The - PSatismouth - Journal
Published Semt-Weekly at Plattsmouth, Nebraska rr-?3
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Fostoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, aa second-class
matter.
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The winter of 1910-1911 Is found
1r. have a backbone that compares
very favorably with that of the Mexi
can revolution.
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The Mexican insurgents Insist that
the ofllce of vice president must be
abolished. Evidently Renor Corral Is
a James S. Sherman unit of a man.
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A man that Is bonost will go to the
eity records and note the manner In
which the business has b-n tratm
jttod before censuring the present
administration.
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There Is now some hope of electing
a senator In New York, as Sheeban
has flew the track, lie could never
have been elected If he bad remained
to the race till doomsday
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Hopeful self confidence foredoom
ed to disappointment has never been
more heroically exempli lied than by
the New York court which has for
bidden Nat Goodwill to marry again.
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Hernard G. Wurl Is making one of
Ue most efficient clerks the city has
4er had, and the people know him
t 'be thoroughly competent and
Wnorable. This Is mifflclent to com
vmni him to tho voters of Platts
iriouth. :o:
They are even going to have an
old fiddlers' contest In Omaha tomor
row night. Home of the pioneer tid
dlers of the state will be present.
Why not have such a contest In
Prattsinouth? Let someone take the
lead and work It up.
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' Diaz must "step down and out," Is
the edict. He must go the way of
all tyrants. It would be better for Plnchot controversy bas been the di
Mxlco tad he abdicated years ago. j '""'ting of popular attention tothe
Probably Is would not have suited the' Proposed raiding of Alaskan coal
corporations of the United States,
who have been given everything In
sight.
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The nomination of Armstrong by
the republicans of Lincoln for mayor'
kmost settles the fact that the capital
city will have saloons In a few weeks.
Love, the present mayor, was opposed
to saloons and was a candidate for
nomination on that kind of a plat
form. :o:
Yesterday was the Inst day that
members of the legislature can draw
lay, the sixty-day limit having ex
pired. Now they will have to dig
down in ttieir own pockets for ex-
lKTise money, ami It Is a safe bet that
many of the members have made up'
.
hlr minds to va mouse In as short
a time as possible.
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The destruction of the state capital
building at Albany, New York, re
rrriiwlB the peoplo of the fact that Ne
braska's turn may ocmo next. The
old hull at Lincoln could be spared fabulous fortunes have been made
about as well as any capital building j lh United States through corpor
la the United States, and we need a ' ate grants. A better understanding
r.w capital about as bad n any state of value of these monopolistic
Is tho Union.
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lf the people of Plattsmouth want
municipal ownership, it Is quite prob
able they will get It. now that all the
candidates for mayor have declared
for It "If tho people want It." It
wouldn't be at all likely that the
chief executive would have
the
audacity to oppose the direct will of
the people. Hardly.
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What has become of Poulson and
the Anti-Saloon League? Lincoln by winning over the Insurgents to his
wants to get rid of him, Omaha don't j support w ith the old guard standpat
want him, and there is not a town In ' ters. He Is notoriously unfit for such
the state that has any use for him. an Important post. Economic policy
Send him buck to where he came and enlightened public consideration
from. Nebraska Is able to look after j demand a man for the piano who Is
her own affairs without such Im- in accord with tho majority, qualified
ixirtatlons as Poulson. j In all respects to pass upon the man-
If the taxpayers of the Third ward
want a councilman that has the best
Interests of his people at heart they
will elect John Halstrom. He Is an
excellent citizen, honest In all his
dealings, and a man who will not let
his prejudices carry him astray.
That is the kind of man that should
represent the people In the city
council.
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The city clerk cannot b censured
for the action he has taken regarding
tho placing of Frank Neuman's name
on the offileiil ballot for mayor. He
has been guided by tho law and the
opinion of the city attorney
in this matter, as the
voters will readily understand.
If Mr. Neuman could have prevailed
upon the socialists to have nominated
hlni all this trouble would not have
occurred. Hut the socialists, In con
ventlon assembled, thought It wise
not to put a ticket In the field at this
time, and refused to nominate Mr.
Neuman.
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The taxpayers In general seem to
be very well satisfied with the serv
ices of John P. Sattler as mayor In
the past two years. He has done all
that any other man could possibly do.
Ills policy has always been to do that
which he thought was for the better
ment of Plattsmouth, and we believe
that he has done better than most
men could have done If placed In a
like position. Ills record Is before
the people. He has worked In con
nection with the Commercial club for
all Improvements, and their relations
with one another have been all that
possibly could be desired.
