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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1911)
The- Plattsmouth - Journal Published Seml-WeeKlj it Plattsiouth, Nebraska R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the Poatoffice, at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, aa aecond-clasB matter. $L50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Who said the dandelion could not come hack? :o: Soon (ho music of the harvester will be heard in the land. :o: Keep in mind the Fourth of July celebration at Plattsmouth. :o: Don't make your arrangements to go el.se where on the Fourth of July, hut come to Plaltsmoulh. :o: H was demonstrated in Indian apolis last week that the motor car is speedier than any railway train. :o: It is now proposed to punish the trust jnaprnal.es hy sending them to prison. That is certain ly a kind of "josh I" :o: From the success of the senate in holding up legislation it will he seen that it is having a per fectly corking lime. :o: Senator Brown seems to think with the Aposlle Paul that now is crime the accepted time in the matter of getting rid of Lorimer. :o: gentleman has served his time as governor the people will have had all they want of Aldrich. :o: Sixty million dollars in gold was turned over hy Diaz to the new Mexican government. Had he put it in paper money he might have carried it off sewed into his trousers. :o: The postofllee department is criticised for paying .)5 for a waste basket, but it probably takes about that size to hold the daily grist of applications for ofllce. . :o: Should Mr. Wickersham's prophecy be realized, we would like to spend our vacation on the lawn in front of the jail, feasting our eyes o nthe luxurious sight of a few trust magnates behind the bars. "No immunity bath for. sugar" is the Washington announce ment. This is Just as well if there is to he any sugar left. :o: The shrinking habit of the violet has always been held up as a virtue, but it is not thus re garded in the case of the bathing suit. :o:- A mechanician was killed at the Indianapolis motor race Memorial Iay, but this trifling incident did not rullle the good nature of the crowd. :o : Theso "costume recitals" are popular with conservative people who ai'O tired or the summer theater shows where no costumes arc permitted. :o: The courts in Iowa are cer tainly very busy granting di vorces. The reports show one divorce to every seven marriages over the llawkeye state. :o : A Jiegro tried to slug the presi dent in Chicago. The president had better keep away from the Windy City. One president has already been killed there. :o; The tobacco trust decision was called comprehensive, but it failed to examine the question if any thing bad been done to stop the boys from smoking sweet fern, :o: The pesimists say the Memorial Day observance shows the decline of patriotism, but just think of bow the rooters scrape their throats cheering the homo team :o ; James J. Hill, who is gloomy when everyone else is cheerful and nn optimist when cveryono else lias the mulligrubs, ceased giving out interviews last wee long enough to close a little $600,000,000 transaction involv ing the purchase of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy railroad. :o: Justice Marian may entertain a different view from all the rest of the court, but not until a man has defied his wife's opinion do we knoNv that be has independent convict ions. :o: Smiic reporter has asked Gov crnor Aldrich if lie would be a candidate for United Stales sen ator. Oh, Lord I Hy the time the A member of the Illinois legis lature wants the newspapers pro hibited from publishing news of It is feared this would ex elude a large part of the Spring- Held legislative news. :o: A bunch of wireless company promoters go to Jail, but those kind of schemes will be worked as long as so many people judge the value of a security by the looks of the lithograph on the certificate. :o: Mr. Roosevelt says this country would never arbitrate the Monroe doctrine. Very likely not, yet some people regard the M. D. as an elephant that should be given away to anyone who will agree to give it a good home. :o: The steel trust investigating committee should not be satisfied with looking over the illustrated gift books on Andy Carnegie's parlor table, but should demand a sight of his vest pocket mem oramlum books. :o : Our old friend, Cip Cailro, is getting ready for an armed de scent on Venezuela. As it is hot weather to go to moving picture shows down there, the country is probably ripe for a revolution. :o: Senator Volp of Dodge county is determined to get into the race for governor next year. This makes two candidates for the democrat ie nominal ion Senator Moorehead of Richardson county and Senator Volf of I lodge county. :o : J. J. Hill, finding the Hurling toii road awkwardly situated in how for the people they represent. And we must admit that taking the body as a whole they are a pretty shrewd set of fellows, and the most of them very able men, with their eyes open to the needs of the country, and propose to be free and independent in their acts, as shown in last week's proceed ings, issrespective of outside dic tations. These many able men in congress know their own business better than outsiders can tell them. . :o: Remember the day and date July Fourth, at Plattsmouth. :o: The cherry crop is immense, and they are selling at 75 cents per bushel. :o: The automobile market is still good, and some people are de termined to have them if they do come high and they have to mortgage the farm to get them. :o: From present indications Cass county will have one of the greatest and best wheat crops in its history. That will help some. :o: The mortgage record in Cass county keeps at ahout an even pace, about as many releases as there are new mortgages given This is not a serious outlook at all. It seems to be a settled fact that Cam Seyhert will be the democratic candidate for county commissioner. Mr. seyhert is a good man and made a most ex cellent race three years ago. :o: The eiTort by the Illinois legis lature to make the