The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, June 22, 1911, Image 4
The- Plattsmouth - Journal f Published Semi-Week! at Plattsmouth. Webraski CT3 R. A. BATES, Publisher. Entered at the Postoffice. at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, an necond-class matter. J.50 Pfl rr9i? IN ADVANCE Every citizen should boost f' r the Platte river wagon bridge. :o: The Fourth of July is drawing rear and ou do not want to for get the celebration at IMatts- mouth. ( :o: Our naval men arc now bring entertained in Ilusisa. We should judge the foggy nights call for all tehir skill as navigators. :o; The, democrat have everything coming their way, and if no great mistakes are made by congress the next president will be a demo crat. :o: The senate has been in session only 82 hours, and probably half that time was spent in coaching the new members on "senatorial courtesy." :o: Mr. Taft is now worrying about where he can exchange those duplicated silver wedding pres ents without the givers knowing About it. :o : I.a Follello's friends are claim ing Nebraska, as against Taft, lor the presidency. Hut Taft's friends are by no means giving tip the fight. :o: George V will be glad when he hafc n right to put bis orow'n on, nn)l not have to walk put bare headed in the chilly days of an English June. :o:- The color line in the lumber trust is found to include the blacklist, the Itlack Cat and the lllackstone but no trace of the Itlack Hand. The Auburn Herald has changed hands. J. (.',. Voline, who has been connected with the Her nld for ten years, is now the chief guy nt the helm. :o: Mrs. Taft was unable to receive the guests at the silver wedding. We wish Aunt IHia would stay on in Washington end relieve her of the arduous duly of making the pies. :o: These daisy chains the college girls carry please the farmers, who are glad to see such large quantities of that pesky white weed exterminated from their fields. -:o:- Eighly-lhroe students get diplomas nt West Point, and, un like most other graduates, they do, not have to spend n year swooping out the ofllce and wash ing the windows. :o: governor Dencon of Illinois has vetoed tho bill to keep the news papers from publishing the crime news. He fell that citizens nal turally want to know what the legislature is doing. :o: Why men will persist in run ning for ofllce when their friends foe! doubtful of their election and tells them so, we cannot tinder stand. Why block the road to success for others? :o: A Japanese bell-boy in a Bos ton hotel has become a college professor. This is probably one of the cases where hotel employes are able to afford costly luuxuries nut of their tips. :o : It looks to the man tip a tree as though the democratic stale com mittee was in acting this year The primaries are not very far oft and the state chairman should, gi-l a move on himself. :o: Jack Johnson is being cheered in London streets. Over here the sound of "$10 and costs for auto speeding" was more frequently heard than the acclaims of the populace. :o: Elbert Hubbard has won a bet of $500 that he did not dare have his hr.ir cut. How does he expect lecture dates without that black and tangled mane to shake in the face of the cowering and ashy pale audience? :o: A candidate should di-abuse his inii.it of the fact that he can lay down after he tret the nom ination and his friends will eh-ct biin. Iou't place too much de pendeiiee on your friends. They will vole for you, no doubt, but they are not, going to break their necks1 in hustling for votes for you. You must do that, yourself. Men with hustling prodivities are the only men that can be depend ed upon to nudge to the front. :o: ; Otto atouck of IUeliardsou county wants the democratic nomination for regent. So does Miller of Lincoln. As between Iwo two we prefer Otto. He is a young man of considerable ability and served two terms in the legis lature. Miller served one term in the state senate and is rich, which is about all he has got to recommend him. He is a demo crat when it suits him, and when it don't suit him he is the other way. Such democrats should not be rewarded. You ran bank on Olio Katouck's democracy everv day in the week and Sunday, loo :o: : TRUST DEFENDERS. In ils canvass of Nebraska's i newspaper men to discover their x.ews of reciprocity with Canada, the Chicago Tribune found 178 editors favoring it ami 52 again! Thai was the result, so far as Ne braska is concerned. In Hie western, northwestern and southwestern sections of the country, out of 1,303 replies re- "i,ed (mm editors, 3,113 were in favor of the president's reci procity pact. ..I -. - ui course ine editors or news papers have no monopoly of intel ligence or inside information up on the wisdom or unwisdom of proposed policies of government, but (he very nature of their em ployment their profession, it may lie termed requires that I hey shall keep moderately well posted upon the questions of Ihe hour, and if they be not unduly partisan, they may be relied upon to give their views candidly, especially outside of the columns of their own papers. This canvass was not needed to disclose that President Taft's reciprocity pnet is popular all over the west. Its opponents have busied