The - Plattsmouth - Journal
Published Seml-Wdekty at Plattsaioath, Nebraska arrrk
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the rostoiTice at riattsmouth, Nebraska, as Becond-class
matter.
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Chicago'! population, according to
the last tensus, Is 2,185,283, most
of whom seem to be candidates for
mayor.
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The threatened visit of the seven
teen-year IocubU may reveal that he's
10 other than your old friend, the
grasshopper.'
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It la shown that in 1909 that the
number of hogs killed for food In the
United States exceeded that of all
ther animals combined by 4,483,000.
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It Is added that the New York
man who bet $5 that he could drink
a quart of Scotch whisky In an hour,
won the bet, but will never collect it.
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Omaha Is not creating as much stir
In the present legislature as It did
two years ago. Ransom and Howell
are not In the senate. Neither Is
Jerry Howard In the house.
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They are again talking war with
the Untied States and Japan. How
much do they want to extend the ap
propriation for the army and navy
now? War talk always ends that
way.
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In the election contest of Wertman
vs. Schccle for a seat In the house
from Seward county, has been de
cided In favor of our old friend,
Scheelc, by a vote of 54 to 43. Fred
Nutzman, the member from Otoe and
Cnss, voted for Scheele. Good for
Nutzman.
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We do not believe Champ Clark's
annexation talk done much good for
reciprocity with Canada.--' England
don't desire to lose Canada; and we
don't bcllve Canada wants to annex
Itself with the United States under
.our present state of affairs.
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The II. & M. shops, the banks, post
office, county offices and numerous
itores were closed yesterday in honor
of the anniversary of the Father of
rur Country. The Journal was Is
sued just the same and delivered to
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Poulson and the Anti-Saloon
League has Interested themselves very
much In the Seheele-Wertman con
tent, which was decided In favor of
Schcele Tuesday. Wertman Is "dry"
and Schcele "wet," and PoulHon and
his gang made themselves so
obnoxious In this matter that they
proved of great assistance to Scheele.
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The occupants of the gallery In the
senate hissed Italley of Texas while
he was speaking In defense of Lorl
mer of Illinois Tuesday. The ques
tion Is, could the senator of the Lone
Star state have expected anything
better while speaking In defense of a
man like Lorlmer? A man who baa
been condemned by hla own people.
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Governor Carroll of Iowa has
vetoed the Oregon plan primary bill,
which was passed by both houses of
the legislature In that state. Car
roll characterized the measure as "an
attempt to Indirectly accomplish
something that cannot be done di
rectly." Will It bo passed over his
veto?
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Hassctt of Buffalo county Beems to
be the Hon of the hour In Lincoln, all
becauso he voted against the capital
removal. Kearney Is the county -cat
of Buffalo county, and Is a candidate
for the capital, and now Ilaractt's
constituents demand his resignation.
We are Just like the Irishman many
years ago, when he was yelling for
his choice for president In a terribly
hot campaign, a fellow not far away
yelled, "Hurrah for hl!" The Irish
man replied, "D d a man that will
not tl(k up for his own country."
The chemists have done another
good thing and the result will be the
cleaning up of the back yards and
road-sides of the old tin cans. A way
has been found to make the saving of
the tin on old cans a profitable busi
ness. The American geological sur
vey reports that 5,515 tons of tin
were recovered from the cans thrown
away during last year and that the
Improved process will give such a
value to empty cans that hereafter
they will all be gathered up. -
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"We commit this matter to the
care of the Canadian parliament,"
said W. S. Fielding. Canadian min
ister of finance, Introducing the
reciprocity agreement In the Do
minion parliament, "with the firm
conviction that It is going to be a
good thing for Canada and a good
thing for the United States, and that
we will continue to have It and main
tain It not because there Is any bind
ing obligation to do so, but because
the Intelligence of the two countries
will decide that It Is a good thing for
the promotion of friendly relations
and for the development of commerce
of the two countries."
