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K-I-M I-M-H -l-M-I-H-M
LA FOLLETTE, THE
PROPHET.
V
1'nless this important
quest inn is rightly set
tled," exclaimed Senator
La Folletle in the railroad
rate' debale five yawn,
ago, when senator de
scried tin' chamber while
he was speaking in order
to show their contempt
for him, "seats now tem
porarily vacant may be
permanently vacated by
those who have I lie right
to occupy them at this
time." The remarkable
fulfillment of bis proph
ecy is commented on by
the Philadelphia- North
American.
And Heals have been
vacated by the will of the
people, just as Senator
La Folletle predicted in
190.
.M-M-WM-M"M-IHH-H-
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The democratic bouse will re
deem its pledges to the people
ou can bet your bottom dollar on
that.
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The author of "Mothers' Day
now proposes a "Fathers' l)ay."j
Alright, lei it come. Dad's wil
ling. :o:
It is a i iregnne conclusion that
a nation doesn't Ret rich by in
creasing the cost of living. You
can't hold yourself up by your
boot si raiis.
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With the death of ltenman
Thompson it is feared some
theatrical manager will lake the
"Old Homestead" ami cut it up
into town lots.
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(lb, death, where is thy sling ?
A Chicago girl drew two cards and
filled a royal Hush. Then she
died. Hut at that, where is the
poker player who does not envy
her?
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Will the tariff on the neces
fnricH of I i Ft! be reduced by the
resent congress Well, now,
jusl watch and see. Already the
instigators of high protection are
trembling in their shoes in an
ticipation of what's coming lo
them.
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The new president of the Mis
Hturi l'acillc Railroad company,
Mr. II. (1. Hush, has a great op
portunity toy rehabilitate that rail
road, not only physically, but
spiritually to re-equip it. not
alone with rails ami rolling slock,
but with popular good will.
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The democratic lnni-e has de
eded to puss the Canadian
leciproeity measure after two
hys" debate. However, it is real
ly expected the members of the
Mand-pat republican machine
will attempt to crowd a large
amount of view-witli-alarm into
the two days.
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It is paid Unit (Jeorge Gould has
received the, promise of financial
nid for the Missouri Pacific from
Furopcan capitalists. This will
probably be in the shape of
reciprocity, as the Could have
already given more than their
share of financial aid lo Kurop
eans. :o: ,
i 'Governor Iladley's friends in
Missouri are booming him for
president, but lie won't have it
that way. We haven't heard of
Any of Governor Aid rich's friends
in Nebraska booming him for
preBldent. He'll take all the
Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Publisher.
- i uth, Nebraska, as St-cond-class
IN ADVANCE
booming be can get, but he ain't
getting any, not even for re
eleelion to the position Jo which
democrats elected him last fall.
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A woman writes from Kansas
City, Kansas, to the Star, inquir
ing whether the government
doesn't pay 100 to a mother who
has "eight boys, no girls be
tween." There, is no question
that the government or somebody
ought to pay any mother ot' eight
boys, whether there are girls or
not, not rely $100, but $ 1 00,-
000. The only trouble is that the
government doesn't. Kansas
City Star.
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There is no iroubt a portion of
the citizens of Plattsmouth who
will endeavor to follow Mayor
Salller's suggestions ami clean
up Saturday, but it is hoped. that
everyone will do the best they
can. Hut let everyone make up
their minds that we must have a
clean town, and we will have it.
Put on your overalls early Satur
day morning and get out and work
a couple of hours on the job, any
way. -:o:
The reapportionment bill pass
ed by the last legislature will
have a tendency to make the next
presiding judge "get up and
jump," as Sarpy county has been
added to this district. It is true
that Sarpy is a small county and
perhaps has little litigation, but
she seems to have bad as many
suits as Otoe or Cass counties. It
i. , . . ... .
nas Kepi .imige iravis luisv car
ina for Otoe and Cass counties
and with an additional county In
will have lo keep awake nights.
The adding of Sarpy is reallv
working a hardship on the judge
Nebraska City News.
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I he seerelary of the treasury
lias adopted another of the popu
list plans that was advocated bv
them in lH'.i.'l to prevent the Wal
street banks from drawing gob
fr the treasury, which enabled
them tit squeeze the life out o
business and force the issue of
more bonds, lie proposed to call
in all the greenbacks of large
denominations and reissue tin
in small bills which will go into
general circulation where the
banks cannot gather them up lo
present to the treasury and do
maud gold. These bills of large
denominations are almost ex
clusively held in the reserves o
the national banks. They are
practically used as a circulaling
medium.
