The- Plattsmouth - Journal
CZD Published Seml-Weeklf it Plattsmouth. Mebriski CUD
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
Entered at the Postoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class
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The turkey gobbler struts about,
The vainest of all fowls;
He dreams not pro the month is
out
He'll ho sans head and bowels.
Observe him as he marches by,
The vain, conceited sinner;
Although he's not prepared to die,
He'll be prepared for dinner.
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Thanksgiving only a few days
hence.
:o:
It looks like Old Winter was
here to slay,
complain.
Yet people do not
:o:
Now is the lime
holiday advertising,
till the last minute.
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to do your
Don't wait
Perhaps the leak In the har
vester trust ease was caused by
the water in its slocks.
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The cold wave has ceased to
wave violently, but it Htill flutters
quite lively in the early morning.
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The old-fashioned woman used
to spank goodness into the world,
but now they want to try voting
ft in.
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The International ffucvestef
Trust is another bait egg that has
been put to the necessity of un
scrambling." Truly.
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President Taft is inclined to
blame the middlemen, while' the
protected Interests prefer to
blame the middlo-riiou.
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The Surgeons' Congress at
Philadelphia should give due eon
aidcration to the amputation of
the patient's porkotbook?
I'.x-Sniiilor Aldrieh's ourency
plan lias at least aroused an in
terest in "fecnance'' which has
Jiol been known since 1890.
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A supplemental forcast sug
gests thai cold wave No. 2 may
not arrive Ibis week. It certain
ly needn't hurry any on our ac
count.
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The llrst woman's jury at I.os
Anvils could not agree on a
MTdH t. luis keeps money in
circulation by making another job
for he lawyers.
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In the mailer of Ihe proseou
tion of those who oonslituto the
beef trust it may lie suggested
that the public would rather have
relief than victims.
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Meanwhile the T.orimcr case Is
dragging along at an expense of
11,000 a day. And it hasn't the
cXcuso that legal technicalities
are. blocking the way.
When Mr. Taft got back to the
While house he probably went
Dt to look at the old oaken bucket
ho used In' drink from long ago
when be was there before.
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It is said Thanksgiving turkeys
will be lowef litis year. Of course
the trusts can't bo expected to
play the game of modern business
vyilhoul making an error now and
then.
The Lorimer investigation
rouses great indignation among
flie politicians that any legislator
fchouhl bo mean enoug'h to hurt
business by' selling his vole at
nil prices.
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In the race to give away money
Carnegie in now ahead of Rocke
feller by $40,089,000. if John D.
will iidveriiho in Ike newspapers
for people to eomo and Carl his
money off ho might poHsihly re
rtuco Andy's e4 a little.
Well, it's all over, and the
bridge is dedicated and ready for
business. .
:o:
Plattsmouth ought to forge
ahead now in fine order, and will,
with a united effort on the part
of our people.
:o:
Over in the Celestial empire
they are doing a land olllce busi
ness at turning live Chinamen
into dead ancestors.
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There may have been some few
little disarranged matters on the
program yesterday, but, general
ly speaking, the celebration was
a success.
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Andy Carnegie has turned over
$25,000,000 to an education fund,
but bo needn't get mad just be
cause there is no town left that
will take a library.
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Virtuous New York delivered a
slap at Tammany election day as
a reminder that the ring of graft
takers must be somewhat en
larged4. :o :
A good deal of talk i9 made
about New Hampshire's Advertis
ing day, although the newspapers
are on the job of advertising the
state every day in the year.
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The Chineso rebels want to get
into the Forbidden City, but would
they settle down any more con
tentedly lo tho ironing board if
Ihey were permitted to come in?
that it is always easier to elect a
republican for the third or fourth
term than it is a democrat? Some
democrats will not vote for one of
their party for a third term, and
then turn right around and vote
for a republican for the fourth
term or longer. Ain't this a fact?
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We will soon see whether the
Platte river auto and wagon
bridge will be a benefit or a detri
ment to Plattsmouth. The Jour
nal has great faith in the future
of Plattsmouth and we believe the
great Omaha-Plaltsmouth-Ne-braska
City-Kansas City Auto
Route, made so by the building of
the Platte river auto and wagon
bridge, is going to prove a big
thing for our city.
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It is said that turkeys are
plentiful this winter. But will
that make them any cheaper? We
will await Thanksgiving and see
Remember there is liable to be a
turkey trust organized between
now and Thanksgiving day.
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An exchange asks: "What
would you do if every time you
put your hand in your pocket you
found a $10 gold piece?" We
don't know just exactly what we
would do, but we would be thor
oughly convinced that we had on
some other man's "pants."