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One good effect of the Hallinger-
lands and the arrest of th sordid
schemes of the would-be laud grab
bers. As a direct outcome nine
prominent bankers, brokers and
financiers of Chicago have been In
dicted on a charge of conspiring to
grab 10,000 acres of these lands,
valued at a billion dollars. Then
trials are to follow, with a possibility
of a $10,000 fine and two years' im
prisonment In each cuse. From his
retirement at Seattle Mr. Hallinger
can quietly contemplate some of the
results of his "policies."
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Time was when public utilities
franchises could be had for the ask
IllIT ThA Itt'lvltMirn wallMno. nltKni-
J iunt(,g
were very generally taken
advantage of by the astute comblna-
,,, ,,
lions that traded on the Ignorance of
tho people of tho value of state or
municipal giants. The times are
changing. As the people get an In
sight Into the value of public utilities
they become more chary of Indiscrim
inate giving of franchises without
fair return of compensation
Almost
grabs Is enabling communities to
realize the Income which they are
worth to the people, and how to
secure it.
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The spectacle of Penrose
high
tariff reactionary and watch dog of
the Interests, as chairman of the
t
finance committee and leader of the
senate to succeed Aldrlch, Is one to
make the gods laugh, lly "courtesy"
of the senate and seniority he expects
to land this vastly Important position
dale of the people for tariff reform.
Of the remaining meiulers of the
committee. Cullnm, Ixvlge, McCum
ber anil Smoot, republicans, and
Hai ley, Simmons and Stone, demo
crats, the latter is the only one who
is a genuine and sincere advocate of
lower duties. With such a composi
tion tariff reform bills would hate
as much show ir committee as a
snowball in Limbo.
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THE VAJ.I K OK .OOI KOAHS
If all the- other States of the Union
stood absolutely still on the good
roads proiHwition and Nebraska alone
auvaucea, eurassa would have a
long way to go to overtake her sistei
states. For Nebraska, with the ex
ception of Oklahoma, Is at the bot
tom of the list of good roads states.
But the other states show no disposi
tion to stand still. Everywhere they
are agitating and working for better
and still better roads. The interest
In the movement Is intense, and It is
nation-wide. For the benefit of the
Nebraska legislature, which is now
considering tho good roads bills, the
World-Herald presents a few quota
lions from representative pajers.
The Washington Star says: "The
redemption of the American high
ways from their present state will
cost an Immense sum of money, but
every dollar spent in this direction
will be returned many fold to the
communities making the Invest
ment." The Kansas City Star says:
"Had roads cost the people of
America $12.50 head each year.
That Is tho waste computed from
government statistics. It represents
the extra expense of hauling food
stuffs to market over bad roads con
trasted with the expense of the same
hauling over good roads. That loss
is much more la a-motint than the
total of all the revenues of the na
tion and the forty-six Mate for the
same period."
The Philadelphia, Press says:
"Good roads must cost money. Every
body wants them, but only those
states can have them which are wil
ling to pay for them. State taxation
dees not usually fall heavily on in
dividuals, and It cannot be utilized
to better advantage than In helping
road construction."
The Richmond Times-Dispatch
says: "Counties which are neglect
ing the Improvement of their high
v ays need not be surprised w hen the
census figures show that they are
losing population, while more pro
gressive counties are gaining. Good
roads attract population, while bad
roads drive It away."
The Troy Times says: "Making
KOod roads is becoming contagious,
and the benefit-lent epidemic is
spreading all over the country. The
south has caught the fever, and In
many localities elaborate system of
Improved highways are contemplated,
under way, or have been completed.
.A good road Is an effective object
The Florida Times-Union says:
"The city with a thickly settled
prosperous country around It stands
on a solid foundation. He who
works most Intelligently for Jark
sonvllle now works to develop the
surrounding country, and the million
dollars that have been voted for roads
should be expended for the develop
ment of the county, not on providing
pleasure for the rich."
Hearing on the same subject, here
Is a report made by F. P. I,oomls,
American consul to St. Etlenne, on
the benefits of good roads In France:
"The road system of France
has been of far greater benefit to
the country as a means of raising
the value of lands and putting
the small peasant proprietors In
easy communication with their
markets, than have the railways.
It Is the opinion of well Informed
Frenchmen, who have made a
practical study of economic prob
lems, that the superb roads of
France have been one of the
most steady and potent con
tributions to the material de
velopment and marvelous finan
cial elasticity of the republic.
The splendidly maintained road
system has distinctly favored the
success of the small landed
proprietors, and In their pros
perity and ensuing distribution
of wealth lies the key to the
secret of the wonderful financial
vitality and solid prosperity of
the French natlou."
