The - Plattsmouth - Journal
r"i published Seml-Weeklj at Piattsaauin, Miism
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the I'ostoflke at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, aa sicjrid-class
matter.
$1.50 PER YEAR
P.artllng'B Sunday base ball bill
has pilled the senate by a vote of 19
to 14.
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Even the robins are trying to con
vince us that aprliig In almost here.
Hut Is It?
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Tho Initiative and referendum lias
panned the Benate, and of eourso will
pass the house.
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Is rinttsmouth to havo a all club
tho coining season? It U tl mo you
wero waking up, boys. They aro re
organizing all over tho country.
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County option will not take place
In Nebraska yet awhile. It has been
defeated In the seiiato by a majority
of two votes. That's sufficient for
nil practical purposes.
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The legislature should Increase
the nnlary of county attorney to at
least $1,200 a year, and It he la de
prived from practicing outside his
official duties, he should have $1,500
a year.
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King George brought his libel suit
last Saturday, and the verdict In his
favor was given Wednesday. From
which It appears that the courts can
hurry when they havo to.
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"America's business world Is suf
fering from a famlno of high priced
men," says a big manufacturer. There
Is, however, no scarcity of low priced
men who think they ought to he high
priced.
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Whllo the Alaska coal land cases
are pending In Washington Gifford
PJnchot excuses hi mac If from his
f peaking appointments In other cities.
Along with Mr. Pinchot's other strong
rolnta, he refuses to bo taken un
awares. :o:
Poulson, the fresh boss of the Anti
Saloon league, came pretty near get
wing his face (dapped In the lobby of
the Btato hou.-se yesterday forenoon
by Representative Grossman. If the
.temperance people desire to accom
VllBh anything In the way of loglsla
llon, they had better muzzle Poulson.
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Nevada, In addition to a stringent
antl-gambling act, Is about to enact
laws against saloons, prohibiting the
ale of cigarettes and requiring a
year's residence as a qualification for
divorce. Those seeking the "wild and
woolly" are surely being driven back
to the Atlantic seaboard
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Only about three weefca more of
the time given tho legislature by Ald
rlch to quit and go home the first of
March. Begin to pack your grips
keys. It Is not optionary with you
when to adjourn. Tho governor Is
rnnnlng your business, or Is trying to
do that which no other governor
ever attempted to do.
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These w ho have seen Abe Lincoln
are the ones who knew him best.
When but a boy In our teens we re
member the flrt time we ever saw
Mm. It was when he passed through
the town of our birth In Ohio, going
to Washington to take h! feat at
president. He then made an Impres
sion upon us that will last during our
life tlTe. We remember this Inci
dent i though It occurred yesterday.
We tad seen him several times later,
but being a boy. the first time made
the Impression that he was Justly en
titled to the nime, 'Honest Old
Abe."
When a towa cease to grow It
roramencee to die. and the more the
Isolde try to kill oft each other In
Uiclr business and rood nanie. the
more rapidlr will nttcr rula coma to
H. Stand together Tor the idTanca
mnt of every citliei. If a man thowt
IN ADVANCE
ability to prosper do not pull him
back w ith Jealousy or weigh him
down with cold Indifference.
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Tho charge Is made that a bill clos
ing up tho affairs of the Five Civil
ized Tribes In Oklahoma contains a
Joker through which a railroad com
pany Is to obtain a title to valuable
coal lands belonging to the Indians.
This Is denied, a Washington dispatch
says, by officials of the Interior de
partment. With a man like Secre
tary Garfield In charge of tho depart
ment such a denial would be gen
erally accepted as conclusive.
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The movement for the Initiative
and referendum Is spreading through
out the United States not because of
any theory of the people regarding
forms of government. The voters
don't care two straws for the aca
demic arguments brought against the
Innovation. The growth of the move
ment Is the result of dissatisfaction
with the Ineffclency of legislatures
and their failure to respond to pub
lic sentiment.
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One bill now before the legislature
has general support from tho lawyers.