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According to Senator Owen a
national department of health in
twenty years' time could add four
teen years to the average life of
the citizens. It is feared that as
elllcient a health department as
Mr. Owens has in mind would be
permanently enjoined in very
short order.
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Of course good roads will do
much to induce the people of
Nebraska to stay right where they
are. Hut there are some other
Lights tho Clemen Vou Uant Them
Ti
i HE Pilot Acetelyne Gas Machine is entirely auto
matic in operation and requires no attention what
ever. Every light is started with an electric spark,
which does away with the use of matches, and also
makes it impossible to open a gas jet without the gas being
ignited at the tip.
This machine makes gas just as it is needed and posi
tively no more. This it m alone is a great saving over other
machines that have a different style of mixing, which leaves
a quantity of gas in the resivoir, which loses its burning qual
ities the longer it stands.
Gas from this machine can be run to any of our out
buildings. This is absolutely the only machine that is giving
perfect satisfaction at all times and under all conditions with
out any extra expense after installation. This machine can
be seen any time at our store.
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BAUE
PLUMBING!
HEATING!
HARDWARE!
AS TO DEMOCRATIC TIMBER. ber sound as the heart of oak
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It is claimed that the tobacco
(organization Js a farce. As
Ihey failed to present us with a
share of the stock of any of Iho
four new companies, we feel con
vinced that this is Ihe truth.
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President Emeritus Eliot of
Harvard says prize lighting is
preferable to football, but if ho
whispers the fact that it is safer
the public will never gel interest
ed in it.
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lhe commercial travelers are
saying things again against tip
ping, but what will Ihey do when
hungry, with a train to catch, and
with a thunder-cloud growing on
the face of the waiter?
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After a long search through
things that might bo brought to
bear to stay tho tide of emigra
tion from this state to other sec
Hons of the country, but what
that's the question. A state with
tin' best farming lands in the world
and so many other opportunities
at hand, we cannot see, for the
life of us, why people want lo
leave Nebraska.
their pockets to see if they could
11ml any part of the tariff taxes
there, the workers of Massachu
setts' industrial cities declined to
be seared by the tariff reduction
bogey.
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Secretary Stimson wants lo ap
ply "scientific management" lo
the war department, and natural
ly there is greal indignation in
Washington among the politi
cians, contractors and hang
ers-on.
The insurgents started their
fight as tariff reformers, but when i
the lime came that they could
make good their contention by
joining with willing democratic
workers they utterly failed. Of
late Ihey are saying nothing about
Iho tariff. They are devoting
their attention to the recall, direct
j primaries and the expression of
presidential preferences. The
election returns indicate that,
wilh Ihe exception of thoso in
Massachusetts, they generally
voted the regular republican
ticket.
We cannot hope to get the
interurban down here from Oma
ha until Nebraska abandons the
J suicidal policy of enacting laws
to prevent capital from investing
in such enterprises. In this re
spect Nebraska is away behind
many other states.
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The trust magnate who was
trembling for fear the courts
would cut him him up into 33 lit
tle pieces now finds all ho has to
do is to walk into Solomon Isaac's
and buy a new suit of ready-made
clothes tagged with a judicial
O. K. i
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Judge Parriott of Auburn was
defeated for county Judge for the
third term. Did you ever notice
Lincoln News: "The Nebraska
City News tells of one man in
01 oo county who averaged about
?!00 an acre from his apple trees
Ibis year, after all expenses had
been paid for picking and harvest
ing. It quotes a man who came
there from Minneapolis recently
for the purpose of buying several
orchards as saying what this
paper has contended, that Ne
braska is just as good for apple-
raising as the northwest. Ho said
that nowhere in tho United States
can such apples bo found as in
Otoe, Nemaha, Richardson and
Cass' counties. They have a bet
ter flavor, are juicier and of a bet
ter color than the other apples
he knew of. He was of tho opinion
that if even a tithe of the. care
that is bestowed on their trees
by the orehardists of Oregon and
Washington was given the or
chards of Nebraska the latter
product would top tho market.
Tho reason why that is not true
today is that the northwestern
man mokes a business of or
charding, and gives his trees un
divided attention. In this state
any attention they get is merely
incidental."
The front cover page of the
current number of Harper's
Weekly is given over to an excel
lent portrait of Wood row Wilson,
and under it, in big black letters,
is Ihe legend, "For President,
Woodrow Wilson."
On the first inside page is one
of Kemble's excellent cartoons,
showing Governor Wilson, scrub
brush in hand, a bucket labelled
"Clean Politics" at his feet,
polishing up the shield of the
state of New Jersey. Under the
cartoon is the caption, "It takes
grit to remove grime."
