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R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered it the PostoSce it PlaKimouth. Nebraska, u second-class
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fl.SO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Kansas and Iowa don't look cd;Vt Neiruka congressmen In their
T.ft .n.1 r.nnon. Nebraska wiU'p'.i:- Congressman Norrl8 has
how her colors next
Freeldent Taft probably nnier
atands the political situation in the
west better br this time.
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If Senator Crane came out west
to ascertain what the people are
saying about standpatism it didn't
take him long to find out.
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Anyhow, it is a relief to Senator
Aldrlch to have the "disclosure"
business shifted from cotton and
rubber to Indian lands.
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In the absence of anything like a
published retraction It Is believed
Speaker Cannon ia still of the opinion
that all Insurgents ought to be shot.
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In the matter of the "Jokers" dis
covered In the Indian appropriation
bill after Its passage It should be an
easy matter, and certainly an Inter
estlng matter, to trace back the rec
ord and find out who put the jok
ers there.
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Our tariff taxes the widow as high
as Ho per cent on the necessaries of
life, and taxes the millionaire 10
per cent on his diamonds. And this
Is Taft's "best ever" tariff law. Do
you believe this to be right? Of
course you don't.
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An Iowa editor wants a law pass
ed compelling the state to pay one
dollar for every child born within
its limits. If that law should be
enacted then watch Iowa grow. The
recent census shows a Iohs of popu
lation In that state.
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Core, the blind senator from
Oklahoma, had equlsite nerve and
honor, when he spurned riches with
which it was sought to bribe blm
Into support of the scheme to rob
the Indians of millions of dollars.
Gore Is made of the proper stuff to
be a true representative of his peo-
pie.
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The rubber trust had the tariff
raised on that article. Then Provi
dence got busy and gave ug a long
sclge of dry weather so that rubber
goods were not neoded. Hut it will
get you when the fall rains and win
ter snows come. Kill the rubber
trust by voting the Democratic tick
et hereafter. Try it!
The Democrats need gain but
twenty-two seats In the next house of
representatives to obtain a numerical
majoty. The present Republican
majority Is 43. At least eighteen
Republicans hold their seats by a
margin less than 1,000 votes. Twen
ty-nine Republican seats In the pres
ent house of representatives are held
by less than 2,000 votes.
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The law says that a voter "upon
presenting himself at the polling
placo where he is entitled to vote
nhall receive an official ballot and
shall then proceed to tho voting
booth and mark by placing a cross
(X) opposite the name of tho candi
date he wishes to vote for, but all
candidates voted for must appear In
the name party column and should
any voter vote for candidates In more
than one column the ballot shall not
be counted. The voter who would
llko to vote for certain candidates on
the Democratic ticket and for others
on the Republican ticket cannot do
to. He must chooso between the
two parties. Remember this when
you go to tho polls next Tuesday.
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IS M:lUt.SK. I'KOGKKSSIVK?
The primary election in Nebraska
will be held next Tuesday. There has
been no such campaign there as was
fought in Kansas, but Nebraska has
an opportunity to set aside a number
of Rhode Island representatives and
mil & great fight la the house for
progressive measures. If Nebraska
stands for the things he has advo
cated It should foltow the lead of
Kansas and elect that kind of a dele
gatlon.
Added Interest la the Nebraska
campaign Is occasioned by the candi
dacy of Senator Burkett for re-election.
Mr. Burkett was known la the
senate as a "near-Insurgent." Some
times he voted with the progressives
and sometimes with the standpatters.
Nebraska ought to decide by Its vote
next Tuesday whether or not it wants
to be represented one-half the time
or whether It wants Nebraska rep
resentation all the time.
Senator Burkett Is the kind of a
progressive that the standpatters do
not fear. When the administration
wanted to punish Senator Dolllver for
being an out-and-out progressive It
took & minor appointment In the
treasury department away from the
Iowa senator and gave it to Bur
kett. There appears no reason why Ne
braska should not vote as Iowa and
Kansas have voted. Its Interests are
precisely the same, and the fact that
it produced a congressman like Nor
rls indicates that It has the same
fighting spirit for progress and free
government If it has, it should elect
an up-standing delegation to con
gress and a United States senator
about whose progressiveness there
could be no question. Kansas City
Star, Rep.
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As the congressional election
comes closer the feet of the G. O. P,
elephant grow colder.
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The Republican party may be able
to lead the voters to the polls, but
It won't be able to make them vote
Its way. i
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The reports to the effect that May
er Gaynor Is still improving will be
received w 1th great Joy by the Ameri
can, people.
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Alaska has elected an insurgent
delegate to congress. Indeed, the
(only places that have not gone in
(urgent this year are those that have
not had a chance.
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In giving an affirmative answer to
the question, "Is Nebraska progres
Ive?" that commonwealth has the
geography on its aide. Nebraska, on
the north, snuggles right up along
side Kansas. Kansas City Star
Rep.
