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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1910)
The - Plattsmouth - Journal Published Semi-Weekly at Plattsmouth, Nebraska t R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE The census enumerator who finds out how old Ann Is wilt be entitled to a leather badge. :o: According to a message received in this city yesterday from Mr. Pol lard to his chiey fugleman In this city that gentleman has concluded not to be a candidate for congress In the First dlsrtict. His record on the ship subsidy and the way the Republican party are repudiating the Taft-Ald-ri h-Cannon tariff, probably had more to do with his declination to run again than anything else. :o: The hungry man may well look at this picture and then look at the cold storage plants and tighten his belt to appease his appetite. It is stated that there are at this time In cold storage 14,000,000 steers, 6, 000,000 calves, 25,000,000 sheep, o0.000.000 hogs and 2,000,000,000 eggs. Remove the tariff tax from these products until they can be forced out of their hiding. It ought to bo done anyhow In the interests of health. :o: llcently letters were sent out from Washington by Senator Galllnger to country editors, suggesting that they use their influence to stop our farm ers from going to Canada to buy farms. Why do our farmers go to Canada? It Ih probably because they can buy a reaper $22 cheaper in Canada than in this country and a plow $8 cheaper. If the Journal cared to move to Canada we could buy a Linotype machine there for $ 1,200 loss than we can in this country and paper $20 a ton less, after paying tho tariff and freightage to Omaha, than it can be purchased at American mills. -:o:.- Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, hit tho ,urtt nftU " the head In his speech at the Indiana Jefferson day Imnqiidt when he said: "If protec tion is a good thing, there cannot be too much of It. If It Is a bad thing, there can not bo too little of it. If protection benefited all alike, no one would want it. It Is be cause it gives a few a special bene fit and denied the many that the few clamor for this graft and it is for this reason that many should not submit to it. The only purpose of a high protective tariff is to stifle com petition and to that extent create monopoly. It Is better to protect the people from monopoly instead of protecting monopoly form tho people.'' This terse paragraph sums up the reason for the Democratic party'8 opposition to protective tar iff more forcibly and clearly than any utterance on the subject we have seen in many moons. :o: ftt . S(Jl'AKM DUAL MWOK. is brought to my attention, I shall be glad to do anything in my power to secure open theaters on Sunday for the people of Topeka. WltBin the limits of Topeka are thousands of working people men who toll from Monday morning until Satur day night. These people have no time to go to any place of amuse ment during the week, for the rea son that they are never away from their work except at night, and then they are worn out. The only day that is their own, to do with as they will, within the bounds of law and order and good citizenship, is Sunday. This Is their only day of rest the only day they have to seek pleasure with their wives and children. These people have as much right to see a play on Sunday as the man of means and position has to witness it on Tuesday. And what's more, they are going to have the opportunity, if I have anything to say. Sunday is a day of rest, and should be one of pleasure and happiness. We are living iu the 20th century today. Blue laws were the order of the day in the 17th century, but they are failures today. There is no more harm in seeing a good show on Sun day than in taking a walk. I un derstand that the law governing la bor on Sunday keeps the theaters closed, that they are shut because actors and others connected (With them have to work.' I also further know that that law declares that no manner of work shall be done on Sunday, except as is absolutely re quired. All other labor is In viola tion of the law. The law as it 1b at presont carried out Is a farce It Is enforced against one class and not against another. I shall not allow this condition of affairs. The opera tion of soda fountains is not neces sary on Sunday, nor Is the selling onto advertise Igars or newspapers, or books or magazines yet they are sold every Sunday. If it is all right for a drug clerk to sell cigars and soda, and for motormen to operate street cars, it Is also proper for an actor to work. f one class has the right to violate tho law, then all have. I shall give all a square deal. If one opens they all do If one closes they all do." shore he will enter upon a new role. After the thunder from many thous and throats In shouts of welcome to his own land in which many Demo