newspapers less sensational can hardly fai more dismally than the endeavor of the newspapers to make the Illinois legislature more respect able. :o: Several good and competent men have been suggested as pos Bible candidates for the dcm cratic nomination for county treasurer. Any of whom can till the hill to the letter. The demo crats always nominate competent men. :o: Don't be a grumhlei. Some people contrive to get hold of the prickly side of everything; to run up against the sharp corner, and find out all the disagreeable things. Half the strength spent in growling would often set things right. Well, that's all right. He made the best governor the state ever had, and demonstrated his states manship and manhood by doing things he thought was right, and displayed to the satisfaction of the unprejudiced that he would act as his own consicence dictated. Anian with a mind of his own is the kind of a man for senator. :o: High protection was unknown in the United States before the civil war. Under Polk, the Walker tariff was adopted, with rates of duty generally between 5 and 30 per cent. Its average proved to be about 25 Ym per cent. The de cade following, from 18 46 to 1857, was one of phenomenal expansion and industrial growth. It was at this time that the foundations of New England's great manufactur ing enterprises were laid. In 1857 duties were further reduced to about 20 j per cent. :o: They boast of a "model license eague" in Lincoln. We don't know what that means, unless it is a gang of cranks banded to get her to keep up a turmoil and strife bv hounding the saloon people to death. The nieanes people on earth are those who claim to be law-abiding, and then because they can't have their own way, propose to give people who do not, agree with them all the trouble possible. Such hypocrites are not only not law-abiding, but they are a disgrace and a detri ment to the capital city. :o: Judge Travis was not at home when the Journal printed the article in reference to his can didacy for the supreme bench While he appreciates the coin pliment paid him, he desires it distinctly understood that under no circumstances would he bt come a candidate for die supreme judgship. So he wants his friends to cast their eyes in oilier direc tions. Th'? judge is filling his present position as district judge so acceptably that the people do not care to part with his services just yet, and so he does md prefer to go up higher at present. :o: powers, mere is no sucn line at least no such line has ever been defined in this or any other country. The existence of such a division has been stated, but the division itself has never been de fined or practiced. The still indefinite judgment in the specific tobacco trust case also will be disappointing to those who believe that the sovereign emedy for economic maladjust ment is to put somebody in jail. Aside from the fact that that was not the purpose of the prosecu tion, it very certainly is not the purpose'of the people. Nor is it the wish of the people merely to destroy things or "kick the table over." It may be confidently as serted that the attitude of the court is very much in harmony with the attitude of the people concerning the readjustment of the relations between big busi ness and the law. That attitude is one of con demnation of the arbitrary power of monopoly or of corporations combined under trust manage ment. It demands the regulation of trusts with such effectiveness that the industrial saving and service they are enabled to per form shall make them really in dustrial servants instead of in dustrial masters. It appears to be consonant with public sentiment, as well as with the law, that the court did not as sume merely to break things up did not assume to prohibit a course which was wrong in some particulars without giving an op portunity to set the wrong things right under the supervising direc tion of the courts themselves. It may be said in this connec tion that the court does not deny the right and power of the peo ple's representatives in congress to change the Sherman anti-trust CATARRSHI U n 5 E 5 5 HAY FEVER- ELY'S CREAM BALM Applied Into tha nostril la qulokly absorb, CIVE8 RELIEF AT ONCE. It cleanses, soot lies, heals and protects tha diseased membrane resulting from Catarrh and drives away a CId in the Head quickly. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. It is easy to use. Contains no injurious ' drugs. No mercury, no cocaine, no mor phine. The household remedy. Price, 50 cents at Drugjpsta or by mail. LY BROTHERS. 56 Warrtn St., N.w York. his inside vest pocket, thinks un der the new decision he can legal ly keep it in his trouser's pocket, where he can gel at it more handily. :o:- Ilaving just finished examining 1,000 law books to see if the milk men of this town have violated the "rule of reason" provisions of the trust law, wo beg the pub lie's pardon for the slight fog in our mental landscape. :o: Not all the credit for wiping out the postal deficit should go to Postmaster General Hitchcock The railway mail clerk, forced to do extra work and forbidden to protest under penalty of dis charge, believes he is entitled to a share of the glory. :o: Congress is responsible to (he people for its acts, and all must admit that it is made up of rep resent alive men who are plaet there (o do the best thev know -:o:- There are several candidates in office who think Cass county owes them a living and that the only way to pay the debt is keeping them in office. Hut the people arc iable to change their minds this year. :o: l lie wheat crop in Kansas is not nearly so good as usual this season, which is pretty tough on the Sunflower state. Hut then they must take a little of the bad along with the good, the same as other states. :o: Judge E. II. Gary, the executive head of the steel trust, wants the government to take the corpora tion by the hand and lead it along the paths of righteousness. The government might begin by sug gesting thai the trust sell steel as cheaply to Americans as to foreigners. :o: A professor of astronomy in the Western Reserve university at Cleveland