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Speaking of the reapportion
ment by the late legislature, the
Nebraska City News says: "The
last legislature evidently im
agined that Cass and Otoe coun
ties have been lovers ever since
the territory was organized, be
cause they have been intimately
connected ever since they were
organized. For years each has
had a senator and one or more
representatives, but since the de
velopment of the western part of
the state they have not wielded
the influence- they once did. Under
the new apportionment we will
have only one senator and one
representative (float) between us.
These counties seem to have lost
their prestige."
From New Jersey and Mas
sachusetts town9 there come con
stant protests against tho reci
procity treaty like the following:
"There are several million farm
ers in tho United States who are
opposed (o (his measure. They
regard it as the most unjust
legislation ever proposed in a na
tional congress." How the resi
dents of these towns know what
the fanners, who farm, want is
somewhat of a riddle. The farm
ers of Nebraska have made no
such outcry. That story of a
j train carrying 2,000 farmers
! across the continent It) make a
protect to the senate coniinitlee
I . ... .
is oi Hie same cnaraeier. .o
doubt there are old stand-pal re
publican farmers, who have voted
the republican ticket straight for
forty years, who are opposed to
the treaty, but when it comes to
getting 2,000 of them to pay their
expenses across the continent to
make a protest against a treaty,
that "needs continuation."
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REPRESETATIVE GOVERNMENT
The Chicago Tribune, perhaps
the most powerful newspaper in
the west, and republican always,
well describes the democratic
program at Washington when it
says it is "comprehensive enough
to indicate a real regard for the
country's needs and restricted
nough to relieve any alarm which
might have been caused by too
much zeal too little controlled."
The democratic leadership, in
fact, is showing a rare combina-
ion of loyalty to platform
pledges, devotion to the welfare
of the country, independence of
the pressure of the special In
(crests, and determination to
push a radical program in so con
servalive a manner as to give no
ause for disquietude and alarm
in the industrial and commercial
world
To multitudes of people, even
lo a good many democrats, per
haps, it must come as a surprise
that the democratic parly, despil
all that has been said; despite the
chronic sneers of its political op
ponents ami the hoary squips of
the newspaper jokersmiths: is
really able to rise, with a degree
of discipline and solidarilv not
exhibited by the republican party
in a good many years, to the re
sponsibililies of power. Th
record that is being made in Hi
house is distinctly reassuring. II
is proving to the country that
democratic liar y is wor liv o
confidence; (hat it knows how to
do things and is willing to di
tilings; that it is anxious lo keep
faith with the people; thai, as the
Tribune intimates, it "plays
politics" in the highest and best
sense by endeavoring to win the
trust and support of the people by
gi ing the people what I hey want.
To put it in the Tribune's own
words :
That, parly guile enters in
to the admirable discretion
of the house may be suspect
ed, but need not be consider
ed in appraising the value of
the program. When party
interest is sought by such
methods it approaches
statesmanship.
How wonderful and refreshing
a contrast is the celerilv and
business-like soreness of the
democratic house in fulfilling
party obligations, in executing
the wishes of the republic, when
compared with the sullen and de
fiant refusal of the last republican
congress lo allow this to be a
people's government! How gen
uinely encouraging to patriotic
Americans (o find lhat represent
ative institutions are not neces
sary misrepresentalive, in the ua
lional congress any more than in
Hie slate legislatures!
An aroused and enlightened
public sentiment has given to
states like Nebraska and Cali
fornia and Texas and Indiana and
Wisconsin legislatures lhat
eagerly write the popular will into
law.- It has given to other stales,
like New Jersey, Massachusetts,
Colorado and Ohio, big and
patriotic governors who have the
oourago and patriotism to stan
like an accusing conscience (o
shame recalcitrant legislatures
into making good their pledges to
(he people. It has given (o the
republic, at last, a national house
of representative that is an
honest and willing servant of the
people. That same active arid in
telligent public sentiment can
give us a senate lue uie House
1 1 1 1 1 a president who will co-oper-
ite with both.
Hcpresentai ive government is
not a failure. It only becomes so
Wlieil the people, hv their list-
sness ami inditl'erence, per
mit it to be. When the people
perform their own duly as citizens
repre.seinaiive government win
truly represent them, and so ful
fill ils glorious mission. World-
Herald.
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Tom DennLon for police judge
in Omaha! Don't that jar you?
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"Mothers' Day" is Sunday, May
li. liut when is "Dads' Day?"
Every day in the week, we would
guess.
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From the election returns m
sjoutn Dakota, evidently trial is
going to be a
very "wet" state
from now on.
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ll may be more excellent to be
right than president, but friends
or vv oodrow vv ilson can see no
reason why a man shouldn't be
both.
Jack Johnson has been invited
to fly at the Kansas City aviation
meet. However, Johnson is at
present more of a jail bird than a
blackbird.