crats are liable to participate Mr. Roosevelt, as we believe, will call upon his countrymen to make peace with themselves, to the end that by a compromise of differences they case tearing one another, feed the hungry and clothe the naked. He will probably suggest that a real re vision of the tariff downward, as was promised by the Republican leaders in 1908, shall actually be made at an early day. He will as sure the country that conservation of natural advantages and many other good things shall be guaran teed by thorough legislation to the people at large. He will talk to the American people in the tones of a father. .He will be kind to President Taft. He will pat the Democrats on the back and try to fool them out of a majority in Its next congress. The tariff beneficaries will be forced to make a real concession. Capital will not dare to oppose the general settlement. Such is our prophecy. v :o: The people of Topeka elected a man for mayor in the earfy part of the present month, who bids fair to secure as great a reputation for the "square dent" as ever did Brand AV'hltlock, of Toledo, or Tom John son, of Cleveland. This mayor has declared himself on religious ques tion, and now in an interview be comes out pretty boldly on tho Sun- vlay pleasure question. He either la going to ct4Q up all business that have been running wide open on Sundays or else Is going to give the man who works from ono week's end to tho other a chance to amuse him self after his own fashion. In an interview the other day, this mayor said: "I stand for open theaterB on Sun day. I bollero that the working peo pie of this H(y have a right to go to the theater on Sunday. If a show Is bad on Sunday, it is bad on Tues day or Wednesday. I understand that petitions aw being circulated Just now to bring this matter before th commission for action. If the matte Piscloseures at the beef trust In quiry In St. Louis show that ficti tious competition is even worse than no competition. :o: The census enumerator may ask many questions, but be is almost the only one who will not ask you: "Do you think there'll be a frost to night?" :o: Standpat senators are represent atlves who are hastening to an nounce their retirement from public are not especially sagacious. Rats always know when a ship is sinking. :o: Senator Hale warns the Repub licans of his state that a Democratic tariff would "mark Maine's prlnci pal industries for slaughter." Let's see what are Maine's principal in dustries besides whaling and maple sap culture? :o: Many ponderous editorials are be Ing written on the "meaning'' of the exodus of one hundred .thousand American farmers into Canada last year. The greatest significance seems to be, casually, that It pays W. H. Thompson has withdrawn from the contest, and suggests several other candidates, not heretofore thought of. He does not say a word pro or con in reference to the can didacy of Congressman Hitchcock. Outside of Mr. Bryan, Hitchcock is the only available candidate for the place, and why Howard wants to suggest other candidates we are un able to say. Maybe Edgar would like someone to suggest him. :o: None will deny this fact. That the next twe elections will be a crisis in the history of one of the two great parties of this country. It requires no flight of Imagination to foresee that the progressive wing of the Republican party, now in the minority, must become the majority. Otherwise the Republican party would seem to be destined for a long term out of power. This view is based on the fact that the standpat element of the Republican party stands more, thoroughly exposed to day than it ever did at any time in Its history. The genuine progressive Republicans have worked side by side with the Democrats in educat ing the people. The allies have made It as plain as day that the tariff has been made a strictly political commercial proposition by the men In control of the Republican party. The tariff trusts of the country spend certain amount of money as a ampalgn fund contribution, or to control local political, machines, and in return receive the necessary pro tection to enable them to maintain their monopolies on American mar kets. Without competition, the tar iff trusts are free to boost prices on the consumer, and thus collect from the people sufficient tribute to offset the original investment, and to have left over a stupenious profit. :o: SHIIXI) THE ItKAL CRIMINALS. -:o:- ON KOOSKVKLT'S RI.TI KN. -:o:- A bright Plattsmouth boy of seven years, whoso father Is a staunch Re publican, was asked by his teacher: '"What will one-fourth of a pound of beef come to at twenty-three cents a pound?" The boy promptly replied: "It won't come to our house because dad can't buy it." :o: .Marse Henry Watterson may sup press his fears that Theodore Roose velt Is about to attempt the role of the man on horseback