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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1910)
The - Plattsmouth - Journal Milstel Seml-Weeklj at Plattsmouth, Nstriski CTT3 R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the Postofiice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class matter. , J.5 0 PER YEAR IN AD VANCE . A .(MI IU I K. Can't Theodore find time to free I engaged in slandering Crete, Beat- Ireland before re returns home? . :o: As soon as spring opens we should begin to agitate a Fourth of July celebration. -:o:- If It is true that George V 13 work ing 20 hours a day the king's union should discipline him. :o: Theodore I, it is presumed, will give George V some valuable tips, on how to run an empire. :o: The old saying that "Winter still lingers In the lap of spring," certain ly holds good this year. rice, Eagle and Greenwood because some of their Inhabitants go to these places and return to the Holy City In a state of intoxication. None but the rich can enjoy a drink In Lin coln. :o: Newspapers published in Beatrice, Grand Island, Kearney and other cit ies are complaining that those cities have been slandered by distorted and exaggerated reports of drunkenness, lawlessness and general cussedness prevailing within their limits, pub- libhed from time to time in the unco- guid Lincoln papers. Whereupon the Lincoln Journal oilily explains that It is not libeling a city to punish ex aggerated and untruthful reports of drunkenness and riot therein, but merely libeling the saloons and the might-have-been drunkards. While the distinction is rather fine we trust the explanation will be accepted and the Incident be considered closed. We feel, Indeed, like pleading for clemency for the somewhat worried and flurried Journal, inasmuch as It makes this wholesome confession: "It The administration at Washington may yet discover that a Balllnger well stuck to is not ns good as the truth. :o: Having been read out of the lie publican party Senators Cummlngs and Dolllver slammed the door as they left. :o: Don't get alarmed, the comet Isn't going to tear up the world. It may bo that a little praying won't hurt you, anyway. :o: Seven kings are to attend King Edward's funeral. On this side of the pond five kings have occasionally been the caune of a funeral. :o: Now that Omaha peace banquet Is all over, but where is the harmony -Lincoln Star, (Hep). Ask Willy Hay ward. Maybe he can tell you. :o: Norway presented Colonel Roose velt a peace prize medal, and, not to be outdone, he gave a Norweiglan a certificate of membership in the An anias club. :o: Taft's railroad bill has passed the house. It Is not what the president and the railroads wanted, however. It's more an "accommodation" than an "express." :o: Tho state debate has beou removed from Lincoln to York on account of the smallpox. It whould be just as well to remove the capital to York while they are at It. :o: Will Mr. Penrose's committee for the investigation of the abuse of the postofflce franking privilege Inquire Into the matter of mailing mining tock circulars under a senatorial frank? :o: Republican leaders ought to be de lighted to learn that a Harvard pro fessor declares this Is the year 1914 Instead of 1910. Anything to get safely past 1912 Is a Godsend to the G. 0. P. i :o: J he Aurora Suu, presumably a Democratic newspaper, says some Democrats in that section of the Btate will not support Hitchcock for senator, but gives no reason for such An utterance Why, Mr. Sun? :o: The Republican legislature of New York state has defeated the direct primaries bill, thus evidencing faith fulness to the good old Federalist doctrine that the people are not fit to choose their own public officials :o: By vigorous objecting to the an dent and Intolerant oath of acceslon which contains slurs against the re ligion of thousands of his subjocts George V has early demonstrated that he has a mind of his own and that It runs In commendable chan nels. :o: The Havelock Times seems to have It In for Plattsmouth. Tho editor's llttlo squibs amount to nothing, only In the way of a spirit of Jealousy. Wo are content to treat the editor's slurs ns the fellow did who was kicked by tho Jackass simply con- alder the source.- :o: Lincoln Is feeling tho ax as It deserves. Tho State Journal Is now It Is rumored that the county op- tionlsts, or In other words, prohibi tionists, will indorse Bill Price, of Lincoln, for United States senator. 