The following two pages are
devoted to an able article by the
edilor, George Harvey, setting
forth Governor Wilson's claims
lo tin; presidency and urging his
nominal ion by the democratic
parly. This article is reprinted
from the "Independent," in which
it llrst appeared.
Tk'here are those, doubtless, who
will charge that Harper's Week
ly is controlled, financially and
politically, by J. Pierpont Morgan,
and that Governor Wilson has
therefore achieved the question
able distinction of becoming the
Morgan candidate. This news
paper has itself, at various times
referred lo Harper's Weekly as a
Morgan publication, because of
the generally accredited reports
that it was Morgan's money which
rejuvenated the house of Harper
and saved it from extinction.
Nevertheless, in simple fair
ness, the World-Herald does not
believe for a moment that George
Harvey's ardent espousal of the
Wilson boom is insincere, or sor
did, or dictated. It believes that
Mr. Harvey, who is one of the
ablest and cleanest of American
journalists, speaks for himself
and voices his honest'convictions.
In many respects Mr. Harvey is a
moderate radical, though from
the western viewpoint he would
have to be set down as a con
servative. A democrat, be has.
never supported Mr. Bryan for
president, nor has he sym
pathized, as a rule, with the
"Bryan policies" except after they
have been nicked up, reluctantly,
by the republican party.
That Woodrow Wilson will
have much conservative support
aside from what Harper's gives
him is not open to question. He
has much of that kind of support
now, and will have more. The
same is true of Judson Harmon,
of Champ Clark, of Oscar Under
wood, and oilier democratic eligi
bilities. Tho fact does not of it
self damn any one of them. The
democratic party ennnot hope to
w in unless it can unite on a can
didate who will be accepted by
honest democrats of the east and
west alike. He must be a demo
crat a genuine democrat; that
goes without saying. As such he
of course will be a progressive,
for democracy stands for prog
ress. He must be sincere, of tim-
neither a demagogue nor a pluto
gogue, who stands where he
stands because he believes that
way. And he must stand square
ly on a thoroughly democratic
platform.
If Woodrow Wilson or any
other aspirant for the demo
cratic nomination meets, and is
prepared to meet, these require
ments, then he is a man who
stands for the people and against
special privilege and the special
interests. Any such man, with a
genuine democratic record back
of him to attest the earnestness
of his present professions, is en
titled to Hie good will and friend
liness of all democrats, though he
may number many millionaires
among bis supporters. Mr. Bryan,
in each of his several can
didacies, himself had a good
many millionaire supporters, but
nobody ever questioned his demo
cracy on that account. World
Herald. :o:
SIZING UP THE RESULTS.
Mr. Taft is back on his job at
Washington once morel
j For nearly three months he has
been absent, during which time
j he has eaten and spoken his way
I through the states oT Michigan,
j Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,
Nehraska, Colorado, Wyoming,
Idaho, Washington. Oregon, Cali
fornia, Nevada, Utah, Montana,
South Dakota, Minnesota, Penn
sylvania and Tennessee.
Ho has been defending, de
fending, always defending
policies and executive acts.
As yet he has revealed no inti
mate opinion of tho good he
thinks he has accomplished by his
campaign marathon, but this is
being pretty generally done for
him by the press of tho nation.
And there seems to be a monot
onous unanimity of opinion that
the good he has done himself and
his party is nil.
The Outlook, whose present
contributing editor, it will be re
membered, was Taft's original
presidential sponsor, observes as
follows: "We cannot but think
that the administration suffered
by his absence from the capital.
We doubt whether any college
president could be away from his
faculty meetings, any editor from
his staff of conferences, any cor
poration president from the meet
ings of his executive committee,
to the extent that Mr. Taft has
been absent from his cabinet
meetings during the two years
and eight months of his admin
istration without serious disad
vantage to the interests intrusted
to his keeping."
More incisive Is the comment
of Alfred Henry Lewis in The
World Today, "When he re
solved upon the western invasion,
Mr. Tafl made a political blun
der," declares Mr. Lewis. "He
injured and in no wise fostered
his chances of a re-election. Once
west of tho Mississippi, while
everywhere received with cour
tesy, he evoked no enthusiasm.
The people were cold, their at
titude chilly. Their silence while
be talked, their deeper silence
when ho closed, never failed to
mark him a political loser to an
onlooking world."
Mr. Lewis thinks that the presi
dent's franking his present
speeches through the mails and
his using the traveling expense money
provided by congress on this trip,
the very planning of which was
"to tread on the toes of popular
sentiment,"" were ill-advised.
In conclusion be it said that
a journey has ended whose
finish seems- not so rosy as no
doubt seemed its start.
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