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It Is a satisfaction to note the un
expected turn of afTalrs Indicating
that the Canadian reciprocity agree
ment will bo ratified by the senate be
fore adjournment. By putting this
trado agreement in force at once,
the effects of Its operation will have
time to develop before congress Is
again engaged In a tariff revision
struggle and before the country Is
again plunged Into a presidential
campaign. For undoubtedly this
reciprocity agreement, if It Is ratified,
will be a factor in both the first ses
sion of the next congress and in the
ensuing campaign. It ought to have
time to demonstrate Its value mean
while. I'OSTMASTKKS I V TOUTICS.
It Is rather significant that the
Hastings Tribune, a republican news
paper whose editor Is, we think, him
self a postmaster should Indulge in
such comment as the following con
cerning the charges preferred against
Postmaster Thomas of Omaha:
Postmaster Thomas of Omaha
Is charged with violation of the
civil service law. It Is said that
because a letter carrier refused
to support candidates and
measures as directed In the
recent campaign, as directed by
Mr. Thomas' subordinates, he
has been punished by a reduc
tion In rank. If the charges be
true one will not have to look
very long or very hard to see
Postmaster Thomas' finish.
The truth Is that we are getting
well past the time when public senti
ment In either party will Bupport the
misuse or abuse of official position
for partisan purposes. It Is not so
long ago that the actions charged
against Postmaster Thomas would
have been looked on as ordinary
practice, permitted by the rules of
political warfare and the adage that
"to the victor belongs the spoils."
Senator Durkctt himself proceeded
along that theory when he made the
postmasters of the state the back
bone of his political organization. But
Senator Burkett did not get very far
with It when It came to counting up
the practical results, and neither, by
the same token, did Postmaster
Thomas. Tubllc employes, whether
in or out of the civil service, are com
ing more and more to resent the
covert pressure brought to bear by
their superiors, Just as the public at
large Is looking more and more
askance on a "postmaster's brigade."
Here In Omaha sentiment Is over
whelmingly In sympathy with the
mall carrier who charges that he was
punished for refusing to give active
support to Postmaster Thomas' ran
dldato, and there Is a general desire,
shared In by republicans the same as
democrats, for a thorough overhaul
ing of the case. Political standards
In this country, In spite of every
thing that is said to the coatrary, are
constantly growing better World-
Herald.
And as you go a'.ong, there's other
postmasters whose political chicanery
will perhaps bear investigation,
and they do not all live a thousand
miles from Plattsmouth, either. If
postmasters are prohibited from en
gaging In politics, according to civil
service rules, then the same should
be enforced to the letter.
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THE HOG SERENE.
Consider for a moment the hog.
The hog Is Nature's sedative. He Is
the antithesis of excitement and the
anesthetic of worry. When frayed
nerves cry out in protest and the
tired brain aches with a surfeit of
care or pleasure go then to the hum
ble pig stye and learn a lesson of re
pose. What does the farmer do when the
hired man gives notice or grasshop
pers threaten to take the upper
eighty? He heads for the hog lot;
and, with his elbows on the top rail
nd one foot In an Intermediate crack,
he watches the swine at their even
ing meal till his soul finds peace.
As a preventive of nervous prostra
ion, a sanitarium, compared to a hog,
Is a riot and the seashore Is an in
surrection. His peaceful erunt la n
lullaby to tortured ears, and his
placid oblivion of the flight of time Is
a rebuke to the strenuous. As he
pokes his nose Into the moist earth-
never furiously but with calm and
quiet and upturns the succulent
roots that he may add weight to his
hams and breadth to his spareribs, to
the ultimate profit of the butcher, we
are reminded of the futility of crying
out against the fate for which we are
being fattened and taught to bow the
head In humility.
Reach over the top of the fence and
scratch his bristly back with a raspy
cob and his legs, unable to support
his excess burden of pleasure, crum
pie beneath him, and he sinks to
sleep, singing a song of contentment
that rumbles forth from cavernous
depths.
His humble limitation have not
made the hog a pessimist. On the
contrary, he Is your true optimist.
His life knows no sorrows, and he
goes to the slaughter house triumph
ant In the consciousness that no part
of his life has been wasted except his
squeal Kansas City Star.
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Apples taste awful good now at two
for a nlckle.
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Lafe Young, the standpat can
didate for United States senator from
Iowa, has sidestepped to et another
standpatter have a chance at the
prize.
