The-
Plattsmouth - Journal
Published Semi-Weekly it FlittsflOQtfc, Nebraska
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the I'ostoffice; at Tlattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
matter.
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DRAG, BROTHER, DRAG.
If at first you don't sure.!.
Drag, brother, drag.
If once or twice don't (111 the need,
Drag, brother, draff.
When a shower of ruin has past.
And the sun shines out at last;
While the roads are drying fast,
Drag, brother, drug.
And Gabe will come along and see,
Drag, brother, drag.
JuHt how a (rood road ought to be.
Drag, brother, drag.
When he pels home he'll lake his
pen
And write you up the best of men,
And you'll be mighty famous then.
Drag, brother, drag.
Monroe Co. ((I.) Republic.
Come to IMattsmouth next Sat
urday and the "Good Hoads
King" will tell you all about it.
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The census of the Nebraska
Male penitentiary shows the num
ber of inmates to be 413.
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Florida watermelons have
reached the northern markets,
and the demand for Jamaica
Finger is encouraging to the trad''.
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The Mexican army proves to be
about as effective in maintaining
order as a single policeman in
dealing with a bunch of Fourth of
July celcbrators.
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Most "joy riders" who figure in
the news columns apparently re
gard joy as a synonym for dis
aster, misfortune, griff and
ralamity.
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Theodore Roosevelt is mention
ed for ambassador to Germany.
This shows what a man's chances
are if he is only willing to work a
year as a newspaper reporter.
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Wellesley students are oppos
ing the reception of Mr. Rockefel
ler's money. Although it would be
worth several square meals to
write him a sassy letter. $150,000
seems a high price to pay for the
privilege.
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It is a relief to learn that only
Mr. Dickinson, the secretary ol
war, resigned. For a moment it
was feared Secretary Knox or At
torney General Wickersham
might he quitting.
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I, ay aside your work next Sat
urday afternoon and come to
Plattsmouth and hear I lie "(iood
Roads King." He will tell you how
to make good roads and keep them
that way.
world combined. . Then, to some
extent, marriage has proved a
failure.
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The funniest thing is to see the
democrat landing by President
Taft and the republicans oppos
ing him, This shows you that the
democrats w ill not oppose anyone
that is right, while the repub
licans must have things their own
way or they won't play in Taft's
back yard.
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Good roads are the pride of any
locality, and they speak louder for
the enterprise and thrift of the
people in any community. They
enhance the value of the farms.
This is why the farmers should
come to IMattsmouth on Saturday,
May 20, and hear the greatest
road builder extant.
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The more automobiles the
greater will be the demand for
better roads. And who will be
more benefitted by better roads
than the farmers. Automobiles
and good roads go hand in hand.
Come to IMattsmouth next Satur
dav and learn how to make good
mads.
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F.very man who delights in
good roads and is interested in
knowing how to keep them good
in the cheapest and best way, wil
come to IMattsmouth on Saturday
May 20, and hear "(iood Roads
King," the man who knows more
about building roads than anyone
in the western country, or in the
United States, for that matter.
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The department at Washington
has Met on fool, a movement to
ascertain what postmaster
throughout l lie country nave heen
doing in the way of mixing up
politics with their official duties
II is the intention to determine
whether postmasters have been
demoting their time to official
duties or politics. The depart
i o ut. as.-umes that thee post-nia-lers
are paid to attend to the
duties of their office instead of
limning to conventions helping to
fix up slates.
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Senalor Volpp of Scrilmer is an
out-and-out candidate for the
nomination for governor on the
democratc, ticket. It is a good
while yet till the primaries next
year, almost a year, and the sen
ator will have plenty of lime to
change his mind.
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A law was recently enacted by
the Wisconsin legislature which
makes it a felony for one member
of the legislature to promise sup
port lo the measure of a brother
member in exchange for sup
port for a bill which he himself
hopes lo have enacted into law
This is a step in the right direc
tion, hnd it would have been a
good thing if such a law had been
in force in Nebraska during the
session of tho last legislature
there would have been more goo
Jaws passed and less ".snide'
make-ups.