In the report of th commission on
country life, appointed by President
Roofvt It, Is found this pargraph:
"It Is essential to the pros
perity of th farmer that he
realize how close and intimate is
the relationship of roads to agri
culture. The selling price of
farm products is largely de
termined by factors beyond the
control of the farmer, and his
profit is represented by the dif
ference between the cost of pro
duction and transportation and
the selling price. If he can ma
terially reduce the cost of trans
portation, he thereby increases
his margin of profit without in
creasing the burden on the con
sumer, because the selling price
is not increased. The great
burden now resting upon the
producer, by reason of bad roads,
may be illustrated as follows:
Although ocean rates were high
er than usual during 190,"i-6 the
mean charge for carrying wheat
by regular steamship lines from
New York to Liverpool, 3,100
miles, was only 3.8 cents per
"bushel, or 1.6 cents less than it
tost the farmer to haul his wheat
9.4 miles from his farm to the
neighboring railroad station."
Nebraska Is as distinctly an agri
cultural state as any in the union.
Good roads mean more to Nebraska
than to most other stales, and Ne
braska because of Its favorable topog
raphy, soil and climate, can get
good roads without a definite system,
without a plan along which to work
and an effective organization to direct
that work.
The legislature has it within Its
power to render Nebraska a service
that will be of inestimable and never
ending value by passing bills that
have been drafted and recommended
by the Joint committee on roads
World-Herald.
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Senator Lorlir.tr no sooner gets his
vindication on straight than an in
vestigation breaks out in another
place and knocks it off again.
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The Journal speaks for Itself.
Every lssuo contains all the local
news, and such bas been the case ever
since It started five years ago. L
has outlived all competitors, and the
people of Plattsmouth know it is here
to stay.
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President Taft has been silent un-i
der criticism, but when - the story
was circulated that he favored Sen
ator Ixiimer the president lost no
time in putting a vigorous denial at
work.
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All cities of 5,000 and over can
soon have the commission form of
government If the people so desire,
nut whether this will let Plattsmouth
In on the upper floor we cannot tell,
until we know how many people we
have, and for some cause or other
the census returns of this city have
been held back.
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In a 8ieech !n Winona, Minnesota,
this week, the ex-llon. Tawney
"severely criticised what he termed
the modern theory of representative
government, that the representative
must bow to the will of his con
stituents." The ex-Hon. Tawney al
ways had great contempt for his con
stltuents, and since last November he
dislikes them more than ever.
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We are glad to see the campaign
In this city so quiet. It Is much dif
ferent to what campaigns have been
In the past. It la an indication this
year that our citizens are more de
termined than ever to "pull to
gether" for the best interests of the
city, and this is one reason why an
tagonism has been thrown to the way
side.
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Every time anyone gets It In the
neck politically he begins shouting
tho warning that his discomfiture will
surely lead to statewide prohibition.
It scares no one. If there Is any
Rpectre that really commands no
serious respect It Is that of state-wide
prohibition. If the tremendous pres
sure exerted In the last campaign
could not elect a county option legis
lature no one with a grain of Intel
ligence Is going to fear state-wide
prohibition Lincoln Star.
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It has been raid that half of the'
j cost of the transportation of farm
crops consists of getting them from
the farms to the railroad station.
That s en s to be an exaggerated
statement, but the figures given to
support it are somewhat startling.
in some instances it is certainly more
than half the cost and others all of
the cost, for an enormous part of
farm products are not transported on
railroads at all, but consumed in the
cities and towns where all the trans
portation is on wagons. It cannot be
doubted that good wagon roads would
reduce the cost of transportation of
such products over them much more
than one-half.
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Mayor Love of Lincoln bas fouud
out that the people of that city arel
not "so dead in love" with him as he
tr.cugr.t. Mr. Armstrong, the suc-
ce-sful republican candidate, Is one of
the big business men of Lincoln, but
hi is not a crank. There's where the
shce pinches. And now the friends of
Love threatened to run a candidate
on petition. Some people are nevei
satisfied with a fair show, but al
ways want to beat tne man
t' at beat their favorite. It is going
to be a sort of fiee-for-all race foi
n aj or In Lincoln, and Bob Malone
n ay stand a better show of being
elected than he did two years ago,
and he was only defeated then by less
tl an fifty votes.
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If any gcod effects have so far been
aeiompllshed by the mobilization
felly they are not apparent to the
r.aked eye. What has followed of in
jury, however, Is quite plain.