3 the wickedest of slanders on a city Don't you believe a word of it. The to identify it with its saloons." Republicans are planning to capture What a wicked slander, under th!3 the county optionists, and Mr. Price definition, the Journal has been per being a Democrat, will stand precious slstently circulating against Omaha little show of capturing the county during all these years! The Journal's option vote, at least the Republican "Old Subscriber" has long been con portion of it. vlnced that Omaha is made up of -:o: saloons and breweries and unregen Another rumor has Wen set afloat erate sinners, and of nothing else, that Governor Sheldon will soon en- Nobody reading the Journal exclu tcr the race for the Republican nomi- Ulvely would ever know that there nation again. The Journal believes are In Omaha scores of well-support : the rumor Is entirely without founda- ed churches and colleges, large and tlon. Many of his most intimate flourishing christian associations, friends from Nehawka and vicinity many warm-hearted charities, thou- vlslt Plattsmouth nearly every day, sands of happy homes and tens of and they should and do know as to thousands of good men and women his position In the matter, and they who are working hard and honestly are a unit in the prophesy that Gov ernor Sheldon will not run this year. -:o: The discussion of the proposition and loyally, year in and year out, for the comfort and protection' of their families and the upbuilding and bet tering of their city and state. Omaha of instituting monthly or semi- has never been pictured, in the Lln- montlily stock sales In Plattsmouth coin Journal, as aught but a roaring, Is up again. The Journal has agita- drunken monster of Iniquity seeking ted this question for the past five whom it may devour. And now it Is years, and It was fairly started once coming to be the turn of other Ne- and conducted for several months, braska cities and towns to be "wick There Is plenty of home men to con- edly slandered" In the same Insensate duct such sales If the commercial fashion. , club and business men generally, will We trust, however, that the Jour glve the same aid to home men they nal will consent hereafter to be guld- wlll give to an outsider. Stand by ed, to some slight extent, by Its own home people first, last and all the new-found rule, and show to all of us, scntial feature of their arguments, which was the allegation that tho present leaoersnip or tne itepuuu can party is wholly dominated by special interests. The tariff bill was framed in their behalf as opposed to j that of the public. The railroad bill, except as the insurgents and Democrats may be able to modify it In some particulars, will be likewise a corporation measure. That was as far as the indictment agalust the Republican party went in words. Inferentially, it went much farther. There has been no change In the business management of the Republican party within the last few years. The organization and leader ship in congress is much the same as it has been for many years. If it is betraying the people to the cor porations now it must have been do ing the same thing through the de cades to whose record we have all been pointing with pride. We must have been fooled then as we are be ing fooled now. If the Payne bill is Iniquitous the Dingley bill must have been more Iniquitous, for there were no insurgents then to fight the peo ple's battles. It the railroad bill of today is bad the rate bill of 1905 must have been worse. In fact, un der such rotten leadership the whole record of the Republican party since war time must have been rotten. Grant this, and what claim to public confidence is left the Republican party as a political organization? Is the suggestion or a remote possi bility that the Republican party may turn over a new leaf, after all these years of corruption, sufficient to de ter the public from turning to the opposition party for immediate re lief? Sioux City Journal, Rep. :o: ..1 . b.t.t v, 10cr.!: ft...- nil lis ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT". AVegelable Preparaiion&rAs s Lmila l in the FoodandRcguta lingUie Stomachs andBowds! Promotes Diestionhcetful ncss and Restrontains ncittw Opium.Morphine norMicmL rot Narcotic. EnptofOUDclMTirTKZlt. ISmtfkia StiJ JhcSmna fipimmint- . UiCaftaiuUa Clonfitti tfijBP lliainjmiatkmr. Arjerfect Remedy for ConsRpa tlon . Sour Stomach.Diarrtoca Wormsforrvulsrousjeverisa- nessandLossorSLEEP. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. P ill For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of L i jffiffi Granleed unkrthefrow time, If you would "See Plattsmouth Succeed." :o: ' sinners as well as saints, a little of that brotherly kindness for which our hearts do yearn. World-Her ald.. :o: , tTMMIXS AND DOLLIYKIl. Jersey justice Is paralyzed. The months of work on the part of Prose cutor Garven In getting in shape the evidence to show a conspiracy on the part of Chicago beef barons to keep Which is the more effective Demo up the price of meat has gone for cratlc speech a speech praising the - naught. Governor Fort refused to principles of the Democracy or a grant a requisition on the governor Npeech discrediting the performances of Illinois for the extradition of J, 0f the Republican party? If it Is the Ogden, Armour and others of the former, the best Democratic speech meat trust. It Is not necessary to go Lf the Iowa campaign may remain to into a discussion of the soundness be delivered. If It is the latter, the or unsoundness of the elaborate and competition may be considered