themselves in a disin genious effort to line up the agri cultural element against it, but it has been a signal failure. These opponents are belter known to tho editors beyond the Missisippi than Ihey were al first to the farmers whom they attempted to confuse and defraud. If no other argument for reci procity were ready to hand, a list of the names of Its opponents, together with an analysis of their records In public life, would serve. Men who have always been Ihe champions of special privilege are now mightily concerned lest the farmers they have ai,bd in fleecing are to be injured. The editors of the west, regardless of political leanings, are 3 to 1 for reciprocity because they have in vestigated the measure and be cause they know the men against it and their motives. It is a little humiliating to dis cover that, standing up with the lumber trust, the paper trust and the various other conspiracies and combinations that have been enriched by the tariff, are a num ber of the members of congress from this state. In fact, the three republican congressmen, have so little respect for the intelligence of the people that they are pro fessing to oppose reciprocity out of consideration for the Nebraska farmer. It is time that the people of Ne braska began to resent such ef forts of their representatives to bambozle them with false pre tense. If we concede to the three republican congressmen intel ligence enough to entitle them to their positions, we must conclude that they know better than their professed belief that Canadian reciprocity along the lines con templated in the, proposed pact would injure the Nebraska farmer. These men are brazenly de termined to stand up for such legislation on the tariff as the robber trusts want. They are do ing it for the ben'lt o,f the trusts, and not for the benefit of the Ne braska farmer. ' Their associa tions all point to this conviction. They are not taking a stand along-side honest men whose in terest in the masses is credible. They ere standing up beside thieves, and it is an insult to the intelligence of their constituents for them to pretend that they think they are doing it for the er knows better. Everybody else knows better. They themselves know that everybody else knows better. Lincoln Star. :o: If you can't swat the cat, iry swatting the fly. :o: The Harvard freshman coxs wain has the mumps, but Harvard r men usually have a lot of cheek --:o: The cobweb skirt is now to be fashioned and we can easily see lli n t many of our fly boys will be enmeshed in it. :o: Charlie Taft was hurt pole vaulting, but if he is ever going to climb as high as his father he must have a vaulting ambition. :o: There arc now six candidates on the republican side of the Wisp announced for supreme iudge, and only three to elect. :o: . Harvest is on now. Some farm ers began cutting wheat Monday, and they say the crop is of excel lent quality and turning out well. :o: The hotel men in convention al Boston sang,' 'It's Nearly Time lo Hit the I town." Wc doubt if any of them ever admitted that the time had fully come. :o: Hay was quoted at $27 a ton in Chicago the other day. No won der the farmers are buying autos. Pretty soon they will be trading bales of hay for the whiz wagons, and we'll have to go after the hay. :o : Now a 24-slory hole) for New York. If the proprietor wakes up at 2 a. m. and wonders if the front door was locked, he'll have a long distance to walk down in his night shirt, if the elevator boy is asleep. :o: They are trying to popularize the Congressional Record by making the price $1 a year. We should like to subscribe, but fear that the children would abandon all serious reading for this frivulous literature. :o: Why not a non-partisan judiciary? Every time this pro position is mentioned some of the leading republican papers of the elate go into the hysterics. For some cause or other the repub lican leaders don't want a non partisan judiciary. And why? :o: Some fool republican in con gress declares that the demo cratic support of the Canadian treaty means that the party wants to annex Canada. Let us inform this simpleton that what the democratic party wants to annex at this time is the United States. :o: We demand a lather's day off. Dhat with coal bills in winter, ice bills in summer, Christinas and Easter and family birthdays hit ting with a regularity that backs the 10th of the month offn the calendar, here conies a string of June brides and, well they must be taken care of, bless their hearts. :o : August 19 is the date of the big log rolling at Nehawka, and the citizens of that thriving little burg are up and ready to do the proper thing, as they ever are. This will undoubtedly be the largest and best celebration the Woodmen ever held in Cass coun ty. The Nehawka hustlers intend to make is so. :o: That man Rose, appointed su preme judge by Governor Shel don a few days before he "stepped down and out," wants the pe.'nle to elect him now for a full term. Many republicans think he has already all that is coming to him, and it lookg as though Mr. Rose will have to retire when his term expires. He has proven more of a politician than a judge. :o: That man, Poulson of the Anti Saloon league has woke up