this time. There are so many reasons, each of which are alone forbid the dread of such an event that it la quite absurd to speculate upon the possbilllty of Its happening for several decades In tho near future, cither by Roose velt in the saddle or by any other aspirant for a crown. Roosevelt is a man of noise. Not that a windbag Is always harmless. Roosevelt already has been the cause of much mischief by a great deal of fruitless wind. Ills talk denouncing words without deeds may have im pressed Italians a few days ago, but Its frequent repetition by him in this country has become so stale that it may not be expected that it will be reiterated very soon after his return home Besides hj lacks the nerve to lead a very violent revolution. It might by some be feared that he Is liable to put himself at the head of an uprising of the American peasan try in clamoring for higher wages, and, like Cromwell, take the law Into his own hands and for a time make himself a dictator.. But he lacks tho courage for such an ex perlment. Ho will do nothing of the kind. Ho dares not fight cap! tal; and capital would employ its resources to prevent a bloody upris ing. The Journal experts that very soon after he lands upon the American , The fanner, the automobile own er, the liveryman, the business man the rural mall carrier and Uncle Sam should all join hands in the ef fort to secure good road3 in Cass county. With such an united pull as this, the roads would soon look like a floor, and the property of all the partners in the enterprise would soon double in value, while at the same time travel over the highways would be a real pleasure. :o: There has been a great deal of suspense among many of Mr. Bryan's friends in Nebraska as to the stand Mr. Brayn would take on the liquor question, locally speaking. A large number of whom were loath to be lleve that he would mix up in a mat ter that would bo calculated to divide the Democratic party in the state Mr. Bryan will not Insist that any thing pertaining to county option or prohibition entering the platform but wil favor the stateconventlon ratifying the 8 o'clock closing law :o: Whilo the writer bitterly opposed the passage of the 8 o'clock law in the legislature we have no objection to the Democrats, in convention as sembled indorsing this law, but w do object to it going any further on the liquor question If tho saloons In other places comply with the law as strictly as they do in Plattsmouth there will bo no complaint on that score anywhere, unless It be from somo mlBchlet maker who alway has his noso In somebody else's busl ness. :o: Edgar Howard has come to the front agatu with his views on the senatorial race. He is Borry that M oil iiSF tOC, I ' " -Zl And now 'comes the news from Washington that as a result of a white house conference between Pres Ident Taft. Collector Loeb, Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh and At torney General Wickersham, it has been decided that there will be no further prosecutions aimed at the 'men higher up" in the sugar trust ALCOHOL 3 PER cvsv AVcgclablePrcparatlonlarAs sirailatingthcFoodantlRpgula ling tlte Stomachs aailJowjsi ProraotesDigpstionJClttfrflir' ness and Resirontains neither Opiumlorphine norMincraLl SiOT NARCOTIC. tdpt tfOUIkSil'lTUWMS. Raptin SrrJ" JhcSama JMtUts- Dppwmint -HilarteuotrSuu Ckntkd Suqnr. htfqmu fbnr. ADetfect Remedy for ConsRp! Hon . Sour Stomacrt.Dtarrtioca WormsX.oitvulsioiis.revTnsh ness and Loss OF Sleep. facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. For Infants and Children. The Kind-You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of fa WW branteed unk-r theToH w HJI M II Exact Copy of Wrapper. In Use. For Over Thirty Years THC eiMTAUH eoMmtMT. CW TOM cm. I'XIOX. (Ledger.) Miss Rose O'Donnel, Rebecca Haines, Esther Larson and Martha Gamble, were in Louisville last Sat urday to attend the teacher's meet; ing. Thomas Baker departed last Sun day evening for Rosalie, where he will make his home with his chil dren. George Baker went overland and will farm there this year. Miss Violet Smith of Dawson came last Friday to make a few days visit with friends, being a guest at the home of W. W. Wolfe. Miss Smith was formerly a teacher in the inter mediate room of the Union schools. Ralph and Albert McNamee, sons of Charles McNamee of Brush, Col., arrived here last Saturday to make a visit with their grandparents, G. customs house frauds. We cannot. say that we are surprised, for welp. jlcXamee and wife,, and other relatives and friends The boys never believed that the Taft admin istration would In good faith push the sugar trust prosecutions to the limit. But what are the people of the United States to think of this abandonment? What Construction can they put complimentary to Mr. Taft or his underlings upon this lamentable backdown? No further prosecutions