Hostilities" for Americans has been
given a fresh Impetus In all the
rsrties In Mexico and severe treat
n ent of American citizens Is threat
ened by that country. Diaz has de
clared martial law and the summary
execution of captives and riot and
turmoil on the border continues to
Increase. The naval patrol, because
of Mexican protest, has been aban
doned, European nations distrust out
motives and the Canadian "enemies of
reciprocity have been given an added
weapon by the demonstrations on the
international boundary, which, they
say, might' very well be repeated
along the Canadian line. The whole
proceeding so far has the appearance
of a costly and colosasl blunder. ' .
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The Rev. Earl Flynn, a California
minister, in a recent lecture, advised
his hearers to eat sauerkraut If they
would live to be 100 years old.
Sauerkraut and spec, pretzels and
limburger and some of the celebrated
Milwaukee brew! Surely there's
some strength to that kind of a diet.
The reverned gentleman like wife said
that to be healthy every minister
should sweat at least twice a week.
good many ministers, he believes,
sweat only once a month, w hen they
draw their salaries. There are a
good many godly men who do not
even get a chance to perspire that
often.
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One thing stands out prominently
to tho credit of ex-President Roose-.
velt's administration bis fight for
the conservation of the natural re
sources of the nation and his work
for the reclamation of the waste and
arid lands. His message calling at
tention to the grabbing of the water
power of the country, possibly the
last of the natural resources left un
monopollzed, and pointing out the
meaning and danger of the concen
tration Into a few hands of this
tremendous source of physical energy
and wealth, Is entitled to enduring
praise. The dedication of the great
Roosevelt dam a few days ago, by
which hundreds of thousands of acres
of heretofore worthless soil will be
metamorphosed Into wonderfully fer
tile territory, on which occasion the
ex-president was present In person,
nuiat have ben a gratifying climax to
this line of the colonel's efforts. He,
well as the country, Is to be con-
gratulated.
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m.i:ssi(is ix lUMU isK.
For the last twenty-five years the
railroad Interests have bitterly op
posed every proposed attempt at re
form In the matter of transportation.
They opposed the state laws for
regulating passenger and freight
rates. They opposed the Interstate
omuierce law. They opposed La
abolition of passes In the states. They
opposed the Roosevelt rate law. Th-r
Lave bitterly opposed the freight law
passed at the late session of eoa
gress. They opposed the 2-cent pas
senger rate law.
They now admit that all these re
strictive measures have proved to be
blessings in disguise, as in fact they
have been. The law forbidding re
bates put money in their -pockets.
The 2-cent fare law has given theia
quite as much income as they had
before. The law forbidding passe
has been a wonderful relief and a
money-maker to the railroads. The
interstate commerce law has proved
a blessing in disguise. Our readers
will remember that when the advance
in rates was opposed by the shippers,
the railroads declared w ith one voice
that the law meant bankruptcy to
them; that they could no longer sell
their bonds abroad unless they had
sufficient income to increase ihelr
dividends; that they could no longer
buy the necessary amount of new
raus; mai tney eouia make no
further Improvements; that they
could build no more branch lines;
that the country was going to the
bow-wows, in short, unless they were
permitted to advance rates.
The country will never be able to
pay its debt to Senator Cummins,
who secured the enactment of the
provision In the rate law that rail
roads must show cause why rates
should be advanced. This one act
of his should earn for him the thanks
of every shipper In the United States,
of- their children and grandchildren
as well. The singular thing Is that
he railroads have made aud will
make no appeal from this decision of
the commisison forbidding them to
advance rates. More than that, the
wisest of them are beginning to ;
recognize that It was a blessing la
disguise. The nier who deal In rail
road stocks and bonds' are already be
ginning to realize that It Is a blessing
to the whole nation. They openly
state that had the commission given
them permission, there would have
been a vast flood of new stocks and
bonds; that there would have been an
urgent demand for Increase -la
wages, to be followed by another de
mand for an Increase in niM ani an
on, ad Infinitum. The country will
breathe freeer when It Is now settled
that hereafter railroads must show
cause for any Increase In freight
rates.
All this furnishes convincing
proof that In the long run the com
mon people are wiser and saner than
"the men who manage big business."
Many of the things that happen to us
turn out to be blessings In disguise.
The world seems to have been made
that way, showing that there is an
overruling Providence who looks,
after what Is really to the best In
terests of all His childrenWallace's
Farmer.
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Flock Increases.
Mr. Julius Pit, secretary and
treasurer of the Mynard Commercial
club, with sheep-growing as a side
line, was overjoyed this morning to
find that his flock of prize-winning
Shropshire sheep had been Increased
by the addition of two fine lambs dur
ing the night. Mr. Pitz is having
fine success in the sheep Industry and
before long we will not be surprised
if he Is advocating a tariff on wool.
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