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They are even opposing the open
ing of the postofflce In Lincoln on
Sunday. Have they not extended the
New Engand blue laws In the capital
city about far enough?
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Missouri should build a new capital
building that will be a credit to the
state. The one recently de.tioytd by
flre was r-cu.ltucted seventy-two
years ago. Missouri Is able to build
one of the finest capitals in the union.
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Local republicans, some of them,
seem to think President Taft la be
side himself in standing with the
democrats on Canadian reciprocity.
One of them remarked the other day
"Can It be posslbe that Mr. Taft has
retreated and gone into the demo
cratic camp?"
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There is something mysterious
about the origin of the report that
the farmers are opposed to reciproc
Ity. The most sensation correspond
ent has not yet located any rural
agitation or chronicled a single meet
ing of protesting farmers.
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So far as we know, n makes ittle
difference whether the Missouri Pa
cific railroad Is controlled by Ceorgo
Could or Rockefeller and his bankers.
They are all Wall street stock
brokers, anyway, and they will get all
icy can out of the road, and the
pooplo will pay the price.
And now it is hinted that National
Committeeman Rosewater is behind
the charge flU'd against Postmaster
Bon Thomas of Omaha, the favorite
of Burkett, because the latter, follow
teg his leader's promptings, became
a Cadet Taylor adherent. There is
nothing so exhilarating or so health
ful in politics as a good fight, says the
Lincoln Star.
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A petition signed by nearly 20,000
people, over half of which number
come from Lancaster county alone,
asking for a state-wide initiative and
referendum, was presented In the
house of representatives Wednesday
The peope want the initiative and
referendum, and the members of the
legislature havo been instructed to
give it to them. Don't go back on the
people, boys. Remember that the
"yolce of the people Is the voice of
Gd."
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The people generally of Platts
mouth do not seem inclined to the
idea of saddling upon themselves
water plant that Is virtually worn
out, as they say. We believe that it
has not been many years since that
an attempt was made to run a light
plant by the city, and it was run to
the sorrow of the taxpayers. To
make sure, we should look before we
leap. 'We believe in municipal
ownership to some extent, but not to
that extent where It will cost the
people more than It does under the
present system.
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COXCE.NTKATIXO WEALTH.
There are some phases in the evo
lution of modern life, so serious that
economists dread to think of them.
They see wealth gradually drifting
into fewer and fewer hands as the
years go by, and the great fortunes
growing larger and larger. They see
the millions becoming more depend
ent for their existence upon a small
class, who hold the power of life and
death in their hands; for they con
trol the means of living, who own, or
in the near future will own the earth
and the tolls of trade, If the present
tendency toward the concentration of
wealth goes on, and the force that
presses society on toward that condi
tion is not fully understood. What
ever that force Is, one thing is cer
tain, it has pressed on with Irresisti
ble power for more than a quarter of
a century. "
More and more, as men think over
this question, they are coming to the
conclusion that these evils have come
upon us by the violation of the truth
laid down by Jefferson when he wrote
that all men are born equal and have
a right to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.
No man of sense ever supposed that
Jefferson meant that men .were born
with equal physical strength or
mental powers, but that each man
had an equal right to the bounties of
nature, to the things that were here
before man came and which man had
no part In producing, and that by the
development of them each man was
to live and pursue happiness. He
expressed the same thought In an
other phrase: "Equal rights to all
and special privileges to none."
The more men think over these
things, the more firmly do they be
come convinced that the concentra
tion of wealth la the result of grant
ing special privileges to the few.
These few have been granted tariff,
water right, mining, transportation
and a hundred other privileges and
from these the Bwollen fortunes have
been accumulated. The words quoted
from Jefferson have always been the
slogans of the democratic party and
when it comes into power and ad
minsters the government In their
Sinn, iub uars snaaows win pass
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away and the sunlight of hope will
break forth again World-Herald.
GOVERNOR ALDRICH'S TONGUE.