declares that the un usual heat wave that has scorche the country the past few weeks has been caused by the tail of Halley's comet, which, he says, is still hovering close to the earth If that information helps any to ward keeping cool, you are en titled ho it. :o: Fx-Governor Shallenbcrger has come out and says he is a can did.it e for United Stales senator THE TRUST CASES. One way of looking at the su preme court of the United States is to regard it as a stump, holding the alTairs of men and of slates and of the nation at one fixed place. Those who nave tins view of the court are doubtless much distressed at the court's recent ulings in the tobacco trust and oil trust cases. I'lie court itself evidently does not take tins immovable or slump" ideal of its own func tions. In arbitrating both these vastly important prosecutions the court has considered industria conditions as necessary ami In tegral parts of the law. It has recognized itself as i commission, whose mosl valuable quality is and must be discretion If it should exercise that discre tion in favor of enemies of the people it would err. If it exerts its judgment to protect and fur ther the people's welfare it al tains its highest usefulness. Hoth these late decisions of the highest court of Ihe land are ten tative that is, later action and development are necessary to complete them. Certainly the court should be trusted lo woi out its continuing problem with patriotic intent and in the interest of a sound public policy. There is an old legal maxim "The reason of the law is the 1 i f of the law." That not in trinsically different from "the rule of reason" applied by the ma jority of the court to the Sherman anti-trust act. In following tin "light of reason" the court may have invaded Ihe field of legisla tion. This will be surprising an painful lo those only who belie.ve that there is and can be such thing as a hard and fast line be tween legislative and judicir law if they wish it changed. It may be said further that if the people do not desire the courts to exercise the functions of inter preters of the law and the con tention they can change the con- til ut ion. The present situation comes down to this, that, with the law as it is, the court is the final arbitrator for the nation of a problem of law and industrialism. If one is not satisfied with the court's solution of that problem et him criticise the court, surely. Hut who shall say that this su preme tribunal as now constituted is not working at that problem with wisdom, with regard for the aw and with sincere devotion to the welfare of the country? Kansas City Star. :o: No Sleep, No Rest, No Peace fot the Sufferer From Kidney Troubles. No peace for the kidney suf ferer Pain and distress from morn to night. (iet up with a lame back, Tw inges of backache bother you all day, Dull aching breaks your rest at night, Urinary disorders add to your misery. Get at the cause cure the kid neys. Doan's Kidney Pills are for the kidneys only Have made. great cures in this locality. Mrs. I. Youmans of Glenwood, Iowa, says: "I had a dull pain in my head, extending into my neck, and I was unable to get my proper rest. Two months ago I procured Doan's Kidney Pills and their use made a marked improvement in every way. I can praise Doan's Kidney Pills highly, for I know they can be relied upon . to strengthen the kidneys and dis pose of any symptoms of kidney complaint." For sale by all dealers. Pric 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. The tremendous profits shown by the olllical reports of the mail order houses indicate that their patrons did not get the bargains that they thought they were get ting. One house reports profits of $0,000,000. To read the cata logues of these houses one would suppose that they were practical ly giving away things and were in fact great philanthropic institu tions, but the immense profits that they all report tells a differ ent tale. :o: The announcement of C. M. Seyhert of Louisville appears in this issue of the Journal. The friends of this gentleman all over Cass county have been so insist ent on his running for the office of county commissioner that he has finally consented to make the race again. It will be remember ed that Mr. Seyhert mado the race three years ago and was only de lea ted by a small majority. He is a most excellent man for the place and his friends believethat they can elect him this time. :o: Work Will Soon Start. after you take Dr. King's New- Life Pills, nnd you'll quickly en joy their fine results. Constipa tion ami indigestion vanish and fine appetite returns. They regu late stomach, liver and bowels ami impuri new sirengiu ami energy to the whole system. Try them. Road Petition Granted. From Wednesday's Dally. The petition of citizens resid ing in the vicinity of Best.or school house, west of the city, for a road to be opened on the, sec tion line between sections 7, 8, 17 and 18, township 12, range 13, was acted on favorably by the county commissioners yesterday. The road is one-half mile between sections 7 and 8 and a mile be tween section 17 and 18. ending at the Bestor school house and run ning north and south. After granting the road, the board fixed Friday, June 30, as the day for hearing claims for damages ac cruing from opening the road. Onlv at F. G. Fricke & Co. Wins Fight for Life. It was a long and bloody battle for life that was waged by James H. Mershon, of Newark, N. J., of which he writes: "I had lost much blood from lung hemor rhages, and was very weak and run-down. For eight months I was unable to work. Death seem ed close on my heels, when I be gan, three weeks ago, to use Dr. King's New Discovery. Hut it has helped me greatly. It is doing all that you claim." For weak, sore lungs, obstinate coughs,, stub born colds, hoarseness, la grippe, asthma, hay-fever or any throat or lung trouble it's supreme. 50o and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by F. G. Fricke & Co. Mrs. P. Mumm, jr., was in the city today doing some shopping at the stores. PHEW ttAHOO.NEB. The Best Flour in the Market. Sold by all Leading Dealers