That one prohibits the county attor
ney and his deputies, In those coun
ties where the business Is large
enough, to require the assistance of a
deputy, from engaging In private
practice. The lawyers may have
some selfish Interest In the matter,
because the private 'business, the
county attorney and his deputy would
do under this law, would be divided
among them, but the public has an
Interest In tho matter that Is greater
yet. The salaries paid are deemed
ample to secure for the county the
exclusive services of the two officials.
If these salaries are not sufficient,
then they should be raised. If there
Is not enough business to keep two
men busy and more than enough for
one, that ran be arranged for by em
ploying assistance whenever needed.
Instances have occurred In the past
where the private business that natu
rally came Into the office proved bo
alluring and profitable that public
business was neglected. The public
ought to get whatever It pays for and
It ought to pay for whatever It gets.
On that sound rule It Is not difficult
to go far astray.Llncoln News
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NT.IM) I1Y TIIK .K.'IIKKMKXT.
The World-Herald la glad that the
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T " mwn 01 U,e naUonal
house of representatives In noriv
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raucua assembled declared first by
an overwhelming vote, and later
unanimously, In favor of the adoption
of the Canadian agreement. Once
more It Is proved that when, by any
chance, a republican president takes
up the cudgels for any measure that
Is honest and right and In the In
terests of the plain people, It Is to the
democratic niemhers of congress that
he must look for the necessary sup
port to make his fight a winning one.
The action of the democratic caucus
Is only one more manifestation that
the democratic party Is sincere, that
It has the courage of Its convictions,
and that the people may safely trust
IL
The World-HeralJ trusts and be
lieve tiat a deao-ra'.'.e tou of rcp
rewrutivt 3 Ntlrnka can safely
te tra?J to U 4ixn::c on this
QHftr.ka. J art ai it democrats at
Wa:Cfr3 te is. Anl lt lg
Just j cogent tiat many progres
sive repulllraa members will Join
uemocrau to strike an
honest and courageous blow for tariff
reform.
That blow will be only the first of
ever! and all of them will be tell
ing blowa acaln'st privilege, against
fraud and chicanery, atruck In the
name ot "ejual rights to all and
special privileges to no one."
TU Canadian agreement la going
.o ue adopted by congress. If the
present republican congress refuses
to adopt It then lt will be adopted by
the Incoming democratic congress,
and even the republican senate re
publican by a greatly diminished ma
jority will be compelled to bow be
fore the popular demand and make
good this movement for commercial
expansion, for continental develop
ment and for tariff honestly. And
whllo this newspaper has been In
clined to oppose a special session of
congress, believing that tho demo
cratic ways and means committee
could more profitably spend tho sum
mer in preparing a series of bills for
genuine tariff reform, lt would hear
tily favor a Bpeclal session if neces
sary to bring about the early adop
tion of the agreement with Canada.
And it would look to that special ses
sion to thereupon proceed to enact
Into law a number of other bills mak
ing substantial reductions in the tar
iffs behind which the great trusts and
monopolies of this country llo shel
tered, and by virtue of which they
are permitted to plunder tho poor and
tho well-to-do alike.
The Canadian agreement will be
tho entering wedge. Once it Is adopt
ed It will be hopeless for tho criminal
triiBts and monopolies to plead with
congress to leave their tariff favors
untouched. They can no longer look
to the farmers they have gulled for
half a century for further support.
Their tariffs on steel, on cotton and
woolen goods, on Implements and
machinery, on rubber and coal and
sugar and furniture and cutlery and
earthenware and carpets and boots
and shoes and all their other artifi
cially high-priced products will have
to come down and the farmer and
wage earner and salaried employe
will get the benefit of honest prices
as compared with robber prices.
And the Nebraska farmer will be
Immensely the gniner. He no more
needs "protection" against the Ca
nadian farmer than against the Da
kota farmer, the Minnesota farmer,
or the Oklahoma farmer. All of thera
sell their wheat at world-market
pricesprices fixed In Liverpool, and
Canadian wheat ran no more Injuri
ously affect the price of Nebraska
w heat than can Dakota wheat.