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Secretary Ilalllnger, according to
a Beverley, Mass., dispatch is to "go
September 15. However, Mr. Ball
inger probably will keep right on
denying It up to and including Sep
tember H.
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Senator Guggenheim's expressed
willingness to leave the matter of
re-election to tho Bcnate to a prl
mary voto In Colorado naturally
arouses some suspicion of the Col
orado method In conducting ml
marlos.
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The postmasters and federal of
flceholders generally are moving
heaven and earth to secure Burkett'i
nomination. A few weeks ago they
were sure he would bo nominated
but at present they are not so sure
If "Slippery Elmer" is not nominal
ed It won't be tho fault of the post
masters and federal officeholders. It
Is a Bround-hog case with them.
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The filing of charges against the
postmaster of Omaha for pernicious
activity in politics, could be extend
ed to many of tho smaller cities of
tho state, one of which is not so
very many miles distant from the
Nebraska metropolis. There is no
law that gives a postmaster the right
or privilege to leave his official du-
ties to others and get out and work
for favorite candidates.
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It Is said that the president has
turned against Aldrlch and Cannon.
It is hardly possible, when they sim
ply followed his Instructions to the
letter. Taft la In the hole and is
now trying his best to get out. But
it won't work with the people.
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"GHAIUBAG STATKSME.Y.-
When a congressman or a senator
asks you to re-elect him because he
was successful la getting federal
money spent in your district, look
out There'a a reason.
Senator Burkett Is flooding Ne
braska with a picture of himself
standing on a platform, and some of
the conspicuous planks la the plat
form are these:
A million dollars for Nebraska
public buildings.
Over 3,500 pensions Tor Nebraska
veterans.
Buildings and Improvements at
Fort Crook and Fort Robinson, Ne
braska. Missouri river improvements.
National school of forestry in Ne
braska.
What Senator Burkett means Is
that as senator he got all these things
for Nebraska, and therefore he thinks
Nebraska ought to re-elect him as a
mark of gratitude. And Senator
Burkett is merely typical. Scores of
congressmen ask for re-election, and
get it, because of their success and
effectiveness at the federal pork
trough. If the voter will reflect a moment,
he will understand that there is an
other aide to this situation. It is
stated tersely and accurately by a
(rile local paper ia California, the
Ukiah Times, in an editorial entit
led, "How the Trusts Bribe the Peo
ple:" "It is managed this way: Mr.
Cannon and the 'leaders' make up
list of the congressmen that have
been especially servlcable to them.
This means the men in congress who
do Just as they are told, vote exact
ly as directed, and can be depended
on at all times in any emergency.
Of course, these are the men the
trusts and others of the privileged
class want back, so they go to them
and say:
" 'Mr. So-and-So, how do you
stand In your district? What are
our chances of being elected again?
"Now, Mr. So-and-So is from an
inland district where the Insurgent
feeling is strong, and he knows hi
people don't approve his voting con
stantly with, by, and for Cannon and
thJse he represents. So he expresses
his doubts and fears, and is asked If
be doesn't want a postoffice build
ing for one of the largest cities in
his district, or it there isn't a river
somewhere that could be dredged out
so the turtles and catfish would have
better navigation, or it he couldn't
use an appropriation for a park or
reserve of some kind or a few thous
and dollars to drain an old swamp.
"If he Is from a roast district he
can have a lighthouse or two and
some life saving stations, with post
offices, harbor dredglngs, river lm
provementB, Indian nchools, and per
baps a fort or two thrown in as they
seem to be needed. So these items
are included in the appropriations
and go through llRe greased light
ning.
'Then the candidate for re-elec
tion is all right, no matter how he
voted on the tariff, rules committee,
postal savings banks, or anything
else. He has the 'dope' to bunco the
people with and he proceeds to bunco
them. He Bends out 'press reports'
to the newspapers Oat he knows he
can use, because they are as easily
buncoed as any one, telling what he
has done for the district, how much
money he has secured for the dis
trlct, what great Improvements he
has won for the district, and how
deserted and ruined the district
would be without them. This the
punny editor enlarges upon, draw
ing heavily on his hand-book of su
perlatlves, and closes by pleading
with 'our renders' to work their toe
nails off for Mr. So-and-So. that he
may be sent back to rougress to con
tinue the good work."
It is another example of tho old
law that you cannot get something
for nothing. If
your congressman
got a great many public buildings
for you, he gave up something to get
them; what he gave In most cases
was his vote on the tariff. The Seat
tle Star puts this very pointedly:
"Of late days the antl-Polndexter
press for Its various reasons has
found abundant fault with the in
surgent senatorial randldate, and its
columns have teemed and screamed
with the weight of Its woe.