After his election, Governor Aid
rich of Nebraska visited his old home,
perhaps to allow his friends there to
see how great a man can grow who
leaves Ohio. He made a speech In
his old home, and among other things
said that ho proposed "to make Ne
nrasita a state to bo proud of." This
looked as If ho hnd the power he
thought he had. ' Hut the other dnv
he made an address to the students
and faculty of the state university
and complained that he was over
worked, saying: "I have been trying
to keep a hand on the democratic
legislature, and I want to say that I
would rather attempt to control
carload of proverbial donkeys, of
which this party Is sympllcal."
The governor was an exhibition ot
vanity in Ohio, and an exhibition of
coarseness in Nebraska. He should
take himself in hand. It is not
enough to have an issue. He ought
to get the point of view that the issue
made him. He did not make the Is
sue. But perhaps It Is too much to
expect Governor Aldrlch to tame his
tongue. The bible says, "It Is an un
ruly member." Sioux City Tribune
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A SCHEME TO KNOCK
001 THE "COLONELS"
A Lincoln, Neb., correspondent
says the house committee on militia
proposes to knock out the time
bonored governor's staff. The
new bill talked of provides that
aides on the governor's staff cannot
assume any offilcal rank, unless en
titled to do so by a commission In the
National Guard of the state. Another
bill prohibits wearing a military uni
fo rm unless the wearer Is a member
of the guard.
This Is a blow below the belt. It
permits the governor to have all the
staff he wants, but its members can
not carry the title of "colonel" nor
wear the uniform. A staff of "colo
nel" and the gold braid expurgated Is
no staffs at all, at all.
M AGIST GIFT ENTER
POISES NOW II LAW
The governor signed the bill Tues
day enacting into law house roll No.
107, entitled, "An Act to Prohibit
Gift Enterprises," which will be far-
reaching In its effect. The law in
substance is: "That every person
who shall sell, or offer for sale, any
real estate or article of merchandise
of any description whatever, or any
ticket of admission to any exhibition
or performance or other place of
amusement with promise of expressed
or implied to give or bestow any gift
or .article or thing, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and be
punishable by a fine not to exceed
$500." The bill was passed with an
emergency clause and goes into im
mediate effect.
Judge Beeson and Mr. C. C. Wes-
cott visited the auto show at the
Auditorium this afternoon.
RETORT OP THE CONDITION
or ms
Plattsmouth State Bank
of Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
Charter Na 788
Incorporated In the state of Nebraska, at the
t-kee of business, ternary 17, lull.
BESOCKCES
Loan and discount. Sii3..w2 la
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured., an
Itanklni: house. furnit ure and fixtures ' 1,479 00
Heal estate other than banking
house 11 m w
Current exitenses and taxes paid ltM 4H
Cash Items tki 54
Due from nnt'l state and pri
vate hanks and hankers. ...ZUtt is
Checks and items of exchange m 82
currency 5,0ns (10
(iold coin 1.M5 00
Silver, nickels and centa.. an lit 30.510 17
Total Il57.tld2 37
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid In fro.ooo 00
jur m s iiimi... i,Wio On
I nil v ded luoHtx urn 7n
individual deposits snhject to check. ..?! 1U1
nieniRiKicerllllcates of dcimsit 1 4tt f& i
Time certificate!) of deposit 8K,;43 bi i
Total 1 37.(152 37
FTATB Or NlCllllARKA, I
County or Cass 1 I..T. M. Boiwru,
cashier of the alswe named hank, do herehy
swear that tho aliove statement Is a correct
and true ropy of the report made to the State
taiiKintr uoaru, j. m. KOUKKTH,
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Attest-1 ' Nwi.i n rector.
Attest, j , ,.KajTICHi rflreetor,
MlliiUrlitni1 niwl uufitrit -v tu.l,tMt...il.l., mil.
day of l-etiruary mil. K. It. Windham.
lMalJ My commission exolrw Oct. lli, lui5i
Rotter Live In a Tent
on your own land than pay rent for
a mansion on your neighbor's land.
Think it over, talk It over with
your wife.
Itvcoiiio Independent.
Others have done it, wtty not yout
Start today. Come and see us and
learn what a very little ready cash
will do for you.