If there has been a spark of hon
esty, of sincerity, In the western pro
test against tariff extortion practiced
on the many by the favored few, and
If there Is a genuine western desire to
scale down the tariff schedules to a
fair basis, then now Is the time for
the people of the west, for the mem
bers of the legislature of Nebraska,
to stand by their guns! Even If it be
admitted that It Involved an initial
sacrifice of western Interests which
the World-Herald does not believe
for the sake of the great advantages
In Justice and equity which will be
gained later, then this is still the
time for the west to stand by its
guns!
If, on the other hand, the people
who for so many years have been
clamoring for tariff reform turn and
run at the firing of the first gun, then
the cause of tariff reform is set back
for another generation, and all the
evils of w hich we complain will con
tinueand without our having, any
longer, the right even to complain
against them World-Herald.
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Soon there will not be an empty
store room In Plattsmouth. Don't
that look good for the future?
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What has become of the Folk boom
for president? Has It gone glimmer
ing like a great manv other such
booms?
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Lent begins March 1 this year, but
e real period of sackcloth and ashes
among the congressmen will date
from March 4.
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Good roads seem to be the lead
ing question In Nebraska at the pres
ent time. But then you know actions
t peak louder than words.
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Evidently the hens are making
every effort In their power to cheap
en eggs. Fresh eggs are coming to
towa and , the fruit Is within
reach of all now only 18 and 20
eenta per down. ... .. .
Wltb the republicans In the legis
lature looking rather hostile askance
at the president's reciprocity policy,
and the democrats rather Inclined to
favor it, habitual partisans are going
to find it hard to discover the where
abouts of the bandwagon.
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Vice President Sherman's deciding
vote on the ship subsidy was the first
time In the history a vice president
has been called on to break a tie on
three successive roll calls. Well,
what Is Sherman there for only to
serve the grafters when lt la neces
sary to do so. They can count on
Jim every time.
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If the capital removal question ac
complishes nothing more, It will make
some of the 10-per-cent sharks that
have hovered in Lincoln for years,
"shell out" some of their Ill-gotten
gains to keep lt from being removed.
Many people In Nebraska desire to
sco the capital moved and others
don't care a continental are uncon
cerned. :o:
It probably occasions no surprise
to President Taft that the paper man
ufacturers and the lumber barons
oppose his reciprocity proposal, but
when those who have professed un
dying hatred for the oppressive tariff
system get cold feet he may well
question the sincerity of every de
mand for tariff reduction or the de
sire of anyone for relief Lincoln
Star.
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We would like to see tho mer
chants of Plattsmouth try one "bar
gain day," and see the result. But
every merchant In town will have to
Join In the movement. This Is the
way of getting many customers and
patrons back to Plattsmouth who for
merly traded here. Not only from
Cass county, but also from across the
river In Mills county, Iowa.
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If the farmers who buy goods from
the mail order houses think that
those houses are not making much
money and are silling gcods down to
a point of very low protHs, they are
very badly mistaken. The common
stock of Sears, Roebuck & Co. corpo
ration sold In 1!0! for 55. It Is now
ouoted at 1D0 and the stock has been
Increased $1 0.000 000most of that
amount being given as a bonus. The
annual report shows an income of
$61,000,000 and, after paying 10 per
cent dividends, It has $7,219,322 net
profits left. No wonder the wage
earners complain of the high cost of
living.
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TIIAT TAKIFF tXttl.MISSIOX.
Every sort of scheme that the
brightest Intellects can devise will be
used to prevent any material reduc
tion of the tariff and one of the most
effective will be this tariff commis
sion plan to find out "the difference
In cost of production at home and
abroad."
All that the commission can ever
know or find out is at the service of
congress and the people now and can
be obtained by anyone from depart
ments and commissions already in
existence without any additional cost
or labor. The bureau of labor has
been gathering all such facts and
that was the principal argument used
for the creation of the department.
The secretary of the treasury has
been given large appropriations and
employs many clerks to ascertain the
cost of goods shipped to this country.