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Figures show that 25 per rent
of the marriages become divorces
and that the marriage failures in
the United States are greater in
number than all the rest of the
The days of leadership in either
parly is passing, and the lime is
right on hand when the people
are becoming wise to their own
interests. The party whip-cracker
is no good now. and the people
will no longer vote for men and
measures whether right or wrong.
This spirit has been brewing for
several years, ami if a candidate
lesires the support of his parly
he must be a man worthy of the
confidence of his parly friend
The nomination is not equivalent
to solid support any more, nnd
men who desire to become can
didates should know themselves
whether or md they ean fill the
bill.
largely dominate in the control of
it. It is owned by a large number
of terson. Hut these scattered
owners have little to say about
the management of their prop-
rty. The United States Steel
corporation, for example, is own
ed by more than 100,000 stock
holders and bondholders. Of all
these 100,000 persons only the
twenty-four directors have any
thing to say about its manage
ment, and of these twenty-four,
nine, who constitute the executive
committee, are the real heads of
the vast business.
Control of the one biggest cor
poration in the world is a great
concentration of power. When
this power is multiplied tenfold by
the intimate association with
other vast corporations 11 as
sumes proportions that call for
the most comprehensive and com
pelling government supervision,
alike for the protection of the
people who must buy transporta
tion and commodities from the
ig corporations, and in the in
terest of the thousands of stock
holders whose investments are in
the hands of these few men of
vast financial power.
Confronted by such a showing
the American people are not go
iug to relax in their demands for
more governmental control over
corporations. On the contrary,
they are coming more and more
to believe that only a beginning
has been made in the effort lo
curb the power of the trusts.
Kansas City Star.
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SOME SMOOTH GRAFTING.
Advices from Washington show
that a few days ago a further list
of stealage was revealed when the
democratic majority in the house
lopped off some more useless and
non-working appendages. So
far over ? 1 82,000 per year has
been chopped off the useless pay
roll by the democratic majority
and the end is not yet by a long
shot.
The l.'l-y ear-old daughter of a
chief doorkeeper was found lo be
drawing 1,200 a year under the
title of clerk "to a doorkeeper."
'Thirty-eight extra policemen who
were authorized during the Spanish-American
war when someone
said there was a plot lo dynamite
the capitol, were still on the pay-
roll, costing annually $39,000.
Two telegraph operators, draw
ing i,uu cacn, assigned to a
wire long ago discontinued, were
till on the rolls.
Six thousand dollars was saved
by abolishing the salaries of em
ployes of the clerk's document
room. The room was abolished
six years ago.
Almost an equal sum was saved
by slopping the pay of "attend
ants in I he library," the library
naving neen moved many years
ago from the capitol.
other, senators wish El Paso peo
ple were a little less curious and
a little more disposed to run.
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Four battalions of suffraceltes
are besieging the New York legis
lature. Someone should ask them
how many husbands they left at
home with cold dinners and no pie
baked.
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They say Roosevelt is going
hunting in Greenland in 1912.
Tender-hearted people will la
ment because the polar bears will
end their lives with a rifle bullet
instead of by starvation.
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The Yaqui Indians are danger
ous again. 1 hey can t neip ques
tioning sometimes why the pale
face expected them to give their
land away and yet look good
natured. :o:
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VAST POWER OF A FEW MEN
1 he most expressive exhibit
that has been made of the con
centration of the control of vast
wealth is a statement filed before
the Interstate Commerce Commls
sion showing that the men who
manage the United States Stec
corporation, with its $1,500,000,
000 of capitalization, are also di
rectors in other corporations hav
ing an aggregate capitalization of
nearly $10,000,000,000, with gross
annual income of $ I. n 10,000,000
I lie figures are astounding
They are beyond the comprehen
sion of an ordinary mortal.
Of course, it is understood that
this vast property does not be
long to the twtnty-five men who
You can telephone from New
York to Denver now, but on
learning the toll rales, we de-
0
cided not to call up our cousins
and ask if they were going down
to the postofllce tonight.
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American experts are recogniz
ing Persia's finances. If they
learned their business well at
home, they will at once raise the
tax rate, increase the assessment
and borrow all that anybody will
lend.
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Fourteen vote-sellers get five
years' disfranchisement at Ports
mouth, O. Now will the vote buy
ers get the same exact justice, or
will they continue to be leaders of
our political thought?