again and is giving the people of Lin coln more trouble on the saloon question. The only way the peo ple of the capital city can expect any peace is to give Poulson notice not only to leave Lincoln, but to leave the state.' , He don't belong in Nebraska anjway. Simply sent here to make trouble. :o: Secretary Knox, through his "dollar diplomacy," succeeded in gixing away to the Argentine re public plans and patterns for warships that cost the govern ment hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in getting two con tracts to build dreadnaughts by private parties in this country. Now it is announced that the Ar gentine republic has ordered work to he stopped on both of them ami Knox and the ship yards are holding the sack, into which no pigeons fly and no dollars drop. :o: HARMON AND WILSON. The Lincoln News informs its readers that "in every forecast sent out by unbiased observers from the cast the declaration is made that the conservatives are all for Harmon and that if the re publicans should name a progres sive for president Harmon would certainly be the democratic nominee." What an amazing lot of infor mation lo be crowded into so small a space! We are a pretty constant read er of the eastern wespapers and periodicals. And we find, as the News must also find if it roads them, that in the publications which heretofore have opposed the progressive democracy, there are printed twenty lines of eulogistic matter of Governor Wilson for every scant line of grudging and detractory mention of Governor Harmon. The chief literary fugleman of conservative democrncy, George Harvey, editor of Harper's Weekly and the North American Review, is also Gover nor Wilson's foremost boosler through the publications which he controls. Nowhere east of Ohio do we know of a conservative or reactionary newspaper that is boosting Judson Harmon. And fti Ohio, his own state, Harmon's bet known supporter fs Senator poiuerene, a lieutenant of Tom Johnson's, and since Johnson's death the leading democratic radical in the state. On the other hand John R. McLean, the most prominent Ohio reactionary democrat, has been steadily pouring cold water on the Har mon movement, through his Cin cinnati Enquirer and his Wash ington Post. This does not go to prove, we grant, that Judson Harmon is a good progressive, any more than it indicates that Woodrow Wilson is not. It does go to show, how-j ever, that the News is absurdly in error in saying that "the con-! servatives are all for Harmon." For ourselves, we think that both Harmon and Wilson are good progressives, as their records at test. Wilson, however, is the more tactful and diplomatic, and in consequence has succeeded in winning a large radical following while still retaining his hold on the more conservative elements of his party. Ami by the same token he may become, in the view of the politicians, "the logical candid ate" ia 1912. So far as Harmon is concerned he has fought a hard and bruis ing fight for reform in Ohio. Re spite the most brazen bribery ami corruption he succeeded in put ting through the legislature a re form program that compares very favorably with that which Gover nor Wilson won out with in New Jersey. In addition to that he has exposed and prosecuted grafters and crooks in his own party as well as in others, and by a rigid economy program has cut off their perquisites to the extent of hun dreds of thousands of dollars an nually. Furthermore, he earned the deep-seated enmity of power ful corporate interests when he refused to make the telephone merger bill a part of his legis lative program, and also when he insistent Iy kept hands off of the fight for the repeal of the County option law. That is why. Judson Harmon's stock is at low tide "in the east" and it is a very good reason why he should not be sub jected to unfair and ignorant at tacks from progressive sources. The men who are fighting un selfishly and bravely for better things are not so numerous but that every one of them is entitled to a square deal at the hands of those who also are fighting pluto cracy and reaction. World Herald. I- NEHAWKA. A (Special Correspondence.) 4. H- 'M-H-I M-M-M-H H Mr. Will Philpot ami wire spent Sunday at George and Gust Han sen's. Miss Mary Hansen is visiting with home folks a few days. Henry Behrns. wife and daugh ter Sundayed with J. G. Wunder lich's folks. W. H. Schumaker returned from Plattsmouth Sunday, after a week's "courting." Albert fctoll and family spent Sunday with home folks. L. C. Todd and wife were Lin coln visitors Thursday. Miss Wunderlich made a flying trip to the county seat Saturday. The bridge gang is busy re placing a bridge at Gust Hansen's (his week. Mrs. Massey and Miss Johnson were Weeping Water visitors Monday. Zack Shrader had two horses pretty badly hurt in a runaway Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Fitch drove from I heir farm near Ne hawka to this city today to attend to some business matters. This drive was one of about sixteen miles and a long, hot one. so Mr. Fitch says. Mr. Fitch says they are not needing rain for the grain and corn right now near his place, ns they got a fine rain last week, but that it would not hurt the pastures a bit if it rained a litt le every day. Paul Morgan returned from Omaha on Ihe morning train to day, where he was called a few days ago on business. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. In County Court Stale of Nebraska, Cass Coun ty, ss. In the Matter of the Estate of Henry C. Hardiiock, Deceased. Notice js hereby given to the creditors of said deceased that hearings will be bad upon claims tiled against said estate, before jue. County Judge of Cass Coun ty. Nebraska, at the County Court room in Plattsmouth, in said County, on the 15th day of July, 1 y 1 1 . and on the 18th day of January, 1912. at 9 o'clock A. M. each day for examination, adjust ment and allowance. All claims must be filed in said court on or before said last hour of hearing. Witness my hand and seal , of said County Court, at Platts mouth, Nebraska, this 19th day of June. 1911. (Seal) Allen J. Beeson,- County Judge. Probate Notice. IN COUNTY COURT. .. ,. State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. , , . In the matter of the estate of Albert Eugene Lew is, deceased. To All Persons Interested: You are hereby notified that there has been filed in this court a report of the administrator of said estate, together with his peti tion for final settlement thereof. That a hearing will be had up on said report and petition before this court in the County Court. Rooms at Plattsmouth, in said County, on the 3rd day of July, 1911, at 9 o'clock a. m. That all objections thereto, if any, must be filed on or before said day and hour of hearing. Witness my hand and seal of the County Court of said County this 8th day of June, 1911. (SEAL) Allen J. Beeson,, County Judge. Probate Notice. SJate of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. IN COUNTY COURT. In the matter of the estate of Abel Bevan, Deceased. - . . To All Persons Interested: , ( . You are hereby notified that there has been filed in this court, report of the administratrix 4 of above estate, together with her petition for final settlement of her accounts as set forth in said re port, and for her discharge as such administratrix, in all things except the payment of claims. That a hearing will be had un- i on said report, and petitjou, before this court in (he County Court Rooms at Plattsmouth, in said County, on the 27th dav of June, 1911, at 10 o'clock A. M. That all object ions, if any, must be filed on or before said dav and j hour of hearing. Witness my hand and the seal of the County Court of said County this 5th day of June, 1911. Allen J. Beeson, County Judge. ASH I.A KVftK HISTIIICT. NO I'll K OK PUOI'OSK.K I SSI K Of IIOMS. Notice Is hereby Riven that the Ash land Drainnge District needs the sum of Heventeen thousund live hundred sixty-eight and 80.100 ($17,568.60) dol lars, and the board of Directors there of In about to issue seventeen thousand five hundred sixty-eight and 60.100 $17,568.60) dollurs of negotiable bonds of said dlstirct, drawing six per cent interest per annum, pavable In ten eijiial annual Installments, with Interest . i-wiijiiimm HiiHcueu, said nomls to be sold at not less than par. At any time wlth- I In SllltV flllVK Ut'lu tUa t . 1. A .... . - ...... ...... u.v.. ..ic uiiio ui mo Hint iuuiemion ui mis nonce, to-wit: June tt, 1911, any owner of anv tract of real estate in said district, or of anv ease ment therein, may pav to C. Keetle, treasurer of said district, at the Farm ers and Merchants Hunk, Ashland. Ne braska, the proportionate share of the prlnclpul amount of said bonds charge able against said tract, and the amount or bonds Issued will be reduced in the aggregate amount of said advance payment so mnde. and anv tract upon which such advance payment is made wll lnot be chargeable with payment or any of said bonds or the Interest thereon; provided, that if a deficit la caused by an appeal from the assess ment of benefits and a change thereon, or by reason of any assessment being uncollectible, or In any other manner whatsoever, then said deficit shall be a charge upon all the lands assessed acrorrilns- in m, i . . i benefits, the same as any other liability The proportionate share of the prin cipal amount of said bonds chargeable against each tract of land in said dis trict has been determined, levied and assessed by the board of directors thereof In dollars and cetns against and upon each tract thereof on the basts of the apportionment of units of benefit and assessment hitherto made at the rate of four and forty-five hundredths dollars ($4.4.r) per unit; reference being hereby mad,. for BpPPn(! information as to particular tracts, to the Resolu tion of said Hoard of Directors relat ing thereto on tile In the office of A. B. sa'id d'is'tr'lct,nd' Ne,,ra',ka wretary of l-.IYVV"! t'" "''' of said Ash land Drainage DiBtrlct, by the Tresl- ! .'n..'."' VT thereof, and the :aypof'j;"ri.u."a,d d,H,r,ct thu 3d (SKI1'1""'1 "'lnage District. By Nelson Sheffer, President. A. H. Fuller, Secretary. Whooping cough f not danger ous when the cough is kept loose and expectoration easy by giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It has been used in many epidemics of this disease with perfect suc cess. For sale by F. O. Fricke & Co. Subscribe for th Dally Journal.