""Everything In regard to cost of
production that a tariff commission
could discover can be found In docu
ments on file In Washington, and all
that Is needed to present these facts
to congress is the employment of a
small force of clerks to gather them
from the documents, tabulate them
an dhand them over. They will tell
the tale as far as It is possible to tell
lt. But It Is impossible to tell It with
any accuracy. The ccst of produc
tion varies in every part of every
country. If there Is cheap power and
close access to markets, the cost will
be less, for any article, than where
these advantages do not exist. Effi
ciency In management will make a
difference In the cost of production In
the same locality and in the cost
production of any commodity from a
bushel of corn to the construction of
a watch or typewriter.
It la becaus of these very evident
things that many men hive opposed a
tariff commission, of gtven It support
only because they thought that there
was a public demand for it. When
the public Is made familiar with the
subject It is not likely that demand
will exist. World-Herald.
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TIIK TKI ST SCAUKCT.OW.
Nebraska has been recognized as
an Insurgent state. One of the ten
ents of Insurgency has been popular
relief from the exactions of the tariff
as It has been administered largely In
behalf of the upbuilding of the
enormous trusts.
Out this way we have wont to pic
ture the tariff beneficiary as a bloat
ed, uncouth creature, with ponderous
physique, porcine features, garments
checkered with dollar marks, dia
mond watch charm and shirt pin ob
scuring the sun In its brilliancy and
leading about an unfortunate con
sumer in chains. In our conception
the tariff beneficiary has been an ab
horrent creature, ripe enough in
ruthlessnes3 and averlce for sum
mary execution.
How deeply humiliating it is, then,
for the people of Nebraska, and the
genuine tariff reformer, when the
president of the United States pro
posed a measure for popular relief
from tariff exactions, to have -someone
get up In meeting and yell
"Ouch! you are treading on my
corns."
-How do the farmers of Nebraska
like It to have some of their legisla
tors get up In so sedate an assem
blage as the Nebraska legislature and
assert that when the cartoonist pic
tured that uncouth tariff grabber, he
was taking a snapshot at the Nebras
ka farmer? .
That Is Just what the cry of "cheap
wheat" would mean if lt were found
ed upon reason, which it Is not. As
long as the price of wheat Is deter
mined by the Liverpool markets, and
the United States remains an extorter
rather than an Importer of wheat,
they could pile the tariff mountain
high upon wheat and It would not ad
vanlage the farmer. He must send
his wheat Into the markets of the
world, being a seller, and meet the
t ompetltlon of the cheapest wheat
raisers on earth. If Canadian wheat
were Imported without stint, the
price of both American and Canadian
wheat would still be regulated by the
Liverpool market.
That suggestion of cheap Canadian
wheat is the false alarm which the
great beneficiaries of the steel trust,
the oil trust, the coal trust, the lum
ber trust, the countless trusts that
deal In food and raiment and the
enormous aggregation of restrictive
combinations that sap the American
consumer's substance, keep In stock
as a universal scarecrow to frighten
away tariff revision.
If Nebraska wants to disavow the
sincerity of the work and contention
of the insurgents In congress, and of
the insurgent spirit in this state; if it
wants to place the seal of Its indorse
ment upon the conscienceless work in
congress of Sereno Payne, Senator
Aldrich, and Joe Cannon, it will per
mit its legislators to be frightened by
this cunning outcry of cheap wheat
from Canada, and by doing so will
voluntarily resign Itself to the Inevit
able still greater exactions of the
tariff beneficiaries Lincoln Star.
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For Sale.
I have four pedigreed Hereford
bulls, from a year and a half to two
years old, ready for service. Sired
by my herd bull, AJack, weight 2,500
pounds. C. Bengen.
2-9-16tw.
Better Live in a Tent
3n your own land than pay rent foi
a mansion on your neighbor's land
Think It over, talk It over wltl
your wife.
Become Independent.
Others have done lt, why not youT
Start today. , Come and tee us and
learn what a tery little ready cast
trill do for jo:
H. 1. ROSEKCRANS OB
IOWA CITIZENS
OPPOSE BILL
Measure Enlarging Powsrs cl
Railway Board Hoi Favored.
TO REGULATE CORPORATIONS.
Plan Under Way to Give Body Full
Control of Public Service Companies
Meets With Little Favor Experi
mental Road Work.