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Klmwood is artanging to have
a big celebration on the Fourth of
July. Elinwood contains the peo
ple who can make a success of
anv thing they undertake. And
mark our prediction, they w
have a "hummer" this year.
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James S. Sherman is mention
ed for president. His chief
qualifications seem to be that as
vice president he has been able to
put the motions and count the
voles without making many bad
mistakes.
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Mr. Taft is to lecture in New-
York on the law's delays. He
might tell us why he did not
make (hose supreme court ap
pointments in September, thus
saving a delay of three months on
the trust cases.
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Willis E. Reed of Madison will
be a candidate next year for Unit
ed States senator. He is one of
the ablest men in Nebraska, and
would grace the upper house of
congress with considerable credit
to the state of Nebraska.
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or mechanic, is interested in good
roads, and all should make it a
point to come to IMattsmouth next
Saturday afternoon and hear Mr.
King at the Parmele theater.
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Under the new law, passed by
the recent legislature, governing
the duties of the road overseers,
it makes it the duty of the over
seer to make a detailed report of
every foot of lumber that he uses,
all of the labor he does and file
with the county clerk this report
duly sworn to. All of this expense
is charged in detail by the clerk to
that district and to each bridge
separately. It gives the clerk,
as well as the overseers, a large
amount of clerical work.
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Hunnewell, Kansas, a town I
about the size of Union, is get
ting lots of advertising on account
of electing a woman mayor of the
village. Now the mayoress has
appointed a lady city clerkess and
a lady marshalette and the coun
cil, composed of men, refuses to
confirm her appointees, and now
she is a standpatter, and refuses
to be comforted, otherwise. These
naughy men should remember
that "when a woman says she will,
she will, and when she says she
won't, she won't."
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The ownership of a majority ot
the stock of the Equitable Life
Insurance company by J. Pierpont
Morgan, although for voting pur
poses it has been placed in the
hands of trustees, is making
trouble in New York. The Equit
able is an international concern
and letters have been received
from policyholders all over the
world demanding the mulualiza-
tion of the company. They don't
like to feel that Morgan's power
ful hand is on the money that
they have saved for their wives
and children.
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strength to elect a republican to
the senate presidency, as the in
surgents, who hold the balance of
power, have been able to establish
a deadlock. Lincoln Star.
The harvest for June brides
promises to be a bumper one.
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Postal savings banks seem to
be as popular ns a pretty maid in
the midst of a squad of old
bachelors".
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The man or woman who is con
stantly finding fault with his or
her neighbors are usually so
crooked they can't lay straight in
bed.
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The F.I Paso people seem to
think our soldiers should fight,
bleed and die lo protect their
right lo see tho battle from tho
roof-tops. ,
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The house has voted to in
vestigate the sugar trust. We
hope they get after these people
that sell sweetened flour as
powdered sugar.
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No doubt it's dangerous in El
Paso when the Mexicans are fight
ing, but perhaps not more so than
when the cowboys come in to
spend a week's pay.
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Senator Stone of Missouri
wants to intervene in Mexico. The
If it had been Knox or Wicker
sham that resigned instead of
Dickinson it would have been a
god-send to the common people.
Dickinson was not the man to run
the war department to suit the
American interests in Mexico.
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It is the duty of every farmer
and all other persons interested
in good roads to attend the meet
ing at the Parmele theater in this
city Saturday, May 20, and hear D.
Ward King, the man who under
stands the way to perfect road
building.
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Instead of an endeavor to re
strict the power of judges, of
which President Taft speaks," the
president of the United States
should be restricted somewhat of
his power in the appointment of
judges whose names are suggest
ed by the trusts and money sharks
of the east, who they know will
stand by them in their schemes
to rob the people.
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Next Saturday is the day when
the "Good Roads King" will be in
Plattsmouth to open the eyes of
the people on building good roads
SENATOR BROWN, REGULAR
isenator lirown, in lining up
with the standpatters in their en
deavor to elect Senator Gallingei
of New Hampshire to the position
of president pro tern of the sen
ate, has undoubtedly put a keen
er weapon into the hands of the
Nebraska insurgents who have de
dared war upon him than they
have ever had before.