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Robert T. Lincoln, the retiring
president of the Pullman com
pany, must be given credit for re
fusing steadfastly and consistent
ly If. oapilalize his father's
niemorv.
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The recall is found to
especially popular with the wom
en in the stale of Washington
who regard it as a chance to ad
a sort of postscript to tlieir bal
lots. New men are coming to I'lall
niouth every day to look the city
over with a view of purchasing
properly and locating here. Prop
erty is lower in this city right now
than it will ever be again and
llios( vvbo desire to purchase had
belter do so now.
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They propose to take a postal
card vote in Lincoln to see how
the ''wets" and "drvs" stand on
mayor. Such a vote will cut no
ice. I he fact is, the "dry" ele
ment is scared and they want
some indication before hand lo
ease their consciences.
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Last call clean up. Bui re
member if you don't do it tomor
row you are not prohibited from
doing the job any other day. To
clean up is in order on any old
day except Sunday, and then the
Lord would forgive you if you
can't do it on any other day.
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"Stale I'niversilv Professors
Accused of Lobbying," is a head
line in (he specials from Lincoln.
Well, is that anything new? We
can't speak for the last legis
lature, but two years ago we know
I hey lobbied. And if they done
so at one session, why not at an
other? :o: -
It is said lhat there are people
in Lincoln who claim to be down
on saloons, who, during tho ses
sion of the legislature, furnished
members with all the beer and
whisky (hey wanted, and even
carried it to their rooms in the
hotels and boarding houses. Of
course such fellows are not for
saloons in Lincoln.
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It is jusl as well to remember
that if (he reciprocity pact should,
through any tmforseen phase of
its operation, prove unsatis
factory to either the United Slates
or Canada, it can be called ofT by
either party at (he end of six
months. Surely the country could
not go to the demnition bow-wows
m
o short a time.
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Postmaster General Hitchcock
threatens to have every news
paper man who holds a poslollice
elired. He says that be has come
to the conclusion that a man can
not perform the duties as post-
ister as lie should and at the
same time do justice to his paper.
We don't know but what the post
master general is right about the
matter. A man's whole attention
should
be given to one or the
ot her.
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Over in Indiana they have a
crow bounty, and it has developed
that some enterprising bounty
gatherers have been hatching
crows in incubators for the pur
pose of delivering tlieir heads to
the state for a price. Perhaps the
same enterprising fellows who
operated wolf farms in Nebraska
to get the wolf bounty, ami who
sometimes found it possible, when
a county clerk was obliging, to
utilize the same scalp for several
bounties. Lincoln Star.
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Some time since they (ore down
and carried 'away the starch
factory at Nebraska City. Now
the Great Western Cereal com
pany are removing their works
to Fort Dodge, Iowa. The trusts
, , - -
g
to work to get some other
to get some other
factory to take their place, and,
as a general tiling, they get some-
thing more beneficial than those
, . . . ......
factories taken away. That s
..l...t n : i i i. I
imi t- run roierin i.se aim pines
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The Jews have been appealing
in vain to republican ollicials
for years to protect them as other
American citizens are protected
when abroad and always without
success, but the expulsion of a
few Mornian missionaries from
(iermany on account of (heir re
ligious belief soon brought action.
The Smoot alliance with the re
publican party shows up on
various occasions and always
with the desired results. It does
not seem (hat the Jews ever
entertained (he idea that the way
to gi t protection for men of their
religious belief, either native
born or naturalized citizens of the
I'niled States when abroad, was to
get control of some state govern
ment and then make swaps with
the Mannas and Heaths, lo get the
protection that the constitution
guarantees them.
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l'lie Slate Journal, which has
1 n Hie greatest grafter on state
printing', has had ils wings so
closely clipped in the past few
years that it is awful 'fraid
someone is doing something in
Henry Hiehnioiid's oflice of chief
clerk that is making (hem a few
dollars. But ils suspicions are
nn founded. The boys who have
been sending out copies of bills
passed at the recent session lo
those who wanted them at a nom
inal sum were pursuing an honor
able course. But what hurts the
Journal is thai they printed all
(he bills, and may have had a few-
copies to dispose of itself.
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Relative to the changes made
iu the law relating lo (he issuance
of refunding bonds of cities, in
the last legislature an act was in
troduced by Senator J. F. Conical
and was passed which amends the
law in detail. A9 the law now
stands providing that refunding
bonds in cities of the second
class under 5,01)0 population
and villages may be issued to run
from ten to twenty years with a
maximum interest rate of 7 per
cent. It also provides that the
council shall pass an ordinance
for the issuing of bonds whenever
so instructed by the majority of
the people at a bond election. The
old law was general in its terms,
merely stating that bonds could
be isgued to meeting maturing in-
1 uVbtedness
nave evmen.iy neen preuy uar.r,npd the cky,8 fortincatlon3 clo8eIy
on Nebraska City. But just as with field glnsses. Later he rode down
soon as these trusts move out thet0 the river' where hls n,en had bwm
gathering In scattered squads with
energetic people of Nebraska City General Pascual Orozeo.