clos ... i wordy argument tne governor puts up ed. Senators Cummins and Dolllver for his attitude.' The essential thing may flip a coin for the medal. No Is that the tentacles of the meat trust speeches delivered by Democrats in octopus are shown to reach all the Iowa this year will do bo much real way from Chicago to New Jersey, damage to the Republican party as but the arm of Justice does not reach the twin offerings of the Iowa sena far enough to strike back. There is tors In Des Moines on Tuesday even something wrong, and the sooner the (ng country finds out what it Is and reme dies It, the better It will be. Ostensibly the senators were speak lng In the interest of the party which elected them to office. When they bad finished, assuming what they said to be true, there was nothing There Is no cause for surprise In tho action of the United States sen ate In striking out of the McCall left of the Republican party but the campaign publicity bill, the require- little group of insurgents. The party ments for a statement of contrlbu- J record had been torn up and tramp tlons and expenditures before elec- ed on. The party leadership and tlon. The senate's objection to this P,arty organization had been repudi feature of the bill Is but another ated Tne only capital left for the evidence that the majority of the transaction of future business in the senate Is not In accord with any name of the party was the promise movement looking toward election of what Cummins, Dolllver, La Fol reforms. A good many of the grave lctte and Deverldge would do lf en and revevrend senators gained their trusted with the leadership seats by methods that would not bear As to the party record both of the rigid scrutiny and they have no sym- senators concerned themselves main pathy with the agitation for honest ly with recent matters In which their elections. They have a good idea of own records were not In accord wlthl what would have been the effect in that of the party. The senior sena- 1908 If the people had known that tor denounced the Payne tariff law tho Insurance companies contributed as "robbery" and described the men $ 1 50,000 and tho Standard Oil com- who directed tho framing of it as pany $100,000 to the Republican "pirates." The Junior senator de campalgu fund and that Mr. Hard- voted such attention as he gave to man raised $100,000 after an inter- national matters to tho pending in view at tho white house with the terstato commerce bill, which ho do prestdent. And they are not unmlnd- scribed as having been drawn In the ful that there aro congressional elec- Interest of tho railways, Intimating tlons coming in November which will that any good that may eventually require heavy contributions from the be found In It will be duo to tho ac "lnterests" to save tho entire rout of tlvlty of tho Insurgents. Doth of the the plutocratic host. speakers came together in the es- ".SHOCKIXG." Exact Copy of Wrapper. AW J' For Over Thirty Years Mil th( eiNTAun eoMMNV, or cit. E POLES CAUSES DELAY "Shocking" are the conditions ex isting in Charles M. Schwabs big steel plant at Bethlehem, Pa., accord ing to Charles P. Neill, commissioner of labor. He adds that similar con ditions exist in the entire steel In dustry and are not peculiar alone to the Schwab plant. Eighty-four hours a week or an average of 12 hours every day, Sunday Included, the slaves of the blast furnaces sweat and toll, according to this agent of the government, month In and month out. Some of them die from over work and the peculiarly hard condi tions of their employment; others are spared this slow, long drawn out torture by Bome terrible accident an almost dally occurrence In the big steel plants that snuffs out life in a moment. Dante's Inferno might be compared with the blast furnaces but it would be unjust to hades. Unbearable conditions of employ ment are not the only evil the steel workers suffer. There have been in numerable revelations of the fact that the Bteel workers are frightfully un derpaid, their wages in most instan ces being barely sufficient to meager ly clothe the wives and children of the unfortunate employes, leaving little or nothing for a "rainy day" or for medical attention in case of illness or accident. Charles M. Schwab "concedes" that the conditions existing In his plant and others are deplorable but puts the responsibility on "competitive conditions." . Yet Charles M. Schwab knowns, as every other Intelligent man knows, that the steel industry Is controlled by a .great trust; that the profits of the business are enormous, and that the steel workers are en slaved and their wives and children robbed of sufficient food and ral ment In order that dividends may bep aid on millions of dollars of wat- tered stock. The conditions In the steel Industry are unauestlonably "shocking," as Commissioner Nelll mildly character Izes them. It Is also shocking that such conditions are permitted to ex 1st In this boasted land of freedom and prosperity. But they are the natural fruits