"And now, mark you, the cause of
all this protesting anguish, all these
predictions and maledictions, Is the
postmaster at Prosser, his appoint
ment, retention or state of his sal
ary, we do not known which, and
neither have we curiosity other than
that no crime was committed or con
tcmplated. Our Interest lies solely
in the fact that there Is overmuch
newspaper ado about this postoffice
and Its relation to the senatorial can
didates. "I tld MtmaKtr an lue coii
parable to AldrlchKin, Caniiunlsm,
ami Stand pat ism? Ilu he anything
Ui du with the duty on sugar, wool,
or klioe?
"So let's have done with postmast
ers. Let us meet the issue fairly
and squarely. It is Standpatism vs.
The People.
"Let us discuss Poindexter in these
terms."
Bear in mini that the members of
congress who get abundant federal
patronage do so only because they
IIOV f U'ltK IKaI wst.na n I m
portant measures which are vital to
the political and business machine
which dominates the Republican par
ty today. The patronage is a sop to
the voters in the district, which the
voters, in the long run, pay for dear
ly. World-Herald.
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"A GOVERNMENT OF
LAWS, NOT OF MEN."
To a clergyman interested ia re
form Mayor Gaynor of New York
city recently said: "But will you be
bo good as to remember that this Is
a government of laws, and not of
men? Will you please get that well
Into your head? I am not able to
do as I like as mayor; I must take
the law Just as it is."
"A government of laws, not of
men," is a famous phrase. It comes
from the constitution of the com
monwealth of Massachusetts, which,
part 1, article 30, contains these
words: "In the government of this
commonwealth, the legislative de
partment shall never exercise the ex
ecutive and Judicial powers, or eith
er of them; the executive shall nev
er exercise the legislative and Judi
cial powers, or either of them; the
Judicial shall never exercise the leg
islative and executive powers, or
either of them, to the end that it
may be a government of laws and
not of men."
The natural, human tendency of
the officeholder is to forget this. "I
am the state," said King Louis, and
many incumbents of elective public
positions have re-echoed the sent!
ment of the Bourbon monarch of
France, if not in words, at any rate
in deeds. All laws ought to be en
forced. Good laws ought to be en
forced because they are for the pub
lie good, and bad laws because the
surest way to secure the repeal of a
bad law is to enforce it.
A government of men, not of laws,
means tyranny and corruption. This
is a truth which all history makes
plain, and an examination of con
temoprary national politics in our
country confirms the universal law
of the ages.
The big business of the United
States is largely carried on by means
of combinations, mergers, allied or
amalgamated corporations known as
trusts. When there la monopoly and
restraint of trade the Sherman anti
trust law on the statute book is
prohibitory law.
a
If that law were enforced we
would have no trusts. Clearly if it
is too broad or too drastic la its
provisions it should be repealed or
amended. But if it is right and ac
cording to the will and interest of
the sovereign American people that
we should have no monopoly and no
restraint of trade, then the Sherman
anti-trust law should be enforced
now and hereafter. And It would be
if ours was the kind of a govern
ment it ought to be. It was Intend
ed by the fathers of the republic not
only that the commonwealth of Mas
aachusetts and the city of New York
but also the whole nation, should
have a government of laws, not of
men.
The evil of having a government
of men Is that in the last administra
tion the president took the position
that the Sherman law was not a
good law and he did not enforce it.
In the present administration the
same Inaction continues. We have
session after session of congress and
the law is not repealed. Why? Be
cause the Republican leaders prefer
to have the law as It is, since It is
the great lever for campaign contri
butions. If there were no law against the
trusts they would not pay the Re
publican party any money to let them
alone. If the law were enforced
there would not be any trusts to
pay any money. So the anti-trust
law, a law, which in words, protests
the people, but indeed is a hold-up
law, has come to be the greatest as-
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set of the Republican party, and we
have the most amazing corruption in
our national politics because ours Is
government not of laws but of
men.
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Returns from the Judicial election
ia Tennessee indicate that the inde
pendent Democrats and Republicans
have administered a crushing rebuke
to Governor Patterson in his attempt
to override and coerce the supreme
court of the state. Three of the Judg
es made an official statement that
that governor had offered to allow
them an unopposed re-election If
they would decide in favor of the
Coopers in the killing of Senator
Carmack. It will be remembered
v
that no sooner had the court approv
ed the conviction of Carmack's slayer
than the governor, in defiance of the
decision of the state's supreme tri
bunal, pardoned the elder Cooper.
In the campaign Just closed the Judg
es who decided against the Coopers
were opposed by a Judicial ticket
set up by Governor Patterson and
his friends. The issue of the fight
was that of a free Judiciary or one
dominated by political influence. A
large majority was returned for the
Independent Judges, a result which
Is decidedly creditable to the honest
citizenship of Tennessee and encour
aging to all who favor an incorrupti
ble judiciary. The result forecasts
the repudiation of Patterson In No
vember when he comes up for re
election, which will be a matter of
congratulation for the state at large
and for the Democratic party In Ten
nessee.