Senator Brown lias made some
pretense of insurgency in the
past. His name appeared in the
list of prime movers for the or
ganization of the progressive re
publican league. There have ex
isted doubts of his sincerity as a
progressive, and it is but a few-
days since it was announced
significantly from Omaha that the
progressive league of this state
will oppose his re-nomination for
senator and will back John I
Kennedy or somebody else against
him.
It will not escape insurgent
notice that in the vote on presi
dent pro tem of the senate ther
was a rigid separation of the
sheep from the goats. Four of th
five insurgent senators present
LaFollette, Hristow, Gronna and
Poindexter, voted for Senator
Clapp, while the latter voted for
Hristow. Four other insurgents,
Cummins, Hourne, Works ami
Crawford, were absent, but paired
for Clapp.
Then it was that Senator Hrown
stood up to be counted as "reg
ular," voting for the republican
caucus nominee, Mr. Gallinger,
thus giving notice that when it
comes to a clash of interests be
tween the standpatters and in
surgents he will be found with
the standpatters.
Undoubtedly a good many Ne
braska republicans will approve
of his attitude and his determina
tion to stand with his party, but
his attitude is not going to win
him any approval from the in
surgents in Nebraska who may
heretofore have been inclined to
look upon him as one of their
number.
On the other hand he will not
be held accountable for the failure
FREEDOM OF CONTRACT.
The recent decisions of the su
preme court of New York are be
ing sharply criticised, not only in
this country, but by law writers
and publicists the world over. To
try to uphold the old common law
theory of freedom of contract un
der modern conditions a theory
that has been abandoned by the
courts of all other nations many
years since is looked upon a3
not only futile, but savoring of
tyranny. .
Any man. whether lawyer or
layman, who looks upon present
conditions, knows that in fact,
except in the smaller transactions
of business, there is no such thing
as freedom of contract and can
not be. If a man builds himself
a new house in the city he cannot
have any freedom in the contract
that he makes with the different
corporations whose services he is
compelled to have. He cannot
make a bargain with the gas com
pany, the electric light company,
the water company, in the same
way that he could bargain for the
purchase of a horse, where there
is still the right to buy or not as
he sees fit. He is helpless before
these corporations and must pay
what they ask. Courts and legis
latures have everywhere recog
nized these facts and have estab
lished control of prices irres
pective of the demands of either
party concerned. They recognize
that freedom of contract is im
possible.
Exactly the same condition ex
ists in many cases in the labor
market. The laborer must work
at the wages the corporations
offer or suffer more than the man
who builds a house in the city. He
is just as helpless as the city
dweller who wants a shelter for
his family. To say that a law
fixing the hours that women may
be employed in factories is void,
offends the moral sensibilities of
the whole world. World-Herald.
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and keeping them good. Every
one, be he farmer, business man ' hi party to command sufficient
Kidney Troubles Attack Platts
mouth Men and Women, Old
and Young.
Kidney ills seize yui;:ic and old.
Come quickly with little warn
ing. Children sutler in lio-ir early
vears
Can't control the kidney secre
tions. Girls are languid, nervous, suf
fer pain.
Women worry, can't do daily
work.
Men have lame and aching
backs.
The cure for man, woman or
ihild
Is to cure the cause the kid
neys. Doan's Kidney PilLs are for sick
kidneys
Have brought relief to Platts
mouth people.
Plattsmouth testimony proves
it.
J. L. McKinney, Lincoln Ave.,
Plattsmouth, Neb., says: "Doan's
Kidney Pills, procured at Rynott
iV. Co.'s Drug Store, have been
used in my family and have
I roiight prompt relief from kid
ney disorders alter other rem
edies have failed. In 1900 I pub
licly recommended Doan's Kidney
Pills for the benefit of other kid
ney sufferers, and at this time I
have no reason whatever to with
draw one word from that state
ment." For sale by all dealers. Pries
50 cents. Foster-Milburu Co.,
Hufl'alo, New York, sole agents for
the United States.
Remember the name Doan's
and take no other.
Called to Craig.
Mr. O. C. Hudson, the Burling
ton sub storekeeper, was called to
Craig, Nebraska, today on account
of the death of his little peice,
the 2-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. E, Whitaker, who
formerly resided in this city. The
little one died from whooping
cough.