F.1ADER0 REFUSES
TO GRANT DELAY
Says He WW Talk Armistlc
Alter Eatt.e o! Juarez.
READY TO BEGIN THE FIGHT.
'nsurrecto Leader Says He Win" Win
or Be Whipped Before Further Ne
gotiations Noncombatants Warned
to Leave Juarez at Once.
EI Pa.so, Tex., April 21. Francisco
I. Madero refused absolutely to grant
in armistice, as suggested by Dr.
'omez at Washington. He sent la
word that he would talk armistice aft
er the battle of Juarez, and then only.
' They want an armistice to get up
reinforcements; that is all," he said.
"We will fust fight; my army will win
r be whipped at Juarez before we
tall; armistice."
Unless the federals make an attack
on the rebel army, Madero says there
will be no assault on Juarez until
after 3 o'clock this afternoon. If by
lhat time he has not received assur
ances from Porflrto Diaz that he will
retire from the presidency, Madero
itwlares that the Juarez fight will take
place at once.
Madero sent off notice to consuls at
J'tarez that he might attack the town
any hour today.
Madero Inspects Fortifications.
Madero rode from his camp close up
I'l MIV UlllOllil Ul UUUMH HUV V A Will
frt t In rat ah vt a if Tna rut onil ova m.
Madero has two field pieces, which
his men had constructed in the rail
road shons at Madera, and these are
being placed in position to shell the
i,own -
Madero was not compelled to give
.. .
unit iui iiuui'f iu luit-iKu cuuauig ui ma
intention to attack, as he has not been
recognized as a belligerent, but he In-
slsted that It was proper to do so to
avoid loss of life and he Is holding
"V" in rhwk ,,ntil the tiine 8pecI-
The insurrertoB are said to have re
ceived fresh supplies of food and am
munition during the night.
All the insurrectos are said to have
from 130 to 180 rounds of ammunition
and all appear eager for the battle.
American Consul L. B. Edwards Is
sued his warning to foreigners. After
nnnounclng that he has been notified
of the time of attack, Edwards' notice
reads:
"Therefore, I repeat my former warn
ing to all foreigners and noncombat
nuts to seek a place of safety and re
main away from this city until order
shall have been restored."
STONE RESOLUTION SHELVED
Mitsourian Taken Sharply to Task for
Expressing Views.
Washington, April 21 Congress lb
in no temper to meddle in the internal
affairs of Mexico, and In the senate
a majority of both sides of the cham
ber will endeavor to prevent open dis
cussion of th9 travail through which
the republic south of the Rio Grande
U passing.
This was nisde clear at the conclu
sion of a speech on the Mexican situ
ation by Senator Stone (Mo.), who ad
vocated empowering the president to
use the army and navy in any way he
might see fit to protect American lives
tnd property. The resolution was re
ferred to the foreign relations commit
fee, which is rot likely to act upon It
8' KM.
Senators CYUom, nacon. Root and
Lodge, all mouthers of the committee,
immediately deplored public discus
sion of our sifter republic's troubles
and several took the Mlssourlan sharp
ly to task for the tehor of his remarks,
suggesting that such discussion should
occur only in legislative session.
Senator Raenn raid he wanted It un
derstood that the views of Stone are
not universally shared In the senate.
He said that to give the "power to use
the army as ho mty see fit" is In Itself
a declaration of war and the time for
such an extreme course had not ar
rived. MEXICO'S REPLY IS EVASIVE
Seeks to Throw Blame for Trouble at
Douglas on Americans.
Washington, April 21. The receipt
here of the outline of the reply the
Mexican irovernnint has made to
President Tint's strong remonstrance
against th condui t of warfare on the
border somewhat depressed the hopes
of the ocelli's, who hnd confidently
expected a complete responsive reply
from Mlco.
Withholding- oclal stitements until
the full tcxi of the pe la Parra note is
at hand, tho president, in full knowl
edge or the fact that it iu recrimina
tory In snme points, is disposed to
deal with It leniently. The president's
rejoinder must be based on further of
ficial reports from the American mili
tary officers, whose impartiality in the
fighting at Agua Prleta has been Im
peached. tt is feared that a disposition pre
vails In Mexico to make political cap
ital out of the activity of the Amer
icans, and this will promptly be re
sented It It appears as calculated to
Impair the good relations of the two
countries.