'V. E, R0SENCR1NS & SON
IIOUSEADVANCES
INITIATIVE BILL
Referendum Measure is Recom
mended lor Passage.
10 PER CENT PETITION IN EACH
Five Per Cent Petition for Referring
AH Laws to People Committee Ap
pointed to Investigate South Omaha
Stock Yards. .
Lincoln, Feb. 24. The initiative
and referendum law went one more
step toward its final ratification la
the house of representatives when the
house version of It was recommended
for passage This action was accom
plished without a dissenting vote and
the house will pass it as it stands
within a few days.
The senate bill is now in the hands
of the judiciary committee and must
be disposed of. An effort will be
made to send the house bill to the
governor for signing.
When the bills started out they
were alike, coming from the same,
sources. Representative Hatfield and
the Direct Legislation league, but now
that the house has decided to pass a
bill that differs in some essential par
ticulars from the senate bill, already
passed, it becomes a question what
form the measure will take as it final
ly passes.
How Bills Differ.
The house bill differs from the sen
ate bill in two provisions. Both bills
have a 10 per cent petition evenly dis
tributed as a basi9 for initiating legis
lation and a 5 per cent petition for re
ferring. The house bill has a provision
that bills initiating constitutional
amendments shall have a 15 per cent
petition, a provision lacking in the
senate bill. The senate bill has the
Sklles amendment, which provides
that the majority of votes cast in fa
vor of a bill must be not only a ma
jority of the votes cast upon the meas
ure, but must be also 35 per cent or
more of the total number of votes cast
at the election. The house has a sim
ilar provision in the bill which It will
pass, but the restriction refers only
to constitutional amendments.
The house has now the advantage
in settling the fate of the two bills,
as it has its own bill for passage and
the senate bill is in the hands of the
house committee on Judiciary. This
committee can kill the senate bill by
indefinite postponement and then try
to get Its own bill through the upper
house. - t
Committee for Stock Yards.
The house Interrupted the debate up
on the referendum long enough to ap
point a committee of three to go to
Omaha and investigate the stock
yards. The live stock and grazing
committee which has under considera
tion the Taylor bill regulating tho
stock yards, recommended that a com
mittee go for Information and Metzger
of Cass. IJndsey of Webster and Nuts-
mann of Cass were named. They ex
pect to be back to report Monday.
Taylor of Hitchcock, author of the bill.
tried to have the committee sugges
tion refused, asserting that it was in
tended to smother the bill, but he was
voted down.
The senate avoided an all night call
of the house on Ollls' stock yards bill
by entering into a gentlemen's agree
ment to all be present today, having
acceded to Ollls' demands for the re
commitment of his disfigured measure. ,
ACTOR IN NOVEL ROLE
Repays Four-Dollar Loan With One
Thousand Dollars' Interest
North Platte, Neb., Feb. 24. Last
September a man who gave his name
as D. J. Quillan, and who stated he
was an actor, approached F. T. Red
mond, the presiding officer of the
Knights of Columbus of this city, and
said that he was so financially embar
rassed that he would like to get a
loan of (4 from the order, In order
that he might get to Grand Island to
Join a traveling company there. His
request was honored and nothing fur
ther was heard from until a few days
pro, when a draft was received by the
order for $1,004. with a letter stating
that the borrower of the $4 returned
that with $1,000 In addition, to be
used for tho good of the order here.
FARMERS HOLD THEIR GRAIN
Low Prices and Light Demand Making
Market Dull.
Omaha, Feb. 24. Owing to the bad
'condition of the roads for several
days in the last week, and the conse
quent lighter receipts of grain, the
Omaha Grain exchange Is experiencing
the dullest season in its history Blnce
the panic. Tho poor demand for grain,
the slack supply and the low prices
are declared to be conditions directly
traceable to natural causes, but senti
ment has arisen to tho effect thai the
reciprocity agreement between the
United States and Canada may have
something to do with the dullnlss.
Russia to Adjust Dispute With China.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 24. The for
eign office announces that China's an
swer to four out of the six points in
the Russian note relative to the treaty
of 1881 Is satisfactory, and that the
remaining two can be enslly adjusted.
The Idea of a military demonstration
has been abandoned.
