. D. Travis and wife depart- Judge Archer this morning put the ed this morning for Syracuse, Neb., finishing touches to a family row where they will be guests at the which took place Sunday out in the banquet to be given this evening by I west part of the city. This morning the Otoe Democratic club, a strong organization of the Democracy of Otoe county which holds an annual banquet every March. Judge Travis Is one of the principal orators at this banquet which promises to be one of the largest and best ever held by the organization. Governor Shallen- berger is another speaker who has accepted the club's invitation to be present and nis speech bids fair to be one of the leading speeches of the year. The occasion gives every prom ise of being the opening gun for the campaign of 1910, and itwill be watched with interest all over the state. The Journal will give more extended notice to the banquet and speeches later. How Good News Spreads. "I am 70 years old and travel most of the time," writes B. F. Tolson, of Elizabethtown, Ky. "Everywhere I go I recommend Electric Bitters, be cause I owe my excellent health and vitality to them. They effect a cure every time." They never fail to tone the stomach, regulate the liver, in vigorate the nerves and purify the blood. They work wonders for weak. run-down men and women, restoring strength, vigor and health that's a daily Joy. Try them. Only 60c. Sat isfaction is positively guaranteed by r. G. Fricke & Co. he had Jos. Svoboda before him for creating a disturbance at the honw of Tom Sedlock where Joe seems to ave put on some show and used more or less profanity Sunday and Jos. admitted that he had been taking on a few too many and drew a fine of $1 and cost which he paid. Tom's father-in-law one Hudelock yesterday drew a prize in the shape of $1 and costs for a like offense and Jim Jilek against whom a warrant was issued was discharged as it appeared he was nothing more than the usual Innocent spectator and that Sedlock did not in tend to complain against him. This ended the trouble. Sedlock claimed the other two men had threatened his wife and generally raised a small chunk of shoel on his premises. English Spavin Liniment removes Hard, Soft, or Calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horses; also blood Spavins, Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Ring Bone, Stifles, Sprains, Swollen Throats, Coughs, etc Save $50 by use of one bottle. A wonderful Blem ish Cure. Sold by Gerlng & Co., drug gists. F. W. Sherwood of Union, is an other new reader of the Journal, hav ing called Saturday and added his name to the list while looking, after business in the city. Mr. Sherwood is one of the live men of that hust ling pake and the Journal is delight ed to have him as one of its read ers. Mrs. Gladys James departed this morning for Omaha where she will be a guest at the Leypoldt-Karsca wedding today. Mrs. James will sing a solo at the wedding and it is quite needless to say that her singing will be something which the guests can not help but appreciate as she baa a, sweet, voice and a charming per sonality. N. H. Meeker, the Greenwood bank er, is in the city today looking after business, coming down this morning ion train No. 4. :o:- The Democratic city ticket is com posed of men who have the best interests of the city at heart. And everyone of thein should be elected because they are energetic and alive when it comes to doing the best for the people. :o: Mrs. Harry Graves of Union was taken to Omaha last evening where she will enter St. Joseph's hospital for an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Graves Is quite seriously ill and was accompanied to the hospital by her husband and Dr. B. F. Brendel of Murray who had been treating her at home. George Kaffenberger, the well and favorably known stock raiser from west of the city, is in the city today on business matters. l ' v -. , W 'I;. V-f '-'1 V V) o n V The above cut represents an exhibition of the test applied to a C. B- S. Bug. gy and Wagon Pole, on February 12, 1910, at Gothenburg, Neb. The men shown in the cut are: (1) C. B. Schleicher, President and Gen- I eral Manager of the C. B. S. Pole Company; (2) E. A. Calling, a wealthy stockman of Gothenburg; (3) John Ralston, the well knewn commis sion man of South Omaha; (4) T. T. Marcott, Vice-President of the company and retired stockman of Brady, Neb.; (5) G. Shostrom, member of Shoetrom & Blixt, implement and wagon dealers, Gothenburg, Neb. The combined weight of these men was in excess of 600 pounds. Ju't as the lion is the king of beasts, the eagle the king of birds, so is the C. B. S. pole and necicyoke the king of all poles and neckyokes. The neckyokes are on sale in Plattsmouth by all implement dealers and the buggy and wagon pole is for sale by E. Manspeaker. Call on thero.