are to be aimed at the 'men higher up" in faith! Can any one name a "man higher up" who has been presecuted? The convic tions so far have been of a few la borers and smayy salaried under of ficials, the "chestnut pullers" for the big men of the sugar trust, who are to go scott free. They, the subordi nates, whose crimes, if such they were, must have been committed un der the order and with the approval of the heads of the trust, are to pay the penalty of obedience to orders in prison stripes, while the real conspir ators, the men who profit 'by the' frauds and who caused them to be committed, are to be unmolsted. Could any more outrageous traversty on Justice be conceived? It will be remembered that Presi dent Taft urged that congress should not undertake a congressional In quiry of the sugar trust frauds on the grounds that, such action might Impede tho prosocution of the cases against the trust In the courts. This argument against a congressional probe can no longer be put forth af ter the amazing confession just emanating from the white house, and in view of the avowed intention of the administration to spare the "men higher up" congress will be direllct in its duty to the public If it does not now Inaugurate and vigorously prosecute an Investigation of the do ings of the sugar trust. Perhaps such an investigation will reveal the reason for the Taft administration's tenderness toward the big men who have defrauded the government. :o: Mrs. W. A. White was among those travelling to Omaha this morning to spend the day. A Painful Injury. Master Carpenter A. F. Heden gren of the Burlington, this noon suffered a severe and painful injury to his left foot by reason of a steel rail slipping and pinioning the foot to the ground. The accident hap pened iiear Oreapolis where rails were being unloaded from a car by the steam derrick. The rail wa3 lifted from the car when the oak piece supporting it broke letting the heavy piece of steel fall, catching hi3 foot as described above. He was brought to this city, on the derrick car and later went to Omaha for treatment. It is not believed any bones were broken although the foot was severely pinched and bruised ana it is believed he w ill be able to be out in a short time. made the trip alone and say they en joyed it fine. One of the most enjoyable meet ings of the Wyoming Whist club was held at the home of Mrs. R. E. Fos- Hemy Donut' at Home. Henry Donat came in this morning from a trip over a portion of bin territory which has taken him sev eral months. While out on the roa he visited Lawrence, Neb., where h saw Joe Svoboda, formerly of thin city, and he was much surprised at ter on Wednesday, April 1C. The the prosperity which was so plainly house was beautifully decorated with lilacs, and the prizes were won by Misses Bessie and Nettie .McCarthy. During the afternoon refreshments were served. Next meoting will be with Mrs. Hall. Will L. Taylor, a clothes line and an ax formed a combination that put "Fat Bill" on the repair list last Friday. Will was industriously chopping wood (a duty he shirks when possible) and the clothes line happened to get in the way of the ex, the result being that Will re ceived a whack that opened his scalp to such extent that a physician had to sew him up. No more wood chopping for Will if he can hide from it. to be seen on that gentleman's farm. Mr. Svoboda has' a fine farm of half a section of land, fine buildings of every kind, a great many horses and cattle and has been blessed wltli good crops. Henry was much pleas ed to note the progress which be had made and the splendfu outlooX which he has before him for an other year. Mr. Svoboda desired him to remember him to remember him to remember him to all his many friends in this city and vicinity. Miss Florence Balrd returned ta her school at Bellevue this afternoon on train No. 23 after several dayn in the city with her mother and sister. WW s! V) O m- I 1 I III I iln , jmi i ... ....Va. .. The abova cut represents an exhibition of the et applied to a C B- S. Bug jy and Waon Pole, on February 12, 1910, at Gothenburj, Neb. The men shown in the cut are: (1) C. B. Schleicher, President and Gen eral Manager of the C. B. S. Pole Company; (2) E. A. Calling a wealthy stockman of Gothenburg; (3) John Ralston, the well knewn comiiie slon man of South Omaha; (4) T. T. Marcott, Vice-President of the company and retired stockman of Brady, Neb.; (5) G. Shostrom, member ofShostrom & Blixt, implement and wagon dealers, Gothenburg, Neb. The combined weight of these men was in excess of (!(K) pounds. Ju't as the lion is the king of beants, the eagle the king of birds, so is the C. B. S. pole and nectcyoke the king of all poles and neckyokes. The neckyokes are on sale in I'lattsmouth by all implement dealers end tho buggy and wagon pole is or sule by E. Manspeaker. Call on them.