Des Moines, Feb. 10. The legisla
ture had a long open hearing upon th6
question of the adoption of a bill foi
establishing a commission to take ovei
all power of cities and towns In regard
to public service corporations. Repre
sentatives of most of the cities of Iowa
were heard in opposition to the meas
ure and they protested vigorously
against the plan that is proposed foi
transforming the state railroad com
mission into a corporation commission.
J. H. Roemer, a member of the Wis
consln commission, appeared for the
bill and showed how the system works
In that state. The author of the bill
admitted many defects and during the
hearing promised to effect a number ol
changes In It.
Suffrage Bill Introduced.
The long looked for measure giving
women the right to vote In Iowa was
introduced In the senate by Senatoi
Joseph Allen of Pocahontas. It came
in the form of a Joint resolution,
which calls for the amending of tha
constitution of the state so as to give
women the ballot. Senator Allen an
nounced some time ago that he would
champion the cause of the women suf
fragettes in the senate and that he
would present a measure asking foi
the ballot for them, but his delay in
bo doing caused charges of "cold feet''
to be lodged against him by some ot
his colleagues In the upper house.
Senator Allen made good, however,
and the suffragette battle is on.
Soldiers Expect Orders.
Soldiers at Fort Des Moines are ex
pecting an order from Washington dis
patching them to the Mexican frontier
to take part in defending Texas towns
from the onplaught of revolutionists.
Lieutenant Colonel Day, in command
at the fort, said lt Is likely his regi
ment, with the Eleventh cavalry, now
stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Chlcka
mauga Park, Ga.. will be ordered to
the front.
Experiment With Roads.
Senator Dunnegan introduced a bill
looking to experimental road work un
1er direction of the board of control.
He would give $30,000 for the con
struction of five miles of permanent
highway of macadam or other mate
rial In Fremont county, along what Is
known ns the Waubonsle road. The
state board would be required to make
a report on the cost and maintenance
of such a highway.
Aska Money for Three Big Colleges.
A bill making appropriations for the
state university, the Iowa state col
lege and the Iowa State Teachers' col
lege was Introduced In the house and
the senate by Senator Mattes and Rep
resentative Moore. The total amount
of the appropriations for the three In
stitutions included in the bill Is $728,
5)50. KENYON BACK IN THE GAME
Judge Again Leads Republicans In
Race for Senatorshlp In Iowa.
Des Moines, Feb. 10. The Joint bal
lot on United States senator by the
Iowa legislature was as follows: Ken
yon. 43; Young. 34; Funk, 20; Garst,
4; George W. Clark, 1; Porter (Dem.),
53; absent, 2.
The defeat of the special senatorial
primary Mil by the senate and the
house caused several changes In the
Joint bnllot. Judge Kenyon received
the votes which have been cast for
Funk and Young for several days and
again took the lead.
Senator Young retained his original
standpnt strength. Funk dropped back
to twenty and Garst took a position
In the race.
Bee Men Choose Officers.
Sioux City, Feb. 10. The name of
the Northwestern Honey Producers
association, together with the field to
be covered by tho body, wns rhnnged
st tbe meeting hero. It will be known
hereafter ns tho Trl Htnto Beekeepers'
association, Nebraska nnd Smith Mil
kota being added to the territory. Of
ficers were elected a follows: W. P.
Southworth of Sallx, In., prctildept;
Clarence Loaxuro of Sioux City, see.
retary; R. A. Morgan of Vermilion, 0.
I)., treasurer,
R. T. McCsH Diet at Washington.
Wnshlniiton, In., Feb. 10 -Unbolt T.
MrCnll. nn old .settler nnd pioneer
merchant, died here nrtcr a short Ill
ness. He was born In Washington
county, Pennsylvania. Sept. 4, 1831.
Rich Farmer Han0i Himself.
Manchester, In., Feb. 10. Henry J.
Barr, a wealthy farmer near Kduo
wood, committed sulctdo by hanging.
He was fifty four years old and leave
a widow and five children.
Elavator at Erlcson Bums.
Boone, la, Fb. 10 The elevator at
Drlcson, owned by O. O. Utile, was
entirely destroyed by fire. The loss
n sutldlng and train Is cstlmaUd at
M00.