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In addition to its usual 100 per
cent dividend on stock, the Singer
Manufacturing company has Just an
nounced that it will distribute $30,
000,000 among its stockholders. The
Singer Sewing Machine works is one
of our "Infant industries" that is
protected by the tariff law against
the competition of foreign manufac
turers and thus enabled to wring
from sewing machine purchasers
those millions of exorbitant profits
it' distributes among its fortunate
han d.
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The anti-saloon league that is try
ing to secure prohibition in this
state has announced It selections for
legislative candidates to be elected
this fall, and strange to say that
nearly all their endorsements are for
Republicans. Otoe county Is a fair
sample. For senator, Henry Bartllng
is endorsed, and for representative,
Bonwell, Anness and Nutzman. Ne
braska City News.
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J. P. Tritsch of Eight Mile Grove
transacted business In Plattsmouth
this afternoon.
-U. S. DEPARTMENT-
! AGRICULTURE
says: "Wheat Flour makes the most
putritious bread. It's digestibility de
pends on the lightness of the loaf."
'.The gluten in the dough gives it the
power of raisins and making a light
loaf."
WHITE WHEAT FLOUR
yields the most actual nourishment.
with the various food ingredients in the
best proportion. Forest Rose Flour is
exceedingly rich in gluten. Try a sack.
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authority. Made by the
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fit
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if be agrees with us. Do as he uytV
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
or TBI
PLATTSWOUTH LOAN AND BUILDINS
ASSOCIATION.
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on the
30th day of June, 1910.
ASSETS:
First morttaire loans Trt.0M 43
(Stock loans 2.527 TO
Heal estate ttxg 17
Cash 1.757 47
Delinquent Interest, premiums. Ones
and duns 4.19 96
Other asseu. 170 Bu
Total 103.879 63
LIABILITIES:
Capital stock paid up SI.3t2 04
Kese pro fund I.2UO 00
1'ndlvlded proBW S.0U9 07
Matured stock 8.30a 54
Total Ita, 63
RECEIPTS ANO EXPENDITURES
for the year endinir June 30, 1910
RECEIPTS
Due I 13,921 00
Interest, premiums and Ones 5.3H7 27
Loans repaid 20.S.10. S4
Heal estate sales 3)M H4
Taxea repaid 27 94
Bills payable 2.000 00
Total 4i775 89
EXPENDITURES
Cash July 1, 1910 I 1.G35 58
Loans 16,30 00
Expenses Mi 01
itock redeemed 20,045 67
Cash on hand 1.757 47
Heal estate 91 71
Taxes advanced 275 II
blllspayable 2,004 33
Total 142,775 89
State or Nebraska, I M
Cass Coontt. IM I. T. M. Patterson.
Secretary of the above named Association, do
solemnly swear that the foregoing' statement
of the condition of said association. Is true and
correct to the best of my knowledge and belief
T. M. Patterson, secretary.
Approved:
W. J. White. I
E. Babwick. J-Dlrectors
K. B. Windham )
Subscribed and sworn to before me. this 12th
day of August, 1910. Zetta Brown,
IsEALJ fiotary Public.
OF
Plattsmouth People Should
Know How to Read and
Heed Them.
Sick kidneys give many signals of
distress.
The secretions are dark, contain a
sediment,
Passages are frequent, scanty, and
painful.
Backache Is constant day and
night,
Headaches and dizzy spells are
frequent.
The weakened kidneys need quick
help.
Don't delay! Use a special kidney
remedy.
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Plattsmouth, Neb., says: "We have
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ily for lame back and other kidney
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Remember the name Doan's
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Atended Anniversary.
There were a number of persons
attending the seventy-fifth birthday
anniversary of Mr. T. M Carter whose
names could not be learned before
going to press. There were about
twenty persons Bitting down to the
table at 2 o'clock p. m., yesterday at
the home of Mr. Carter, as follows:
Mrs. J. P. Stricklett, Dora A. Carter,
both of Blair; Mrs. James Wild, De
sota, Neb.; Mrs. George Carter and
son, Omaha; Mrs. W. A. Campbell
and son, Omaha; Mrs. Harry Yoe
man and daughter, Omaha; Robert
Carter, Omaha, Jay Carter, Omaha;
Mrs. Jene Dashner, Glenwood, Ia.;
Mrs. John Wright, Anderson, Ia.;
Mrs. A. A. Garner, MIddlewater,
Texas; Herschel Fulton, Texas; and
Mr and Mrs. W. L. Austin, Platts
mouth. Walter E. Pallinit of Greenwood,
brought In the Suit Creek primary
returns today and reported a two
Inch rain in his locality last night.
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