of the protective tariff policy. The steel trust Is the chle of the "Infant" industries for whose benefit the robber tariff exists. Mr, Schwab and his associates have be come In a few years multi-million aires. The steel workers slave and die; their wtves and children Buffer and starve. Thus arq the beueflclen fruits of protection distributed. :o: If you want help or have anything o sell, advertise In the Journal 4b Work on Chicago Avenue Tied Up Until Nebraska Tele" phone Co. Moves Poles Work on macadamizing Chicago avenue has been temporarily sus pended pending action by the Ne braska Telephone company In remov ing its poles along the avenue to the new position desired by the com mlttee. The work is now In shape for pushing to completion and It is hoped the telephone company will not delay matters any longer than absolutely necessary. The Platts mouth Telephone company which has poles along the same avenue has fin ished moving them promptly and Is no longer In the way. The prop erty owners along the farther end of the avenue have also done their share by moving their fences back and giv ing the city plenty of room to widen the avenue In. The space which they formerly occupied is to be taken up with permanent walks, work on grading for which Is to be commen ced Just as soon as the Nebraska Telephone company's poles have been gotten out of the way. Manager Davis of the Nebraska Telephone company when seen this morning declared that the delay in moving the poles was due to the city authorities. Pie recalled his state' ment to the council that It would take time to get the work through the offices of the company and an al lowance made for it and this he said was what he was waiting for. He also stated that he had been told to put the poles back to the curb line and that that location would be all right and that since then the city had decided it wanted them put some six feet further inside the line. This would have resulted in having to do the work on a second time had ho followed first instructions. He stated that It usually took about thlry days to get authority to move poles from the company but he was in hopes he could hurry up the matter. He stated that the company wanted to make all possible progress. When reminded that the public would naturally blame his company for any unusual delay tinder existing conditions he said they would do so anyway and that the opposition would use It against the company. Mayor Sattler stated that he was In hopes the Nebraska people would hurry up the matter as the city could not permit any great delay right now He also stated that Mr. Davis came to him and wanted to know if it was all right to go ahead and move the poles to the curb line and that he had told him so far as he the mayor was concerned, it was but he declined to tell him he would guarantee it Owing to the change in the line of the avenue and tho movement of the fences along the property to the south end of the avenue It has boon found the pole3 would have to come In some six or eight feet further than tho curb line so that much more roadway would bo open to grade and macadamize. The mayor also called attention to the fact that on the east side of the avenue, the curb line along the base ball grounds ran in the middle of the creek and If the company did not see fit to be reasonable and move their poles in a decent time, steps would be taken to put them beck to the curb line and in the creek as they were out in the avenue at pres ent. 'However, he hoped no conflict would cotoe'ttp and the pole3 would be moved at" once. Councilman Will who has been su pervising the work on the avenue, was emphatic in his declaration that the work must be hurried through before the heavy rains set in. He states that one of the poles of the Nebraska company at least is six feet in the avenue and this will have to be moved. He wants speedy action and states that on Friday last the engineer of the company was down here and he went over the ground with him and explained the situation at length. At that time the engineer told him that conditions had not been properly laid before him at Omaha as he found things entlrly different than he expected. He promised speedy ac tion and that men would be at work in a few days here. - Mr. Will states a reasonable time will be given the company and if they do not follow the city's instructions steps will be taken to compel them to as they are oc cupying the public streets. He hope3, however, that nothing of this kind will have to be done. The entire matter is unfortunate and it Is hoped that it will be quickly settled and the work can be finished. It is necessary to have this work done before the spring and summer rains as the drainage of the avenue is one of the vital matters under consider ation. Mr. Davis has promised to stir the matter up and secure per mission to go ahead with their part of the work as soon as possible, and the city Is ready now to proceed with its part. 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